Thomson Charles, Signed (13 results)

Condition: Good. 1996. No edition remarks. Unpaginated. Signed by the author. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Flat signed by author to title page. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1936. First edition. 368pp. Charles W. Thomson had a long career as a teacher in Scotland and was President of the Educational Institute of Scotland, 1933-34. In this book he tells of the humour in found in his teaching career, with anecdotes and stories not only of pupils but also fellow teachers and other school workers. It starts with an autobiographical account, and then includes sections on children's manners, child crimes and pupils' pluck, children's blunders, parents' lines, janitors, and inspectors and inspections. The book is bound in the original blue cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some light soiling to the boards and spine. The top of the spine is lightly bumped and there is heavier bumping to the bottom of the spine. The contents are tight and clean and the author has inscribed the front free endpaper thus: "Yours faithfully Chas. W. Thomson.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. B/w (illustrator). 8vo (22 x 14cm). Cloth, very good, in dust-jacket with a few spots of foxing visible internally, slightly shelf-worn. Internally very good. Title page inscribed 'Just a dry run for our "Curtis Stories" book. Love Ken [Thomson] & Charles [Osborne] 16/10/80. Signed by Author(s).

Original stapled brick red card wrap covers. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 16 printed pages of text. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

First edition in original stapled card wrap covers. 8vo. 8½'' x 5¼''. Contains 32 printed pages of text. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

First edition in original stapled card wrap covers. 8vo. 8½'' x 5¼''. Contains 32 printed pages of text. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. Limited first edition of 500 copies, of which 50 are numbered and signed by many of the poets [this being copy 10/50], here signed by 20 of the authors, including Douglas Blazek, Alta, and Pete Winslow. Printed card wrapper. Some spotting on front cover; light edgewear. Many of the poems show a previous owner's minor marginalia, typically just a simple check mark, question mark, or exclamation mark, and occasionally a one word review like ''ok''. Includes ten pages of portraits of the poets, taken by Harold Adler, and two pages showing reproductions of fliers for the COSMEP event. 70 pages. A mimeo copy the first issue of the ''Little Mag Report'' is laid-in. This book was the result of four nights of readings in Berkeley in May 1968, which accompanied the Conference of Small-Mag Editors & Pressmen (COSMEP). The readings were held at Dwinelle Hall, the Berkeley Art Center, and at Shakespeare & Co. Over 60 poets read, and all were invited to submit one poem/one page. Contributors to this volume ('x' for those who signed): John Q. Adams (x), Harold Adler, Alta (x), David Hueschke Argo, Harvey Bialy (x), John Melville Bishop III, Douglas Blazek (x), Charlie Bordin (x), Marilyn Cadogan, Andy Clausen, Bob Dawson, Susan Efros, Hilary Ayer Fowler (x), David Gitin, Morton Grinker, Jon Grube (x), Steven A. Hagerth, Ben L. Hiatt (x), Hugh Fox, Richard Krech (x), Lowell Levant (x), Michael Makowsky (x), Paul Mariah (x), Ron McNicoll, David Melnick (x), Patricia Parker (x), Charles Potts, Ronald Silliman, John Oliver Simon (x), Hester G. Storm, sunshine, John Thomson (x), Michael Upton (x), vanish, D. r. Wagner, Joel Waldman (x), Pete Winslow (x), Carl Woideck, Paul Xavier (x), and Al Young. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). Gilt page edges. Letter signed by Reade tipped in. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

brick colored cloth with black lettering trace wear at points; lightly rubbed covers; a full page inscription by author to "John R" who apparently gave author much encouragement in the writing of the book see the inscription in the images rare first edition with personalized inscription.

ONE: Autograph translations by Proud. 14pp., 12mo. Unbound, stitched into a booklet of laid watermarked paper, with deckled edges. In very good condition, neatly and closely written on lightly-aged paper. Upwards along the inner margin of the first page Proud has written: 'Translation by R. P. Anno. 1802.' The translation of 'On Gardens, | From the Latin of Lord Bacon's Essays &c' covers the first 12pp., paginated 1-12; the 'Laus Mortuli. Translated at Hackney near London from a Lat. Epigram of Virgil, abt. the year 1752. by R. P.' covers the last two pages, and is unpaginated. It is signed at the end 'R. P. Hackneyensis'. First line: 'Your Aid, celestial Muses, bring'. A catalogue entry is loosely inserted on a slip of paper. TWO: Printed 'Notices of the Life and Character of Robert Proud, Author of "The History of Pennsylvania." By Charles West Thomson. Read before the Council, August 16, 1826.' Disbound, and paginated 391-408, preceded by a title leaf. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with the last two leaves loose. THREE: Printed 'Autobiography of Robert Proud, the Historian.' Disbound from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January 1890. 11pp., 8vo, paginated 430-440, with the front wrap of the magazine. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with each of the six leaves loose; with heavily chipped front wrap. Pencil annotations. Also included are a receipt for Proud manuscripts purchased from Newman F. McGirr, State House Book Shop, Philadelphia, by Daniel Edwards Kennedy, 13 November 1913; together with five other two cuttings of book catalogue entries relating to Proud and two small leaves of manuscript notes.

46 signed letters [34 TLS, 12 ALS] comprising decades of correspondence between Frederick Gardner Cottrell and various notable figures of his day in U.S. politics, the international science community, and academia. All letters are housed in new archival mylar sleeves. Cottrell was a notable chemist, inventor, and philanthropist, best known today for his invention of the electrostatic precipitator - one of the first inventions to combat air pollution - and his founding of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, which used the revenue from the electrostatic precipitator to fund further scientific research, and continues to do so today. While best remembered for these feats, Cottrell had a long and influential career both in the U.S. Federal Government and as a science consultant. He was well known nationally and internationally - in industry, in government, and in academia - for his support of and contributions to new ideas and new talent within the scientific community. The letters, which span from 1901-1941, track Cottrell over the course of 40 years, and evidence the many relationships he had over that period with some of the most influential people of the time. These include a letter of introduction from Alexander Graham Bell, a discussion of chemistry with Thomas Edison, replies from two Nobel Prize winning scientists - the discoverer of the noble gasses, William Ramsay, and discoverer of the electron, J. J. Thomson - to Cottrell's request to study in their labs, and exchanges with two presidents, Herbert Hoover and Woodrow Wilson. Other letters show his personal interactions with leading scientists of his day (Robert J. Van de Graaff, Georges Claude, George E. Hale) and heads of industry (Henry L. Doherty, Ivy Lee), and track the path of his career through his time as the director of the Bureau of Mines; to chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology on the National Research Council; to head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Lab, and beyond. These letters, the vast majority of which were sent by these notable figures to Cottrell, evidence his expertise, the depth and breadth of his professional interests, and his eagerness to collaborate and share research and ideas, coming together to trace the life of a man whose work was and continues to be consequential to the advancement of science as a whole. CONTENTS: 1-Page TLS from inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell to a Mr. Fish, dated December 20, 1911, introducing Cottrell to him. In Very Good condition. In this letter, Bell is writing in his capacity as Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. On 1331 Connecticut Avenue letterhead. Faintly creased, with mild wrinkling along the edges. Signed in black ink by Bell: "Alexander Graham Bell". 1-page TLS from inventor of the light bulb Thomas Edison to Cottrell dated January 13, 1925, discussing the unexpected results of a past chemistry experiment of his in relation to the generation of ammonia. In Very Good condition. TLS is on Edison's personal letterhead ("From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison"). Lightly age toned, with some wrinkling and small closed tears along the top edge. Faintly creased from past folding. Signed by Edison in black ink: "Thos. A. Edison". Includes a lightly soiled 1-page facsimile of Cottrell's reply. 2-page ALS from Nobel Prize winning physicist Joseph John Thomson to an unnamed recipient, likely Cottrell, dated July 6, 1901, discussing the possibility of Cottrell coming to study at Thomson's lab. In Very Good condition. In 1901, Cottrell would have been studying in Europe at the University of Berlin, seeking to study in the laboratory of an accomplished scientist. Thomson was already a figure of some renown for his 1897 discovery of the electron, which represented the first identification of a subatomic particle, and would be awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of his work. ALS is on Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge letterhead, and shows a faint crease across the middle and light pencil writing in the top margin of the first page. Small red pencil mark beneath letterhead. Signed in black ink by Thomson: "J. J. Thomson". 1-page ALS from Nobel Prize winning chemist William Ramsay to an unnamed recipient, likely Cottrell, dated 14th August, 1901, in which Ramsay says there is no availability for Cottrell to study in his lab. In Very Good condition. As with the letter from J. J. Thomson, Cottrell would have been studying in Europe at the University of Berlin at the time this letter was sent. In 1901, Ramsay was just a few years away from his landmark 1904 discovery of argon, the first identified noble gas, which would earn him the 1904 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and lead to the development of a new section of the periodic table. ALS is lightly toned along the edges, faintly creased, with a similar red pencil mark in the top margin. Signed by Ramsay in black ink: "W. Ramsay". 1-page TLS from U.S. President Herbert Hoover to Cottrell, dated September 17, 1920. In Very Good minus condition. Brief letter of thanks for Cottrell's forwarding another person's letter to Hoover. On Hoover's personal letterhead. Faintly stamped, "Received / 1920 Sep 18 / Interior Department Bureau of Mines / Washington D.C.". Small rust marks and light wrinkling along the top margin; faintly creased. Signed in black ink by Hoover: "Herbert Hoover". Two 1-page TLS's from Herbert Hoover, each part of an exchange with Cottrell. In Very Good condition. Includes a 2-page facsimile of Cottrell's response. First Hoover TLS sent February 5, 1926; Cottrell's response sent February 8, 1926; Hoover's second TLS sent February 12, 1926. In his first letter, Hoover asks Cottrell about the potential improper investigation of a new method of creating aluminum by the Bureau of Mines. In the second letter, Hoover thanks Cottrell for clearing up the issue. Hoover's letters are on Department of Commerce letterhead. Letters show fa. Signed.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Tenniel, John; Thomson, E. Gertrude (illustrator). Second (First Published) Edition. [12], 56pp, [8], original quarter cloth and decorated boards, the upper cover with a pictorial design in colour of Alice asleep and dreaming beneath a tree, signed 'E.G. Thomson', the lower cover with a picture of the March Hare in the centre, and the initials 'E.G.T.'. Cloth to spine repaired, with small splits to head of upper joint, corners bumped with small amounts of loss, slightly rubbed with very light soiling. Internally very lightly browned, lacking tissue guard to frontispiece, but generally clean and fairly bright. Now housed in a black buckram chemise and slipcase, with title and author in gilt to spine. Inscribed by Carroll, in his usual purple ink to half title, being one of one hundred presentation copies (see Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, page 162), 'For Nina from the author, Mar. 25 1890'. Nina was apparently Nina 'Ninty' Eschwege, who later married Herbert Haviland Field. This "second (first published) edition appears to differ from the first only in the date 1890, in the substitution of 'Price Four Shillings' above the imprint, and in the Advertisements at the end. Copies also have an inserted printed slip advertising Sylvie and Bruno [not found in this copy]. The impression consisted of 10,000 copies on white, rather than 'toned' paper, with greatly improved colour reproduction" (Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch, page 162), after Dodgson had rejected the first ten thousand sets of sheets printed by Edmund Evans, because the pictures were too bright and gaudy, so he instructed that they be reprinted. Williams, Madan, Green and Crutch 216 Size: 4to. Presentation Copy from the Author.

Packet of six items, held together with a pin. Totalling 8pp., folio; 3pp., 8vo. In good overall condition, on aged and worn paper. ONE: Autograph Letter Signed from 'Wm: R: Myers | Secy' to Messrs Thomson Hankey & Co, London. Executive Committee Office; 26 December 1855. 2pp., folio. Giving details of five documents which he is forwarding, 'on the Chairs received from Messrs. Druce & Co'. He writes that he is 'directed to communicate through you, that the Chairs are not accepted and will not be paid for, but will be kept on the account and risk of Messrs. Druce & Co.', who have 'expressly treated you as agents'. He continues: 'I am also to inform you of the receipt with most perfect order of the Lamps, Shades, and all appliances - not one of the glasses or shades is broken or cracked, or injured - which, especially with reference to the condition of the Chairs shipped by the same vessel, is very remarkable - and shews the advantage of good packing and the consequences of bad - in strong contrast. The circumstance will be viewed as one of much force and effect, in the matter with Messrs. Druce & Co.' Covering sheet by Thomson Hankey & Co., reading: '44 | 26th Decr. 1855 | Exect. Committee | Rec'd 17 Jany /56'. From the archive of Thomson Hankey & Co, London. Druce & Co. had been founded by Thomas Charles Druce (now remembered for the Druce/Portland affair) a few years before. The business flourished until its extensive premises (known as 'the Baker Street Baazar') were bombed out during the Second world War.