volume II identified as number 4 on its comparable slip, the sets evidently mixed at time of presentation. Clara Tice (1888–1973) was a notorious New York bohemian artist, known as “the Queen of Greenwich Village”. Tice was, according to the New York Times , the first woman in New York to bob her hair, in 1908. She began exhibiting her art from 1910 and in 1915 her fame skyrocketed when the Society for the Prevention of Vice attempted to confiscate her works at the bohemian restaurant Polly’s. Throughout the 1920s she illustrated for Vanity Fair and other magazines and illustrated several books such as this with her softly erotic illustrations. The five copies in this limitation were presented to “five choicest Falstaff Connoisseur Collectors”. 2 volumes, quarto (238 × 158 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, spines elaborately tooled in gilt within 5 compartments, titles in gilt, raised bands, Tice-esque nude to central compartment with brown morocco onlay, green patterned paper covered sides, matching endpapers, largely unopened, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, red silk bookmarker. With an original signed crayon sketch tipped- in before each hand-coloured frontispiece, and 10 further hand-coloured etchings. Neat refurbishment to spine ends, joints, and corners, spines toned to brown, toning to board and endpaper edges, gentle damp stain sporadically to upper margin of vol. I, occasional offsetting, a handsome set in very good condition, presenting well. £4,500 [149944] 160 TOMPKINS, Charles Brown – ENGINEERING RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC. High-Speed Computing Devices. Supervised by C. B. Tompkins and J. H. Wakelin. Edited by W. W. Stifler, Jr. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1950 an excellent association, connecting two pioneers of cryptanalysis First edition of the first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer, presentation copy, inscribed by H. T. Engstrom, Vice-President of Engineering Research Associates, Inc. and author of the foreword, on the front free endpaper, “To Dr H. H. Campaigne with sincere regards H. T. Engstrom”. Both Engstrom and Campaigne played pivotal roles in advancing signals intelligence during the Second World War, and worked together at OP– 20-G and the NSA. Dr Howard T. Engstrom (1902–1962) was co- creator of the UNIVAC at Remington Rand, where
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Charles Brown Tompkins, a pioneering academic in the fields of numerical analysis and computing, wrote the majority of the text, much of which summarizes the work of the Engineering Research Associates computer company, of which he was a founder in 1946. Octavo. Original navy cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, front cover ruled in blind. With dust jacket. With diagrams throughout. Accompanied by 4 pages of pencilled notes (calculations, codes) on lined paper, perhaps in the hand of the recipient. Extremities gently rubbed, foot of spine rumpled, contents clear bar smudge in lower margin of, p. 66. A near-fine copy in a very good jacket, lightly soiled but spine panel not nearly as faded as usual, extremities chipped and with a few small punctures at joints. ¶ Origins of Cyberspace 584; Tomash & Williams E14. Oral History Interview with Dr Howard Campaigne , NSA-OH–14-83, 29 June 1983, Annapolis, MD, conducted by Robert D. Farley of the NSA. £1,500 [159759] 161 TWAIN, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882 signed by the author “New edition”, inscribed by the author “Truly yours, Mark Twain, Vienna, December 1897” on the front free endpaper. This, the author’s first and celebrated work of historical fiction, is set in the middle of the 16th century. The novel has been widely adapted for theatre, film, and television productions. There have
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he served as vice-president before joining the NSA in 1956 as associate director of the R&D team; he later served as deputy director. Although he returned to Remington Rand in 1958, Engstrom continued in an advisory capacity at the NSA until his death. Engstrom first crossed paths with the data processing pioneer Dr Howard Herbert Campaigne (1910–1988) during the Second World War, at OP–20-G, the US Navy’s signals intelligence and cryptanalysis group. Engstrom headed the research section and recruited Campaigne, who had recently earned his PhD in mathematics and trained in codes and ciphers under cryptanalyst Agnes Meyer Driscoll. He also served a short tour at Bletchley Park. After the war, Engstrom and Campaigne overlapped again at the NSA, where Campaigne worked for many years in a variety of development activities. In 1946 Campaigne and James Pendergast co-authored a classified paper which convinced the Navy to seriously advance their computer technology with specific application to cryptologic problems. He also influenced IBM in choosing binary code for their computers. High-Speed Computing Devices is the first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer. An important contribution to computing literature in its own right, it also provided some of the most complete bibliographies available on the subject at the time.
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had spread far enough for him to be obliged to give his autograph. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, spine with decorations in gilt, front cover with decorations in blind. 4 pp. publisher’s adverts at rear (“Two-Shilling Popular Novels”) together with 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue dated February 1897. With 190 illustrations. Whiteley’s department store label on front pastedown. Extremities of spine slightly worn, corners bumped, minor soiling to covers, front inner hinge splitting but sound, occasional foxing; a very good and appealing copy. ¶ BAL 3396. £8,500 [159928]
also been video game, and comic book adaptations. The novel was originally published in the UK and Canada in 1881 to secure copyright. The first US edition appeared in 1882. Having been forced to file for bankruptcy in April 1894, Twain embarked on a lecture tour around the world in July 1895 to aid his financial recovery. He and his family then spent four years in Europe between October 1897 and May 1899, with lengthy stays in London and Vienna. Vienna offered a number of attractions. One of Twain’s daughters, Clara, wished to study the piano under the distinguished teacher Theodor Leschetizky, and another daughter, Jean, sought medical advice for her epilepsy in “the City of Doctors”. Twain’s fame
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159 TICE, Clara (illus.); LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Tales and Novels. Nijmegen, Holland: Privately printed at the printing house of G. J. Thieme, 1929 First Tice edition, one of five copies entirely set by hand and containing two original drawings and twelve original etchings hand coloured by Tice, both volumes numbered and signed by her on a pasted- in etched limitation slip, volume I being number 3,
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