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Condizione: Very Good. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by co-author Stuart Lipoff on title page.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. hardcover in fine condition with fine dust jacket. remander mark.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First. 511pp in one volume, wear/soil. W/Full markings, pocket, and/or bookplate. Weight is 2.75 lb. Ex-Library Size: 8vo. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. Cover and spine are good with only mild shelf/rub wear. No dog-eared corners. Solid Binding. All pages intact and legible. Clean. No store stamps. --- Mar, 1983 issue. --- Science Fiction stories including authors: ---- Martin Gardner --- Ronald Anthony Cross --- Steve Perry --- J. O. Jeppson --- Pamela Sargent & George Zebrowski --- Esther M. Friesner --- Robert Sheckley. . .See photos for additional content. . .

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Hardback in very good plus condition with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is clipped. Inscribed by author. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: New. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover with Beautiful Shiny DJ. Clean, crisp, excellent copy. First edition, 1st Printing. Not a remaindered. Promptly shipped in a box.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 272 pages.

Soft cover. Condizione: VG+. 1st Edition. A VG or better 12-page pressbook with no cuts. Size: 11" X 14". Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: VG+. A VG or better 12-page pressbook with no cuts. Size: 11" X 14". Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: VG. A VG or better folded original release 27 x 41 one sheet. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Condizione: Sehr gut. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Sofortversand,diverse Markierungsaufkleber, Deckel und Rücken mit leichten Gebrauchs/Altersspuren, Innen SEHR GUTER Zustand.

s/w-Originalportraitfoto, eigenhändig signiert (dito : Grosses Orig.-Szenefoto (16,5 x 21,5 cm) aus Quartett (1948), eigenhändig signiert Euro 60,-; Großfoto (s/w-Porträt 4 to) eigenhändig signiert Euro 65,-).

9 3/4" x 6 1/4" in pictorial wrappers. Illustrations. Information on Jackson County, its climate and scenery, fruit growing, fishing, hunting, the Jackson County Fair, timber resources, agriculture, irrigation, market gardening, stock and poultry raising, dairying, schools, mining, Crater Lake, Mineral Springs, Medford, Ashland, Jacksonville, Gold Hill, Central Point, Eagle Point, Rogue River, Phoenix, Talent and the area's industrial outlook. Near fine.

46 signed letters [34 TLS, 12 ALS] comprising decades of correspondence between Frederick Gardner Cottrell and various notable figures of his day in U.S. politics, the international science community, and academia. All letters are housed in new archival mylar sleeves. Cottrell was a notable chemist, inventor, and philanthropist, best known today for his invention of the electrostatic precipitator - one of the first inventions to combat air pollution - and his founding of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, which used the revenue from the electrostatic precipitator to fund further scientific research, and continues to do so today. While best remembered for these feats, Cottrell had a long and influential career both in the U.S. Federal Government and as a science consultant. He was well known nationally and internationally - in industry, in government, and in academia - for his support of and contributions to new ideas and new talent within the scientific community. The letters, which span from 1901-1941, track Cottrell over the course of 40 years, and evidence the many relationships he had over that period with some of the most influential people of the time. These include a letter of introduction from Alexander Graham Bell, a discussion of chemistry with Thomas Edison, replies from two Nobel Prize winning scientists - the discoverer of the noble gasses, William Ramsay, and discoverer of the electron, J. J. Thomson - to Cottrell's request to study in their labs, and exchanges with two presidents, Herbert Hoover and Woodrow Wilson. Other letters show his personal interactions with leading scientists of his day (Robert J. Van de Graaff, Georges Claude, George E. Hale) and heads of industry (Henry L. Doherty, Ivy Lee), and track the path of his career through his time as the director of the Bureau of Mines; to chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Technology on the National Research Council; to head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Fixed Nitrogen Research Lab, and beyond. These letters, the vast majority of which were sent by these notable figures to Cottrell, evidence his expertise, the depth and breadth of his professional interests, and his eagerness to collaborate and share research and ideas, coming together to trace the life of a man whose work was and continues to be consequential to the advancement of science as a whole. Shelved case 1. CONTENTS: 1-Page TLS from inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell to a Mr. Fish, dated December 20, 1911, introducing Cottrell to him. In Very Good condition. In this letter, Bell is writing in his capacity as Regent of the Smithsonian Institution. On 1331 Connecticut Avenue letterhead. Faintly creased, with mild wrinkling along the edges. Signed in black ink by Bell: "Alexander Graham Bell". 1-page TLS from inventor of the light bulb Thomas Edison to Cottrell dated January 13, 1925, discussing the unexpected results of a past chemistry experiment of his in relation to the generation of ammonia. In Very Good condition. TLS is on Edison's personal letterhead ("From the Laboratory of Thomas A. Edison"). Lightly age toned, with some wrinkling and small closed tears along the top edge. Faintly creased from past folding. Signed by Edison in black ink: "Thos. A. Edison". Includes a lightly soiled 1-page facsimile of Cottrell's reply. 2-page ALS from Nobel Prize winning physicist Joseph John Thomson to an unnamed recipient, likely Cottrell, dated July 6, 1901, discussing the possibility of Cottrell coming to study at Thomson's lab. In Very Good condition. In 1901, Cottrell would have been studying in Europe at the University of Berlin, seeking to study in the laboratory of an accomplished scientist. Thomson was already a figure of some renown for his 1897 discovery of the electron, which represented the first identification of a subatomic particle, and would be awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics in recognition of his work. ALS is on Cavendish Laborat. Signed.

Washington, The White House, 1962. Lex8vo. Typewritten manuscript with blue wrappers. Leaves stapled in left margin. A bit of sunning, mostly to wrappers. 59 pp. Original White House Report on a various number of different drugs and their effect, usage and addictability. The report was created by the request of President John F. Kennedy and was meant to support the President's Advisory Commission on Narcotics and Drug Abuse."Public concern over the problem of drug abuse, which had been relatively dormant during the 1940s and 1950s, flared again during the 1960s. The intensification of national concern resulted in increasing pressure for federal initiatives in the area. In response to this development, a White House Conference on Narcotics and Drug Abuse was convened in 1962, which resulted in the establishment of the President's Advisory Commission on Narcotics and Drug Abuse on January 15, 1963." (Abadinsky. Drug use and abuse, p 65.)"The President released a document entitled "Progress Report" [The present report] which had been produced by eight doctors (three M.D.'s, four Ph.D.'s, and one who held both degrees) designated as an Ad Hoc Panel on Drug Abuse to confer with the White House Science Advisor and give advice on what should be done. The members of this panel could not be faulted for their collective eminence, but none of them had theretofore been closely identified with drug-abuse problems, so their findings were developed from what might be termed a slightly fresh viewpoint. They started from the hypothesis that nearly all compulsive drug abusers could be rehabilitated, by which they meant withdrawn from drugs and re-established in society, since they found drug abuse was inevitably a manifestation of some underlying psychological or physiological disorder.Accordingly they rejected proposals for imposing long prison sentences on drug offenders, on the one hand, and for placing addicts on any kind of maintenance regime, on the other. Instead they urged lengthy and extensive parole supervision in all cases, following the pattern that had been developed (not surprisingly) in California." (King, The Drug Hang Up, p. 232).The report drew several conclusions regarding why people use drugs, one of them being: "Growth of "long-hair" and beatnik cults which experiment with the use of psychotic drugs to achieve group cohesiveness and personal nirvana." (p. 14).