New York: Charles Scribner's Sons [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 3-216, [2] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Introduction by I. Bernard Cohen. Part one is an autobiography of the physicist, part two is..... More
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press [1993], 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xvi, [3], 2-388, [2] pp. Bound in red cloth, gilt title inset within a black rectangle with decorative gilt borders and gilt lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece photo of Peirce, and a few full page..... More
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, Inc. [1981], 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xvi, 1-320 pp. Silver boards with red lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Eight double-sided plates of black and white photographs. Jacket design by Hal Siegel. A biography of..... More
New York: Basic Books [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], viii-xiii, [3], 3-182, [10] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several black and white diagrams and four plates with black and white photographs. Jacket design by William Davis. Crick's recollections of his life as..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vi, [2], 1-263, [1] pp. Dark orange paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black paper with gold letterig on the spine. Dark orange endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $24.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a few..... More
New York: Peebles Press (1979), 1979. First English language edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-219, [5] pp. Brown paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $12.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several pages of black and white photographs from Einstein's storied life. Nine..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press (1978), 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xxiii, [1], 1-536 pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $25.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a full-page portrait of Galileo. Bookplate on the front..... More
New York: Philosophical Library [1950], 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-vii, 1-282 pp. Light blue cloth over boards with facsimile of Einstein's signature in gold on the front board, gilt lettering blocked in dark blue rectangles on the spine, light blue topstain. Price of $4.75 on front flap of..... More
New York: Philosophical Library [1950], 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], 2, [2], 5-282 pp. Bound in navy cloth with a facsimile of Einstein's signature stamped in gold on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. This is the variant with the grey and red jacket and Einstein's picture..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company [2006], 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-x, [4], 3-511, [5] pp. Orange-red paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black textured paper with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $29.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Lacking the commemorative CD. Edited by Ralph Leighton..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-255, [1] pp. Half red cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several black and white photographs from Feynman's life and with a few diagrams. An erasure on the free..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company [1988], 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-255, [1] pp. Half red cloth over red paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs from Feynman's..... More
New York: Pantheon Books [1992], 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [9], x, [2], 3-531, [3] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $27.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with several black and white photographs and a few in-text diagrams. A Very..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [13], 2-268, [8] pp. Tan paper-covered boards quarter bound in green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $21.95 on front flap of jacket. Numerous black and white and color photographs; index. More
New York: Dutton (1997), 1997. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [11], xii-xvii, [2], 2-301, [1] pp. Blue paper-covered boards quarter bound in white textured paper with blue metallic lettering on the spine. Price of $24.95 on front flap of jacket. More
New York: Bantam Books (1993), 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [1], 182 pp. Quarter black cloth over black paper boards with orange lettering on the spine. Price of $21.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of essays by one of the greatest physicists of..... More
New York: Delacorte Press (1998), 1998. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xii, [5], 2-368 pp. Quarter cream cloth over cream paper boards with blue lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $23.95 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of Hickam's wonderful memoir of his boyhood..... More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xi, [6], 2-287, [1] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with several plates of black and white photographs, some from Babbage's life, others are diagrams of his work. The boards edges slightly bowed; jacket..... More
[New York]: Basic Books, Inc. Publishers [1953] [1955] [1957], 1953; 1955; 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 3 vol. 8vo. [10], xi-xiv, [2], 1-428, [4]; [7], viii-xiii, [6], 4-512; [7], viii-xvi, [5], 4-537, [3] pp. Royal blue cloth with silver and black lettering on the front board and spine, spine with blue..... More
New York: Pantheon Books (2012), 2012. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xvii, [3], 3-324, [10] pp. Grey paper boards with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $30.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with four plates of color photographs and with several in-text black and white..... More
Paris: J. Montorier, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [5], 8-132, [6] pp. Polished contemporary brown sheep with the spine in five compartments, gilt lettering on the spine; top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Bound by Françoise Le Boulenger. Bound without the half-title. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Marcano..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], viii-xvi, [3], 4-436, i-vii, [3] pp. Orange-yellow cloth over boards quarter bound in red cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine, yellow topstain. Price of $6.95 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated with in-text drawings by Sue..... More
London: Oxford University Press, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xii, [2], 3-313, [3] pp. Beige cloth with black lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece of a portrait of Boyle. Light wear to the boards' edges and mild foxing to the top textblock; jacket is..... More
London: The C.W. Daniel Company Ltd. (1939), 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-241, [1], [6] (pages of publisher's advertisements) pp. Orange cloth with green lettering on the spine. Price of 8/6 net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph of Adler. With a...... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [5], vi-xvii, [2], 2-565, [7] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with six double-sided plates of black and white photographs. An informative and useful biography of the pioneering physicist. Light wear to the boards' edges, else a...... More