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1990290 pages including index. Discusses several factors that contribute to plant stress, including: freezing and chill injury; drought stress; heat shock; salt stress; toxic metals. Examines the detection of plant stress by remote sensing devices. Light wear. Contents clean and bright. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper else unmarked. Book
1965372 pages including index and abundant black and white photographs and diagrams. Widely accepted as a basic textbook in metalworking. Covers: bench and wrought metal, sheet metal, art metal and jewelry, forging, heat treating, foundry, welding, machine shop, and more. Number written upon spine and three school stamps upon front endpaper else unmarked. A well-used copy yet contents remain in decent shape. A solid working copy with binding intact. Book
195582 pages. "Being a Text-book of Data collected from Investigations in the Research Laboratories and in the Works of Thos. Firth & Sons, LTD., Sheffield." - from title page. Chapters include: The Requisitioning of Stainless Steel; Stainless Steel and its Manufacture; The Working and Treatment of Stainless Steel; The Strength of Stainless Steel as Shewn by Mechanical Tests; The Mechanical Strength of Stainless Steel at High Temperatures; General Physical Properites; Resistance to Rust - Corrosion Resisting Properties; The Effect of Various Reagents upon Stainless Steel; Contact with Other Metals; Stainless Iron. Illustrated. Undated. Circa 1950s? Unmarked. Moderate wear. Bright gilt lettering to front board and spine. Spine leaning. Binding intact. Nice clean copy. Book
1985302 pages including index. A comprehensive guide to investment opportunities in gold, silver, platinum and palladium. A fact-filled sourcebook, complete with lists of dealers and other financial organizations that handle every kind of metals transaction. Book clean, bright and unmarked. Appears unread. Modest rubbing and light wear to dust jacket. Very nice copy. Buy now at the early stages of this bull market! :-) Book
1922Approximately 100 pages. Features: The Nevill-Soanes Copper Process; Gold Prospects in Nigeria; The Premier Mine Aerial Ropeway; Metals during 1921; Mesopotamia - A Review of its Geology and Petroleum Resources; and much more. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Many pages of fascinating illustrated contemporary advertisements. Book
1983548 pages. Circa 1980s? This large reference includes 58 parts plus a glossary. Topics covered include: Collecting vs. Investing; The Economics of Numismatics; Grading Coins; Finding a Good Dealer; Numismatic Myths; The Bourse; Mail-order Buying Guide; Coin Psychology; Buying and Selling; Diversity; Liquidation; Counterfeiting; and much more. Clean with light wear. Title page missing. Nice copy of this substantive reference. Book
1969Features: Systems analysis of urban transportation; Neutrinos from the sun; Porphyria and King George III; Milk; Liquid Metals; Computer Analysis of Protein Evolution; High-Temperature Plastics; Urban Monkeys. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1977Features: Ichiyo School; Ikenobo School; Koryu Shohtoh-kai School; Sogetsu School; Kasumi's Exhibition at Westminster Abbey; Tankin-Transfiguration of Metals; Sakai Hoitsu; Seifu Enshu School; Saga School; Soami School; Ohara School; Chiko School; Ryusei-ha School; Ryusei-ha's Exhibition Presents 'Composition of Leaves'. Writing at bottom of front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1963Features: Siskiyou (California) - a collector's treasure house; Design ideas for jewelry makers; Flame Agate in Utah's Chinle; Three metals and two planes; Mineral collections and collectors; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. Book
1979238 pages including index. A definitive study of the past, present, and future of the metal that Keynesian economists and political schemers have denounced as a 'barbarous relic." The war on gold began several centuries ago, when politicians discovered they could print limitless amounts of paper currency for a small fraction of the cost of using gold as money. A particularly timely title as gold once again struggles to attain it's true market value. Author was a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace from 1968 to 1973. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Pages gently age-toned. Binding intact. A clean and sound copy. Book
198086 pages. Author is purported to have provided the spark which prompted the Hunt brothers to launch their attack on the silver market in the early 80s. Discusses: The Cause of Inflation; Runaway Inflation's Global Threat; Hyperinflation - The end and the beginning; Capital Survival Strategy; Capital Protection - the Right to Privacy; The E.R.C. Group of Companies. Includes useful charts. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. Sunning to exterior. A sound copy of this important work. Book
1947Topics include: Oil filtration, purification and reclamation; Service experience in controlling low temperature engine deposits; The Hydra-matic Transmission; Lubrication of the portable air compressor; Crawler track lubrication and maintenance; Metals grinding machinery lubrication; Inboard marine engines; Lubrication in forging operations; Lubrication of communication apparatus; Automotive hydraulic transmissions; Flow properties of lubricating greases - relationship of apparent viscosity. Prior owner's name on cover of first issue otherwise contents tight, clean and unmarked. Moderate wear to boards. A sound copy. Book
1986Features: Advanced materials and the economy; Materials for information and communication; Materials for aerospace; Materials for ground transportation; Materials for energy utilization; Materials for medicine; The science of materials; Electronic and Magnetic materials; Photonic materials; Advanced metals; Advanced ceramics; Advanced polymers; Composites. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1980191 pages. Although written before the age of exchange-traded funds, this work provides a wealth of important fundamentaal information for the new precious metals investor. Covers the production, consumption, uses and prices of precious metals and explains in a non-technical way, the major factors influencing these complicated markets." - from back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1892417 pages. Index. Appendices. Footnotes. List of sixty black and white illustrations. A rare surviving copy of this important reference, made all the more engaging by today's environment of competing fiat currency devaluations. "Hitherto Numismatists when stydying the Origines of Coinage had confined themselves to the materials presented to them in the earliest money of Lydia, Greece and Italy, and on the other hand the Metrologists had almost completely limited their range of observation to the systems of Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. As the Comparative Method has yielded such excellent results in the study of other human institutions, I have endeavoured by its aid to get some new principles which may throw some fresh light on the first beginnings of monetary and weight systems." - from Preface. Attractive gilt decoration upon green front board. Legible gilt lettering upon backstrip. Average external soiling and wear. Several chips from and lengthy openings along backstrip which has become brittle with age. Narrow opening along most of front hinge. Back hinge open. Bookplate discretely removed inside front board. Unmarked. A tender but worthy copy. Book
1936272 pages. With black and white frontispiece and 76 plates in line and half-tone. "Mr. Evans has devoted his life to his subject and he has brought to bear on his work a logical and precise mind. He has set out in order a practical and efficient method of instruction for the use of teachers of metalwork." - from Foreword. "Hammered metalwork is the term herein used to denote constructive silversmithing and the extension of its hand processes to suitable non-ferrous base metals. It embraces the hand-tool operations involved in the construction of domestic ware in Silver, Gilding-metal, Copper and Brass." - from Introduction. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent text. Book
1984156 pages. Features: Space-based ballistic-missile defense; Prions; Seismic tomography; Cartilage; Epsilon Aurigae; A Late Ice-Age Settlement in Southern Chile; The Continuous processing of metals in the U.S.S.R.; The Crystal Palace; and more. Nostalgic ads including several from the early days of the PC industry. Bit of writing atop front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1981156 pages. Features: Precision-guided weapons; the newest stars in Orion; Dutch elm disease; the ribosome; the forging of metals; monsoons; a mesolithick camp in Ireland; Sadi Carnot; and more. Nostalgic colour photo ads. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1986Features: Sarah & Jane Gregory enjoy searching for and creating miniatures; Gail Morey's Canine Crowd; Ralph & Lucy Ord's Sculptured Settings; Nicole Walton Marble - To Windsor and Beyond; Sheila DeTurk captures the beauty of the English countryside; America's First Ladies - The Designer Look (1969-1986); Wes Hart's Precious Metals; The Shelburne Museum brings the sights and sounds of circus magic to life; Gayle Baillargeon has heard the call of the wild in Canada; Paintings in Petit Point by Annamae Cuthbert; Peggy Mills - Portraitist of the Tiny; Linda Driscoll's work with shuttle and hook; Mary's Menus - Thankful Desserts for Autumn; The Toys of Christmas Past; The Art of Arranging Flowers in Miniature; Joann's Cooking with Mrs. Claus; Sifter & Sieve - two kitchen accessories; A Tiny Christmas greeting vignette; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1985Features: Eileene McDanal's Special Easter Store; The Kitty Carlisle Collection - over 10,000 amazing miniature works of art housed in Yorkshire's stately Nunnington Hall; Miren and Michael Tong use precious metals, stones and mirrors when creating unique replicas of Art Nouveau furniture in 1" scale; Folk Art in Miniature - The Girard collection is comprised of over 100,000 folk art miniatures; Larry Peavey - talented Massachusetts craftsman; Liz Staryk's Calendar Girls; Design a farmhouse or room setting using stenciled quilts and accessories; Mary Eccher's Easter Food dishes; Joann's tiny General Store; Cowboy fashions; Three bridles you can easily make for your tack room or model horse; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
194172 pages. Features: "Canada is Strong", one-page ad shows Canadian farmer tilling land; One-page Singer sewing machine ad features Mrs. S. Armstrong of Montreal; News Digest discusses Yugolsavia's 'purge', Slav vs. Teuton again, Washington News, and an 'inside job' for Hitler; Frigidaire ad; We Blockade the Continent - article with fascinating map explains wartime trade complications; Slave Labour Under the Nazi Scourge - Fascinating photo-illustrated article written by Oskar Lutze, a former trade-union official of Berlin; The Slide on Short Mountain (short story); War and Canada's Golden Age - article explains how Canada will benefit from WWII; The Designing Wench (short story); The Running Man (short story); Inside the Gestapo - conclusion of fascinating article about a strange and fatal bunch of documents, with photos of Franz von Papen and Countess Vera Fugger; Bluff by Holloway Horn (short story); The Woes of Wives; Longines watch ad includes photo of Sir Hubert Wilkins; Gay Garden Gadgets; Half-page Canadian Pacific ad for the Banff Springs Hotel; Hollywood news and photos; Photo of Norma Shearer in Woodbury cold cream ad; Nostalgic 1941 Chevrolet centrefold ad encourages readers to be "Feature-Wise", with illustrations of dozens of features available in their cars; Men and Their Wardrobes; Treasure in Strange Places; With Love from the Luftwaffe - article on German bombing of Britain; Birth of a Lipstick; Maple Leaf Fund - article with photo of Victor T. Goggin, President of the Fund; Department of National War Services half-page ad says "Save Scrap Metals, Rags, Paper and Bones"; Norway Fights On - one year after the Germans invaded; Watch Your Step; The Small Room (short story); Swimming and Health; Serve Them, They Serve You - cooking article with recipes; Fashion illustrations; Classy War Savings Certificates ad inside back cover shows mother with kids on hilltop and her 'pledge to them - and to Canada'; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this extraordinary wartime issue. Book
1971PLEASE NOTE: The actual title of this book is "Silversmithing and Art Metal: For Schools, Tradesmen and Craftsmen". For technical reasons, a different title pay appear above. 160 pages. Index. Black and white photos and diagrams. Printed upon glossy stock. "Explains contemporary methods of hand forming silver, copper, and related metals into useful and decorative objects." - from Preface. Contents include: Tools; The Metals; Metal Working and Forming Techniques; Plate and Tray Construction; Box Construction; Spoons, Picture Frames, Spouts; Decorative Processes; Silversmithing and Art Metal Projects. Unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Moderate wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
2009387 pages. Index. "If you are confused by economics, this is the book for you, laying out in everyday English what some economics professors try to conceal behind intimidating mathematical equations... Read this book if you dare to understand what is being done to your financial future." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. Gift quality. Book
1982192 pages. Index. Bibliography. Many charts and graphs. Maps. Black and white reproductions of photos. "Beginning with detailed geological analysis of the platinum-group metals, Professor Sutton goes on to describe the technology involved in locating and mining these metals. Next, he carefully details current world supplies: in the Marxist countries, in the West, and in the United States. A careful study is presented of the fluctuations and relations of prices for metals in the platinum group as well as trading in the metals, economic projections and investment in strategic platinum.... A complete account of the strengths and weaknesses of platinum-group metals as investments, with the pitfalls and dangers, and possible rewards. A most authoritative guide for those interested in making a profit from inflation by investing in precious metals." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. Book
1929Lucky Strike cigarette ad on back cover provides a truly classic and timeless example of a mis-timed advertisement. Consider that the great Wall St. stock market crash of 1929 occurred mere days before this issue hit the newsstands. Beneath the caption "An Ancient Prejudice has been removed" appears a clenched fist labeled as "American Intelligence" breaking a heavy chain. Top left a paranoid miser stacks his gold by candlelight. Top right a wealthy couple visits their palatial bank. Text beneath miser reads "Hoarding gold with the fanatical zeal of the miser has vanished. American Intelligence sponsors thousands of banking institutions to which the individual (i.e. the wealthy couple) safely entrusts his wealth." The message is clear. Readers should put their trust (and money) in the banks, and shun gold. This issue was likely printed just as the Great Crash occurred, causing countless financial institutions to go under - and destroying even more individual fortunes. (The ad goes on to claim that cigarettes have similarly overcome the prejudice against them.) A truly stunning work which deserves to be preserved and reflected upon in this age of limitless fiat currency printing. Average wear with three-inch crease to lower corner of back cover. Suitably framed and mounted, this ad will make a superlative office display for any precious metals executive. Magazine