covet kyla "Turing , A.M. On Computable Numbers, with An Application to the Entscheidungsproblem. Series 2, Vol.42, Part 3 from the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, with Series 2, Vol.42 Part 4. London: G.F. Hodgson & Son, 1936. First editions. 11 pp. and 25 pp. Original printed wrappers. In fine condition. Very rare. The most important single paper produced in the development of computers. One of Britain's great heroes of World War 2, Turing and his team broke the German Enigma c . Bookseller Inventory # 726 Price: US$ 40000.00" "LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. [London, privately printed for subscribers], 1926. The Subscribers?, or "Cranwell" Edition. One of 170 complete copies, from a printing believed to have consisted of 211 copies. Signed "Complete copy 1-XII-26 TES." on the first page of the list of illustrations, with the usual correction of the line for "The Gad-Fly" above. "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" is the monumental work that assured T. E. Lawrence's place in history as ?Lawrence of Arabia?. Not only a consummate military history, but also a colorful epic and a lyrical exploration of the mind of a great man, this is one of the indisputable classics of 20th century English literature. Large thick royal 8vo (26 x 19cm). Bound by Bumpus in full pig skin, with five raised bands to the spine, lettered in gilt with the title in the second panel and to upper front board, pictorial endpapers by Kennington, with all edges gilt. Housed in a quarter brown morocco solander box by The Chelsea Bindery With all the illustrations as called for. The plate of the Prickly Pear is present (though unnoted in the index), and as usual, the two line-drawings by Nash called for at pages 92 and 208 are not present. The plates called to follow pp. 490 and 522 are bound in their proper places, rather than in the terminal suite of plates as is often the case. A fine copy. Bookseller Inventory # 18893 Price: £ 47500.00 (approx. US$ 69826.90)" "CUMMINGS, E.E. Calchidas Undated. An ink drawing of an inhabited seaside mountain, pictured in Cummings' CIOPW. On the verso are approximately 70 words in Cummings' hand, beginning "What am I doing on top of this hill at Calchidas, in the sunlight?" and describing the scene. At first glance, stream-of-consciousness description, but with more than a dozen revisions of text. 7-3/4" x 5". Edges and corners very fragile; near fine. Bookseller Inventory # 018055 Price: US$ 13000.00" "TOLKIEN, J.R.R. THE HOBBIT or There and Back Again Allen & Unwin, 1937 First edition. Original green cloth with blue designs on the boards decorated by the author. All the illustrations and maps are also by Tolkien. The dustwrapper has the famous correction to back flap where ?Dodgson? was misspelled ?Dodgeson? and corrected by the publishers in ink. A fine copy in a superb near fine dustwrapper that has a small closed tear to the top edge and a small dot of colour applied by previous owner. The fragile wrapper is rarely seen without large chips or substantial restoration. This is a totally unrestored copy. A stunning copy. Famously Tolkien, bored with marking School Cert. papers, began to draft a story for his children in about 1926. His academic background made him familiar with the myths and legends of old European traditions and it is in this culture that The Hobbit is founded. His working of the story and the hobbit world was clearly an amalgam of a fertile imagination and academic precision. CS Lewis recalled seeing a draft in about 1932/3, but it took Tolkien until 1937 and many rewrites and redrawing of the maps before he was ready to share his masterpiece. Yet the initial issue was of only 1500 copies. Today sales stand at over 60 million, in many languages and formats. Polls conducted at the end of last century placed The Hobbit firmly as the favourite book of the century. Read by children and adults alike, this is one of the most important landmarks of fantasy writing. Hammond A3.a . Bookseller Inventory # 13918 Price: £ 85000.00 (approx. US$ 124953.40)" "TOLSTOY, COUNT LYOF N. War and Peace. From the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, [1889] Four volumes in two. First Edition (first printing?) with this translation. Original cloth. Line, Bibliography of Russian Literature in Translation, p. 49, Tolstoy in English 1878-1929, p. 7. Boldly inscribed in English on the front flyleaf by the great Russian novelist, "To Mr. Bridgeman/ Leo Tolstoy/ 22 April 1901". Laid into this copy are two letters which explain how this copy came to be inscribed. Mr. L. Dolgoff of Moscow writes to Bridgeman (of Northampton) on January 17, 1901, first replying that an earlier shipment of books had apparently not arrived, or that, "...Count Tolstoy does not remember it at least." He continues, "I asked Tolstoy to put his autograph on a sheet of paper, but he is willing only to write his name on a book. ¦ I thought I could find here some english [sic] edition of Tolstoy's works, but failed, there being no one with Moscow booksellers. ¦ In case you urgently need Tolstoy's autograph, I would recommend you to buy his War and Peace in London and to send to me the first volume; I shall try then to provide such with [the] Count's autograph and send back to you. I could do the same with any russian [sic] book if you prefer it and let me know your consent. Sincerely yours, L. Dolgoff. I have no autograph of Count Tolstoy in english [sic]." Writing again to Bridgeman on April 24, 1901, Dolgoff reports, "At last I have succeeded in procuring the desired autograph of Count Tolstoy. ¦ You will find same on the front page of the book, which I send you back today." Some magazine photos of Tolstoy pasted into the preliminaries, offsetting to a couple of pages from a newspaper clipping, overall a very good set in original cloth. While there have occasionally been inscribed copies of Tolstoy's works available, we can find no inscribed copy of War and Peace appearing on the market in at least the last twenty-five years. Given the difficulty that Mr. Bridgeman had in getting a signed copy, that's hardly surprising. 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