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
Paris: Chez Le Breton, 1760. Full-Leather. A wonderful set in very good condition (some scuffing). Tall 24mos. Tree calf leather, gilt-tooled spine with leather labels, marbled boards. Each vol. has finely engraved frontis and plates. Text in French. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1890. Hardcover. First Edition. vii, 553, lv pp. 8vo. Light brown library binding with gold embossed titling to spine, call number on paper tag at foot of spine, minor wear and scuffing overall. Ex-library bookplate of The University College of Wales Aberystwyth on front pastedown. Clean within and no evidence of additional stamping.
German-English chemist and industrialist Ludwig Mond and English chemist Carl Langer built the first “useable” fuel cell in 1889 and came up with the term "fuel cell." The describe their invention for the first time in in this paper. Four illustrations of their fuel cell appear within the text. Very Good. More
Moser, Barry. New York: Viking Studio, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. First Trade Edition of Barry Moser's Pennroyal Press Edition. First Printing. 994, [9] pp. Folio. Small, 2" closed tear at midpoint of rear flap fold, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within. Fine / Very Good. More
Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2000. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. xiii, 179 pp. 23 plates. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 239 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with price clipped dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by the then-director of the Museum of American Folk Art, Gerard C. Wertkin to the previous owner. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 239 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Minneapolis, MN: The Physical Review, 1927. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 950 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.
Mullikan develops Hund's molecular orbital theory into a useful model for which he receives the 1966 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Very Good. 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
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1947. Wraps. First Edition. 839-944, ix pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out, very minor age toning to spine.
Polykarp Kusch and Michael Foley measured the electron’s intrinsic magnetic moment for the first time in late 1946. Then, in 1947, Karp, Foley and a team of scientists from Columbia University discovered a small discrepancy (on the order of one part in 2000) between Dirac’s prediction and the actual size of the spin g-factor, implying the existence of an “anomalous magnetic moment.” Isador Rabi presented this discrepancy at the Shelter Island meeting in June 1947, and Kusch and Foley went on to confirm the g-factor discrepancy in other elements. This is the paper that first..... More
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009. Wraps. First Edition. 128 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
Administrative listing of the National Park System's areas, revised biennially to included new congressional actions. Fine. More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 264 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar covered.
Signed by the author on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2008. Hardcover. First Edition. Second Printing. 263 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
Inscribed by the author to Dana Mead (1936-2018), former CEO of Tenneco (1992-2008) and Chair of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003-2010) where the author also served on the board of the MIT Leadership Center Advisory Council at the Sloan School of Management. Fine / Fine. More
Self Published, 1971. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. 8vo. Stapled sheets with dark ivory covers. A reprint of articles on Vietnam by the writer. 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
London: J. Johnson, 1775. Full Leather. Second Edition. xxiii, [4], 324, [4] pp. 8vo. Recent full leather binding in 18th century style. Brown leather with five raised bands at spine, burgundy patch title with gold lettering. Light age toning to interior. Previous owner's name in ink and dated 1777 on title page, second small ownership signature on third page with date 1902. Underlining in faded blue ink on pages 133, 178, & 179. Very clean overall. Two folding plates illustrating the apparatus used in the experiments, one tipped in opposite title page, second at end of Appendix at rear.
The first volume in Priestley's three volume work on the study of gases. This volume expands upon his observations reported in Volume 62 (1772) of the..... 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
Upperville, VA: Oak Spring Garden Library, 1989, 1990, 1997, 2009. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printings. Sylva: xxvii, 147 pp. Pomona: xxxii, 276 pp. Flora: lxxiii, 427; Herbaria: lviii, 394 pp. 4to. Dust jackets in mylar covers. Small, tasteful library bookplate on upper left corner of front pastedown of the Herbaria volume. Interiors clean and crisp. Rare as a set.
Important volumes chronicling the vast horticultural library Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon and the high points within the collection. Fine / Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1877. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, v, 569 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine.
Rayleigh's seminal analysis of the perception of sound. Basis for his famous book on the topic "The Theory of Sound" (1877/1878). Fine. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1884. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], viii, [1]-988 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.
Osborne Reynolds' (1842-1912) paper explaining what became known as "Reynolds Number," the ratio of inertial to viscous forces which he determined through his experiments of liquid through pipes. Very Good. More
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1950. Wraps. First Edition. 575-764 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out, very minor age toning to spine, pencil notation of date at upper right corner of cover.
John M. Robson's (1900-1982) paper contains the first report of the decay of a free neutron. Very Good. More
New York/Norwalk, CT: Abrams Press/Easton Press, 2009. Full Leather. Facsimile Edition. 223 pp. 4to. Full green leather binding with gold stamped title to cover and spine which is decorated with three raised bands; Rockwell illustration of Santa reading letters at a small desk inset on cover. Gold silk ribbon, moire endpapers, all edges gilt.
Easton Press packaged the 2009 reprint edition of as one of their leather bound books. No Easton Press imprint to be found, but perfectly matches their style. Fine. More
New York: Southern Music Publishing Co., Inc., 1937. Wraps. As. 48 pp. Folio. Orange paper wraps with photograph of Rodgers on front cover. Slight scuffing front and rear, tape repairs to spine where it began to split. Previous owner's name front cover. Clean within. 35 Songs written and popularized by Jimmie Rodgers. Good. More
New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1960. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 422 pp. 8vo. Terra-cotta cloth cover with tan backstrip. Lettering on front in black & gilt, on spine in black. Cover just a bit edgeworn. Endpapers are light gold color with catalog cover reproductions in brown tones. Author inscription on half-title page. There is a little play in the hinges, but basically the book is tight and clean. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1871. Quarter Leather. First Edition. iv, [4], iv, [4], [1]-726, pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page and verso, also occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
This full volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. Very Good. More
