Published by University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1912
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 542pp. Blue cloth boards with embossed Sigma XI logo, white spine lettering and pages untrimmed, as issued. Front hinge starting, wear at the edges, and with the spine toned and the lettering rubbed, very good. A complete catalog of the membership up to 1911. Sigma X is an honor society for scientists and engineers, founded at Cornell University by a group faculty members and graduated students in 1886, that is still active today. Among its members are more than 200 Nobel Prize winners, the most notable being Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Francis Crick, James Watson, and Richard Feynman.
Published by Privately Printed, Brooklyn, New York, 1887
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. x, 110pp. With several illustrations in black and white. Moderately worn at the edges and spine ends, watered silk endpapers with two tiny chips, very good and sound. Contains the first appearance of Julia Ward Howe's two-page poem "Henry Ward Beecher: Preacher, Patriot, Philanthropist," Lucy Larcom's two-page poem, "Henry Ward Beecher: A Memory of a Sermon," and contributions by many noted contributors including John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joaquin Miller, Laura Bridgman, James Branch Cable, and Dion Boucicault. Printed at the De Vinne Press.