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        Body Snatchers, The [wraparound band]

      London Eyre & Spottiswoode 1955 First Impression (no further printings noted), with the uncommon promotional wraparound band, "The Star Thriller of the Month." Small 8vo: 192pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket priced 10s/6d. Faint spotting to top edge, leaves toned at margins (as usual), touch of wear to edges of jacket, but a Fine, bright, unread copy. Anatomy of Wonder II-401. Horror Literature 4-116. Originally published in Colliers, in 1954. Finney's chilling classic, retitled Invasion of the Body Snatchers for its four film incarnations, takes place in the idyllic rural community of Mill Valley, which is invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space. The seeds replace sleeping humans with perfect physical duplicates grown from plant-like pods, while their victims turn to dust. The author's second (and most important) book, originally serialized in Colliers. Yet another example of the value to be found in the graphically superior designs of most UK editions of American authors' works. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

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        Derrière le miroir N°79-80-81, Fernand Léger

      First edition.Text by Pierre Reverdy.Illustrated with 5 original coloured lithographs among which 2 double pages by Fernand Léger.A very good copy. Galerie A. Maeght Paris 1955 28x38,5cm en feuilles

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        Bibliography of American literature. Vol 1-9 complete

      Yale University Press 1955-91 - Hardcover cloth,with no DJ, in a very fine condition [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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        Lolita

      Paris: Olympia Press, 1955. FIRST EDITION of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE: From the Bureau Littéraire Clairouin, Nabokov's literary agency who was instrumental in its publication. "Vladimir Nabokov is an artist of the first rank, a writer in the great tradition ... [and] Lolita is probably the best fiction to come out of this country (so to speak) since Faulkner's burst in the thirties. He may be the most important writer now going in this country. He is already, God help him, a classic" (Critic Conrad Brenner, in 1958).Controversial since its conception, Lolita was rejected by American publishing houses until finally accepted by the avant-garde Olympia Press in Paris and published in a fragile two-volume format.First issue, with 900 Francs on rear wrappers and no evidence of later price sticker.WITH IMPORTANT PROVENANCE: with stamp of the Bureau Littéraire Clairouin, Nabokov's literary agency, on front free endpaper of each volume.Nabokov on the Bureau Littéraire Clairouin and the publication of Lolita:"Lolita was finished at the beginning of 1954, in Ithaca, New York. My first attempts to have it published in the US proved disheartening and irritating. On August 6 of that year, from Taos, New Mexico, I wrote to Madame Ergaz, of the Bureau Littéraire Clairouin, Paris, about my troubles. She had arranged the publication in French of some of my Russian and English books; I now asked her to find somebody in Europe who would publish Lolita in the original English. She replied that she thought she could arrange it. A month later, however, upon my return to Ithaca (where I taught Russian Literature at Cornell) I wrote to her saying I had changed my mind. New hopes had arisen for publication in America. They petered out, and next spring I got in touch with Madame Ergaz again, writing her (Feb. 16) that Sylvia Beach 'might perhaps be interested if she still publishes.' This was not followed up. By April 17 Madame Ergaz had received my transcript. On April 26, 1955, a fatidic date, she said she had found a possible publisher. On May 13 she named that person. It was thus that Maurice Girodias, [founder of The Olympia Press], entered my files..." (Nabokov in Strong Opinions).Paris: Olympia Press, 1955. Octavo, original green paper wrappers; custom box. Two volumes. A little edgewear and a few spots of soiling, usual spine creases. An excellent copy with an important provenance of the rare first issue. Very Good.

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        Entretiens avec le professeur Y

      First edition, one of 36 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the tirage de tête.Half black morocco over marbled paper boards by Goy & Vilaine, spine in six compartments, gilt date to foot of spine, endpapers and pastedowns of paper black, covers and spine preserved.A very good copy with a nice binding. Gallimard Paris 1955 11,5x18,5cm relié

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        Sand and Satin

      First Impression London Herbert Jenkins 1955 First UK Edition (released only as a paperback, entitled Return of Sumuru, in the U.S.). Publisher's red cloth, spine and lower cover stamped in black; price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Just about Fine, square, tight and unmarked (front hinge seamlessly repaired), but end papers stained from binder's glue and title page inscribed; in a Fine, bright jacket, only very lightly rubbed. St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers, p. 899. Scarce.Fine- "Nowadays the credit (or more often the blame) for the 'Yellow Peril' school of mystery thriller is placed squarely upon the shoulders of Sax Rhomer. Rhomer had the talent and good fortune to create a near-mythic figure [who first appeared in "The Zayat Kiss," published in the October 1912 issue of The Story-Teller magazine] who embodied all the fancied villainy of the East combined with all the science of the West: . . . Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate . . . [With his late] series of five novels about Sumuru, Rohmer revived the Fu Manchu formula, but featured a "carefully de-ethnicized female villain." (St. James Guide) Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.

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        Original advertising artwork for the James Bond novel 'Moonraker'

      [1955]. Dimensions 205 x 200mm. Paste-up montage design for the novel published by The Macmillan Company, New York, 1955. Mapping ink and printed collage on artist's board, displaying a spirits bottle with accompanying text 'Bottled in Bond (James)' and 'Stop at your local bookshop for a dose of Moonraker the sensational new 100 proof spine-curling concotion...', with a supporting quote from Raymond Chandler. An exceptional piece of Bondiana. Owned in conjuction with Lucius Books of York. Gilbert, Jon; Ian Fleming: The Bibliography, page 118.

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        Memoirs

      Doubleday & Company. First edition. Publisher's Bradel black cloth over paper boards, top edges green. Autograph inscription from Harry S. Truman to Jacques Thomas, his wife and family, on each volume. A good set. % Doubleday & Company New York 1955-1956 14x21,5cm 2 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur

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        Parler seul

      Caractères. Second edition, one of 985 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only printing along with 15 on pur fil. Handsome autograph inscription from Tristan Tzara to Raymond Queneau.A good copy. Caractères Paris 1955 14,5x19,5cm relié

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        The Maser - New Type of Microwave Amplifier, Freguency Standard, and Spectrometer

      Lancaster, PA and New York, N.Y.: American Physical Society, 1955. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 1059-1337, [1 blank] pages. Original blue/green printed wrappers. 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Previous owner name inked on upper right hand corner of front wrapper. Several scuffs and minor discolorations to the front panel. Light fading to the spine panel. Shallow bump to head of spine panel. The entire issue offered of The Physical Review Second Series, Vol 99 No. 4. Wraps. The paper by Townes, et al. discussing the discovery of the Maser is found on pages 1264-1274. Offered in the original wrappers. This work resulted in the Nobel Prize in Physics 1964 being awarded to Charles Hard Townes (1/2), and the other half jointly to Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov (1/4) and Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (1/4) "for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which has led to the construction of oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle". "The first papers about the maser were published ... as a result of investigations carried out simultaneously and independently by Townes and co-workers at Columbia University in New York and by Basov and Prochorov at the Lebedev Institute in Moscow. In the following years there were designed a number of masers of widely different types, and many people made important contributions to this development. In the type that is now being mostly used the maser effect is obtained by means of the ions of certain metals imbedded in a suitable crystal. These masers work as extremely sensitive receivers for short radiowaves. They are of great importance in radio astronomy and are being used in space research for recording the radio signals from satellites." (Nobel Presentation Speech) The Physical Review, The First Hundred Years, a Selection fo Seminal Papers and Commentaries, p.1165.

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        South Africa V British Isles 1955 (4th Test) Rugby Programme

      1955 - Official programme for the 4th test at Port Elizabeth, 24 September 1955. The Springboks won 22-8 to draw the series. Light folds, generally very good and scarce.

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        Moonraker.

      London: Jonathan Cape. 1955. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.256. This is the scarce variant on the thin paper stock with 'shoo' for 'shoot' printed to p.10. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards, titled in silver, in 'flame' design dust-wrapper by Kenneth Lewis.The paper stock is toned as expected (this state 'prone to browning' - Gilbert p.95), otherwise contents and binding are near fine, with a small bump to the upper corner. The dust-jacket is a little edgeworn else near fine, exhibiting the usual condition issues inherent with this title; 'the panels are prone to browning and the bright colours suffer from fading' (p.96). A pleasing copy of a rare variant. The 'shoo' version accounts for "as few as one in five copies of the first impression". A true Bond highlight. Gilbert A3a (1.1).

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        INDIANA TELEPHONE COMPANY / BELL Services / AT&T PLANT SUPERVISOR'S ARCHIVE. Photograph albums, Labor and conference reports, trade magazines, etc., Circa 1920 - 1957.

      [Indianapolis, IN]: J. Walter Hannon, Indiana Telephone Company, 1920 - 1955. 3 Photograph Albums, of varying pages. Two typewritten notebooks, one folder of Indiana journal publications laid-in, and many loose photographs and adverts. Many b/w photographs throughout albums (some sepia toned), including 28 photo postcards; most group company photographs commercial, remaining photographs by Hannon(?) or perhaps a company photographer. Nine loose 8" x 10" original photos, six 2.5" x 4" photos tipped-in on loose board with clipping attached. Labor report with photo plates, illustrations, diagrams, numerous letters on letterhead, memos, tipped-in printed brochures, text illustrations, color illustrated wrappers. Photo Albums oblong format: (1) 10-1/2" x 13-1/2". (2) 8-1/2" x 11-1/2". (3) 10-1/4" x 13-1/2" Albums with modest rubbing to edges and light soiling/aging to covers; light musty odor; minor bumping to edges and scuffing to fore-edges.

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        Les aventures de la dialectique

      Gallimard. First edition, one advance (service de presse) copy, falsely stated the second edition on foot of half-title page.Handsome autograph inscription signed by Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Maurice Nadeau "... avec mes bien amicales pensées..."  Gallimard Paris 1955 12x19cm broché

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        MOONRAKER

      MACMILLAN COMPANY 1955 - Stated First Edition, First Printing: Stunning near fine book and dust jacket. The book has light green cloth boards with black/deep blue titles to front and spine. The boards are in beautiful condition with clean cloth, sharp corners with one tiny tip bump, and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The end papers are clean with no owner names, no bookplates, no inscriptions and no bookstore stamps. The internal pages are clean , flat and bright with no marks, no stains, no writing, no foxing, no bent pages, and no age toning. Clean, beautiful book appearing as unread! The scarce original first edition dust jacket has benefited from slight restoration by an expert paper conservator and presents in near fine condition. The jacket has strong vibrant colors, and No fading. The jacket presents beautifully with no rips, no chips, no tears, no rubbing, no fading and no foxing. The dust jacket is not price clipped and has a stated price of $2.75. Front flap corners clipped as published. The dust jacket is now protected in a clear archival cover. Striking dust jacket, presenting the book beautifully! Please see detailed images. A very handsome example of this rare title. This Bond title is far more rare than the first American edition of Live and Let Die. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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        Mémoires de guerre

      First edition, one of the numbered copies on Alfa paper for each copy.autograph dedication of the author autograph dated 23-02-1955 and signed Charles De Gaulle "... remember after the big events ..." on the first volume.spine uniformly insolated, some rare spots on the cover boards.Nice copy enriched with a fine autograph signed by General De Gaulle. Plon Paris 1954-1959 14,5x23cm 3 volumes brochés

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        Angels and Spaceships.

      London, Gollancz. 1955. First Edition. 8vo. 224pp. A fine copy in publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt to the spine. Bright and crisp. In a fabulously fugitive pink Gollancz dustwrapper, faded to spine but otherwise gorgeous, with the scarce wraparound band reproducing a fragment of Edmund Crispin's review.

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        Collection with 37 offprints / landmark papers by Nobel Laureate Paul C. Lauterbur including a Set of Lauterbur's landmark papers on 13C NMR spectroscopy, including the 1957 offprint of his discovery of this technique. Today, carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy is a very important method for characterizing organic molecules, and is widely used in chemistry and biochemistry. See full list of the collection below.

      , 1955. 1955-2005. 8°. more than 300 pages. Softcover. All are original offprints unless otherwise stated. All in fine condition, many in original printed paper wrappers as issued by the journal. Paul C. Lauterbur offprintsnnAll are original offprints unless otherwise stated. All in fine condition, many in original printed paper wrappers as issued by the journal. nnLauterbur's first publication. His interest in the chemistry of silicon, which is the subject of this paper, led directly to his interest in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and ultimately to his invention of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). n1. Warrick, E. L.; Lauterbur, P. C. Filler phenomena in silicone rubber. Indust. Eng. Chem. (1955), 47, 486-91. PHOTOCOPY of original offprint from Lauterbur's files - the original supply having been exhausted. Bears a footnote stating ?Reprinted from Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol. 47, Page 486, March 1955?nnSet of Lauterbur's landmark papers on 13C NMR spectroscopy, including the 1957 offprint of his discovery of this technique. Today, carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy is a very important method for characterizing organic molecules, and is widely used in chemistry and biochemistry. n2. Lauterbur, Paul C. Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra. J. Chem. Phys. (1957), 26, 217-18. n3. Lauterbur, Paul C. Anisotropy of the carbon-13 chemical shift in calcite. Phys. Rev. Lett. (1958), 1, 343-4. Hole-punched. n4. Lauterbur, Paul C. C13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). I. Aromatic hydrocarbons. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (1961), 83, 1838-46. n5. Lauterbur, Paul C. C13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). II. Phenols, anisole, and dimethoxybenzenes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (1961), 83, 1846-52. n6. Lauterbur, Paul C. Magnetic shieldings and the electronic structures of aromatic molecules. Tetrahedron Lett. (1961), 274-9. n7. Lauterbur, Paul C.; Kurland, Robert J. On the Signs of CH and HH coupling constants. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (1962), 84, 3405-6. n8. Tiers, George V. D.; Lauterbur, Paul C. Fluorine N.M.R. (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectroscopy. X. Analysis of carbon-13 satellites in the spectra of cis- and trans-CFCl=CFCl. Assignment of coupling constants for fluorinated olefins. J. Chem. Phys. (1962), 36, 1110-11. n9. Burke, John J.; Lauterbur, Paul C. 13C and 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of cycloalkanes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (1964), 86, 1870-1. n10. Lauterbur, P. C.; King, R. B. Carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of transition metal cyclopentadienyl and carbonyl derivatives. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (1965), 87, 3266-7. n11. Lauterbur, Paul C. 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. VI. Azines and methyl azines. J. Chem. Phys. (1965), 43, 360-3. nnMore than anyone, Lauterbur proved that heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy was a powerful method for the investigation of matter. This is one of his papers on nuclei other than carbon-13.n12. Lauterbur, Paul C. Isotope effects on 69Co magnetic shielding in K3Co(CN)6. J. Chem. Phys. (1965), 42, 799-800. nnLauterbur's landmark paper on the discovery of MRI. n13. Lauterbur, P. C. Image formation by induced local interactions. Examples employing nuclear magnetic resonance. Nature (1973), 242, 190-1. PHOTOCOPY of original offprint from Lauterbur's files - the original supply having been exhausted. The copy bears a header stating ?(Reprinted from Nature, Vol. 242, No 5394, pp. 190-191, March 16, 1973)? nnSubsequent papers from Lauterbur's laboratory on MRI, which he originally called zeugmatography. Included are important papers on improvements in the technique and applications to medical diagnostics. n14. Bernardo, M. L.; Cohen, A. J.; Lauterbur, P. C. Radiofrequency coil designs for nuclear magnetic resonance zeugmatographic imaging. IEEE Proc. Intl. Workshop Phys. Eng. Med. Imaging, (1982) 277-284.n15. Lauterbur, P. C. Cancer detection by nuclear magnetic resonance zeugmatographic imaging. Cancer (1986), 57, 1899-904. n16. Lauterbur, Paul C. Nuclear magnetic resonance microscopy. Proc. Ann. Mtg. Elect. Microsc. Soc. Amer. 47th (1989), 828-829.n17. Hyslop, W. Brian; Woods, Ronald K.; Lauterbur, Paul C. Four-dimensional projection reconstruction imaging. Soc. Photo-Opt. Instrum. Eng. (1992), 1660, 44-49.n18. Liang, Zhi Pei; Lauterbur, Paul C. A theoretical analysis of the SLIM technique. J. Mag. Reson., Series B (1993), 102, 54-60. n19. Hawrylak, Nicholas; Ghosh, Pratik; Broadus, Julie; Schlueter, Carol; Greenough, William T.; Lauterbur, Paul C. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging of iron oxide-labeled neural transplants. Exper. Neurol. (1993), 121, 181-92. n20. Frank, Shachar; Lauterbur, Paul C. Voltage-sensitive magnetic gels as magnetic resonance monitoring agents. Nature (1993), 363, 334-6. n21. Zhou, X.; Magin, R. L.; Alameda, J. C. Jr.; Reynolds, H. A.; Lauterbur, P. C. Three-dimensional NMR microscopy of rat spleen and liver. Mag. Reson. Med. (1993), 30, 92-7. n22. Wiener, E. C.; Brechbiel, M. W.; Brothers, H.; Magin, R. L.; Gansow, O. A.; Tomalia, D. A.; Lauterbur, P. C. Dendrimer-based metal chelates: a new class of magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents. Mag. Reson. Med. (1994), 31, 1-8. n23. Liang, Zhi-Pei; Lauterbur, Paul C. An efficient method for dynamic magnetic resonance imaging. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging (1994), 13, 677-686.n24. Potter, Clinton S.; Liang, Zhi-Pei; Gregory, Carl D.; Morris, H. Douglas; Lauterbur, Paul C. Toward a neuroscope: a real-time imaging system for evaluation of brain function. Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Image Processing, 1st (1994), 3, 25-29.n25. Hyslop, W. Brian; Woods, Ronald K.; Lauterbur, Paul C. Four-dimensional spectral-spatial imaging using projection reconstruction. IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging (1995), 14, 374-383.n26. Hanson, J. M.; Liang, Z. P.; Wiener, E. C.; Lauterbur, P. C. Fast dynamic imaging using two reference images. Mag. Reson. Med. (1996), 36, 172-5. n27. Chandra, S.; Liang, Z. P.; Webb, A.; Lee, H.; Morris, H. D.; Lauterbur, P. C. Application of reduced-encoding imaging with generalized-series reconstruction (RIGR) in dynamic MR imaging. J. Mag. Reson. Imaging (1996), 6, 783-97.n28. Wiener, E. C.; Auteri, F. P.; Chen, J. W.; Brechbiel, M. W.; Gansow, O. A.; Schneider, D. S.; Belford, R. L.; Clarkson, R. B.; Lauterbur, P. C. Molecular Dynamics of Ion-Chelate Complexes Attached to Starburst Dendrimers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. (1996), 118, 7774-7782. n29. Liang, Zhi-Pei; Lauterbur, Paul C. Constrained imaging. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. (1996), Sep/Oct, 126-132.n30. Liang, Zhi-Pei; Jiang, Hong; Hess, Christopher P; Lauterbur, Paul C. Dynamic imaging by model estimation. Intl. J. Imaging Syst. Technol. (1997), 8, 551-557. n31. Kmiecik, J. A.; Gregory, C. D.; Liang, Z. P.; Hrad, D. E.; Lauterbur, P. C.; Dawson M J Quantitative lactate-specific MR imaging and 1H spectroscopy of skeletal muscle at macroscopic and microscopic resolutions using a zero-quantum/double-quantum coherence filter and SLIM/GSLIM localization. Mag. Reson. Med. (1997), 37, 840-50. n32. Hanson, Jill M.; Liang, Zhi-Pei; Magin, Richard L; Duerk, Jeff L.; Lauterbur, Paul C. A comparison of RIGR and SVD dynamic imaging methods. Magn. Reson. Med. (1997), 38, 161-167.n33. Gulani, V.; Iwamoto, G. A.; Jiang, H.; Shimony, J. S.; Webb, A. G.; Lauterbur, P. C. A multiple echo pulse sequence for diffusion tensor imaging and its application in excised rat spinal cords. Mag. Reson. Med. (1997), 38, 868-73. n34. Gulani, V.; Iwamoto, G. A.; Lauterbur, P. C. Apparent water diffusion measurements in electrically stimulated neural tissue. Mag. Reson. Med. (1999), 41, 241-6. n35. Hess, Christopher P.; Liang, Zhi-Pei; Lauterbur, Paul C. Maximum cross-entropy generalized series reconstruction. Intl. J. Imaging Syst. Technol. (1999), 10, 258-265.nnLauterbur's Nobel lecture.n36. Lauterbur, Paul C. All science is interdisciplinary - from magnetic moments to molecules to men. Separate from: Les Prix Nobel, Edita Norstedts Tryckeri: 2003. nnLauterbur's last paper, containing his original ideas about how life began.n37. Lauterbur, Paul C. Demystifying biology: did life begin as a complex system? Complexity (2005), 11, 30-35.nnn?Lauterbur was born on 6 May 1929 in Sidney, Ohio, and earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1951 from the Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio. From 1951 to 1963, with the exception of service in the US Army from 1954-55, he was a research associate at the Mellon Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Lauterbur's 1962 PhD degree from the University of Pittsburgh was awarded for his independent NMR work at Mellon. In 1963, he joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. It was there that Lauterbur realised how nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals could be used to make a new kind of image. The NMR technique, which was developed in the 1930s and 40s, consists of measuring the radio signals emitted by an object in a magnetic field. Lauterbur's breakthrough idea was to vary the strength of the magnetic field from place to place, so that different parts of the object emitted radio waves of different frequencies. In this way, positional information could be encoded in the radio signal, and images could be constructed mathematically from the returned signals. n?Lauterbur's concept, which came to him in 1971 while eating dinner at a fast food restaurant, was initially (and incorrectly) thought by some to contradict a well-established law of optics - Abbe's resolution limit - which states that the least distance between two points that can be resolved is one-half of the wavelength of the signal. Lauterbur's MRI technique circumvents this limit in a particularly clever way, and can resolve objects separated by distances less than one-thousandth the wavelength of the radio signal. His first manuscript describing the new technique was initially rejected by the journal Nature, a decision Lauterbur contested and the journal wisely reversed. n?Lauterbur quickly applied his MRI method to biological organisms - he first used clams and green peppers - and showed that different types of tissues could readily be distinguished. His subsequent papers established the foundations of many imaging techniques and applications now in clinical use. Today, over 60 million MRI scans are performed each year worldwide. Along with computed X-ray tomography (CT scanning), it is the most important medical diagnostic advance of the twentieth century. n?Although best known for his MRI work, Lauterbur made significant contributions to the development of (non-imaging) NMR spectroscopy. He published the first silicon NMR spectra and pioneering work on phosphorus, fluorine, and tin NMR spectroscopy. He recorded the very first carbon-13 NMR spectra and wrote a landmark series of papers on this spectroscopic method, which today is widely used in chemistry and biochemistry. More than anyone, Lauterbur proved that heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy was a powerful method for the investigation of matter, research that continued after his move to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985.n?Lauterbur relished being a scientific maverick, and had indomitable curiosity and courage: in his seventies, despite a stroke that made walking difficult, he stopped working on MRI and devoted all his efforts to investigate how catalytic templating effects might have contributed to the chemical origin of life. He was witty and charming, forthright and modest in turn. He was a good colleague and a devoted family man, generously giving his time to help others. On the day he was informed of winning the Nobel prize, he insisted on keeping his regular afternoon appointment with his students. In addition to the Nobel prize, Lauterbur won numerous awards, including the US National Medal of Science, the US National Medal of Technology, and election to the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Inventors Hall of Fame.? - Chemistry World, 2007, 4(5).n

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        Springbrunnen. Öltempera auf Leinwand.

      100 x 50 cm, Tadellos Signiert und datiert. Valentin Lustig (*1955 ) aus Klausenburg in Siebenbürgen (Rumänien) stammender Künstler. Seit 1983 lebt Lustig in der Schweiz. Seine Kunst reicht von naiv bis surrealistisch-phantastisch, und enthält zahlreiche Anspielungen auf mythische und biblische Themen. Als Kind von Holocaustüberlebenden thematisiert Lustig auch das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes. Doch dies kommt nicht explizit zum Ausdruck, da er sich einer individuellen und symbolischen bis ins Groteske reichenden Bildersprache bedient, die verschiedene Deutungen zulässt. [Wer Topor mag - mag auch Lustig]Austellungen:1994: Binz 39, Zürich Galerie Pennarz (Alte Schule), Gundamsried Pfaffenhofen(Deutschland)1996: Galerie Stubnitz Kontor, Zürich1997: Allmedia Productions, Zürich1998: Hewlett Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA)2003: The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania2004: Institut Hongrois de Paris, Paris2004: Dorottya Gallery (Ernst Museum), Budapest2005: Lebewohlfabrik, Zürich2006/2007: Yeshiva University Museum, New York City2007: Cooperativo, Zürich2008: Galerie Hauptmann und Kampa, Zürich

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        THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955)

      Universal 1955 - Vintage original 40 x 30" (100 x 75 cm.) poster, USA. Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller, Russell Johnson, dir: Joseph M. Newman, Jack Arnold: Universal. One of the top science fiction classics of the 1950s. Here is a very rare poster indeed. The story involved aliens coming to Earth to engage scientists in a scheme to wage war and destroy the planet. The film, made on a very modest Universal budget, was likely not really in the making for 2 ½ years, but the studio was dissatisfied with director Newman's work and hired Jack Arnold to reshoot a great portion of the film. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart supplied the music score. Poster is rolled. It displays a fair amount of creasing, at edges particularly at the top and bottom. There is inner creasing, more evident in the title box area. Tears at edges have been repaired with brown tape and there are a few small unrepaired edge tears. The top image portion with portrait of Domergue and Reason and the alien to the right is a pasteover and the foot area of the alien has lifted slightly. VERY GOOD.

      [Bookseller: Walter Reuben, Inc.]
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        THE LOVECRAFT COLLECTORS LIBRARY: VOLUMES I & II, SELECTED ESSAYS: VOLUMES III & IV, SELECTED POETRY: VOLUME V, THE AMATEUR JOURNALIST: VOLUME VI, COMMENTARIES: VOLUME VII, BIBLIOGRAPHIES

      North Tonawanda, NY: SSR Publications 1952-1955, 1955 All seven volumes uniformly numbered 58 of a limitation of only 75 sets. "The Lovecraft Collectors Library is a collection of relatively obscure and important Lovecraftiana - including many essays, poems, photographs, and stories that had been unpublished or rarely known in HPL's lifetime, as well as early scholarship and literary criticism of Lovecraft and his work." Quoted from Wikithulhu. All are staple bound in gray stiff paper covers with printing in black. All pages and covers lightly toned, else a fine set which appears unread. . First edition, first printing. Printed wrappers.

      [Bookseller: Robert Gavora, Fine and Rare Books]
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        The Acceptance World - Double signed and inscribed

      Heinemann, 1955 A very good+ book with some off-setting and browning to the endpapers, some fading to titles. SIGNED and inscribed on the front endpaper (Dominick and Christina/from/Tony/on this marriage/into love/The Chantry/August/1924. Additionally signed on the title page. In a very good+ unclipped wrapper with a little wear to the spine tips and a crease to the rear panel.

      [Bookseller: John Atkinson Books]
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        The Second World War

      London: The Educational Book Company Ltd,, [1955]. 6 volumes, octavo. Original quarter blue morocco, blue linen sides, titles gilt to spines, compartment panels ruled gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge blue. Coloured frontispiece to each, and 185 half-tone plates, numerous maps, plans and diagrams, many of them folding; title pages printed within red ruled borders. Spines slightly faded; an excellent set. The Chartwell Edition, not in the standard red cloth, but in the uncommon deluxe binding of "moderate blue" quarter morocco. Issued on the completion of the first edition (1948?54) of Churchill's masterly account of the Second World War, this edition includes the author's last revisions and is also fully illustrated. It was published at 19 guineas, or Â£21 by subscription, as against the standard binding at Â£12 9s 6d or 13 guineas by subscription.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]
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        Auf dem roten Sofa. Öltempera auf Leinwand.

      100 x 1300 cm, Tadellos Signiert und datiert. Valentin Lustig (*1955 ) aus Klausenburg in Siebenbürgen (Rumänien) stammender Künstler. Seit 1983 lebt Lustig in der Schweiz. Seine Kunst reicht von naiv bis surrealistisch-phantastisch, und enthält zahlreiche Anspielungen auf mythische und biblische Themen. Als Kind von Holocaustüberlebenden thematisiert Lustig auch das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes. Doch dies kommt nicht explizit zum Ausdruck, da er sich einer individuellen und symbolischen bis ins Groteske reichenden Bildersprache bedient, die verschiedene Deutungen zulässt. [Wer Topor mag - mag auch Lustig]Austellungen:1994: Binz 39, Zürich Galerie Pennarz (Alte Schule), Gundamsried Pfaffenhofen(Deutschland)1996: Galerie Stubnitz Kontor, Zürich1997: Allmedia Productions, Zürich1998: Hewlett Gallery, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (USA)2003: The Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania2004: Institut Hongrois de Paris, Paris2004: Dorottya Gallery (Ernst Museum), Budapest2005: Lebewohlfabrik, Zürich2006/2007: Yeshiva University Museum, New York City2007: Cooperativo, Zürich2008: Galerie Hauptmann und Kampa, Zürich

      [Bookseller: antiquariat peter petrej]
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        Moonraker

      Cape, 1955 A first edition, first printing published by Cape in 1955. A near fine book without inscriptions, with some very slight spotting to page edges. Some light off-setting to the endpapers. 'shoot' to page 10. A very nice copy without the dust wrapper.[removed][removed]

      [Bookseller: John Atkinson Books]
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        Viaggio alla citt? di Safed

      Edizioni Age d'or, 1955. Con 12 litografie originali di Luzzati (cm 34,5x34,5 intitolate: Sinagoga aschenazita, Scuola di Rabbi Ban?, La leggenda del fico, Sinagoga Rabbi Jossi il costruttore, La leggenda delle lucciole, Sinagoga Rabbi Habuab). Cm 35x35. . Ottimo (Fine). Prima edizione di 120 es. numerati. "Viaggio alla citt? di Safed" ? la prima cartella di litografie di Luzzati.

      [Bookseller: Studio Bibliografico Marini]
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        TEX STRISCIA - SERIE GIALLA 001-018 COMPLETA

      EDIZIONI AUDACE, 1955. TEX STRISCIA SERIE GIALLA nn. 1-18 serie completa Casa Editrice Audace 1955 spillato 16,8 x 7,6 cm b/n Stato di Conservazione: OTTIMO! Un segno a matita nel retro del n. 1. Graffetta arrugginita e macchie nel retro nel n. 3. Graffetta arrugginita nel n. 12, 14 e 16. Segni di nastro adesivo nel dorso del n. 18.

      [Bookseller: Supergulp di Rem Srl]
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        Violin. From au Soleil du Plafond. First edition.

      Paris: Tériade Editeur. 1955 - Color lithograph. 43 x 33 cm. One of 220 impressions printed by Mourlot. Ref: Douglas Cooper, Juan Gris, Catalogue Raisonné, Revised edition 2014, no. L.4. In 1915, the artist's dealer Léonce Rosenberg (1879-1947) came up with the idea of publishing a facsimile of manuscript poems by Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960) illustrated by Juan Gris. The projectnever took place during the artist's lifetime. Juan Gris died in 1927, having completed only about half of the images. As a result, only eleven lithographs accompany the twenty poems in the book. The bookwas published in 1955, almost forty years from the first efforts and 28 years after the artist's death. The publisher is known as Tériade (1897-1983). He was born in Lesbos, Greece as Efstratios Eleftheriades.He worked with his fellow Greek expatriate Christian Zervos in Paris on the art journal Cahiers d'art and began his own publishing company with the deluxe art journal Verve in 1937. Tériade published about 20 important livres d'artiste with original graphic works by the major Ecole de Paris artists.The lithographs relate to the artist's paintings from an important period (circa 1916) and are therefore included in this catalogue. They are not considered as original works by the artist since they were created after the artist's gouaches by the printer Fernand Mourlot (1895-1988). [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Wittenborn Art Books]
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