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By: Asimov, Isaac
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A.: Lothrop Lee & Shepard: 1977
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2000
ISBN: 0688518125
Condition: Good
Library Edition, used at the library and withdrawn. Dust Jacket is protected by plastic, shows minor shelf wear. Book has library markings and pockets, marked out, marked withdrawn. Someone has decided to correct and improve Mr. Asimov's text in ink on page 35. Someone else has underlined two words on page 18 and starred a Table on page 19. Otherwise, pages are clean and binding secure. A good science book for the young Astronomer, written by one of our finest scientists of the 20th century. Nice article on the author on the back of the Dust Jacket. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: U.S.A., Possibly Allyn and Bacon: probably 1924-5
Seller ID: 48029
Condition: Good
4.25" x 6.5". 244 pages. Withdrawn from the library. Apparently once a text book in the high school. Good strong re-binding. Soil on the outside of the closed pages. Eight B&W glossy portraits of the essayists. Includes thoughts from William James, E.V. Lucas, Henry Seidel Canby, G.K. Chesterton, Agnes Repplier, Henry van Dyke, A.C. Benson, Walter Prichard Eaton, Richard La Gallienne, Samuel M Crothers, Joseph Conrad, Woodrow Wilson and Hendrik van Loon. Title page missing. (I can include a copy from another book just for interest's sake if requested). Many markings on the CONTENTS page. Ink ... View more info
By: Boyle, Kay
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1970
Edition: Softcover
Seller ID: 46032
Condition: Good
8.25" x 5.5", 90 pages. Copy sound, corner of front cover creased, some soil and rubbing, stain to corner of back cover. "This volume contains 29 poems, ranging backward from her most recent works to poems and the 20's and 30's. Yet each one seems written just for today --" Our book number 46032. View more info
By: Clarke, Mary
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Printed in Czechoslovakia, Paul Hamlin, Spring House, Spring Place, London NWS: 1961
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: 12002
Condition: Fine
8.25" x 11.25". Book from a private collection, purchased new in 1961. Book is clean and in fine condition. The Dust jacket is clean and bright, but shows fifty years of shelf wear in the form of some small tears along the edges. Phenomenal account in pictures of all the great dancers of the 1940s and 1950s. International stars, ethnic dancers. Some color plates, mostly black and white photos. But EVERYONE is there. All the great dance photographers as well. From Jose' Limon and Betty Jones on the frontspiece, to George Chakiris on page 90. Round the world dancing. 93 pages. Our book number 12... View more info
By: Gold, Fiona, project editor
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Troll Communications, LLC, by arrangement with Andromeda Oxford Ltd., 11015 The Vinyard, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3PX, Fngland: 1996
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 29064
Condition: Good
ISBN 0816749531. Pocket Factfile of 20th Century Events. Some shelf wear, clean inside, spine curved from use. World Events Year by Year. Origination by Perdana Grafik, Malaysia, Printed in Malta by Interprint Ltd. Our book number 29064. View more info
By: Guest, Barbara
Price: $12.95
Publisher: USA, Quill: 1984
Edition: First Quill Edition
Seller ID: 46020
ISBN: 0688047092
Condition: Good
9.25" x 6" x 1.25", 360 pages. Clean, used book. Some wear and tear to the corners and edges. "Enhanced by exclusive access to unpublished material, HERSELF DEFINED is a captivating work of scholarship and an intimate portrait of H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) and the circle of novelists, artists, and poets who were her friends: D.H. Lawrence, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and others who blazed new paths in the arts of the twentieth century." Our book number 46020. View more info
Price: $350.00
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, New York: 1908
Edition: 5th or later Edition
Seller ID: 2015
Condition: Good
Very worn at edges and corners. All pages present and attached. Well used. From the private library of the county engineer for Cherryvale Kansas at the turn of the 20th century. Sacrificed for the education of the next generation. Name and address of engineer inside front cover. Family heirloom. View more info
By: Meyer, Martin
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York: 1943
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 2010
Condition: Fine
Ex-library. From the collection of one of the nations leading scientists of the later 20th century. "realatively simple and readable style and assembled in one book" the Science of making explosives. Not for children. May 1943. View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: USA, Andrew Mountain Press: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 46024
ISBN: 091689729X
Condition: Very Good
8.5" x 5.5", 63 pages. New book, slight crease to corner of front cover. Poetry. Our book number 46024. View more info
By: Rider, John F.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: John F. Rider Publisher, Inc., 404 Fourth Avenue, new York City: 1941
Edition: 4th Edition
Seller ID: 2014
Condition: Fair
The 1941 Rider manual for an early Oscilloscope. From the collection of a leading 20th century scientist. The author has this book "Dedicated to Florence who is still patient." After a life with an electrical inventor, i can see why Mr. Rider would need to apologise to poor Florence, who must have been patient indeed. This book has been in a flood @ 1960. perhaps more than one (there were three while the City of Tulsa got their act together with the sanitary sewer system). The owner carefully strung all the techincal books out in the sun on the clothesline, and some were pressed in book press.... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: USA, Alfred A. Knopf, New York: June 20, 1941
Edition: First Thus
Inscription: Previous owners name on front paste-down
Seller ID: 29084
Condition: Very Good
8.5" x 5.75", 605 pages plus index. Very clean copy. Previous owner's name on front end paper paste-down.Text clean, binding sound. Cloth on boards. Borzoi Book. Journalist's personal observations as he watched Europe "with increasing fascination and horror plunge madly down the road to Armageddon in the last half of the 1930s." Our book number 29084. View more info
By: Smith, R.A.; Jones, F.E.; and Chasmar, R.P.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1960
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 49005
Condition: As New
Oxford University Press, Amen House, London, E.c.4. First Published 1957, Reprinted lithographically in Great Britain at the University Press, Oxford by Vivian Ridler, Printer to the University, 1958, 1960. Some very light shelf wear to the flat surfaces front and back. From the private collection of a leading 20th century research engineer. View more info
