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2000320pp. Paperback Good condition
1991181pp. 24 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1881No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers, softened spine. Very clean very tight pages with unmarked front board, very slightly marked rear board, well rubbed spine ends, dusty page edges, slight loosening of hinges and with bumping to upper corners. 848pp. Volume 18 of the 19th century miscellany of information about literature, science and the arts.
1900No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean copy with marked front board, rubbing to spine ends, spine foot slightly faded and minor bump to lower front corner. Pages lightly tanned and dusty top of page edges. Large fold out diagram (20 x 29 inches) at rear with example water supply district in very good condition - one small tear. Other fold-out diagrams tanned but in excellent condition. 154pp. A technical publication by a waterworks engineer on the laying out of distribution mains for water supply. Very well illustrated. Tucked in are a couple of actual plans from Chester Water Works - these have some tears and are now quite delicate. Also tucked in is a period advert from Staveley Coal & Iron Ltd with an extract from the Liverpool Courier of 1894 celebrating the opening of the new main which completed the link of water supply from Lake Vyrnwy to Liverpool Corporation Waterworks.
1977Ex college library book with usual marks and stamps. No creasing to covers or to spine. Clean tight pages with unmarked boards, tape to top of spine and minor bumping to corners. 173pp. Guidelines to inventing in the modern world from two practising inventors.
1960No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, bump/nick to upper rear edge, a little rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped with faded/creased spine and rubbing/small tears/chips to spine ends/corners. 1034pp. A very comprehensive engineering, physics, mathematics study of machines suitable for degree levl students.
2016No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. 426pp. The author's thesis on what future generations might be like and how different they might be from ourselves. In particular he explores the creation of robots equipped with brains similar to ours and with the information extracted from our own brains. He calls these creatures 'ems'.
1981No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with general traces of storage. 320pp. Under the direction of Arthur C Clarke, the authors travelled the world interviewing witnesses of strange and unexplained phenomena, from monsters of the deep, UFOs, the yeti, Bigffoot and very much more.
1957Prize label inside front board. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly dusty unmarked red cloth boards, slightly dusty page edges and no bumping to corners. 272pp. For anyone wanting to learn about wireless, radio and early television. Illustrated.
1950No creasing to covers or to spine. Mainly clean tight pages in very good condition with marked front board, bump to lower rear edge, fingermarks to some pages and softening of most corners. 78pp. Company brochure of Alpaste, an aluminium product for pigmenting paints and inks, mostly technical text plus illustrations. with formulae for exetrior and interior paints.
1951No marks or inscriptions. Creasing to covers and spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly sunned spine, tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 189pp. A collection of seven science fiction stories from Jack Williamson, Eric Frank Russell, Theodore Sturgeon, Murray Leinster, HB Fyfe and TL Sherred. Extremely scarce in the UK.
2000No 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. 389pp. Expert insight into porting software and building large projects using GNU Autotools.
1961No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and the tiniest of bumps to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 157pp. Children's adventure science fiction form the author of Biggles stories about an expedition to find a planet older than Earth which it was hoped, may have a greater degree of civilization on it.
2006No marks or inscriptions. Faint reading crease adjacent to spine on front, no creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 275pp. A concise and accessible manual to Python codes and commands.
2004No 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. 285pp. The story of the expedition by HMS Challenger in 1872 on perhaps the greatest oceanographic mission of all time to gather evidence to support Darwin's new theory of evolution. It was a resounding success as it dredged up thousands of samples from the sea bed and mapped the areas at the same time.
2005Appears 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. 460pp. For older Windows systems. With still sealed CD attached at rear.
1997Volume 5, Number 2, March 1997: The cover is worn around the edges and has a few scracthes and grubby marks. The pages are clean and tightly bound. Used
2000Hardcover. Member's edition with authenticity certificate: no. 1,591 of 4,000. Very good, almost as-new condition; minor shelf wear to dust jacket; contents clean, sound, bright. Used
1993Paperback. Covers are marked, scored, worn and creased. Rear leading edge is nicked. Closed tear on spine. Early pages are lightly marked. Leading corners of covers, early and closing pages are lightly bumped and creased. Contents are clear throughout. Binding is sound. HJW Used
1838Hardcover without jacket in good condition. One of the engravings is missing. The following foldouts include; 'Longeitudinal section', 'Plan' and 'Elevation / Firebox'. Leading board corners are a little bumped. A few faint marks to the front and on the sunned spine face. The rear board has a few scratches towards the leading edge. Pastedowns, endpapers and some of the pages have foxing throughout. Some of the pages are rough-cut on the head. The contents are sound and clear. CM Used
1942Hardcover, no dust jacket, very good condition. Light wear to boards and sunning to spine. Foxing to page block as well as to paste down, FEP and REP. Blackwell sticker to front paste down and previous owner's name penned to title page. Internal pages free from markings. AD Used
1973No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked silver boards with a few scratches to rear, slight rubbing and tiny bumps to lower corners. 230pp. A study of the camera and photographic techniques with a wealth of famous and fascinating photographic images from the past.
1969No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Spiral ring binder in excellent condition. 230pp. Description of methods, physical properties and formulae of around 200 pesticides, their GC retention characteristics.a bibliography of almost 500 references and an author index.
1970No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A clean very tight copy with slightly sunned unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 137pp. A study of wastewater effluent control and treatment including the plant available to deal with them.
2003No 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. 208pp. This study covers the spectrum of scientific endeavour, from Copernicus and Galieo, through Hippocrates and Galen to Newton and Einstein, covering physics, biology, chemistry and genetics.