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First Edition of How Google Works; Signed by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
SCHMIDT, Eric and Jonathan Rosenberg.
How Google Works.
New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2014.
First edition of this "informative and creatively multilayered Google guidebook from the businessman's perspective" (Kirkus). Octavo, original boards. Signed by both Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jonathan Jarvis. Written with Alan Eagle. Foreword by Larry Page.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 117377
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First Edition of Santiago Ramón y Cajal's Studies on Vertebrate Neurogenesis
RAMóN Y CAJAL, Santiago.
Studies on Vertebrate Neurogenesis.
Springfield: Charles C Thomas Publisher, 1960.
First edition in English of the Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist's important treatise on vertebrate neuroembryology. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Translated by Lloyd Guth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in this condition.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 126007
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First edition of Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years; signed by Jane Goodall
GOODALL, Jane. Edited by Dale Peterson.
Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.
First edition of the second volume of Goodall's personal and professional correspondence; a welcome sequel to her critically acclaimed Africa in My Blood. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For the Rhoads Family- Together we can make a difference Jane Goodall." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Martha Kennedy.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 142049
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“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think": First edition of Einstein: His Life and Universe; Signed by Walter Isaacson
ISAACSON, Walter.
Einstein: His Life and Universe.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
First edition of the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated. Signed by Walter Isaacson on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by David Ter-Avanesyan.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 144608
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First Edition of Wrinkles in Time; Lengthily Inscribed by Nobel Prize-winning Physicist George Smoot
SMOOT, George and Keay Davidson.
Wrinkles in Time.
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993.
First edition of the story of "the scientific discovery of the century, if not all time" (Stephen Hawking). Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated endpapers, illustrated with 8 pages of color photographs and 50 line drawings. Inscribed by Smoot on the half-title page, "For John There is something about looking at the night sky that makes a person wonder Best Wishes George Smoot." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Gamarello.
Price: $350.00 Item Number: 62011
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First Edition of Evolution: The First Four Billion Years; Signed by Edward O. Wilson
RUSE, Michael and Joseph Travis.
Evolution: The First Four Billion Years.
Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
First edition of this work on evolutionary thought. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has drawn a picture of an ant. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 14051
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Charles Darwin's The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms
DARWIN, Charles.
The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits.
London: John Murray, 1881.
Early edition of this study of the habits of worms. Octavo, original publisher's green cloth, illustrated with diagrams, errata slip tipped in. In very good condition with light bumping to the crown and foot of the spine.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 146649
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First Edition of Desmond Morris' The Human Zoo; Inscribed by Him in the year of Publication
MORRIS, Desmond.
The Human Zoo.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1969.
First American edition of this work, which examines how the biological nature of the human species has shaped the character of the cultures of the contemporary world. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Gerald McNulty with best wishes from Desmond Morris 1969." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 85377
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First edition of David R. Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*
REUBEN, David R.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc, 1969.
First edition of David Reuben's wildly popular sex manual, one of the first sex manuals to enter mainstream culture. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Jacket photograph by Arthur Shay.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 117058
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First Edition of The Return; Signed by Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
ALDRIN, Buzz and John Barnes.
The Return: A Novel of Human Adventure.
New York: Forge/ Tom Doherty Associates, 2000.
First edition of Apollo 11 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin’s compelling work of fiction. Octavo, original glossy boards. Boldly signed by Buzz Aldrin on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 112686
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First edition in English of Charles Bossut's A General History of Mathematics; finely bound in full contemporary calf
BOSSUT, John.
A General History of Mathematics From the Earliest Times, to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1803.
First edition in English of Bossut's fundamental history of mathematics. Octavo, bound in full contemporary polished diced calf with gilt tooling to the spine, black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled, ribbon bound in. Translated from the French by John Bossut. In near fine condition. Contemporary ownership inscription. A very attractive 19th century binding.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 137152
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First Edition of THE GOD PARTICLE; Signed by Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Leon Lederman
LEDERMAN, Leon with Dick Teresi.
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
First edition of this work by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Leon Lederman on the title page. Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light shelfwear.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 141416
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Thomas Stafford's We Have Capture; Inscribed by Him
STAFFORD, Thomas P with Michael Cassutt.
We Have Capture: Tom Stafford and the Space Race.
Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2002.
First edition, early printing of this exhilarating memoir of an Apollo space flight commander. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated with black and white photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "To Ken, Tom Stafford." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147235
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First Edition of Dr. Edgar Mitchell and Dwight Williams' The Way of the Explorer; Inscribed by Edgar Mitchell
MITCHELL, Edgar with Dwight Williams.
The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical World.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996.
First edition of this engrossing evaluation of the contributions of space exploration to the future by the sixth man to walk on the moon. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Dr. Edgar Mitchell on the title page, "To Bud Best wishes Edgar Mitchell." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tom McKeveny.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 147174
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"May all the forces be with you!": First Edition of Frank Wilczek's The Lightness of Being; Lengthily Signed by Him and a Signed Photograph
WILCZEK, Frank.
The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces.
New York: Basic Books, 2008.
First edition of this "thrilling read... a glimpse of physics at its quirkiest and most illuminating" (The Economist). Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "May all the forces be with you! Frank Wilczek." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Rodrigo Corral. Also, laid in is a photograph signed by Frank Wilczek.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 106758
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First Edition of The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal; Inscribed by Jared Diamond
DIAMOND, Jared.
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal.
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
First edition of this early work by the award-winning scientist. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed and dated by Jared Diamond on the front free endpaper to noted book collector Larry Owens. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 5524