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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, 1966. First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. Top edge of pages are a little spotted. The price clipped jacket has a few short, closed tears at the edges. Includes some illustrations, 322 pages. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, with a photo of a boat affixed to the front endpaper (I'm assuming it was the boat the author alluded to in his inscription). A geologist's adventures from the Arctic to South America.

Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation; (1982). First Edition . Hardcover. Very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. A minor dampstain at the foredge of the page block the first 30 or 40 pages; the contents page is missing a piece which contains most of the page numbers for the listed sections; owner's stamp and handwritten date on front pastedown. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Includes a few illustrations, endnotes, and an index; 443 pages.

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.

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.

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; (1991). First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by author Scott McCartney on the half title page. A history of the nuclear weapons industry and its effects on both employees and neighbors. Includes some photographs, endnotes, bibliography and an index; 326 pages.

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.

Louisville, KY: The Standard Printing Co. 1938. First Edition . Hardcover. One of 300 copies, very good+ lacking a dust jacket. Gray boards are slightly soiled, with minor wear at corners of spine. Small, inoffensive dampstain to rear board at bottom (about the size of a dime). Map frontispiece, bibliography; 46 pages. The subtitle is "An account of the discoveries, early surveys, and regional geology of this famous Clastic of the Upper Mississippi Valley coupled with an outline of its stratigraphic correlatives in Kentucky to which are added notes on its oil and gas possibilities and a bibliography.

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.).

NY: Columbia University Press, 1947. First Edition . Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Fine in a very good dust jacket. The jacket has small chips at edges. The author is a proponent of using scientific processes to implement social change in the post-war era. 191 pages including an index.

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.

Somerville, NJ: C. P. Hoagland Company, 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Very good+ with no dust jacket. Small "Tulsa County Historical Society" stamp on front endpaper and top edge of pages; slight handling wear to the book. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper.

Paris: Hermann et Cie, 1932. First Edition . Hardcover. Originally issued in wraps, this copy has been rebound in red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, and marbled endpapers. Near fine, with owner's embossed name at the top of the front endpaper. An early treatise in quantum mechanics by this Nobel Laureate. 246 pages.