Dillon, Gordon W.: EditorMareMagnum
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1957Features include: Some Experiences of an Amateur; Gamma Ray Irradiation of Orchid Seeds; Oncidium splendidum; Germination and Growth Response of Cattleya Seeds as Influenced by the Use of Certain Organic Materials in the Nutrient Media; Australian Cymbidium Species; Studies in Oncidium: Oncidium pusillum and Its Allies - I; A Record on a Vanda Ellen Noa; and Beginners' Handbook: Orchid Hybrids. Light wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
19201182 pages. Index. Many fold-outs of detailed diagrams. Undated. Appears to be circa early 1900s. Topics include: Strength of Materials; Shipbuilding; Heat; Definitions; Electricity; Turbines; Steam Engines; Condensers and Auxiliaries; Refrigeration; Boilers; Oil Fuel; Internal Combustion Engines; Fire Precautions. Above-average wear to maroon cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. Some pencil writing upon endpapers. Central portion of back free endpaper torn. A worthy reading copy of this magnificent tome. 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
196452 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Black and white photos, charts, tables, map. Extensive reference list. Contents include: Historical review of pinniped food studies in British Columbia waters; Methods and materials; General habitat description; Distribution, numbers and migratory behaviour; Feeding habits; Effect of seal and sea lion predation upon British Columbia's commercial fishery. Stiff, protective library boards over original card covers. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
2003Features: An investigation of head-sea parametric rolling and its influence on container lashing systems; Effect of longitudinal bulkheads on damage stability of model RO/RO ferries; Innovative structural designs of tankers against ship collissions and grounding - a recent state-of-the-art review; Options for nonindigenous species and their economic impact on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway - a survey; Optimium structural design of high-speed surface effect ships built of composite materials; Considerations in the design of primary treatment for ballast systems; Spreadsheet modeling to determine optimum ship main dimensions and power requirements at basic design stage. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
2003Features: Wide-beam Max concept extended by Stena; Effective purchasing with IT systems; New temporary surface-protection materials; Safety technology; Japan; CAD/CAM update. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
196744 pages. Dozens of black and white illustrations. Chapters include: Woods and Materials; Mold & Work Board; Boiling Through; Tools & Glue; Bending the Sides; Linings and End Blocks; Assembling the Sides; Jointing Top & Back; Top & Back Construction; Neck Construction; Fretboard; Bridge; Gluing Top and Back; Banding and Purfling; Finishing; Supplement - for folk guitar construction. Average wear. Moderate external soiling. Pencil markings to page three, otherwise unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent guide. Book
1932174 pages. Index. Many black and white diagrams and photos. "Presents the fundamental principles of woodworking for school students as well as amateurs and professionals who are interested in this type of work." - from Editor's Foreword. Sections include: Operations, Tools, Construction of Joints, Fasteners, Materials, Finishing, Commercial Woods of Canada and the United States, Woodworking as a Vocation. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Sunning near spine. A very practical and now vintage woodworking reference. Book
1985144 pages. Contents: Stopping the production of fissile materials for weapons; Helioseismology; Oligosaccharins; The Compartmental organization of the golgi apparatus; Bimetallic catalysts; A Web-Building Jumping Spider; Slips of the Tongue; Yellow Rain (it was honeybee feces, not chemical warfare); Nostalgic ads, and more. Small initials atop front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this interesting and informative issue. Magazine
1983172 pages. Features: Smart weapons in naval warfare; vibrations of the atomic nucleus; microbodies in the living cell; modern pork production; new inorganic materials; computer-intensive methods in statistics; the social influence of the Motte-and-Bailey Castle; sudden cardiac death - a problem in topology; and more. Small initials atop front cover. Many nostalgic color photo ads. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
1992Features: Roofs and Roofing Materials; A prewar puzzling metal dollhouse #58; Chateau la Chaille; Marilyn Munroe; The Alchemy of Pippin Hill; Minicruising '91; The New Angela Peterson Doll and Miniature Museum; Christmas All Year Round II - a Pioneer Christmas; Easter Baskets; A Bachelor's chest; Make Your Beds; A Maple Sugaring Box; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
197471 pages. Black and white illustrations. References. "This series of monographs is a new endeavour to present, in detail, the finer points of ceramic art in dentistry." - from Foreword. Topics include: The Nature of Dental Ceramics; The Nature of Glasses; Condensation and Firing of Dental Porcelain; The Strengthening of Dental Porcelain; Methods of Strengthening Dental Porcelain; Dispersion Strengthening of Glasses; Aluminous Porcelain; Dispersion Strengthening of Glass with Alumina Crystals; Enamelling of High Strength Cyrystalline Ceramics; Controlled Crystallisation of Glasses. Usual library markings. Sturdy library binding. Includes Errata list. Average wear and usual library markings. A sound working copy. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Cover illustration entitled "Far Away"; How Women Become Morbid; Verbal Fastidiousness; New York Fashions - dress-making, fall goods, silks, woolens, cloakings, driving and breakfast jackets, embroidery, fall bonnets; Personal; Dress-making - two-pages of text, illustrations and diagrams cover taking the measure, increasing or diminishing the pattern, making the waist and skirt, making trimmings, methods of looping, sewing seams in heavy woolen materials; Bound to John Company - continued; Outwitted; Great humourous centerfold illustrations entitled "Husband Hunting Sketches"; Tolerance; Evening Parties; The Derby Day; Sola - continued; Toleration of women; Paris gossip; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Mantelet with Hood; Black Lace Mantelet; How to Make True French Dolls; Ceasing to Grow; Sympathy with Sickness; Manners upon the road; New York Fashions - fall bonnets, materials, feathers, flowers, ribbons, the scarf veil, manner of trimming, round hats, fall wrapping; different trimmings for under clothing; Embroidered Chemise Yoke; Two Buttons for under clothing; Basket with Netted Guipure Cover; Crochet Rosettes; Rosettes for Covers; Braid and Crochet Insertions adn Edgings; The Line of Distinction; Paris Fashions; The Woman of the Future; Sayings and Doings; Amazing centerfold compilation of illustrations of dozens of clothing items including lady's drawers with shirr, lady's ttucked night-gown, peignoir with full sleeves, gentleman's under-drawers, Lady's chemise fastening on the shoulder, Pique dressing sack, and many more; Miss Maquand; Foreign proper names; Debenham's Vow - continued; Lovely large illustration of Lady Jane Grey; Woman's political rights in England; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
187016 pages. Contents: High Waist Trained Suit - cover illustration; Prospectus of Womanhood; Manners upon the road; Appeal to Amercan Women; New York Fashions - wrappings, materials, trimmings, models and prices; Personal; Carved Walnut Cradle; Toilette Cushion with Tatted Cover; Foot-Stool with Crochet Cover; Borders for Table Covers, Sofa Pillows, etc.; Ladies' and children's winter dresses; Business Women; Nelly's Party; The Empress at Chiselhurst; Feminine Profitable Labor; Sayings and Doings; Awesome full-page illustration of child handing coin from her window to a street child - "God Will Reward You"; Full-page illustration "A Morning Reception", by W.L. Sheppard; Agatha's Fortune - a story of newspapers; The Cryptogram - continued; Nice full-page illustration entitled "On the Promenade at Scarborough, England"; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
187016 pages. Contents: Reception and Promenade Toilettes; Blot-Ting Papers - part X; New York Fashions - calico dresses, jackets, trains, and collars, dresses for old ladies; Personal; Embroidered cover for work-table; tray for cigars, writing materials; Knitting-work holder; Pasteboard and silk basket; Window screen with netted guipure cover; Quilted cashmere walking belt; Beautiful children's hoods, collar, fraise, bretelles and jacket; A Rainy Day; Paris Fashions; Fresh Starts; Sayings and Doings; Centerfold illustrations of seventeen beautiful dresses; Debenham's Vow - continued; A Wail from the kitchen; Lost children in New York - with wonderful street scene illustration; Full-page of eleven evening and house dresses; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
187016 pages. Contents: Ball and Evening Coiffures - cover illustrations; Shabby Gentility; Blot-Ting Papers - No. VIII; New York Fashions - style of making, ball dress materials, trimmings; coiffures; Personal; Infant's bib with crochet edging; trimmings for ball and evening dresses; Pelerine with hood; Britta's Christmas Gift; Sayings and Doings; Centerfold illustrations of Ball and Evening Dresses as well as seven gorgeous opera wrappings; Debenham's Vow - continued; Paris Fashions; Lovely full-page image of birds eating grain from "The Christmas Sheaf"; Two coiffures of ribbon and flowers; Low Blouse waist with peplum; blouse waist with sqauare neck; Management of plants in rooms; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
193624 pages. Features: The Problem of Raising Sanctions Against Italy; The Kind of Insurance Which is Untertaken at Lloyd's (of London); The Prejudice Against Finger-Printing; How Governor Landon Got His Nomination; Why the Nations of the World Should Form a Trading Club; "An International Policeman Somewhare in the Background"; Access to Raw Materials; "My 60 Years In the Law" - by a Judge's Clerk Mr. F.W. Ashley; The Small Boy At Any School Sports On Any Saturday Afternoon; "Behind the Real Smile in Japan" - Mr. E.K. Venables; Miss V. Sackville-West Discusses Joan of Arc's Visions; Dr. Rufus Jones on Psychology and Religion; Mrs. Elinor Glyn and Her Allegory of Gold & Silver; The Spirit of Sussex Downs; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Center page holding by one staple. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
193969 pages. "Designed to describe a scheme of precautions which it is hoped would prove effective in preventing avoidable injury and loss of life, or widespread dislocation of national activities." - from Preface. Prior owner's name atop front cover. Sticker removal mark on front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
198596 pages. Index. Oblong 12" x 9". Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with high-quality black and white photos. Author "shares his vast knowledge acquired by consistently applying himslef to solving the mysteries unique to the guitar... (He) shares in words and photos many of his techniques... Details alternatives so readers can make choices that suit their tastes... A balanced and thought-provoking treatment of the classical guitar." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy of this handsome work. Book
192632 pages. Features: A Wasted Sugar Supply - Honey from Honeybees; Wild Youth Proves a Myth - 'girls and boys' between 35 and 45 are rolling up the crime wave; Making the Government Efficient - reorganization would cut 100,000 unnecessary employees from federal payrolls; The White House - a Mecca for Cranks - Secret Service men must be ever alert to guard the President from the Unbalanced; Missionaries and Machine Guns - many preachers of the gospel do not want the protection of bullets; Tom Learns to Play the Game - an American boy who on mastering himself was able to direct others; Henry Ford's Page - Lower price no longer means lower equality; Editorials - making the movies dry, the value of vulgarity, Mussolini forbids earthquake prophet,exams proposed for ministers of religion, Washington's inability to think in other than political terms; Writing Verse for Composite Readers - some versifiers cultivate eccentricity, others are themselves, and therefore poets; Sad Men Who Look So Wistfully at the Sky - author, William F. Hopp has been chaplain of the Michigan State Prison for over seven years - article with photos; Duelists (Fighter Pilots) of the Sky - a tale of knights-errant and their deeds - of their light-heartedness, and their gallant, tragic fate; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 3) The Big Snake and the Little Dog - and how a darky made millions from circus side shows; Chats with Office Callers - Christmas cards began with Jewish Adolph Tuck, controversy in Canada over union with the U.S., sighting of monster near Prince Rupert, B.C.; The Virginia Signers of the Declaration of Independence; Fascinating illustrated ad for homes which can be built for under $1k in materials; I Read In the Papers - article by Nathaniel Zalowitz in the 'Jewish Daily Forward' declares "...For the overwhelming majority of Jews in American assimilation in any true sense of the term is absolutely out of the question."; The Barefoot Boy - poetry by J.G. Whittier inside back cover. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
2004559 pages. Index. Selected bibliography. "Highlights the most important aspects of Canadian law affecting Aboriginal peoples." - from back cover. Signed by author upon title page. Lightwest wear. An excellent copy. Book
199872 pages. Features: Otto Duecker Cover Illustration; Combining materials can lead to special techniques; Otto Duecker; Shirley Sturtz-Davis experiments with landscape painting; Jane Culp; Perfect Values for Pastels; Jane Sutherland's New Works; Virginia Artist Anthony Watkins; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
198652 pages. Text in English. Features: Bernd Lohse turns 75; Africa in colour - Erna and Helmut Blenck; Rencontres d'Arles '86 - Kodak courts the younger generation of photographers; Yvette Troispoux; Kodachrome 1936 - 10 DIN; Erich Salamon - the discovery of a Leica photographer; Super - Kodachrome 200; Photokina 1986; Setyadi Yoedaatmadja; Red and Blue - colour as the triggering element; Documentary photography; New colour materials for even better print quality; Agfa's 70 years in colour photography; Title slides with computer and camera; Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
198848 pages. Text in English. Features: ISO 1000 to 50,000?; Hans Jurgen Wohlfahrt; Chris Steele-Perkins; When to use a telephoto lens; Extraordinary films - having fun with unusual materials; William Klein receives DGPh-Kulturpreis '88; Sebastiao Ribeiro Salgado - Erich Salomon Prize from DGPh; Horst Kaiser and his fungus on wood; Aesthetics of the female body - Karin Szekessy; Duplicating - how to save those valuable originals; Awards for Ralph Gibson, Jason Schneider and Lissie Habbie; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
