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1980Best.-Nr. KOS02200189Kawade Library 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. KOS02200189 Kawade Library paperback
1935112 pages. Features: Use of cemented carbides in industry; The miniature camera; Zeta Aurigae - a close double star; Canalization of the Upper Mississippi River; Archaeologist's notebook; Making your own photomicrographic camera; Rubber plant experiments; Excavations by CWA workers under the Tennessee Valley Authority bring to light the contents of 40 Indian villages and mounds; Preventing fires at sea; The versatile papaya; Is the growing death rate from heart disease and cancer real or only apparent?; Progress in this age of science; Interesting brief note and photo of what may be the first grease cartridges and grease gun; and more. Coverfold partly open. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
1931Features: Africa's first national park; Editorials - building for parity a false alarm - whose fault is it?; Power development on the Columbia River - the first power project on one of the most famous of North American streams; United States plant patent number 1 - only time will show the value of plant patents, the first of which has just been released; The hottest place in the universe - what keeps the stars shining?; Henry Ford, the Practical - the automobile manufacturer knows how to do things , and how to get them done; Are there creatures like ourselves in other worlds?; The birth, life, and death of a railroad ticket; Mercury vapor power to the fore - two new and larger units have been ordered; Australia's great meteorite; Paper's thinnest web - making tissue paper; Where not to look for oil and gas; Electrical aids to blind flying; Etruscan safety pin; Excavating Rome's seaport; A modernized university library - Sterling Memorial Library at Yale; Why question the reasoning of animals? - authentic stories seem to indicate their reasoning power. Page 293 is a full page tribute, with black and white photo, to thirty-year old Linus Pauling, hailed as "a rising star who may yet win the Nobel Prize." Light erasure mark at top corner of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1932Features: Announcement, with photos, that after seven years of research, the Caterpillar Tractor Company has applied the diesel engine successfully to the tractor. Contains fascinating two-page wide graphic which illustrates and describes business cycles and patent applications from 1840 to 1932 Articles: The transmission engineer's job - to design a n electrical transmission line, tie in a number of power stations, and solve the many attendant problems oftern requires years of work; Editorials - too old at 40? - airplane engine reliability - peace in radio - expensive babies; Gold from goldfish - goldfish, once imported, now raised in great numbers here; Star colors and star temperatures - the problems with which astrophysicists deal in determining the heat given off by flaming heavenly bodies; The business man takes wings - an account of an actual business trip around the country in which much time and money were saved; New light on Sasanian culture - culture of the peoples whose lands were the scene of the wars of Alexander the Great, as shown by recent archeological finds; Concrete bridge makes new record - George Westinghouse Bridge has America's longest concrete span; Is space curved? - some confusing concepts of the physicists cleared up by simple scissors work; Looking at stresses - complex stresses in structures directly vivible by new method; Big Springs - Some springs in this country flow great rivers of water; Why a watch keeps time - two years' time is often required to design a watch that will consistently keep accurate time; Gun recoil control - simple muzzle attachment reduces recoil of guns and prevents lift of the muzzle off the target; Endurance cut from the hillside - stone for modern buildings is cut in huge blocks by methods that have felt the touch of the machine age. Moderate to average wear. Magazine
1929Features: The new planetariums for Chicago and Philadelphia; Editorials - C.F. Brush, Sea safety code, Men's clothes, air country clubs; Licorice the versatile; Uncle Sam gives us new money - the process, in brief, of making paper currency; Why does an oil gusher gush?; Charting Canada's wilderness from the air - more accurate than with transit and chain; Our army's mechanized forces - development of the American fighting tank since war times (with interesting photos); What becomes of star light?; Is the diesel airplane practical?; Silvering the world's largest telescope; Foiling the burglar III - vault combinations and clocks; Sea Safety contest; the Zeppelin's American home - huge hangar being erected in Akron; Steam Come-back - outdistancing water for generation of electricity; Designing large telescopes; World's largest vineyard in California; Ancient history from aloft; Compressed air used in Novel hospital - diabetes, anemia, and other maladies treated in an unusual manner; the 'heat makes cold' regrigeration unit. Attractive colour Packard automobile advertisement inside back cover. Colour Lucky Strike advertisment upon back cover features a puckered damsel and the caption "To keep a slender figure no one can deny... Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." There are some rubbings/marks to this page. Page 198 is a full page advertisment for passenger aircraft manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn Michigan. Damage to bottom of spine. Unmarked. Magazine
1984156 pages. Features: Breast Feeding; Molecular Clouds, Star Formation and Galactic Structure; The Diamond-Anvil, High-Pressure Cell; The Tornado; Vision by Man and Machine; Cell-Adhesion Molecules - a molecular basis for animal form; The nesting behavior of dinosaurs; Prehistoric rice cultivation in southeast Asia; and more. Nostalgic ads including several from the early days of the PC industry. Bit of writing on front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1956Best.-Nr. 1622New York: Skye Publishing 1956. First Edition First Printing. Original wraps. Very Good. 8 1/2 X 10 3/4 Inches. 74 PP. Published just about a month before her birth this elusive original issue of SCREEN LIFE famously carried the contest to name the future daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher Carrie Fisher. Nice full-page ad for "The King and I" starring Yul Brenner. Nice full-page ad for "Trapese" starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster. Filled with Hollywood gossip on Monroe Heston and Dean among others. Light creasing to corners. A very respectable copy overall. Skye Publishing unknown
1987Best.-Nr. 2090502113714690Not Available 1987. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
Best.-Nr. 57034Milwaukee: Blatz Gum 1928. Original decorative stiff wrappers tied. A little wear to the lower corner of the first couple of pages a clean and unmarked very good copy otherwise. This album contains all 20 Favorite Screen Stars Trading Cards issued by Blatz with facsimile signatures mounted in the album. This set includes the key "Our Gang" card. The 20 cards are: 1. Ben Lyon 2. Vera Reynolds 3. William Haines 4. Jack Mulhall 5. Anita Stewart 6. Billie Dove 7. Charlie Murray 8. Edmund Lowe 9. Renee Adoree 10. Dorothy Mackaill 11. Jean Hersholt 12. Conrad Nagel 13. May McAvoy 14. Molly O'Day 15. Betty Bronson 16. Evelyn Brent 17. Owen Lee 18. Lew Cody 19. Phyllis Haver 20. Our Gang Milwaukee: Blatz Gum, [1928]. unknown
1979Features: Cruise Liner for the Mersey; Singapore's Golden Line; White Star Liner "Laurentic" of 1927; Sail in Norway; Ferry Scene - A Golden Anniversary; Drake 400; Drawing Ships is Fun; A Celtic Venture; A Master and his Ship - Capt. Mike Forwood and the "Lion"; The Bulldog "Affair". Book
1978Features: Dwindling Brocklebank Fleet; 100 Years of Collier Loading; White Star Liner "Coptic" of 1881; Excursions of Helgoland; Sail Review - Local Preservation Projects; Life in the 'Castle' Liners; Ships on Stamps - Falkland Islands Mail Ships; Shipping Entrepreneur par Excellence; Steamboats on Windermere; Ferry Scene - End of the A.L.A.; The Future of Sail - Province Race Plan; The Captains Watson and the Empire Line - Part II. Book
1987Features: What's in a cave?; Painting with pesticides - the controversial organotin paints; Stars with thousands of feet (star fish); The see-through salp; Lighthouse reef - a Caribbean atoll; Coralline algae - pink plants of fhe seafloor; Oceanography on stamps - the Christmas Island Phosphate Company. Sound copy. Book
1999Best.-Nr. 2110502150408327Tokuma Bookstore 1999. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Tokuma Bookstore paperback
1980Best.-Nr. 2081402109801465Presented by Contemporary History Publishing Association Tokuma Shoten 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Presented by Contemporary History Publishing Association, Tokuma Shoten paperback
Best.-Nr. 19110618-nnew. unknown
Best.-Nr. 1449774504.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1910Best.-Nr. 13268St. Louis MO: Lambert-Deacon-Hull Printing Co 1910. Lithographed map 21.5 x 22.25 inches printed in black and red. An attractive map of the great state of Texas created by the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway to promote their regional lines and encourage immigration. The map includes the company's railway lines coming down from Oklahoma and snaking through the central-eastern portion of the state down to the Gulf Coast. Steamship lines are indicated to various locations from Galveston. Within the area of the state locations are shown for areas adapted to certain crops and general regional elevation and rainfall figures are also printed sporadically across the state. This version of the map was distributed "Compliments of Lone Star Immigration Co." The top left usually where an inset map would be printed includes promotional text about the company: "Lone Star Immigration Co. Sells irrigated farms in the 'Magic Valley' of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas where 'Home' means health and comfort. Low round trip excursion rates via the M. K. & T. in our private Pullman Dining Cars on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Write our nearest office for literature and further information." Similar but shorter promo text appears in the lower left corner. OCLC reports about a dozen copies of some version of the map sponsored by different land and development companies with no holdings of this particular map from the LSIC. Lambert-Deacon-Hull Printing Co unknown
1910Best.-Nr. 13268St. Louis MO: Lambert-Deacon-Hull Printing Co 1910. Lithographed map 21.5 x 22.25 inches printed in black and red. An attractive map of the great state of Texas created by the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway to promote their regional lines and encourage immigration. The map includes the company's railway lines coming down from Oklahoma and snaking through the central-eastern portion of the state down to the Gulf Coast. Steamship lines are indicated to various locations from Galveston. Within the area of the state locations are shown for areas adapted to certain crops and general regional elevation and rainfall figures are also printed sporadically across the state. This version of the map was distributed "Compliments of Lone Star Immigration Co." The top left usually where an inset map would be printed includes promotional text about the company: "Lone Star Immigration Co. Sells irrigated farms in the 'Magic Valley' of the Lower Rio Grande in Texas where 'Home' means health and comfort. Low round trip excursion rates via the M. K. & T. in our private Pullman Dining Cars on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Write our nearest office for literature and further information." Similar but shorter promo text appears in the lower left corner. OCLC reports about a dozen copies of some version of the map sponsored by different land and development companies with no holdings of this particular map from the LSIC. Lambert-Deacon-Hull Printing Co unknown books
Best.-Nr. 52281732-nnew. unknown
Best.-Nr. B9781018588131Hardback. New. hardcover
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9781848858909I.B.Tauris. Paperback. New. 208 pages I.B.Tauris paperback
Best.-Nr. Bloomsbury-9781848858909I.B.Tauris. Paperback. New. 208 pages I.B.Tauris paperback
2016Best.-Nr. G1848858892I4N01I. B. Tauris & Company 2016. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. I. B. Tauris & Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 1848858906.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback