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195446176Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1954. Hardcover. Very good-/Good. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1954. Foreword by Roy W. Cowden. Signed by Louise Bogan and Mark Van Doren. 297 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Light green cloth. Spine lightly toned; head lightly bumped with horizontal tear and wear at front hinge; heel lightly bumped; corners minimally rubbed; top and fore edges soiled; endpapers very lightly toned. Housed in a toned soiled and lightly edge worn dustjacket. Interior remains very clean. Very good-/Good. University of Michigan Press hardcover books
1934S13793New York:: Macmillan 1934. 1934. 8vo. xiv 224 pp. 53 plates 106 figs. index. Blue gilt-stamped cloth dust-jacket present as a remnant. Very good. First edition American issue. Based on the Royal Institution lectures Christmas 1933. Macmillan, 1934. hardcover books
193424440New York: The Macmillan Company 1934. First Edition. Publication of the Christmas Lectures of 1933 on scientific subjects given at the Royal Institution by Sir James Jeans. Third Printing. xiv 224 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to cover board and spine light sunning to spine has faded both the cloth and titling. Clean within. The Macmillan Company unknown books
1929S13794New York:: Macmillan 1929. 1929. FIRST EDITION first printing. 8vo. x 2 341 1 pp. 24 plates 23 figs. index. Original navy blue gilt-stamped cloth; top corner bumped. Very good. Macmillan, 1929. hardcover books
1916SS0150Cambridge:: University Press 1916. 1916. 268 x 184 mm. Tall 8vo. vi 436 pp. 27 figs. indexes; pencil marginalia. Navy cloth; joints reinforced with kozo. Ownership signature on front paste-down and title. Very good. Second edition. Jean's first book among his most important technical works includes his treatment of the persistence of molecular velocities after collisions. "During his enforced leisure at the sanatoria to cure his suffered from tuberculosis he wrote his first treatise the Dynamical Theory of Gases published 1904 second edition 1916 which in its successive editions had been used by generations of students and workers. . . A considerable section of Jeans's Dynamical Theory of Gases is devoted to establishing the general theory of the equipartition of energy according to classical mechanics." – E. A. Milne Sir James Jeans: A Biography pp. 7 94. "Once Jeans had become convinced of the validity of quantum theory he had advocated its incorporation into the foundations of statistical mechanics. Jeans gave an account of 'the difficulties arising out of the classical treatment' in the second edition of his Dynamical Theory of Gases and indicated 'how these difficulties disappear in the light of the new conceptions of the Quantum Theory'." – Preface & Jagdish Mehra Helmut Rechenberg The Historical Development of Quantum Theory: Part 1 The Fundamental Equations . . . Part 2 . . . p. 58. PROVENANCE: Frederick Eugene Wright 1877-1953 born in Michigan earned his PhD at the University of Heidelberg was an American optical scientist and geophysicist. Wright taught at the Michigan College of Mines then joined the US Geological Survey. From 1906 he took a position at the Carnegie Institution Geophysical Laboratory. He was the second president of the Optical Society of America from 1918-1919. See: John A. Fleming & Charles A. Piggot WRIGHT Biographical Memoirs National Academy of Sciences 1953. Additionally signed by Wright's son Frederick H. Wright who graduated in 1948 from Caltech. DSB VII pp. 84-86; Parke p. 127 4th ed. 1925. University Press, 1916. hardcover books
192616651ENew York: George H. Doran 1926. First Edition. Signed by the author Mary Roberts Rinehart in vintage fountain pen ink on a piece of paper affixed to the front free endpaper. Ownership inscription. Near fine bright copy with a trace of edge wear in a very good slightly dust soiled dust jacket with a few mends by an expert paper conservationist. The front panel of the dust jacket is a striking design of the shadow of a bat. George H. Doran unknown books
1952S13795Cambridge:: University Press 1952. 1952. 8vo. xvi 175 1 pp. Frontispiece portrait 1 plate index. Original navy gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. First edition. Sydney Castle 1887-1966 contributed a memoir. University Press, 1952. hardcover books
194514190New York: The Ronald Press Company 1945. Hardcover. 128p. pen notes on rear blank endpapers previous owner's name on front blank end apeprr else good condition. The Ronald Press Company hardcover books
1969125818Manchester England: Amalgamated Weavers' Association 1969. cloth dust jacket marbled endpapers. small 4to. cloth dust jacket marbled endpapers. xx 1991 pages. Table of contents introduction by the author acknowledgments introduction lists of presidents and general secretaries organizational chart appendices. Frontispiece and eight black and white plates. Traces the association from its organization during the Industrial Revolution through the post World War II era. Dust jacket chipped at edges. Stains on bottom fore-edge. Amalgamated Weavers' Association unknown books
1972202244Vancouver: the Committee 1972. Five 8.5x11 inch mimeographed leaflets printed both sides faint fold creases from having been folded for mailing otherwise very good. The themes are "Art for whose sake" "Developers and housing: who gets what" "What means the Cultural Revolution" Quebec from October to October 1970-72" and a second selection on "Art for whose sake" Each features critical commentary on a series of important publications produced as part of a series hosted by the Committee at the Vancouver Public Library. the Committee unknown books
1948S13792Cambridge:: University Press 1948. 1948. 8vo. Ownership signature of Robert Buschert Lafayette Indiana; embossed stamp of Michael J. Crowe. First issued in 1940 this is the second reissue the other being 1946. PROVENANCE: Robert Buschert 1924-1996 Lafayette graduated from Goshen College in 1952 received a master's degree and doctorate from Purdue University. He also taught at Purdue Dept. of Physics ca. 1955-58. Buschert chaired the physics department at Goshen College 1965-1994 and was founder and director of the Turner Precision X-Ray Measurements Laboratory for solid-state research since 1970. He also worked for Bell and Motorola companies. Crowe with the University of Notre Dame. University Press, 1948. unknown books
