Search Results: Titles starting with I from BRYAN BUNCH BOOKS

The Illinois River s entirely within the state of that name, the Land of Lincoln as the license plate notes. The history of the lands along the river is featured in this early volume of the Rivers of America series. The dust-jacket, protected in Mylar, is price clipped and there is a book plate on the endpaper on the back of the front cover, but the book is otherwise fine.

This novel is based upon true events at Auschwitz during World War II. It is signed by the author on the first page (see illustration).

Boston: Prindle, Weber, & Schmidt, 1969, 1971, & 1972. First edition. hardcover cloth. Fine/Revisited and Squared have original boxes in fine condition. Three of the four "Mathematical Circles" collections of the best and most interesting stories from the history of mathematics (regrettably missing volume 2 of the first collection. An indispensable collection for anyone writing about this history of mathematics, but a delight for anyone who is mathematically inclined In addition to missing volume 2 of the first set, volume 1 is missing a slipcase.

Rome, Pompei, the Etruscan civilization, and the Greek colonies of Italy

New York: Knopf, 1926. First American edition. Hardcover. Good. The original 1911 publication had 3 small printings and then was out of print for 14 years before Knopf persuaded the author to let him republish. Author's first book. Pages and binding are all intact, but label on spine (applied over blank cloth) now faded to near illegibility.

East St. Louis: Black River Writers, 1973. First edition. Trade Paperback. As New. Cover by Lucy B. Harrison. Eugene B. Redmond writes of his attempt to come to terms with the expanded dimensions of love--struggle, need, creative vehicle, violence, history, religion, therapy, race, and more. The poet is especially concerned with the encumbrances placed on black lovers. Signed on title page: "To Jenny, Peace and Joy LIfe - Great Luck- Peace - Up with People- Eugene , July 94"

A classic account of the behavior of chimpanzees in the wild by Jane Goodall, one of the world's best-known scientists. First edition--fine books in price-clipped DJ.

New York: John Wiley * Sons, 1996. First edition. Hardcover cloth. Like new/Like new. Covers the history of invention and engineering from James Watt though Thomas Edison: Steamboats, bridges, Railroads, Telegraph, Steel, and the lightbulb. Part of the Wiley Popular Science series. Many photographs and diagrams

The history of chemistry including alchemy, the scientific revolution, and 19th-20th century chemistry as told with the instruments used and the experiments conducted

Translated by Paula Fern. Isaac Asimov notes "a single clear and interesting volume [with] all the latest facts bearing on the problem of life in the universe ... presented ... with a light-heartedness that makes the book sheer pleasure." I concur.

A site-by-site history for the tourist.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover cloth. Very Good. Translated by Olaf Helmer. This classic undergraduate treatment by one of the four "greatest logicians of all time" [Vaught] examines the deductive method in its first part and explores applications of logic and methodology in constructing mathematical theories in its second part. Exercises appear throughout. A very slight staining on the front cover prevents the book from being like new.

New York: Random House, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Selections with introductions from Logic, Physics, Psychology and Biology, Metaphysics, Ethics, Rhetoric and Poetics. For Modern Library collectors--DJ says 322 ML books published. The book itself is like new, bt there are small ripsat the top of the DJ and minor wear near bottom. There is a small cicurlar stickers (half the size of a dime) with "460" written on it--probably could be removed with no damage to DJ

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good. No other volume printed--volume I is it. Slight bumps at top and bottom of spine; several small stains on cover

I Capture the Castle has long been one of the favorite books that one reader only shares with good friends. It Ends with Revelations is a bit less light-hearted, but also has become a Dodie Smith classic.

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