London: Seeley & Co., 1884. First edition, first printing. viii, 100. Bound in publisher's plain stiff wraps in original pictorial Japon jacket. Very Good+ with heavy toning and light soiling to jacket, small chips to jacket corners, and offsetting from jacket folds to facing pages. Penciled bookseller inscriptions and elegantly..... More

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1980. Limited edition. Copy #190 of 275, Signed by sci-fi author Ray Bradbury. Illustrated with 14 line drawings and 10 die-cuts by Andrew Hoyem, with watercolor added by hand. Bound accordion-style in original decorated aluminum covers, edges dyed black with the scarce paper instruction sheet..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. True first edition, the extremely rare suppressed issue. Bound in publisher's original red cloth lettered in gilt; with original envelope containing the playing board and all nine of the original grey (5) and red (4) counters. Near Fine with subtle repairs to spine ends, light..... More

Oxford, UK: The Clarendon Press, 1916. First edition. 602, [2] pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with a sunned spine, corners slightly bumped, a few underlines in colored pencil to prelims, small ink notation to paste down. The rare first appearance of the classic mathematics text..... More

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Ex Officina Ioannis Maire, 1649. First separate edition and first edition in Latin of Descartes' magnum opus. Bound in early 20th century quarter leather with spine lettered in gilt. Good. Binding rubbed at extremities, with shallow loss to the crown. Front and rear inner hinge exposed, though..... More

New York: Harper & Row, 1979. First edition, first printing. Signed by Freeman Dyson on the front free endpaper in red ink. x, 283, [1]pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained red. Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a small triangular..... More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1950. First edition, first printing. xiii. [1], 451 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth, ruled in blind on front board and lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with trivial foxing to upper textblock edge, light offsetting from jacket to endpapers, and owner inscription to..... More

Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli, 1928. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Text in Italian. Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth, neat pencil notations to contents, contents tanned. In a Near Fine dust jacket with slight chipping at extremities, tanning and shadow of removed..... More

Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1930. Kurt Gödel's paper "Die Vollständigkeit der Axiome des logischen Funktionenkalküls," published in Monatsheften für Mathematik und Physik, vol. 37. Complete volume, Pp. [iv], 404, 52 "Literaturberichte," with Gödel's paper on pp. [349]-360. Bound without wraps in modern grey suede-like binding with spine lettered in gilt. Pages..... More

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1973. An early cloth-bound printing of Hawking and Ellis' treatise. The copyright page reads "First published 1973 / First paperback edition 1974." Presumed to be the second printing of the first hardcover edition, perhaps issued simultaneously with the paperback edition. Science Magazine recorded receiving Hawking's..... More

New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1979. Eighth printing of the first edition. Signed by Douglas R. Hofstadter on the front free endpaper verso and inscribed "with warm wishes" to the recipient in Gettysburg, dated 6 October 2009 and accompanied by a sketch. xxi, 777 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth..... More

New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 1954. First edition, first printing. (Stated "First edition" on copyright page, preceding copies with number lines instead.) 142 pp. Bound in publisher's red orange cloth affect with spine lettered in black. Light rubbing to extremities, else Fine in a Very Good unclipped dust..... More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1940 and no additional printings indicated on copyright page.) xiv, 380, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light rubbing along edges and to gilt, in Very Good+ price-clipped dust..... More