Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1903
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. (First printing with date on title page, which publisher used in lieu of a first edition statement.) xii, 424 pp. Navy cloth with gilt lettering, gilt topstain. A Very Good copy with wear at extremities, slight wave to pages, p. 11 bottom corner chipped with bump to nearby pages at corners. Newcomb is best-known as an astronomer; he was a self-taught prodigy who made various contributions to the fields of statistics, mathematics, economics, and science fiction.
Seller Inventory # 140940131
Published by The University Press, Cambridge, 1915
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. viii, 159, [1], [2, ads] pp. w/ additions and corrections sheet. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. About Very Good with sunned spine, rubbed along edges of spine, lettering mostly gone, frayed head, contents toned with age.
Seller Inventory # 140941995
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. x, 501 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with silver spine lettering. Very Good+ with former owner's name on front free endpaper, tiny stain to fore edge, in Very Good+ dust jacket with slightly sunned spine panel, tiny chip to rear panel. The second of two volumes.
Seller Inventory # 140944687
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1954
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. First edition. (First printings with title pages both dated 1954 with no additional printings indicated.) xii, 280; viii, 190 pp. Complete in two volumes. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth with silver lettering. Near Fine, hint of foxing to Vol. I, in Very Good+ dust jackets, spine panels slightly toned with a few light stains to Vol. I; Vol. I price-clipped, Vol. II flap price partially obscured with grease pencil. A very nice set the Hungarian mathematician's books.
Seller Inventory # 140945583
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1940
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. Complimentary copy inscribed on behalf of Samuel Herrick Jr. and the Los Angeles Astronomical Department on front free endpaper; could be in Herrick's hand or a secretarial inscription. [iv], 56 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Near Fine with light shelf wear.A descendant of the poet Robert Herrick, Samuel Herrick Jr. (1911-1974) was an astronomer who worked with Robert Goddard on celestial mechanics and rocket navigation, contributing to the development of the American space program. His papers are held at Virginia Tech; he is described by that institution as being "generally recognized as the founder of the field of astrodymanics.".
Seller Inventory # 140945597
Published by Garnstone Press, London, 1972
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition, first printing. 176 pp. Bound in publisher's dark gray cloth with silver spine lettering. Near Fine with light foxing to fore edge, in Very Good+ dust jacket with small closed tear to front panel that is repaired with tape on verso, price-clipped, light wear. A sequel to the British author's influential book The View Over Atlantis, a complex work rooted in mathematics exploring sacred geometry, numerology, gematria, and the esoteric concept of the New Jerusalem.
Seller Inventory # 140946337
Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK, 1932
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. x, 454, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good, spine a little sunned, with former owner's name on paste down, small marginal ink notation on p. 3, marginal brackets on two pages, lacking jacket. Uncommon. Author Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1899-1963) was a British mathematician and protege of G.H. Hardy.
Seller Inventory # 140946469
Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1949
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. xii, 326 pp. Red cloth with black stamping. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Name on front paste down, pages otherwise free of marks. Spine panel a bit faded, light wear. A very neat, clean copy. With an appendix "Cardinal Products of Isomorphism Types" by Bjarni Jonsson and Alfred Tarski. The author was a Polish expatriate who taught mathematics at Berkeley, and was also a distinguished logician.
Seller Inventory # 160225002
Published by John Wiley and Sons, Inc, New York, 1968
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. (First printing in correct binding.) xv, [iii], 717 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with light rubbing, corners a little bumped, small stain on top edge, bookplate from former owner's estate on verso of front free endpaper. A nice copy.
Seller Inventory # 140941804
Published by W.W. Norton & Co. Inc, New York, 1940
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. (As stated on copyright page.) 348 pp. Original blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket with price intact ($4.00), chipped head, a bit of wrinkling darkening to spine panel, creased snag to to top of back panel. Clean pages, toned with age, spine slightly toned. Quine's second book, rare in original jacket.
Seller Inventory # 161028004
Published by Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, 1925
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. xiv, 377, [1], [4] pp. Bound in publisher's orangish yellow boards. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to boards, tiny pen squiggle to front board. Contents bright and unmarked. An uncommon German-language physics text with an appendix by Einstein.
Seller Inventory # 140945616
Published by Birkhauser, Boston, Basel, and Berlin, 1995
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Gian-Carlo Rota on half-title, inscribed: "To Andy / with best wishes / [signed] Gian-Carlo / Cambridge / November 26, 1995." This "Andy" is Harvard mathematician Andrew Mattei Gleason, best known for his work on Hilbert's fifth problem. xliii, 624, [2] pp. Original brown cloth with white spine lettering. Fine in Near Fine jacket with tiny stain on back panel. A rare signature from mathematician and philosopher Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999), a distinguished MIT Professor in those fields. A nice association copy between mathematicians in two dueling distinguished Cambridge, Massachusetts universities.
Seller Inventory # 170909009
Published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford, UK, 1916
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. 602, [2] pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good with a sunned spine, corners slightly bumped, a few underlines in colored pencil to prelims, small ink notation to paste down. The rare first appearance of the classic mathematics text.
Seller Inventory # 140941805
Published by Basic Books, New York, 1980
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Signed
Signed by Douglas R. Hofstadter on the title page. xxi, [1], 777 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Twelfth printing of the first edition.Very Good with a few small stains to edges, binding shaken, in a Very Good dust jacket, spine thoroughly sunned.The Pulitzer-winning "metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll.".
Seller Inventory # 140945789
Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, 1985
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed by W.VO. Quine on front flyleaf and inscribed to his friend distinguished mathematician Stephen C. Kleene, a co-creator of computability theory, "for Steve Kleene / in admiration and / warmest regard / Van [his nickname]." Kleene is mentioned numerous times in this autobiography. First edition. xii, (2), 499 pp. Purple cloth with white lettering. Near Fine in a Good somewhat worn, thoroughly spine-sunned, unclipped jacket with a tear in the back panel. Slight lean to spine. A very nice association between two major figures in mathematical logic.
Seller Inventory # 161120008
Published by Basic Books, New York, 1979
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Signed
Signed by Douglas R. Hofstadter on the title page. xxi, [1], 777 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Sixth printing of the first edition. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with much less sunning to the jacket than usually found, price on front flap scratched out, foxing to verso.The Pulitzer-winning "metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll.".
Seller Inventory # 140944574
Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1979
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Freeman Dyson on the front free endpaper in red ink. x, 283, [1]pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained red. Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a small triangular chip in the top right corner of the front panel, slightly rubbed, spine panel slightly sunned. A signed copy of the British-born theoretical physicist and mathematician's memoir.
Seller Inventory # 140946009
Published by Cambridge at the University Press, London, 1912
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. xii, 650; xvi, 731; xvi, 688; xxxviii, 756 pp. includes two folding plates at end of second volume. Bound in publisher's cloth with gilt stamped spine. Very Good with slightly sunned spines, light wear, a few scattered neat underlines to text, former owner's bookplates and a few notes on endpapers. Small stain to spine of Vol. 4. The mathematical papers of the British mathematician and professor who founded the American Journal of Mathematics, complete in four volumes. Rare.
Seller Inventory # 140941786
Published by Harvard Cooperative Society, Cambridge, 1948
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Fair. First edition, presumed first issue. 156 p. Mimeographed of typescript, printed on rectos only, bound in plain paper wraps. Fair with staining and creasing to cover and former owner's notes throughout in pencil and pen, name and dorm address on title page. Includes a final exam from 1949-1950, a four-page booklet. This work is an early version of what would become the seminal textbook Methods of Logic, used by Quine for his Harvard class Philosophy 140, an introductory class in logic, as a coursebook. Quine mentions typing it with his wife, Marge, on their honeymoon in the memoir The Time of My Life. Theory of Deduction did not circulate much beyond the Harvard student body and has never been reprinted, although it was considered significant enough by Quine's colleagues to be reviewed in The Journal of Symbolic Logic in 1949. This copy is from the estate of Donald Davidson, through the trade. A scarce document of the evolution of Quine's thought. An OCLC search locates only seven physical copies in worldwide institutional holdings.
Seller Inventory # 150923009
Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1895
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth stamped in black, red and gilt. Very Good+ with wear to extremities, pages toned. A nice copy of this scarce work.
Seller Inventory # 140943555
Published by Published for the American Physical Society, Lancaster, PA & Ithaca, NY, 1913
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Complete issue, pp. [409]-536. Bound without wraps in green cloth with leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages toned, light corner creasing to several terminal leaves and light soiling to final page, Near Fine. Contains the paper "A Powerful R�ntgen Ray Tube with a Pure Electron Discharge" by William Coolidge on pp. [409]-430. The invention of the Coolidge tube is announced in this paper, which was the predecessor to all type of common x-ray tubes used today, and remains the single most important development in radiology technology.
Seller Inventory # 140940038
Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1979
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Freeman Dyson and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in gilt, top edges stained red. Near Fine, boards lightly splayed. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing, light edge wear and light surface scratches.
Seller Inventory # 140942114
Published by Roberts Brothers, Boston, 1885
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Good. First American Edition. First American edition of the classic mathematical fantasy novel. Bound in publisher's original pictorial mustard cloth over semi-flexible boards, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges stained red. Good. Light wear to cloth at edges, darkening to spine and soiling and scuffing to rear cover. Former owner details to front free endpaper, several geometric pencil drawings to rear endsheet and blanks, pages tanned. A novel unlike any other--a comical (albeit misogynistic) literary lesson in mathematics and a satire of Victorian society all rolled into one.
Seller Inventory # 140945462
Published by The University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1949
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First hardcover edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth with spine lettered in silver. Pages toned, else Fine, in a very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with chipping at the edges and with a nick to the front spine joint. The first hardcover edition of Shannon's most important work, reprinting "the Mathematical Theory of Communication" first published in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, with minor corrections and additional material.
Seller Inventory # 140942697
Published by Seeley & Co, London, 1884
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in contemporary three quarters leather over marbled boards with original plain stiff front and rear wrappers bound in. Very Good with hairline crack to bottom end of front joint, wear to extremities, and rubbing. Bookplate removed at front pastedown. Contents worn and soiled with light chipping to wrappers. Several hinges slightly over opened, binding tender. A novella satirizing hierarchy in Victorian culture, while serving as a lesson in geometry.
Seller Inventory # 140945895
Published by Basic Books, New York, 1979
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Douglas R. Hofstadter on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Gilt lettering oxidized, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with fading to the spine and edges, light shelf wear and a crease to the rear flap. The Pulitzer-winning "metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll.".
Seller Inventory # 140942680
Published by W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1982
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Benoit B. Mandelbrot on the half-title page and inscribed to a former owner, noted physicist Michael E. Fisher; with Fisher's inked ownership markings to the top corner of the front free endpaper and his penciled notes to the copyright page. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, bumping to top edge of boards, slight wear to extremities, contents lightly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and light wear, toning to the blindside.
Seller Inventory # 140945394
Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, 1940
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1940 and no additional printings indicated on copyright page.) xiv, 380, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with light rubbing along edges and to gilt, in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket with thin closed tear near head, small stain to rear panel, toning along edges of flaps. Nice shape overall. Rare as a first printing.An engaging and accessible volume on mathematics. This first edition lays claim to the first published use of the now era-defining term "google" (or, as it was originally, the "Googolplex"). Kasner describes with good humor both the immense breadth of the number the Googolplex represents, and the coinage of the term itself from the mouth of his nine-year-old nephew.
Seller Inventory # 140944630
Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1867
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original plum-brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt, with black endsheets. Very Good. Cloth worn at extremities, unevenly sunned, and wormed. Contents toned, with foxing to preliminary and terminal pages. A scarce mathematical work by Dodgson, better known under his pen name, Lewis Carroll.
Seller Inventory # 140940836
Published by Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge, 1927
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Second Edition. Second edition, first impressions. Vol. 2 appears to be a later binding variant. Complete in three volumes. xlvi, 674, [1]; xxxi, [1], 742, [1]; viii, 491 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, spines of vols. 1 & 3 lettered in gilt, Vol. II lettered in silver. Vol. 1 in Very Good shape with stain dots to cloth, former owners' names written on front free endpaper, a few underlines to preface and equation written in margin of an early page. The other two volumes are free of markings. Bumped corners to Vol. 2, else Fine. Vol. 3 Fine. One of the major intellectual landmarks of the 20th century, Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica sought to elegantly express mathematics in terms of symbolic logic. First published in 1910-13, the Principia Mathematica is deemed "the greatest single contribution to logic that has appeared in the two thousand years since Aristotle" (DSB). This second edition has been revised, and is of great importance for presenting a new "theory of types," meant to rectify the meta-logical paradoxes exposed by the first edition.
Seller Inventory # 140941361