Search Results: Science from H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller

Zurich, Switzerland: Graphis Press Corp., 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The full color catalogue of the 1992 illustrator and the environment exhibiliton contains 150 works of art delivering a powerful message about humanity's relationship to the environment. Each art work is accompanied by a personal statement from the artist along with a pertinent fact of environmental data relating to the subject of the art. The catalogue also contains commentary on the exhibition from Ray Bradbury, Tom Cruise, and Wendell Minor; 256 pages, 23.5 x 30 cm, text in English, German and French; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear, no chipping, tears or creases. Collectable.

New York: Random House, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. the award-winning Mason's first novel in a decade features Reed Futrell, an engineer at a uranium enrichment plant who must grapple with radioactive contamination, a midlife crisis and string theory while falling in love; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows a single quarter-inch closed tear on front panel near spine, o/w only very minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce. Collectable.

New York/Doylestown, PA: John Day Co./Bucks County Historical Society, 1937. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. The account of anthropologist Hommel's unique eight-year expedition in China beginning in 1921 to record and describe the tools and tool-making of an ancient, agricultural society even then being lost in the wake of modern industrial processes. The book's five chapters include "Tools To Make Tools" (coal mining, iron working and casting, blacksmithing, etc; and "Tools For Procuring Food" (plows, rice planting, pruning, water, hand & animal power mills, traps, net making, etc.). First Printing, First Edition. 366 pages in dark red cloth-covered boards with gold-stamped lettering and front cover decoration, 8 1/4 x 11 inches, 535 black & white photographs and illustrations, with a preface by Hommel and an index. Boards show light wear along edges and spine ends, slightly bumped corners and slight spine lean, no tears or chipping. Front paste down… Read More

Chicago: Goodheart-Willcox Company, Inc., 1943. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. This is the now-legendary reference on gasoline combustion engines and anything powered by such engines. As the title page says, "The Elementary Principles, Construction, Operation and Repair of Automobiles, Gasoline Engines and Automobile Electric Systems; including Trucks, Tractors, Motorcoaches, Automotive Diesel Engines, Aircraft Engines and Motorcyles." First issued in 1910, this volume has been the bible for thousands of mechanics, engineers, and do-it-yourselfers ever since. Early editions such as this 20th edition, issued in 1943, have become collector's items since copies tended to receive rough handling from the dirty hands of car owners looking for information on everything from Model T's to Delco electric systems and Oldsmobile hydra-matic transmissions. This copy is about 7 x 10 inches, 1,483 pages bound in light blue cloth-covered boards with title in white lettering in a white-lined box… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1978. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Good Plus. Morris followed his bestselling "The Naked Ape," a brutally frank look at the human animal, with this work, an equally honest scrutiny of the society which humanity has created for itself; hardcover; First Printing of the First U.S. Edition; text is clean, tight, very slight spine lean; dustjacket shows 1" tear lower corner of front panel, light soiling, minor surface and edgewear; Very Good/Good Plus.

New York: Dell, 1971. First Printing, First Edition Thus. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage paperback; Dell 3913; the author of "The Naked Ape" takes a look at how the human animal fits in our modern technological culture in light of our biological heritage. First Printing of the First Dell Edition. Text is clean, tight, square, lightly age-tanned in pictorial wrappers showing reading crease, little other surface or edgewear.

New York: Doubleday & Co., 1969. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Good Plus to Very Good. Vintage paperback, Anchor A654; Marshall uses a large body of psychological studies and data to show that the American system of adversarial trial law is often a game of make-believe, that the perception and recollection of witnesses are so flawed as to bear almost no relation to reality, a conclusion that DNA and modern forensics confirms almost daily and that reinforces Marshall's call for major changes in trial procedures. Text is clean, tight, slight spine lean in pictorial wrappers showing some minor age-discoloration and staining along spine and edges. Hard To Find.

Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Evans' sequel to his earlier "The Casebook of Forensic Detection: How Science Solved 100 of the World's Most Baffling Crimes;" covers 100 cases solved by forensic science on four continents over almost a two hundred year period; it's an excellent reference as well as fascinating reading; page 21-22 lightly dogeared, o/w boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only very minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This senior RAND analyst and Defense Department consultant makes the argument that there are four key elements to warfare in the 21st Century, all based on information technology in which computers and communications are vital. A collectable copy in like dustjacket. Quite Scarce.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fair/Fair. A book-length description of NASA's early years and the society that produced it in Mailer's floridly imaginative reporting style; edgeworn, boards slightly loose, fep missing; black dustjacket shows considerable wear at edges, corners and spine, with tape mark under author's name on front panel. A reading copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The science and practice of successful gardening. Dr. Buczacki demonstrates how every practical gardener can benefit from a basic understanding of the science that underlies everyone's garden.