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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977. 1st Ed., Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Studies in the Philosophy of Science Stachel, John J. Gray cloth boards with navy titling on front and spine, lightly toned at head of spine and with a tiny bit of wear to corners. Upper page edges stamped Princeton University Library, and bottom page edges stamped with a small symbol. Three scars on rear pastedown and one on front where stickers removed. Upper and side page edges foxed. Interior otherwise unmarked. Binding firm. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Penciled on the title page, 'Conference on the Foundations of Space-Time Theories, Minneapolis, Minn., 1974' Includes papers from these proceedings held May 9-11, 1974, and of the Conference on Absolute and Relational Theories of Space and Space-Time, held at Osgood Hill Conference Center of Boston University, June 3-5, 1974. With name and subject index. Space and time--Congresses

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/None. A Garland Series NOT a print-on-demand or ex-library; this is a ""facsimile"" reproduction of the 1817 edition printed for R. Hunter, London. Denim blue cloth boards with gilt titling on spine. Whitening at head of spine from very light wear but no fraying. Binding is tight. Interior clean and bright. Introduction by Robert Lee Wolff.

Easton, PA: Maroon Club, 1943. Hardcover. Good+/None. Maroon boards with gold block titling stamped on front and (faded) on spine. Sewn binding is tight. Interior clean and unmarked. This book is no. 397 of 1000 of an edition privately printed for The Maroon Club and dedicate to 'Bill' Coughlin, coach of Lafayette Baseball Teams, 1919-1943. Small 8vo. BOOK INFO: A tidy biography of the Easton, PA, college's namesake. Illustrated by a B&W frontis of Lafayette in uniform, from a painting by J. D. Court. 'Bill' Coughlin, coach of Lafayette Baseball Teams; the grand old man of baseball; Lafayette College; The Maroon Club; Easton, PA; Pennsylvania

New York: Viking Press, 1951. Hardcover. Good/None. Inscribed. INSCRIBED/dated on ffep 'To Lucia, From Irwin, Sept. 24, 1951'. Light blue-green cloth boards with spine in a darker blue-green cloth. Titling on spine is worn/darkened to barely legible. Heavily rubbed at bottom corners, especially on the front. Cloth faded at edges and spine. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. 12mo, 5 x 7.5 inches. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'I wish I could pretend that I thought that this seven years' gleaning of themes light and serious constituted an intellectual journal of our era. It would be agreeable to persuade myself that I was a small-sized seismograph of the moral earthquakes of our time. I offer these essays simply as the quite spontaneous soliloquies they were as I wrote them. It… Read More

England: Speedsport Motobooks, 1974. Paperback. Fair/None. Purple illustrated covers rubbed at edges with small crease at bottom front corner, large 12mo., (5 1/4 x 8 1/4 ins.). Interior clean and unmarked, save owner's embossing stamp on title page. ...the modern motorcycle is an engineering feat of no inconsiderable magnitude, on which a great amount of technical skill and manufacturing ""know-how"" has to be lavished...(from Chapter 1). With the understanding that motorcycle customers are selective, knowledgeable and interested in demonstrated performance more than the advertiser's slogan, this motorcycle designer, engineer, rider and one of the best-known technical writers on motorcycling sets out the technical, commercial and aesthetic aspects of motorcycle design and engineering, unique by their nature as single-track vehicles that they are sat upon, not in, and have unstable equilibrium. Full of line drawings and half-tone illustrations. Includes index.

London: The Ulysses bookshop, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Limited Edition, no. 172 of 185 copies signed by the author. Typo in the word 'limited' hand corrected, presumable by the publisher who also hand-numbered the limitation. Quarter black cloth and pink paper-covered boards with black titling on front, soiled along top and bottom edges. Binding is sound. Light, infrequent foxing to fep and page edges. Interior is unmarked. Clean, and thick rough-cut page edges, as of hand-made paper. In original glassine wrapper, which is chipped at extremities and with loss at spine heel. 7.25 x 10.5 ins. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: 'The present essay, printed in the Savoy for October 1896, soon after the publication of Jude the Obscure, has...remained without re-publication.... I have no wish to make any substantial change in it--though the indignation aroused by… Read More

London: Sampson, Low & Son, 1855. Apparent First Edition. Hardcover. Fair+/None. Scarce. Blue cloth boards, three quarter brown leather with raised bands on spine and gilt borders on covers and spine, gilt titling and fleur-de-lis decoration on spine, 18mo., (4 1/4 x 6 5/8 ins.), worn at corners and edges of spine with sunfading along spine and top edge. Loss to second band on spine indicating 'illustrated'. Gilt upper page edges. Side page edges two brown stains. Blue-gray marbled pastedown/ffep in a swirl pattern. Binding is sound. A smattering of foxing, mostly at Chapter 1, and lightly in margins here and there. Text is clean, pages toned with age. Owner's small bookplate to front pastedown, (John Edgar Fretz, born in 1827, was a prominent physician in Easton, PA, and graduate of Lafayette College and University of Pennsylvania). NOT a reprint or print-on-demand. Frontispiece B&W wood block by T. Williams and George Cruikshank. Bradbury and Evans, printers. Five-page… Read More

US: L. T. Myers, 1914. Hardcover. Fair+/None. 1914 Faded red cloth boards with black titling on front and with decoration on spine; spine is toned with age, and extremities are heavily worn. Part of rear interior hinge cracked with webbing showing. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges darkened. No dustjacket. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: Laid in are two original period post cards done in gelatin silver B&W photography of Billy Sunday: one posed with his family on the steps outside their home in Winona Lake, Indiana (by J. Inbody, Elkhart, IN); and the other of apparent congregants gathering outside Billy Sunday Tabernacle in Paterson, NJ, 1916 (by Modern Studios, Philadelphia, PA). Authorized Edition: 'This work contains the heart of Mr. Sunday's gospel message arranged by subjects, and is published by special agreement with him for the use of copyright… Read More

New York: D. Appleton and company, 1891. Hardcover. Good+/None. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt titling on the front and spine and a fireplace illustration embossed in copper on front, lightly rubbed at extremities and spine faded. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. 12mo. 4.5 x 6.75 inches. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents, which include: Prologue.--The perfect house.--Old oriental masters.--Signs in the sky.--The ideal haven.--When leaves grow sere.--Decorative decorations.--My study windows.--My indoor garden.--A blue-violet salad.--Footsteps of spring.--Magicians of the shelves-I-II.--Authors and readers.--The pageant of the immortals.--Epilogue. Illustrated with B&W decorations and at least one short musical score. 'I make no claim that the house wherein I dwell is a perfect one;… Read More

Goteborg/Gothenburg, Sweden: Laromedels-forlaget, (Akademiska forlaget), 1972. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Good/None. Studies in the theory of science Beige cloth boards with green titling on front and spine, lightly edgeworn and spine is toned. Adhesive residue to top front near spine. Bottom corner of rear board has blue stain permeating the cloth. Damp stain to bottom page edges, (now wrinkling or text affected.) Page edges are toned, top edges more so. Stamped Harvard University Library with date on copyright page, and embossed with same on title and first preface page. Interior text is unmarked. Binding is sound. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Hakan Tornebohm, Editor. Contents include: Huygens' theory of research and Descartes' theory of knowledge; Aristotle's classification of 'mechanical' activity; The struggle between two great world systems and outlooks; The theory of impacts as scientific core of the mechanistic outlook; Conceptual foundations of Huygens' physics; Criticism,… Read More

Riga: Zin?tne, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Linen-colored cloth boards with gilt titling and line drawing portrait on front cover and gilt title on spine. Binding sound. Interior clean and unmarked, except for one instance of pencil underlining noted on pg. 798. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Volume two of Work Team, by Endzelins, (1873-1961) the linguist 'instrumental in the formation of the Latvian literary language,' per Valdis J. Zeps in a review on jstor.org. Latvia; Work Team

Dublin: William Curry, Jun., and Co, 1849. Tenth Edition. Hardcover. Poor/None. Back free end paper torn out. Boards loosening from binding front and back but still holding. Pages browning, with foxing on title, preface, content pages and pp 15-21. Owners' name stamped, a 2x1 in. bookplate, and a 3/4 in bookstore sticker to front pastedown, marking to ffep and back pastedown, and owner's name inked decoratively on title page. Text is unmarked. Brown cloth boards soiled and worn, especially at spine where it's torn at ends; Gilt titling is indistinct. However, this scarce, early 10th edition from 1849, remains a readable copy.

Chicago, IL: Interface, 1968. Paperback. Good-/None. Graphic black softcover with white titling and border, crease marks at lower front corner. Spine uncreased. Interior clean and unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 53 pieces translated from the Yiddish by Joseph Esselin. Includes B&W photographs of the poet in a brief 'photo album.' Yiddish critic O. Rapoport described Esselin's work, 'One feels actually his enjoyment of the bitter-sweet drink that poetry is, from reading his poetry.' As proof, here is a sample, from the poem Epitaph: 'Here lies a poet with a kingly crown/Who died of drinking his own sweet brew--/Honeyed song that held arsenic too.' You can sense a rueful smile through even his darkest lines.

Bisbee, AZ: Tortilla Press, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Good/None. Eppele, David L. Off white and tan pictorial trade softcover lightly soiled and waterstained, mostly on back, 8vo. Interior clean except for a few light pencil marks, dashes, on key of publications only, otherwise clean and unmarked interior. BOOK INFO: This compilation of information will help both the amateur and the knowledgeable cactophile find an illustration more easily. Index of international publications cross referenced with plants, classified by their latin names.