Bruce SterlingMareMagnum
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1994No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 280pp. Science fiction novel set in 2031, in a decaying world.
2016No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 234pp. The story of the search for a distant planet like our own.
1963Ex-library book with usual marks and stamps. A clean very tight copy with tape-marked black cloth boards, missing front end paper and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing to top of sunned spine. 167pp.
1984Initials to upper corner of front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked covers and no bumping to corners. 297-392pp. With various scientific papers including plumbosolvency, pH correction, drift deposits and hydrogeology, Manning's coefficient, sewage denitrification, cattle deaths and blue-green algae.
1977No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. Very clean very tight pages with bright slightly marked boards and no bumping to corners. 54pp. A booklet of proposals on how to encourage, set up and manage home insulation schemes and advice with a description of the situation in the mid-1970s. Extremely scarce.
1995Penguin image stamp to bottom of page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 316pp. An in-depth discussion of time by Professor of Natural Philosophy Paul Davies, setting out a fascinating theme of why Einstein's can't be the last word on the subject.
1995Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, small bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. 162pp. This book covers the many current theories about how the universe may come to an end. Or is it possible that the universe never will end, that the 'last three minutes' will never come.
1981No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn with very minor creasing to edges. 115pp. This book tells the fascinating and exciting story of the calculating machine, from the counting frame to the computer. Fully illustrated with diagrams and photographs.
2012No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 101pp. Revision guidance, examiner advice, sample questions and answers for biology - communication, homeostasis and energy.
1986No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 283pp. Teacher's/student's handbook useful to chemistry and the GCSE examination.
1978Previous owner's initials to front cover. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards, minor damp effect to lower edge of rear cover, no effect on contents and no bumping to corners. 24pp. Photographs of the Corn Street, Bath premises of JB Bowler, brass founder, ironmonger and engineer.
1985Name/date 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 boards and no bumping to corners. 294pp. With over 125 carefully structured routines ranging from macros to UNIX utilities.
1975No marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to some corners, slightly arched spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanned page edges and no bumping to corners. 187pp. Novel about the sabotage of a nuclear power station in North Wales.
1998No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with half-inch nick to upper rear edge and slight creasing/rubbing. 223pp. Biography of the canal historian, born in South Africa who helped to keep many of Britain's historic waterways open.
2006No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 320pp.
1985Name to front cover. No other marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright covers, scuff to spine foot and no bumping to corners. 67-144pp. Articles on polyurethane and polypropylene, breathable fabrics, industrial uses, polymers for the nonwovens industry.
1996No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight rub to rear and minor indent to front and no bumping to corners. 168pp. with over 400 episode and film descriptions of all the Star Trek series. Very well illustrated.
1928xvi, 331 pages plus publisher's catalogue at rear, illustrated, sections, appendices, index, page edges browned. eng
2018Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. Minor crease to lower corner of rear cover, none to front or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 392pp. 'The supposed disappearance happened on 23 August 1994. Rumour has it they would not appear for another twenty-three years.' A novel about peace and the end of the internet.
2011Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 154pp. In this expanded version of the 2010 Reith Lecture by Astronmer Royal Martin Rees, he describes how science has progressed very rapidly over the 21st century and he puts forward the proposal that science should be part of everyone's culture - it being humankind's greatest collective achievement.
2006Book and jacket in new unread condition. 220pp. The surreal sums behind everyday life.
2008No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 56pp. With features on George Highland Morton, Styal Country Park, Geology of Horsetails, the Pedwardine Inlier Herefordshire, the Nant Francon-Ogwen Valley, the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, Trip to the Shap area.
1955Neat name to title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to booklet covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. no rusting to staples. 50pp. Physics and maths aspects to engineering bearings.
1963Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright green boards, tiny mark to upper front corner, nick to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Attached book mark. 362pp.
1989No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn and slight traces of storage. 94pp. Well illustrated.
