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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institution for the Year Ended June 30 1927.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good in dark green cloth (rubbing to the lettering on the spine, but a sturdy and clean volume.)
Book ID: 52017More details Price: $40.00 -
LOOK TO THE STARS.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 86968More details Price: $20.00 -
REACHING FOR THE MOON.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50686More details Price: $225.00 -
THE HEATED DEBATE: Greenhouse Predictions Versus Climate Reality.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 43130More details Price: $12.50 -
A SECOND WAY OF KNOWING: The Riddle of Human Perception.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 67725More details Price: $30.00 -
INSIDE THE HURRICANE: Face to Face with Nature's Deadliest Storms.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
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.
Condition: Very near fine in printed blue wrappers.
Book ID: 20475More details Price: $14.00 -
THE DREAMS OF REASON: SCIENCE AND UTOPIAS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
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.
Condition: Very good (previous owner's name inside front cover)
Book ID: 79564More details Price: $9.50 -
A HUNDRED BILLION TRILLION STARS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 73946More details Price: $25.00 -
NEW LANDS, NEW MEN: America and the Second Great Age of Discovery.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in gray boards with a white cloth spine, lacking the dj (remainder line.0
Book ID: 37496More details Price: $12.50 -
AN URCHIN IN THE STORM: Essays about Books and Ideas.
Edition: 2nd printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33275More details Price: $12.50 -
HUMBOLDT CURRENT: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 47149More details Price: $21.50 -
THE FITNESS OF MAN'S ENVIRONMENT: Smithsonian Annual II.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in a good only dust jacket (edgewear to the dj, some loss of paper at the ends of the spine).
Book ID: 30506More details Price: $25.00 -
ASTRONOMY: Our Solar System and Beyond.
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.
Condition: Some wear to covers especially at corners and ends of spine, overall near very good condition.
Book ID: 19660More details Price: $12.50 -
THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan.
Edition: First UK printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (light creasing and wear to top edge of dj)
Book ID: 89366More details Price: $35.00 -
"Third Taxonomic Study of California Mealybugs, Including Additional Specimens from North and South America" in HILGARDIA: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station; Volume 32, Number 14, July 1962.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1962. First edition - Illustrated with drawings, pp 637-688. Final issue in volume 32.
Condition: Fine in stapled gray wrappers.
Book ID: 70042More details Price: $10.00 -
"Resistance of Alfalfa to Spotted Alfalfa Aphid in Relation to Environmental Factors" in HILGARDIA: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station; Volume 32, Number 12, July 1962.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1962. First edition - Illustrated with charts and photographs, Literature cited, pp 501-539.
Condition: Fine in stapled gray wrappers.
Book ID: 70041More details Price: $10.00 -
CRUST OF THE EARTH (A SYMPOSIUM): Geological Society of America Special Paper 62.
Edition: First edition.
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.
Condition: Very good in original dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (bookplate and stamps from a corporate library.)
Book ID: 41855More details Price: $25.00 -
GOOD MORNING, MR. SUN.
Edition: Hardcover.
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.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards.
Book ID: 66343More details Price: $12.50 -
THE PROBABLE INFINITY OF NATURE AND LIFE: Three Essays.
Edition: First edition.
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.
Condition: Very good in green cloth with darker green lettering - usual toning to the pages, corners slightly bumped, but overall tight and sturdy,
Book ID: 84162More details Price: $150.00 -
ROTTEN PUMPKIN: A Rotten Tale in 15 Voices.
Edition: 2nd printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 68464More details Price: $14.50 -
THE GERMAN DIMENSION OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
Edition: First edition.
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.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacke (stamp on top edge of text block, sunning to spine of dj, some wear to top edge)
Book ID: 88833More details Price: $18.00 -
"Studies on the Growth Rate and Nutrient Absorption of Head Lettuce" in HILGARDIA: A Journal of Agricultural Science Published by the California Agricultural Experiment Station; Volume 32, Number 11, June 1962.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1962. First edition - Illustrated with charts. Literature cited, pp 471-500.
Condition: Fine in stapled gray wrappers.
Book ID: 70040More details Price: $10.00