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Charles Darwin's The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms
DARWIN, Charles.
The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits.
London: John Murray, 1881.
Early edition of this study of the habits of worms. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth, illustrated with diagrams, errata slip tipped in. In very good condition with light bumping to the crown and foot of the spine.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146649
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First Edition of The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal; Inscribed by Jared Diamond
DIAMOND, Jared.
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
First edition of this early work by the award-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Jared Diamond on the front free endpaper to noted book collector Larry Owens. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 5524
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First Edition of Evolution: The First Four Billion Years; Signed by Edward O. Wilson
RUSE, Michael and Joseph Travis.
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
First edition of this work on evolutionary thought. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has drawn a picture of an ant. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 14051
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First Edition of The Return; Signed by Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
ALDRIN, Buzz and John Barnes.
The Return: A Novel of Human Adventure.
New York: Forge/ Tom Doherty Associates, 2000.
First edition of Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s compelling work of fiction. Octavo, original glossy boards. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 112686
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Thomas Stafford's We Have Capture; Inscribed by Him
STAFFORD, Thomas P with Michael Cassutt.
We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race.
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
First edition, early printing of this exhilarating memoir of an Apollo space flight commander. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ken, Tom Stafford." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147235
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First Edition of THE GOD PARTICLE; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Leon Lederman
LEDERMAN, Leon with Dick Teresi.
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Leon Lederman on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141416
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First Edition of Desmond Morris' The Human Zoo; Inscribed by Him in the year of Publication
MORRIS, Desmond.
The Human Zoo.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969.
First American edition of this work, which examines how the biological nature of the human species has shaped the character of the cultures of the contemporary world. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Gerald McNulty with best wishes from Desmond Morris 1969." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 85377
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“Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between": First edition of Mary Roach's Packing For Mars; signed by her
ROACH, Mary.
Packing For Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
First edition of the author's best-selling fourth book. Octavo, original boards. Signed by Mary Roach on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Keenan.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 136594
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First Edition of Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Dwight Williams' The Way of the Explorer; Inscribed by Edgar Mitchell
MITCHELL, Edgar with Dwight Williams.
The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical World.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
First edition of this engrossing evaluation of the contributions of space exploration to the future by the sixth man to walk on the moon. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Dr. Edgar Mitchell on the title page, "To Bud Best wishes Edgar Mitchell." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom McKeveny.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147174
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First edition of David R. Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*
REUBEN, David R.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1969.
First edition of David Reuben's wildly popular sex manual, one of the first sex manuals to enter mainstream culture. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Jacket photograph by Arthur Shay.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117058
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First edition in English of Charles Bossut's A General History of Mathematics; finely bound in full contemporary calf
BOSSUT, John.
A General History of Mathematics From the Earliest Times, to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1803.
First edition in English of Bossut's fundamental history of mathematics. Octavo, bound in full contemporary polished diced calf with gilt tooling to the spine, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled, ribbon bound in. Translated from the French by John Bossut. In near fine condition. Contemporary ownership inscription. A very attractive 19th century binding.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137152
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First Edition of Wrinkles in Time; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Physicist George Smoot
SMOOT, George and Keay Davidson.
Wrinkles in Time.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993.
First edition of the story of "the scientific discovery of the century, if not all time" (Stephen Hawking). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with 8 pages of color photographs and 50 line drawings. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To John Rogers Best Wishes George Smoot." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 144347
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First Edition of THE GOD PARTICLE; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Leon Lederman
LEDERMAN, Leon with Dick Teresi.
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Leon Lederman on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michaela Sullivan.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 144353
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First Edition of A Life of Magic Chemistry; Inscribed by Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist George Olah
OLAH, George A.
Life of Magic Chemistry: Autobiographical Reflections of A Nobel Prize Winner.
New York: Wiley-Interscience, 2001.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning chemist. Octavo, original illustrated boards. Inscribed by George Olah on the front free endpaper. In fine condition, without a dust jacket as issued.
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 15069
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First edition of Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; from the library of American writer and environmentalist Peter Matthiessen
BROWN, Stephen [Editor]. Foreword by Jimmy Carter. Introduction by David Allen Sibley [Peter Matthiessen].
Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, 2006.
First edition of this stunning tribute to the birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with color photographs. From the library of Peter Matthiessen. American writer Peter Matthiessen remains the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008). A prominent environmental activist, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2008 at the age of 81 for Shadow Country. "No one writes more lyrically [than Matthiessen] about animals or describes more movingly the spiritual experience of mountaintops, savannas, and the sea" (Michael…
Price: $275.00 Item Number: 135489
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First Edition of John McPhee's Annals of the Former World
MCPHEE, John.
Annals of the Former World.
New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1998.
First edition of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning work. Octavo, Original black cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Maps by Allan Cartography. Endpapers designed by Tom Funk. Jacket art by John Clerk.
Price: $225.00 Item Number: 145124
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First Edition of Margaret Mead's Male and Female
MEAD, Margaret.
Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1949.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, small name.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 141421
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COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA; IN THE RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET
MEAD, Margaret. Foreword by Franz Boas.
Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth in Western Civilisation.
New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1932.
Early printing of Mead’s pioneering work which, upon publication, established her as the most famous anthropologist in the world. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece, illustrated. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket, which is in good condition. Foreword by Franz Boas.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 117912
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Rare first edition of George Taylor's An Account of the Genus Meconopsis
TAYLOR, George.
An Account of the Genus Meconopsis.
London: New Flora and Silva Ltd, 1934.
First edition of Taylor's best-known work. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with frontispiece, 29 plates from photographs and 12 distributional maps. In very good condition. Small ownership name.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 137344
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Jacob Bigelow's Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston and Its Vicinity
BIGELOW, Jacob.
Florula Bostoniensis. A Collection of Plants of Boston and Its Vicinity, With Their Generic and Specific Characters, Principal Synonyms, Descriptions, Places of Growth, and Time of Flowering, and Occasional Remarks.
Boston: Published by Cummings, Hilliard & Co, 1824.
Enlarged and second edition of Bigelow's authoritative work on the flora of Boston and its vicinity. Octavo, original boards, rebacked, greatly enlarged and with a significant glossary of botanical terms. In very good condition. Period ownership inscriptions and notations.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 137356
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First Edition of River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea; Inscribed by Colin Fletcher
FLETCHER, Colin.
River: One Man’s Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
First edition of this epic adventure by Fletcher, a renowned traveler and writer. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 15 maps and 42 photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "For Jimmie Stanley, Colin Fletcher 6/8/97." Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Carroll.
Price: $200.00 Item Number: 100432
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First edition of Frank Kingdon Ward's The Romance of Plant Hunting
KINGDON WARD, Frank.
The Romance of Plant Hunting.
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1924.
First edition of Kingdon-Ward's work on the love of flowers and plant hunting. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, illustrated. In good condition.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 139818
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First Edition of River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea; Inscribed by Colin Fletcher
FLETCHER, Colin.
River: One Man’s Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
First edition of this epic adventure by Fletcher, a renowned traveler and writer. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with 15 maps and 42 photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Alan and Lotte with best wishes Colin Carmel Valley, California 4/30/97." Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Susan Carroll.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 54787
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First Edition of Falling to Earth; Signed by Al Worden and Francis French
WORDEN, Al with Francis French.
Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut’s Journey to the Moon.
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Books, 2011.
First edition of this unprecedented and exhilarating account of Al Worden's experience with NASA. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by the authors on the half title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Dick Gordon. Epilogue by Tom Stafford. Jacket design by Brian Barth.
Price: $175.00 Item Number: 147208