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1980ref. 2082702114604326Shin hyo-sha 1980. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Shin hyo-sha paperback
1965ref. 2082702114603270Chikuma Shobo fixed 1200 yen 1965. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Chikuma Shobo fixed 1200 yen paperback
1928ref. 2082702114601822Hakubunkan 1928. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Hakubunkan paperback
1931A very interesting issue. Features: Triangulation - why and how this precise surveying job is done; Editorials - The Nicaragua Canal - The "R-101" disaster - Spiritism exposed - Why a navy is needed - Sick railroads - Lessons learned; Our changing transportation - competitors to the railroads; Zone television and the television arc - television transmission via three channels; Tudying up the constellations - archaic method of outlining roups is being simplified; Problems of calendar improvement - the importance of the movment ot change our calendar; Tons of human hair in industry - woven into press-clth, hair serves a most useful purpose; This new big business of gardening - food raising becomes a gigantic mechanized industry; From the archeologist's Notebook - bronze bowl - home of a notorious Roman - Lid of Canopic jar - a Roman portrait - Chinese head-dress ornament; Man's insect allies - an insect that feeds on cacti and destroys them; Change - the great competitor; Sulfur - the second of three related articles on salt, sulfur and petroleum; Clemenceau and Foch - the United States enters the war - the Armistice and peace conference; Diesel versus gasoline-engined plane - the diesel-engined plane has a higher "ceiling"; A flexible amusement building in New Orleans - a municipal auditorium with a movable stage platform; A two-mile industrial water tunnel - tunnel for the ford plant carries enough water for several cities. Chip loose at top of spine. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Tear to page 402. Book
1932Colour Lucky Strike advertisement upon back cover features large picture of June Collyer. Inside of back cover features full-page advertisement from the National Publishers Association which quotes John H. Patterson, Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Fortune Ryan's words from past depressions and concludes "American has beaten 19 Major Depressions - she will beat this one... as the most nearly self-contained nation, we have within our own boundaries the elemental factors for recovery." Features: Mrs. Sinclair's "Mental Radio" - a record of amazing experiments in mental telepathy made by the wife of a well-known author; Editorials - Rear Admiral Winslow - Out of Adversity - Interstate truck regulation - the country's health; George Washington, Inventor - the versatility of our first President included invention and scientific farming; A miniature solar system and its problems - Jupiter's four major satellites and other small ones make up a system that baffles the astrophysicist; Gem-stone cutting for the amateur - a fascinating hobby with a mechanical and an esthetic appeal; To salvage a sunken liner's treasure - new methods used in recovering the gold from the Egypt; A New Turbine rocket plane for the upper atmosphere - combination drive for a proposed stratosphere plane; Why power companies plant trees - public utility companies now reforesting their water power watersheds; a Horizontal well supplies fresh water to Bermuda - a modern system supplants old rainwater from roofs system; George Washington, the father of the American Navy; From Angora Goat to Mohair Fabric; The telephone spans the Pacific - the first commercial service from California to Hawaii is inaugurated; From the Archeologist's Note book - Sumerian Diorite Head - stand from grave Athenian jug - Persian strong-box; Preservation of Leather Book Bindings - treatment and formulas to protect old or rare library volumes. Average wear. Small openings at top and bottom of spine. Unmarked. Book
1931Features: Ivory - the pearl of the forest - the age-old industry built around the teeth of elephants; Editorials - blindness and false shame - help needed - too fat? - international affairs; Testing the astronomical yardstick - when Eros approaches the earth, Astronomers will study him further; A stone dam greater than Cheops' pyramid - novel methods of construction on World's largest rock-filled dam; Has living matter been produced in the laboratory? - Mexican scientist produces what resembles low forms of life; The volcanic birth of a new island - an eruption in hte bay that was Krakatoa's crater; Mining the sky for scientific knowledge - problems and questions that may be solved by the exploring rocket; Modern 'alchemy' in iron and steel - scientists are making iron almost a noble metal; Preserving newspaper files - tissue coating adds to strength of wood pulp paper; An actor turns inventor - safety oven shelf spells financial success; Practical X-ray crystal analysis in engineering - inner characteristics of materials can now be ascertained; Pre-constructed pip-line hauled out to sea - launching a huge pipe to make an ocean filling station for tankers; Giant Tortoises - they are now being propagated in the U.S.; From the archeologist's notebook - Petra - Chinese pottery dogs - a venus from the sea; Landscaping with fully-grown trees - difficult procedure in moving large trees; On the track of the Mayas - modern Mayas mix Christianity with their old paganism. Back cover features interesting advertisement by Southern California Edison with photo of enormous new transmission tower supplying Los Angeles. Uncommon Auburn Automobile advertisement inside front cover features their Cord Front Drive feature. One inch opening between top of spine and front cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Book
1920ref. 134025Brooklyn New York: Brooklyn Public Library 1920. Hardcover. Good ex-library with a few marks and stamps binding solid one or more postcards separated un-glued toning of old newspaper clippings pages wavy probably from glue moisture though there is an occasional localized dampstain. Blue library buckram silt spine titles unpaginated approx. 100 pages with with pasted color illustrations on both sites approx. 25 leaves blank. OVERSIZE GA2. A scrapbook of images of architecture and color images of many beautiful places and things produced the early 1900s. Many are of New York City but also around the country and world presumably collected by the Brooklyn Public Library. Includes many large samples of the work of illustrator Louis Biedermann 1874-1957 along with Clara M. Burd Charles Livingston Burd Adolph Triedler Wilfred Jones Fred Kulz Chum Vine Edmond Oakdale Vincent Lynch and Mary Bassett. News articles from the New York Herald show articles with large color illustrations of views of cities and bridges. Travel postcards from the era depict architecture throughout the world. Includes stained glass windows a real slice of life during an age when color images in magazines and periodicals were fairly new and illustrators. Artcyclopedia calls the years of 1880-1920 the Golden Age of Illustration: it “was a period of unprecedented excellence in book and magazine illustration. It developed from advances in technology permitting accurate and inexpensive reproduction of art combined with a voracious public demand for new graphic art.” Probably a librarian's pet project. Brooklyn Public Library hardcover
1920ref. 134025Brooklyn New York: Brooklyn Public Library 1920. Hardcover. Good ex-library with a few marks and stamps binding solid one or more postcards separated un-glued toning of old newspaper clippings pages wavy probably from glue moisture though there is an occasional localized dampstain. Blue library buckram silt spine titles unpaginated approx. 100 pages with with pasted color illustrations on both sites approx. 25 leaves blank. OVERSIZE GA2. A scrapbook of images of architecture and color images of many beautiful places and things produced the early 1900s. Many are of New York City but also around the country and world presumably collected by the Brooklyn Public Library. Includes many large samples of the work of illustrator Louis Biedermann 1874-1957 along with Clara M. Burd Charles Livingston Burd Adolph Triedler Wilfred Jones Fred Kulz Chum Vine Edmond Oakdale Vincent Lynch and Mary Bassett. News articles from the New York Herald show articles with large color illustrations of views of cities and bridges. Travel postcards from the era depict architecture throughout the world. Includes stained glass windows a real slice of life during an age when color images in magazines and periodicals were fairly new and illustrators. Artcyclopedia calls the years of 1880-1920 the Golden Age of Illustration: it “was a period of unprecedented excellence in book and magazine illustration. It developed from advances in technology permitting accurate and inexpensive reproduction of art combined with a voracious public demand for new graphic art.” Probably a librarian's pet project. Brooklyn Public Library hardcover books
ref. 2090502113702258Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Not Available paperback
1979120 pages. Chapters include: The 'Gene-Rich' and the 'Gene-Poor'; Genetic Erosion; Genetic Conservation; The Green Revolution; The Seed Revolution; The New Seedsmen; The Implications fo Restrictive Varietal Legislation; Biases in Corporate Breeding; Learing from the Corporate Experience. An early work on this vital and increasingly contentious issue. Well-worn. Unmarked. One inch opening between top of front cover and spine. Book
1951ref. 2082702114611030Hidetaka Mamiya posthumous publication society 1951. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Hidetaka Mamiya posthumous publication society paperback
1996ref. 2082702114602364National Palace Museum 1996. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 National Palace Museum paperback
1957ref. 2082702114603336Fixed 330 yen Shinchosha 1957. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Fixed 330 yen Shinchosha paperback
1978ref. 2082702114605557Fixed 1600 yen Chuokoronsha 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Fixed 1,600 yen Chuokoronsha paperback
1960ref. 2082702114600622Fixed 640 yen Nihon Shuhosha 1960. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Fixed 640 yen Nihon Shuhosha paperback
1977ref. 2082702114601334Japanese Goin fixed 800yen 1977. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Japanese Goin fixed 800yen paperback
1937ref. 2082702114611287Shun'yo-do shoten 1937. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Shun'yo-do shoten paperback
1961Circa 1961. Provides the serviceman with a fast and convenient reference to information on operations, maintenance and repairs, as well as descriptions of the major units and their functions in relation to other components of the tractor. Covers: Cooling System; Electrical; Engine; Engine Clutch; Transmission and Bevel Gear (14 and 18 series) Transmission (15 and 20 series); Steering Clutches and Brakes; Sprocket and Sprocket Drive; Tracks and Track Frame. About average wear to covers but contents surprisingly clean and bright. Numbers written on spine and front cover (probably serial numbers). Approx. 5/8" thick. Book
1968ref. 2082702114611603Not Available 1968. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1968ref. 2082702114611210Not Available 1968. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
1972ref. 2082702114610308Nikko Toshogu shrine office 1972. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Nikko Toshogu shrine office paperback
1953ref. 2082702114611127Kenkyu-sha 1953. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Kenkyu-sha paperback
1901ref. 56112Boston MA: L. C. Page & Company. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 370 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1901. L. C. Page & Company hardcover
1946ref. 2082702114600876Zenkoku Shobo 1946. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Zenkoku Shobo paperback
1962ref. 2082702114606188Fixed 650 yen Kodansha 1962. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Fixed 650 yen Kodansha paperback