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2001Best.-Nr. 25075Watson-Guptill New York 2001. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered.Literally as new and still in the publisher’s protective wrapping. Description: 240 p. : ill. some col. ; 30 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references p. 238 and index. Subjects: Regionalism in architecture. Architecture Modern--20th century. Watson-Guptill, New York hardcover
1973Best.-Nr. 479549Washington D.C. : Naval History Division 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked blue cloth boards with panel edges and endbands showing minor wear. Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Provenance; The copy of Capt Robert B. Kail U.S.N. with his signature to front free endpaper. Physical description; xiv 558 pages : illustrations maps ; 26 cm. Notes; Introduction by Vice Admiral Edwin B. Hooper. Maps on endpapers. Includes index. Subjects; Richardson James O 1878-1974. United States. Navy History 1933-1945. Admirals United States Biography. Washington, D.C. : Naval History Division hardcover
1988Best.-Nr. brownRR20np110PADI 1988. trade paperback. acceptable; used. Prompt shipment with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes sm4to; 272 pages; acceptable trade paperback; spine slanting; scuff and chip to face cover; crease back cover; slight nicks to edges cover; spine head and heal bumped with chipped; tips bumped with fray or chip; some faint tanning; few pages corners bent by previous owner; ink notes and marginalia various pages from previous owner; few stains; prompt shipping with tracking PADI paperback
1971Best.-Nr. 63732Eastsound WA: Orcas Publishing Co. 1971. 8vo. 362 pp. Double-paged illustrated title in blue & red numerous illustrations many photo. Beige tweed publisher’s boards red lettering on spine map endpapers slight shelfwear w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine small chip back cover slight scuffing price-clipped still NF/VG copy inscribed by the author on the title and laid-in bio of Richardson w/ ink annotations. First edition signed of this history surrounding the clash between United States and British Forces in 1859 in the San Juan Islands launched after a marauding British-owned pig was shot by an American settler. Orcas Publishing Co., hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 1072Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company 1930. Very good in very good jacket. Depression-era edition of the classic Italian fairy tale with 8 color plates and many black-and-white images. 8.5'' x 6''. Original brick red cloth stamped in gilt pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers red topstain. Illustrated with color plates by Richardson and in-text black-and-white images by Folkard. 252 pages. Ink gift inscription dated 1939 to front fly leaf. Jacket with a few chips moderate edgewear sunned spine. Short closed tear to front hinge; spot of soil to top edge affecting upper margin of some leaves. Binding crisp. John C. Winston Company unknown
Best.-Nr. 71-8580London: British Publisher 1719. Line engraving on laid paper. 36.5 x 26 cm sheet. Good sheet trimmed to the image black tape at sheet corners tears along sheet edges loss at upper right sheet corner. [London: British Publisher], 1719. unknown
Best.-Nr. 71-8986London: British Publisher 1719. Line engraving. 38 x 28 cm sheet. Very Good blue ink from verso showing through to recto in lower margin. London: British Publisher, 1719. unknown
Best.-Nr. 71-3705London: Silvester Harding 1800. Stipple engraving. 26 x 17.5 cm. sheet. Very Good. Minor surface soiling. London: [Silvester Harding, 1800]. unknown
Best.-Nr. 59-0733London: W. Richardson 1800. Engraving by an unknown artist. Text below image: "From feigned glory & Usurped Throne/ And all the Greatnesse to me falsly shown/ And from the Arts of Government set free/ See how Protectoresse & a Drudge agree." Image size: 138 mm x 96 mm. Sheet size: 214 mm x 140 mm. Wove paper. Full margins. London: W. Richardson, 1800. unknown
1998Best.-Nr. 191928Self published 1998. Hardcover. Near new condition covers bright text clean & binding tight. Oversized. Standard black buckram dissertation binding. 398 single sided pages. Self published hardcover
1979Best.-Nr. 65205Washington D.C.: United States Department of Defense 1979. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Staple bound. iii 190 12 p. Includes: illustrations diagrams. On 25-27 June 1979 a Seninar on US0Italian Armaments Cooperation was conducted in Washington DC to inform industry of Government policies and procedures and to facilitate direct contect between Italian and US industry. United States, Department of Defense paperback
1996Best.-Nr. 1417722New York: Pantheon 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xvii 1 285 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket in mylar. Bound in quarter blue cloth with blue paper boards and gilt titling. Jacket is blue with yellow and white lettering. Jacket has light rubbing throughout. Spine and boards have shelfwear to edges light toning to top edges and light scuffing to joints. Text block is lightly age-toned and has an inscription from the author to William Webster on front free endpaper: "To Bill and Linda Webster with the warm affection and admiration of their friend and Bill's colleague / Elliot Richardson / July 10 1996". Original purchase receipt signed by William Webster laid in to front endpaper. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column A ND-A . From the personal collection of William "Bill" Webster 1924-2025. Webster was a judge on the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals before serving as both director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 1978 - 1987 and the Central Intelligence Agency 1987 - 1991. 1417722. FP New Rockville Stock. Pantheon hardcover
1996Best.-Nr. 747301996. Presentation inscription by Richardson. Presentation inscription by Richardson. Richardson Elliot 1920-1999. Reflections of a Radical Moderate. New York: Pantheon Books 1996. xvii 285 pp. Cloth in near-fine dust jacket author's presentation inscription to front free endpaper: "To Donna and Jack with the warm regard and affection of their friend and fan Elliot Richardson." $75. First edition. A distinguished public servant Richardson as U.S. Attorney General was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal. He resigned rather than obey President Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. unknown
1996Best.-Nr. 75295New York: Pantheon Books 1996. First edition stated. First printing stated. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xvii 1 285 1 pages. Footnotes. Index. Press Release laid in. Inscribed and dated by author on fep to Lucky believed to be Selwa Carmen Showker "Lucky" Roosevelt who was Chief of Protocol of the United States for almost seven years from 1982-1989-longer than anyone has ever served in that position. Elliot Lee Richardson July 20 1920 December 31 1999 was an American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. As U.S. Attorney General he was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal and resigned rather than obey President Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson is one of only two individuals to serve in four United States Cabinet positions within the United States government: Secretary of Health Education and Welfare from 1970 to 1973 Secretary of Defense from January to May 1973 Attorney General from May to October 1973 and Secretary of Commerce from 1976 to 1977. Derived from a Kirkus review: A humane optimistic view of national politics from a longtime Washington insider. Richardson Attorney General in Nixon's last days and a former key official in the departments of state and defense asks us to remember all that is right in American politics. American government works he suggests because Americans demand accountability and openness and shun ideology in favor of practical idealism; yet for all that there is a growing sentiment across the land fueled by the media that things have gone badly wrong inside the Beltway. Richardson a moderate Republican allows that ``politics as usual'' may require some fine-tuning: For one thing he believes that Vice President Gore's National Performance Review Report hasn't gone quite far enough in setting standards for the way federal departments carry out their mandates. He adds that no one wants to look at the root causes of our troubles which are milder than we imagine them to be. No one takes more hits than Ross Perot for whom the mild-mannered and cordial Richardson seems to have a genuine disdain. His hopeful book is a welcome relief from the gloom-and-doom polemics that now overfill the current-events stacks. Pantheon Books hardcover
Best.-Nr. 6624RICHARDSON A.E. and C. Lovett Gill. REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND. London: Benn 1924. 4to. Cloth. xx 185 3 pages including plates illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with many photographic plates and line drawings. Includes a two page list of subscribers. unknown
Best.-Nr. 001798Hard Cover. Publisher: Benjamin Blom 1969 Good HB prev. owner's stamp fep. hardcover
1890Best.-Nr. 740094Philadelphia PA: David McKay. Very Good- with no dust jacket. circa 1890. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering and cover illustration black titling on cover. A small area 2" x 3/8" on the edge of the back cover has the color bleached out to a lighter pink -- a similar very small spot exists on the edge of the front cover. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 192 pages . David McKay hardcover
2002Best.-Nr. 052930Forest Park IL: Heimburger House Publishing 2002. First edition First printing. Oblong hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Robertson on the title page. 200 pages with photographs maps and rosters. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket. Heimburger House Publishing hardcover
1985Best.-Nr. 032959Paragon Press 1985. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 23pp.; HB spiral-quarter bound w/no title on spine; dk.blue&blue w/silver; slight rub w/lt.wear on corners; cleantight pgs. Salt Lake City's bid on the 1992 Winter Olympics. "This is the Place" illus. Paragon Press hardcover
1948Best.-Nr. 1441Covington Kentucky: Darrell C. Richardson 1948. Good condition/None. The Fabulous Faust Fanzine Vol. 1 No. 2 December 1948 Darrell C. Richardson editor Max Brand Frederick Faust Henry Uriel George Challis Stever Fisher et al. authors Darrell C. Richardson Covington Kentucky 1948. 11 x 8.5 inches. 60pp. Staple bound pictorial wraps. Text is printed in black brown green orange and purple. There are 3 tipped in plates; there is likely 1 missing plate. Glue residue visible on leaves with plates. Wraps and text block are creased and toned and the bottom staple is missing. Good condition. Content includes fiction poetry editorials and illustrations. Editor Darrell C. Richardson was a minister bibliographer and served as director of the National Fantasy Fan Federation. Darrell C. Richardson unknown
1976Best.-Nr. 26543Berkeley: And/Or Press. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Well used. Chipped at the top of the spine. Covers are creased and rubbed. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 95 pages . And/Or Press paperback
1925Best.-Nr. 115831925. RICHARDSON A.E. and EBERLEIN D. The Smaller English House of the Later Renaissance 1660-1830: An Account of Its Design Plan and Details. London 1925. 1st ed. Large 4to. Illus. viii 286pp. Orig. cloth. Fine in d/j. unknown
2006Best.-Nr. AME_9781592133444TemplUniversitPress 2006. 1ST. Hardcover. New/New. _ TemplUniversitPress hardcover
1982Best.-Nr. 55952Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1982. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xvii 333pp index. Foxing to edges of textblock else a very good hardback in a lightly edgeworn jacket that has a few small closed tears. University of Pennsylvania Press hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. 87781New York: Orion Books 1989. First U. S. Edition Stated First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very good/Good. The format is approximately 8.75 inches by 12 inches. 188 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations most in color. Index. DJ has some wear. This is an oversized book and if sent outside of the United States will require additional shipping charges. Traces the development of stealth technology explains its design principles and discusses radar-absorbing materials control of heat and sound emissions and the use of electronic warfare systems. Stealth technology or LO for low observability is not one technology. It is a set of technologies used in combinations that can greatly reduce the distances at which a person or vehicle can be detected; more so radar cross-section reductions but also acoustic thermal and other aspects. The author was a defense journalist specializing in the fields of aviation guided missiles and electronics. He was formerly defense editor of Flight International editor of Military Technology and Economics and editor of Defense Material. He was the author of several books. Stealth technology also termed low observable technology LO technology is a sub-discipline of military tactics and passive and active electronic countermeasures1 which covers a range of methods used to make personnel aircraft ships submarines missiles satellites and ground vehicles less visible ideally invisible to radar infrared sonar and other detection methods. It corresponds to military camouflage for these parts of the electromagnetic spectrum i.e. multi-spectral camouflage. Development of modern stealth technologies in the United States began in 1958 where earlier attempts to prevent radar tracking of its U-2 spy planes during the Cold War by the Soviet Union had been unsuccessful.5 Designers turned to developing a specific shape for planes that tended to reduce detection by redirecting electromagnetic radiation waves from radars. Radiation-absorbent material was also tested and made to reduce or block radar signals that reflect off the surfaces of aircraft. Such changes to shape and surface composition comprise stealth technology as currently used on the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit "Stealth Bomber". The concept of stealth is to operate or hide while giving enemy forces no indication as to the presence of friendly forces. This concept was first explored through camouflage to make an object's appearance blend into the visual background. As the potency of detection and interception technologies radar infrared search and tracking surface-to-air missiles etc. have increased so too has the extent to which the design and operation of military personnel and vehicles have been affected in response. Some military uniforms are treated with chemicals to reduce their infrared signature. A modern stealth vehicle is designed from the outset to have a chosen spectral signature. The degree of stealth embodied in a given design is chosen according to the projected threats of detection. Orion Books hardcover
