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...
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...
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...
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...
Paperback. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950. Revised Edition, Second Impression. Printed paper covers; [x], 248p. Illustrations throughout with unopened foldout at back. Covers toned and faded along edges with some chipping and wear at spine ends. Previous owner's name on first page, else unmarked. Binding is sound...
Hardcover. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1898. Later Printing. Small octavo (7" x 4.5"); xv, 303p +3p ads. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Covers lightly edgeworn with a rust-colored smudge over spine, along with a smaller one to back along with a few light scuffs. Previous owner's bookplate...
Hardcover. London: Granta Books, 2002. Second Printing by numberline. Signed by the editor Graham Farmelo to author and language columnist William Safire with brief inscription on full title. Octavo; 283pp. Printed dustjacket with original $25.00 price; book in teal cloth with silver lettering to spine. Jacket nudged at spine ends...
First Printing. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. Stated First Printing. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"); [vi], 146p. Printed blue dustjacket with original $2.75 price; book in dark blue paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Covers lightly edgeworn with a tiny, clean tear at top back and some...
Third Edition. Hardcover. 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. Contemporary calf with gilt ruled...
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...
First Edition. Hardcover. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2000. First Edition with no additional printings listed. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (9.25" x 6.5"); xx, 250pp. Photo-illustrated dustjacket over black leatherette with silver lettering. Jacket lightly shelfworn with some nudging to head...
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...
Hardcover. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1950. Third Printing. Signed by the author with brief inscription on front free endpaper: "Inscribed by the author Robert A. Millikan for Mr. & Mrs. J.R. McCreary [?], July 23, 1950." Octavo; 311pp. Photo frontis, with 8pp photo spread at center. Black cloth boards with gilt...
First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. First Paperback Edition with full numberline. SIGNED by the author without inscription on full title. Octavo (9.25" x 6"); [xvi], 542p. Embossed paper covers. Book very lightly curved along fore-edge, with light shelfwear to corners and rubbing to embossed gilt...
