First edition. A history of American manned space flight, told with Wolfe's New Journalism panache. Basis of the film of the same name. 436 pages. First edition (first printing stated). A very copy in a price-clipped, very good dust jacket. Jacket with edge tears.
Price: $30
First Edition. The author's first book, a memoir of a earth scientist that won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award. 290 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Jahren on the title page with her botanical ink stamp. Surprisingly scarce signed.
Price: $250
First Edition. An offprint from the Ecology Center magazine and a very uncommon stand-alone Huxley publication, an essay that explores the connections between population growth, contraception, war, and democracy. 7 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. First edition. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
Price: $40
First Edition. In print at $280. 754 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in illustrated boards (no jacket, as issued). Small previous owner's name on the inside front cover.
Price: $150
First Edition. 402 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a dust jacket with shelfwear at the edges. This copy is inscribed by Ehrlich to his Harvard colleague, the evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould: "For Stephen Gould, with warm regards and admiration.....
Price: $50
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First Edition. The late neurologist looks at hallucinations—those of the mentally ill and those induced with recreational drugs. This is one of an unspecified number of copies issued by the publisher signed on a tipped-in page; with an "autographed copy" sticker on the front cover. First edition (states "First American edition".....
Price: $150
Seventh edition. Principally discusses a wide range of specimen preparation techniques, without illustrations. 526 pages. A near fine, clean hardcover copy.
Price: $30
Sixteenth edition of one of the most popular microscope books of the 19th century. 130 pages. 8 handcolored plates and one chromolithographed frontispiece. A very good copy. Previous owner's name inside.
Price: $40
First Edition. "A comprehensive introduction... for the novice user as well as a useful source of background information for more experienced workers." 143 pages. A very good, clean copy. Paperback.
Price: $15
Fourteenth edition "enlarged." A guide to painless childbirth, which seems to rely mostly on baths, a fruit diet, and a good attitude. The book was very popular, being reprinted every year for more than a decade. 159, [9] pages. A near-fine copy in terra cotta cloth. While this is not a......
Price: $95
Later printing. Stephen Jay Gould's influential first book, which is now seen as a key foundation for the evo-devo field of evolutionary theory. 501 pages. Third printing (1978). Spine slightly faded, else a near fine copy in a like dust jacket. This copy belonged to Stephen Jay Gould (he seems to.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A biography of a pioneering geneticist. xv, 235 pages. First edition, hardcover issue. A near fine copy in a dust jacket with a few short tears.
Price: $25
First Edition. "Adaptive radiation—the rise of a diversity of ecological roles and attendant adaptations within a lineage—is one of the most important processes bridging ecology and evolution"—the back cover. Twenty-one essays. xvii, 621 pages. First edition. A near fine copy (minor bumping to the corners) in illustrated boards. This copy is.....
Price: $100
First Edition. Written while the author was in prison, "The Biology of Waropens with a scathing refutation of [the Manifesto of Ninety-Three German Intellectuals], dealing at length with Germany's responsibility for the war, and then proceeds to discuss and analyse every aspect of the war itself, regarded as a factor.....
Price: $125
First Edition. Winner of the Natural Book Award and a modern classic of nature writing. 464 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to one of the great book collectors of the 20th century. "For.....
Price: $200
First Edition. An important monograph on early human relatives, Australopithecus, which earned Broom the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. This book includes two related papers. Part I: The Occurrence and General Structure of the South African Ape-men by Broom and Part II: The Endocranial Casts of.....
Price: $400
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First Edition. A follow-up work on Plesianthropus transvaalensis (now classified as Australopithecus africanus), including the famous "Mrs. Ples" skull, by the men who discovered them in 1936. The book includes two separate papers published as Transvaal Museum Memoir No. 4. Part I: Further Evidence of the Structure of the Sterkfontein.....
Price: $250
First Edition. An offprint of this descriptive monograph on the Siphonophorae order of Hydrozoans. Issued without illustrations. Reprinted from Jenaischen Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft XXII. Band. 46 pages. First edition (first printing). Spine worn, else good to very good in original pink wrappers. This copy was presented to Karl Brandt, the marine.....
Price: $100
A critically-acclaimed, technical history of the microscope from its invention to the late 20th century. 360 pages. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Clean inside.
Price: $200
First Edition. A classic. With 47 half-tone plates and 247 in-text illustrations. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy with some wear to the corners. Small previous owner's name on the front free endpaper.
Price: $100
An early edition of one of the most popular books on microscopes in the 19th century. Illustrated with in-text engravings. xii, 506 pages. I have not located a copy with a date; the dating is based on the date in the preface. There is another, similar 1859 edition, also not dated.....
Price: $125
Third Edition. An early edition of one of the most popular microscope books of the 19th century. This third edition indicates that 7000 copies had been sold. With hand-colored plates. 106 pages. 8 black-and-white plates. 32 pages of publisher ads. A very good copy in purple and pink cloth, with a......
Price: $60
First Edition. Graham, a historian of science, was an expert on science in Russia. 177 pages. First edition (first printing, wrappers issue). A near fine paperback copy (it was also issued in hardcover). Inscribed by Graham to the evolutionary theorist and historian of science, Stephen Jay Gould: "To Steve, in.....
Price: $50
Second Edition. Second edition. A manual on preparing organic materials for viewing under a microscope. 214 pages. A very good hardcover; no dust jacket.
Price: $20
First Edition. Illustrated with 131 figures; with a price-list for the equipment mentioned in the text. 144 pages, First edition (first printing). Light shelfwear, thus very good in green cloth. No dust jacket.
Price: $25
