Search Results: Titles starting with S from Denominator Books (IOBA)

Amsterdam: Elzevir (Elsevier), 1653. First Edition. Leather_bound. Very Good. Small thick 8vo (4 5/8" x 2 5/8" x 1"). [Title leaf], *3-[*6], I-495pp; Has the engraved title, but lacks folding table and at least 1 leaf appearing before 1st dedication page, which is signed “ *3 “. Old leather front and back, laid down on matching new leather. Engraved title page worn with marginal chipping and ink notation to upper corner of verso. Text very good. First edition of this important collection of minor works, pamphlets and Latin fragments found in the papers of Bacon and published here for the first time in the care of Isaac Gruter.

Seattle: University Press of the Pacific, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Very good+. First American Edition. Hardcover, fine in very good+ dust jacket, with light rubbing and edge wear.

London: Macmillan, 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First (and only) edition of Huxley's complete scientific works, previously only available in the original scientific journals. 1898-1903. Complete in 5 volumes: 4 plus the supplementary volume. Numerous plates, many folding. A good ex-reference library set in the original red cloth gilt. Library plate to front pastedown of each volume, no other library markings apparent. Externally clean with some sun fading and minor scuffing to cloth boards. Vol. 1 backstrip split and reaffixed. Vol. 2 and the supplementary volume rebacked with new endpapers but retaining original backstrips. Text blocks of each volume are tight with no loose or missing pages, all plates present. Internally the volumes are overall clean and unmarked with very occasional small foxing spots and evidence of handling on a few pages of each volume. Overall a clean tight copy of this cornerstone of 19th Century biological thought. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), known as… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The first two volumes (of five) of Darwin's collected works, including significant contributions to the theory of moon formation. Volume I: 1907, 463 pp. Volume II: 1908, 516 pp. Both volumes very good in original navy cloth, text clean, endpapers foxed, previous owner's blindstamp. 004793

Leipzig: Lanckisch, 1752. Leather_bound. Good-. Leatherbound, 432 pp. + 5 plates. Good-. Binding solid; covers heavily scuffed; plates intact, but foxed. Pages also foxed. Paper label pasted to front cover. Welche an die Königliche Akademie der Wissenschafften zu Paris von einigen Gelehrten eingesendet, in ihren Versammlungen abgelesen und von ihr herausgegeben werden / aus dem Französischen ins Teutsche übersetzt von Ferdinand Wilhelm Beer. 004441

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931. First edition. Leather_bound. Good. Unique presentation copy to Professor Otto Loewi, discoverer of acetylcholine and Nobel Laureate in Medicine 1936, as the 11th Hughlings Jackson Memorial Lecturer at the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1946. Two volumes bound as one in red full leather with raised bands, gilt title on spine, Loewi's name gilt on front cover. Presentation page bound at front, and at rear is a mimeographed list of the distinguished previous lecturers including Penfield, Cannon, Adrian, with Loewi's name pencilled in as the 11th.Good. Spine is worn and flaking and hinges somewhat weak, however covers are very good, and pages clean and bright. pp. xiv+500, viii+510. Heirs of Hippocrates 2001. * 002223

London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in slipcase. LIMITED EDITION OF 150, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, frontispiece, original buckram, slipcase, 8vo, 111 pages.

Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1959. First edition. Softcover. Good+. Scarce and severely misbegotten collection of pro-smoking skepticism by one of the greatest statisticians. 48 pp. Good+ in original wraps with dent to top spine, library device inside rear cover. 104089

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Good-. First edition, first printing of the work laying out Arrow's impossibility theorem, which led to his Nobel prize in economics. Bound in blue boards with gilt lettering and Cowles Commission logo on front. Good-, ex-library with usual marks and call number on spine.

Warsaw (Warszawa): Widawnictwo Ministerstwa Obrony Narodowej, 1961. Paperback. Very good/very good. Very good copy of the true (Polish) first edition in jacket. Title in orange and black. 8vo, publisher's printed wrappers, backstrip leaning; dust jacket, skillful paper restorations to folds, spine panel and bottom edges on verso, corners clipped; contents clean, 1 page publisher's adverts at end. Scarce in jacket. Filmed three times, most memorably in 1974 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. Not published in another language until the French edition in 1964, and not in English until the Walker edition in 1970.

Baltimore, MD: American Psychiatric Association, 1954. Softcover. Very Good. Amnesia, as it is so often described by culprits and by novelists, is no more than fiction. The memory records...are relatively permanent." One page notes from Penfield's Menas S. Gregory Lecture at NYU, Dec 10, 1953. In the American Journal of Psychiatry, May 1954, 110(11):834. Entire issue offered, very good in original light blue wraps. 003513

Moscow: Library of International "Knowledge", 1961. Softcover. Very Good-. 40 pp. pamphlet in Russian. Very good- in original wraps with striking print of rocketry on front cover. "This book was written by the awardee of the Jurispridence doctorate who is the top international relations expert at the top academy of space flight in the CCCP." 004741

New York: no publisher, 1967. Softcover. Very Good+. Best Seller of 1967 / The Book that Every Young American Must Read." Octavo, yellow cardboard wraps, 62 pp. Apparently very scarce despite its self-proclaimed "best seller" status, only 4 copies in Worldcat. Very good+ condition, text clean, light fading to covers. 004569

Lancaster, PA: American Physical Society / American Institute of Physics / Physical Review, 1952. Softcover. Very Good. In The Physical Review, volume 87(5), September 1, 1952. This is pp. 835-842. Entire issue in blue paper wraps; very good with solid binding and slight wear to top of fore-edge and corners. This paper, which has been cited over 2500 times (Science Citation Index), was the first model of electron-hole recombination in a highly pure semiconductor, now known as Shockley-Read-Hall (SRH) recombination and of importance in semiconductors and solar technology. Issue also contains papers by Abraham Pais, Vera Kistiakowsky and others. * 003421

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Good, tan hardcover. First edition thus, n.d. [1930]. 102 pages, 20 plates. Some foxing to plates, previous owner's elegant bookplate and signature. "The best type of arrow which has come under my observation is undoubtedly that made by Ishi, the California Yahi Indian..."