EUR 8,11
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Aggiungi al carrelloCondizione: Good. 4th Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee (BIOS). HMSO. His Majesty's Stationery Office., London., 1946
Da: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
EUR 7,75
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Aggiungi al carrelloPaper Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 5pp leaflet. Targets DEMAG, Benrath. MENCK & HAMBROCK, Altona-Hamburg. WESERHUTTE AG, Bad Oeynhausen. LUBECKE MASCHINENBAU GESELLSCHAFT, Lubeck. NILSSON & KORTE, 51 Liebig Strasse, Hamburg. DEMAG A.G., Duisburg. At the end of the Second World War The British Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (BIOS) and other Agency personnel inspected German factories, laboratories, industries, etc, to scrutinise documents and interrogate or interview the directors, scientists, engineers, etc to obtain technical information that might be of value. The resulting reports were published in very limited quantities for those that might find them useful. Each evaluation report concerns a 'Target' and generally gives a description of the business that might include, operation, products, employees, war damage to premises, etc. Interior good and clean.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Educational Media Corp., U.S.A., 1997
ISBN 10: 0932796621 ISBN 13: 9780932796622
Da: Rainy Day Books, Courtenay, BC, Canada
EUR 8,05
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Aggiungi al carrelloPaperback. Condizione: Very Good. Coughlan, William R. (illustratore). Very nice copy.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Editore: Prentice-Hill, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1974
Da: William L. Horsnell, Aylesford, NS, Canada
EUR 17,88
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Aggiungi al carrelloTrade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Printing. A lightly creased spine with edge rubbings. No store stamp. Stories by : Burt Filer, Robert Heinlein, Alfred Bester, John Wyndham, R.A. Lafferty, Nelson Bond, Charles L. Harness, Martin Gardner, Isaac Asimov, E.G.Von Wald, Tuli Kupferberg, Harlan Ellison, Ron Goulart, Damon Knight, Robert Sheckley, Arhtur C. Clarke, Cordwainer Smith, Joseph Green, Clifford Simak, J.G.Ballard, Will Worthington, Frederik Pohl, Ursula K.LeQuin, Kit Reed, Andrew J.Offutt, Alice Glaser.
Editore: Bradford Barton, 1972
Da: Anybook.com, Lincoln, Regno Unito
EUR 28,32
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Aggiungi al carrelloCondizione: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:
Editore: Fergus Printing Company, Chicago, 1890
Da: Pensees Bookshop, Charleston, IL, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condizione: VG-. 4 Volume set, each in it's original wrappers. The spine on vol. 4 is chipped but overall these are in pretty nice shape. Part I. Pierre Menard, and Pierre-Menard papers : historical sketch and notes / by Edward Gay Mason ; Noel Le Vasseur / by Stephen R. Moore ; List of early Illinois citizens / introduction by Edward Gay Mason -- Part II. John Rice Jones : a brief sketch of the life and public career of the first practising lawyer in Illinois ; Rice Jones : a brief memoir of the last representative of Randolph County in the General Assembly of Indiana Territory, and the victim of an historical tragedy of early Illinois / by W.A. Burt Jones -- Part III. John Todd, John Todd's record-book and John-Todd papers / by Edward Gay Mason -- Part IV. Philippe de Rocheblave and Rocheblave papers : historical sketch and notes / by Edward Gay Mason ; Court of enquiry at Fort Chartres / introduction by John Moses. || Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- Illinois. Geographic: Illinois -- History -- Sources. Illinois -- Biography. Chicago (Ill.) -- History. Illinois.
Data di pubblicazione: 1993
Da: Riccardo Giannuzzi Savelli, Palermo, PA, Italia
EUR 3,00
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Data di pubblicazione: 1988
Da: Riccardo Giannuzzi Savelli, Palermo, PA, Italia
EUR 3,00
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Lingua: Inglese
Editore: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW HAVEN, 1990
ISBN 10: 0300049692 ISBN 13: 9780300049695
Da: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
EUR 71,52
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Aggiungi al carrello1ST EDITION.VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE ASKED FOR.
Data di pubblicazione: 1987
Da: Riccardo Giannuzzi Savelli, Palermo, PA, Italia
EUR 3,50
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Data di pubblicazione: 1990
Da: Riccardo Giannuzzi Savelli, Palermo, PA, Italia
EUR 4,00
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Data di pubblicazione: 1987
Da: Riccardo Giannuzzi Savelli, Palermo, PA, Italia
EUR 4,00
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Data di pubblicazione: 1986
Da: Riccardo Giannuzzi Savelli, Palermo, PA, Italia
EUR 5,00
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Da: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Irlanda
EUR 200,36
Quantità: 15 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloCondizione: New. Details how intelligent applications can be used in the power industry. This book gives a general and historical overview of intelligent knowledge based systems (IKBS) and artificial intelligence (AI) and a broad analysis of the application of these techniques in the electrical power industry. Editor(s): McDonald, J.R.; McArthur, S.D.J.; Burt, G.M. (Strathclyde University); Zielinski, J.S. (University of Poland, Lodz, Poland). Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: THR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1140. . 1997. Hardback. . . . .
Da: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Condizione: New. Details how intelligent applications can be used in the power industry. This book gives a general and historical overview of intelligent knowledge based systems (IKBS) and artificial intelligence (AI) and a broad analysis of the application of these techniques in the electrical power industry. Editor(s): McDonald, J.R.; McArthur, S.D.J.; Burt, G.M. (Strathclyde University); Zielinski, J.S. (University of Poland, Lodz, Poland). Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: THR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 1140. . 1997. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
Editore: Fergus Print. Co, Chicago, 1890
Da: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condizione: Very good. Four octavo volumes in yellow printed wraps bound together as one, in a modern stiff cardstock blue wraps386 p, + adverts at end, a few b&w plates (portraits); 20 cm. Series: Fergus' historical series;; no. 31-34. Each part has special title page. "Reprinted from vol. IV, Chicago historical society's Collections: `Early Chicago and Illinois'."/ Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Part I. Pierre Menard, and Pierre-Menard papers: historical sketch and notes / by Edward Gay Mason; Noel Le Vasseur / by Stephen R. Moore; List of early Illinois citizens / introduction by Edward Gay Mason -- Part II. John Rice Jones: a brief sketch of the life and public career of the first practising lawyer in Illinois; Rice Jones: a brief memoir of the last representative of Randolph County in the General Assembly of Indiana Territory, and the victim of an historical tragedy of early Illinois / by W.A. Burt Jones -- Part III. John Todd, John Todd's record-book and John-Todd papers / by Edward Gay Mason -- Part IV. Philippe de Rocheblave and Rocheblave papers: historical sketch and notes / by Edward Gay Mason; Court of enquiry at Fort Chartres / introduction by John Moses. Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- Illinois. Geographic: Illinois -- History -- Sources. Illinois -- Biography. Chicago (Ill.) -- History. Illinois. Very good. Rebound (as described above), with minor spotting to rear blue wrapper.
Editore: New York : Horizon House ; [printed in USA by Bookcraft, NYC), 1943., 1943
Da: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. 384 pp. ; illustrations ; grey and beige cloth ; wear to covers ; brown lettering and design on front cover ; gold lettering on spine ; notation by previous owner on front ep ; line drawings by Marion Connelly ; a large collection of poetry, largely written during World War II, with many poignant passages : "Veils in a marihuana fantasy" (!) from Lucile Coleman's "The Prodigal Muse" ; "The little, lisping, yellow, apes / Coming in the most grotesque shapes / Brought America to her knees" from William Comeau's "The Eagle's Scream" ; "Transfusing my blood with avid tooth / They thus renew their vampire youth" from Lucile Coleman's "Dirge of a War Nurse" ; "I shall know peace / When I walk alone in other years / With eyes grown dry from ex cess tears / When dreams and plans are past / And I am free of you / At last" from Charles Forde's "Finality" ; detailed biographical listings for each poet at back, many probably now the only source of information on several of them ; foxing ; Poet s include : Clarence Adams, Ralph Sturtevant Adams, Alvarita Ashe, Isabel Allam, Elam Allen, Charles T. Alexander, Mary B. Anderson, Florence Archer, Sallie Arnold, Athena, Selina Avery, Helen Axtell, Dorothy Baer, Fanny Hazelton Baker, Henry G. Baker, Ella Ballew, Walter Bardeck, Anne Barlow, Maude Barragan, Florence Bartsch, Ruth Bassett, Anita Bassford, Joseph Bean, William Beckett, Florence Beebe, Faye Benbow, Harriet Blackwell, Bennie Bledsoe, Lura Boles, Stella Boren, Nancy Boston, Berni ce Bradford, Johnielu Bradford, Marguerite Brennan, Grace Brown, Elizabeth Browne, Hazel Bruner, Adelaide Bunn, Vena Burt, Adah Byrnes, Janet Cade, Maud Cain, Elise Campbell, Ethel Carlson, Leona Carlson, Janet Carney, Mandfred Carter, Arthur Chaam beau, Ida Chamberlain, Petronella Chapp, Gladys Chasey, Lorene Childress, Charlotte Chittick, Forrest Gordon Clark, Maude Clark, Martha Cochran, Lucile Coleman, Edna Collins, Veda Collins, William Comeau, Isabel Conant, Virginia Conway, S. Arthur Cook, Gertrude Cooper, Peggy Copeland, A. Bertha Cote, John Cotter, Mabelle Cottle, Josephine Courtright, Mildred Creath, J E Crews, Kathryn Cross, Laaura Cudahy, Miriam Dabbs, Lorene Dandridge, Grace Day, Prentice Douglas, Frances Dowell, John Gray Duncan, Georgia Moore Eberling, Alletah Glasier, Ida Clarice Gowan, Florence Rupert Graves, E J Grigsby, Gertrude Hanson, Ruth Hazelton, John Herget, William Sidney Hillyer, Anne George Hudgins, Eleanor Hughes, Annis Humphries, Enid Daniel Jones, Ber nice De Hart Kelley, Thomas Brockholst Livingston, Henry Luoma, Dorothy Lewis Maddux, Ralph Duane McKinnis, Helen Meier, Anne Methvin, Della Miller, Martha Norburn, Eugene Okarma, Elizabeth Winston Sheehan, Bess Foster Smith, Peggy Opal Snyder, Bern ard Tankersley, Lillian Carson Terhune, Anne Trousdale, Leonard Charles Van Noppen, Allen E. Woodall, Leander Zimmerman, etc ; G. Book.
Editore: The Maclean Publishing Company, Toronto, 1931
Da: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, Canada
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Prima edizione
EUR 442,48
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Aggiungi al carrelloSingle Issue Magazine. Condizione: Fair. Sambrook, Russell: Cover Art; Grassick, C.A.; Shreve, Carl; Dinsmore, E.J.; Chambers, W.V.; Summers, Dudley Gloyne; Sellen, H.E.M.; McCrea, H.W. (illustratore). First Edition. 84 pages. Features: Nice mini-golf cover illustration; Heinz vinegar and olive oil colour ad inside front cover; Nice vintage full-page photo ad for Clark's Tomato Ketchup features grocer behind counter speaking with lady customer dressed in contemporary fashion; Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the late J.Pierpont Morgan - discusses modern women - ad with photo of Miss Morgan as part of Pond's ad; Some Truths about Wheat - W.W. Swanson argues that there has been no "foolish overproduction of wheat"; Backstage at Ottawa; The Dark Road (fiction); Pigeons on Patrol - the story of the Royal Canadian Air Force pigeon service whose winged messengers have pulled many a pilot out of a tight hole; The Hyams Twins Case - Did the Hyams brothers kill Willie Wells in Toronto in 1893?; Barry's Clarissa (fiction); The Silver Scale (fiction); Patrick "Pat" Burns - One of the West's Dominant Business Figures; Bonds of Danger - the story of "Surge" the steelhead; Canadians in Hollywood - great article with five nice photos of stars Fifi Dorsay, Walter Huston, Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Norma Shearer (photo of Pauline Garon appears later); The Devil in the Jade - a strange tale of mysterious Burma; The Western Mennonites - a graphic description of life among a group of New Canadians now in the throes of the conflict between orthodoxy and modernism - with photos; Sir Oswald Mosley and his New Party cause stir in Britain; Nice full-page photo ad for Kraft cheese and Velveeta; Nice full-page ad for the Chrysler Eight De Luxe; Nice full-page illustrated ad for REO speed wagons and trucks; The Brome Lake Duck Farm of Knowlton, Quebec - article with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Swift's bacon; Great colour full-page art deco ad for Calay soap; Full-page illustrated ad for Studebaker Trucks features a 2-ton model for $1125; Nice photo ad for Spud cigarettes features a pilot lighting up; Fashionable full-page ad for Penmans new silk hosiery; Excellent full-page colour ad for International Harvester commemorates the centennial of the McCormick reaper; Nice colour full-page ad for Keen's mustard; Woodward's "Gripe Water" ad; Excellent two-colour full-page ad for Dodge Trucks shows row of trucks backed up to loading gates; Nice full-page two-colour ad for the book Murder at Belly Butte; Humour; Nice full-page ad for the Graham Prosperity Six car; Lux soap ad features photos of Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Mary Brian, Lillian Roth, and William Powell; Hot weather supper dishes - recipes; Nuce full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Convertible Cabriolet; Outdoor furniture; Colour ad for Parker pens on back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent issue.
Editore: Scribner, Armstrong and Co., 1876
Da: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: IOBA
Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Charles Burt, Hinshelwood, Hollyer, Emil Bayard, Thomas Moran, G.H. Boughton, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer, Alfred Fredericks, E.A. Abbey, M.A. Hallock, A.R. Waud, W. L. Sheppard, Sol Eytinge, A.C. Warren, Granville Perkins, et, al. (illustratore). Four volume set, of very heavy books (5 lbs. each) with very heavy bindings: brown cloth with elaborately embossed covers and spine in gilt and black. Covers are very clean. Spine edges are slightly frayed or worn with slightly worn corners, some slight edge wear otherwise. Back covers are as elaborately embossed as front with no gilt or black. Each volume about 575 pages with illustrations in steel plates ("pure line"), covered in tissue and leaving shadow on opposite page. Most are wood engravings, all b&w. Binding are very solid and square, exteriors show no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save one mark of previous owner's signature and date, vol. I only. Occasional foxing at front endpaper or around steel engravings, and at frontspieces, which are few. Small coffee stain on page ends of Vol. I. "The drawings have been executed upon wood and steel by the first engravers in this country and in Europe. No original work, therefore, equalling this in the variety and excellence of its illustrations, has ever before been offered to the American public." Over 300 illustrations in Vol. I. , the remainder volumes are equally profuse. End of volume four takes us to The closing scenes of the war: including Richmond and Petersburg, Early's raid in Maryland and Pennsylvania, Burnside's mine at Petersburg, Battle of Five Forks, Sherman's march through teh Carolinas, Assassination of the president, Capture of Jefferson Davis, amidst other sections. Keywords: 1800's, 19th Century, American History, Illustrated, Engravings, Steel Engravings, Wood Engravings.
Editore: The twenty-five items printed by the Simplified Spelling Board 1 Madison Avenue New York between 30 April and 30 September 1911, 1907
Da: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Regno Unito
EUR 417,21
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Aggiungi al carrelloThe Simplified Spelling Board was founded in 1906, funded by Andrew Carnegie, and counted Mark Twain and President Theodore Roosevelt, and the English lexicographers James A. H. Murray, Walter W. Skeat and Joseph Wright among its members. The present collection of the Board's Circulars consists of 25 uniform items, all unbound and stapled. The collection is in fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with occasional wear. Stamps, shelfmarks and labels of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. The collection consists of a run of Nos.1-25 of the Board's Circulars, lacking No.22 and with two versions (1907 and 1911) of No.16. Nos. 1-21 attached to one another through punch holes by green string. ONE: 'A First Step'. 4pp. TWO: 'List of Common Words spelled in two or more ways'. 12pp. THREE: 'The Amelioration of our Spelling' by Calvin Thomas, LL.D. 8pp. FOUR: 'The Spelling of Yesterday and the Spelling of To-morrow' by Brander Matthews, D.C.L. 8pp. FIVE: 'List of common Words spelled in two or more Ways. The Three Hundred Words, with the Authorities'. 8pp. SIX: 'A Statement about Simplified Spelling'. 4pp. SEVEN: 'Simplified Spelling in the Schools'. 8pp. EIGHT: 'Simplified Spelling and the Universities'. 8pp. NINE: 'Mark Twain on Simplified Spelling'. 4pp. TEN: 'Simplified Spelling in Writing and Printing. A Publisher's Point of View. By Henry Holt, LL.D.' 11pp. ELEVEN: 'The Medical Profession and Simplified Spelling'. By Burt G. Wilder, S.B., M.D. 4pp. TWELVE: 'Annual Meeting of the Simplified Spelling Board - April 3, 4, 5, 1907'. 12pp. THIRTEEN: 'A Letter to the Signers'. 4pp. FOURTEEN: 'The Simplification of English Spelling'. 8pp. FIFTEEN: 'Three Hundred Words spelled in two or more Ways'. 16pp. SIXTEEN: 'The Simplified Spelling Board'. Two copies, both dated 28 November 1907, but the second from 1911. The first copy (3pp.) with list of members dated 'November, 1907'; the second with different, undated list of members, and with list of publications 1-25 dated September 1911, the first copy having an undated list of publications 1-16. SEVENTEEN: 'The Advisory Council of the Simplified Spelling Board'. 8pp. EIGHTEEN: 'Simplified Spellings. A Second List'. NINETEEN: 'The Problems before us' by Thomas R. Lounsbury, LL.D., L.H.D., President of the Simplified Spelling Board. 16pp. TWENTY: 'Simplified Spelling in Periodicals' by William Hayes Ward, D.D., Editor of The Independent. 4pp. TWENTY-ONE: 'The Spelling of the Poets' by Brander Matthews, D.C.L. 7pp. TWENTY-THREE: 'Alfabetic List of Simplifications in Spelling recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board up to January 25, 1909'. 32pp. TWENTY-FOUR: 'Simplified Spelling: A Letter to Teachers' by Calvin Thomas, 'For the Executiv [sic] Committee | Simplified Spelling Board'. 12pp. TWENTY-FIVE: 'The Need of Reform of Spelling in the Public Schools' by William H. Maxwell, LL.D., City Superintendent of Schools, New York. 8pp. Scarce material. A few major libraries appear to have a 26 number run.