New York: HarperBusiness, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. xix, 235 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Signed by Peter Drucker on the first free endpaper. Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005) was the foremost management thinker of the 20th century who wrote extensively on management, managing oneself, and overall challenges facing society with the growth of the modern corporation. Drucker was also known as the "Father" of modern management. It was not often that Drucker signed books, he was not one for book tours or for leaving his home in Claremont, California -- those seeking his advice came to him. Fine / Very Good. More

Paris: 1838, 1840. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Blue cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine and titled "Recherches de Chimie Organique". Four extracts from proceedings published by L'Academie des Sciences in Paris. Papers are of two different sizes but have been bound in one uniform binding. The titles are as follows: "Mémoire sur les Éthers Composés" published by L'Academie in 1838, Volume XV, pp 457-494. "Mémoire sur la loi des Substitutions et la Théorie des Types" published by L'Academie in 1840, Volume X, pp 147-207, Dumas dissertation on pp. 149-178. "Recherches sur le Veritable Poids Atomique du Carbone" published by L'Academie in 1840, Volume XI, pp 991-1020, "Reserches de Chimie Organique, Relatives a l'Action du Chlore sur l'Alcool loi des Substitions ou Métalepsie"..... More

Los Angeles, CA: General Publishing Group, Inc., 1994. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. 368 pp. Folio. Minor scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within.
Signed by Hef on a special Playboy bookplate pasted on the first free endpaper. Fine / very good. More

Leipzigh, Germany: S. Hirzel, 1917. Hardcover. First Edition. xi, 604 pp. 4to. Black cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine. Ex-library stamp on title page, the only indication of its former life in an institution. Very clean within.
Albert Einstein's (1879-1955) derivation of Planck's law for thermal radiation. Einstein also introduces the possibility of stimulated emission of radiation, the principle behind the laser. Very Good. More

New York: Adams Press Print, 1923. Hardcover. First Edition. 322, [2], [6] ads pp. 8vo. Includes the 2 page "Editorial Addendum" bound in at rear, 6 pages of ads. Red cloth boards with black titling embossed to cover boards and spine. Volume has been expertly rebacked using the original spine and preserving the first free endpaper with "Dunninger Enterprises" stamp intact. Interior clean with pencil marks on tricks that interested and earlier reader. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1851. Hardcover. First Edition. x, [1], [1]-331, [1], clvii 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.
Also see our #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, #27489 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12), #27495 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), #27500 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), & #27505 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188), #27513 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Eighth..... More

London: Royal Society of London, 1850. Hardcover. First Edition. x, [1]-296 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. Small 1" tear at head of article, p. 171.
Also see our #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, #27489 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12), #27495 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), & #27500 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), #27503 which contains"Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Second Series" (pp. 171-188)..... 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.
Also see our #27486 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplemental Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series, #27489 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12), #27495 which contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32), #27500 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Nineteenth, Twentieth & Twenty-First Series" (pp. 1-62), & #27505 "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188), #27508 which contains "Experimental Researches in Electricity --..... More

Self Published, n.d. Wraps. First Edition. 24 pp. 12mo. Brown paper wraps with burn mark at top edge of front page that has continued into the text block to page 5. Cover has split at base of spine to front staple, otherwise tight copy. Previous owner's address on rear cover in ink.
An interesting piece details the séance in which the medium Arthur Ford had received guidance from Houdini's spirit and uttered the code word that Houdini and his wife, Bess had agreed upon prior to his untimely death. Bess Houdini later denied that the word "Forgive" was the word he was to utter from beyond. Very Good. More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Hardcover. xix, 536, 4 [ads] pp. 8vo. Blue/green cloth boards with gold embossed illustration on cover, gold embossed titling to spine. Light wear to head and foot of spine, minor bumping to corners. Original brown endpapers with gutter starting to split, paper only, at front pastedown, binding is tight. Clean within, heavily illustrated with six maps, four folding. Beautiful chromolithographed frontispiece of "Mrs. Forbes' Honey-Eater" with tissue guard. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1852. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-659, [1], 14 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.
Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Eighth & Twenty-Ninth Series" (pp. 25-56, 137-159); Charles Wheatstone's "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the Second. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision (Continued), (pp. 1-17)" James Prescott Joule's "On the Air Engine" (pp. 65-82); George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light" (pp.463-562). Very Good. More

Wadsworth, Charles E. Boston, MA/Cambridge, England: David R. Godine/Rampant Lion's Press, 1975. First Edition. 123, [1] pp. Folio. Cloth spine with paper covered boards, gold titling to spine. Matching green cloth slipcase is Very Good with light wear.
A marriage of Fry's poetry with twelve (12) collagraph-intaglios by Wadsworth. A beautiful book produced with mould-made paper from the Wookey Hole Mill, Somerset, England; print paper is Umbria, hand made in Italy. Printed in an edition of 220 copies, this being #33 and signed by author and artist on the colophon. More

New York: Viking Press, 1941. Hardcover. First Edition. xiii, [1], 242 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with futuristic celestial design embossed in gold on the upper right corner of the front board, gold embossed titling to spine that has faded slightly. Minor rubbing to edges of boards. Clean within.
Famous physicist and science popularizer Geroge Gamow describes the history of the earth from its formation through the origin of life. Very Good. More