Resultados de búsqueda: Science from Tulsa Books

American Book Company; (1933). First Edition . Hardcover. Near fine with no dust jacket. Small "Tulsa County Historical Society" stamp on endpapers and top edge of pages. An unused textbook, with an Introduction by Willaim H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, then governor of Oklahoma, and signed by Murray on the front pastedown above his name, which is stamped there. An unusual item.

NY: Farrar Straus Giroux; (1981). First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, with no statement of printing on the copyright page, near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Very light soiling to the top edge of the page block. The jacket spine is sunned, otherwise the jacket has just minor wear. $10.95 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book. Includes endpaper charts of geologic eras; 216 pages. A tight, square copy.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company; (1959). First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Stated first edition, very good in a very good dust jacket. Small, dime-sized hole in jacket and scuff to book on the rear board. The jacket spine has a little wear ast the bottom edge. The author underwent a mental health crisis (schizophrenia/manic depression) and has written this book about his eventual cure.

(Oklahoma City, OK): University of Oklahoma College of Pharmacy; (1993). First Edition . Hardcover. No Jacket. Fine with no dust jacket, as issued. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board, and the seal of the College of Pharmacy on the front board. Includes many photographs, appendices, endnotes, and an index; 171 pages. No names or other writing in the book, an as new copy.

Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1959. First Separate . Soft cover. Offprint of the obituary in Volume 43, No. 1, January 1959 of the Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Fine in printed wraps. Cover and four page in stapled wraps, includes a photograph of Decker.

NY: Philosophical Library; (1955). First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First US edition, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Pages are just slightly toning; a couple of tiny spots of soiling to beige cloth. The jacket has a little wear at the spine ends. Includes foldout diagram, drawings and tables, appendices, and an index; 368 pages. $15.00 publisher's price on rear flap; no names or other marking in the book.

Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1820. Hardcover. Second edition, corrected and enlarged, very good- in the original leather. Some writing on pastedowns and facing pages. Front endpaper and one or two pages at rear are missing (the last page is the index through "L"). The leather is worn, especially at the top corner of the rear board, but the title is still legible on the spine. Interior pages are stiff with dampstaining sporadically throughout, but are readable and well bound (no loose signatures, etc.).

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1942. First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Small "Tulsa County Historical Society" stamp on endpapers and top edge of pages. The jacket has a little edgewear and rubbing, and a couple of tiny pulls near the bottom of the spine. Inscribed by the author and dated in 1942 on the front endpaper. Includes a Foreword by Ding Darling, a few illustrations, appendix and an index; 283 pages.

NY: Harmony Books; (1996). First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First printing, fine in a fine dust jacket. Includes numerous illustrations, bibliography, and an index; 244 pages. $25.00 price on jacket flap; no names or other marking in or on the book.

Golden, CO: Colorado School of Mines, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. The Foreword states that this book is a "revision of notes on this subject compiled in 1932." The book appears to be a typescript, but is fully bound in dark green cloth with no lettering on the spine or boards. Ownership name on front endpaper with both a US and an Argentinian address. Large book with numerous mathematical formulae and many diagrams. 364 numbered pages, but many page numbers have multiples (for example, page 87a through 87n are each one page). Has the look of a thesis or dissertation.

London: Neville Spearman (1959). First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First UK edition, very good with no dust jacket. Owner's name, town, and year on the front pastedown with a series of numbers below. The front endpaper has a pencilled inscription on which I cannot make out the names. The text of the inscription is: "To mine loyal assistant in der experiments conducted at der Schtunken-Werkes (?) in Baden-Baden..." A couple of pencil lines on last two pages of text. Includes many illustrations and an index; 264 pages.

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1934. First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Very good+ in a very good+ dust jacket. Top edge of page block is a little dusy and spotted. Light sunning to green cloth on spine. The jacket is also sunned on the spine, and has a few small chips and tears at the edges. Yellow sticker on front panel of jacket "Recommended by the Scientific Book Club". Includes a bibliography, index of authorities, and index of subjects; 439 pages.

London: Bodley Head; (2014). First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First UK edition, fine in a near fine dust jacket. The jacket has just a touch of wear at the top of the rear panel. Includes a section of b&w photographs, abbreviations, endnotes, and an index; 323 pages. A scientific and historical look at the development of the human brain and man's place in history.

NY: McGraw-Hill; (1963). First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing, very good in a very good dust jacket. Small name on front endpaper; one page (pg 27) has parts of four lines underlined in ink. The price clipped jacket has slight loss at spine ends and to chips at edges of the front panel. The author is known as the "father of wireless networking" for his work in the early 1970's at the University of Hawaii on ALOHAnet. Laid in is what looks like a test where this book was a textbook an electrical engineering course.

(London): Duckworth; (1984). First Edition . Hardcover. First UK edition, very good in a very good dust jacket. A few page corners have been dogeared and straightened; slight bumps at top corners. Owner's name on front pastedown, mainly behind the flap. The jacket spine and top edge of front panel are a little sunned. Minor general edgewear to the jacket. Publisher's price at bottom of front flap. Sacks' story of regaining the use of his leg that was badly injured.

NY: Simon & Schuster; (1981). First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Publisher's stamp on bottom edge of page block. The jacket has very light edgewear and a touch of soiling to the rear panel. $12.95 price on front flap; no names or other marking in the book. Includes drawings, appendix, further reading, and an index; 192 pages. The Nobel laureate's theories of the origin of life.

Boston: Beacon Press; (1962). First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The jacket spine is just slightly sunned. Biography of the doctor who discovered ether as an anesthetic. Includes a few photographs, endnotes, bibliography, and an index; 175 pages. Laid in is a typed card from the publisher identifying this as an advance copy. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, dated in 1962, with the following inscription in the author's hand at the bottom of the front endpaper: "Written as a tribute to one of our great Americans - an unsung hero.

NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1940. First Edition . Hardcover. Very good+ lacking a dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown; gilt lettering and decorations on spine are slightly dulled. A little spotting to the rear endpapers. Includes frontispiece photo of the Dionne quintuplets, additional photographs, bibliography, and an index; 214 pages.

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. First Edition . Hardcover. No Jacket. Very good in original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and embossed rules on front and rear boards. Spine ends are a little worn and slightly frayed. Dark brown endpapers; the front pastedown has a couple of pulls to the top layer of paper. Corners are a little pushed. Hinges are tight; a solid, square copy.

Edinburgh: Willam P. Nimmo, 1869. Full-Leather. Twelfth Thousand" very good+ in a leather binding with the words "Reading School" in a gilt design on the front board. Marbled endpapers and page edges, five raised bands on spine, black title label on spine with one tiny piece missing, marbled page edges. A little rubbing to edges of spine, a little wear generally to the boards. Color folding frontispiece, many illustrations; 385 pages. A book on English geology.