Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975. Advance reading copy, issued before publication of the first edition. 352 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow printed wraps, map endpapers. Very Good, wraps and edges a little soiled, toned, and foxed. Abbey's best-known novel, chronicling the adventures of a gang of..... More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First edition, first printing. Signed by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper and dated "Tucson, '79." . xiv, [2], 269 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with white and tan lettering to spine. Near Fine with light wear and fading to cloth and..... More

[British Columbia?]: [no publisher], c. 1940s. A lovely vintage photograph album containing plants that are either native or endemic to the Pacific Northwest (likely British Columbia), neatly assembled by an amateur botanist. Most images are taken in the wild, while several are of pressed plant specimens shot against a white..... More

[California]: [c. late 19th-early 20th century]. A lovely sea moss souvenir album with six pressed and mounted specimens from the coast of California. [6] pp. Bound in a commercially produced gilt lettered die-cut booklet with poetical onlay and yellow silk picot ribbon tie. Very Good. Lacking a ribbon fastener, extant..... More

London: Printed for the Translator by Robert Wilks, 1801, 1807-1812. First edition in English of the works of Aristotle, one of 50 sets printed, and boldly signed by the translator Thomas Taylor in ink at the end of the first volume. All volumes bear the armorial bookplates of noted bibliophile..... More

New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1989. Oversize color reproduction of Nuremberg apothecary and botanist Basilius Besler's beautiful 1613 work Hortus Eystettensis, describing the plants of the garden of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstatt in Bavaria. 542 pp. Bound in publisher's creme cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a Near..... More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928. First edition, first printing. Signed by Henry Beston on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to cloth at edges..... More

London: Macmillan, 1928. First edition of Niels Bohr's paper, "The Quantum Postulate and Atomic Theory," as published in Nature, vol. 121, no. 3050, pp. 561-608, April 14, 1928, the entire issue offered here, with Bohr's paper on pp. 580-590. Some soiling to covers, light creasing, ink stamp on front cover..... More

[Philadelphia]: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1936. First edition. Signed on the dedication page by James Bond, the American ornithologist whose name Ian Fleming took for his iconic spy protagonist. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher himself, had a copy of Bond's guide and he later explained to the ornithologist's..... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First printing of the second edition; the first edition was published in 1936 by The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Bound in publisher's brown cloth lettered in black. Near fine with very slight lean to binding, former owner inscription to verso of front..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition, first printing. x, [vi], 368 pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt, yellow topstain. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities, slight bump to upper edge of rear board. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate toning and edgewear..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition, first printing. x, [vi], 368 pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth lettered in gilt; yellow topstain. Near Fine with former owner's gift inscription at half-title page. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with fading and chipping to spine, light rubbing and..... More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. First edition, first printing, second state in glossy boards. Signed by Rachel L. Carson on the title page. Very Good+ with rubbing to extremities, pages toned, browning to preliminary pages with an exposed hinge. In a Very Good third state dust jacket with toning..... More