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1955Green cover with gilt lettering to spine and contents in very good clean condition. Spine is lightly sun faded. Used
1950Cover is quite worn, head of spine has a gap, and top and bottom are bumped, spine and boards next to spine have been waterstained and cloth is wrinkled and discoloured, corners are rubbed, page block is tanned FEP and BEP are also stained, owner's stamp on FEP, pages are clear and tight. Used
1986Light shelfwear along edges of spine, text is clean, tight and bright
1986Light shelfwear along edges of spine, text is clean, tight and bright
1951bumps to the ends of the cover and spine. pages are bright and tight.
1965Commonwealth and International Library Structures and Solid Body Mechanics Division. Owner's name inside front cover otherwise in excellent very clean condition. Used
1946Marks and stains on the cover, slightly worn cover Clean Copy
1967The cover has wearing to the corners, edges and spine. The text and illustrations are all clean, bright and tight. Used
1968Softcover. Printed privately for J.A. Birkbeck of Edinburgh. One of 250 printed. Faded covers with a little minor grubbiness. Square mark left by removal of a label near lower leading corner of page 11. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Contents are clear. AF Used
1959No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly marked rear board, dusty page edges, slight bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 492pp. The physics and mathematics of every aspect of machines and their properties with a large number of worked examples of questions and answers.
1950Light foxing to end papers and page edges. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with foxing to edges, slight marking to rear and nick to top of sunned spine.
1967Ex library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps - to end papers and title page only. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with sunning to rear and to spine. 573pp. Volume one of a text book on the chemistry of organometallic compounds covering the main group elements. Third Edition.
1976No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, traces of storage, some sunning and no bumping to corners. 144pp. Written by the Curator of the Kodak Museum, this study describes the history of photography in its early days. Very well illustrated.
2009No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 262pp. An account of the discovery of 'Ida', the most complete early primate fossil ever found and how this has changed what we know about primate evolution and, ultimately, our own.
1987No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked with small tear/crease to to of spine. 119pp. A study of the fascinating development of the London railways and underground lines from the late nineteenth century.
2004No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bumping to lower corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight creasing to top of spine and very minor traces of storage. 272pp. This study shows not just the history of ideas that led to deciphering the human genome, but it also shows how the genome itself contains the scars and history of all the generations of life back to the very origins of life more than three billion years ago.
1968Ex library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps - to end papers, lower page edges and title page only. No other marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasint to top of spine and sunning to spine. 376pp. Volume two of a text book on the chemistry of organometallic compounds covering the transition elements. Third Edition.
1982No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 11 pages adverts + 167-186pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on Living with Nuclear Energy, RWMAC Annual Report plus reviews and parliamentary report.
1982No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 16 pages adverts + 143-165pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on The Case for Sizewell B, Engineering a Safe PWR, European Nuclear Conference plus reviews and parliamentary report.
1982No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 26 pages adverts + 187-208pp. The monthly information bulletin of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Features on Energy : Boon or Birthright, Radioactive Waste Management plus reviews and parliamentary report.
2006Appears unread. Book and jacket in as new condition. 160pp. The history of the so-called Royal Art or alchemy which actually paved the way for modern science and helped to revolutionise aspects of medicine.
1996No 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. 387pp. Authoritative reference guide to the world's leading scientists past and present. Biographical details and clear descriptions of scientific contributions. Explanations of named scientific laws, units and effects. Illustrated to enhance clarity of information.
2008Book appears in unread fine condition. 90pp. A biographical account of the pioneer chemist Joseph Priestley who spent seven years of his life in the Wiltshire town of Calne. The book gives a full appreciation of an important 18th century figure in science, religion and politics who turns out to be as fickle and fallible as the rest of us.
2005Appears in mint unread condition.. 422pp. Science thriller from Paul McAuley.
1979Small label removal mark to lower front corner. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to slightly sunned spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright otherwise unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 153pp. An extensively researched and delightfully illustrated selection of the most unlikely early Edwardian inventions. For example 'Gillet's Appliance for Enabling a Performer to Appear to Stand Upon One Finger' and 'Device for Preventing Self Abuse in Horses'.
