Levine, Jack. New York: Maecenas Press/Random House, 1970. Folio. First Edition. Stunning folio set of drawings with text by James A. Michener and lithographs and woodcuts by Jack Levine enclosed in a silk covered clamshell box with a large belt-like closure on the front cover. Box has light age toning that is not evident until the belt closure is unclasped and the slightyl lighter original cover underneath is revealed. Michener's text and the four individual lithographs on Rives paper are encased in a folio matching the clamshell box with the same belted closure. The fifty-four watercolors, gouaches and drawings from Levine's sketchbook are printed on Ingres paper and are encased in a black leather folio. The Prospectus for this edition laid in the clamshell box..... More

Minneapolis, MN: The Physical Review, 1926. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 843 pp. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gold titling to spine, call number in small round label at base, marbled boards. Ex-library sticker on title page as well as perforated library identification stamp. Interior quite clean.
First two (of 3) papers by Millikan in which he conclusively demonstrated that cosmic rays come from outside the solar system. See our inventory #27408 for the third article in the series. Very Good. More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xiv, 400 [1] pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Brand new. Inscribed by the author on the title page.
Memoir of from United States Senator from Maine, Senate Majority Leader, and Special Envoy to Northern Ireland and the Middle East. Fine / fine. More

College Park, MD: The American Physical Society, 1998. Wraps. First Edition. 4533-4783, [4] pp. 4to. Green paper wraps, clean and crisp within.
Paper describes the use of an atomic force microscope to provide the first accurate measurement of the Casimir Force (to within 1% of predicted value). Fine. More

London: Privately Printed, 1904. Quarter Leather. First Edition. Unpaginated. Folio. Some 150 artists are represented from the schools of Giotto, Pollajuolo, Florentine 15th Century, Perugino, Lombard School 15th Century, Parmigiano, North Italian, Venetian School 18th Century, Rembrandt, the Dutch School, Flemish School, Early German, and more. Black & white and sepia-tone illustrations with no foxing. Green cloth cover has fine dark brown leather on corners and spine, set off with gilt rules. Spine has five raised bands with gilt rules and boxes. Gilt title reads "Murray Collection of Drawings 1905." There is a trace of shelfwear on back of spine at bands and upper and lower ends. Corners very lightly bumped, and light wear shows on bottom edge. Endpapers are glossy marbled paper in shades..... More

Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 2006. Spiral Bound. First Edition. [6], 291, [36] pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with black wire spiral binding and clear plastic covers.
Manzanar National Historic Site was designated on March 3, 1992, to mark the location of Owens Valley Reception Center which opened on June 1, 1942, with the internment of 9,666 Japanese Americans. The site was one of many in the United States created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans over the course of World War II. The site was transferred to the the National Park Service in 1997 by the City of Los Angeles, this report details opportunities for further development and interpretation of the..... More

New York, NY: Doubleday, 2003. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. ix, 336 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Like new! Fine / Fine. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1850. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, [297]-844, 13 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.
William Parson's (1800-1867) paper first identifies the spiral nebulae.  See also our #27509 by Parsons, credited as Lord Oxmantown, in his 1840 article "An Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 130 for the Year 1840 Part II, pp. 503-527), which provided the technology enabling him to identify the spiral nebulae. Very Good. More

n.d. Wraps. As. 23 pp. 8vo. Muted yellow wraps with illustration of San Jose de Tumacacori on cover. Minor scuffing from shelf wear. Clean within and illustrated with numerous black & white photographs.
President Theodore Roosevelt designated Mission of San Jose de Tumacácori a National Monument in 1908, in 1990 it became part of the newly established Tumacácori National Historical Park. Likely dates to the 1930s, Frank Pinkley died in 1940. Very Good. More

London: Royal Society of London, 1885. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, [1], 506 pp. 8vo. Green cloth bindings with burgundy title patch and gold titling to spine of each volume, call number handwritten in white ink at base of each spine. Wear and scuffing to both from library use. Ex-library with bookplate and library stamp on title page of each volume, some library stamps within. Numerous plates illustrate articles.
William Henry Preece (1834–1913) confirmed Thomas Edison's experiments demonstrating thermionic emission and coined the term, "Edison effect." Very Good. More

New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing, 2008. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Signed by author on title page at an event at our book store on July 31, 2008.
Signed by Author. Fine / Fine. More

San Francisco, CA: The Arion Press, 2002. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. 4to. Blue paper wraps, pamphlet sewn at spine. A Keepsake produced in an edition of 400 copies sent to Arion Press subscribers and friends. Laid in is the cover letter from publisher Andrew Hoyem that accompanied the pamphlet. Fine. More

College Park, MD: The American Physical Society, 2000. Wraps. First Edition. 3215-3505, 5029-5238, [5] pp. 4to. Green paper wraps with some scuffing, ex-library with library stamp on front cover of each volume, small tear at base of spine of second volume. Clean and crisp within.
Precision spectroscopy is the measurement of the spectrum of atoms and molecules using lasers. American physicist John Lewis “Jan” Hall (born 1934) and German physicist Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (born 1941) were co-developers of the “frequency comb technique,” a method for fine-tuning laser outputs to measure spectrum frequencies with great precision. Hall and Hansch shared one half of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics “for contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique,” which is..... More