First Edition. Interviews with 27 cosmologists, including Stephen Hawking. Lightman achieved critical success as a novelist with his book Einstein's Dreams. 561 pages. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with a half-inch closed tear on the rear.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A scientific review of the science of the chambered nautilus. A year later, Ward published a popular account on the subject called In Search of Nautilus. Ward is a paleontologist and professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. First edition (states "First published..."). Corners bumped, else near fine.....
Price: $75
First Edition. A collection of Stephen Jay Gould's essays, issued in full bonded leather edition with gilt page edges and signed on a limitation leaf bound in at the front. This book is part of the Easton Press's signed first edition series, theoretically issued prior to the trade edition. 540.....
Price: $75
First Edition. 354 pages. First edition (first printing). A very good copy (some spine creases) in wrappers (paperback). This copy is inscribed to the Harvard evolutionary biologist and mathematical geneticist Richard Lewontin. "A R. C. Lewontin, homage sincère de Pierre P. Grassé." This copy came from the library of Stephen.....
Price: $50
First Edition. A Russian work on the evolution of the amphibian skull, translated into English in 2004 and published in the series, Advances in Amphibian Research in the Former Soviet Union. 283 pages. Text in Russian (Cyrillic). First edition. A very good or better copy in the original printed cloth-covered.....
Price: $50
First Edition. An illustrated guide to sea animals with radial symmetry, written by Elizabeth Agassiz with illustrations by her step-son Alexander. Illustrated with lovely small reversed (white lines on black background) images. 155 pages. A near fine copy in the publisher's blue-green cloth binding.
Price: $50
A small chapbook about formerly enslaved Africans in Jamaica converting to Christianity. First published in 1840 by Wright and Albright. The dating of this version is from OCLC, which is speculative based on dates in a bound volume of tracts. 8 pages plus wrappers, with half-page illustrations on the cover.....
Price: $75
A late version of the screenplay for the first Jack Ryan film, who was played by Alec Baldwin, with Sean Connery playing the Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius. James Earl Jones as Vice Admiral James Greer, the deputy director of the CIA. I compared the script to the opening scenes.....
Price: $200
Later printing. French translation by Marcel Duhamel and Andrée R. Picard. Fifteenth (15th) printing. A fair to good copy, with a cracked spine and a split down the front cover about four inches from the top. Inscribed by Wright, "A Christian Tet[?] avec mes sentiments amicaux. Richard Wright. Nov. 3.....
Price: $300
First Edition. A full-color museum catalog for an exhibition of Kelly's etchings and aquatints of Hawaiian scenes and women. 158 pages. 9-1/4 by 10-3/4 inches. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $200
First Edition. An extensively illustrated survey of the life and work of an E.C. Comics and MAD Magazine illustrator. 416 pages. 9-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Geissman to an Oregon collector.
Price: $100
Second Edition. A full color survey of the artist's work, including book covers, movie posters, magazine illustrations, and portraits. Now out of print. 304 pages. 9-1/4 by 12-1/4 inches. Second edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $125
First Edition. Chabon's fourth book, a collection of short stories. First edition (stated, with a number line ending in 2, as per Random House's standard practice). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author.
Price: $50
First Edition. Short full-color comics by noted children's book writers including Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and William Joyce. This "Little Lit" series was designed to be a version of Spiegelman's work for RAW magazine, but for kids. 48 pages. 9-1/2 by 13-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing, with a numberline.....
Price: $95
First Edition. "This meticulously researched and edited photographic essay captures an era of spectacular manufacturer competition. Each manufacturer’s racers were distinctive and memorable: the innovative Chaparrals; the potent Shelby Cobras; Ford’s mighty GT40; the terrifyingly quick Porsche 917; and a devastating array of Ferraris - GTOs, LMs, 512s, and 312.....
Price: $200
First Edition. A popular and hard-to-find illustrated edition of Poe. Lacombe, a French artist, has a style that reminds me of the Addams family movies or perhaps of the scenes in the Haunted House at the Disneyland of my youth. First edition (first printing stated, with a numberline ending in.....
Price: $125
First Edition. An annotated bibliography of accounts of the discovery of the Americas before Columbus. The list is organized by discoverers, with sections for Chinese, Northmen, Arabs, Welsh, Venetians, Portuguese, Poles, and Martin Behaim. Scarce. 20 pages. First edition (first printing). A good copy in canvas wrappers. The front wrapper.....
Price: $125
First Edition. Fourth book. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's press information laid in.
Price: $50
First Edition. The "Frank E. Schoonover Catalogue Raisonné embodies Schoonover's entire oeuvre, from his earliest sketches to his last easel paintings. The book is chronologically organized with the numeration based on his daybook entries. Included are over 3000 images, many in full color, a detailed biography with accompanying time line.....
Price: $125
First Edition. The author's second (and last?) science fiction novel. First edition (first printing). Endpapers browning; some fading to the textured paper-covered boards, thus very good in a very good dust jacket. The jacket is a little faded at the spine, with wear and short tears along the top edge.....
Price: $85
First Edition. A decade-by-decade look at race cars, likely photographed in museums and private collections. Full color throughout. Photography by James Mann. Foreword by Derek Bell. 240 pages. 12-1/4 by 10-1/4 inches (oblong). First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $85
First Edition. Lewis Carroll's beloved stories with color illustrations by Anne Bachelier. The two books are bound dos-a-dos, meaning the book opens in both directions. This book was issued in several variants; this is the standard hardcover, limited to 1000 copies. 105 and 111 pages. 7 by 14-1/4 inches. First.....
Price: $85
First Edition. A substantial survey of Merriam's work, reproduced in full color throughout. 274 pages. 11-3/4 by 11-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing, with no later printings noted). Corners slightly bumped, else a fine hardcover copy. Not issued in a dust jacket.
Price: $85
First Edition. A book documenting the impact John Severson had on surfing beginning in the late 1950s. Illustrated with photographs and pictures of artifacts. The final section reproduces some of Severson's paintings. First edition (first printing, with no later printings noted). A fine hardcover copy (no dust jacket, as issued).....
Price: $100
Later printing. Lee's classic illustrated guide to martial arts. 448 pages. Third printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Price: $150
