London: Chapman and Hall, 1983. First Edition. Large Octavo. 734 pages. Black and white charts, graphs, and equations throughout. No dust jacket. Black boards illustrated in yellow and white. Some wear to edges, and light scuffing to boards, but binding is sound if a tad shaky and interior unmarked... More
New York: Academic Press, 1960. First Edition. Octavo; 522pp. Printed dust jacket over burgundy cloth-covered boards with black title bar and gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a few clean half-inch tears at folds, with a few more shallow tears along edges and toning to spine. Boards are sturdy with..... 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
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1888. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"); 25p +35p tables and 2p tipped-in catalog at front. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Covers bumped at spine ends with some general smudging and soiling to face. Cracks..... More
Hardcover. New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1849. Revised Edition. Octavo; 188p, + 71p Table of Logarithms and 100p Traverse Table.Charts and illustrations throughout with six fold-out plates at back. Rebacked in matching brown leather and black title card, with leather retained on boards. Covers scuffed along edges with light..... More
San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1973. Fourth Printing. Wraps. 1279 pages. Equations, charts, graphs throughout. Black and white wraps are creased along edges and show some light wear at edges. Binding is sound and interior is clean and unmarked. An expansive look into Einstein's theory of gravity..... More
Scranton, PA: Intext Educational Publishers, 1971. First Edition. Octavo. 246 pages. Black and white illustrations. No dust jacket. Green boards stamped in black and red. Light shelfwear to edges. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Interior otherwise clean and unmarked. More
First Edition. Hardcover. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1958. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Printed red dustjacket with original $8.75 price; book in gray cloth with black title card to spine. Jacket shows a couple small tears along edges with sunning to spine and some toning/foxing to back..... 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
New York: Ecco, 2003. Large Octavo. 440 pages. Second Printing by numberline. SIGNED by the author to previous owner with alien doodle and inscription: "Do Not Judge Us Too Harshly - We Are A Strange Species But We Are Trying To Communicate!" Original dustjacket with $25.95 price; book in dark..... More
Menston: The Scolar Press Limited, 1973. Second Printing. Octavo; v + 468pp + Index, List of Plates, and Errata [all unpaginated, 13pp]. Fold-out frontispiece engraving of Selborne + second title engraved allegory + reproductions of six natural history images, for all of which the original 18th-century engravings were very fine..... More
London: Charles Knight, 1864, 1844. First Editions. 24mo; 197pp, 272pp. Two volumes bound together in brown cloth-covered boards with brown leather spine and corner tips and gilt lettering/tooling to spine. Red staining to page edges. Boards bumped at corners with some fading and smudging to cloth and a few scuffs..... More
Hardcover. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915. Third Edition. Octavo (10.5" x 6.75"); vi, 587p +2 catalogue. Dark blue cloth with beveled edges and gilt lettering to spine. Covers edgeworn with a few small tears along edges, frayin gat spine ends, and running to cloth. Hinges cracked with both boards opening..... More
First Edition. Hardcover. New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1939. First Edition. Signed without inscription on full title by Edward Teller. Octavo; 544pp. Navy cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine. Corners of cover have been rubbed through to boards and there is some fraying to the head and..... More
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition. Signed by Watson on title page with inscription, "For Ian / from / James D. Watson." Octavo. 446 pages. Illustrations throughout. Unclipped black dust jacket with mounted lenticular illustration; book in black boards with gray lettering to spine. Jacket shows..... More
Lausanne: Éditions Rencontre and Erik Nitsche International, 1963. First Edition. Quarto; 112pp including appended chronology 2000 BCE - 1963. Documentary illustrations in B&W and full color throughout, many of them full page. Bottle green cloth with publisher's device on front panel and spine lettering both embossed in gray. Binding by..... More
London: Sam Harding, 1738. Third Edition. Volume I Only, containing Parts I, II, and half of Part III. Octavo (8" x 5"); Part I [l], 75p, Appendix to Part I 19p, Part II 1-82, [ii], 83-176, Part III 96p. Twenty fold-out plates. Likely missing initial half title, with..... More
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New York: Academic Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; 704pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with red title strip to spine and gilt lettering. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine ends, else sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not an ex-library copy. More
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1939. First Edition. 12mo; viii + 238pp. Butter-yellow dust jacket with navy blue lettering and sketch of Hearn on front face; bamboo motif on spine, and list of other Japan-published Hearn titles on back. Binding of olive cloth with gold lettering and bamboo motif on spine;..... More
Boulder, CO: The Golem Press, 1969. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 439 pages. Black and white equations, charts, and graphs throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over red boards with black lettering. Unclipped jacket is faded at spine, with some very light chipping and rubbing to extremities and some toning along top edge..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publisher 1875. Stated Eighth Edition, "Revised and Greatly Enlarged." Octavo; xxxii + 474pp + appendix of 11 tipped-in fold-out maps and charts; additional plates, maps, charts, and diagrams embedded in text. Brown cloth with blind-stamped borders on panels, gold lettering on spine. Spine eroded..... More
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Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964. First Edition. Octavo. 193 pages. Black and white illustrations (equations and graphs) throughout. Printed green and black dust jacket over gray boards with blck and white lettering. Jacket is moderately rubbed along edges, with a larger chip near top of spine at..... More
New York: Charles T. Hurlburt, 1856. Re-issue of the First Edition, with Hurlburt imprint printed on a small paper slip pasted over the original Henry W. Law imprint on title page. 24mo; [ii], 291pp. Blind embossed black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards a bit warped, with bumps..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 258 pages. Black and white graphs/illustrations throughout. Illustrated white, blue, and green boards. Volume 4 in the Cambridge Topics in Mineral Physics and Chemistry series. Review slip laid in. Light wear to extremities. Binding is sound and pages are clean..... More
New York: NASA / Grove Press, 1988. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by Michael Collins on full title with inscription "All the best to Vera from Mike Collins." Octavo; 288pp. Illustrations by James Dean throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with original $25.00 price; book in gray paper- and..... More