New York: Putnam, (2009.). Hardcover first edition - Colonel Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr., was the second astronaut to walk on the moon and this book offers younger readers a look at the history of astronomy, space travel and exploration from his unique perspective. Beautfully illustrated in full color by Wendell Minor. Two page timeline. 40 pp. Oblong format. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-0399247217.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first collaboration between astronaut Aldrin and prize winning illustrator Minor. This tells the story of how Buzz Aldrin became one of the first two humans to walk on the moon. Includes a chronology of flight and space exploration. SIGNED on the title page by both Aldrin and Minor. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-06-0554460.

San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, (1992.) dj. Hardcover - A serious look at the facts behind the claims of global warming. Illustrated with charts and photographs. Bibliography, index. 195 p. ISBN: 0-936488476.

New York: Prentice-Hall, (1991) dj. SIGNED Hardcover first edition - A book which probes the limits of our understanding of the human mind. NSCRIBED on the front endpaper: "Larry Owens, best wishes to a serious bookman" and dated in 1995. References, selected bibliography, index. xxiii, 212 pp. ISBN: 0-13-4715829.

New York: Henry Holt, 2000. A look at what the storms can do, what causes them - and especially a study of those who fly into the hurricanes in an attempt to gain more knowledge about these storms. 262 pages, including several appendices, section on resources, etc.

New York: Columbia Universtiy Press, (1970). A book whcih "examines the role of social forces in determining the goals of science and considers what the scientist owes to society as a whole and what benefits the layman may legitimately expect from science." xii. Illustrated. 167 pp. ISBN: 0-231085443.

New York: Philosophical Library, (1950.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays written after 1936, including many never before published, on a variety of topics ranging from a self-portrait to science to public affairs and world affairs, including the idea of mass destruction. One section is devoted to scientists through the years and the final section on "my people" deals with being Jewish and the history of the Jews. Index. This is the variant with the frontispiece black and white portrait of Einstein by Lotte Jacobi and the typographical jacket. Index. 282 pp.

New York: Greenwillow Books / Harper Collins, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A picture book for slightly older readers which delves into the vast numbers in the universe from three trillion trees to the fact that seven billion people weigh about the same as ten quadrillion ants, a hundred billion trillion stars in space to thirty-seven billion rabbits on Earth but ends with there is only one unique you. SIGNED on the title page by the illustrator Isabel Greenberg with the words "always look up." A Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book and winner of the Mathical Book Prize. Author's note. Large square format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0062455789.

New York: Norton, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of reviews which together make provocative and entertaining reading - on Darwin, evolution, contemporary science and more. Illustrated. Index. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-393-02492x.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1968.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes an introduction by The Right Honorable Jennie Lee. Foreword by Hubert H. Humphrey. Premise by S. Dillon Ripley. Essays by Bertrand de Jouvenel, Rene Dubos, Paul Goodman, Edward T. Hall, Philip Johnson, Ian L. McHarg,Wolfgang Braunfels, Asa Briggs, Hiroshi Daifuku, Robert C. Wood and others. 250 pp.

Racine, WI: Whitman, 1963. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book for children - he was director of Chicago's Adler Planetarium. Illustrated in full color by George Bakacs. A title in the Whitman Learn About series. 59 pages plus 2 pages of advertisements.

New York: Random House (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A riveting detective story that plumbs one of the deepest mysteries of biology. The story takes the reader from the torments of an Italian family cursed with sleeplessness to the mad cows of England(and, now America), following an unlikely trail of misfolded proteins." Index, Notes. xxxi, 299 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-62454.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1962. First edition - Illustrated with drawings, pp 637-688. Final issue in volume 32.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1962. First edition - Illustrated with charts and photographs, Literature cited, pp 501-539.

New York: Geological Society of America, (1955.). Hardcover first edition - Papers prepared for the symposium held on October 14, 15 and 16, 1954, organized by the Dept. of Geology of Columbia University. Contents include sections on 'Nature of the Earth's Crust,' 'Recent Deformation And Sedimentation,' 'Structural Synthesis Andetrogensis' and more. Illustrations, Maps, several folded plates - on the Tonga trench, the Puerto Rico trench - and more, and en texte charts. Bibliographies and indexes.viii, 762 pp, A large, heavy book.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Hardcover - A Litltle Owl Book. Charming early reader, which also manages to convey a lot of information about the sun. Unpaginated.

Boston: Richard G. Badger / The Gorham Press, (1918). Hardcover first edition - Scarce first edition of this collection of three essays by this noted American biologist and zoologist who, among other accomplishments, initiated and shaped the Marine Biological Association of San Diego (now Scripps Institution of Oceanography). Throughout his life he was an advocate for evolution, science education, and human service, believing that science was the key to a future society. In his foreword to this book, he states that as he "is approaching the completion of the 'Unity of the Organism' that he needed the essays in print, partly as record and partly as super-record" of the development of his thoughts in this area. Index. 164 pp.

Creston Books, (2013). Hardcover - "A Halloween story with the theme of decomposition, a science book about the recycling of life, a photography book with pictures so detailed, fascinating and . . . well . . . gross, that it will captivate and engage even the most book-phobic of children. Written in the first person from the voices of all the characters involved (the pumpkin and its many visitors including mice, birds, insects, fungi, worms, slime molds, etc.), the narrative documents the fate of a familiar fruit as it rots into nothingness" and begins to grow again the next year. Illustrated with full color photographs on every page by Dwight Kuhn. Glossary. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1939547033.

Chicago: Nelson-Hall, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "touches on the highlights of the German-American contribution the the rise of America. Written in three parts it covers (1) the diverse roles German-Americans have played in American life from colonial times to the present, (2) the German-American participation in U.S. military history since the frontier wars of the 1750s and 60s, and (3) the German-American contributions to America in Science and education." Just to cite two specific examples: the first formal protest against Negro slavery came out of Germantown, Reobling built the first railroad bridge and when German immigration reached its crest in 1854 half of all immigrants that year were German. Bibliography, index. xi, 238 pp. ISBN: 0-882291475.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1962. First edition - Illustrated with charts. Literature cited, pp 471-500.