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London: Royal Society of London, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains Faraday's "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Fifteenth Series" (pp. 1-12). iv, [5], [1]-12, [1]-438, [8] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

London: Royal Society of London, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Also contains Charles Wheatstone's article, "Contributions to the Physiology of Vision. Part the First. On Some Remarkable, and Hitherto Unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision." (pp. 371-394). Also contains Michael Faraday's articles, "Experimental Researches in Electricity -- Eleventh, Supplementary Note, Twelfth, Thirteenth & Fourteenth Series" (pp. 1-40, 79-82, 83-124, 125-168, 265-282). ix, [1]-59, [1]-414, [8] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

Braunschweig, Germany: Friedr. Vieweg & Son, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Otto Stern's (1888-1969) article, "Eine direkte messung der thermischen molekulargeshwinidigkeit" ("Direct measurement for the thermal molecular velocity"). Also contains Niels Bohr's (1884-1962) article that first gave a name to the correspondence principle. iv, 478 pp. 8vo. Gray cloth spine with gray patterned cloth covers. Some scuffing overall with a clean interior. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper.

London: Taylor and Francis, 1928. First Edition. English translation of Losev's paper in Russian (published inTelegrafiya i Telefoniya bez Provodov in 1927) in which he describes the discovery of the light emitting diode (LED). x, 1296 pp. 29 Plates. 8vo. Recent brown three quarter leather bindings with five raised bands at spine, black title patch with gold embossed titling, gold lines offsetting bands, blind embossed borders to front and rear boards. Interior very clean.

Lancaster, PA: American Physical Society, 1951. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Announcement of the discovery of Positronium, an atom that consists of an electron and its antiparticle, a positron, and is therefore the lightest atom. The orbit of the two particles is similar to that of the hydrogen atom (electron and proton). Because the electron and positron annihilate one another, positronium has a very short half-life (approximately 125 picoseconds). 349-262 pp. 4to. Green paper wraps with slight darkening at edges of covers from age. Clean within.

London: Royal Society of London, 1824. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Very Good. William Hyde Wallston indicates at the outset of his article that "portrait painting is not altogether a fit subject to be brought before the Royal Society..." but goes on to explain that his paper looks at the rules of perspective which is purely mathematical. Five plates follow the paper, with two having movable sheets to show shift in perspective. iv, 498, 10 [19] pp. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling, scuffing and tears where call numbers have been removed. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound.

New York, NY: Doubleday, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First Printing of the Illustrated Edition. Exceptional book with breathtaking illustrations that bring it alive. Clean, crisp, never read and in mylar cover!

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. First Printing. 276 pp. 8vo. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Light dust staining to head of text block. Clean, within.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Printing. 58 pp. 4to. "Album" at rear of photographs and drawings unpaginated. Gray dust jacket with scuffing and wear, now in mylar cover. Light blue paper covered boards with navy blue bloth spine and gold embossed titling. Clean within. [Purcell 15].

Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Second Printing. xix, 238 pp. 4to. Light scratch at center of front cover, clean and crisp within. No dust jacket, as issued.

New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. 272 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Second installment in an exceptional work that both explains the rise in film noir but also features the books that inspired the films. An important refernce work for any bibliophile with an interest in film and mid-century America. Printed in a Deluxe Limited Edition of 110 copies, this is copy #23 and is signed by Kevin Johnson and Guy Maddin on the colophon. xi, 252 pp. Folio. Red cloth boards with title blind embossed on front board, gold embossed to spine. Housed in matching red cloth slipcase.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. x, 468 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

Berlin, Germany: Julius Springer, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Max Born's (1882-1970) third and most complete paper on his probabilistic interpretation of Erwin Schrödinger's wave equation. viii, 911 pp. 8vo. Black cloth spine with marbled paper covers. Some scuffing overall with a clean interior. Previous owner's name in ink on first free endpaper.

Innsbruck: Verlag Der Wagner'schen Universitats-Buchhandlung, 1901. As. Hard Cover. Very Good. 52 pp, 8 color plates, 1 photo-type plate. Folio. Brown cloth covered boards with gold border surrounding a fishing scene. Wear and scuffing to edges, bumping, spine cloth has been removed but covers still tight and intact, front hinge starting. A very nice reproduction of an important fishing text from the collection of Maximilian I (Holy Roman Emperor from 1501-1515). Stunning color plates.

Sinclair Hitchings, 2010. First Edition. Broadside. Fine. 9 1/2 by 13 inches of David McCord's Oregon published by Sinclair Hitchings in memory of David McCord and Ray Nash. This is the facsimile edition by Stephen Stinehour. The original edition was printed for the Massachusetts Historical Society by the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, Vermont in 1959 and was designed by Ray Nash.

New York: Abrams, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Nash, David. First Printing. 168 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

Shepherdstown, WV: Somondoco Press, 2018. First Edition. Trade paperback. Fine. xiv, 259 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The first chapter of Gold's novel about Charlie Chaplin. Produced by Powell's Books as part of their IndieSpensable program with a wraparound label announcing the piece. Printed in a limited edition of 850 copies, this being #841 and signed by Gold at the colophon. 46 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy.

Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, 1997 & 2000. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Fascinating photographs of common day may over the 40-year period from 1880-1920, with illuminating annotations by the author. An important set for anyone serious about studying Maine's history. Part I: 379 pp. 4to.; Part II: 384 pp. 4to. Both copies have light scuffing from shelf wear, clean within.