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1959129312Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1959. Octavo cloth. First edition. Collects two verse satires and nine stories including several classics; "The Dying Night" "The Last Question" and "The Ugly Little Boy." Also present here is "Profession" in which "imprinting knowledge directly into the brain leads to an uncreative society." - Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 pp. 264-5. "All the Troubles of the World" features MULTIVAC a giant computer which directs Earth's economy and is the central clearing house of all known facts about each individual inhabitant of the planet. Ultimately it grows "so complicated its reactions are no longer those of a machine but those of a living thing" and what it wants more than anything else is "to die." See Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-50. Hairline crack along front inner hinge a common problem with Doubleday books with pad-bound signatures glued into board cases else a fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some rubbing along folds and top edge and small chip from lower edge of rear panel. #129312 Doubleday & Company unknown books
1970193649Fawcett Publications 1970-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 1970 edition. Clean has a good binding and crisp pages no marks or notations. Light overall age toning and wear. MM HS Fawcett Publications paperback books
1990144930New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1990. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition. A regrettable expansion of Asimov's famous short story "Nightfall" 1941. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #144930 Doubleday unknown books
199062177New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1990. Octavo printed wrappers. Advance copy uncorrected proof of the first U.S. edition. A regrettable expansion of Asimov's famous short story "Nightfall" 1941. Soil mark on fore-edge of text block a very good copy. #62177 Doubleday unknown books
1945177517New York: Machmadim Art Editions Inc 1945. Hardcover. VG- cloth over spine is missing overall wear to boards age toning to page edges mainly illustrations and text are clear and clean. Burgundy cloth boards with silver lettering 32 pp profusely illustrated in bw. Includes music unaccompanied melodies "by Henech Kon and anonymous composers." The music is reproduced from manuscript copy. Paintings by Isaac Lichtenstein. Machmadim Art Editions, Inc hardcover books
WRCLIT17404London: G.R. Knox nd. 110pp. Gilt cloth pictorial onlay. Portrait. Spine extremities worn else a good copy of a cheaply produced book. First edition. Apart from the introduction an appended list of the Newton/Musgrave library justifies this tribute's existence. Uncommon. G.R. Knox hardcover books
184865054New York: Published by Daniel Adee 176 Fulton Street Turney & Lockwood's Stereo 1848. First American edition later printing. The first edition was published in 1687. Frontispiece portrait taken from the bust in the Royal Observatory of Greenwich diagrams in text. 8vo. Original green cloth. Head of spine carefully restored some rubbing some light browning mostly at front and back a very good copy of this important work. In a leather-tipped green cloth open-end box. Bookplate of O. Stuck on endpapers. First American edition later printing. The first edition was published in 1687. Frontispiece portrait taken from the bust in the Royal Observatory of Greenwich diagrams in text. 8vo. The first English edition of Newton's "Principia" was translated by Andrew Motte a mathematician who with his brother Benjamin the publisher had edited the abridged "Philosophical transactions." This first English edition was published in 1729 from the third and definitive Latin edition of 1726. Newton's "A Treatise of the System of the World" was first published in English in 1728. The American edition bears a dedication and an introduction directed to teachers "If to educate means not so much to store the memory with symbols and facts as to bring forth the faculties of the soul and to develope them to the full by healthy nurture and a hardy discipline then what so effective to the accomplishment of that end as the study of Geometrical Synthesis . Let the Principia then be gladly welcomed into every Hall where a True Teacher presides." Copyright 1846 but first published 1848; the present copy is printed from stereotype plates wear to terminal page number. "The greatest work in the history of science . the "Principia" provided the great systhesis of the cosmos proving finally its physical unity . for the first time a single mathematical law could explain the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens" PMM. Babson 23; Gray 26; Karpinski p. 491; Horblit 78; PMM 161 Published by Daniel Adee, 176 Fulton Street [Turney & Lockwood's Stereo unknown books
18481803065Daniel Adee 1848. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Near fine TRUE first American edition 1st issue as stated on the title page. Some water stains on page edges. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Rubbing on outside spine and corners and at bottom of spine. Tape at endpapers and pastedowns along gutters. Housed in custom-made slip case. Daniel Adee hardcover books
1988SS12721Montreal:: McGill-Queen's University Press 1988. 1988. Queen's Quarterly. 8vo. 135 pp. Illus. Pictorial boards. Fine. ISBN: 0773506896 Based on lectures and papers given at a conference held at Queen's University in 1987 and celebrating the tercentenary of the publication of Newton's Principia Mathematica--Cf. pref. "This lively collection of lectures presented at the symposium by prominent scholars was collected and edited by Marcia Stayer with the assistance of Boris Castel. The chapters outline the influence of the "Principia" on the work of Newton's contemporaries - such as Adam Smith - and on many areas of present-day science: particle physics optics astronomy and non-mechanical fields such as computer theory. Contributors include A.P. French Werner Israel W.H. Newton-Smith David Raphael Stephen Smale Steven Weinberg Richard S. Westfall and Denys Wilkinson. This book will be of interest to both general readers and students of science." CONTENTS: Newton and the Scientific Revolution; Science Rationality and Newton; Newton and Adam Smith; Isaac Newton Explorer of the Real World; From White Dwarfs to Black Holes: The History of a Revolutionary Idea; The Newtonian Contribution to Our Understanding of the Computer; Newton's Dream; Symmetry in Art and Nature; Contributors; Organizing Committee. McGill-Queen's University Press, (1988). hardcover books
1995S13612New Jersey:: Humanities Press 1995. 1995. 8vo. ix 139 pp. Illus. index. Printed wrappers. Fine. ISBN: 039103877X Published posthumously as the author passed in 1994 while visiting the Grand Canyon. Dobbs was a prominent University of California Davis history professor known for her scholarship on Sir Isaac Newton. Professor Dobbs taught and researched the history of science specializing in early modern science and the history of alchemy and chemistry. Jacobs is History Professor Emeritus at UCLA. Humanities Press, (1995). unknown books
1972S11511Cambridge MA:: Harvard University Press 1972. 1972. Series: Russian Research Center Studies No. 69. 240 x 162 mm. 8vo. xviii 309 pp. Frontis. port. 47 figs. bibliog. index. Maroon cloth dust-jacket. Fine. Harvard University Press, 1972. hardcover books
1977BL3514Kent:: Dawson 1977. 1977. Large 8vo. xxiv 362 pp. Indices. Gilt-stamped navy cloth. Burndy bookplate. Near fine. ISBN: 0712907696 Dawson, (1977). hardcover books
19741293520Munchen: Werner Fritsch 1974. Hardcover. 8vo facsimile paged 3075-3087 illustrated; VG; grey marbled cardboard cover with blue label and black print slight bump to upper right corner; interior clean but for pencil notation on first prelim. page slight curl to outside corners; "Historiae Scientiarum Elementa. Fasc. 2"; "London Philosophical Transactions no. 80 1672. Third Reprint 1974." 1293520. Rockville Non-Retail Listings. Werner Fritsch hardcover books
1857011955New York: Harper & Brothers 1857. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 605 pages of text. Original brown hardcover cloth binding with minor to moderate rubbing to the extremities and minor shelfwear and soiling; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Contains two double-page hand-colored maps and 33 black & white illustrations. Minor browning to text. Previous owner's name on front endpaper "J. A. J. Kendig" as well as "I. M. Gates" and "An exchange compliments from Sue Halton Warner.". Harper & Brothers Hardcover books
18577467New York: Harper & Bros. 1857. First edition. 8vo 605 pp. with 2 colored maps one folding and one double-page. Numerous wood-cuts throughout some of which are full-page. Harvey Gardiner says of Holton's book in his introduction to the reprint: "New Granada is the fullest and best-written assessment of that country at mid-century by a foreign observer. In 1852 the bespectacled bachelor botanist carrying two bales of paper for drying plants but no passport for himself first glimpsed a tropical landscape.For twenty unhurried months on itineraries of his own choosing he traveled widely visiting many areas more than once. When he bade farewell to New Granada in mid-May 1854 his luggage contained approximately 1800 botanical specimens a diary crowded with details and vast quantities of data concerning political subdivisions mail routes altitude climate weights and measures etc." He style is full of wry Yankee humor as well which make it a good read. The appendices are detailed and in themselves constitute a gazetteer of Colombia. Much was left out of the reprint inc. the maps appendices illustrations etc. Binding is contemporary 3/4 calf over marble boards; very clean text and maps. Very good copy. <br/><br/> Harper & Bros. hardcover books
19675388Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press 1967. First edition thus. Small 8vo xviii 223 pp. Abridged with a useful general essay by the editor of this very attractive series called Latin American Travel. Harvey Gardiner. Fine copy in like dust jacket. <br/><br/> Southern Illinois Univ. Press unknown books
196742749Carbondale:: Southern Illinois University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Part of the Latin American Travel series. Edited with an introduction by C. Harvey Gardiner. First edition thus. Previous owner's blind-stamp on front free endpaper else very good in a very good dust jacket. . Southern Illinois University Press, hardcover books
1857RHOLNEW00ECHarper & Brothers Publishers 1857. Good. Holton Isaac F. New Granada : Twenty Months in the Andes. . New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1857. 605pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Reddish brown cloth. Book condition: Good with rubbed edges and short closed tear in head of backstrip. Front hinge delicate and front endsheet is seperated from binding near foot of spine. Front free endsheet to page 17 shows small light moisture stain near fore edge. Previous owner's stamp on front flyleaf. Lacking map from p. 587. Condition noted. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover books
1692WRCLIT64900London: Printed for J. Harris at the Harrow in the Poultry 1692. 840pp. Quarto. Extracted from pamphlet volume. Title leaf trimmed askew with loss of a few letters along fore-margin some headlines cut into stain/fraying to lower fore-corner of four terminal leaves costing a few words from the last faint discoloration to lower quadrant of title leaf; hence a poor but crisp copy. First edition. A response to Williams' tract of earlier the same year and an element in an exchange that continued through a sequence of similar tracts. Chauncey came to Massachusetts in 1638 with his family studied theology and medicine at Harvard and upon his father's appointment as Harvard President returned to England to pursue further studies. He was actively engaged as an Independent Minister in the UK until his death in 1719. ESTC R19390. WING C7354. SABIN 12333. Printed for J. Harris at the Harrow in the Poultry unknown books
19892310895New York: Doubleday 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. A death star called Nemesis is wrongly believed to be the last great hope for survival of mankind in a novel of high adventure set in the first new universe created by the author in over a decade. Doubleday hardcover books
1989146177New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1989. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. SF novel about a conspiracy to conceal a threat to our solar system which is imperiled by an approaching star. "The action alternates between a young girl growing up on Rotor a space habitat which has traveled to a red dwarf star that is approaching the solar system and her father on Earth who is involved in a project to build a starship." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 251. Mild rub to cloth on front cover else a fine copy in fine dust jacket. #146177 Doubleday unknown books
198991585New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1989. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. SF novel about a conspiracy to conceal a threat to our solar system which is imperiled by an approaching star. "The action alternates between a young girl growing up on Rotor a space habitat which has traveled to a red dwarf star that is approaching the solar system and her father on Earth who is involved in a project to build a starship." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 251. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #91585 Doubleday unknown books
198910676New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1989. Octavo cloth-backed boards. First edition. SF novel about a conspiracy to conceal a threat to our solar system which is imperiled by an approaching star. "The action alternates between a young girl growing up on Rotor a space habitat which has traveled to a red dwarf star that is approaching the solar system and her father on Earth who is involved in a project to build a starship." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition 1995 p. 251. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #10676 Doubleday unknown books
1842751London: Henry G. Bohn 1842. Full leather. Very good. 16mo 6.4 in 16.3 cm. 2 blanks i-viii 1-280 2 blanks pp. Eighth edition. Notes at end. <br/><br/>Best known work of Isaac Taylor 1787-1865. Originally published anonymously in 1829 Natural History of Enthusiasm detailed the dangers of false piety with chapter titles such as Enthusiastic Perversions of the Doctrine of Divine Influence Enthusiasm the Source of Heresy and Enthusiasm of Philanthropy. <br/><br/>NCBEL 1604. Finely bound in sheep with elaborately gilt-decorated compartments raised bands and gilt-lettered black leather label to spine; gilt borders and turn-ins to panels. All edges and endpapers marbled. Armorial bookplates of Henry Tongood and Lucien d' Ursin gracefully inscribed; front fly-leaf with small graceful name and penciled summary in Italian. Front joint with small chip and starting panels lightly scuffed corners rubbed preliminary and terminal blanks faintly foxed pages lightly age toned. Henry G. Bohn unknown books
1974S9159New York & London:: Plenum Press 1974. 1974. Series: Marine Science vol. 3. 8vo. viii 324 pp. Figs. refs. Blue boards gilt-stamped cover and spine titles dust jacket. Signature of Stanley Miller on front free endpaper. Fine. Rare. ISBN: 0306355035 Plenum Press, (1974). hardcover books
