Compton John Et Al (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. NO MARKING.

paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine copy. clphE.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Color illustrations throughout. First edition. Previous owner's blind-stamp on title page, else fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued.

Magazine. pp268-357 + ads, 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos, drawings, cartoons, playscript, etc., worn magazine in original stapled yellow & black wraps. Also: I Look at the Theatre by Mackenzie. The Tributary Theatre. Sam Jaffe in Grand Hotel photo. Tantivy Towers: two scenes. Playwriting as a Profession. Arkansas Goes to the Show. Russian Character Makeup. Mardis Gras in New Orleans. Orozco's murals at Pomona.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. North Dighton, MA: J G Press. Distributed By World Publications, Inc., 1993. FIRST PRINTING - NEW (see scan). First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. Illus. by "Illustration, Diagrams And Photographs Showing The Achievement And Development Of Masonry Through The Centuries" Most Full-color, Many Full-page. Folio size - over 12¼" tall. Heavy, Oversized Safely, Securely Packed.…

Hard Cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). A very heavy book of 978 pp. Complete dustjacket. A very clean copy. Classic writing on cricket - articles include Neville Cardus on Sobers, John Arlott on M C Cowdrey, Compton Mackenzie 'Shillings for W G', A Middlesex Century, The Dreaded Cypher etc.…

Condition: NEW.

Condition: NEW.

Hardback. Condition: VG. No DW. 1st Edition. Grye-green boards with five brown circles at top. Brown elather spine lettered in gold. 256 of 350 copies. Signed at limitation by Glen and Penrice. AN EX LIBRARY BOOK with library marks only on spine, title page and limitation page. Else Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.…

Hardcover. Two Volumes, One Full Year of Twelve Issues, with 11 of 12 color fashion plates. 1/2 black leather over black cloth boards, pink pastedowns and free end papers. Includes Perils of the Overland Route to California; Edgar and Elfrida; The Fortune Hunters (Crowe); Mrs. Peter Dame (Augusta); Jaufry the Knight at the Fair Brunissende (Elwes); Human Wolves--or Lycanthropy; Leonora de Guzman, etc. Good, wear to spine and edges, free end papers detached but present, foxing, one plate partially missing. …

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Large octavo. 256pp. Original red cloth with gilt titles. Very good indeed in a very good, slightly worn and rubbed dust jacket with slight chipping and tearing at top edge.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book. Rare complete run of Living Arts Magazine (3 issues published 1963-4),edited by Theo Crosby and John Bodley. Black & white printed in glossy wraps. Crosby associated himself with ICA in the early 60s and in 1963, under Croby's lead, the ICA exhibited Living Cities, to foreground the urban theories of the young Archigram group. The magazine therefore becomes an intrinsic part of the new international vision set out by Crosby and others, overlapping with other landmark publications of the era/movewment such as This Is Tomorrow, and Archigram. Autumn '60 for Ochestra by Cornelius Cardew, Photographs by Robert Freeman and Letter from the Airport by Carl Nesjar feature in Volume 1. Volume 2 includes : Sculptures and Statement by Peter Startup, Urbane Image by Richard Hamilton and Living City by Peter Cook, Dennis Compton et al. Volume 3 includes THe Allegorical Situation by Bernard Cohen, David Sylvester interviewing David Smith, Communication and Symbolic Value by Gillo Dorfles, THe Atavism of the Short-Distance Minicyclist by Reyner Banham and review of Living City by Robert Maxwell. The 50 page Living City section of Volume 2 includes THE EXHIBITION - EXPERIENCE 19 JUNE - 2 AUGUST 1963 described and expanded by it's designers, with Manifesto, Introduction & ket to the numerous pages of illustrations, design and texts. Amongst the many contributions are THE KEY TO THE VITALITY OF THE CITY by Peter Cook, CITY SYNTHESIS by Dennis Crompton, Total Exhibition Structure, MOVEMENT GLOOP, and FINAL NOTES ON THE LIVING CITY. Condition - the plastic cover tends to bubble. A fault uniform in all copies (& apparent in all 9 copies of issue 2 exhibited in Tate Modern Hamilton retrospective, 2014). These copies have some of that bubble effect but are the best I have seen with only a little near spine. Each rubber stamped neatly on colophon page "Michael Farr (Design Integration) 97 Jerymn Street London " (a prestigious London design company). Slight wear to issue 1 cover. General minor handling. Copies are prone to curling of covers due to plastic overlay, but being housed in a homemade cardboard slipcase these copies are better than usual. Minor rubbing to colophon pages (from inside flap printed image). Very difficult to find a set in this kind of condition. VG++/ near fine.…

79 pp. 4to. 79 pp. 4to. This symposium, held on November 15, 1945, only three months after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, included Oppenheimer on atomic weapons, HD Smyth on the history of atomic energy, Enrico Fermi on the first chain-reacting pile, John Wheeler on particle research, and Arthur Compton on the future of atomic energy. Just a month prior, Oppenheimer had resigned from his position at Los Alamos, having grown uneasy about his work on the project, the death toll, the subsequent radiation sickness, and the general ramifications of nuclear energy. This unease is apparent in his speech: "Atomic weapons are based on things that are in the very frontier of physics; their development is inextricably entangled with the growth of physics, as in all probability with that of the biological sciences, and many practical arts.[W]e have made a thing, a most terrible weapon, that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world. And by doing so, by our participation in making it possible to make these things, we have raised again the question of whether science is good for man, of whether it is good to learn about the world, to try to understand it, to try to control it, to help give to the world of men increased insight, inscreased power." "No one who heard [his speech] ever forgot the eloquence and deep emotion with which he pictured the destructiveness of the bomb or the force of his call for international control of this new awesome development" (Bacher). This powerful publication on the implications of nuclear energy is rare in the market. Bacher, R.F., "Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 116, no. 4, p. 284 Printed tan paper wrappers. Ownership signature to upper warpper, fine.…