Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1994. 4th Printing. Large Softcover.
Fourth printing. A very nice copy.
96 pp. In 1994, WHY CATS PAINT took the art world and animal world by storm with its unprecedented photographic record of cat creativity. Those seminal books in feline aesthetics are now offered in new.....
New York: The John Day Company, 1930. Butler, Eva L. Small Hard Cover.
Includes paper jacket and onion skin jacket. Some chips and tears to onion skin jacket and paper jacket.
103 pp. On the beach, in the sea shallows, the tidepools, the wharf piles and eddies, live hundreds of.....
New York: The Experiment, 2018. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket.
xvi, 284 pp. Welcome to Atom Land, a subatomic realm governed by the laws of particle physics. Here, electromagnetism is a highway system; the strong force, a railway; the weak force, an airline. With award-winning physicist Jon.....
Maplewood, N.J. C.S. Hammond & Co., 1962. Stapled Binding.
A fine copy.
Unpaginated. Color cover and illustrations. Preceded U.S. moon landing by 7 years. Compliments of Red Ball (Company made foot wear! Now called Uniroyal [changed in 1967] or the United States Rubber Company) JETS by Ball-Band. Contents include what.....
New York: Greenwich House, 1982. Reissue. Hard Cover.
Reissue. Faint edge wear.
This brilliantly written book unlocks the astounding implications of Einstein's revolutionary theories on the nature of science, time and motion. It far surpasses any previous explanation of Relativity for laymen.
New York: Portland House, 1986. Large Hardcover.
Jacket edges lightly worn.
219 pp. 14 full color plates and 460 black-and-white illustrations. Lists all the scientific, military, meteorological, oceanographic, Earth-resource, and telecommunications satellites launched to date or now under development by the nations of the world, with details on the characteristics.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974. Wengenroth, Stow. Reissue. Trade Paperback.
Spine creased.
xviii, 434 pp. With new preface. A prolific writer of prose, poetry, and regional history, Carl Carmer first gained national attention with Stars Fell n Alabama, a book about Alabama folkways. But it is his writings.....
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. Busoni, Rafaello. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front jacket flap corners clipped, jacket lightly toned.
An adaptation for young readers of the work originally published in 1939 as part of the popular Rivers of America series by the popular author of Stars.....
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
Book club edition. Multiple chips and tears to jacket edges. Boards soiled.
473 pp. Project Mercury ran from 1959 through 1963, put the first American in space, and defined NASA's manned space flights to come, from Gemini through Apollo.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2009. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. A few light smudges on covers.
288 pp. An eye-opening look at the new computer revolution and the coming transformation of our economy, society, and culture. A hundred years ago, companies stopped producing their own power.....
New York: Broadway Books, 2013. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
Second printing. Edges slightly worn.
581 pp. In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each.....
Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003. 3rd Printing. Large Softcover.
3rd printing. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('For Lance! Get wild about rainforests! Nancy F. Castaldo').
x, 133, [1] pp. "Provides facts and activities that explore tropical and temperate ancient forests, discusses how individuals can help preserve them.....
New York: Chartwell Books, 2014. Revised Edition. Hard Cover.
Revised reprint. Jacket taped.
192 pp. Despite being incredibly popular during his time, Nikola Tesla today remains largely overlooked among lists of the greatest inventors and scientists of the modern era. Thomas Edison gets all the glory for discovering the light.....
New York: Smithmark, 1993. Large Hardcover.
Jacket edges rubbed with tears to jacket spine head and spine base. Board corners rubbed, top page ridge lightly foxed, address label on front free endpaper.
240 pp. "This handsome volume traces the remarkable history of spaceflight, from the race between the United States.....
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1898. Seton, Ernest Thompson. Hard Cover.
Minor loss to spine head, top page ridge stained.
xvi, 195 pp. Newly illustrated with 75 color plates reproduced by lithography from illustrations by Ernest Seton Thompson. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and front board.....
New York: HaperCollins, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Minor general wear.
xv, 272 pp. In this fascinating story of evolution, religion, politics, and personalities, Matthew Chapman captures the story behind the headlines in the debate over God and science in America. In Kitzmiller v. Dover Board of Education.....
New York: Dover, 2013. Soft Cover.
Light edge wear.
What is time? How did it begin, and where will it end? Is time travel possible? How does the universe expand, and where do black holes come from? Junior Chicken and Alexis, the Quantum Cat, examine these and other extraordinary concepts.....
New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Jacket edges bumped. Board corners bumped.
266 pp. "There is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine jacket.
593 pp. Garrison-Morton 1588.24: "Detailed analysis, emphasizing first half of 19th century, with detailed bibliographies, and bibliographical notes." "This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first.....
New York: The University of the State of New-York, 1918. Hard Cover.
Top of front board lightly spotted.
211, [13] pp. 8vo. Includes four fold-outs and several photographs. CONTENTS: Introduction; Legal Status and Scope of the State Museum; Codification of the State Museum Law; Present Condition and Activities of the.....
Albany: University of the State of New York, 1904. Stapled Binding.
Lacks map, light small stains, small tear to spine head.
CONTENTS: Introduction; Formations: Siluric, Devonic; Succession of Fossil Faunas; Index; Map.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Gorsline, Douglas. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author with inscription, "For Robert Eames, a good and helpful friend in the Rochester Public Library. Henry W. Clune June, 1963." Jacket edges rubbed with some small chips and small tears. Cloth spine.....
Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1988. Gorsline, Douglas. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
First printing. Minor general wear.
xii, 338 pp. New foreword by Robert Koch. Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline. Describes the geography and history of the Genesee River Valley of western New York and Pennsylvania.
Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1956. Foster, Laura Louise. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket. Ink name and date on front endpaper.
281 pp. Black-and-white illustrations by Laura Louise Foster throughout. "More than 500 species of northeastern and central North American ferns are.....
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920. Hard Cover.
No jacket, ink name on front endpaper, pencil name on second blank.
vii, 247 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (June 23, 1876 – March 11, 1944) was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated.....