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London: The Richards Press, 1928. 260pp. Quarto. Six coloured plates (from paintings by the author) and 276 b/w illusts. Appendix and index. Top edge gilt. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and gilt steamship decoration on upper board. Spine very slightly sunned. Rare. *"In 1831 the Sophia Jane, 256 gross tonnage and 50h.p., created great excitement as the first steamship to enter Sydney Harbour. From this it is a far cry to the present epoch of great floating palaces, with wondrous engines, measuring their tonnage and horse-power by scores of thousands, and able, through the marvel of Wireless, to keep in touch with the world on the most distant courses" (from the foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.
Geology of the Pecos River Valley Reeves and Ward Counties Texas by William R. Jewell & Edward R. Lovewell - 1920
by William R. Jewell & Edward R. Lovewell
Geology of the Pecos River Valley Reeves and Ward Counties Texas
by William R. Jewell & Edward R. Lovewell
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Pecos, TX: Dominion Oil Co, 1920. First Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Good. B&W Photos & Illustrations. faint vertical fold crease, private library stamp front cover, minor corner curl lower forecorner, pages very slightly tanned, else clean & tight Delightful little document recording the earliest days of geologic exploration of the Permian Basin oil field. The first commercial oil wells in the field were completed in 1921. To date the field has produced more the 15 billion barrels of oil, and accounts for more than 17% of the nations domestic oil supply. This item is from the private library of Lewis W. MacNaughton. MacNaughton was a leader in international petroleum development in the first half of the 20th century. With his partner Everette Lee DeGolyer he founded Degolyer & Macnaughton, one of the world's leading petroleum reservoir consulting firms. - Since 1997 delivering quality books to our neighbors, all around the world!
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Australian Steamships Past and Present
by Gregory, Dickson
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Interplanetary Flight : An Introduction to Astronautics
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London, United Kingdom: Temple Press, 1951. Clarke's first non-fiction book written when he was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. With corrections to velocity calculations from 1st imp. CONDITION Blue cloth is unworn with sharp cnrs, very slight wear to spine head rear, pp viii 164 with 16 illus plates and 15 figural illus through text. A nice crisp and bright copy. Original DJ has Silverfished spine and is price clipped else bright and clean.. 2nd Impression. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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FIREWORKS HEADQUARTERS CATALOGUE
by Spencer Fireworks Company
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Polk, Ohio: Spencer Fireworks Company. Very Good+. 1937. First Edition. Soft Covers. Clean soft pictorial covers. 1937 spring catalogue. Introduction for ordering; Various fireworks, Family lawn displays; National Buck Rogers fireworks and Daisy Air Rifles. Fireworks Catalogue ; Drawing iIllustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages .
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Gold: Or, Legal Regulations for the Standard of Gold and Silver Wares in Different Countries of the World
by Von Studnitz, Arthur
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London: Chatto & Windus. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, label on front pastedown . endpaper, annotations, number stamped on rear pastedown endpaper.. 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Translated and abridged by Mrs. Brewer and with notes and additions by Edwin W. Streeter. Gold blindstamped cloth binding. Frontispiece folding world map. Discusses ways to evaluate standard quality of gold and then examines prevailing laws in various European countries, America, Egypt, Morocco, China, and Persia regarding gold, silver, and precious metalware. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages .
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THE DOUBLE HELIX. A personal account of the discovery of DNA
by WATSON. JAMES. D
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1968. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with 19 half-tone photographic plates, including six pages reproducing Watson's letter to Max Delbruck, telling of the Double Helix, and 11 diagrams within the text. A very bright, clean copy. Original dustwrapper with one small chip and a couple of small closed tears, otherwise a better than very good example. Overall a very good copy.
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Australian Steamships Past and Present
by Gregory, Dickson
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London: The Richards Press, 1928. 260pp. Quarto. Six coloured plates (from paintings by the author) and 276 b/w illusts. Appendix and index. Top edge gilt. Original blue cloth with gilt titling on the spine and gilt titling and gilt steamship decoration on upper board. Spine very slightly sunned. Rare. *"In 1831 the Sophia Jane, 256 gross tonnage and 50h.p., created great excitement as the first steamship to enter Sydney Harbour. From this it is a far cry to the present epoch of great floating palaces, with wondrous engines, measuring their tonnage and horse-power by scores of thousands, and able, through the marvel of Wireless, to keep in touch with the world on the most distant courses" (from the foreword by Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.
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Interplanetary Flight : An Introduction to Astronautics
by Clarke, Arthur C
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London, United Kingdom: Temple Press, 1951. Clarke's first non-fiction book written when he was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. With corrections to velocity calculations from 1st imp. CONDITION Blue cloth is unworn with sharp cnrs, very slight wear to spine head rear, pp viii 164 with 16 illus plates and 15 figural illus through text. A nice crisp and bright copy. Original DJ has Silverfished spine and is price clipped else bright and clean.. 2nd Impression. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Gold: Or, Legal Regulations for the Standard of Gold and Silver Wares in Different Countries of the World
by Von Studnitz, Arthur
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London: Chatto & Windus. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and soiled, label on front pastedown . endpaper, annotations, number stamped on rear pastedown endpaper.. 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. Translated and abridged by Mrs. Brewer and with notes and additions by Edwin W. Streeter. Gold blindstamped cloth binding. Frontispiece folding world map. Discusses ways to evaluate standard quality of gold and then examines prevailing laws in various European countries, America, Egypt, Morocco, China, and Persia regarding gold, silver, and precious metalware. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages .
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Machine Tools Commonly Employed in Modern Engineering Workshops; Together with a Series of Sectional Models Illustrating the Arrangement of the Parts and the Details of Some Typical Tools by James Weir French with a Foreword by John Dewar Cormack -- vol. I.
by French, James Weir
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London: Gresham Publishing Co, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 1 only. xxxv, [1], 170 p., 4 leaves with composite sectional models: 221 in-text illustrations; 34 p. Dark brown library buckram with gilt spine title and call number. "Newark N.J.P.L." at tail of spine in gilt. Small bookplate on front fixed endpaper: "The Trustees of the Free Public Library of the City of Newark N.J." Title page in red and black. Ex-library with 6-digit number stamped at head of Preface and call number written in ink next to it. A heavy book; for international shipping, the U.S. Postal Service requires that it be sent by priority international. In Very Good Condition: cover is lightly rubbed; signs of former public library ownership, as described above; edges of a few of the composite sections rubbed; otherwise, clean and solid.
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THE DOUBLE HELIX. A personal account of the discovery of DNA
by WATSON. JAMES. D
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson. London. 1968. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.7 inches). Illustrated with 19 half-tone photographic plates, including six pages reproducing Watson's letter to Max Delbruck, telling of the Double Helix, and 11 diagrams within the text. A very bright, clean copy. Original dustwrapper with one small chip and a couple of small closed tears, otherwise a better than very good example. Overall a very good copy.
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Marktech Optoelectronics Data Book
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Menands, NY, USA: Marktech International, Corp., 8888. 9840 20M : Circa late 80's-90's, Very Good condition Softcover Quarto, no date anywhere in this book, 1st edition presumed. Light edgewear of the wraps. Interior unmarked and tight.. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Book.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
by Traven, B
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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A Beginner's Guide to True BASIC to Accompany Exploring Macintosh: Concepts in Visually Oriented Computing
by Abitabile, John; Abernethy, K
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NY: J. Wiley. Poor; Covers heavily creased and water-damaged with portions of lift-off . on front cover, water stains at outer margins of text, some highlighting. . Large tear across front cover appears to have been glued with some . yellowish adhesive.. 1989. Softcover. 0471500798 . A scarce copy of this early Macintosh computer programming manual that unfortunately looks as if Homer Simpson used it as a coaster next to his nuclear plant computer keyboard. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 259 pages .
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LUNAR IMPACT: A HISTORY OF PROJECT RANGER
by Hall, R. Cargill
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Washington D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Very Good. 1977. Trade Paperback. Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, mild offsetting to front cove & spiner, light creasing to front cover, mild soiling to covers else a bright and solid copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .
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Lucky You, What Science Has Done For Us
by Leaf, Munro
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Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.
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Murder for Christmas (A Midnite Mystery)
by Christie, Agatha
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Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.
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Lahey Personal Fortran Toolkit Reference Manual : Revision B
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Incline Village, NV, USA: Lahey Computer Systems, Inc., 1990. Very Good Minus condition Stapled Softcover Octavo, 1990, Revision B, June 1990. Edgewear of wraps, with creases along spine edge. Interior unmarked and tight.. 3rd Edition. Paperback. Very Good -. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.
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Lahey Blackbeard Editor Reference Manual : Revision A 1990
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Incline Village, NV, USA: Lahey Computer Systems, Inc., 1990. Good condition Spiral Bound Softcover Octavo, Revision A, June 1990. Edgewear of wraps, with creasing at fold-over rear flap. Interior unmarked and solid.. 2nd Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.
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Advanced Materials III, Proceedings of the Special Symposium on Advanced Materials, High Tech Materials, 1991, Nagoya Japan
by Imura, Toru and Hiroshi Fujita [eds]
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Joint Committee for Advanced Materials Research, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. blue cloth with gilt titles and decorations. corner bump.197pp..
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