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1957164 pages. Fiction: The General's Disgrace; Fugitive From Romance; One Husband's Revolt; Freedom Calling!; The Lady (part 2 of 4); Kiowa Moon (part 4 of 7). The Business of Love. Articles: Is France Still Our Ally? - they say our Middle East policy is killing them; The Lady Lays Down the Law - TV star Ruth Lyons of Cincinnati - article with photos; How To Eat Like a Movie Star - recipes from Dave Chasen who turned a chili parlor into one of Hollywood's busiest and most expensive - restaurants; The Man Who Was Born Twice - Walter Kussy leaves communist Czechoslovaia to be reborn as an American; I Licked My Jinx - Golfer Jack Burke Jr. hits the jack pot on the pro golf circuit after 16 years - with photos; "Bring All Your Cancelled Checks" - What happens when you are called in for an IRS tax audit; Spring in the Smokies - beautiful forest floor photo; So, You Think You Need Eight Hours' Sleep! - fascinating sleep research by Dr. Nathaniel Kleitman, including testing in Mammoth Cave, Ky; Fishing in the Dark - smelt fishing in Porter Creek ad Advance, Michigan - article with great 'stampede' photo; Ads: Parker 61 pen; Listerine (romantic photo by tree); Borden's Butterscotch Pecan Ice Cream - nice one-page color photo; Magnavox TVs; Whitman's Chocolates; Nice two-page two-color Dodge Truck ad displays nine different models; Two-page Rexall ad proudly displays their line of Stag products; Wow! - three-page color-photo ad for Scott-Atwater outboard motors; Gleem toothpaste - baseball scene with smooth photo; Campbell's Soup; Buick Roadmaster 75 - with color photo of foxy lady in back seat; Two-page yellow-pages ad; Pink GE appliances color photo ad; One-page two-color Phillips Milk of Magnesia ad; Nice color-photo De Soto car ad featuring a yellow and white Fireflite Sportsman, 4-door hardtop; Speed Queen appliances; Allied Van Lines; Marlboro - early Marlboro Man ad - one page black and white photo; Sweet color-photo Cadillac ad outside a formal evening gathering; Two-page GM ad promotes the safety of their curved panoramic windshields; Tareyton; Chef Boy-Ar-Dee ravioli; Great one-page photo Black and Decker ad for the "World's Most Powerful Drills"; Sexton Foods; Alabama vacations ad features sexy 'Patsy'; Two-page photo ad for GM features their supplier Great Lakes Screw Corporation of Chicago - with owners Jennings and Bob Crawford, Clyde Greathouse, Edna, Clarence and Gordon Gary; Twindow; Great color one-page ad for Imperial cars - featuring the new Imperial Le Baron 4-door hardtop - with chauffeur; Dictaphone Time-Master; Frigidaire appliances; Canada tourism; Pream coffee; Nice one-page color 7-up (Seven-Up) ad shows teens on phone; Nice Scripto pens one-page ad in color; Van Heusen shirts; Canadian Pacific Dome Car photo ad; Homelite Chainsaws - featuring photo of Mr. Lester Tamplin of West Manchester, Ohio; Nice one-page two-color ad for Moto-Mower lawn mowers; Mercury car ad with photo of Ed Sullivan; Nice color Diamond ad (for N.W. Ayer & Son?); Lowe Brothers Paints; Sunkist orange ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1962Features: Cover photo of the RCMP National Ride; The Cannibal Cities - how urban sprawl is eating Canada alive, by Jane Becker; The Magical RCMP Musical Ride - with colour photos; Can you trust a Chiropractor with your Health? - two million people do; Does anybody here speak Canadian? - by Barbara Moon; Nights and Days of a Ward Boss - Frank (Banjo) Hanleyand how he runs his polyglot political kingdom on the seedy side of Montreal; Ask the Name of the Lion, by Ralph Allen (conclusion); Nice colour photo centerfold displays seven models of Kodak cameras; Nice colour photo Molson Canadian ad inside back cover shows picnicking family with the bridge over the Welland Canal under construction near St. Catherines. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1961Features: Tanganyika - bright spot on a dark continent; People on the way up - Mike Ditka - Dangerous Bear, Joan Odell - Lady Prosecutor, James N. Anno Jr - nuclear pioneer, Pamela Tiffin - Instant Star; Tomorrow the moon - colour photo of Titan rocket on pad at Cape Canaveral; PT 109 - the adventure that made a President; Trouble Shooter for Weddings - Mrs. Frances Poetker, Cincinnati Florist; Must our cities be so ugly? - by John E. Burchard; Adventures of the Mind; TV's most unexpected hit - Great article on Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera, the Flintstones and Yogi Bear; How to get rich with a rope - Cowpuncher/Cowboy Dean Oliver; The Peacemakers, part 8 (conclusion). Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
1962Features: Why I am Running for Congress - James A. Michener; What next for France? - de Gaulle, at 71, is a fragile bulwark between right-wing terrorists and a heavily Communist electorate is ; We live in Death Valley - Jean Bullard, wife of a park naturalist, tells what it is like to rear a family in the desert; The Spell of the Distant Drum - by Margaret Lawrence; People on the Way Up - Beverly Willis, David Vetter, Marie Bishop, John (Boog) Powell of the Baltimore Orioles; America's miraculous harvest - Orville L. Freeman tells of the advances which allow our farmers to produce more than we cna use, while the Communist nations fight off famine; The Neutron Bomb - William Laurence says it is simply a disturbing nightmare, both improbable and impracticable; Backstage with Andy Williams; Quarterback for the Moon Race - Harrison Storms, the uncanny boss of Project Apollo. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
1962Features: Gutter Politics, by Bruce L. Felknor - in every election year unscrupulous smear experts ply their shoddy trade; Eichmann and His Trial (Part 1 of 3), by Gideon Hausner - the full story, his prosecutor, the Attorney-General of Israel; Change of Pace on the Night-Club Scene - New York's grab bag of entertainment holds a varied fare for the enterprising visitor; His Car is Named Desire - with the racy Avanti, Studebaker's Sherwood Egbert hungers for big sales; 'Genius' at Green Bay - Jim Tayolr delivers running power for the Packers; From Greece - Food Fit for the Gods; Tale of Two Cities - San Francisco vs. Los Angeles; Memoirs of a Monster, by Boris Karloff - the world's most famous bogeyman looks back on his 35-year career in horror; Can we still be first on the Moon? (PLEASE NOTE: PAGES 83-84 MISSING FROM THE MOON STORY. Nice colour Cadillac ad inside back cover. Average wear. Book
1962Features: Last Chance for the Moon - Sen. Clinton P. Anderson argues only a nuclear-powered rocket can overtake Russia's lead in space; My Life with New York Juvenile Gangs (part 1 of 3) by Vincent Riccio - many photos; Star without an Image - outspoken, unpretentious Joanne Woodward manages to hide herself behind a hundred make-believe roles; Ghana - Neutral on the left - nice color photos; Taming the Colorado - Article with great photos of the Glen Canyon Dam under construction; Strong boy of the Minnesota Twins - Harmon Killebrew; Stylish Entertaining at Home; Living High on $6500 a Year - Darrell Huff, a free-lance jack-of-all-trades tells how a family can live like millionaires on a modest income; The Decline and Fall of Friendship - one of humanity's greatest blessings is sadly out of fashion; Nelson Rockefeller - Does he have a future with the G.O.P.?. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Book
1931A particularly interesting issue with topics ranging from the 100 horsepower blower for the organ in the new Chicago Stadium to an English vending machine which dispenses individual lit cigarettes. Features: The eyes and ears of the railroad - the complicated signal system that spells safety for rail travel; Editorials - Arthur G. Halfpenny - An Awakening Due - Lopsided progress; International Affairs; Did a meteorite strike a car in Crawfordsville?; New light on old fools - ultr-violet irradiation to create vitamin D; Unique solutions of bridge construction problems - caissons sunk on artificial islands - divers employed; Vacuum tubes in industry - thermionic tubes, grid-glow relays, photo cells find wide use; A new use for radium - radiography possible without combersome apparatus; Radio goes man-hunting - radio alarm system reduces the criminal's chance of escape; New temperature measurements of the sun, moon, mars - sensitive thermo-couples reveal surface conditions; Chicago's "Madison Square Garden" - called "world's largest sports arena"; has unusual features; Butterfly farming - an intriguing business started by Iowa youth; When locomotives go to sea - special steamers built to accomodate monsters of the rails (excellent photos); A machine-age "milk maid" - the "rotolactor' milks 240 cows in one hour; Centrifugally spun concrete piles - new manufacturing process; mass production of preserved foods - a huge industry that grew from a market basket; Salt making in India - Primitive methods illustrated and described. Average wear. Unmarked. Crease to front cover. Advertisement inside front cover features photo of luxurious Cord front drive automobile manufactured by the Auburn Automotive Company. Book
1957112 pages. Fiction: Summer Affair; The Selfish Kind of Love; Tugboat Annie and the Hoard of Heroin; Street of Fear; The Lady (part 1 of 4); Kiowa Moon (part 3 of 7). Features: Memo to the Hungarian Patriots; This Place Can Save Your Life - the modern hospital's 'recovery room'; Religion Hits the Road - old camp-meeting methods are being used again; Is Yankee Pitcher Don Larsen a One-Game Wonder?; Rugged Bachelors of Okinawa - great photos and story; Everybody Laughs at Me - Victor Borge - part 7 of 7) - he flopped as a movie star but smashed all records with his one-man show; American Sundown - beautiful photo of the Sundown Ranch in Slaughterhouse Canoy, California - home of the Lee Brooks family; The Lady Cops of the Dope Squad in Philadelphia - with photos of Gorothy Ferrabee, Dorothy Garvin, Geraldine Galcik, Margaret Logan, Lt. Glasgow Driscoll, Capt. Clarence Ferguson and Doris Fanning.. Ads: Nice color American Motors ad inside front cover features George Romney; GE pink appliances; Ford Fairlane 500 Town Victoria and Del Rio Ranch Wagon; Wonderful one-page two-color ad for movie 'Designing Woman' starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall; Florsheim Shoes - one page in color; 1957 Pontiac Strato-Streak; Lucky Strike cigarettes - inside diner; *Fantastic* two-page color Mack Truck ad shows illustrations of several models in color; Hertz Rent a car; GoodYear Tires; Nice two-page Chevrolet ad displays 20 of their models in color; Sweet Oldsmobile ad shows the Starfire 98 Holiday Coupe in a swank color waterfront scene; Totally wild color-photo one-page ad for National Cash Register (NCR) shows woman sitted in front of a massive Post-Tronic "The First Electronic Bank Posting Machine"; Colgate - romanti scene; Photo of Don Larssen with luscious Diana Dors; Nice color photo ad for Johnson outboard motors; Tasteful color photo ad for Hunt catsup; A&P Coffee; Cushman Road King; Great vintage one-page black and white photo ad for the new Jeep FC-150; Nostalgic color ad for Sunbeam electric lawn mowers inside back cover; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features cartoon artists Al Capp, W. Steig and Richter. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1947118 pages. Many great black and white photos. Features: Born Gambler; Fortress in the Sky - Establishing a Moon Base; Let's Look Ahead; Germany's Giant Wind Tunnel - Hidden in Austria - article with super photo; History of the Seaplane; Scale Model, Early Type; NACA Engine Research; Curtiss XF-15C-1 in Color; A-Planes; The C.A.A.; The Cloudster; Air Progress; Flying the Bell 47 Helicopter; What's the Matter with Free Flight:; Many pages of great ads; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Some age-toning to pages. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Magazine
1977Includes music, guitar chords and lyrics from the albums: The Who Sings My Generation; Happy Jack; The Who Sell Out; Magic Bus/The Who on Tour; Tommy; Live at Leeds; Who's Next; Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy; Quadrophenia; Odds and Sods; The Who by Numbers. Songs include: Acid Queen; Baba O'Riley; Bargain; Behind Blue Eyes; Call Me Lightning; Disguises; Doctor, Doctor; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Doctor Jimmy; Gettin' in Tune; Goin' Mobile; The Good's Gone; Happy Jack; I Can See For Miles; I Can't Reach You; I'm Free; Instant Party (Circles); Its Not True; The Kids Are Alright; La La La Lies; A Legal Matter; Love Ain't For Keepin'; Love, Reign O'er Me; Magic Bus; Much Too Soft; My Generation; My Wife; Our Love Was, Is; Out in the Street; The Ox; Pictures of Lily; Pinball Wizard; Postcard; Pure and Easy; Quadrophenia; The Real Me; Run Run Run; See Me, Feel Me; Sensation; Slip Kid; Someone's Coming; The Song is Over; Squeeze Box; Tommy Can You Hear Me; You Didn't Hear It (1921); Won't Get Fooled Again. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this large compilation of excellent Who songs. Book
1957140 pages. Fiction: End of a Marriage; The Platoon of Pariahs; A Dream for Sale; Record Run; The Lady (part 3 of 4); Kiowa Moon (part 5 of 7). Articles: The Glamorous Governor of New Jersey - Bob Meyner abandoned bachelorhood mid-term; The Seven Dictators of Broadway - Reviewers John McClain, John Chapman, Richard Watts, Jr.; Robert Coleman, Tom Donnelly, Walter Kerr and Brooks Atkinson; ; The Woes of Willy Mays - why 1956 was almost a nightmare for him; The Oddest War Ever Fought - The Aden-Yemen war has been going on for 2,000 years, with daily time-outs for prayers and narcotic binges - article with maps and interesting photos; The Face of America - Prize Babies (photo); Pals of My Childhood - Farley Mowat writes of his two hilarious pets; My Daughter's Silent World - Adelyn Pagenstecher was told her daugher Mari was deaf; A Bloom for Mother-In-Law - beautiful color photos of tulips and daffodils ; Wonderful Wooden Sandwich - how plywood turns waste wood into a useful product - with photo of Sol Walter (Tony) of United States Plywood.. Ads: Liberty Mutual auto accident insurance; Savage brand lawn mowers; Bunnygrans - one-page photo ad featuring Lucille Ball and son; Nice Easter-themed two-page photo ad for Buick cars; National Cash Register (NCR) adding machines; Fantastic three-page color ad for International trucks; Vigoro plant foods; One-page black and white photo ad for movie "The Spirit of St. Louis" starring James Stewart; Great two-page color-photo ad for the 1957 Dodge Swept-wing convertible featuring Lawrence Welk; Pink Westinghouse clothes washer; 1957 Frigidaire pink (interior) fridge; 1957 Ford - two-page color-photo ad; Pall Mall cigarettes - cowboy scene; Page & Shaw chocolates; Chevrolet - two-page color photo of four 1957 models; Elgin Watches (graduation theme); American Airlines - nice color two-page ad shows glamorous lady boarding plane; L&M cigarettes - nautical theme; Eaton tandem axle ad features Joseph J. Hock of Baltimore; Longines-Wittnauer Watches; Nice two-page color ad for Kodak's broad line of cameras; Hit Parade cigarettes; Kings Men aftershave "I don't want to be a tycoon"; Douglas DC-7 airliner; Viewmaster; Johnson outboard motors; Harrison car air conditioning; Pullman cars; Evinrude outboards; Springfield mowers and tillers; Richard Harding Davis is honored in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Vista auto wax; Nice color one-page Viceroy cigarette ad features tennis player Pancho Gonzales and his lovely wife Henrietta; Back cover Coke ad with sailing illustration. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
194428 pages. Songs include: Temptation; Chant of the Jungle; Should I; If I Had You; How Am I To Know?; Blue Moon; Good Night Sweetheart; Don't Blame Me; Sweet and Lovely; I'm Thru with Love; Rain; Pagan Love Song; I'm Coming Virginia. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
1999réf. BN72220Michaels 1999. 1999. Montauk Die Schwarze Sonne: Montauks Nazi-Tibet Verbindung Montauks Nazi-Tibet Verbindung Michaels unknown
1927In 4°; due tomi: (6), VIII, (4), 311, (3) pp. e 30 c. di tav. fuori testo a colori e (8), (2), IV, 344, (6) pp. e 28 c. di tav. fuori testo a colori. Brossure editoriali illustrate con sopraccoperta originale in carta pergamena. Una piccola mancanza al margine basso del dorso del secondo volume. Esemplare ancora a fogli chiusi, stampato su carta di ottima qualità e con tavole dai colori vivaci e curatissimi. Tiratura limitata di 400 esemplari, il nostro è l'esemplare numero 83 , uno degli esemplari tirati “sur velin pur fil Lafuma”. Firma autografa di Fontane sotto il numero della tiratura. La più bella e curata monografia dedicata all'opera e alla vita del grande illustratore e caricaturista francese celeberrimo per le sue illustrazioni dei periodici satirici “La Lune”, “L'Eclipse” e “Le Charivari”. Le sue caricature, sotto forma di grandi ritratti litografici colorati a mano, erano considerate molto accurate, divertenti ma mai crudeli, tanto che essere ritratti da lui era diventato, nella seconda metà dell'ottocento, un motivo d'orgoglio. Fra i personaggi ritratti, celebri furono i ritratti di Sarah Bernhardt, Otto von Bismarck, Émile Zola, Victor Hugo, Nadar, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Adelina Patti, Charles Dickens e Richard Wagner. Fra i personaggi che però non apprezzarono il proprio ritratto satirico ve ne fu uno che gli creò notevoli problemi, Napoleone III che censurò “La Lune”, anche se poi il giornale rinacque come “L'Eclipse”. Gill è ancora oggi considerato come uno dei più grandi caricaturisti della sua epoca. Importante prima edizione, in tiratura limitata, di questa monografia. Rif. Bibl: IT\ICCU\NAP\0097437.
1851réf. PHO-830Dublin,A. Thom, 1851-53 , 2 volumes in-8°, xii-224p-iv , 2-228p-1 ,relié pleine percale éditeur à décor , titre en or sur les plats , dos lisse avec auteur , tomaison et date , cachets .bon exemplaire
1870réf. G54023Barcelona, Fiol y Gros 1870-1871 Complet en 2 tomes: 656, [4] + 590 [2] pp., richement illustré (gravures dans le texte, plan double-page en couleurs), texte imprimé en 2 colonnes, reliure cart. (dos en cuir avec titre et faux-nerfs dorés, coins peu touchés), 30cm., texte en espagnol, qqs.rousseurs, bon exemplaire
1951réf. 30278PRIMERA EDICION.- Madrid: E.P.E.S.A. 1951.- 254 p. 1 h.: Láminas en negro y color; 4º mayor 28 cm.; Cartulina flexible Ed. cubierta anterior ilustrada con un cromo en color.- IMPECABLE ESTADO. GITANOS MARGINADOS BANDOLERISMO ESCLAVITUD TORTURA Y TEMAS POLICIALES Libro en español E.P.E.S.A. paperback
1928réf. 61263Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc 1928. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Very good. Moon Carl. green cloth yellow lettering and red illustration to spine and front cover no dust jacket deckled edges illustrated end papers 264 pp first edition illustrated by Carl Moon previous owner's inscription to front end paper light wear to upper and lower edges of spine rear corners very lightly bumped Standard shipping no tracking / Priority with tracking / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc hardcover
1868réf. PHO-9231868/1872 , Paris, à l’Imprimerie Impériale (1868) et à l'Imprimerie Nationale (1872) ,2 volumes in-8 (160x240), relié demi chagrin,dos lisse avec auteur titre et tomaisons,cachet et inscription dorée sur le plat.
réf. 37705202-nnew. unknown
1949réf. 188141949. Moon Bucklin. The Darker Brother 1949 brought Moon's 1943 novel of a Black Florida family's migration to Harlem into the postwar mass-market paperback trade centering the racial discrimination Ben encounters after moving North. The novel follows Ben from Florida to Harlem where expectations of greater freedom confront housing employment and interpersonal racism; his later military service returns him to the segregated South. Published originally during World War II the narrative placed these experiences within the movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities and the persistence of racial discrimination beyond the Jim Crow South. Moon Bucklin. The Darker Brother. New York City: Bantam Books November 1949. Bantam edition. First paperback printing. 246 pp. Original pictorial wrappers. 8vo. No dust jacket as issued. The front wrapper depicts Ben and his fiancée Birdie on a Harlem street confronted by a white man clutching papers with buildings and street activity visible behind them. Red blue and gold dominate the illustration. Across the upper margin appears the publisher's line "He came up North for freedom and got---Harlem!" The rear wrapper announces "Born the Wrong Color" in red lettering and summarizes Ben's experiences of racial prejudice. The cover's language and confrontation scene recast Moon's novel for the postwar paperback market by emphasizing racial conflict as its principal selling point. First published by Doubleday Doran in 1943 The Darker Brother follows Ben his mother and sister from Florida to Harlem and traces the consequences of racial violence and discrimination as Ben searches for work plans a future with Birdie and enters military service. Contemporary reviews recognized race relations as the novel's central subject while Moon continued addressing racial discrimination in A Primer for White Folks 1945 and The High Cost of Prejudice 1947. The 1949 Bantam edition is particularly revealing for the history of African American representation in popular publishing: its wrapper converts a novel about Black migration and racism into the visual and promotional vocabulary of the mid-century paperback juxtaposing the promise of northern freedom with the publisher's stark Harlem street scene. Minor creasing to the lower right corner of the front wrapper and minor chipping to the spine neither affecting text or illustration; internally clean and overall very good condition. unknown
1949réf. 188141949. Moon Bucklin. The Darker Brother 1949 brought Moon's 1943 novel of a Black Florida family's migration to Harlem into the postwar mass-market paperback trade centering the racial discrimination Ben encounters after moving North. The novel follows Ben from Florida to Harlem where expectations of greater freedom confront housing employment and interpersonal racism; his later military service returns him to the segregated South. Published originally during World War II the narrative placed these experiences within the movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities and the persistence of racial discrimination beyond the Jim Crow South. Moon Bucklin. The Darker Brother. New York City: Bantam Books November 1949. Bantam edition. First paperback printing. 246 pp. Original pictorial wrappers. 8vo. No dust jacket as issued. The front wrapper depicts Ben and his fiancée Birdie on a Harlem street confronted by a white man clutching papers with buildings and street activity visible behind them. Red blue and gold dominate the illustration. Across the upper margin appears the publisher's line "He came up North for freedom and got---Harlem!" The rear wrapper announces "Born the Wrong Color" in red lettering and summarizes Ben's experiences of racial prejudice. The cover's language and confrontation scene recast Moon's novel for the postwar paperback market by emphasizing racial conflict as its principal selling point. First published by Doubleday Doran in 1943 The Darker Brother follows Ben his mother and sister from Florida to Harlem and traces the consequences of racial violence and discrimination as Ben searches for work plans a future with Birdie and enters military service. Contemporary reviews recognized race relations as the novel's central subject while Moon continued addressing racial discrimination in A Primer for White Folks 1945 and The High Cost of Prejudice 1947. The 1949 Bantam edition is particularly revealing for the history of African American representation in popular publishing: its wrapper converts a novel about Black migration and racism into the visual and promotional vocabulary of the mid-century paperback juxtaposing the promise of northern freedom with the publisher's stark Harlem street scene. Minor creasing to the lower right corner of the front wrapper and minor chipping to the spine neither affecting text or illustration; internally clean and overall very good condition. unknown books
1993réf. 13577Switzerland: Delphire 1993. Switzerland: Delphire 1993. The photographs of Sarah Moon beautiful enigmatic French text.as new sealed in publishers shrinkwrap. as issued VF mint copy. First Edition. French Fold Cover. As New/None as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition. Paperback. As New/None as Issued. Book. Delphire Paperback
1880réf. 42402(London, Harrison and Sons, 1880). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1879, Vol. 171 - Part II. Pp. 539-593.
1880réf. 42402London Harrison and Sons 1880. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1879 Vol. 171 - Part II. Pp. 539-593. First printing of a main paper by the "Father of Geophysics" in which he shows that the effect of the tides was to force a retreat of the moon from the earth - thus going backward in time in the history of the earth he concludes that the earth had been in contact with the moon and this represents the time at which the whirling earth threw off a portion of its outer crust by centrifugal action loosing angular motion in that way."Darwin's most significant contribution to the history of science lies in his pioneering work in the application of detailled dynamical analysis to cosmological and geological problems. That many of his conclusions are now out of date should in no way diminish the historical interest in his experiments nor the importent service thet he rendered cosmogony by the example he gave of putting various hypotheses to the test of actual calculations. Darwin's method remains a milestone in the development of cosmogony and subsequent investigators have favored it over the merely qualitative arguments prevalent until that time."DSB. unknown
