Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1880. Cloth. 201 pp + 34 plates. 4to. Cloth. Boards are worn, scuffed, soiled, rear board is scratched. Bumping to spine ends and corners with board exposure to corners. Damp staining to board edges, textblock and edges/corners of pages. Large chips to 1st two pp.....
Washington, D.C. U.S. Navy Dept, Hydrographic Office, 1941. Cloth. 97 pp. + maps. 4to. Cloth. Bumping to spine ends, light wear to corners, tape marks to spine foot where label was, light soiling and shelfwear to boards. Ffep lightly soiled. Tiny closed tear to upper edge of fpd. Rear hinge.....
Montreal: J. Starke & Co., 1875. Cloth. 99 pp. Oblong 12mo. Scarce copy of a foundational work of modern chemistry. Light rubbing to all edges, corners bumped, slight chipping/fraying to spine ends. Some soilingto boards; damp-stain to rear board and foot of approx. 8 pgs. Binding holding. Minor soiling/dampstains to.....
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian, 2009. Paperback. 405 pp., 4to. Paperback. Articles on Polar research. Illustrated w/ b&w photos. Very light shelfwear to covers; faint stamp to front cover. Slight shaking to spine but binding very sturdy. Stamp to title pg, otherwise textblock clean & crisp.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1938. Cloth. 8vo. 430 pp. Covers rubbed, wear to cloth at edges, spine and corners bumped. Moderate soil to end papers and page edges. Former owner's book plate fpd and small address label ffep. Interior clean. Charts and tables.
New York: Pergamon Press, 1970. Cloth. 8vo. 945 pp. Volume 2; Chemical and Isotope Analyses. Some foxing and soil to jacket, jacket rubbed, moderate wear to jacket edges. Page edges soiled, foxing to end papers, some shelf wear and rubbing to covers, slight ripple to pages. The full reports of.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres, 1985. Cloth. 8vo. 299 pp. Corners lightly bumped to cover, light rubbing. Light foxing to top and fore-edges. Essays reviewing progress or reporting original results in areas of applications of gravity theory, particularly galaxy formation and the study of axisymmetric systems in general relativity.
Cambridge, MA: Sky Publishing Corporation, 1978. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 216 pp. + plates. Minor shelfwear to bottom edge. Dj torn 8" across front panel, repaired with tape. Mid-eighteenth century astronomer Charles Messier, discoverer of the Crab nebulae etc; photos and notes of his observations by the authors.
San Antonio, Texas: National Marine Fisheries Service, 1981. Cloth. 4to. 454 pp. Front rear corner is lightly creased and bumped out along w/ first 10 pages. Very slight bumping to other three corners. Light staining to front cover. Book contains 33 papers presented at the conference along w/ 15 additional.....
New York and New Orleans: University Publishing Co., 1893. Cloth. 136 pp+ 24 pp supplement "Geography of New England" by Gen'l Francis A. Walker. Folio. Cloth. Revised edition. Rubbing to edges and joints, light soil to front joint/board, corners and spine ends bumped and lightly frayed. Pgs 13-16 of supplement.....
London: Longman, Hust, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815. Hardcover. 8vo. 168 pp. Brown paper boards, rebacked with cloth spine and paper spine label. Boards bowed, bumped and soiled, with heavy wear to board edges and corners. New endpapers. Publisher's slip and 4 pp. advertisements at front. Previous owner's ink signature.....
University, MS: State Geological Survey, 1939. Paperback. 8vo. 169 pp. Light stamps to front cover, creasing to spine. Bulletin 38.
University, MS: State Geological Survey, 1940. Paperback. 8vo. 132 pp. Light stamps to front cover, creasing to spine, light soiling. Bulletin 39.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 345 pp. Corners and spine ends slightly bumped and worn. Otherwise book is fresh and clean. "To coincide with the centenary of Einstein's famous paper on relativity, the dramatic untold story of a bitter scientific rivalry- born of clashing cultures and.....
Washington DC: GPO, 1903. Paperback. 8vo. 44pp. Ex-Museum copy stamped on front cover in faint blue. USDA Bureau of Animal Industry bulletin No. 45. Paper spine is cracked with a 1" long triangular tear from bottom spine end into front cover. Binding is sewn and stapled, text is clean.
New York: Walker and Co., 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 91 pp., 8vo. Hardcover in dj. First edition. Illustrated w/ b&w line drawings & engravings. Binding tight. Textblock clean & crisp. Light shelfwear to dj & prices clipped to front flap.
London: John Murray, 1867. Cloth. 566 pp + 41 plates. 8vo. Cloth. Shelfwear and scuffing. Bumping to spine ends and corners with board exposure to lower rear corner. Sunning to spine. Tears to spine head. 3" split to rear joint and connecting tear across spine, repaired by seller. 1" tear.....
No Place: NASA, 1979. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 4to. Hardcover binder. Consists of laminated diagrams/photos and typed pages introducing the field of gamma ray astronomy, and describing the proposed NASA program. Very slightly shelfworn. First blank page detached but present. Ink offsetting to inside of front cover, possibly from type pp laid.....
Mountain View, CA: NASA - Ames Research Center, 1979. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 4to. Hardcover binder. Consists of images of Saturn and descriptions on facing pages, all laminated. Slight wear to spine ends, in great condition otherwise.
Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1962. First edition. Cloth. 12mo. 160 pp. Spine ends and corners bumped, spine slightly sunned. Binding tight, pages clean. The Earth, the solar system, the planet Mars, Other planetary systems, Molecules and life, Chemistry of the Universe, etc.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Pr, 1990. Paperback. 459 pp. 8vo. Paperback. Scuffed, edgeworn. Slight bumping to spine ends, slight dogearing to some corners.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2008. Paperback. 276 pp., 8vo. Paperback. A survey of sustainability. "Sometimes frightening, always enlightening. [Confessions] will teach you more about other people's lives than you ever thought possible." - Catherine Brahic, New Scientist. Some faint shelfwear to covers. Textblock clean & crisp.
London: W. Phillips, 1823. Hardcover. 406 pp. 8vo. Quarter cloth. Rebound, new ep's. Rough cut textblock w/ many sm. tears/chips to edges. Interior browned, many pages have offsetting, lt soiling/foxing. Title page has brief note and p.o.'s ink signature. Folding frontis repaired. Original paper label to spine. Interior has light.....
Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 1918. Cloth. 343 pp, 4to (short). Cloth. Edgeworn and lt soiled, spine sunned w/ short crease. Short split and sm. closed tear to cloth of rear joint. Browning/foxing to textblock and eps, minor soil to half-title and few margins, sm. sticker to rpd. Front hinge.....
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1889. Decorative Cloth. 4to. 750 pp. Part I , Geology. Includes colored maps. Front cover slightly loose in binding. Pages spotted in places, otherwise fine. Gilt titles and cover decoration. Cover worn at edges and scuffed. Publisher's bookplate on inner cover. US Geological survey.
