The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein - 1946

New York: Howes Publishing Co., 1927. Same date on title and copyright pages. Olive green cloth boards with black background to the titles. 191 numbered pages including index. The author was Professor of Chemistry and Dyeing at the Lowell Textile School. This book was intended to be "introductory to the author's lectures on the subject of Textile Chemistry and Dyeing". The front board has an area of bleaching (possibly from a careless laboratory session?). The spine is darkened such that the title is difficult to read. There is some wear to the extremities. The top and fore edges have a previous owner's name and a date (1936) written on them. The front free endpaper has some pencilled notes. Six pages have some notes inked on them. The binding is square and tight. A nice copy of a very scarce title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1979. Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 6 double-sided plates from black and white photographs, line drawings throughout the text. A fine copy in the jacket. First edition, first impression and a fine copy, uncommon in such nice condition. Mary Leakey (1913-1996) was an accomplished archaeologist and paleoanthropologist who worked primarily on early humanoid fossils in Kenya and Tanzania with her husband and scientific partner Louis Leakey. "The site that will always be associated with Mary Leakey is Olduvai Gorge, a canyon in northern Tanzania containing rich collections of fossils and artefacts spanning about the last 2 million years. This became her second home, where she enjoyed fieldwork and research, accompanied by her pack of beloved dalmatian dogs, of which she was a well-known breeder. At Olduvai on 17 July 1959 she made one of the most famous fossil discoveries of all time, the skull of a 1.8 million-year-old early human relative whom… Read More

Caldwell-Clements, Inc. , 1950. Hardcover. Good. Radio and Television Retailing: Bound Magazines. Six issues: January 1950 - June 1950. Important trade publication for television, radio, appliances and more at the dawn of the golden age of television. With sales exploding at mid-century, technical advances and innovations came hot and heavy, and Radio and Television Retailing chronicled them, reviewed new products in every issue, published technical and marketing articles, industry data and forecasts, advertiser lists, extensive retail locations directories and more. Includes thousands of illustrated ads representing a virtual who's who of mid-century manufacturers of televisions, AM, FM, car and battery operated portable radios, record players, consoles, parts (some obscure, e.g., television screen magnifiers), servicing tools and equipment, antennas, television and radio stars, solid mahogany cabinetry (in its heyday) and more. Notably, televisions, FM broadcasting, portable radios and 45 rpm… Read More

Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. 6-3/4" x 10" Softcover; First Edition; 121pp; Covers slightly edgeworn & age-toned, previous owner's name inside front cover, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Scarce vintage report from the Interdepartmental Student Project in Systems Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spring Term, 1967. Supposing that the four billion ton asteroid labeled 1566 Icarus was going to collide with the earth, MIT professor Paul Sandorff asked his students to create a plan to prevent the collision. The plan was the inspiration for the 1979 film Meteor. Illustrated with diagrams.

Nurnberg: Verlag Hans Carl, 1948. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. VG+ in Fair only dw (lacking spine). 8vo, 216pp, orange cloth stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. First trade edition of this important occult work (which had been privately published in 1936). Text in German. Unmarked copy, the fragile dustwrapper is present but spine is lacking, interior pages have toning of acidic postwar paper stock.

New York: Howes Publishing Co., 1927. Same date on title and copyright pages. Olive green cloth boards with black background to the titles. 191 numbered pages including index. The author was Professor of Chemistry and Dyeing at the Lowell Textile School. This book was intended to be "introductory to the author's lectures on the subject of Textile Chemistry and Dyeing". The front board has an area of bleaching (possibly from a careless laboratory session?). The spine is darkened such that the title is difficult to read. There is some wear to the extremities. The top and fore edges have a previous owner's name and a date (1936) written on them. The front free endpaper has some pencilled notes. Six pages have some notes inked on them. The binding is square and tight. A nice copy of a very scarce title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1979. Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. 6 double-sided plates from black and white photographs, line drawings throughout the text. A fine copy in the jacket. First edition, first impression and a fine copy, uncommon in such nice condition. Mary Leakey (1913-1996) was an accomplished archaeologist and paleoanthropologist who worked primarily on early humanoid fossils in Kenya and Tanzania with her husband and scientific partner Louis Leakey. "The site that will always be associated with Mary Leakey is Olduvai Gorge, a canyon in northern Tanzania containing rich collections of fossils and artefacts spanning about the last 2 million years. This became her second home, where she enjoyed fieldwork and research, accompanied by her pack of beloved dalmatian dogs, of which she was a well-known breeder. At Olduvai on 17 July 1959 she made one of the most famous fossil discoveries of all time, the skull of a 1.8 million-year-old early human relative whom… Read More

Caldwell-Clements, Inc. , 1950. Hardcover. Good. Radio and Television Retailing: Bound Magazines. Six issues: January 1950 - June 1950. Important trade publication for television, radio, appliances and more at the dawn of the golden age of television. With sales exploding at mid-century, technical advances and innovations came hot and heavy, and Radio and Television Retailing chronicled them, reviewed new products in every issue, published technical and marketing articles, industry data and forecasts, advertiser lists, extensive retail locations directories and more. Includes thousands of illustrated ads representing a virtual who's who of mid-century manufacturers of televisions, AM, FM, car and battery operated portable radios, record players, consoles, parts (some obscure, e.g., television screen magnifiers), servicing tools and equipment, antennas, television and radio stars, solid mahogany cabinetry (in its heyday) and more. Notably, televisions, FM broadcasting, portable radios and 45 rpm… Read More

Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good-. 6-3/4" x 10" Softcover; First Edition; 121pp; Covers slightly edgeworn & age-toned, previous owner's name inside front cover, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Scarce vintage report from the Interdepartmental Student Project in Systems Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spring Term, 1967. Supposing that the four billion ton asteroid labeled 1566 Icarus was going to collide with the earth, MIT professor Paul Sandorff asked his students to create a plan to prevent the collision. The plan was the inspiration for the 1979 film Meteor. Illustrated with diagrams.

Nurnberg: Verlag Hans Carl, 1948. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. VG+ in Fair only dw (lacking spine). 8vo, 216pp, orange cloth stamped in gold, printed dustwrapper. First trade edition of this important occult work (which had been privately published in 1936). Text in German. Unmarked copy, the fragile dustwrapper is present but spine is lacking, interior pages have toning of acidic postwar paper stock.