Manchester, England/London: Harrison and Crossfield for Baldwin and Cradock, 1934. Hardcover. Second Edition. xx, 244, [4 ads] pp. 8vo. Original paper covers with wear and scuffing, paper title to spine, chipping at hinges front and rear. Front cover holding by single thread of binding at top of text block.
John Dalton's (1766-1844) first book. Dalton worked in a number of fields in addition to metereorology including chemistry and optics, being the first to conduct research into color blindness. Before weather balloons or airplane observation, meteorology was often practiced by climbing hills and mountains to record variations. Dalton was also known to be quite the mountaineer. This copy is inscribed by Dalton on the first free endpaper. Good. More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxxi, 782 pp. 8vo. Blue/gray cloth binding with dark blue art moderne illustration of agriculture, shipping, and business on cover board, same color tilting to spine. Minor spotting to boards. Front endpapers illustrated by a map of New York keyed to tours described within; some staining along gutter from glue used in production as it has aged. Large folding map in Fine condition in pocket tipped in at rear.
A volume in the important WPA American Guide Series. Very Good. More

Paris: Libraries des Sciences Naturelles, 1910. Half Leather. First Edition. 126 pp. 120 Plates. 4to. Half leather binding with marbled paper covers, brown leather spine with five raised bands, gold embossed titling. Marbled endpapers, clean within. Sports 120 gorgeous color lithographed plates of mushrooms. Text in French. Fine. More

New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1951. First Edition. 614, 642, 1-470, 471-939pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copies with light scuffing. Green cloth bindings with gold embossed titling to spine. An exceptional set that is heavy and will require additional postage. Fine. More

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960. Hardcover. First Edition. 91 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has very light scuffing, price clipped and in mylar cover. Clean within. Fine / Fine. More

London: Routledge, 2010. Hardcover. First Edition. vi, 248 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Like new! Fine. More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. Eighth Printing. 717 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More

New York: Basic Books, 2011. Hardcover. First Edition. Clean, crisp copies. Still in original shrinkwrap in slipcase. No dust jackets, as issued.
Volume I: Thermodynamics; Volume II: Relativity Physics; Volume III: Study Guides. Fine. More

Mackintosh, Charles Rennie. Glasgow, Scotland/New York: Glasgow Museums/Abbeville Press, 1996. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 383 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy.
A stunning book that covers the breadth and depth of Mackintosh's work. Fine / Fine. More

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, [1924]. Hardcover. Third Edition. First U. S. Edition. xx, 212 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Covers slightly rubbed with some fading to titling. Penciled indication on first free endpaper that this is the English translation of the Third German edition. Bookseller paper tag on base of title page. Very Good. More

Oxford, England: Privately Printed, 1859. First Edition. viii, 166 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with blind embossed boards to front and rear, gold embossed titling to spine. Clean, crisp copy that is quite tight. Previous owner's name in ink and date "1860" on first free endpaper. Folding plate of 5 Figures that complement text is in Fine condition.
Small library stamp on title page indicating that this volume was in the lbrary of the astronomers Sir William Herschel (1738-1822) and his son, Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871). More

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. ix, 512 pp. 8vo. Slight wear to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Light tan cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Minor dust staining at head of text block, clean within.
This memoir of her life by Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) takes it's title from her 1950 speech on the floor of the United States Senate denouncing the Joseph McCarthy and his fear mongering campaign against alleged Communists in the United States Government, universities, and Hollywood. Smith served the State of Maine as a member of the United States House of Representatives and Senate from 1940 to 1973. This copy is inscribed by both Senator Smith and the editor, Bill Lewis..... More