Riverside, CA: Defenders of the Geocentric Universe, 1976. A single issue of the organ of the Defenders of the Geocentric Universe, an informal group of physicists and astronomers interested in geocentrism, or the belief that earth is the center of the universe. The “Braheian Debater” provided a forum for supporting..... More
Gillingham, Dorset: The Blackmore Press, 1952. First edition. Quarto (28.5 cm); 199 pp.; illustrations; photographs; maps; dust jacket. Foam green cloth with gilt stamping to front board and spine. A near fine copy with just a hint of sunning to board edges. Scarce original dust jacket is very good with..... More
[Cambridge?]: n.p., 1922. The physics notebook of the noted economist Dorothy C. Bacon kept during her 1922 academic year at Radcliffe College, in which she records eight experiments. These include 1.) plotting a graph of wavelengths and spectroscope readings 2.) comparing the absorption spectra for different thicknesses of dye 3.)..... More
New York: Vim Publishing Company, 1905. First edition. 12mo; red cloth lettered in black, vi, [11], 2-215 pp, [5] pp. (adverts). INSCRIBED by the author to “Dr.” Charles Pichel, an eccentric conman, traditionalist Catholic and obsessive anti-Communist who headed the spurious Shickshinny Knights of Malta. Tipped in to the rear..... More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First American edition. Twelvemo. Green paper boards pictorially printed in black; 159 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. A Very Good+ copy with toning to board edges in a Very Good, unclipped ($1.75), dust jacket, which is also toned and has one mark of soiling..... More
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Santa Barbara: Annular Publications, 1970-73. First edition. Tabloid newspaper format printed on newsprint; various pagination, from 8 to 18 pp.; all illustrated. A scarce semi-unbroken run of this newsletter edited and published by engineer and amateur space enthusiast, Donald Lee Cyr. Cyr self-published Life on Mars (1944) at the age..... More
Boston: O. S. Fowler, 1869. First edition. Large octavo (24 cm); vi, 236, [12] pp (bound in); illus. Brown pebbled cloth, blind-ruling to both boards, title gilt-stamped to front board. Very light wear to boards; spine a little sunned; owner's name to front endpaper. Fowler was a famous phrenologist and..... More
London: Britons Publishing Society, 1961. First printing. This booklet combines a lecture given by George at Dartmouth College in 1956 (Human Progress and the Race Problem) and his pamphlet, “Race, Heredity and Civilization.” The publisher’s forward addresses a British audience and the “major colour problem in Britain.” George’s consistent thesis..... More
New Brunswick, N.J. Center for Coastal and Environmental Studies at Rutgers, 1978. First edition. Quarto (28 cm). Saddle-stitched wrappers; 58 pp.; maps, tables, illus., photographs. Some sunning and very faint soiling to wrappers. Scarce in the trade with no other copies currently available. More
Los Angeles: Elysium Inc., [1967]. First edition. An account of an experimental nude psychotherapy session held at Deer Park Nudist Resort and presided over by Drs. William E. Hartman and Paul Bindrim in which the author “found herself caught up in the turbulent reactions which resulted when repressed hostilities and..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1927. 8vo; stapled wrappers, 57, [5] pp. In this contribution to the Key to Culture series, freethinker, Joseph McCabe, explores: I. Reading the Riddle of Nature II. Wonders of the Microscope III. The Bacteria IV. How the Plant Feeds V. The Leafy Canopy VI. The Evolution..... More
London: The Fuller Engineering Company, 1920? 24.5 x 18.5 cm; 24 pp.; illus. Saddle-stapled booklet, staples oxidized and bleeding a little. Some general rubbing with a few marks of soiling to rear cover, but overall a Very Good copy. This article was originally printed in "The Textile Recorder" and seems..... More
Windsor, Ontario: Redloh Publishing Company, 1946. First edition. Octavo (23 cm). Blue textured wrappers printed in black; viii, 173 pp.; illus. The author's extensive research on the causes and cures of cancer, With many illustrations and photographs. Wrappers show only the slightest hint of rubbing with a small chip to..... More
San Francisco: Liberty & Property, [196-?]. Fourth printing. Tall, stapled wrappers (23 x 10 cm), 17, [1] pp. Anti-miscegenation pamphlet from Dr. Bela Hubbard, who argues that voluntary segregation is the only practical solution to prevent race-mixing, which leads to the degeneration of both races. Published by Property & Liberty..... More
London: John Van Voorst, 1852. First English language edition. Octavo; viii, 158, [2] pp.; one illustrative plate and numerous woodcuts. Publisher's blind-ruled, green, pebbled cloth; gilt titling to spine. Top corners are chipped and rounded with some chipping to crown (slight loss, not affecting title); dust-soiled top edge; owner's name..... More
San Francisco: Far Horizons Books, 1982. Second revised printing. Octavo. Perfectbound paperback; 284 pp. The author traces humanity's evolutionary development and argues that man can only act altruistically when he abandons religion and embraces science and rationalism. A Very Good copy with covers slightly rubbed, clean throughout. More
Chicago: The Aries Press, 1982. First edition. Comb-bound wrappers, 137, [5] pp, charts, tables. Scribbled numbers to title page, some underlining and marginalia. One copy in OCLC at Rice Univ., none others in commerce. Scarce. The author researched hundreds of earthquake horoscopes in order to predict where and when major earthquakes..... More
London: Freedom Press, 1964. A single issue of the well-regarded anarchist magazine edited by Colin Ward and featuring cover designs by Rufus Segar. 118 issues were published from 1961-70. This issue focused on the land and featuring articles by Tom Jones (“Approaches to the land”), Alan Albon (“Anarchism and Agriculture”)..... More
Trenton: John L. Murphy Pub. Co., 1892. First edition. Folio (30 cm); 402 pp.; L (50) plates, most with numerous figures. Black, gilt-stamped cloth with gilt to spine nearly worn away. Cloth is dust-soiled with wear and fraying to edges and upper front joint; front hinge cracked, but secure, rear..... More
San Francisco: Nova News, ©1971. A bizarre argument for nuclear disarmament in the form of scientific, occult, and political images and diagrams that are somehow related to the author’s Nova Formula. Comic book format (6 ¾” x 9 ¾”), [24], illus. Split from the bottom of the spine up to the..... More
[Vista, California: Borderland Sciences Research Associates], [1960]. First edition. Corner-stapled, mimeographed leaves with cover illustration of Edison and Steinmetz, 31 pp, illus. Pulp stock is brittle, browned and chipped along the edges; a later staple has been added for reinforcement, although the last leaf is loose. No record for this..... More