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New York: Scribner's, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo. 273 pages, brown cloth Autobiography of the Nebraskan scientist and science writer and humanist.. Illustrated by Emanuel Haller.

New York: Philosophical Library, (1951). First edition. Hardcover. Fine/price-clipped. 8vo, 369 pages, gray cloth Ries invented pratical methods and apparatus for welding and riveting by electricity, and the photographing of sound on film. Thus, he 'invented' the talkies. Westinghouse Electric paid sixty thousand for rights to 65 of his inventions -but the would have paid half a million if they had been pushed!

No place, no date [ 1917]. First edition. Wrappers. Very Good. Octavo, 78 / 78 pages, brown printed wrappers with yapp edges with short tears " The first time I saw an aeroplane fly was at Le Mans, France in the summer of 1908. Wilbur Wright had come over from America to make some demonstrations ...." McCormick relates his extended first meeting with Wright at LeMans, for his first and record-breaking flight in France. Soon thereafter, McCormick took his first flight at Dayton piloted by Frank [sic] Parmalee {surely Philip Orin Parmelee (d.1912) ], which is also described at length. McCormick was a scion of Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of the McCormick reaper. He succeeded his older brother, Cyrus, as Chairman of the Board of International Harvester, and married John D. Rockefeller's daughter. Princeton University, his alma mater, holds his Aviation archives. Altho not a pilot himself, McCormick was an early, passionate devotee to manned flight. This is evident in this wide-ranging,… Read More

Chicago & NY: J. G. Ferguson / Crowell, (1966). First Trade edition. Hardcover. Fine. Harry H-K Lange, photos. 4to, 244 pages, handcrafted mission leather, a.e.g. Ex libris Arthur Dallman Von Braun has been called the leading rocket engineer in the Western world. Ordway was a primary astronautical archivist. Illustrated with photos by Harry H-K Lange.

HarperCollins, 2004. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 402 pages, clothbacked boards, remainder mark on bottom edge. Culpeper was an outcast and a rebel from the in-crowd of the College of Medicine in London. Unbelievable, but apparently true, this is the first full biography of Culpeper. "Riveting - The New Scientist."

Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. photos. 8vo, 441 pages, black cloth; tough of waterstain at bottom corner of the lower dj flap. McCracken was an writer and art expert who became the Director of the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum. When he started he was a youth looking for adventure, inspired by Jack London. Nine sections of illustrations.