New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Clean and crisp, never read and in mylar cover.
Signed boldly by Oscar winner George Stevens, Jr. on the title page. Fine / Fine. More
Greenbrae, CA: Clatworthy Colorvues, 1977. Hardcover. First Edition. Unpag. Oblong Quarto. Dark blue cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Light wear and small spots to covers; light foxing to preliminary pages, front and rear. No dust jacket, as issued.
A book of black and white documentary photographs collected by the authors from government agencies, educational institutions, and corporations. Includes product testing photos, shots of factory production, and crime scenes. This book has become a highly regarded book in the history of 20th century photography. Very Good. More
Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1997. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 494 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued. Fine. More
Tokyo, Japan: E.T. Style, 1998. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 138 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Text in English and Japanese.
Fascinating book no the traditional homes of Japan. Fine / Fine. More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2000. Hardcover. Limited Edition. XIX, 424 pp. 4to. Red cloth boards with an ivory buckram spine and a black patch label with gold embossed title. Housed in custom slipcase constructed of same red cloth and printed paper cover. Wonderful collection of biographies of former Grolier Club members, from collectors to printers.
One of the 250 specially bound copies from an edition of 750. Fine. More
Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2021. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xix, 331 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Brand new. Fine / Fine. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1853. Hardcover. First Edition. iv, [1]-566, [1]-15 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.
Thomson's important paper that explains what became known as the Joule-Thomson Effect: the change in temperature of a gas when passed through a porous plug or valve. Also known as the "throttling process."
Also contains George Gabriel Stokes' "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light.- No. II" (pp.385-386) and J. C. Adams' "On the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion" (pp. 397-406). Very Good. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Wraps. First Edition. xi, 406, [viii] pp. 4to. Rust cloth boards with dark blue spine with gold and silver embossed titling. Clean within.
Biography of Frank Jay Haynes (1853-1921) was the official photographer of Yellowstone National Park and also ran a photography concession within the park. Haynes Company published many guides to Yellowstone, as well as running a lucrative photography business. Haynes' son, Jack Ellis Haynes took over the business upon his father's death. Jack Haynes wife, Isabel M. Haynes has inscribed this book on the second free endpaper. Very Good. More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. Hardcover. First Edition. xxiii, 318 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1941. Hardcover. Limited Edition. First "Boston Edition". 356 pp. 8vo. Scuffing to dust jacket from shelf war, 1-1/4" loss at base of lower right front panel as well as a 1" loss at head of spine, now in mylar cover. Clean within.
This copy is #19 of the Boston Edition of this title and signed by the author at the colophon. No indication of the total number in this signed edition. Very Good / Good. More
New York, NY: iUniverse, 2006. Trade Paperback. First Edition. ix, 149 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.
Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine. More
Easthampton, MA: Antique Collectors' Club, 2006. Hard Cover. First Edition. 111 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy, never read. As printed, with no dust jacket, but color printed cover boards. Lavishly illustrated, delightful book! Fine. 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
London: Royal Society of London, 1878. Hardcover. First Edition. v, 756 pp. 31 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Table of Contents has a horizontal tear mid-page on p.[v], triangular piece missing from lower right corner of p. 163. Interiors clean. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.
John Tyndall (1820-1893) found that increasing temperature on objects killed or reduced the number of endospores produced by bacteria that lead to infection. The autoclave was developed out of this research and Tyndall's work, along with Louis Pasteur..... More
New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1999. Hardcover. First Edition. 211 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More
London: Allen Lane, 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 376 pp. 8vo. Slight scuffing to dust jacket from shelf wear, now in mylar cover. Light penciled notes within.
This book was sent to Eric Homberger with the request from The Economist to write a review of the book. Also laid in is a handwritten note from the author to Eric Homberger thanking him for providing a citation for an article Weskey found helpful. Very Good / Very Good. More
London: Royal Society of London, 1838. Hardcover. First Edition. ix, [1]-59, [1]-414, [8] 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 J. Frederic Daniell's article, "Fourth Letter on Voltaic Combinations, with Reference to the Mutual Relations of the Generating and Conducting Surfaces." (pp. 41-56). Also contains Michael Faraday's articles, "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplementary Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series" (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 128 for the Year 1838 Part I & Part II, pp. 1-40, 79-82, 83-124, 125-168, 265-282). Faraday makes an early step toward the discovery of the..... More
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 806 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has numerous chips, tears, and losses, as well as minor staining, now in mylar cover. Green cloth boards with ivory cloth spine and gold embossed titling. Wear and scuffing to boards, light rust-like staining to boards and edges of text block.
Inscribed by E. B. White (1899-1985) to his wife, Katharine S. White (1892-1977) in blue ink on the first free endpaper: "For Katharine '...a lovely girl with ideals, principles, intelligence....' on that fateful day. 13 November. from Husband" A gift on the 41st anniversary of their wedding that took place on November 13, 1929. According to Martha White, their granddaughter, Katharine White was a great admirer of Lady..... More
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1978. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 230 pp. 8vo. Slight toning to edges of dust jacket, small closed tear at head of dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Black cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Pages have darkened slightly, clean within.
An uncommonly scarce history of the short-lived agency that managed American propaganda at home and abroad during World War II. Very Good / Very Good. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1853. Hardcover. New Edition. xviii, 514, 504 pp. 8vo. Burgundy publisher's bindings with blind embossed decoration to cover boards and spine, gold embossed titling has faded. Ex-library with paper call number at base of spine on each volume. Light fraying to head of spine on each volume. Minor foxing within, heavier at prelims. Volume I has a darkened transfer of the frontispiece engraving of the author on the title page. Very Good. More
Great Barrington, MA: E. F. Schumacher Society, 1995. Wraps. First Edition. Fourth Printing, 2003. 19 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy. Fine. More
Albuquerque, NM: The University of Mexico Press, 1964. Wraps. First Edition. 158 pp. 8vo. Light tan heavy paper wraps. Light wear and scuffing, clean within. Very Good. More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xxvi, 433 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine. More