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Rochester, NY: Taylor Instrument Companies (1923).. Soft cover. Very Good. Paper covers. 23, [1] pp. Illustrated. Spine roll, retailer stamp. "An elementary booklet describing the invention of the barometer and the processes it has gone through to bring it to its present status. Information as to correct method of using barometers to measure heights, corrections necessary for absolute readings, etc.

New York: Doubleday (2013).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xiv, 331 pages. Signed by the author. "Autographed Copy" sticker. A clean, attractive copy.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (2008).. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. xiv, 211 pp. Illustrated. Index. Corner crease to half-title page. A clean, attractive copy.

New York: Barnes & Noble (1960).. Soft cover. Very Good. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Trade paperback. 301 pp. Foreword by Charles Singer. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. A solid copy with only light wear.

Los Angeles, CA: Tarcher (1989).. Soft cover. Very Good. Later printing. Trade paperback. 193 pp. Illustrated. A nice copy with little wear. "Gathers little known facts about the human body and discusses sleep, the senses, conception, infancy and mortality.

New York: William Morrow and Co., 1982. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth spine with gilt lettering. 252 pp. Bibliography. Dust jacket has minor edge wear and a faded spine. Contents clean and tight.

Yorkshire: EP Publishing, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reproduction of the 1858 third edition. xvi, 319 pp. Illustrated. Dust jacket is price-clipped. Contents clean and tight.

New York: John Wiley & Sons (1992).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth with silver lettering and decoration. xvii, 404 pages. Illustrated. No dust jacket. Boards slightly bowed. A clean, attractive copy. The third volume in the Principles of Computer-Aided Design series.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (1974).. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Trade paperback. viii, 200 pp. Illustrated. Index. Previous owner's name and number. "Discusses erroneous statistical arguments and the misuse of percents, graphs, charts, averages, estimates, and comparisons in order to sell products and promote ideas.

New York: Bantam Books (1963).. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. 312 pp. Illustrated. Introduction by Roger R. Revelle. Bibliography. Index. A solid copy with little wear.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1975).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 465 pp. Photos. Foreword by Charles A. Lindbergh. A solid copy with only light wear. "It is hard to imagine that another book will appear for a long time so poignant and full of wonders as Nance's full-bodied story of the discovery of a tiny handful of Stone Age people, the Tasaday, in the forests of Mindanao in 1971..." - PW

Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press (2006).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Glossy boards. xiv, 339 pp. Illustrated. Glossary. A clean, attractive copy.

Berlin: Springer Verlag (1995).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Pictorial boards. ix, 412 pp. Index. A clean copy with only light wear.

New York: The Viking Press (1970).. Soft cover. Very Good. Kyuzo Tsugami. Reprint. Trade paperback. 260 pp. Bibliography. Index. A solid copy with only light wear.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1972. Soft cover. Very Good. Later printing. Trade paperback. viii, 185 pp. Bibliography. A solid copy with only light wear. "...a readable rejoinder from an anthropologist equipped to rebut authoritatively the dismal conclusions many have drawn that war and conflict are inescapable.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press , 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1940-1960. Complete in four volumes. Green buckram. ix, 538 pages. viii, 635 pages. viii, 866 pages. v, 732 pages. Line drawings. Indices. The first three volumes have both a plain jacket and the original printed publisher's jacket.The fourth volume has only the publisher's jacket. Jackets have tears, tape repairs, stains. Books are solid. From the library of well-known American botanist and photographer Sherwin Carlquist with his bookplate in the first three volumes.

New York: Oxford University Press (1981).. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. xv, 290 pp. Minor wear to covers. Contents clean and tight.

New York: The Series Publishers (1944).. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edges gilt. iv, 367 pages. Illustrated, some color. Index. Front hinge started. Contents solid.

New York: Basic Books (1964).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth. 244 pp. Illustrated. Index. Foreword by Isaac Asimov. Previous owner's name and stamp, jacket has a couple of small chips and tears.

New York: Bantam (1975).. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint. Paperback. viii, 180 pp. Ink marks to edges, pages yellowing. A clean copy with little wear. "A physician and cancer researcher shares his personal observations on the uniformity, diversity, interdependence, and strange powers of the earth's life forms.