New York: Delacorte Press (1998), 1998. First printing. Hardcover. 368 pp. Price of $23.95 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of Hickam's wonderful memoir of his boyhood in Coalwood, West Virginia in which he and a group of friends became interested in rocketry, an interest that eventually led... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. First printing. Hardcover. 336pp. Bound in black cloth with gold decoration on the front board and gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award. A sharp copy of... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First printing. Hardcover. 181 pp. Bound in pale yellow cloth with blue decorations on the boards and decorations and lettering in blue on the spine. Price of $3.00 on front flap of dust jacket. A Near Fine book with a bit of age toning... More
New York: HarperCollins (2001), 2001. First American edition. Hardcover. 384 pp. Tan paper-covered boards quarter bound in textured brown cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $26.00 on front flap. First printing of the first American edition. A sharp copy of the first book in Cornwell's popular Grail... More
New York: Bantam Books (1985), 1985. First printing. Hardcover. 294 pp. Light blue paper-covered boards quarter bound in dark blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $15.95 on front flap of jacket. A very near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear. More
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 479 pp. Fraenkel was a mathematician perhaps best-known as the F in ZF or Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, an axiomatization of set theory intended to avoid paradoxes (one of the most famous being Russell's paradox). Fraenkel's most famous result was to prove the... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1946. First printing. Hardcover. 217 pp. This is a review of the principal results and techniques related to Lie groups (as of the time the book was written) intended for advanced graduate students or working mathematicians and was considered the standard text on Lie groups... More
San Francisco: Holden-Day, 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 230 pp. This is a review of the principal results and techniques related to Lie groups (as of the time the book was written) intended for advanced graduate students or working mathematicians. Hochschild was a student of Claude Chevalley at Princeton and is... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company [1964], 1964. First printing. Hardcover. 429 pp. Bound in blue cloth with white and light blue lettering on the spine, red topstain, illustrated endpapers and pastedowns in color. Price of $8.95 on front flap of jacket. Numerous black and white photographs and several color photographs... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 375 pp. Blue-green paper-covered boards quarter bound in off-white cloth with copper-colored lettering on the spine, light blue endpapers and pastedowns with maps, teal topstain. Price of $18.95 on front jacket flap. Signed by the author on the title page. Winner... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 451 pp. Tan paper covered boards quarter bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine and author's initials in gilt on the front board. Price of $24.00 on front jacket flap. First printing of the first edition (this copy... More
New York: Random House (1985), 1985. First printing. Hardcover. 288 pp. Bound in blue cloth with copper-colored facsimile of author's signature on front board and copper-colored lettering on the spine, blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $17.95 on front jacket flap. Winner of the National Book Award. A sharp copy... More
New York: HarperCollins (1997), 1997. First printing. Hardcover. 435 pp. Price of $25.00 on front flap of jacket. More
New York: Book of the Month Club [1999], 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 376 pp. First hardcover edition. Published by the Book-of-the-Month Club (no trade hardcover was produced). Ahearn APG 088c. A Very Good+ book with a small abrasion to the bottom edge of the front board and very slight bumping... More
New York: Viking (2012), 2012. First printing. Hardcover. 581 pp. Price of $28.95 on front flap of jacket. Book Two of the All Souls trilogy. More
New York: Tor Books (1992), 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 701 pp. Price of $24.95 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of Book Four in the Wheel of Time series. A Very Good book with a slight separation between the backstrip and the top textblock and significant offsetting/discolration... More
New York: Grove Press (1977), 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 302 pp. Bound in black cloth with light blue and dark blue lettering on the spine. Price of $10.00 on front flap of jacket. Edited by Gordon Ball. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First printing. Hardcover. 218 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. A very attractive copy of this early Asimov science fiction novel, and uncommon thus. Currey 19. Just about Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a few traces of... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. 276 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Clifford N. Geary. Currey 234. Ahearn APG 015a. An attractive copy of this Heinlein juvenile novel, becoming increasingly difficult to find in collectible condition. A Near Fine book with... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap [1940], 1940. First printing. Hardcover. 220 pp. The seventeenth book in the Nancy Drew mystery series. Farah 1940A-1. Near Fine book with very slight spine lean and a contemporary gift inscription (dated December 25, 1940) in pencil on the free front endpaper in a Very... More
New York: Del Rey, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. 324 pp. Blue paper-covered boards bound in light blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on front jacket flap. Near Fine with slight bumps to the bottom corners of the boards, some small areas of minor discoloration to... More
New York: Delacorte Press [1974], 1974. First printing. Hardcover. 263 pp. Price of $8.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A lovely copy of one of Deloria's early books, a history of the United States Government's abuse of Native American tribes and the long record of broken promises... More
New York: A New Directions Book [1951], 1951. First printing. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Small 8vo., rough cut textblock. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A presentable copy of the fourth volume in the epic poem that Williams wrote, published over twelve years. All five volumes of... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. First printing. hardcover. 150 pp. Includes the original bookstore price-stamp of $12.50 on the free front endpaper. An attractive copy of Kripke's second book, an exposition of Wittgenstein's rule-following paradox and solutions to it. Kripke's book has been influential since its publication and continues... More
