New York: the journal, 1925. Magazine. Pp.217-288, staplebound magazine in 14x11 inch wraps, rough copy with edgewear, abrasion, dusty soiling and un-erasible seller's price to covers; inside, the center leaf is detached from staples, which are rusty. However, item is complete, without excisions or markings within, ads intact and so..... More
Cat.No: 233120
Neuwied / Frankfurt: Metzner, 1989. x, 237p., illustrated with b&w photoportraits, hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch blue boards with red spine label gilt, enclosed in glossy white dust jacket. The dj has mildest edgewear, a beautiful copy, clean, sound and unmarked. Geschichte der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitat. More
Cat.No: 219038
Los Angeles: Saturday Lunch Club, 1931. 5.5x3.25 inch postcard advertising a talk by Briggs (basically a book review of Sir James Jeans' "The Mysterious Universe") held in Los Angeles on March 14, 1931; reproduced from typescript, evenly toned, stamp and penned address on rear. all in all very good condition..... More
Cat.No: 264430
N.pl. [Louise Brown], [1930]. Pamphlet. 48p., wraps toned, one corner bumped else very good condition, frontispiece portrait tipped in, Illus. Memorial work for Ellen Hayes (1851-1930). Hayes was a math teacher at Wellesley College for decades, wrote a number of math textbooks, was an astronomer, and was active in the..... More
Cat.No: 274780
New York: Good Reading Rack Service Division / Information Rack Service, [1959]. [i], 15p., 5.5x8.5 inch staplebound pamphlet; illustrations, in very good condition. On the race to space. "Published for GM Men and Women." More
Cat.No: 345695
San Francisco: Sanborne, Vail & Co., 1924. Paperback. 90p., softbound in plain printed 5.25x7.75 inch grey-brown cardstock wraps. Entirely clean and sound, faintest signs of any handling or age, a near fine copy. Earnest doggerel, imitation Longfellow, only six copies found in OCLC. More
Cat.No: 116258
Washington DC: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1969. Hardcover. 512p., numerous b&w illustrations from photography and fantasy, hardbound volume in 9x6 inch cloth boards imprinted with color illustrations. Looks a bit tacky, but item shows some handling wear (mild) so text has been investigated. Casing is lightly scratched, else sound..... More
Cat.No: 314822
New York: Kensington Books, 1998. Hardcover. 342p., very good first edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. Second book in a series of gay mysteries with journalist detective Mark Manning. Gunn page 135. Author worked on the Tribune 1976-1987, hence the interesting insiderisms; and has a lifelong interest..... More
Cat.No: 90542
New York: Harper Perennial, 2011. Paperback. xviii, 378p., (plus "Meet Author Dolnick" in 5 additional pages, plus unpaginated publisher's ads), later printing of the softbound edition featuring a generous vivid color-plate section. This is a very good copy: sound, clean and unmarked. Whoa! Newton was "born sickly and premature but..... More
Cat.No: 332336
Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum 'Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum', 1992. Paperback. 83p., illustrated with numerous b&w and full-color reproductions, softbound in 8x8.5 inch glossy pictorial wraps. Please note, the text is entirely in the Dutch language. A nice crisp clean copy, small spot of wear to cover's foredge else entirely sound. More
Cat.No: 264390
Meudon: La Table d'Emeraude Editeur, 1994. Paperback. 160p., beautiful presswork, a handsome journal devoted to spiritual and magical matters, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch color-decorated printed wraps. Faint signs of handling and age (foredge and spine area detectably toned where held) but otherwise sound, clean, unmarked. FYI, editor Corsetti was killed..... More
Cat.No: 262097
Meudon: La Table d'Emeraude Editeur, 1995. Paperback. 152p., beautiful presswork, a handsome journal devoted to spiritual and magical matters, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch color-decorated printed wraps. As new, a very nice copy: sound, clean and unmarked. FYI, editor Corsetti was killed in a freak accident during production of no.16; his..... More
Cat.No: 262098
Meudon: La Table d'Emeraude Editeur, 1993. Paperback. 128p., beautiful presswork, a handsome journal devoted to spiritual and magical matters, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch color-decorated printed wraps. This issue has a b&w section of period illustrations. Faint signs of handling and age (foredge and spine area detectably toned where held) but..... More
Cat.No: 262095
Meudon: La Table d'Emeraude Editeur, 1991. Paperback. 112p., beautiful presswork, a handsome journal devoted to spiritual and magical matters, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch color-decorated printed wraps, this number is lime green. Very faintest hints of any handling or age: sound, clean, unmarked. More
Cat.No: 263067
Paris: La Table d'Emeraude Editeur, [1985]. Paperback. 125p., beautiful presswork, a lovely, rather austere journal devoted to spiritual and magical matters, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch skyblue plain printed wraps. Find a minuscule bump to rear cover at the head, covers a little toned where handled (foredge and spine), else completely..... More
Cat.No: 262002
Paris: La Table d'Emeraude Editeur, December 1986. Paperback. 128p., beautiful presswork, a lovely, rather austere journal devoted to spiritual and magical matters, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch grassgreen plain printed wraps. Faintest signs of any handling or age, near new: completely sound, clean and unmarked. More
Cat.No: 262093
Paris: La Table d'Emeraude Editeur, Juin 1988. Paperback. 88p., beautiful presswork, a handsome journal devoted to spiritual and magical matters, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch plain printed wraps, this issue is blue. Slight signs of handling and age (foredge and spine area detectably faded where held) but otherwise sound, clean, unmarked..... More
Cat.No: 263066
Paris: La Table d'Emeraude Editeur, December 1988. Paperback. 96p., beautiful presswork, a handsome journal devoted to spiritual and magical matters, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch plain printed wraps, this issue is orange. Slight signs of handling and age (foredge and spine area detectably faded where held) but otherwise sound, clean, unmarked..... More
Cat.No: 262094
New York: Springer, 2011. Paperback. xiii, 238p., illustrated with photos (two in color), line-drawn star charts with color helps, and tables. A glossy 9x6 inch softbound in near-new condition (faintest handling to covers), perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. Patrick Moore's practical astronomy series. More
Cat.No: 330719
n.p. NASA, 1989. Stiff Boards. Lacks section paginations let alone ones continuous, a massive totality with section dividers clasped into 11x11.5 inch black and white ring binder three inches thick, everything in good order and undamaged. Cover diagram of a cylindrical satellite with two occupants working their "garden": seeing how..... More
Cat.No: 339440
Geneva: Editions du Mont-Blanc, 1967. 185p., illustrated with l5 inserted coated plates, b&w, variously from photography and an artist's drawing board, each facing a page of Jacot's commentary. First American edition openweave cloth boards gilt in dust jacket. Jacket is a little edgeworn, an entirely clean sound copy, near fine..... More
Cat.No: 180140
London: Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2003. Hardcover. [257]p., profuse color photography, modern book-design with inset captions, fullpage and in-text pix, a remarkable coffeetable objet d'art hardbound in 12x10 inch pale grey boards spine-titled in blind and enclosed in a glossy color-photo dust jacket. How to make "science" palpable to fun-seekers who..... More
Cat.No: 327077
Paris: Société des Océanistes, 1970. Pamphlet. 25p., find diagrams, and period and contemporary images along with analytic text; staplebound booklet, 5.5x7.5 inches, staples heavily rusted else very good. Dossier 4. More
Cat.No: 211962
Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksells, 1944. Pamphlet. 9p., wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps worn and soiled, pen notation and small stain on front wrap else good condition. Arkiv for matematik, astronomi och fysik ; 31A,14. More
Cat.No: 251548
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Hardcover. xxii, 829p., illustrated with contemporary b&w snapshot photography, a vivid color section of masks, and several line maps. Levy started out in Tahiti and somehow gravitated to Kathmandu Valley. Hardbound in 9x6 inch blue cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket..... More
Cat.No: 292506
