First Edition. A scarce inscribed copy of this memoir of the physician who pioneered the Heimlich maneuver, a simple procedure to help civilians clear blocked airways. The press popularized Heimlich's method and it became widely known in the United States. As an elementary school student, your cataloguer inhaled a piece.....

First Edition. A scarce offprint from one of the first African Americans to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics. The second of two papers published by Pierce based on his dissertation. Pierce published his best-known work, Negro Business and Business Education in 1947. He had a long career in education, as.....

First Edition. The memoirs of the paleoanthropologist who discovered many fossils of early human ancestors in Africa. She also discovered and classified a variety of very early human-made tools. 224 pages (preliminaries included in pagination). First edition, first printing (states "First edition published in the United States..." on the copyright.....

Later printing. Daniel's doctoral dissertation, "probably the first one in sociology by an African American" (Blasi, American Sociology of Religion: Histories, p. 29). Based upon a survey of the theological schools for negroes in the United States made by Robert L. Kelly and W.A. Daniel. "Few familes in America can.....

First US edition. A very scarce signed first American printing of these lectures on gravitation, mathematics and physics, principles of conservation in nature, symmetry, past vs. future, and the quantum mechanical view of nature. These lectures were recorded by the BBC for broadcast in Great Britain, and the text of.....

First Edition. The scientist who developed the modern theory of continental drift here offers a heuristic explanation of mirages and related visual phenomena in the atmosphere. This is an offprint (sonderdruck) from Annalen der Physik, vol. 57, no. 4, 1918. Paginated [203–204] 205–280. Self-wrappers grubby, else a very good copy.....

First Edition. A book on psychotherapy seldom found signed by Albert Ellis. This collection of edited transcripts of psychotherapy sessions from a variety of therapists, including the editor, Maxie C. Maultsby Jr, and others, includes Albert's pieces, "A Young Male Who Is Afraid of Becoming a Fixed Homosexual" and "A.....

First Edition. An association copy of this look at early human tools. 351 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould and signed by both authors.....

First Edition. Noted biologist E. O. Wilson's copy of the first edition of this influential textbook. Hutchinson (1903–1991) is considered one of the key scientific thinkers in the modern ecology movement. He taught at Yale for five decades beginning in 1928. This book is a summary of a lifetime of.....

First Edition. A 19th century account, possibly unrecorded, of the effects of taking hashish written by a reporter for the New York World newspaper. He describes highs ("a thrill unspeakable"), followed by a crash ("the marrow was all gone from my bones"), that turned into hallucinations ("each drop of water.....

First Edition. A late work summarizing Gulick's views on divergent evolution with what might today be called "contingency": "members of the same species, exposed to the same environment in isolated groups, will often arrive at divergent methods of dealing with the environment." He goes on to conclude that the assumption.....

New edition. A facsimile reprint of Tesla's patents. 500 pages. 9 by 11-1/4 inches. Bound in gray cloth with gold-colored stamping. Large ownership name on the front pastedown. Covers a bit grubby; text block slightly musty smelling. Covers a bit splayed (bowed out).

First Edition. A book that explores the idea that a comet colliding with the earth could have caused the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. This is the scarce hardcover version (there was a simultaneous issue in paperback). First edition (first hardcover printing). A near fine copy in a near fine.....