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First Edition of Buckminster Fuller's Ideas and Integrities, a Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure; Inscribed by Him to his Niece
FULLER, Buckminster.
Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963.
First edition of this work by Fuller. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed "To Brooke, with great love, Bucky 3/30/80." The recipient, Brooke Maxwell, along with one of Fuller's other nieces Sarah Abbot, was one of Fuller's key assistants on his Synergetics Project. Edited by Robert W. Marks. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. A fine association.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 124570
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"Wallace embraces the incompatibility of mathematics and prose and makes art from it": First Edition of Everything And More; Signed by David Foster Wallace
WALLACE, David Foster.
Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.
First edition of this work which examines the history of infinity, focusing primarily on the work of Georg Cantor, the 19th-century German mathematician who created set theory. Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Base Art Co./Terry Rohrbach.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 144245
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First Edition of An Anthropologist on Mars; Inscribed by Oliver Sacks to His Editor in the Year of Publication
SACKS, Oliver.
An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
First edition of this astounding collection of unique medical histories. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with color plates. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his editor in the year of publication, "For Stanley Holwitz, editor, guide, friend - with all my thanks and best wishes - 2/12/95 Oliver." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. Jacket photograph by Joyce Ravid.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146916
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"This is the only one of my books that has pictures, but unfortunately the Harvard Press could not afford to print them in color": First Edition of Imagined Worlds; Lengthily Signed by Freeman Dyson
DYSON, Freeman.
Imagined Worlds.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
First edition of this work by Freeman Dyson. Octavo, original half cloth. Lengthily signed by the author on the title page, "For ______ ______ Freeman Dyson, February 2010 This is the only one of my books that has pictures, but unfortunately the Harvard Press could not afford to print them in color." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jill Breitbarth.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 111009
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Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd's Goodnight Moon; Signed by Apollo 13 Astronaut Fred Haise
BROWN, Margaret Wise; [Fred Haise].
Goodnight Moon.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, [2013].
75th anniversary edition of this classic children's book. Octodecimo, original pictorial boards. Humorously inscribed by Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise in black felt tip on the front panel, "I had a harder time than the cow! Fred Haise Apollo 13 LMP." In near fine condition with light rubbing to the extremities.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146184
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First Edition of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female; Signed by Alfred C. Kinsey and Wardell Pomeroy
KINSEY, Alfred C..
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.
Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1953.
First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original maroon cloth. Boldly signed by Alfred C. Kinsey and Wardell B. Pomeroy on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 21049
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First edition of Donald Knuth's Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About; Inscribed by Him
KNUTH, Donald E.
Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About.
Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language, 2001.
First edition of this collection of lectures, by the legendary computer scientist. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, "Best wishes, Bill! Don Knuth." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 146716
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First edition of Charles Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
DARWIN, Charles.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication.
New York: Orange Judd & Company, 1868.
First edition of Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations and a chart. Preface by Asa Gray. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 137161
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Commemorative Cover Signed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
HILLARY, Edmund and Tenzing Norgay.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Signed Commemorative Cover.
Commemorative cover with an inlaid medallion honoring the 25th anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest, boldly signed by both Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Housed in its original presentation folder, the cover measures 8 inches by 4.5 inches. In fine condition. An exceptional piece of mountaineering history, signed by the two individuals who ascended Mount Everest.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 138460
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"Darwin's Finches will keep their covenant with Darwin's islands, witnessed by a heap of stones": First Edition of The Beak of the Finch; Lengthily Inscribed by The Author and Jacket Illustrator Chip Kidd
WEINER, Jonathan.
The Beak of the Finch: The Story of Evolution in Our Time.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. Lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For John Rogers, With Best Wishes Jonathan Weiner 'Darwin's Finches will keep their covenant with Darwin's islands, witnessed by a heap of stones.' May 2016." Also, includes a signed letter on the author's letterhead to the same recipient. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light shelfwear. Jacket design by Chip Kidd and signed by him on the rear flap. Drawings by K. Thalia Grant. A unique example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 112993
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Robert Trivers' Parent-Offspring Conflict; inscribed by him
TRIVERS, Robert L.
Parent-Offspring Conflict.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: American Zoology, 1974.
First appearance of Trivers' extremely influential paper, building on his study of parental investment. Octavo, disbound from the original journal. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front panel, "For Jeffrey w/ best wishes, as always. Bob. June 29, 1974." The recipient, Jeffrey A. Kurland, was a distinguished professor of biological anthropology and evolution at Penn State. In fine condition. Rare.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 136287
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 144688
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First Edition of W.T. Blanford's Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia
BLANFORD, W.T.
Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abyssinia: Made During the Progress of the British Expedition to That Country in 1867-68.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1870.
First edition of this work dedicated to the geology and zoology of Northern Abyssinia. Octavo, bound in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, illustrated with a folding color frontispiece of the view of Amba, or Hill-Fort of Duga and the neighboring mountains taken from the British camping-grounds as Belago, several illustrations and diagrams of the animals and landscapes of Abyssinia in black and white and in color by John Gerrard Keulmans and others, and a color lithographed folding map of the region with another folding map laid…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145447
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First Edition of The Great Apes: Between Two Worlds; Inscribed by Jane Goodall
GOODALL, Jane.
The Great Apes: Between Two Worlds.
Washington, D.C: National Geographic Society, 1993.
First edition of this collection of contributions by these award-winning scientists. Quarto, original boards, illustrated endpapers, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Julie and Anthony Jane Goodall UK." In fine condition. Contributions by Jane Goodall, George B. Schaller and Mary G. Smith.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145833
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"I have sought a human society reduced to its most basic expression": First Edition of Claude-Levi Strauss' A World on the the Wane; Inscribed by Him
LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.
The World on the Wane.
New York: Criterion Books, 1961.
First American edition of Levi-Strauss' experience among tribes in Brazil. Octavo, original brown boards, illustrated with 48 pages of photographs and 48 line drawings. Inscribed by Claude Levi-Strauss on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light wear to the extremities. Translated from the French by John Russell.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 802
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Large Paper Copy of John Muir's The Cruise of the Corwin; One of Five Hundred and Fifty Copies
MUIR, John.
The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 In Search of De Long and the Jeannette.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917.
First edition, large paper copy, one of five hundred and fifty copies, this is number 272. Octavo, original cloth. Edited by William Frederic Badè. Illustrated with plates from photographs and from sketches by Muir. In near fine condition. Kimes 348; BAL 14775
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 120838
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“THE MOUNTAINS ARE CALLING AND I MUST GO": JOHN MUIR'S THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA
MUIR, John.
The Mountains of California.
New York: The Century Co, 1922.
New and enlarged edition of Muir's first book. Octavo, original pictorial cloth decorated in gilt, frontispiece, illustrated. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 126367
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First Edition of Edward O. Wilson's The Diversity of Life; Warmly inscribed by Him to Colleague Ruth Turner
WILSON, Edward O.
The Diversity of Life.
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.
First edition of this work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Ruth Turner with warmest regards and respect Edward O. Wilson." Wilson who has also added a drawing of an ant. The recipient, Ruth Turner was a colleague of Wilson's at Harvard and was also a pioneering marine biologist and malacologist. She was the world's expert on Teredinidae or shipworms, a taxonomic family of wood-boring bivalve mollusks which severely damage wooden marine installations. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Marianne Perlak. An…
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 131698
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First Edition of The Zoo Quest Expeditions; Signed by David Attenborough
ATTENBOROUGH, David.
The Zoo Quest Expeditions.
London: Lutterworth, 1980.
First edition of this volume that compiles Attenborough's acclaimed Quest Series. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by the author "with best wishes David Attenborough" on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 139566
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"In nature nothing exists alone": First Edition of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
CARSON, Rachel.
Silent Spring.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
First edition of Carson's landmark work. Octavo, original green cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Drawings by Lois and Louis Darling. An exceptional example.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 145502