Astronomy, Cosmos, cosmology
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
New York: the journal, 1925. Magazine. Pp.217-288, staplebound magazine in 14x11 inch wraps, a somewhat rough copy but complete and without excisions or markings, ads intact, staples okay, &c. Cover has an inch-square chip at the heel not affecting graphic (eclipse), an abraded spinefold with a 4-inch split. A fair..... More
Cat.No: 233119
Madrid: Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Sanidad, 1938. Paperback. 62p., wraps largely unopened slightly browned and worn. More
Cat.No: 76996
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. A fine, untouched copy. As new. Geschichte der Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitat. More
Cat.No: 219038
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1991. Hardcover. xiv, 441p., very good hardcover in dj. More
Cat.No: 159653
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2000. xii, 196p., very good in wraps. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 90 part 2. More
Cat.No: 165015
London: the journal, 1952 - 1954. Fine copies in original plain printed tobacco-brown wraps, semi-coated paperstock throughout with 9x6 inches, staplebound. Photographs, charts, plenty of math. One copy has a small ink splash on cover and one corner was very faintly worn. An order form is laid into one issue;... More
Cat.No: 158091
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. Only six copies found in OCLC. More
Cat.No: 116258
New York: Kensington Books, 1998. 342p., very good first edition 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 Chicago Tribune for unspecified length of time, hence the interesting insiderisms; and has a lifelong... More
Cat.No: 90542
London: Published for the Interrnational African Institute by the Oxford University Press, 1955. Hardcover. xvii, 243p., second printing of the 1954 original; hardbound 10x6.2 inch waxed blue cloth boards gilt (standard OUP production) in dust jacket. A bit edgeworn with some toning and tiny dings to casing, jacket has marginal... More
Cat.No: 186252
Geneva: Editions du Mont-Blanc, 1967. 185p., illustrated with l5 inserted coated plates 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. Jacot... More
Cat.No: 180140
Paris: Société des Océanistes, 1970. 25p., find diagrams, and period and contemporary images along with analytic text; staplebound booklet, very good. Dossier 4. More
Cat.No: 211962
Colfax: MakeWood Products, 1996. vi, 82p., 8.5x11 inches, profusely illustrated with chartsand figures, very good second printing in stapled pictorial wraps. Personal inscription signed by the author. More
Cat.No: 163916
New York: Arno & The New York Times, 1969. [vi], 195p. , ex library Reprint of 1886 edition. American labor, from conspiracy to collective bargaining. "Scientist, astronomer, and America's first mathematical economist. He was an opponent of labour unions." *Mark Blaug, ed. Who's who in economics. More
Cat.No: 90884
Oakland: Kennedy Art Center Gallery /Holy Names College, 1999. Unpaginated, some 19 full-color exhibit images from photography, printed announcement leaf with map to gallery laid in, 8.2x6 inch cardstock wraps. A very good copy. Astronomically themed works by the Bay Area-based Korean immigrant artist. More
Cat.No: 175058
San Anselmo: Vernal Equinox Press, 1985. Unpaginated preliminaries, 166p., illustrated with old and new figures in the text, first edition softback in glossy 8.5 x 5.5 inch wraps. Mildest edgewear. Author has two books on tarot and one on Jungian tales for kids. Well-argued from a well-read point of view. More
Cat.No: 79494
Amherst: One Reed Publications, 1994. Paperback. 216p., illustrated with numerous line drawings, a line map and tables, very good first edition trade paperback in black pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 209314
Girard KS: Haldeman-Julius Publications, undated. Pamphlet. 64p., small paperbound booklet in 5x3.5 inch plain printed green wraps. Paperstock toned, cover irregularly faded and somewhat worn, faint touch of rust to staple, a good-ish copy. Little Blue Book no. 609. More
Cat.No: 228052
Moscow: Moscow Works, 1956. 63p.,Soviet pamphlet, very good in wraps with cover depiction of Mars showing regions of green on its surface. Text in Russian. More
Cat.No: 60866
Manila: the author; printed by Fookien Times, 1960. 76p., very good in wraps with light wear. Self-published "alternate physics" tract by the former teacher of Chinese in the Philippines. Cover gives date of 1959, but interior states 1960. More
Cat.No: 194428
Yoshida, Kenji; with Tadashi Fukuda, Annelise Petersen, Claude Micoski, Joseph Paul Schneider, introductories
no place: no publisher, no date. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, glossy alkaline paperstock with eight fullpage full-color plates plus a photoportrait and two shots of Yoshida at work, and essays in French and English, plus one page-to-itself message in Japanese characters. Softbound in 9x9 inch stapled color wraps, a clean sound copy... More
Cat.No: 234316