Science from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2000. Hardcover. Small 4to. Full red leatherette with gilt spine lettering. xiii, 220pp. Fine. Perfect, pristine first edition of this scholarly study. Ownership signatute on front pastedown.

New York: BasicBooks, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter lavender cloth with gilt spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 274pp. Fine/fine. Pristine, bright and tight first edition of the expose that established and popularized the phrase "junk science," handsomely inscribed and signed in blue fineline on front flyleaf: "To Bob Malott / With great appreciation… Read more about this item

N.p.: Robert C. Swain, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with silver lettering and rules. xiv, 187pp. Illustrations. Fine. Pristine first edition of this self-published memoir, bearing a bold presentation inscription and signature in black ballpoint on front flyleaf: "To: / Bob Malott / With best regards. / Bob Swain / Aug. 1983." Swain (1907-89) was a noted research chemist… Read more about this item

Chicago: N.p., 2014. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy burgundy wrappers. viii, 332pp. Numerous tables. Near fine. Tight, sharp first edition.

Mystic, CT: Seaport Autograph Press, 2004. Paperback. 8vo. Glossy green pictorial wrappers. xii, 312pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine. Pristinely tight first edition of this biography of the distinguished and influential German-American "Father of American Anthropology," penned by his physician/historical document dealer grandson (1922-2016). He handsomely inscribed and signs the title page in blue fineline "To my eminent friend & /… Read more about this item

New York: A.O. Moore, 1856. Hardcover. Translation by N.P. Trist. 8vo. Calf spine with gilt lettering and brown pebble-grain cloth. 88pp. Illustrations, marbled page edges. Very good overall. Chip at head of spine, else tight and decent, with text pages mainly bright and nice and occasional light foxing; endpapers rather age toned and early "Illinois School Library" bookplate on… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. Hardcover. 4to. Dark brown blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board gilt device. 464pp. Numerous full-page heavy stock illustrations (some color and tissue-guarded) and full-page maps (some partly color) and charts (some foldouts). Very good. Mild binding edgewear and bit of scuffing, else internally tight and near fine throughout. Attractive first… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1898. Hardcover. Complete 8-volume set in six parts (Parts V and VI each having two volumes). 4to. Dark brown blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board gilt decoration. 422pp, ix; v, 958pp; v, 785pp; viii, 814pp; xvii, 400pp; viii, 651pp; viii, 706pp. Numerous full-page illustrations, line drawings, charts, small maps, full-page as… Read more about this item

Gainesville, GA: New Classics Library, 2002. Hardcover. Small 4to. Navy blue cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 463pp. Numerous figures and illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Quite tight, quite nice second printing of the first volume (only) of this modern classic in which this bestselling business author and stock market analyst expands on the Elliott Wave Theory and… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1892. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set. 4to. Dark brown blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board gilt device. v ads, vii, 240pp; x, 372pp; xi, 486pp. Numerous full-page heavy stock illustrations (some color and tissue-guarded), line drawings, charts, foldout partly-color maps and charts, large foldout maps in rear pocket (Volume I = 2,… Read more about this item

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1890. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 4to. Dark brown blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board gilt device. v, xv, 774pp; viii, 123pp. Numerous full-page heavy stock illustrations (some color and tissue-guarded), line drawings, charts, foldout partly-color maps and charts, large foldout map in rear pocket of Volume I. Very good. Faint binding… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990. Hardcover. Small 4to. Mustard cloth spine with silver lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 320pp. Fine/near fine. A lovely second printing of this scary study whose front jacket panel proclaims: "From Global Warming to Rain Forest Destruction, Famine, and Air and Water Pollution -- Why Overpopulation Is Our #1 Environmental… Read more about this item

Chicago: Nickerson & Collins Co, 1906. Hardcover. Small 4to. B rown cloth with gilt lettering and device. vii, 368pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous illustrations and line drawings, advertising endpapers. Very good. Binding a tad edgeworn and spotted, though tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of this history of an industry. Subtitle continues: "The Commercial Production of Carbon Dioxide. Design… Read more about this item

Milan: Fratelli Treves, Editori, 1899. Paperback. Small 8vo. Beige printed wrappers, with added heavy stock pale green acid-free outer wrapper (affixed along spine). 455pp. Good plus/fine. A bit edgeworn, with printed wrappers showing a few tiny edge chips; archival outer wrapper pristine. A tight, attractive first edition of one of the more popular works by this noted Italian physiologist… Read more about this item

Milan: Comitato Nazionale per le Onoranze a Leonardo da Vinci, 1952. Paperback. 4to. Stiff unprinted wrappers, dust jacket. (41pp). Full-page illustrations. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket soiling. Handsome first edition of this elaborate program (entirely in English) celebrating the Italian Renaissance figure's life and achievements. Uncommon and unusual.

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. Hardcover. 8-volume set in seven parts (Part VI in two volumes). 4to. Dark brown blind-ruled cloth with gilt spine lettering and front board gilt decoration. 608pp, xi; 522pp, xi; 644pp, xi; 768pp, xi; 711pp, xi; viii, 656pp; viii, 634pp, xi; 666pp, xii. Numerous full-page illustrations, line drawings, charts, small maps, maps with overlays,… Read more about this item

Cleveland: The Geon Company, 1993. Hardcover. Wide 8vo. Green cloth with white lettering and gilt pictorial stamping. 59pp. Illustrations. Fine. Tight, attractive first edition of this slim tribute and biography of the B.F. Goodrich scientist some consider the "father of bubble gum.

Princeton: Van Nostrand Company, 1968. Hardcover. 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. xxiv, 39pp, 48 color full-page plates (rectos only), pp. 41-48. All edges gilt. Numerous illustrations, green marbled endpapers. Fine. Superb copy of this facsimile reprint limited to 2,000 copies -- the first volume in the Delaware Museum of Natural History's "Reproduction Series." Editor R. Tucker Abbott notes… Read more about this item

Cambridge: The Harvard Alumni Bulletin Press, 1925. Hardcover. 16mo. Blue/grey cloth with gilt lettering. 109pp. Near fine. Absolute faintest of binding wear, else internally bright and fine. A lovely, tight first edition of this essay trilogy by three Harvard faculty, handsomely inscribed and signed large and bold in blue ink on the front flyleaf to "Miss Esther Dieter /… Read more about this item

Lexington: Holman & Gray, 1851. Hardcover. 12mo. Quarter black calf with compartments and gilt lettering and marbled paper over boards. iv, 200pp. Very good. Tight-hinged and fully handleable, though mildly edgeworn and with marbled boards rubbed; text block lightly age toned and occasionally foxed; contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown, same on inner flyleaf and pencilled at top of… Read more about this item