London: George Allen & Unwin LTD [1966], 1966. Presumed American First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [10], 248, [6] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $6.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with diagrams. Presumed American first edition, printed using the British sheets. A..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1982), 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [1], xi-xii, 1-139, [9] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Paul Davies is a physicist who has done important work on black holes, the design of the universe, and placement and properties..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], vi-xvi, [1], 2-704 pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on the front board and spine, spine also lettered in blue; faded blue topstain. Price of $8.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Preface by Bertrand Russell. An..... More
Glasgow: Gray, Maver & Co., 1804. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Slim 8vo. [5], 10-182, [4] pp. Full contemporary calf, spine in six compartments with a red morocco label lettered in gilt on the spine. Illustrated with seven beautiful fold-out copper plates. Intended as a textbook for young people to learn about..... More
[London]: British Broadcasting Corporation (1965), 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [4], 7-173, [1] pp. Royal blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 12s. 6d. on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with six plates and several in-text diagrams. The book is based on a...... 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
Reading, Massachusetts: Helix Books (1997), 1997. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xxvii, [3], 152, [10] pp. Quarter black cloth over pink paper boards with orange lettering on the spine. Price of $25.00 on front flap of dust jacket. More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company (1988), 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], 6-255, [1] pp. Red paper-covered boards quarter-bound in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $17.95 on front flap of dust jacket. A sharp copy. More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Helix Books/Perseus Books (1999), 1999. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xvi, [3], 2-270 pp. Quarter black paper over light yellow paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $24.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Edited by Jeffrey Robbins. Foreword by Freeman Dyson. A...... More
New York: Helix Books (1994), 1994. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xxix, [1], 1-146 pp. Black paper-covered boards quarter-bound in red cloth with metallic purple lettering on the spine, black endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $22.00 on front flap of jacket. Originally prepared for publication by Robert B. Leighton..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], xi-xvi, [2], 3-385, [5] pp. Bound in blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Includes several illustrations, an index, and a bibliography. Friedman, a well-known philosopher of science, explores the conceptual foundations of Relativity Theory (both Special and..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company (1996), 1996. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 9-191, [1] pp. Light brown paper-covered boards quarter-bound in tan cloth with bronze lettering on the spine. Price of $35.00 on front flap of jacket. More
New York: Bantam Books (1993), 1993. First printing. Hardcover. 182 pp. Price of $21.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of essays by one of the greatest physicists of the 20th and 21st centuries. A Near Fine book with a few bumps to the corners of..... More
New York: Bantam Books (1988), 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [1], 198 pp. Black paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Introduction by Carl Sagan. Scarce first issue in the silver-blue dust jacket and..... More
New York: Bantam Books (1988), 1988. First American edition. Hardcover. 198 pp. Black paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Price of $18.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American edition (second issue book and jacket). Introduction by Carl Sagan..... More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press [1996], 1996. First printing. Hardcover. 137 pp. Includes several line drawings,diagrams, and a list of references. More
New York: Harper & Brothers [1958], 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xv, [3], 206 pp. Bound in grey cloth with series design in red/orange on the front board, title on front board in white divided by a white horizontal rule, white lettering on the spine with a red/orange horizontal..... More
London: Harrap, 1974. First printing. 260 pp. Price of £6.10 on front flap of dust jacket. Translated by Gordon Reece. A study of the early development of Quantum Theory from 1900 - 1927. Very slight lean and a bit of wear to the edges of the boards. More
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1958. First printing. Hardcover. 135 pp. Price of $4.50 on front flap of jacket. Investigations in Physics No. 9. Previous owner's stamp on free front endpaper and title page else very near Fine in a very near Fine dust jacket. More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [1], 2-309, [1] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $16.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Near Fine book with previous owner's information written on front pastedown and blind stamp to the half-title..... More
Leipzig: Verlag und Druck von B.G. Teubner, 1922. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 159 pp. Bound in green cloth with black lettering on the spine and the front board. Mit einem beitrag von H. Weyl und Anmerkungen von A. Sommerfeld. Vorwort von O. Blumenthal. Vierte, vermehrte auflage. Lacks the dust jacket. A...... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. 436 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. Drawings by Sue Richert Allen. A sharp copy of this biography of..... More
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-xx, [4], 3-415, [1] pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $11.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Chosen, edited, and translated by A. Rupert Hall and Marie Boas Hall. Illustrated by a...... More
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], v-xiii, [3], 3-501, [1] pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering blocked in black on the spine. Price of $12.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by a frontispiece of Isaac Newton and by several facsimile title..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First printing. Hardcover. 146 pp. Price of $2.75 on front flap of jacket. A Very Good book with some foxing to the textblock, mild wear to the edges of the boards, and fading to the topstain; dust jacket is Very Good with some tape..... More