BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. photos. 8vo, 441 pages, black cloth; tough of waterstain at bottom corner of the lower dj flap. McCracken was an writer and art expert who became the Director of the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum. When he started he was a youth looking for adventure, inspired by Jack… Read more about this item

Chicago & NY: J. G. Ferguson / Crowell, (1966). First Trade edition. Hardcover. Fine. Harry H-K Lange, photos. 4to, 244 pages, handcrafted mission leather, a.e.g. Ex libris Arthur Dallman Von Braun has been called the leading rocket engineer in the Western world. Ordway was a primary astronautical archivist. Illustrated with photos by Harry H-K Lange.… Read more about this item

HarperCollins, 2004. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo, 402 pages, clothbacked boards, remainder mark on bottom edge. Culpeper was an outcast and a rebel from the in-crowd of the College of Medicine in London. Unbelievable, but apparently true, this is the first full biography of Culpeper. "Riveting - The New Scientist."

New York: Philosophical Library, (1951). First edition. Hardcover. Fine/price-clipped. 8vo, 369 pages, gray cloth Ries invented pratical methods and apparatus for welding and riveting by electricity, and the photographing of sound on film. Thus, he 'invented' the talkies. Westinghouse Electric paid sixty thousand for rights to 65 of his inventions -but the would have paid half a million… Read more about this item

No place, no date [ 1917]. First edition. Wrappers. Very Good. Octavo, 78 / 78 pages, brown printed wrappers with yapp edges with short tears " The first time I saw an aeroplane fly was at Le Mans, France in the summer of 1908. Wilbur Wright had come over from America to make some demonstrations ...." … Read more about this item

Easton, PA: Jounral of Chemical Education, 1948. Fifth Edition, Enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, xiv, 578pp., blue cloth, inked name on endpaper. "The story of the disclosure, one by one, of the chemical elements has never been told as a connected narrative. The reports of these discoveries and the life stories of the discoverers are recorded for the… Read more about this item

New York: The Press Scrap Book, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Portrait frontispiece. 8vo, cloth covers soiled, 143 pages How the world came to have aquadag and oildag; also, carborundum, artificial graphite and Goodother valuable products of the electric furnace. Attributed to Acheson, who, after working for Thomas Edison at Menlo Park, took his own genius and… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner's, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Octavo. 273 pages, brown cloth Autobiography of the Nebraskan scientist and science writer and humanist.. Illustrated by Emanuel Haller.