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Early printing of this cheeky safety pamphlet on the dangers of malaria, handed to US troops during WWII.
Early printing of this cheeky safety pamphlet on the dangers of malaria, handed to US troops during WWII.
Inscribed first edition of one of Popper's most important philosophical works.
Rare first edition of Stephen Hawking's first book, one of the most important works of theoretical physics of the 20th century.
Inscribed first edition of the "most important book ever written in America to protect American citizens from fraudulent practices against their food and drugs" (Clinton R. Miller), written by the first commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
First edition of the first book published on the efficacy of marijuana use in cancer treatment.
First UK edition of this controversial pseudonymous tell-all by a pre-Roe abortion doctor.
First edition of the "first Italian book on electricity" (Bensaude-Vincent) — a popular text that spread word of early electrical experiments to fascinated amateurs, including many Italian women.
Rare inscribed first edition of this classic study of the lives, loves, and passionate crimes of the Bee, by the father and sometime literary subject of Sylvia Plath, poet and beekeeper.
Scarce inscribed first printing of Bethe's course on the fundamental theory of nuclear forces, from lectures originally presented to the engineers and scientists of the General Electric Company.
First edition of this early and important work in computer programming.
First edition of one of the earliest scholarly, scientific monographs on transsexuality.
First edition of the birth-control advocate's "bestselling 'heart' book" (Jean H. Baker) — exhorting women to claim bodily autonomy as a fundamental condition of freedom.
Signed first edition of this early and now uncommon guide to the internet.
First edition of this rare self-published Jazz Age guide to quitting smoking, addressed to the lay reader.
First printing of this introduction to fractal design, with the user's manual and original floppy disk in the original software packaging — with a warning mailgram from the Small Computer Book Club, alerting the user to the then-prevalent "Friday the 13th" virus.
Trilingual booklet produced to accompany the Deutsche Reichspost's videophone service, exhibited and displayed in the German Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition.
First edition of this privately-printed Apple-produced compendium of Steve Jobs-related writing and remembrances.
First edition — in the rare jacket — of this pre-crash guide to investing written at the height of the Roaring Twenties and advocating for an uncommonly common sense approach to investing.
Inscribed first edition of this popular science book dedicated to chemistry and all of its dualities, by the Nobel Laureate and theoretical chemist.
First edition of this dissertation on the use of ice packs to treat various mental illnesses, defended at the University of Leipzig.
First US edition of the book that "brought about a silent and almost immediate revolution in biology" (Grafen and Ridley, 72) — and coined the term "meme."
First edition of the first book from "the father of the information age" (The New Yorker), a landmark of computer science and the first appearance of the word "bit" in book form.
Original manuscript notebook (with related correspondence) from prolific American inventor George R. Carey, including original sketches for his "Selenium Electrical Camera," one of the earliest conceptions of what would become television.
Late Georgian almanac in a terrific early publisher's muslin binding with printed text and a wood-engraved centerpiece.
First printing of this booklet presenting an Afro-centric perspective of athleticism by track star, kinesiologist, and educator Malachai Andrews.