Paris: Domino Press, 1931. Hard Cover. First Edition. Colorful French take on the story of Daniel Boone in vibrant colors in the Art Modern tradition of the period. Text in French. Paper covered boards with illustration of Daniel Boone Camping. Soiling to cover boards, wear and rubbing at edges, spine cloth missing, but entire binding intact. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper, clean and vibrant within. Photographs gladly provided. Good. More

Durango, CO: The Durango Herald Small Press, 2005-2006. Trade paperback. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. Contains the following titles: Women to the Rescue; Travels and Travails; Photographing Mesa Verde; Fire on the Mesa; The Wetherills; New Deal Days; Dirt, Water, Stone. Clean, crisp copies in original slipcase in Fine condition.
Series of 7 volumes published in 2005 & 2006 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Mesa Verde National Park in 1906. Each volume is signed by the authors on the title page. Slipcase numbered, this being #43 of 150 of the Limited Edition Boxed Set. Fine. More

New York: The Co-operative Building Plan Association, 1886. Leather. First Edition. 63 plates are present out of original 100. Folio. The "Hand Book," which is extremely rare, is missing, but the "Supplement" and a stiff "Card of Approximate Contract Prices" are both present. The individual plates are enclosed in the original, rare, leather portfolio with buckle closure. The portfolio is of black grained leather with crimson leather spine and corners which have blind-stamped, decorative rules. The spine is quite deteriorated. The front cover has "Builders' Portfolio No. 2." blind-stamped in faded gilt. Portfolio end papers and fold-over flaps are of covered with floral paper. The portfolio is somewhat aged, soiled and worn. The plates are slightly aged, soiled, and/or foxed. Even without all of the..... More

New York: Random House, 1939. Illustrated Boards. First Edition. First Printing. Unpag. 4to. Color & b/w ills. Cover shows Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket with their shadows looming behind them -- full color on a light brown background. Navy backstrip has yellow lettering on spine. Corners are bumped and rubbed. Some edgewear. Spine cloth rubbed at hinges, slightly sunned. Bright yellow endpapers have articles from the toy workshop in red surrounding Pinocchio. Rear eps lightly soiled. From the Collodi book, this is the movie version of the story of the mischievous wooden puppet. Illustrations. taken from the motion picture. Pages have an occasional light fingerprint. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], vii, [1]-842 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
First photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared. "Extending his interests to spectroscopy, Abney was the first to suggest (1877) that stars with rapid axial rotation could be detected by broadened lines in their spectra - an idea later to have wide application. He then devised a red-sensitive emulsion and with it made the first spectroscopic analyses of the structure of organic molecules (1882) and the first photographs of the solar spectrum in the infrared (1887)." "Abney..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1878. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 756 pp. 31 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Table of Contents has a horizontal tear mid-page on p.[v], triangular piece missing from lower right corner of p. 163. Interiors clean. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Adams and Day's paper oputlines their discovery that, when illuminated with a candle, that selenium produced a flow of electricity. Current solar panels and other solar charged equipment like desktop calculators were built off this principle.Also contains John..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1856. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [3], v, [1]-951 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
Airy determines the mean density of the earth. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches--Thirtieth Series" (pp. 159-180); William Thomson's "The Bakerian Lecture. On the Electro-dynamic Qualities of Metals" (pp. 649-751); and William Andrews' "On the Constitution and Properties of Ozone" (pp. 1-13). Very Good. More

Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2011. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. x, 263 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
Inscribed by author in thick, black sharpie on the first free endpaper. Fine / Fine. More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1885. Hardcover. First Edition. vi, [1], 206, [2] pp ads. Green cloth covered boards with gold and dark red embossed tilting and decoration to spine and front cover board. Light scuffing to boards from shelf wear, bumping to corners. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown and second free endpaper, clean within.
Part of the "English Worthies" Series edited by Andrew Lang. Very Good. More

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1949. Wraps. First Edition. 995-1113 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out, very minor age toning to spine, small chips at head and foot.
In this paper, Alpher and Herman predict the temperature of what is now known as the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB) to be 5 degrees K. Sixteen years later the CMB was discovered with a temperature of 2.7 degrees K. Very Good. More

New York: Hastings House, 1949. Hardcover. Book of the Month Club Edition. xxii, 1348 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has light wear and chipping, now in mylar cover. Dark blue cloth covr with gold embossed titling to spine and cover board. Clean and tight within. Endpapers illustrated with maps of the continental United States. Very Good / Very Good. More

Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1820. Quarter Leather. First Edition. 436 pp. 8vo. Printed by William Manning for the Society. Bound later in life in brown quarter leather with seven blind embossed bands and light brown paper covered boards. Discreet ink discard stamp from the Utica Public Library in each volume from the. Fourteen plates, all intact, of which seven are folding, including a large map of Ohio, on which the majoirty of this volume concentrates. Photographs gladly provided. Very Good. More