science and technology
BAKELITE COATING RESINS: Technical Data
New York: Bakelite Corporation, [1947]. Wraps. 4to. Three ring binder. Textured card wraps. Stamped, inked titles to front, spine. Moderate handling wear to exterior. Interior contents with mild must odor, light rusting to metal hardware. Generally very good. Company issued technical bulletins of data on Bakelite phenolic coating resins in...
New York State Museum Bulletin, No. 332 - Februrary 1943
Albany, NY: University of the State of New York, 1943. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Very good. Covers toned. Mild edgewear. Else sounds and complete with all maps and plates. Geology of the Coxcackie Wuadrangle, New York by Winifred Goldring. With a chapter on glacial geology. Includes three...
WILLIAM DAWSON
Hitchin: Paternoster & Hales, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Gray gilt-stamped boards. Very good. Mild touches of shelfwear to boards. Endpapers browned a bit, but text block bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 47pp. Eulogy for the recently-deceased schoolmaster William Dawson, for whom a prize in botany was...
SEX MACHINES: Photographs and Interviews
Carrboro / Los Angeles: Daniel 13 / Process, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Square 4to. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued. Minor edgewear, slight bumping to corners. Near fine. INSCRIBED by author on title page: "It was so great to have you @ the Atomic lecture + then hang out...
Geologic Evolution of the Eastern United States: Field Trip Guidebook, Ne-Se Gsa 1991
Martinsville: Virginia Museum of Natural History, 1991. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Glossy wraps. Very good. Mild shelfwear. Mildly thumbed. Else clean, bright, and sound throughout. Virginia Museum of Natural History Guidebook No. 2. 304pp.
Electron Diffraction: With a Half-Tone Frontispiece and 39 Diagrams in the Text
New York: Wiley, (1946). Second edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Very good plus in like jacket. Touches of shelfwear, but clean, bright and sound overall. Scarce in jacket and in this condition. 107pp. with index.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY: As Explanation of the Laws of Growth and Exercise; Through Which a Pleasing Contour, Symmetry of Form, and Graceful Carriage of Body are Acquired and the Common Deformaties of the Spine and Chest Prevented
Philadelphia: E.A. Carey & A. Hart, 1838. First edition. Cloth. 12mo. Original publisher's brown cloth. A fair copy, lacking last 3 leaves of text (pp. 249-253). Else generally very good. Cloth rubbed, front hinge tender. Chip to one corner of early page. Mild foxing internally. The second book from one...
ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. Very good in like jacket. Jacket has small tear to rear fold, mild edgewear. Else bright and complete. Book with touched of shelfwear to extremities. Clean and sound throughout. Uncommon with jacket and in this condition. From the McGraw-Hill Electrical...
ORIGIN OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972. Later printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in VG-DJ. Jacket worn at edges. Book lightly shelfworn. Clean and sound overall. 634pp. with detailed index.
THEORETICAL NUCLER PHYSICS
New York: John Wiley, (1952). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Original blue cloth. No DJ. Very good overall with some moderate shelfwear at edges. Else clean and sound throughout. 864pp. with index.
THE TRANSVAAL APE-MAN-BEARING CAVE DEPOSITS
Pretoria, South Africa: Transvaal Museum, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt-stampled titles. Very good. Touches of soil, light bumps, and edgewear. Ownership stamp to flyleaf; endpapers lightly foxed but text block overall clean, a touch yellowed to edges. Good and sound. 131pp. Presented as a doctoral thesis...
PROJECT CONTROL STANDARDS
Princeton: Brandon/Systems Press, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue boards in pictorial dust jacket. A near fine copy in a very good DJ. Mild rubbing to jacket panels, minimal edgewear. Interior bright, clean, unmarked throughout. Binding tight. 204pp. Discussion of procedures for development of project control in computer data...
PHYSICAL AND DYNAMICAL METEOROLOGY
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Publisher's dark cloth. Tiny touches of soil to cloth. Priliminary pages toned. Ex-US Weather Bureau Station Library, with their stamp at pastedown and title page. Interior else clean. Near fine. 428 pp.
Introduction to Ceramic Science
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Pictorial boards. No jacket. Mild rubbing, soil to covers. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Else clean and sound throughout. Very good. From the Commonwealth and International Library series. Materials science and technology. 287pp. with index.
EVOLUTION AND VARIATION WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OF SEX
Santa Rosa: n.p., n.d. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Sunning to edges and light edgewear and foxing to wraps. Faint creasing and touches of foxing to pages. 7pp. Pagination error reverses pp. numbers 3 and 6 (numbers only; page sequence is itself correct.) Very good. Pamphlet by the horticulturalist and experimental...
ART OF VENTRILOQUISM: How to Throw Your Voice
Detroit: Johnson Smith & Company, n.d. Wraps. Small 8vo. Saddle-stapled green wraps. Edges tattered; binding shaken; heavily soiled throughout with partial tears to several pages. One leaf fully torn out but laid in; no leaves missing. About good minus. Approximately half of this booklet contains the eight-chapter ventriloquism tutorial, including.....
Stellar Physics - Volume 1
Waltham, MA: Blaisdell Publishing Company, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. No jacket. Very good. Mild shelfwear. Clean and sound throughout. 550pp. with indexes.
THE BOYS' BOOK OF MODERN MARVELS
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1912). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's decorative cloth in original printed dust-jacket. DJ has a few closed tears, some moderate some rubbing, edgewear, toning. A bit of chipping at spine tips. Despite flaws, solidly very good example of a scarce jacket. Book near fine...
WITH WINGS ON THEIR FINGERS: An Intimate View of the Flying-Fox
(New York): Angus & Robertson / HarperCollins, (1994). First American edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown boards in pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. Two small price stickers to jacket. Interior bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 168pp. First American edition concurrent with first Australian edition. Detailed look...
PATENT APPLIED FOR: A Century of Fantastic Inventions
London: Co-Ordination (Press and Publicity) Ltd., (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's blue binding with silver titles. Very good. Spine sunned. Edges worn. Corners bumped. Interior clean. Tight. 100 pp. Illustrated plates throughout. A history of fanciful, often ridiculous inventions.
The Hormones in Human Reproduction
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. Jacket has light rubbing, a bit edgworn along top edge. Unclipped. Book has trace shelfwear at extremities. Near fine in a very good (and scarce) DJ. First edition of this important and early account. Scarce in jacket and in this...
VALENCE
New York and London: Oxford University Press, (1961). Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's original cloth. Several minor dampstains to cloth, else clean and bright. Very good. 404 pp.
INTRODUCTION TO NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL EQUATIONS
Washington DC: U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original printed wraps. Very good. Mild toning. A bit thumbed. Else clean and sound throughout. 566pp. with bibliography and index.
THE MECHANISM OF MIND
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Good plus. Jacket darkened at spine. Edges lightly worn. Drink ring at front panel. Several small stains to fore edge. Interior clean. Tight. Popular science explanation of brain function. 275 pp.
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[Manuscript Photo Catalogue of Light Fixture Manufacturer]
Waterbury, CT: The Waterbury Metal Wares Co., [ca. 1929]. First Edition. Wraps. Large 8vo. commercial album. Limp leather wraps over metal ring binding. Printed catalogue with 75 added leaves holding 85 professional black-and-white photographs, loosely corner-mounted. Some stamped on verso with company name. With numerous additional manuscript notations and dozens...