NY: MacMillan, 1937. First thus. Hardcover. Inscribed (to no recipient) and dated in the year of publication on the front free endpaper by William Vogt, who wrote the six-page foreword and the ornithological descriptive text below each of Audubon's plates with details of the species' range, habitat, identification, breeding, and.....
London: Little, Brown, 1999. First thus. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "To Dava Sobel, with admiration, Edmund Blair Bolles." Uncommon signed. A great anthology of the literature of science, including both scientists and popular writers, including such names as Issac Assimov, John McPhee, Stephen Jay Gould.....
NY: Simon and Schuster, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page in blue ink: "To Yonah, with great affection and admiration. Ruth Colwell." Uncommon signed. A "memoir-manifesto" by the first woman to direct the National Science Foundation. It draws on six decades of her life in science and.....
NY: Scribners, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes to Michael, Francis." Michael McClure is the seminal Beat poet who shared the stage with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg at the famous Six Gallery Reading that kicked off the Beat generation.....
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Michael and Joanna [McClure], Francis." Michael McClure is the seminal Beat poet who shared the stage with Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg at the famous Six Gallery Reading that kicked off.....
Athens: U Georgia P, 2009. First edtion. Hardcover. Inscribed in the year of publication on the title page: "To Dian Deevey, Best wishes for a greener future. Jack, Jack E. Davis, 3-18-09." Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing. The first comprehensive biography of Douglas, one.....
NY: Columbia UP, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Russ, For deep--or relaxing--summer reading. Rene Dubos." Uncommon signed. Seven lectures exploring "the relationship between the scientific community and the lay public that impatiently awaits practical applications of scientific knowledge." Dubos (1901-1982) was a microbiologist and important.....
NY: Random House, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the half-title page in a blue pen: "For my dear friends Tom and Ruth Harkin, with deepest respect and gratitude -- and with best wishes always, Al Gore." With Harkin's ownership signature at the top of the.....
NY: Harmony Books, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Two books: The first, in wraps, an advanced uncorrected proof of Stephen Jay Gould’s Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. Inscribed to Oliver Sacks on the title page: “For Oliver, with best wishes & admiration, Steve, Stephen Jay Gould.”.....
Philadelphia: Academy of Natural Sciences, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. E.O. Wilson's copy of this uncommon, and momentous, anthology born out of a symposium to mark the bicentennial of the nation and examine the history of American science and its explorations of evolution across that period. With Wilson's ownership signature at.....
NY: Pantheon, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. A wonderful association copy, inscribed on the title page in the year of publication: "To Dava [Sobel] with warm wishes, Alan, February 1993." Sobel is an acclaimed popular science writer and the author of bestselling books such as Longitude, Galileo's Daughter (a finalist for.....
Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010. First edition. Softcover. Second printing. An association copy, inscribed on the half title page: "To Dava [Sobel], With great respect and admiration for your writings, [some writing in Hebrew], Avi Loeb, Cambridge, Oct 5, 2017." Uncommon signed, and his signature is scarce, unavailable on the market.....
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press / Harvard, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "For Susan, with best wishes, Ernst Mayr." Uncommon signed. Mayr is among the giants of evolutionary biology, known especially for establishing that a species is a group of animals that can only breed among themselves.....
Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. A nice association copy, inscribed on the half-title page: "To Dava [Sobel]--In awe of your writing and with gratitude for all your help on this book. David." David Michaels and Dava Sobel are in fact cousins, so a nice family association copy. Sobel.....
Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Jane Cottrell, Best wishes, Char, 2-3-07, Portland." Uncommon signed. Jane Cottrell rose to become the Forest Service's Deputy Chief, an office which sits just below the agency's Chief and Associate Chief (i.e. third in.....
NY: Scribner, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fourth printing. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction, and uncommon signed. A standout association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Dr. Francis Collins, in admiration, Siddhartha Mukherjee." Francis Collins (see his Britannica page) is an internationally-respected physician-scientist known for his landmark.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Signed on the half title page by Murchie in blue ink, and thus uncommon. A finalist for the National Book Award in Science. Murchie was a fascinating guy who wrote about science and philosophy, especially--really he was interested in everything, a synthetic mind.....
Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed in black ink on the title page. Near fine with just a hint of lean to the spine; in a very good jacket with a touch of soiling/rubbing and bookstore sticker on the rear panel.
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1936. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author across the front free endpaper, and uncommon thus. Some of the naturalists discussed include Linnaeus, Chevalier, Lamarck, Bartram, Alexander Wilson, John James Audubon, Goethe, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Green cloth boards, gilt laurel design on.....
NY: Doubleday, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Fourth printing. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Dava Sobel, Beauty happens! Richard O. Prum." Uncommon signed, with no other copies available as of this writing. One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2017 (as a sticker on.....
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. An association copy, inscribed on the half title page: "To Pat Moynihan, with warm regards, Dillon Ripley." Laid in also is Ripley's card. Moynihan was a four-term US Senator from NY from 1977 to 2001 who, among other many other activities and accomplishments, served for.....
NY: Knopf, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Fourth printing. An association copy, inscribed in a bold blue marker on the title page: "For Senator Rockefeller -- Oliver Sacks, 5/97." The recipient is John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, former US Senator from West Virginia. He served 40 years in the Senate as.....
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the biographer on the title page: "For Todd Frazier, Barbara Sicherman." Uncommon signed. "An integrated work of biography and letters," the book consists of Sicherman's contextualizing discussions with Hamilton's letters interspersed. Alice Hamilton was a founding industrial toxicologist and.....
NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024. First edition. Hardcover. Third printing, signed on the title page. Uncommon signed in the American edition. Sobel " approaches Marie Curie from a unique angle, narrating her remarkable life of discovery and fame alongside the women who became her legacy." Sobel is an acclaimed popular.....
NY: Viking, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the half-title page in the year of publication: "2/26/83, To Colin Dickson, with best wishes, Lewis Thomas." Uncommon signed. Thomas was an important oncologist and essayist who won the National Book Award for his first book The Lives of the Cell. He was the.....