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Price: $90.00
Publisher: Atlanta, Georgia, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology: 1994
Stock No.: 73392
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
The proceedings in a 3-volume set. In excellent shape. Due to the weight (about 9 lbs.), extra shipping may be requested. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1572 pages View more info
By: ASIMOV, Isaac
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Basic Books: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 83501
Condition: Very Good
Stated first edition. The prolific writer of science fiction and non-fiction Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) presents the basics of science for the non-scientist reader in this two-volume set in slipcase. Volume I is entitled "The Physical Sciences" and Volume II "The Biological Sciences." With drawings, photos, tables and charts throughout both volumes. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with spine titling in gilt. Both volumes in single grey and black paper-covered slipcase. --- With considerable sunning to spines of volumes, and with a little soiling to textblock fore-edges, els... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1967
Stock No.: 78392
Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket
Stated seventh printing. Any book published in the 1960s and promising to look to the future of computers might be of interest in view of the rapid technological changes since then. --- In full black cloth-covered boards and with reel-to-reel tape artwork on jacket cover. A firm, clean, bright copy. Jacket with very large curved piece torn away on back; else ok. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 113 pages View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.: 1936
Stock No.: 76974
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
This technical work from the early twentieth century features plenty of charts and illustrations. With taped-in booklet supplying 'answers to problems' posed in the book. --- In black full cloth-covered boards. Lacks a dust jacket. --- A firm, complete copy but the gilt spine titling has almost completely flaked off. Discolored cloth, perhaps as many as 12 pages with pencilings; previous owner's signature on front paste-down. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; xix, 584 pages View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Houston Geological Society: 1975
Stock No.: 60505
Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
Collection of geologic studies of deltaic environments; with their oil and gas potentials. In super shape, w/full blue cloth covers. ; 60505; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: CALDER, Nigel
Price: $10.50
Publisher: New York, Viking: 1979
Edition: BCE
Stock No.: 74749
ISBN: 0670290769
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Book club edition. In black quarter cloth and copper paper-covered boards. Smudge on front free endpaper, else a bright, clean copy lacking markings. Jacket with slight chafing at edges. --- Author's much-admired work explains Einstein's Theory of Relativity for the average reader. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 154 pages View more info
Price: $14.50
Publisher: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1964]
Stock No.: 83658
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Works of various scholars on the subject of anthropology are presented here in this Modern Library compilation, which has been described as the "Golden Treasury of Anthropology". Edited, with a preface and introduction by V. F. Calverton. --- In Toledano spine 11 / rust cloth / ML hex torchbearer logo blindstamped to front cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists titles in ML catalog, but without a total number. Likely published c.1964. ML #149.2. --- With tiny whitish specks to rear cover and faint stain to front, otherwise an unmarked, ti... View more info
By: CHRONIC, Halka
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Missoula, MT, U.S.A., Mountain Press Publishing Company, Incorporated: 1987
Stock No.: 74139
ISBN: 087842105X
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Stated Fifth Printing, 1987. With numerous maps, drawings and photos. Includes guide to stratigraphic drawings at rear. Meant as guide to geology for the layman as one might encounter it when driving through the Colorado Rockies. Clean, bright, tight copy.; 31162; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 322 pages View more info
By: CURIE, Eve
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, Pocket Books, Inc.: 1959
Stock No.: 83412
Condition: Very Good
A paperback edition of this biography of Marie Curie by her younger daughter Eve. Madame Curie was a physicist who was a pioneer in researching radioactivity. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes. Translated from the French by Vincent Sheean. --- In wraps with cover portrait of Madame Curie by Leon Gregori. A sound copy, tightly-bound and sturdy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; 419 pages View more info
By: DABOLL, Nathan
Price: $27.00
Publisher: Utica, New York, Gardiner Tracy: 1841
Stock No.: 82423
Condition: Fair
A well worn 1841 copy of this early 19th century reference, which debuted in 1800. This text was used to instruct the student in the use of multiple forms of mathematics, such as fractions, currency reduction, annuities and interest among many of other topics. With appended section of rules for calculating interest and rebates and a separate short work entitled "The Practical Accountant. . .Best Method of Book Keeping" by Samuel Green. --- This compact edition in leather covered boards with no visible titling on exterior. --- The covers are quite chafed, discolored and with bruises and... View more info
By: DARWIN, Charles (author); DARWIN, Francis (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Dover Publications: [c.1970s]
Stock No.: 80054
ISBN: 0486204790
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
A trade paperback edition offering Darwin's memoir, with letters. Much of this work is concerned with his landmark "Origin of Species." Edited by Francis Darwin, son of Charles Darwin. An "abbreviation" of Charles Darwin's lengthy "Life and Letters" of 1887. Indexed. --- A clean, firm, bright copy lacking markings. Covers with slight chafing to edges.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xiv, 365 pages View more info
By: DAVIS, Richard A.; ETHINGTON, R. L. (editors)
Price: $20.50
Publisher: Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A., Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists: 1976
Stock No.: 83107
Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
A technical publication in which prominent economic paleontogists and geologists present 10 separate studies of beach and sedimentation near worldwide shores. Studies include wave modeling, sand fountains and other aspects of land-sea interaction. With many maps, tables and charts. Special publication number 24 of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists. --- In full dark red cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped cover and spine titling as well as a gilt-stamped representation of waves meeting the shore. Leaves are of gloss coated stock. Volume has no dust jacket, likely as i... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books: 1925
Stock No.: 77035
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
Stated sixty-fourth printing of this once-popular work. In it, the author scientifically explores the workings of the human body and mind, and compares and contrasts human behavior to other life forms. With a laid-in gift card to recipient from 'Daddy', dated 1966. --- In full orange buckram, with titling in black on spine. --- A firm copy though with some penciled underlinings, soiling on a few pages, and chafing to edges of covers. Lacks a dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 512 pages View more info
By: Eckstein, Gustav
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1970
Edition: BCE
Stock No.: 73222
Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket
The complexities of the human body are explained in an understandable way. A good Book Club copy, in full turquoise cloth on board covers. With bumped corners; clean interior. Dust jacket some chipping at spine ends; in good overall shape. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 799 pages View more info
By: GESNER, Abraham
Price: $36.00
Publisher: Drake Well Foundation: 2001
Stock No.: 82388
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
A 2001 facsimile of Abraham Gesner's 1861 Baillière Brothers guide to his various processes for refining "coal oil", petroleum, and other distilled oils. This work served as a primer for the early petroleum industry. With several sketches and tables depicting these processes and the equipment needed to perform them. With a foreword by Samuel T. Pees and a biographical sketch of Abraham Gesner by William R. Brice. --- In full dark green cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped cover titling. Volume has no dust jacket. --- A very nice copy: clean, bright and unmarked but with faint cover ... View more info
By: GIECK, Kurt
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1971
Edition: First American Edition
Stock No.: 80095
ISBN: 0070232024
Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Stated first U.S. edition. This compact work offers over 1500 formulas and tables of measurements for the engineer. With over 300 diagrams. Technical and mathematical formulas are presented, including measurements of areas, solid bodies, trigonometry, analytical geometry, special functions, differential calculus and statistics. Printed on rectos only, leaving the opposite pages (left sides) blank for notes, etc. Unpaginated (about 380 pp.). --- In green paper-covered boards with titling and decorations in white; in similar dust jacket. --- With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, e... View more info
By: GILLETTE, David; HALLETT, Mark (illustrations
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1994
Stock No.: 76682
ISBN: 0231078757
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
An account of the discovery of the remains of the gargantuan Seismosaurus hallorum, one of the largest of the dinosaurs, in central New Mexico in 1979. With illustrations throughout by Mark Hallett, and numerous color photos. Indexed. --- With a little curling to lower corners, else a clean, bright copy lacking markings. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 205 pages View more info
Price: $11.00
Publisher: New York, Harmony Books: 2000
Stock No.: 70277
ISBN: 0609601423
Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket
A collection of reflections on paleontology, evolutionary biology and science in general by Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002). The long-time Harvard professor and associate at the American Museum of Natural History wrote a popular monthly column for Natural History magazine, source for many of these articles. Includes several black & white illustrations. --- A softcover in stiff wraps with fossil image in green to cover. --- A clean, bright, tightly-bound copy lacking damages worthy of mention.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall ; (12), 372 pages View more info
By: Gribbin, John
Price: $65.00
Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 2006
Stock No.: 72152
Condition: Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket
Gorgeous volume traces the people and their discoveries. In decorative light blue and gilt design front & rear covers. Top edge bright gilt. Interior liberally dotted with pictures, is clean, bright & unmarked. Slipcase in generally good shape, but with small corner tears. [Any reference to dust jacket refers to this volume's slipcase. ]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: HOPKINS, Ralph Lee; HOPKINS, Lindy Birkel
Price: $15.50
Publisher: Seattle, The Mountaineers: 2000
Stock No.: 80416
ISBN: 0898867088
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Details about 50 hikes around Colorado, with explanations of geologic features encountered along the way. Each hike with information such as length of hike, difficulty, and w/reference to relevant USGS topo map(s) which are available. Most accompanied by black and white photos, and with a section of bright color photos. --- In stiff wraps with color photo of watery mountain scene on cover. --- A clean, unmarked copy but with a little bruising to front cover.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall) ; 240 pages View more info
By: KANE, John J.
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, Inc.: 1963
Stock No.: 78953
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Stated second printing. A look at various social problem areas; with a few diagrams and an index. --- In full textured green paper-covered boards. --- Clean, bright, firm copy but with inked signature & five phone numbers on front paste-down; and a few inkings here and there. Lacks a dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xv, 428 pages View more info
By: KEEN, A. Myra
Price: $42.50
Publisher: Stanford, California U. S. A., Stanford University Press: 1960
Edition: Second Printing
Stock No.: 71830
Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket
"This is the first attempt to list and provide illustrations of the sea shells of the entire area of the Panamic marine province..." Stated 2nd prtg of extremely detailed inventory of shellfish sea life from Baja to Columbia. In full blue, lightly stained cloth covers w/seashell artwork & printing in gilt, minor edgewear. DJ bears orig $12.50 flap price and is chipped, espec at head & tail of spine. Now in removable mylar protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: MAMMANA, Dennis
Price: $11.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Running Press: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Stock No.: 81104
ISBN: 0894718754
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. A history of astronomy and man's attempts to understand worlds beyond our own. With dozens of color and black & white photos. --- In dark blue paper-covered boards with silver-stamped spine titling. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- A clean, firm, bright copy but with a little rubbing to cover edges and bumped cover corners.; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 160 pages View more info
By: MARTIN, Henno
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Windhoek, Namibia, Verlag der Namibia Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft: 1995
Stock No.: 80148
ISBN: 0949995258
Condition: Near Fine
German language. A softcover edition of the author's account of his experiences in present-day Namibia during World War II. German nationals Henno Martin and partner Hermann Korn, were working geologists in the former German colony of South-West Africa (now Nambia). When war broke out, they decided to wait it out in a remote desert canyon area to avoid internment. This work with plenty of black and white photos and a fold-out map of the areas in which they worked. --- With faint soiling to covers, else a clean, bright, newish copy. ------ Ein softcover Ausgabe des Autors Konto seiner Erfahrung... View more info
By: MAURY, M. [atthew] F. [ontaine]
Price: $149.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers: 1855
Stock No.: 82408
Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket
A third edition, enlarged and improved, of Matthew Fontaine Maury's detailed 1855 study of the world's oceans. With 7 folded maps and a folded pilot sheet at rear of volume, one additional map and two more plates with drawings within the volume. Maury served in the U. S. Navy and when an injury ended his nautical career, he turned to the science of the seas. This work was influential for oceanic work and understanding and was used by mariners, cable-layers and others after its publication. --- Bound in full brown cloth-covered boards with fillets in blind to covers, titling in gilt to spine a... View more info
Price: $38.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1971
Stock No.: 73455
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Scientific work in a decent copy. Stated 6th printing. In full black cloth-covered boards; a few tears in cloth at spine. Interior clean and tight. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 591 pages View more info
By: MORGAN, James P. (Editor); SHAVER, Robert H. (Assistant Editor)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A., Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists: 1970
Stock No.: 60686
Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
A technical publication in which prominent economic paleontogists and geologists examine areas of both ancient and modern worldwide deltaic sedimentation. With many maps, tables, photos and charts, and 2 fold-out diagrams, one of which depicts marine sonoprobe profiles across Heald Bank (in Gulf of Mexico near Galveston). Special publication number 15 of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists. --- In full dark red cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped cover and spine titling as well as a gilt-stamped representation of sediment layers. Leaves are of gloss coated stock. Volum... View more info
By: PEARL, Richard
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Signet Key Books/New American Library: 1958
Stock No.: 77493
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Stated third printing, January 1958 of this work which first appeared in a 1955 hardcover publication by McGraw-Hill. With b&w drawings throughout, plus a section of color plates. --- A firm, clean, unmarked copy. ; 192 pages View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1954
Stock No.: 82159
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
Stated third printing of this guide to all manner of mineral forms, with several sets of color and black & white plates; along with numerous drawings and maps of North American and volcanic generalized formations at endpapers. This work is suitable for research world-wide, and was later revised with second and subsequent editions. Number 7 in the publisher's Peterson Field Guide Series. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with pickaxe illustration and titling in darker brown. Unclipped jacket with color images of various minerals to cover. --- With a little light wear to cover edges, otherw... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, IEEE Press: 1988
Stock No.: 73393
ISBN: 0879422238
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Part of the publisher's selected reprint series. In excellent shape, with olive pictorial hardcover; illustration of radar installation on cover. With loose technical material laid in. Clean, bright and tight copy. This is a real book, this is not an insta-print book. ; IEEE Press Selected Reprint Series; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 477 pages View more info
Price: $16.50
Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey,, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.: 1963
Stock No.: 78254
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Per the jacket flap: "This book provides a comprehensive guide to the uses of Radar and other electronic aids to navigation." With dozens of charts, tables (some fold-out), photos, drawings and other illustrations. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards w/gilt-stamped titling on spine. Volume wrapped in pink jacket w/blue radar screen image on cover. --- With gift inscription on front free endpaper, else a bright, firm, clean copy. Jacket with minor rubbing; else in good shape. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; viii, 280 pages View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Piscataway, New Jersey, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society: 1986
Stock No.: 73389
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Newsletter, dated October 1986; featured articles on microstrip antennae. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 50 pages View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Piscataway, New Jersey, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society: 1994
Stock No.: 73390
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Newsletter, dated December 1994; featured article on power-transmission electromagnetics; plus other topics. In good shape. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 90 pages View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Piscataway, New Jersey, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society: 1995
Stock No.: 73391
Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Newsletter, dated April 1995; featured article on genetic algorithms for electromagnetics, and superdirective antennas with passive reflectors; plus other topics. In good shape. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 106 pages View more info
By: TAYLOR, Lloyd W.; WATSON, William W.; HOWE, Carl E.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Boston, Ginn and Company: 1926
Stock No.: 77511
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Technical works provides wide variety of useful instruments and set-ups for the physics lab of the mid-1920s. With numerous b&w photos and drawings; indexed. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards w/titling in black on spine & cover. Lacks a dust jacket. With previous owner's inked info. on front paste-down with offsetting to front free endpaper, some minor cover soiling; else a firm, clean copy. ; 247 pages View more info
By: TREFIL, James S.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1983
Edition: BCE
Stock No.: 72983
ISBN: 0684178699
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Book Club Edition. Sharp, tight, clean copy of work by author of From Atoms to Quarks. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 209 pages View more info
By: VOLTI, Rudi
Price: $11.50
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1995
Stock No.: 80874
ISBN: 0312096429
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
A softcover edition of this scholarly examination of technology and the role it plays in modern society. With discussion questions at the end of each chapter. --- In simple grey covers. With curling to corners and light soiling to textblock edge, else a clean, firm copy.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xvi, 315 pages View more info
By: Voskresenskii, Dmitrii I. & Aleksandr I. Grinev & Evgenii N. Voronin; Priest, Peter F.H.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Springer-Verlag: 1988
Edition: First US Edition
Stock No.: 73394
ISBN: 0387966587
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Clean, bright sharp copy. Translated to English from the Russian by Peter F.H. Priest. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 pages View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Publishers: 2003
Edition: BCE
Inscription: Signed by Author
Stock No.: 50244
ISBN: 0066212855
Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket
A book club edition of Simon Winchester's highly readable account of the massive volcanic explosions of Krakatoa in Indonesia in 1883, described by Wikipedia as ". . .among the most violent volcanic events in recorded history". The resulting tsunami killed nearly 40,000 people. The volume includes a number of eye-pleasing black & white illustrations and maps. Signed by Mr. Winchester on title page in bold black marker. --- In black paper-covered boards. Jacket with detail from map to back panel. --- A clean, bright, newish copy but with slight scuffing to lower cover edge. Bright jacke... View more info
Price: $13.50
Publisher: HarperCollins: 2003
Edition: First American Edition; First Printing
Stock No.: 71813
ISBN: 0066212855
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
An interesting geologic historical event is transformed into a really great read by the incomparable Simon Winchester. This copy has the unusual pictorial hardback covers featuring an erupting volcano; along with the publisher's undersized belly band dust jacket featuring a long view of the volcano. Book in good shape, with prev owner's sticker front free endpaper. 1st US Edit w/full number line, publisher's page. Slight corner abrasions, otherwise clean and tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 432 pages View more info
