Brackett c f (10 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: VG. 17pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 15 drawings, including 1 full page plates, salvaged from a damaged issue of Scribner's Monthly Magazine, Volume V, No. 6, June, 1889. From opening paragraph, "Electrical phenomena have now come to be such important factors in the daily administration of human affairs that the age in which we are living may, with a certain propriety, be called the age of electricity." Illustrations include insulated metallic spheres, metallic spheres electrified by contact with charged conductor, Sir William Thomson's Electrometers for Measuring Difference of Potential after the plan of Harris, the Toepler-Holtz Electrical Machine, the magnetic field as indicated by iron filings thrown upon a pan of glass resting upon the poles of an electro-magnet, two forms of electrolytic apparatus, resistance coils, inductions coils, Thomson's Quadrant Electrometer, a Galvanoscope, Whitestone's Balance, and a current produced by conductor revolving in the field of a powerful electro-magnet, and portraits of Volta, Gericke, Sir Humphry Davy, and Gauss and Wever. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve. This is the actual extract, not a photocopy for $51.00.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Vol 5, 1889, pp. 643-659, Nicely Illust, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG, 1st ed.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. (xii) 307 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Wraparound cover art by Michael Carroll. Subtitled: Tales of Mars from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. This anthology contains: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale - a novelette by Philip K. Dick; In the Hall of the Martian Kings - a novella by John Varley; The Wilderness by Ray Bradbury; Mars Is Ours by Alfred Coppel; Crime on Mars by Arthur C. Clarke; Purple Priestess of the Mad Moon by Leigh Brackett; A Rose for Ecclesiastes - a novelette by Roger Zelazny; Hellas Is Florida - a novelette by Gordon Eklund and Gregory Benford; The First Mars Mission by Robert F. Young; The Last Mars Trip by Michael Cassutt; The Great Martian Pyramid Hoax by Jerry Oltion; and Pictures from an Expedition - a novella by Alex Irvine. Size: 8vo. Michael Carroll; (illustratore). Book.…

SingleIssueMagazine. Condizione: Very Good-. Vol. XXXV, No. 3. Pulp magazine. [Edited by Sam Merwin, Jr.] Cover art by Bergey for "When Time Went Mad" (short novel) by Dirk Wylie & Frederick Arnold Kummer, Jr. Includes "The Dancing Girl of Ganymede" (novelet) by Leigh Brackett; "The Greater Conflict" (novelet) by Raymond F. Jones; "The Voice of the Lobster" (novelet) by Henry Kuttner; "Dead Run" by Cleve Cartmill; "Spectator Sport" by John D. MacDonald"; "The Skeptic" by R. C. W. Ettinger; "Payment in Full" by Ray Bradbury. Features: "The Reader Speaks"; "Wonder Oddities"; "The Frying Pan"; "Science Fiction Book review". Letters from Marion "Zarathustra" Zimmer, John W. Jakes, and others. Illustrated by Finlay, Astarita, and others. Tears at spine ends; standard wear and tear at edges; tanning; creasing. Book.…

Tapa dura. Condizione: New. Esta Navidad llegan las Hermanas Raras, una deliciosa antología de cuentos firmados por las grandes damas del pulp, seleccionados con mano experta por Mike Ashley.Brujas, vampiras, mujeres que se funden con sus deseos más oscuros, madres monstruosas, hijas vengativas, damas con el alma podrida y jovencitas que ríen mientras todo arde. Esta Navidad llegan las Hermanas Raras, una deliciosa antología de cuentos firmados por las grandes damas del pulp, seleccionados con mano experta por Mike Ashley para la British Library. Catorce autoras --de la célebre Margaret St. Clair a la enigmática Allison V. Harding, pasando por Tanith Lee, la baronesa Greye La Spina o incluso Lucy Maud Montgomery en su noche más gótica-- firman estos relatos turbios, sugestivos y altamente adictivos, nacidos en las páginas de Weird Tales y otras revistas míticas entre los años veinte y los setenta.Tesoros recuperados del subsuelo del horror, el suspense y la ciencia ficción, estas historias están habitadas por ratas que piensan, niños con secretos atroces, amantes espectrales, figuras que se duplican en el espejo y presencias que te observan desde la alacena. con mucha paciencia. Son cuentos que arañan, que ríen entre dientes, que brillan de puro malicia, y que nos recuerdan que las mujeres siempre han sabido jugar --y reinar-- en los márgenes de lo raro. …

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1884 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 272 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 272 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1891 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 548 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 548 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1887 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 548 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 548 Language: English.…

Softcover. Condizione: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 548 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1887. Clear introductory textbook presenting the fundamental principles of physics in a systematic and accessible form. The work covers the main branches of the subject as taught in the late nineteenth century, with emphasis on experiment, illustration, and practical explanation. Includes index. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…