Gardner, Erle Stanley, The Desert is Yours, William Morrow, New York, 1963, [1]-256 pages, 9 ½” x 6”, brown cloth covered boards, black stamped spine title and cactus on front cover. First Edition, very fine in very fine dust jacket. A spirited account of adventure in the present-day American desert by the famous mystery writer. $60
Robert Silverberg, Mound Builders of Ancient America
Silverberg, Robert, Mound Builders of Ancient America, Greenwich, New York Graphic Society, [1968]. [xii], [1]-369 pages, 10 ¼ “ x 7 “, red cloth-covered boards. First Edition, a good to very good copy in a dust jacket that has seen better days. Silverberg’s focus is not so much on the Mound builder but rather on the effect of […]
Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, Pearl Harbor
Wallin, Vice Admiral Homer W., USN (Retired), PearlHarbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage andFinal Appraisal, with a Foreward by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller, USN, Director of Naval History. Washington, Naval History Divison, 1968. [xv], [1]-377, 10” x 7”. Blue cloth over boards, gold stamped titles and Navy seal, no dj as issued. Fine, first edition. The official Navy […]
Clayton R. Koppes, JPL and the American Space Program
Koppes, Clayton R., JPL and the American Space Program, A History of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, New Haven, Yale University Press, [1982]. [xiii], 1-299. 9 ½” x 6”. First Edition, First Printing, yellow cloth covered boards. Fine but lacking dust jacket. 10 pages of black and white photographs and one in color. A history of JPL from its […]
Wolfgang Finkelnburg, Atomic Physics
Finkelnburg, Wolfgang, Atomic Physics. , New York, McGraw-Hill, 1950, [x] 1-498 pages. Green cloth covered boards in dust jacket. 9.25” x 6”. First American edition, fine is a very good but slightly faded dust jacket, 2 previous owner stamps on front end paper. Finkelnburg did post-doctoral research at Cal Tech in the 1930s before returning to Germany and […]
R.W. Symonds English Furniture from Charles II to George II
Symonds, R. W., English Furniture from Charles II toGeorge II, New York, International Studio, Inc., 1929. [xx],[1-2], 3-322 pages. Blue cloth-covered boards, gold stamp lettering on the front cover and spine. Large folio, 10 “x 14”. “American Edition limited to 500 copies of which this is No. 391.” “With more than 260 illustrations from examples in the Collection […]