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2009Crisp, clean, bright and tight. Used
1879Small hardcover without jacket. Item slightly cocked. Boards faintly marked; spine head and foot bumped; leading corners bent and a little worn. Leading edges a little worn, with the rear dented. Page block tanned, with scuffmarks on head. Hinges weakened at several points through volume and at rear, pages at these points are intact but brittle and beginning to detach. Endpapers / pastedowns a little grubby and foxed. Fold - out diagram at front is foxed with a few stains and a nick on leading edge. Title page creased, foxed and grubby. Taped repair on p.3. Small tear on leading edge of p.5. Pages thereafter are a little aged, with instances of light foxing and a few stains, but the majority are well - preserved, and all text and figures remain clear. TS Used
1978No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, sunning to upper margins of both boards, very slight foxing to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked with nicks, small tears and light creasing to upper edge. 242pp. Science fiction short stories from Isaac Asimov, Charles L Grant, John Varley and others. Very scarce in the UK.
1928Signed C Edmondson (maybe the author's son) to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked maroon boards, very clear gilt lettering to spine, slight softening to spine ends, light foxing to end papers and no bumping to corners. 295pp. A distillation of the author's thirty years of experience of worsted drawing and spinning providing the practical advice designed to assist the men responsible for the running of worsted machinery. It deals with the Bradford or 'Open' system. Illustrated. Scarce in the UK. A number of extracts are tucked in at the front - wool preparation advice from the Textile Mercury, a two-page flyer advertising the book, a review of the book in a Leeds newspaper cutting and the remains of the book's dust jacket.
1994No marks or inscriptions. A very clean copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with single small nick to top of spine. 443pp. Fascinating autobiography of one of the most significant scientists and cosmologists of the 20th century full of humourous anecdotes. Sir Fred Hoyle was the scientist who coined the phrase 'Big Bang' for the start of the universe.
2005Appears inread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 64 plates plus 131pp. A fascinating detailed work on the preparations for field warfare in the First World War. Very well illustrated. Extremely scarce.
1937No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked blue cloth boards, rubbing to spine ends, dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. Three pull-out diagrams in excellent condition. Very scarce. 370pp. The main sections are split into Drawing-Office Organization, Pattern-Making, Foundry Work, The Machine-Shop, Fitting and Erecting of Heavy Machinery, Transport of Heavy Machinery, Pipe-Work and Rivets and Riveted Joints. Well illustrated.
1970Ex-library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps. A very clean very tight copy with bright slightly tape-marked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased but trimmed slightly to lower edge . 152pp. A careful examination of the effects of the destructive removal of organic materials from a sample prior to analysis of the 'non-organic' elements. Using radio-active methods, it has been shown that this step introduces more error than all the other steps in the procedure combined.
1996No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight rub to lower edge of front board and no bumping to corners. 446pp. Detailed studt of radiowaves in the light of the growing need for wider bandwidths in the field of mobile communications.
1975No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers and no rusting to staples. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 38pp. A Government statement summarising present knowledge (1975) about the potential hazards to man of the element plutonium and its compounds.
1936No marks or inscriptions. Small crease to upper corner of front covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight wavyness to lower page edges and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Complete stock list and prices. Very scarce.
1976No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, spiral binding in excellent condition and no bumping to corners. 194pp. With all the instructions you would need for your Texas SR-56 calculator, nath programs, statistical programs, financial programs, electrical engineering programs, navigation programs and additional programs. A piece of technology history. Scarce.
1986No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards. Ring binder in excellent condition. Unpaginated. pp. Troubleshooting, syntax, system operation, programming, kernel, security, server operation etc for the UNIX system. Very scarce in the UK.
1900Hardcover. No jacket. This book does not have a publication date. It was not published in 1900. Boards are marked and worn. Light marks throughout pages. Contents remain clear. Binding is visible at one or two points but remains intact. HJW Used
1967Paperback in acceptable condition. Ex - library. A symposium held at the Woolwich Polytechnic. Covers, page block and pages are marked and foxed. Spine is slightly sunned. Leading corners, edges and spine are worn, bumped and creased, slightly affecting pages within. One inch tear on spine head. Labels on spine, front inside cover and copyright page. Half title page is torn out. Pen on copyright page. Stamps throughout pages. Contents remain clear throughout. Binding remains intact. HCW Ex - Library
1990Ex-library. No jacket. Edgeworn boards and spine. Sticker to spine, labels on FEP. Stamps on the page block and at one or two points inside. Minor pen on half title and copyright page. Pages clean, bright and tight. Used
2014ref. 1084190Frankfurt, M. : Peter Lang, 2014. XVI, 164 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. Originalhardcover.
M., Edit. Dossat, 1950, 24'5 x 17 cm., cartoné original deteriorado por el lomo, láminas, 227 págs. - 1 h.
1901ref. 93216München. Druck: Klein & Volbert. (1901). Als Handschrift vervielfältigt. 19 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen Illustrationen. Sehr dekorativ lithographierte Originalbroschur. 31x23 cm
1958ref. 108511958 Norwalk, CT: Burndy Library, 1958. Burndy Library Publication, No. 15. 273 x 211 mm. 4to. 128 pp. Port. of Herbert Clark Hoover, 72 figs., numerous vignettes and decorative initials, bibliog. Pictorial wrappers. Fine.Facsimile illustrations from the original edition of 'De Re Metallica', with an essay on the work.
Madrid, Ornigraf, 1969, 28 x 22 cm., tela editorial, planos y gráficos plegados, IX + 321 págs. con fotografías intercaladas.
1931ref. 127926Berlin. VDI-Verlag GmbH. 1931. IV, 50 Seiten u. eine mehrfach gefaltete Tafeln. Schwarzer Halbleinwand-Einband der Zeit mit Rückentitel. (Mehrfach gestempeltes Bibliotheks-Exemplar mit einem kleinen Bibliotheks-Aufkleber auf dem Einband).
1845ref. 1268261Mailand, Chiusi, 1845. 12 S., 2 Bl. Bedruckte OBr. (kl. Stempel u. kl. Etikett a. Umschl., Stempel a. Titel, etwas eselsohrig).
1922ref. 40696Bolton, England. 1922. 129 Seiten. Mit zahlr. teils ganzseitigen Abbildungen, technischen Skizzen u. einer Firmenansicht. Zweifarbiger Druck. Titelvergoldeter Original-Leinwand-Einband. 17x11 cm