Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1988
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition, first printing, second state. (Full number line to "0" on copyright page. Follows the recalled, silver-dust-jacketed state without a dedication or table of contents, and textual errors.) x, 198 pp. Original black cloth over paper-covered boards with silver lettering. Very Good with slightly bumped corners and scuffed boards, gift inscription and private ex libris impression on ffep, in a Very Good dust jacket with some laminate bubbling, a little rubbed.
Seller Inventory # 140939749
Published by Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1962
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. viii, 330 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with stamped white pattern, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with slight lean to spine, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. Uncommon.
Seller Inventory # 140943754
Published by E.P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1935
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American Edition. First American edition. 160 pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with dark navy lettering. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, rubbed, small chip at head. The Belgian Nobel laureate (mainly for his dramatic works) takes on physics, defending Newton and criticizing Einstein. Uncommon in jacket.
Seller Inventory # 140943527
Published by Wiley & Sons, New York, 1905
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First edition. (Stated "First edition, first thousand" on title page.) 176, (16) pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, titled Elements of Rational Mechanics on the spine. Fine. No dust jacket. A bit of bumping at corners. An excellent copy of a scarce physics text.
Seller Inventory # 140909018
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1959
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition. ix, [i], 150 pp. Publisher's navy cloth lettered in silver. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, else Fine in the rare jacket, chipped at extremities, rubbed along edges, price-clipped.
Seller Inventory # 140941951
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 The Macmillan Company, New York, 1929
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American edition. First American edition, first printing. xii, 341 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. A very bright, clean copy of a popular physics work by the English physicist Sir James Jeans.
Seller Inventory # 140944309
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 Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, 1916
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. 64 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good+ with slightly toned wraps, tiny stain to back wrap, slightly bumped corners, bookplate on verso of front wrap. An early German language work on Einstein's theory of gravitation with a foreword by the man himself. Freundlich's first book.
Seller Inventory # 140945574
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 Longmans Green and Company, New York, 1912
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. (Dated 1912 on title page with no additional printings indicated.) 151 p. Navy cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very Good condition. No jacket. Name written on ffep, clean text. Lettering rubbed, some sunning and wear to cloth. A nice copy.
Seller Inventory # 150728005
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1923
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First British edition. xiii, [1], 626, [2], 8 pp. Brown cloth with blind stamped front board, gilt lettered spine. A Very Good+ copy with slightly mottled cloth, head and tail a little worn, offsetting to endpapers, nice shape overall. Lacking jacket. The first book by the German theoretical physicist who trained many future Nobel laureates, published in the original German in 1919.
Seller Inventory # 140939911
Published by S. Hirzel, Leipzig, 1914
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. xxiv, 956 pp. with illustrations. Bound in three quarter red leather with marbled paper sides, spine lettered in gilt. In German. Very Good, rubbed along edges, bookplate on verso of front board, slight vertical crease throughout contents. A private, not institutional, copy; uncommon thus. A German physics review with two articles by Einstein, as well as work by Erwin Schrodinger, Born, Lorentz, Minkowski and others.
Seller Inventory # 140945588
Published by B.G. Teubner, Leipzig & Berlin, 1921
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. iv, [539]-775 pp. Bound in three quarter vellum with paper sides, spine lettered in gilt. In German. Very Good with chipping to paper sides, slight bowing to boards, bookplate on verso of front board, rubbed spot to front free endpaper. An unusual binding of the Austrian theoretical physicist's offprint on the theory of relativity. He would win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945.
Seller Inventory # 140945593
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd, London, 1925
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First edition in English. vii, 184, 8 [ads] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with bright gilt, clean and bright pages, a little foxing and a small stain to edges, former owner's name written on front free endpaper. The Nobel laureate's essays, published in German as Physikalische Rundblicke in 1922. Rare.
Seller Inventory # 140942472
Published by B.G. Teubner, Leipzig & Berlin, 1914
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. First edition. [2], 52 pp. Bound in boards with black leather backstrip. Near Fine with tiny chip to paper on rear board, bookplate on verso of front board. A German language work on the theory of relativity by the Dutch Nobel-winning physicist Hendrik A. Lorentz.
Seller Inventory # 140945592
Published by University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville and London, 2007
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Freeman J. Dyson on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket with trivial rubbing and faint sunning to the spine. The renowned physicist explores how the universe presents itself and how it's participants respond.
Seller Inventory # 140940426
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 Random House, New York, 1985
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Signed
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Book Club Edition. Book club edition. Signed by Carl Sagan on the title page. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards over black spine cloth lettered in gilt and red. Near Fine with bumping to bottom rear corner, light wear, pages lightly tanned. In a Very Good+ dust jacket with light rubbing and light edge wear.
Seller Inventory # 140946402
Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1988
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition, first state. (All points present: Full number line to "1" on copyright page, no table of contents, etc.) x, 198 pp. Original black cloth over paper-covered boards with silver lettering. Very Good+ in Very Good+ first issue silver dust jacket with publisher's price of $18.95 intact, lightly worn, small scratch to back panel. Top edge of cloth a little sunned. A few pages towards front slightly creased. A nice copy of the physics bestseller.
Seller Inventory # 180319009
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1985
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with a very slight light lean to the binding, trivial wear at the tips, pages tanned. In a Near Fine dust jacket very faint fading to the spine panel and a 1.5" tear to the bottom of the rear flap fold. A very presentable copy of the Nobel Prize-winning physicists memoir.
Seller Inventory # 140944885
Published by Taylor & Francis, London, 1924
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Extracted from: "The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science", September, 1915, pp.385-416; Bohr's paper: pp. 394-415, plus title page for September issue; and October, 1915, Bohr's paper pp.581-612, plus title page for October issue. Title page for volume XXX-Sixth Series. July-December bound in, with faint evidence of mostly removed stamp. [Bound with] Extracted from: The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Vol. 47, No. 281, May 1924, pp. [785]-802. London: Taylor and Francis, 1924. Finely bound without wraps in marbled boards with leather spine.
Seller Inventory # 140940028
Published by Taylor and Francis, London, 1976
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First British edition. (Also first in the English language, following the German 1970 original.) xvii, 282pp. Original orangish brown cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with lightly bumped corners in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunned spine panel, closed tear on bottom of front panel with repair on verso, light rubbing and small scratch to back panel. A nice copy. A very scarce history of the evolution of Max Planck's Radiation Law at the dawn of the 20th century.
Seller Inventory # 170915005
Published by Julius Springer, Berlin, 1924
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition of a paper by Max Born, "Uber Quantenmechnik" (On Quantum Mechanics), in entire issue of Zeitschrift f�r Physik, Band 26, No. 6, pp. 343-401. Born's paper is on pp. 379-395. Bound in publisher's original wrappers, with new spine. Ink stamp to front cover and pages toned.
Seller Inventory # 140940044
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 The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc, Evanston, IL, 1949
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with toning to pages, offsetting to endsheets, former owner name to front free endpaper and small sticker ghost to front paste down. In a Very Good dust jacket with fraying and chip at bottom spine end and short closed tear at head, light edge wear, toning, and soiling to rear panel.
Seller Inventory # 140941039
Published by Longmans, Green & Company, New York, 1903
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First British edition. xii, errata slip, 272 pp. Publisher's gray cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good+ with spine a bit toned, light wear, name on front free endpaper. Lacking scarce jacket. The uncommon first English-language appearance of the Nobel laureate's first book, published in German in 1897.
Seller Inventory # 140938825
Published by Macmillan, London, 1928
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition of Niels Bohr's paper, "The Quantum Postulate and Atomic Theory," as published in Nature, vol. 121, no. 3050, pp. 561-608, April 14, 1928, the entire issue offered here, with Bohr's paper on pp. 580-590. Some soiling to covers, light creasing, ink stamp on front cover, a very good copy. Pages 581-588 are loose from binding. Rare in the original wrappers.
Seller Inventory # 140940043
Published by Methuen and Co, London, 1920
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth. Very Good with light lean to spine, heavy foxing to textblock edge and sporadically throughout contents, endsheets browned and former owner name in light pencil to the front free endpaper.
Seller Inventory # 140943768
Published by Macmillan & Company Ltd, London & New York, 1899
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
First British edition. First British edition. xxviii, 276 pp. Bound in publisher's dark navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine, a little wear at extremities, horizontal bubble in cloth of rear board, former owner's name stamped on title page and table of contents. Uncommon in such nice shape.An attractive copy of the German physicist's final work, published posthumously. He died at only 36. The unit of frequency of a cycle per second is named after him.
Seller Inventory # 140944881