Rockland, Maine: The Farnsworth Art Museum, 1991. Soft Cover. First Edition. Unpag. B/w & color ills. Catalog of exhibition at the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME June 29 - August 18, 1991 in cooperation with James A. Michener Art Center, Doylstown, PA, August 25 - Nov. 11, 1991; and The Selby Glaaery, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL, Jan. 12-Feb. 15, 1992. Glossy white wraps have Magee's "Spirit" center front. Gray lettering front and spine. Comprehensive coverage of the various styles of Alan Magee accompanies an interview with the artist. Clean and tight. Signed by Magee in black ink on title page.
Signed By Artist. Fine. More

Derby, CT: Charleton Publications, 1969-1971. Wraps. First Edition. 3 issues: Vol. 21, No. 117 (April 1969); 50 pp. Vol. 22, No. 137 (December 1970); Vol. 23, No. 144 (July 1971). Each issues is 50 pp., 4to. Light scuffing, address label on each issue has been blocked out with black marker.
Issues feature the work of Chet Atkins, Bill Anderson, Roger Miller, Waylon Jennings, and Merle Haggard. Very Good. More

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. First English Translation Edition. Considerable wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small losses at edges and front flap of spine. Clean within.
Prepared for the 100th anniversary of Einstein's birth to present the views of Russian scientists and philosophers about Einstein's concepts and philosophy. Very Good / good. More

1940s. Spiral Bound. First Edition. Small spiral bound "Artcraft Sketchbook" with brown cardboard covers. Has a new mylar dust jacket and housed in a custom clamshell box built by bookseller's in-house bindery.
Note taped to verso of front cover signed Florence Phinney but no record of that name associated with a cartoonist. An exquisite collection of fifteen original pencil drawings with some colored pencil work from the World War II era depicting life on the home front. This unknown artist was very likely a professional as each drawing is exceptional and very humorous. Fine. More

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 159 pp. 12mo. Blue cloth cover with ornate gold embossed decoration on cover board. Bumping and scuffing to corners and edges. Endpapers have are slightly brittle due to quality of paper, interior pages have light foxing throughout. Otherwise clean with chromolithograph illustrations of locations along the ship's route. Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1886. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. 842 pp. 43 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. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Numerous pages throughout volume are brittle with small tears and losses at edges, a large tear at midpoint in the title page of Poynting's article. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. The occasional library stamp as it is an ex-library volume, rebound.
William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843-1920) extended his interests to spectroscopyand was the first to suggest (1877) that stars with rapid axial rotation could be detected by broadened lines in their spectra..... More

Abranowicz, William. Bedford, NY: Mianus River Gorge, Inc., 2005. Hardcover. Limited Edition. Unpag. 36 plates. Folio. Light scuffing to dust jacket with minor stains from shelf wear, now in mylar cover.
A wonderful record, in 36 color plates, of a year in the Mianus River Gorge. Published in an edition of 1,250 copies in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Mianus River Gorge. Fine / Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1853. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [1]-566, [1]-15 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.
Adams corrects Pierre-Simon Laplace's (1749-1827) earlier equations for the moon's motion. Also contains William Thomson's "On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion" (Volume 143 pp. 357-365, 1853) and George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light.- No. II" (pp.385-386). Very Good. More

Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1959/1982. Wraps. First Edition. 485-764, 1443-1506 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are clean and crisp. First volume has a red ink library stamp on the cover. Housed in a custom black cloth folio with gold embossed tilting to spine.
The Aharonov-Bohm effect is the quantum mechanical phenomenon that allows a charged particle to be affected by an electromagnetic field that does not exist in the vicinity of the particle, one of the stranger manifestations of quantum mechanics. This set contains the paper that predicted and described this phenomenon (first paper, 1959) and the paper that described the verification of the Aharonov-Bohm effect through the use of electron holography (second paper, 1982). Very Good. More

Boston, MA: Art in Boston, 2009. Broadside. First Edition. 8 1/2 by 11 inches. Paper is Mohawk Via Felt. Designed by Stephen Stinehour, for “Art in Boston” for the Botolph Club & Gallery Kayafas. Fine. More

Brussels, Belgium: Association Pour La Diffusion Artistique et Culturelle, 1957. Wraps. First Edition. 276 pp. 4to. Slick stiff wraps with scuffing from shelf wear, clear exterior original laminate on cover starting at edges. Very clean within. A photo of Walter Gropius and one of his buildings grace the front cover.
This premier issue of "Zodiac" contains Walter Gropius's (1883-1969) article, "Apollo in the Democracy" (pp. 9-14) which was his address when given the Hanseatic Goether Prize at Hamburg June 5, 1957. This publication represents a "Who's Who" in International and Modern design mid-century. Articles by Sigfried Giedion, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Victor Gruen and others, accompanied by reviews of books, and photographs of contemporary buildings. What is as interesting as the design content are the advertisements..... 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

England: The Alpine Garden Society of Great Britain, 1930-1986. Hardcover. First Edition. Green cloth-covered boards with gold embossed titling to spines. Set consists of a complete run of Volumes I-LIV spanning the years 1930 to 1986, as well as the four Index Volumes: I-XV, XVI-XXX, XXXI-XL, and XLI-L; and the International Conference Report of 1971. An important reference work in Alpine Plants. Very good. More