Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, 1953. Fifth Edition. Hard Cover.
Fifth edition. No jacket. Ink name on front free endpaper, rear hinge starting, some underlining.
xxiv, 870 pp. CONTENTS: Preface to the Fifth Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; Descriptive Terms; Advice to the Dissector; General; The Upper.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Eleventh Edition. Small Hard Cover.
Eleventh edition. No jacket. Board edges lightly rubbed, mull exposed at front hinge.
224 pp. With 64 plates. Descriptions & photographs of common birds.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. Edges faintly toned.
The twenty-five pieces in this year's collection take you on just such an adventure. Natalie Angier probes the origins of language, Paul Raffaele describes a remote Amazonian tribe untouched by the modern world, and Frans B. M......
New York: Little, Brown, 1995. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Trade Paperback.
Book club edition. Edges lightly stained.
Revealing recent developments in quantum theory that are radically transforming our reality, a scientist demystifies quantum physics and explains the fundamental riddle of quantum mechanics--why a single photon can be seen going in two.....
Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2008. First Edition. Large Hardcover.
First edition. Jacket edges lightly worn.
xi, 292 pp. Hounds-tongue. Ragged robin. Costmary. Pennyroyal. All-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America's colonial and early.....
New York: Jane's Publishing Company, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Edges of dust jacket worn.
493 pp. A complete aerospace dictionary with ~14,000 entries. "The alphabetical listing and terse but instructional introduction make this a valuable volume..." - School Library Journal.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. Very minor tear to top corner of front jacket panel. Pencil note on front free endpaper.
295 pp. "Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this.....
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket faintly toned. Ink note and date on front endpaper.
xiii, 160 pp. "Beginning with a description of our present position in the Kilomegaton Age, Arthur T. Hadley outlines the prerequisites to nuclear control, such as making the.....
Bar Harbor: The Robert Abbe Museum, 1939. Soft Cover.
Wrappers lightly toned.
30 pp. The Taft's Point shell mound is on a small point of land which lies about a quarter of a mile to the northeast of Taft's Point on the southern shore of Jones Cove, West Gouldsboro, Maine
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. North Point Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First Edition. Ink inscription on front endpaper. Very Good.
These twenty-four essays exhibit the broad range and style for whom nature is more than a passive subject for contemplation.
New York: The Center for Applied Research in Education, 1999. Large Softcover.
Light brown smudge on page edges.
xv, 217 pp. This series is designed to help educators teach scientific concepts as well as develop students' appreciation and understanding of the work done by generations of curious scientists. The complete.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket. Free rear endpaper creased.
xi, 769 pp. Inspiration for 2018 bio-pic starring Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy. "When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon's surface in 1969, the.....
New York: HarperCollins, 2015. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. Ink name on title page.
443 pp. "From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity's creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means.....
N.J. T.F.H. Publications, 1967. Hart, Ernest H. Hard Cover.
No publication date. Spine slightly cocked, stain along bottom corner of rear board, bookplate on FFE.
173 pp. "You will read about the physicology of the bitch and the stud dog, gestation, whelping, fertility, the mechanics, techniques and results of breeding.....
New York: Sterling, 1988. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
2nd printing. Stain to lower spine.
A collection of scientific studies that answer questions no normal person would ask.
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Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1932. Lawson, Irving. Small Hard Cover.
Spine base bumped, edges rubbed, crayon mark on front free endpaper.
96 pp. All flowers illustrated in color. A guide to wild flowers of America.
Fort Clatsop: Fort Clatsop Historical Association, 2005. Spiral-Bound Softcover.
Faintly rubbed.
Color photographs. An excerpt from the journals of Lewis and Clark describing the various plants they saw while visiting Fort Clatsop.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1999. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover.
3rd printing. Jacket lightly rubbed.
xix, [1], 396 pp. 8vo. Most businesses still operate according to a world view that hasn't changed since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Then, natural resources were abundant and labor was the limiting factor of production.....
New York: Bantam Books, 1990. Reprint. Trade Paperback.
Reprint. Page edges toned.
x, 198 pp. In this landmark volume, Professor Hawking shares his blazing intellect with nonscientists everywhere, guiding us expertly to confront the supreme questions of the nature of time and the universe. Was there a beginning of time.....
New York: Theodore Audel & Co., 1902. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Light general wear.
330 pp. 14 pages of publisher ads follow text. Comprising the elements of mechanical philosophy, mensuration, geometry, algebra, arithmetical signs, and tables. United States weights, measures and money; tables of wages with copious notes, explanations and.....
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Page ridges lightly foxed, ink stamps on two pages, some pages soiled, ink gift note on half-title page.
336 pp. Includes map of Mount Vernon taken from Washington's own drawing, facsimiles of original documents, and photographs. CONTENTS: A Man in Love.....
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New York: Summit Books, 1988. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Jacket edges rubbed.
271 pp. "Relates the story of the electronic device that has revolutionized modern communications and technology, detailing the behind-the-scenes maneuvering and experimentation that led to its creation."
USA: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback.
3rd printing. Faint edge wear.
Heat-Moon covers distance of a different sort by staying put in Chase Country, Kansas.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page (For Brian, Heat Moon '92). A bit smoky, page ridge lightly foxed.
Chronicles the author's eight-year research into the people, geology, legends, and history of a tiny cross-section of the Great Plains--Chase.....
Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1988. Reissue. Hard Cover.
A few very minor tears to jacket edges, jacket spine very faintly toned.
xv, 634 pp. With an Addendum of Books Published from 1861-1920. "This interestingly told account of our gardening, gathered from his researches, is chronologically and geographically arranged. Fruit and.....