Search Results: Titles starting with O from Craig Olson Books ABAA/ILAB

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Inscribed by the author on the title page with a handwritten bar of music. 214 pp. 8vo. Dust jacket has considerable wear, sunning, chipping, and losses including a piece at the head of the spine, now in mylar cover. Slight darkening of interior pages due to quality of paper, clean overall.

London: Royal Society of London, 1884. First Edition. Three Quarter Leather. Very Good. John Henry Poynting's (1852-1914) paper outlining what would become known as Poynting's Theorem and the Poynting Vector. The theorem is a statement of energy conservation in the electromagnetic field. x, 279 pp.; vii, 281-688 pp. 42 plates. 4to. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, burgundy title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, decorative stamp in each compartment without titling. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Numerous pages throughout volume are brittle with small tears and losses at edges, a large tear at midpoint in the title page of Poynting's article. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. The occasional library stamp as it is an ex-library volume, rebound.

Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Stunning aerial photographs of the Los Angeles area by photographer David Maisel. Photographs take on an almost surveillance-like feel from the height at which they were taken and printed as they appear in the original negative form. The photographs are preceded by Mark Strand's poem, "Black Maps" and ends with an essay by William L. Fox entitled "Shadowlands." First Printing. Unpag. 15 black and white plates. Clean, crisp copy with Maisel's photograph illustration of reprinted on cover.

London: John Van Voorst, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. ix, 415 pp. 8vo. Blue/green cloth boards with gold embossed titling to spine. Slight wear to edges, bumping to corners. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, clean within.

Oxford, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Printing. xii, 304 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy. No dust jacket, as issued.

Rockland, Maine: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1969. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Printer's Proof. A mock-up example of the exhibition of the same name that was featured at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, July 11-September 8, 1969. Cover portrait of a sheep on cover in color, interior portraits in black and white. Printer's registration lines present on every page which are folded but loose in binding. A unique item for the Wyeth collector.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 228 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth coverd boards with gold titling to cover board and spine. Light scuffing to boards from shelf wear. No dust jacket as issued.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 197. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Freedman, Jill. 138 pp. 4to. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, small tears at edges, now in mylar cover. Navy blue cloth boards with white embossed titling to spine. Minor spotting to title page, clean within.

Easthampton, MA: Antique Collectors' Club, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 96 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy, never read. No dust jacket as issued.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Produced in a limited edition of 1,50 copies, 1,000 of which were for sale, this being #566 and signed by the author on the colophon. 411, 415-849 pp. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with gold embossed titlinig to spine, top edge gilt, color maps illustrate the endpapers of each volume. Both volumes retain the original clear plastic dust jacket and are encased in a matching cloth slipcase in Very Good condition with a paper title pasted to front cover.

London: Royal Society of London, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains Latimer Clark's "On a Standard Voltaic Battery" (pp. 1 - 14) and J. Norman Lockyer's: "Researches in Spectrum-Analysis in Connexion with the Spectrum of the Sun. No. III and IV" (pp. 479-494 and 805-813). v, [4], [1]-818 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 202 pp. 12mo. Burgundy cloth boards with gold embossed titling to cover and spine. Ex-library with call number label pasted to spine, bookplate on front pastedown, library stamp on copyright page, card pocket and date due slip at rear. Very clean and tight overall.

New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. An exceedingly scarce volume. First Printing. 168 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.

London: Royal Society of London, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. iv, [8], [1]-906, [1], 19 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. For Part I, see our #27517, "On the Change of Refrangibility of Light" (pp. 385-396). Also contains William Thomson's "On the Thermal Effects of Fluids in Motion" (Volume 143 pp. 357-365, 1853) and J. C. Adams' "On the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion" (pp. 397-406). iv, [1]-566, [1]-15 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1868. First Edition. Very Good. George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) conducted groundbreaking research in fluid dynamics, light, fluorescence, polarization, chemical analysis, and opthalmology. Extracted from original volume. 21 pp. 4to. Very light toning from age.

London: Royal Society of London, 1862. First Edition. Very Good. George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) conducted groundbreaking research in fluid dynamics, light, fluorescence, polarization, chemical analysis, and opthalmology. Extracted from original volume. 21 pp. 4to. Very light toning from age.

London: Royal Society of London, 1789. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. An actuarial paper, an article on the development of the fetus, and a piece on phlogiston theory (the belief there was an element called phlogiston that was released during combustion). This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. iii-vi, [1], [1]-138, v-vi, [139]-333 pp. 8vo. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Important paper in which Joule refines his calculation on the amount of energy he determined as the "expenditure of a mechanical force represented by the fall of 772 lbs. through the space of one foot." (p.82). He established the mean number at 772.692. Also contains Michael Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Twenty-Third Series" (pp. 171-188). x, [1]-296 pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1792. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. Herschel's further observations of Saturn, includes a folding plate engraved by Basire illustrating three views of Saturn during its rotation. This complete volume of papers by numerous authors on a variety of subjects including medicine, natural history, physics, mathematics and archaeology, illustrated with numerous plates. iii-vi, [1], [1]-195, [1]-26, [iii]-v, [1], [197]-460, [8] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.