"I'M LOOKING FOR MY MATCH / GREEN RIVER, WYO." hand-colored / tinted leather postcard with writing on front, used there 1907, fairly fresh. $5.50 wlm

"KODAK / CAMERA OWNERS / answer 2 questions / and receive a / FREE / ROLL OF / COLOR / FILM" matchbook cover with coupon inside. $1.00 mc

"ONE / WORLD / A SKYCHEF RESTAURANT / Cleveland Hopkins / Airport / CLEVELAND, OHIO" unused matchbook cover. $1.00 amo

"Plant of the Pennsylvania Match Co., Bellefonte, Pa." reprint of a circa 1905 post card done expressly for the American Philatelic Society to publicize its new headquarters. Also served as a model for its pictorial permit to show payment of postage first used in 2000. Near mint condition. $2.00 p(b)pm NEW / NOUVEAU / NUEVO

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"Solomon / Delicatessen / Restaurant / 23905 Cedar Rd…" in South Euclid Ohio, match book cover, striker unused. $1.00 om*

"THE / HOPKINS / AIRPORT HOTEL / ON CLEVELAND HOPKINS AIRPORT…" unused matchbook cover. $1.00 amo

"Tis said / Dan / Cupid strikes / the match / That sets the heart a / glow / But where Dan Cupid / strikes that match / Is what I'd like to know" leather postcard mailed JUN 28 1907 at Assaria Kansas (bold cancel, very small town) to 'City' possibly meaning Lindsborg (per writing on front). Some hand-coloring. $5.00 vlam-k

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"A Thorough Compilation of the Role of Statistics in Legal / Cases / STATISTICS AND THE LAW" unused business reply card from a December 1987 Wiley advertising campaign, excellent condition. $1.00 ml NEW / NOUVEAU / NUEVO

"FRACTALS / FORM, CHANCE, AND DIMENSION" hardbound book by Benoit B. Mandelbrot, dustcover included, 365 pages, a few markings by the former owner but lightly used. Even the indices of this seminal work are worth reading! $20.00 m NEW / NOUVEAU / NUEVO

"FREE BROCHURE on our / Two NEW STATISTICS / SUBROUTINE / LIBRARIES" unused business reply card from a December 1987 Wiley advertising campaign, excellent condition. $1.00 mc NEW / NOUVEAU / NUEVO

Lot of 20 different unused business reply cards advertising for various mathematics texts. Varied topics--geometry of spatial forms, numerical solution of differential equations, combinatorial theory, etc. Authors include Harold N. Shapiro, Morris L. Eaton & Zellig Harris. Most circa 1984-1987. All 22 for $6.50 m-

Lot of 28 different unused business reply card advertising books for statistician professionals. Varied topics--collinearity and weak data, point estimation, interval graphs, block designs, stochastic equilibrium, etc. Authors include Koji Miyazaki, George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper & R. Whittle. Most circa 1985-1987. All 28 for $8.00 m-

    Lot of 33 different business reply cards bearing ads targeted to mathematics professionals, all dating to February 1994, almost all near mint & fresh appearance. Mostly book & software ads with a good variety of subjects: alternative regression methods (shown), spatial data, Fibonacci applications to finance, outliers, equation-writing software, testing software & much much more. Interesting group. $10.00 e

    Mainzer Belgian printing 4914. Abacus lesson for inattentive kittens. fresh appearance & unused. Know a mathematics teacher who loves cats? Postcard sold. Still available for scholarly study & research as an enlarged (almost 2x original postcard area) 100-dpi scan in .jpg (342,118 bytes) or .tif format. $1.50

"Now--A Powerful Guide to Computer Manipulation of / Design Variables . . . / OPTIMIZATION USING PERSONAL / COMPUTERS / With Applications to Electrical Networks / By Thomas R. Cuthbert, Jr." unused business reply card from a December 1987 Wiley advertising campaign, excellent condition. $1.00 mc NEW / NOUVEAU / NUEVO

"The 19th-Century Key to Today's High-Speed Computations / PI AND THE AGM / A Study in Analytic Number theory and / Computational Complexity" unused business reply card from a December 1987 Wiley advertising campaign, excellent condition. $1.00 mc NEW / NOUVEAU / NUEVO

"The Definitive Guide to Mathematical Proofs! / HOW TO READ AND DO PROOFS / ... / By Daniel Solow" unused business reply card from a December 1987 Wiley advertising campaign, excellent condition. $1.00 ml

"The First Book Dedicated to the Role of Invariant Subspaces in / the Analysis of Linear Transformations / INVARIANT SUBSPACES OF MATRICES WITH / APPLICATIONS / By I. Gohberg, P. Lancaster, and L. Rodman" unused business reply card from a December 1987 Wiley advertising campaign, excellent condition. $0.75 m NEW / NOUVEAU / NUEVO

"Updates a classic in the Field / Testing Statistical Hypotheses, / 2nd Edition / By Erich L. Lehmann" unused business reply card from a December 1987 Wiley advertising campaign, excellent condition. $0.75 ml NEW / NOUVEAU / NUEVO

"Use Computer Graphics to Examine Geometric Concepts / MICROCOMPUTERS IN GEOMETRY / By Adrian Oldknow" unused business reply card from a December 1987 Wiley advertising campaign, excellent condition. $1.00 mc

"Use Computer Programs to Develop Optimal Classification / Rules / CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS / by Mike James" unused business reply card from a December 1987 Wiley advertising campaign, excellent condition. $1.00 mc

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BOOKS & MONGRAPHS

"Concatenated Codes" by G. David Forney Jr., hardbound, 37th volume in the M.I.T. Research Monograph Series, 1966 copyright, dustcover torn & a couple of marks inside by former owner, but otherwise in good shape, 147 pages with subject index. $14.50

"CONTINUED / FRACTIONS" by A. Ya. Khinchin, paperbound, 100- page, 3rd edition from The University of Chicago Press from the classic 1935 Russian work, former owners name penned in on an inside cover page, otherwise fairly fresh. $2.25 m

"Current Index / to Statistics / APPLICATIONS, / METHODS and / THEORY / Volume 16 / 1990" published jointly by the American Statistical Association & the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. 741` pages plus the erratum. $7.50

OR / MS TODAY
Journal published by the Institute For Operations
Research and the Management Science (INFORMS).
Noteworthy for articles on applications of mathematics &
mathematical computing. All mailed, but fairly fresh unless noted.

Supplement for the October 23-26 1994 INFORMS meeting, indexed by participants, with short abstracts. A way to locate expertise on many subjects. $2.00

April 1995 issue. Articles on consulting careers & analysis of teen crime. Nonlinear programming software survey. $2.50

June 1995 issue. Articles on the National Airspace System, the Trans-Alaska Gas System & materials handling. Algebraic modeling languages survey. Several pages have small corner creases. $2.25

August 1995 issue. Articles on the virtual workplace, virtual shopping, and OR in the chemical industry. $2.50 Separately bound supplement "Managing Interdisciplinary Interfaces" program for the INFORMS Fall meeting, indexed by presenter. $2.00 Both for $3.75.

October 1995 issue with cover depicting a Marilyn Monroe doll (recreating the famous upblowing skirt movie scene). Yes--you read that correctly! A most unusual present that could every be presented to the right mathematics professor. Address label covers one of her knees; no attempt to remove it yet. Content includes a survey of linear programming software. $7.50

February 1996 issue. Articles on data mining & public budgeting. Survey on statistical analysis software. $2.50

April 1996 issue. Articles on intelligent manufacturing, OR applications to golf, and OR applications to affirmative action. $2.50

June 1996 issue. Articles on operations research internationally--Australia, Britain, China, Greece, Netherlands & Singapore, to name a few. $2.50

THE AMERICAN STATISTICIAN
Journal published by the American Statistical Association. Noteworthy for its articles on statistical computing
& for the teaching of statistics (novel proofs,
counterexamples, interesting applications, etc.).
All fairly fresh unless noted otherwise.

Volume 45 Number 1 (February 1991). $2.50

Volume 45 Number 2 (May 1991). $2.50

Volume 45 Number 3 (August 1991). Couple of pages with small corner crease. $2.25

Volume 45 Number 4 (November 1991). $2.50

Volume 46 Number 1 (February 1992). Trivial corner damage to a few pages. $2.25

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    "PORT-ÉTIENNE (Mauritanie) -- Femmes Mauresques" women seated before a tent on the Saharan dessert, unused black & white carte postale from Enterprises Transatlantiques. good edges. $7.50 m

    See, more generally, Africa postcards. Shown, for example, is Roosevelt hunting at an unspecified African location.

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    "Akron (O.) Iron Co. / SHAFTING" 1888 pioneer advertising card with three drawings in brownish red on government postal card. Mentions steel rim pulleys, hangers, and couplings too. Nice! $72.50 (oam)

"BILLANY & COCHRANE / TELEPHONE No. 1538 / Machinists' Tools, / No. 527 Commerce Street. / Philadelphia 1893" postal card ordering a roller boiler tube expander from a Richard Dudgeon in New York (whose steam carriage is depicted on a 4-c US stamp), minor edge wear, minor toning. $6.00 pmg(b)g(d) NEW / NOUVEAU / NUEVO

    "BROWN & SHARPE / TOOLS / Help good mechanics do better work" wallet-card size booklet with 16 panels (3 shown including cover at right), illustrating & describing some of their calipers, telescoping gauges, protractors, micrometers, etc. Circa 1941. Browning paper due to age & trivial faults. $4.00 ma

"Compumotor Positioning / Control Systems & Drives" unused business reply card to Parker Hannifin Corporation there, circa January 1998, some products illustrated in black & white, fairly fresh. $1.00 cm

    "Drafting º Designing / Engineering Service / MECHANICAL º Structural / ... / S. W. HULL / ENGINEER º DRAFTSMAN / ..." illustrated advertising of professional services on postcard mailed 1932 from Cleveland Ohio during the Depression, a couple of long but faint creases. An interesting piece of social history. $5.00 ogsm

"FREE CATALOGS! / NEW FROM BAYSIDE. The Leader in Precision Gearheads." multicolor illustrated advertising on unused business reply card, circa January 1998, fairly fresh. $1.00 nm NEW / NOUVEAU / NUEVO

"Hollingsworth - Cambion / Electro-mechanical & Inductive Components" picturing some of their many products, unused English business reply card, circa November 1997. $1.00 e(c)m

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Lot of 68 different business reply cards bearing ads targeted to mechanical engineers, all dating to November 1994, almost all near mint. Good variety: linear thrusters, springs catalogue, gasketing seals, plastic coatings, engine air filtration & much much more. $20.50 e

        Lot of 57 different business reply cards bearing ads targeted to mechanical engineers, all dating to January 1995, almost all near mint. Good variety: cable & hose carriers (shown above left), level & flow sensors (shown above right), software, brush shields, grease, shaft mounts, and much much more. Interesting group. $17.00 e

    
Lot of 69 different business reply cards bearing ads targeted to mechanical engineers, all dating to August 1995, almost all near mint. Good variety:  plastic compound applications (shown left), twist lock devices (shown right), brush shields, hydraulic / pneumatic nozzles, plaster mold castings, roller & ratchet clutches, & much much more. Interesting group. $19.00 e

"PTFE Dry Lubricant / A dry, synthetic lubricant with... / For use in many / industrial applications / miller-stephenson chemical company, inc." with the product container pictured in color near some gears, unused business reply card with Danbury Permit No. 211, fresh appearance. $1.00 cm NEW / NOUVEAU / NUEVO

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