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... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1933. Pamphlet. Staplebound pamphlet in very light cardstock wrappers, measuring 8.5" x 5.5", 149 pp.Light wear to spine and small triangular chip missing from lower right corner of cover. Covers Geomorphology in the Oquirrh Range, Lake Bonneville and Great Salt Lake, Stratigraphy and Geologic sequence... More
London, England: Hamish Hamilton, 1963. First British Printing. Hardcover. VERY bright coffee-with-cream-colored boards, with red-and-silver spine label. Just a hint of rubbing to extremities, if one looks very hard for it. Shelfwear to price-clipped dustjacket, which has done its job of protecting this first British edition of a groundbreaking environmental... More
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... More
Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd, 1984. Hardcover. EX-LIBRARY. University library stamps to front endpapers, top, fore, and bottom edges. Library card and cataloging information to rear endpapers. Tape residue to lower spine and a little onto boards. Light edgewear and slightly nudged corners. 483 pp with Bryce DeWitt's publications list and... More
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... More
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... More
Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1964. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Orange, cloth-covered octavo, with brown lettering to spine. Very light wear to extremities, a few isolated spots and smudges to otherwise clean and bright boards. Remainder mark ("A") to bottom edge. Dustjacket is married (from another first edition copy of... More
New York: MACMILLAN COMPANY, 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book appears new with the slight exception of one hint of a lightly-bumped corner. Shelfwear and minor fraying to dustjacket extremities, particularly at spinecaps. 410 ppl including index. Previous owner's name inked out with red marker -- top edge. Else unmarked. Original... More
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. More
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... More
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. More
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania: KRONOS PRESS, 1975. Paperback. Forty-four (44) issues staplebound, average between 70-80 pp. each. Several bear small, easily-removeable price stickers, in top right corner. Kronos, unapologetically dedicated to exploring (and criticism of) the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky, Kronos "published articles on...subjects as diverse as ancient history, catastrophism and mythology..."... More
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. More
Sausalito, CA: Institute of Noetic Sciences, 1994. Hardcover. SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY CO-AUTHOR to front free endpaper. A bit of water damage to rear bottom boards and text. Gilt lettering to maroon cloth-covered spine of vanilla colored boards. Light water damage to bottom of jacket with some delamination at spine. Yellow... More
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1959. Hardcover. SECOND EDITION, SIXTH PRINTING. This thoroughly revised and updated volume begins the series in Molecular Spectra and Structure. Aimed to give a beginner the fundamentals, while also benefitting researchers in the field by adding the more detailed information in small type... More
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. 1967. Hardcover. Aimed at the serious student, this volume concludes the series in Molecular Spectra and Structure, with emphasis on comparing theory with experiment. Includes older studies in the infrared region and the Raman effect, as well as recent studies using improvements in... More
Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Inc. 1984. Hardcover. This volume deals with basic physical and scientific aspects of TL essential to optimum use of TL in radiation dosimetry. Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Models of TL Trapping and Recombination Centers; Chapter 3: Kinetics of TL Glow Peaks; Chapter 4: General... More
Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, 1966. Hardcover. TRANSLATED from the SECOND EDITION of "Sbornik Zadach po Atomnoi Fizike." Some 850 problems, with very comprehensive answers, intended for students at the introductory level of physics. Topics include Planck's law of radiation; the De Brogile relation and its applications; Bohr theory of the... More
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)... More
New York: Little, Brown & Co. 2010. Hardcover. FINE. Dustjacket Near Fine. Black and white illustrations. 392 pp with notes and errata, bibliography, index and The Periodic Table of the Elements at rear of book. Clean, tight, bright. Fascinating tales involving mankinds connection with every single element of the Periodic... More
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... More
New York: Marcel Dekker, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. A general treatment of lens design, aimed at students of geometrical optics and engineers involved in optical instrumentation, which attempts to cover most of the classical aspects of lens design. Very minor shelfwear to glossy cover. No dustjacket as issued. Clean, unmarked... More
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... More
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... More
