Category: Non-Fiction, Text and Reference Books

Book Collecting. A Comprehensive Guide. 1995 Edition.

By: Ahearn, Allen and Patricia

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : 1995

Seller ID: 2472

ISBN-13: 9780399140495

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Fine

viii.480 pgs. Fine hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked, binding tight. Another timeless handbook for collectors, librarians and booksellers. With 3,500 titles, an additional 2,000 titles have been added to the previous 1989 edition. The 1978, 1986 and 1993 prices are included, as well as new sections on prizes and lists such as Pulitzers, Bookers, Edgars, Hugos, National Book Awards, Caldecotts, PEN/Faulkners, Nebulas, Newberys and Burgess. You are guided on which books to collect, how to identify first editions, evaluate condition and care for your collecti...
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The Most Beautiful Molecule

By: Aldersey-Williams, Hugh

Price: $18.00

Publisher: London, Aurum Press Ltd. : 1995

Seller ID: 1015

ISBN-13: 9781854103031

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo. ix. 340 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dust jacket, clean and unmarked. The inside story of the remarkable discovery of Buckminsterfullerene, carbon-60. Written to delight and inform the layperson and scientist alike. Chapters: Introduction, Prologue-The Dome of Discovery, 1. Making Molecules, 2. September 1985, 3. The Search for the Yellow Vial, 4. On Symmetry and the Sexagesimal, 5. The Fuller View, 6. The Chemical Senses, 7. The Chemist-stylites, 8. September 1990, 9. The Peak Perfection, 10. "My Lords, What Does It Do?", 11. The Molecular Architects, Epilogue: Spot the Ball, Notes and R...
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The Garden Maker's Manual

By: Alexander, Rosemary and Richard Sneesby

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Portland, OR, U.S.A., Timber Press : 2005

Seller ID: 2611

ISBN-13: 9780881927047

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

191 pgs. Fine condition hardcover in Fine jacket. As new. Pristine and generously illustrated throughout with color photographs, drawings and diagrams. Contents: Introduction, Paths & Paving, Steps & Ramps, Walls, Changing Levels and Containing Earth, Fences, Rails and Gates, Timber Decks and Surfaces, Garden Structures & Furnishings, Water. Materials. Bibliography. Acknowledgements. Index. Oversized book. Additional postage may be required. ISBN 088192704X. Book#2611.
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Urban Sanctuaries : Peaceful Havens for the City Gardener

By: Anderton, Stephen

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Portland, OR, U.S.A., Timber Press, Incorporated, in Association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : 2001

Seller ID: 1496

ISBN-13: 9780881925029

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

4to. 144 pgs. Fine condition hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Jacket with small wrinkle near top edge of spine, else as new. A richly illustrated source of inspiration for building a special garden retreat-for both urban and suburban gardeners alike. Contents: Introduction. Part I: The Body of the Garden. Space and scale, light, soil, water, planting style. Part II: The Spirit of the Garden. Magic and mystery, the natural approach, the gardener's garden, devoted to water, minimalist style, rooms with views, roof and balcony retreats, family havens, directory of plants, index, acknowledgements. I...
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On the Pulse of Morning. The Inaural Poem.

By: Angelou. Maya

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1993

Seller ID: 2630

ISBN-13: 9780679748380

Binding: Pamplet Bound Paper Wraps

Condition: Fine

Fine pamphlet bound softcover with navy blue self wraps and gilt lettering, pristine condition. Read by American Poet Maya Angelou at the inauguration of William Jefferson Clinton 20 January 1993. Pubisher's number line 468C9753. ISBN 0679748385. Book# 2630.
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Plant Viruses and Virus Diseases

By: Bawden, F.C.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Ronald Press Co. : 1964

Seller ID: 951

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. vii. 361 pgs.Very Good condition blue cloth hardbound, no jacket. Clean, tight, unmarked excep for owner name on front pastedown, light foxing to fore edge and several tiny check marks in table of contents. Sections include: symptomology - changes in appearance, physiological changes and host-plant metabolic changes; methods of transmission; assay methods; composition of virus particles; morphology of viruses; inactivation; multiplication; movement; genetic variability; classification; control.#951.
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The Unauthorized Anne Rice Companion

By: Beahm, George, Editor.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: MO, Andrews and McMeel, MO. 1996. First Edition. : 1996

Seller ID: 676

ISBN-13: 9780836210361

Binding: Softbound Pb

Condition: Fine

8vo. 246 pgs. Fine condition softcover. Black and white photographs throughout. An entralling biographical, bibliographical resource and reference guide. Thematically organised in five sections plus appendices: The Real World of Anne Rice, The Unreal World of Anne Rice, On Anne Rice, Chiaroscuro - Anne Rice and the Cinema and A Look at the Books. ISBN 0836210360. #676.
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Transport of Suspended Solids in Open Channels : Proceedings of Euromech 192, Munich - Neubibiberg, 11-15 June 1985

By: Bechteler, W. (editor)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: 3000 BR Rotterdam, Netherlands, A. A. Balkema : 1986

Seller ID: 1221

ISBN-13: 9789061916444

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine.

Sm. 4to. x.268 pgs. Near Fine hardcover, clean and unmarked. Proceedings of this symposium are orgainized in the following sections: Flow structures as related to suspended sediment transport, particle-fluid dynamics; Concentration distribution and transport of suspended load under steady flow conditions; Reservoir sedimentation, settling basins; Resuspension, suspended and bed-load interaction; Suspended sediment transport under nonsteady flow conditions; special topics. ISBN 9061916445. #1221.
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Young Edgar Allan Poe.

By: Bene, Laura

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1966

Seller ID: 2620

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

x.350pgs. Good condition ex-library hardcover in Very Good condition dustjacket, not price-clipped in new archival cover. Book has usual library markings, edge wear, tape residue, with sound binding and clean text throughout, illustrated by George Gillett Whitney. An engaging biogaphy which weaves historical fact with an engrossing storytelling style. Intended for younger readers, there are also enlightening details of Edgar Allan Poe's accomplishments adventures for all ages. By the author of Enchanting Jenny Lind and The Boy Shelley [Percy Bysshe Shelley], The Hidden Valley and Roxanna Rampa...
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The Orchid in Lore and Legend.

By: Berliocchi, Luigi

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oregon, Timber Press : 2001

Seller ID: 1678

ISBN-13: 9780881924916

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo. 184 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Translated by Lenore Rosenberg and Anita Weston. Firsy published in1996 as "Il flore degli dei, l'orchideadel mito alla storia" by Nuovo Equilibri, Viterbo, Italy. Foreword by Henry Oakley. Richly illustrated throughout with black and white period engravings and paintings and full page color plates from Warner and Williams "The Orchid Album". An account of the discovery of the orchid and it's place in literature, religion, the arts, magic, cuisine, lore and legend. Also included is an account of the most popular genera and their cultivation. Chapter...
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Image for Medicina Medica. Metaphysical Healing Methods in Late-antique and Medieval Manuscripts With Thirty Facsimile Plates. The Classics of Medicine Library.. With Booklet of Notes from the Editors included.

Medicina Medica. Metaphysical Healing Methods in Late-antique and Medieval Manuscripts With Thirty Facsimile Plates. The Classics of Medicine Library.. With Booklet of Notes from the Editors included.

By: Bierdermann, Hans

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Birmingham, Alabama, The Classics of Medicine Library, Gryphon Editions : 1986

Seller ID: 2587

ISBN-13: 9783201010771

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Fine

4to. 107 pgs. Very Fine condition black leather hardcover with gilt decoration and embossment to covers and spine with die-stamped 22k gold. All edges of textblock gilt. Gold marker ribbon bound into headband, marbled endpapers. Pristine condition of the privately printed English language edition translated from the German by Rosemarie Werba. [from the Austrian Edition, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972). Included is a 23pg booklet of notes from the editors. Table of Contents: Introduction, Metaphysical Healing Theories, The Postulate of the Four Humours, The Tacuinum sanitatis, Magic...
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Virginia Woolf. Writers and Their Work : No. 33.

By: Blackstone, Bernard

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co. : 1956

Seller ID: 1661

Binding: Softbound Pb, Pamphlet Bound.

Condition: Very Good

48 pgs. Very Good condition softcover, pamphlet bound, paper wraps. Light tea colored spot to top edge of text block near spine, otherwise clean and unmarked with minimal wear. Sepia toned frontis portrait of the author. A biography and select bibliography, with an index of essays and stories. No. 33 in the bibliographical series of supplements to "British Book News" on Writers and Their Work. General Editor Bonamy Dobree. #1661.
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Collecting Early Machine-Made Marbles : The M. F. Christensen & Son Company and Christensen Agate Company

By: Block, Robert

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Atglen, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Schiffer Pub Ltd : 2003

Seller ID: 1735

ISBN-13: 9780764318276

Binding: Glossy Hardcover

Condition: Fine

158 pgs. Fine condition glossy hardcover, New.. Detailed color photos. Text by renowned marble authority. From the cover: With this book, readers will discover machine-made marbles from the early 1900 to the 1930's that revolutionized the glass marble industry. Over 700 beautiful color photos display marbles produced by the Ohio-based companies M.F. Christensen & Son Company and Christensen Agate Company. Among those displayed are bricks, cobras, guineas, opaques, slags, single pontil slags, swirls, hand-gathered swirls and early slag traditionals. Text includes descriptions, history and metho...
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A Bibliography of Internal Medicine : Communicable Diseases

By: Bloomfield, Arthur

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Mansfield Center, CT, U.S.A., Martino Publishing : 2000

Seller ID: 1356

ISBN-13: 9781578982394

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo. viii. 560 pgs. As New fine condition hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. This is a facsimile of the 1958 edition published by the University of Chicago Press. Bibliographical entries are arranged within categories of specific diseases, with an abstract of the contents for each cited publication. These communicable diseases are covered: Typhoid Fever, Cholera, Bacillary Dysentery, Plague, Brucella Infection, Pneumococcal Pneumonia, Scarlet Fever, Erysipelas, Rheumatic Fever, Meningococcal Infection, Gonorrhea and Gonococcal Infection, Tuberculosis, Leprosy,...
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Foil Fencing. Wm. C. Brown Sports and Fitness Series.

By: Bower, Muriel

Price: $12.00

Seller ID: 522

ISBN-13: 9780697003690

Binding: Softbound Pb

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 110 pgs. Very Good condition softcover. Selection and care of equipment, basic skills, conditioning, bouting, rules and etiquette. ISBN 0697003698. #522.
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Literary Blasphemies

By: Boyd, Ernest

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers : 1927

Seller ID: 1591

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 265 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover quarter bound in green buckrham cloth with green boards and matching title piece on spine. Stated First Edition. Slight darkening to spine at edges, wear to cloth of upper spine end. Paper over front hinge cracked, underlying binding remains intact. Clean and unmarked throughout. Jacket is present but in fragments, pieces are separated at the paper folds, held in place in a clear archival cover. With a refreshing attitude of "appreciative irreverence", a literary Friar's Roast of sorts, biographical commentaries and critiques are presented for Willia...
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Scientific Explanation. A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science. Based Upon the Tarner Lectures 1946.

By: Braithwaite, Richard Bevan

Price: $16.00

Publisher: New York and London, Cambridge University Press : 1957

Seller ID: 1527

Binding: Cloth Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

xii. 376 pgs. Very Good condition navy cloth hardcover in Very Good jacket. Book is clean, sound, unmarked with minimal shelwear. Jacket price intact, light edgewear, sunning to paper at spine. Based upon the Tarner lectures given by the author in 1946, its primary purpose is to explain, by way of detailed examples, the logical features common to all the sciences. Contents: Introductory, Scientific deductive systems and their representations, The status of the theoretical terms of a science, Models for scientific theories; their use and misuse, Statistical hypotheses, probability statements an...
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Surveying

By: Breed, Charles B.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons : 1942

Seller ID: 2602

Binding: Flexible Leatherette

Condition: Very Good+

xv.495pgs. Very Good+ condition green leatherette covered with gilt lettering to front and spine. Owner name neatly printed opposite his personal bookplate of a ship at sail on front endpapers. Internally pristine, binding tight, illustrated throughout with drawings, diagrams, charts and tables. Chapters: Surveys and Their Purposes-Sources of Surveying Information, Measurement of Distances, Measurement of Direction-The Magnetic Compass, Measurement of Angles-Use of the Transit, The Engineers Level and Its Use, Traverses and Land Surveys, Calculations of Closed Traverses and Land Areas, The Un...
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Get a Grip on Genetics (Get a Grip on...Series)

By: Brookes, Martin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Alexandria, VA, U.S.A., Time-Life Education, Incorporated : 1998

Seller ID: 1342

ISBN-13: 9780737000351

Binding: Soft Cover, Stiff Wraps

Condition: Fine

8vo. 192 pgs. Fine softcover, clean and unmarked, in stiff wraps with matching illustrated paper cover. Kraft-paper colored pages with black print, with illustrations and drawings scattered informally alongside each topic. Content is presented clearly and imaginatively, useful and entertaining for novice, student and scientist alike. "From Mendel and the garden peas to the world-embracing Human Genome Project, discover what you need to know about what genes are and what they do. This book moves from the earliest experiments to the discoveries of Watson and Crick to modern efforts to identify...
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RUBENS. Complete Edition with One Hundred and Forty Plates, Four in Full Colour, and a Selection From the Painter's Correspondence.

By: Burckhardt, Jacob

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Phaidon Publishers Inc. (distributed By The Oxfurd University Press) : 1950

Seller ID: 1243

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

12mo. 374 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover in Good to Very Good jacket. Blue decorated cloth, clean and unmarked. Jacket has several small edge tears and rubbing to paper at edges. Complete Edition with One Hundred and Forty Plates, Four in Full Colour, and a Selection From the Painter's Correspondence. Edited by H. Gerson. Contents: Editor's Introduction, Synopsis by Burckhardt, Recollections of Rubens, Notes, Selected Letters of Rubens, Plates, Index of Collections, Index of Ruben's Works. Nicely illustrated throughout. Burckhardt's essay is translated by Mary Hottinger. The translation o...
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Category: Non-Fiction, Text and Reference Books

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