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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 134 Pp. First Edition Indicated. Fine In Fine Jacket With No Wear Except Book Has Personal Bookplate And Written Note "Fine Arts Gallery 25 April 73", And Dust Jacket, Priced $7.50, Has A Few Tiny Round Pressure-Dents Impressed At Top Of Spine.…

Zustand: Good. 8vo. [48 pp.]. Very Good. Soft Covers. Pages fine. B&W plates throughout.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 299 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Features: Our Next Two Years - What total war will demand of every American; The Terrible-Tempered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes - how to buy an Old Master at bargain-counter rates, with color photos (third of four articles); Booster No. 1 - Donald Kirk Thomas is managing director of the All-Year Club of Southern California; Plush-Covered Cactus - Texas' Tom Connolly, first member of Congress to shed his blood in WWII, fights to keep this 'America's War'. Stories: Home is the Sailor; Captain Tutt, Ahoy!; Joseph's Coat; The Ranger Meets the Family; Ride the Man Down; Tall in the Saddle. Pepsodent Powder ad features photos of Jack and Alan, the Sampson Twins of Norwood Park, Illinois. Nice one-page color-illustrated ad for Diamond T Trucks features scene of tandem truck in military service painted by Frederic Tellander. Nice back cover color Coke ad features lovely dame in lavender dress. Complete, clean and unmarked with light wear. A very well-preserved copy of this nostalgic issue.; Cover Art; Folio. Illustrated by Crockwell, Douglass (illustrator). …

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Fine. First edition of this combined report, featuring original prints of some of the earliest photographs to document a solar eclipse. Demy 8vo (227 x 142mm): [4],121,[1]; 121*,[1]pp, with frontispiece ("Silver print of the Total Solar Eclipse of December, 1889), 10 further plates (including 2 additional mounted original silver prints), and illustrations and charts in the text. Bound with Catalog of the Library of the Lick Observatory of the University of California. Part I - To July 1, 1890. Prepared by Edward S. Holden (separate title page and pagination). Publisher's black pebble-grained cloth, spine lettered in gilt, sides paneled in blind. Stamp of Imperial College Physics Library to title page. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Not in Margolis & Moss. In 1888, Schaeberle became one of the inaugural astronomers at Lick Observatory. He led expeditions to witness the solar eclipses at Cayenne, French Guiana, in 1889; to Chile, in 1893, and to Japan, in 1896, having designed the "Schaeberle Camera" to photograph the sun and its corona during the eclipses. The earliest scientifically useful photographs of a total solar eclipse was made by Julius Berkowski at the Royal Observatory in Königsberg, Prussia, on Monday, July 28, 1851 and by Warren De La Rue, on July 18, 1860. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).…