Jean Tinguely: A Magic Stronger than Death.
Tinguely, Jean. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. 384 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Tinguely, Jean. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. Hardcover. First Edition. 384 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1962/1966. Hardcover. First Edition. xii, 313, xi, 474 pp. 8vo. Volume I: Slight wear to dust jacket, minor rubbing at corners, now in mylar cover. Volume II: Wear and scuffing, including a 2-1/2" closed tear at top of front panel, spotting along inside edge of rear panel, now in mylar cover. Both volumes have red cloth boards with gold embossed titling, very clean and tight inside and out.
A very rare set with dust jackets. Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (1906-1979) was the co-winner with Richard Feynman and Julian Swinger of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the QED (Quantum Electrodynamics) which describes how light and matter interact. Fine / Very Good. More
San Franciscio, CA: William Stout Publishers, 2004. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 283 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket spine in mylar cover. Fine / fine. More
Benton, Thomas Hart. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1942. Hardcover. Limited Edition. lxxvi, 396 pp. Brown cloth boards with paper title pasted to spine, spine cloth has darkened slightly. Interior clean and crisp. Brown paper slipcase with paper title pasted to spine as well, paper hinge at top of case has split halfway along joint, in Very Good condition.
Produced in an edition of 1500 copies, this is #698 and signed by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) on the colophon. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1876. Three Quarter Leather. First Edition. x, 741 pp. 99 plates. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) described his experiments with a hermetically sealed chamber in which the atmospheric dust had been allowed to settle; sterilized infusions protected within this chamber remained uninfected for months, while similar infusions exposed to air all showed bacterial growth. Tyndall's researches, along with those of Pasteur, dealt the final blow to the doctrine of spontaneous generation and advanced the understanding of Germ Theory. Very Good..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1940. Wraps. First Edition. 46 pp. Brown paper wraps with light soiling and wear from use and reading. Interior very clean including the large tipped in folding map at rear which is in Fine condition. Very Good. More
Vanden Brink, Brian. Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 2009. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 143 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
Switzerland: Éditions du griffon Neuchâtel, 1974. Fourth Edition. 194 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Text in German.
A pristine copy of a work that celebrates the work of Hungarian/French artist Victor Vasarely (1906-1997). Vasarely was well known for his geometric abstract art in various media that led to optical illusions: fascinating, vibrant work. Originally published in 1965. More
Villon, Jacques. Paris: Pierre Berès, 1959. Folio. First Edition. 100 Plates. Folio. 100 loose plates in a hardcover sleeve that inserts into a slipcase. Slipcase has tears at head that causes the top to curl, prints within are clean and sharp. Text in French.
Jacques Villon (1875 – 1963) was an abstract painter and Cubist, and also the brother of famed Cubist Marcel Duchamp. This collection of a decade's worth of work at the turn of the century contains reproductions of his pencil and ink drawings as well as watercolors and pastels, all produced at the same size as the originals. Very Good. More
Norman, OK: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 2016. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 165 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed printing. No dust jacket as issued. Clean, tight copy.
A fascinating biography of the firm that rose to prominence in rare Western Americana in the early 20th century, written by a respected rare bookseller in the same subject matter. A keen insight into the growth of the firm and its hand in creating some of the major collections of Americana. Fine. More
London: Henry Colburn, 1847. Three Quarter Leather. Second Edition, Revised. xlvi, 465, xii, 416, xlvi, 464 pp. 8vo. Three-quarter green leather binding with marbled paper insets to covers that match endpapers. Five raised bands to spine with gold embossed titling, spine has darkend to a light brown from sunning, still very striking. Top edge of text block is gilt. Very clean within. Very Good. More
Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2014. Hardcover. 611 pp. Folio.Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Text in English, German, and French. Housed in it's original shipping box with a photo-illustrated front and rear panels. Heavy volume, will require additional cost for shipping.
The title say it all. A lavishly illustrated chronicle of the turn of the American century. Fine / Fine. More
Lancaster, PA: The American Physical Society, 1951. Wraps. First Edition. 869-1078 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps that are quite clean inside and out. Housed in a custom folding case.
John C. Ward (1924-2000) develops the "Ward Identity" into a renormalization approach. Very Good. More
Webb, Todd. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1984. First Edition. 95 pp. Folio. 47 Gravure Plates. Beautifully designed book, almost as stark as O'Keeffe and the photographs it contains. White cloth binding with black embossed titling to cover board, some scuffing to title on cover board. No dust jacket, as issued. Black cloth slipcase with photograph of an iconic bleached cattle skull on post applied to the front panel and in Very Good condition with light wear at corners.
Produced in an edition of 5,000 copies, this photographic homage by Todd Webb (1905-2000) to the work and places in which Georgia O'Keeffe thrived is an exceptional piece of work by fine photographer who was also a longtime friend of O'Keeffe -- and she did not suffer..... More
Oxford, England: The Clarendon Press, 1891/1892. Hardcover. Second Edition/First Edition. Volume I: Second Edition, 1891, xv, 471, 8 (ads) pp.; Volume II: First Edition, 1892, v, [5], 226, 76 (ads) pp. 8vo. Blue cloth publisher bindings that have sharp gold embossed titling to the spines. Very minor scuffing to covers, minor fraying at head of spines, now in mylar dust jackets. Black endpapers with the gutters just beginning to show wear. Previous owner's name on front pastedown of each volume with a hand inked call number, which is the only indication of being ex-library. Many pages in Volume II uncut at top of of pages.
Volume II contains an English translation of Weismann's "Amphixis", Garrison-Morton 234 (citing 1st German ed, 1891); "By 'amphiximis' Weismann meant..... More
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1866. Hardcover. As. vi, 152 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with blind embossed borders, brown leather spine with five raised bands from earlier rebinding, gold embossed titling to spine. Slight darkening of pages due to quality of paper, quite clean overall. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper and title page. 23 pp.of Casella catalog of meteorological instruments at rear.
William Charles Wells (1757-1817) was a physician and physicist who conducted numerous experiments on friost and dew. Wells first believed that dew and frost were the causes of air that was a few degrees colder than the ground. He began to experiment and changed his theory when he realized that a combination of temperature, temperature change, and..... More
London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. viii, [1]-336, [2] 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. Crumpling and tears to p. 37/38, does not impact this article.
Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eighteenth Series" (pp. 17-32)
Also contains William Robert Grove's “On the Gas Voltaic Battery. Experiments Made with a View of Ascertaining the Rationale of Its Action and Its Application to Eudiometry” (pp. 91-112). Very Good. More
New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2016. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 323 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.
The Captain of the crew now known as the "Arctic 30" that was captured and jailed by the Russians while protesting offshore oil drilling in 2013, Peter Willcox's ripping story of his life and work on the water on behalf of Greenpeace and our planet. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Palm Springs, CA: Palm Springs Art Museum, 2014. Hardcover. First Edition. 209 pp. 4to. Minor wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within.
Cataog from the exhibition of the same name that explored the life and work of renowned Palm Sprints architect and proponent of modernism, E. Stewart Williams (1909-2005). Williams's first residential commission in Palm Springs, was a house for Frank Sinatra -- not a bad start! Lavishly illustrated, a delightful book. Fine / Very Good. More
Somersworth, NH/Belfast, ME: New England History Press/Belfast Free Library, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. xxxiv, 696 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has light wear and scuffing, now in mylar cover. Red cloth bindings with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Extremely clean and tight within.
A very clean reproduction of the original publication, published1913 and covering the years 1875-1913. Fine. More
Wilmer, Valerie. New York: Da Capo Press, 1976. Wraps. First Edition. Unpag. 4to. Slight wear and scuffing to covers, clean within. Very Good. More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 318 pp. 8vo. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, slight darkening from age, losses at head and foot of spine, now in mylar cover. Red cloth boards with darkening along top edge. Endpapers have yellowed slightly due to age and quality of paper, clean within. Very Good / Good. More
Fairholt, F. W. London: Richard Bentley, 1848. Three Quarter Leather. Second Edition, Revised. xiv, 451, viii, 460 pp. 8vo. Three-quarter red leather binding with marbled paper insets to covers that match endpapers. Five raised bands to spine with gold embossed titling, wear and tiny chips to edges and hinges of leather, still very striking. Top edge of text block is gilt. Light staining within, but overall quite clean. Heavily illustrated within text and in plates. Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1883. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [2], viii, [1]-749 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.
Another determination of the speed of light using an improved version of Fizeau-Foucault Apparatus. Very Good. More
Zumthor, Peter. London: Serpentine Gallery/Koenig Books, 2011. Hardcover. First Edition. 94 pp. 4to. Purple partial dust jacket that revelas titling printed in white no the black cloth boards of the books. Clean within.
Catalog from the Serpentine Gallery's 11th annual architecture series in which the renowned Swiss architect Peter Zumthor was commissioned to create the 2011 Pavillion. This was Zumthor's first building in the UK with an interior garden created by Dutch garden desinger Piet Oudolf. A scarce catalog. Fine / Fine. More