Bernoulli, Daniel.

HYDRODYNAMICA, SIVE DE VIRIBUS ET MOTIBUS FLUIDORUM COMMENTARII. OPUS ACADEMICUM.

Argentorati (Strasbourg), France: Johann Reinhold Dulsseker, 1738. 8vo. contemporary vellum in later half leather, marbled paper-covered clamshell box. (vi), 304 pages, plates. Text in Latin. From the private library of Dr. Elliott and Eileen Hinkes. Brunet I, 803. First edition. Dedication, preface, table of contents. Bernoulli's epochal work on fluids and gases. "A milestone in the study of the flow of fluids. In this work he established the 'Bernouilli Principle' that as the velocity of..... READ MORE about HYDRODYNAMICA, SIVE DE VIRIBUS ET MOTIBUS FLUIDORUM COMMENTARII. OPUS ACADEMICUM

Price: $12,000.00  other currencies  Order nr. 131434

(Biblio Novel). Carlisle, Kate.

THE BOOK STOPS HERE.

New York, NY: Obsidian Mysteries, 2014. 8vo. paper covered boards, dust jacket. 323 pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about THE BOOK STOPS HERE

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135269

(Biblio Novel). Dresner, Hal.

MAN WHO WROTE DIRTY BOOKS.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. 8vo. half-cloth over boards, dust jacket. 192 pages. First edition, second printing. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about MAN WHO WROTE DIRTY BOOKS

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 12747

(Biblio Novel). Pirandello, Luigi.

LATE MATTIA PASCAL Translated by William Weaver.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1964. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 252 pages. Translated from the Italian. Pascal bequeaths a MS on the condition no one open it until 50 years after his 3rd and final death. Pascal had been the librarian of a collection of books given to a city, a fate he did not enjoy. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. READ MORE about LATE MATTIA PASCAL Translated by William Weaver

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 8804

(Biblio Novel). Sinclair, Andrew.

THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF E.A. POE.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. small 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (10), 181 pages. First American edition. The fictional papers of E.A. Pons ("edited" by the author), who suffers or perhaps pursues the delusion that he is Edgar Allan Poe, and decides to consult a psychiatrist named Dupin. "takes the reader on a fascinating quest, not only for the truth about...Poe himself, but for the truth-or several truths-about the world that has created..... READ MORE about THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF E.A. POE

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 49822

(Detective Fiction). Avallone, Michael.

DEAD GAME. A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE.

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1954. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 207 pages. First edition. Near fine in lightly chipped dust jacket. READ MORE about DEAD GAME. A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135287

(Detective Fiction). Barnard, Robert.

CASE OF THE MISSING BRONTË.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1983). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 182 pages. First edition. This murder mystery turns around a Bronte manuscript. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about CASE OF THE MISSING BRONTË

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 29999

(Detective Fiction). Barnard, Robert.

DEATH OF A MYSTERY WRITER.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1979). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. First U.S. edition. A mystery writer with a large loving public and a small hating group of close friends is murdered on his sixty-fifth birthday. The son who hated him the most is the largest benefactor of his will, but his current manuscript, worth over a million dollars, is missing. Fine in fine dust jacket. READ MORE about DEATH OF A MYSTERY WRITER

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 13375

(Detective Fiction). Bierstadt, Edward Hale.

SATAN WAS A MAN.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935. 8vo. cloth. (x), 292 pages. First edition. Carroll Lindsey is "cooped in his small room in the grim old house on Irving Place, surrounded by a matchless library on crime ..." Jacket designed by W.A. Dwiggins. Lacking the dust jacket. Covers lightly soiled, else near fine. READ MORE about SATAN WAS A MAN

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 12781

(Detective Fiction). Block, Lawrence.

THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN.

New York: Arbor House, 1983. small 8vo. quarter cloth, boards, dust jacket. 253 pages. Book Club Edition. A Bernie Rhodenbarr mystery. Signed by author, front free endpaper. "It was a slow day at Barnegat Books, but then most of them are. Antiquarian booksellers, after all, do not dream of retiring to the slow and simple life. They are already leading it"(p.7). Bernie Rhodenbarr, fortunately, has a second trade to fall back on. Near fine in..... READ MORE about THE BURGLAR WHO PAINTED LIKE MONDRIAN

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 64770

(Detective Fiction). Borgenicht, Miriam.

BOOKED FOR DEATH.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. small 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 214 pages. First edition. What's George Theroux doing behind the Cedar Springs Inn with a bullet hole in him? Nothing anymore, actually, but his ex-fiancé Celia Sommerville, who had told him just the day before that she wouldn't marry him, fearing it might have been suicide but suspecting that it isn't, begins to investigate in Cedar Springs. Turns out, someone George knew..... READ MORE about BOOKED FOR DEATH

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(Detective Fiction). Crispin, Edmund.

FREQUENT HEARSES.

New York, NY: Walker and Company, 1982. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 224 pages. First edition thus. Near fine in dj lightly rubbed at extremeties. Fen and a motion picture studio. READ MORE about FREQUENT HEARSES

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135270