Cherry Hill, NJ: RCA American Communications, (1982). Paperback. Published 1982, 4to, color glossy stapled wraps, 8 pp, illustrated, including color photos. Loosely inserted are 9 glossy press photographs of the Space Shuttle and its components each with RCA news release info enfolding the photo, plus a tenth sheet describing the.....
Hardcover. All housed in handsome folding blue cloth box. From the estate of Irwin's two first cousins, Olive Irwin and Edith Irwin Baum (both long-term employees at Gulf Oil). Irwin served as the Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15 (1971, 4th manned moon landing) and was the eighth person to.....
Japan: The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 2000. Paperback. Paperback, 2000, quarto, 421pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book VG+ with rubbing and mild edgewear to wrap, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. No DJ. Text in English and Japanese.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. First printing. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, 224pp.
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Saber y Tiempo, 2001. Paperback. Trade wraps, very good plus with lightest fading to joints, xxix, 562 pages : illustrations.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. Adolf Grunbaum's copy with his signature on the front flyleaf and his notes to the text. First edition, 1976. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 179 pp., Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket, Grunbaum's ink-notations to some pages, age-toning and wear.....
New York: Dover, 1978. Reprint. Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. 1978. Reprint. Hardcover, 8vo. in black cloth, with dust jackets. 2138pp total, illustrated. Fine in near fine dust jackets. Edge wear to djs, now housed in mylar. Internally clean and unmarked. 3vol.
New York: Dover, 1978. revised and enlarged edition. Three volumes, complete. 8vo. in dust jackets. Varying internal paginations, illustrated. Very good in very good dust jackets. Light edge wear, price stickers to dj. Edges faintly foxed. Internally unmarked. Set may require extra postage. 3vol.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. First printing. Illustrated boards, no DJ., 207+pp.
Andover: Mark Newman, 1818. Hardcover. 1818. Hardcover, 8vo., full calf, title label (Chalmer's Works) and gilt bands on spine. Staggered pagination. Good copy: leather rubbed at corners; outer hinges cracked, but boards holding ok; flaking and wear to spine. Previous owner's signature on fly leaf and title page. Some offsetting.....
Philadelphia: E. C. & J. Biddle, 1845. Reprint. Hardcover. "1845. Reprint, ""Uniform edition."" Hardcover, 8vo., 394 pp. Profusely illustrated with b&w figures and 5 double-sided plates depicting the position of stars at various points throughout the year. Good. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Foxing throughout; age-toning to pages; some.....
Arthur L. Draper was director of the Hayden Planetarium in NYC, then director of Buhl Planetarium in Pittsburgh from 1940 to 1967. This is a folder of papers from Draper's collection, including typescripts with multiple handwritten corrections, and typed accounts by other astronomers, possibly for inclusion in his popular "The.....
New York: Dial Press, 1939. Hardcover. 1939, Edition not stated. Hardcover in Very Good condition, with very light edge wear. The dust jacket is also in Very Good condition, with light edge wear.
Firenze (Florence): Societa Editrice Fiorentina, 1842-1856. First printing. Hardcover. 16 volumes, tall 8vo, half green leather and cloth boards, good to very good, scuffing and rubbing to leather, light occasional loss to spine ends, all joints and hinges solid and firm, ex-library Carnegie Free Library in Allegheny PA with their.....
London: D. Midwinter, 1726. Hardcover. Volume I only. 8vo, old calf, good with front joint neatly strengthened, replacement spine label (paper), contents very good with all plates collated present, moderate wear and tanning to title page. xii (4) 512 pp, with 34 plates total. This volume does not print Halley.....
Cambridge, Mass./London: Harvard University Press, 1999. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, 1999. Large 8vo, cloth handcover, ix + 366 pp. Illustrated throughout in b & w, plus several color plates in center. Indexed. Book is Near Fine, clean with no markings. Dust jacket is Near Fine. Dust jacket housed in archival.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 2005, hardcover with cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, octavo, 358pp., illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild wear to boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ near fine with hint of edgewear, front flap price-clipped.....
Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1973. Paperback. Paperback, 1973, quarto, 378pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG- with front panel showing stamps and marker swipes, rear panel soiled, toning and rubbing, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. No DJ.
New York: Garland Pub. 1993. Hardcover. 1993. Hardcover, octavo. 686 pp. Near fine. Extremities lightly bumped. Contents clean, bright and unmarked.
NyNy: A S. Barnes & Co. 1886. Very Good. Cloth hardbound, 72 pp., clean unmarked text, a very good copy, slight rubbing/soil to covers, expert-repair to spine, slight foxing to endpapers. Binding is Cloth.
New York: Silver, Burdett and Company, 1898. Hardcover. Hardcover with black and gilt stamped blue cloth boards, 1898, octavo, 340pp., color frontispiece, otherwise illustrated in b&w + star charts at rear. Book good+ with rubbing and mild edgewear to boards, binding tight, text shows mild toning and foxing throughout. No.....
Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son, 1819. Later printing. Hardcover. "A New Edition, Corrected and Improved." Volume one only. Full leather, spine-label, 248 pp., illustrated with 8 plates at rear, clean unmarked text, Good copy only, front board detached but present, soil and discoloration to the pages of the text, owner's.....
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1966. Hardcover. Cloth hardbound in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, 498 pp., near fine in very good+ dust jacket, slight rubbing/soil to dust jacket, some minor wear to dust jacket with some closed tears, creases, etc.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973. First American edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book near fine, jacket VG with light mellowing to spine color. 531 pp.
Mexico City: Eduardo Dublan, 1903. Paperback. Published 1903, pale green printed wraps, small 8vo, 7 pp, tanning and light soil to covers. RARE, only 3 copies in OCLC, Harvard, Florida, and Montpellier France.