Search Results: Titles starting with N from Ground Zero Books

Place_Pub: Dallas, TX: Beckett Publications, 1999. First Edition. very good. Quarto, 151, wraps, profusely illus. (some in color), tables, slight sticker residue on rear cover. Introduction by Marty Appel. Contains chapters on the five most collectible Yankees (Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Babe Ruth), trading cards, trading cards checklist, autographs, autographs price guide, World Series collectibles, World Series collectibles price guide, game-used memorabilia, other collectibles price guide, and starting lineup figurines price guide.

Dallas, TX: Beckett Publications, 1999. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Trade paperback. Very good. 151, [1] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Format is approximately 8 inches by 11 inches. Introduction by Marty Appel. Beckett Media is a privately held company. Founded in 1984 by James Beckett as Beckett Publications, the company focuses on the collectible industries, especially in the area of sports collectibles. James Beckett, considered to be one of the world's leading authorities on sports memorabilia cards, was a statistics professor before he decided to turn his love of sports cards into a business. In the 1970s, Beckett was responsible for some of the baseball card industry's earliest price guides, which offered more detail on the prices of specific cards than the newsletters that had previously been read by collectors. He founded Beckett Publications in 1984. The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [12], 289, [3]. Inscribed by the author on title page. Minor edge soiling. Sue Taylor Grafton (born April 24, 1940) is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the 'alphabet series' ("A" Is for Alibi, etc.) featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she has said the strongest influence on her crime novels is author Ross Macdonald. Prior to success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies. Grafton chose to use the name Santa Teresa as a tribute to the author Ross Macdonald, who had used it as a fictional name for Santa Barbara in his own novels. In the series, In apparent tribute to Macdonald, Millhone refers to her private investigator license as a "photostat," as did… Read More

Las Vegas, NV: Nevada National Security Site, 2016. Presumed First Edition, First printing. CD. Very good. This is a Compact Disc that has 95 files with photographs. Tape with name of former owner on side of CD container. A substantial amount of the photographs appear to have been taken down the U1a tunnel. There is also a photo of the Sedan crater. No text or sound with the photographs. Files appear to need to be clicked through sequentially to be viewed. The Nevada National Security Site (N2S2), previously the Nevada Test Site (NTS), is a reservation located in southeastern Nye County, Nevada, about 65 miles northwest of the city of Las Vegas. Formerly known as the Nevada Proving Grounds, the site was established on 11 January 1951 for the testing of nuclear devices, covering approximately 1,360 square miles. Nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site began with a 1-kiloton-of-TNT (4.2 TJ) bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on 27 January 1951. During the 1950s, the mushroom clouds from… Read More

Amarillo, TX: United States Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration and BWXT Pantex, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Spiral bound. Very good. Various paginations (approximately 1/2 inch of material, including stiff card tabs). 19 tabbed sections with vugraphs rather than text. This is marked Official Use Only exemption category 2h. Based upon Supreme Court rulings and other guidance, this limitation is understood to no longer apply. The Pantex Plant is the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility that aims to maintain the safety, security and reliability of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile. The facility is located near Amarillo, Texas. The plant is managed and operated for the U. S. Department of Energy by Consolidated Nuclear Security and Sandia National Laboratories. Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) is composed of member companies Bechtel National, Inc., Leidos, Inc., Orbital ATK, Inc., and SOC LLC, with… Read More

Washington, DC: GPO, 1983. good. Quarto, 137, profusely illus. in color (1 color fold-out illus. ), some wear to board and spine edges, small ding lower edge front board.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1983. fair to good. Quarto, 137, wraps, profusely illus. in color (1 color fold-out illus. ), covers somewhat worn, creased, & small edge tears. Ink notation inside front cover, weakness to front cover.

Tampa, FL: Faircount LLC, 2008. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Very good. Quarto, 368, wraps, profusely illustrated in color, fold-out NASA timeline at center of the volume, slight wear and soiling to covers. This magazine was published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of NASA. Among the many articles are "50 Years of NASA History" by Steven J. Dick, NASA Chief Historian; "Sputnik and the Creation of NASA: A Personal Perspective" by Eilene Galloway; "Ten Presidents and NASA" by John M. Logsdon; and "NASA Engineers & Scientists: Transforming Dreams Into Reality" by A.J.S. Rayl. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. Established in 1958, NASA succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the U.S. space development effort a distinctly civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in… Read More

The Woodlands, TX: Pioneer Publications, Inc, 1984. very good, fair to good. Quarto, 350, profusely illus. (many in color), index, DJ scuffed and edges worn: small tears, small pieces missing.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1985. good. Quarto, 16, wraps, illus., top corner of document bent. Monthly newsletter for NASA employees. Articles include information on the space shuttle, the role of water on Mars, the medical potential of remote sensing technology, and the selection of payload specialists for the Comet Halley mission.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1981. good. Quarto, 16, wraps, illus., some creasing to document. Monthly newsletter for NASA employees. Articles include information on the space shuttle, Voyager photographs of Jupiter's moons, patents, and technology transfer.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 552, wraps, Part 3 only, illus. Serial No. 96-1.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1980. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 503, wraps, Part 2 only, illus. Serial No. 96-62.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1980. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 793, wraps, Part 1 only Serial No. 92-62.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 223, wraps, illus. Serial No. 98-77.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1982. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 609, wraps, illus. Serial No. 97-112.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 796, wraps, Part 1 only, illus. Serial No. 96-1.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1978. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 116, wraps, Part 4--Index only Serial No. 95-86. This index volume is a critical tool to effectively usingthe preceding three volumes of hearings and associated information.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 501, wraps, Part 2 only, illus. Serial No. 96-1.

Washington, DC: GPO, 1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. good. 60, wraps, Part 2 only, illus. Serial No. 97-29.