no place [Washington DC?]: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park / National Park Service, no date, circa 1980. Paperback. 75p., line maps (some with spot-color guides), tables and b&w site photos, 11x8.5 inch leaves softbound in utilitarian fashion (punchholed for a plastic comb but stapled instead), covers have picked up mild soil..... More
Cat.No: 240208
Lancaster PA: The Jaques Cattell Press, 1944. ix, 97p., red cloth boards in dj, jacket rather rubbed, an otherwise all-round good copy. More
Cat.No: 165523
Rotorua NZ: D. W. Smith. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about sixteen pages, illustrated from profuse b&w period photography, captionless but coordinated with running text. Softbound, an oversize oblong pamphlet in 8x11 inch decorated wraps (displays a colorized photo of the eruption); somewhat crimped with handling, cover bears faint small stains, clean and..... More
Cat.No: 244788
Harare: Issue by Authority, 1991. [ix]+220p., 8.25x11.75 inches, color frontis, preface, introduction, area, methods of study, terminology, previous geological work, outline, references, appendices, illustrated with color plates, b&w maps, figures and tables, and two huge full-color 1: 100 000 scale geological maps folded into a pocket at rear (undamaged), very..... More
Cat.No: 98869
Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, The Natural History - Geographical Subject Group, 1972. 439p., in-text illustrations from photography, diagrammatic sketches, and maps; softbound in 9.2x6.7 inch wraps, cover shows slight edgewear and handling soil, a clean, sound, very good copy. More
Cat.No: 190014
San Francisco: Pacific Division AAAS, 1994. Hardcover. vi, 336p., preface, epilog, chapter notes, references, index, illustrated with glossy plates from b&w photographs, limited first edition of 500 copies bound in red cloth boards and gilt. Has a mildly musty smell, otherwise a clean sound very good copy. Chicago-born and raised..... More
Cat.No: 214140
San Francisco: State of California Department of Naturla Resources Division of Mines, 1953. Hardcover. 61p., photos and maps, four folded maps (2 in color) in pocket at rear, 9x6 inch hardbound, very good in original buckram. The b&w photos show badlands galore, these in central California, San Joaquin County the..... More
Cat.No: 117181
San Juan PR: Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico / Duke University, 1995. Paperback. xviii, 193p., illustrated with numerous b&w site photos, diagrams, line maps and tables. Softbound in oblong 8x10 inch photo-decorated wraps, absolutely clean, sound and unmarked, a very good copy. Living with the shore series. More
Cat.No: 241192
Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Braunen, 1710. Hardcover. [1] frontispiece, rubricated title page, [6] 314p., [18], Register, 30 plates, many folding; 8x6.5 inch text printed in German, fraktur font, ex-libris bookplate of American zoologist Charles Atwood Kofoid on front paste-down, signature of UC Berkeley student of Slavic Languages Benjamin Jack Pooler. Re-cased..... More
Cat.No: 233779
Rio de Janeiro - RJ: Capemi Editora e Grafica Ltda. 1982. 120p., illustrated with a few line maps, paperbound in 8x5.5 inch glossy blue frenchfold wraps; cello-glaze has a couple tiny bubbles on the back cover, clean and sound, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 192927
New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1998. Hardcover. 239p., profuse color photography on coated paperstock, line maps and a diagrammatic geologic section in colors, extensive captioning and minimal running text. First English-language edition in 12.8x11 inch black boards titled red in glossy pictorial dj, a fine unblemished copy just out of..... More
Cat.No: 173037
[Palo Alto]: Stanford University, 1926. 100p., vignette photos, 8.5x6.5 inch staplebound textblock under printed cardstock wraps and a binder's-tape spine (as issued). a very good, clean copy. No fewer than four different "Hoovers" listed. Also lists particulars of a "Louisiana section," for reasons unexplained. No sports pix, or theatre activity..... More
Cat.No: 163342
San Francisco: Pacific Division/American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1979. Paperback. 493p., coated paperstock illustrated with charts, maps and diagrams; softbound in 10x7 inch decorated wraps. Mild external signs of wear, top edge has a couple light bumps, ownership name of [A. Starker] Leopold on cover (he was a...... More
Cat.No: 221208
New York: The Witkin Gallery, Inc., 1991. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about 22p., introduction, vita and perhaps 16 captioned plates on high-gloss paperstock. Softbound in oblong 8.5x11 inch stapled grey wraps with slight external hints of handling, no ownership or other marks (except our SKU), a very good copy. Lots of aerial..... More
Cat.No: 228699
San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft & Co., 1868. xvi+696p., introductory, illustrated with 16 wood-engraved plates, front hinge cracked, rear hinge weak with short split, extremities show a little card, title leaf split one inch at the tail, fair-only copy of the first edition, a massive 10x7 inch tome bound in..... More
Cat.No: 106239
Carlsbad: Self-published by the author, 1928. [44p] 6.75x10 inches, history of the caverns, illustrated with drawings and 4 pages of glossy b&w photos, very good booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 181258
Philadelphia: SIAM: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1983. Hardcover. xii, 186p., hardbound in 9.5x6.5 inch tan cloth boards titled brown. Externally, the cloth is a little dust- and handling-soiled, but hinges and all are perfectly sound; interior is absolutely clean and unmarked. A good to very good copy. More
Cat.No: 235257
New York: J. H. Colton and Company, 1856. ix, 225p., six double-spread maps as called for, each competently hand-colored with pale washes, wood-engraved vignettes; 7.6x5 inch brown cloth boards spine-titled gilt with impanelled covers press-decorated in blind. A sound copy with the following faults: edgewear with small spots of card..... More
Cat.No: 172955
San Francisco: Division of Mines, 1952. 240p., 10.25x8.75 inches oblong, introduction, index, illustrated throughout with maps, diagrammatic drawings, and photos with numerous aerial shots; find 3 folded maps in rear pocket, very good in green cloth. More
Cat.No: 155007
San Francisco: A. Roman & Company, 1863. Hardcover. xvi, 464p., first edition in 8x5.5 inch diced brown cloth boards. Top and tail rims are frayed with short tears, and one corner-tip shows card and frayed cloth; also, the entire spine panel is sunned, evenly, with near-total dimming of titling. Besides..... More
Cat.No: 240835
Pasadena CA: Tetra Tech Inc., 1979. Paperback. vii, 328p., text reproduced from keyboard-set ms, illustrated with diagrams, tables, formulae; softbound in 10x10 inch decorated wraps. Slightest edgewear with a tiny corner-tip bump, completely clean, sound and unmarked, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 241188
Washington DC: GPO, 1918. Paperback. Original issue with fold-out plates: viii, 226p., furnished with a plethora of b&w site and equipment photos and diagrams, a number of which diagrams fold-outs, all in good order and one ("Deck plan of a 7.5-foot dredge") quite large indeed; softbound, a typical GPO production..... More
Cat.No: 242325
San Francisco: State of California, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines, 1948. 164p., b&w illustrations from contemporary site photography plus a leaf with color vignettes recto and verso, full-page maps in sepia with spot-color onlay; first issue of this much-reprinted text, cased in oblong 8.75 x 11 inch cloth..... More
Cat.No: 70017
New York: Geological Society of America, 1957. 212p., maps folded in pocket at end, this thick packet leading to slight warping of the hardcover boards; ownership stamps of a University of California geologist on front endpaper. Special paper 64. More
Cat.No: 164896
Seattle / Vancouver: University of Washington Press / Douglas & McIntyre, 1992. 138p., coated paperstock with b&w exhibit photography, numerous diagrams for clarity, line maps, extensive text. First edition 10x7 inch glossy wraps, a very good copy, which author Keyser has inscribed and signed on the title page. Find a...... More
Cat.No: 172997
