Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2004. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. 9.5" x 7.5". bound in gray blue boards, with gilt lettering and decorations to front board, and spine. Salmon colored endpapers. Sewn in silk ribbon marker. All edges gilt. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown. 791 pp. Bound in genuine leather...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Paperback. 78 pages, references, index. Paperback octavo. Nice bright copy. First published in 1990.
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1932. Hardcover. TENTH IMPRESSION. NEW EDITION, ENLARGED. Founder of the first Boy Scouts Society, and author of "American Boys' Handy Book." From the dust jacket, "Dan Beard was only five years old when he made his first real scientific discovery. Without anyone's help he...
Washington DC: Beverly Tucker/ Government Printing Office, 1856. Hardcover. Over 400 pages of text, large foldout chart, 54 full page plates [24 of cacti]. Rebound in green library buckram, thick quarto. Spine titles fading binding clean, spine title light. Binding tight. Lacks title page, Text clean, some foxing and browning...
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1875. Hardcover. Some wear to extremities and edges of spine. Corners nudged. Very small dent to top of front board (hardly noticeable), and a small amount of rubbing to boards.
New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1966. Hardcover. 2 VOL. SET. Volume I1 is Theory and Application; Volume 2 is Instrumental Techniques. Light brown cloth-covered boards. Black lettering to spines. Corners of both volumes lightly nudged. Light scuffing to dustjackets, both now protected by archival mylar. Unused book labels loose on...
NEW YORK: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974. Leather_bound. FACSIMILE EDITION of Madrid Codices (1493), the original of which is located in the National Library in Madrid. Essentially, these are several of Leonardo DaVinci's private notebooks, full of drawings, schematics, gear-and-pulley-driven devices (including military equipment)(, explanations, commentaries, experiments, etc. The original Spanish...
Brooklyn: Chemical Publishing Co., 1945. Hardcover. ASSOCIATION COPY, SIGNED BY ONE AUTHOR. "The authors firmly believe that a work on uranium, from the standpoint of atomic energy, would serve to integrate essential facts for the physicists, chemists and engineers who might shortly be called upon to engage in an accelerated...
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1965. First Printing (NAP). Hardcover. Octavo, in green boards and light umber dj. Tight, clean, bright copy, with graphs, charts, and index; mild rubbing to corners and spine ends; dj shows edgewear. Part of the international series in space technology. Dust jacket in protective archival mylar cover.
St. Louis, Missouri: Polinym Press, 1988. Hardcover. SIGNED. Spine slumped in a bit. Dustjacket near fine. Very faint sunning to jacket spine. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of navy blue cloth-covered boards. Clean, tight, bright. 461 pp with appendices and index. "If We Can Keep A Severed Head Alive...
British Columbia: British Columbia Provincial Museum, 1978. Kay Allen (Microphotograpy). FIRST PRINTING. Paperback. Oversized paperback (4to), perfect-bound in heavy cardstock; 84 pages. Microphotography of wood grains. Clean, cirsp, unmarked copy; light shelfwear. Oversize paperback.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. The ONLY blemish in this near-perfect book is the previous owner's name, blacked out, on front pastedown endpaper. Privately owned.Just a trace of shelf-rubbing to dustjacket. No markings except as above-mentioned. Bright and tight. Name and Subject Indices.
New York: Pergamon Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth-covered boards with mild shelfwear, and a bit of shelf-rubbing to spinecaps. Previous owner's stamped name, overlaid with felt marker, to top and bottom edges. Privately-owned. Unmarked. Tight, clean copy. Cerenkov(or Cherenkov) radiation results when a charged particle (eg., an electron)...
Gold Beach, Oregon: High Sierra Books, 2003. Softcover. 8vo. 8.5" x 5". Minimal wear to edges. Spine still uncreased. 283 pages including index. Paul Kammerer was determined to proove Lamarck's Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics. He was despised by the Nazis, and embraced by the Soviet scientists. A lot...
NEW YORK: W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1967. Paperback. SCARCE. Author's second book. Lectures given at the SW Center of Advanced Study in Texas to graduate students. Topics include the mathematical study of the equations of relativistic hydrodynamics; the study of a thermodynamical perfect fluid, with a vanishing heat current; and...
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1964. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Intended as a supplement to the first volume, here the authors cover material which became important in physics, chemistry, and engineering after the publication of Vol. 1. Includes chapters on transport theory, random processes, information theory, operations analysis, quantum statistics...
London: William S. Orr & Co., 1846. Hardcover. 4to (measuring 10" x 7" x 2"), three-quarter bound leather over black buckram, a later but handsome rebinding, with original spine label affixed. Fourteen engravings on steel, "eight line engravings, and two hundred and fifty vignettes on wood, with several hundred diagrams...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. UNMARKED. Gilt lettering to spine of black boards. Dustjacket Near Fine. Very light edgewear. Figures. Tables. 202 pp with glossary, notes, bibliography and index. Clean, tight, bright. "The nature of matter presents a fundamental challenge to Mankind in his attempts to understand the...
Bethesda, Maryland: National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, 1986. Paperback. PRIVATELY OWNED. Previous owner's name to inside front cover. Mild edgewear. Scuffs to card cover. Black titles on white cover which is bordered top and bottom with two blue stripes. Includes 38 figures, 14 tables and list of symbols...
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1938. Hardcover. Reprinted, July 1938. Previous owner's embossed stamp to front free endpaper, clipped corner. Age-tanning. Six plates with 26 figures. Black lettering and orange design to spine and front of grey cloth-covered boards. Dustjacket Good Plus. Moderately chipped to edges. Now Mylar protected...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. xiii, 530 pages, index. 35 full page plates at rear [31 in color], over 300 text drawings. Black cloth, quarto. Gilt illustration to front, spine titles in gilt. Corners sharp, text block square, binding strong. Name and adress of previous owner on...
Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999. Paperback. Very mild wear to extremities. Black and red lettering on spine of illustrated glossy tan front cover. Clean, bright, solidly bound. 583 pp with references, index of subjects and index of names. This book addresses methodological and foundational issues at length. In its detailed and...
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2000. Paperback. FIFTH PRINTING. Cover has some creasing to front. Mild edge and shelfwear. Lightly thumbed. Red and white lettering to spine and front of black and blue covers. Diagrams of chemical compounds. Clean, bright, solid binding. 978 with appendices. The title is an acronym of Phenethylamines...
Dordrecht, The Netherlands and Boston, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. First Edition. HARDCOVER. One corner bumped Light edgewear to dustjacket. Unmarked except for reference library stamp to front free endpaper. 560 pp. Clean, Tight, and Bright copy.
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1925. FIRST EDITION (NAP). HARDCOVER. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Faint rubbing to extremities. Some sunning to spine, but all in all, a very nice, tight copy. 648 pp. including index.
