Cambridge, UK: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd., 1961. Reprint. Octavo. 254 pp. Illustrations including frontispiece. Green cloth stamped in copper at spine. No dust jacket. Boards rubbed along edges and joints with a few minor scuffs. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, but pages..... More
London: G. Scott, for J. Robson, 1770. First English Language Edition. Three volumes; octavo (22cm.); full contemporary calf, red gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges stained yellow; collated and complete: [A]-2F8; [*]2 A-S8 TU8 X-2D8 E2; [*]2 A-2E8 (final two leaves blank); folding plate of sheet music in rear of Vol..... More
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1997. First Edition. Octavo; 514pp, including index. Blue pictorial cover. Boards tight and square. Endpapers and pages clean and unmarked. Previous owner's embossed professional seal on bottom of half title page. Standard, authoritative textbook, still in wide use, in as-new condition. More
New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1855. 12mo; viii + 302pp. Professionally rebound in slate-blue library cloth with gilt stamping on spine; stamping bright; binding and new endpapers pristine. Textblock was rebound without additional page trimming and without reducing the gutter. Archival tape repair to final leaf of volume, which..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 1962. First Edition. Photographic dust jacket. Iceberg blue cloth with white spine stamping and one emblematic white square on front panel. Jacket shows slight spine darkening, with expected wear at crown and foot of spine; one minor chip at jacket crown. Cloth is very clean..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1955. First Printing, stated. Octavo; 208pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price intact; book in gray cloth with red lettering and Cock Robin Mystery logo. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges with faint creasing along top back and some general smudging and toning to surface. Front..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1948. First Edition. Octavo. 182 pages. Orange printed wraps. Annals of Mathematical Studies Number 18. Light wear to edges of wraps. Stained along spine with some general creasing and rubbing. Bookseller pencil price to front wrap and bookseller ticket to bottom of rear..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. First Edition. Octavo; xiv + 309pp, including appended tables and index. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue boards. Pristine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding as new; boards tight and square. Endpapers and pages clean and unmarked. Previous owner's embossed professional seal on bottom..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854. First Edition. Octavo; x, [11]-266pp. Rebound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Marbled page edges. Paper advert covers retained. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, with pencil coloring down joints. Original front paper cover chipped along edges..... More
Evansville, IN: Published by the Cordelian Quarterly, 1942. First Edition. Octavo. 69, [1] pp. Original printed cream wrappers. Light rubbing and a trifle soiled; about Very Good. This poetic yet opaque work of metageometry begins, "In the beginning was the sphere," and goes on to detail how society's..... More
Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, [1968]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, black spine titling; xv,[1],360pp. Minor shelf wear, spine rather sunned, extensive marginalia and underlining to early leaves, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. A Very Good reading copy overall. More
New York: Arno Press / New York Times Company, 1976. Facsimile reprint of the first (1887) edition. Octavo; publisher's pale green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in dark blue; [2],vi,[2],188pp. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. Forms part of the series History of..... More