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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. 498p., softbound first edition in 8x5.5 inch decorated white wraps, mild edgewear to covers, a very good copy: sound and square, quite clean and unmarked in any way.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 2nd Edition. Fine in a Fine jacket. 461pp 8vo.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. COLOUR CARD WRAPS BY YVONNE PERRIN - OTHER CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE RENE CLOKE, HILDA McGAVIN, PETER FRASER (illustratore). First edition. Attractive gift book of the time, filled with a charming collection of stories. On small picture has been coloured, otherwise, VVG indeed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Ex-university library hardback with the usual labels etc; otherwise fresh and unmarked. Stoutly rebound in unworn, bright blue cloth boards. Gilt titling on spine.

Periodical. Condizione: Fair. 480 p., preceded by book catalog and followed by 50 p. of ads with beautiful engravings for carriages, horses, railways, pianos, baking powder, soap, hot water heaters, and many other items, all on strong paper mildly age-toned; binding firm; front panel of wrapper is missing, no spine panel, lower corner of picotrial rear panel is missing. Lavishly illustrated with wonderful engravingts accompanying such articles as "Sinai and the Wilderness," "Bird Music-Sparrows," "Lincoln and McClellan," "Matthew Arnold," "Disease Germs and How to Combat Them ;" poems and open letters. Binding firm.

Periodical. Condizione: Good. 160 p., plus catalog of books preceding and 50 p. following comprising fascinating ads with beautiful engravings for items ranging from typewriters to cattle to corsets to "Wine of Coca,"clean and unmarked ecept for penciled sketch near ad for dress forms; pencil drawing of Georgian-style church or possibly court house on verso of full-page engraved portrait of Washington Irving; smudge on lower corner of p. 92, below engraving of "Breaking Up A Pro-Slavery Camp;" and owner's pencilled name on front panel of magazine; lavishly illustrated with engravings accompanying such articles as "The Army of the Chattanooga at Cumberland," "Pharaoh and His Daughter" "Among the Apaches;" charts and tables for "The Chemistry of Foods and Nutrition." Paper within is strong and only mildly age-toned but pictorial wrapper is chipped at edges and abraded at crown and foot of spine. Binding firm.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Substantial volume about 14.5cm x 22cm x 6.5cm. Back binding with embossed titling which doesn't show up on a scan although if you zzom in you can maybe see it. No publication date but 1924 can be deduced from the text. Read the scan of the Preface which gives a general description of the book. 377pp plus appendix, another 86pp followed by 23 single sided plates on glossy paper. Total pages 486. Various figures throughout the text but as these are numbered within each section the overall total is not clear without counting and checking every section. Two fold out drawings, Barleith coal workings and a diagram of forced air. Overall good clean condition with sound bindings.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Impression. 5.25 x 8in. 285pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE. Shows slight shelf rubbing of the extremities, otherwise remains Fine/As New. As pictured.

Hardcover/Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Publisher's tribute-book, stated to be a Limited Edition of 3,000 copies - of which only 750 were issued on publication; this an un-numbered copy (probably a later issue as the cover is dated 1947). Quarto-size, 176 pages (xiv, 162) on stock of differing colours, one or two black-and-white illustrations; publisher's buff paper-covered boards printed in sepia and black; backed in untitled grey cloth; white dust-jacket: Very Good, no marks of previous ownership; jacket rather tired. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First US Edition. Gift quality 1947 first US edition hardcover in medium brown cloth with bright gold titles. Boards appear as if they are leather bound but are in fact 'pebbled' cloth that only appears so. Board tips and spine ends are barely brushed, tips remain sharp and book displays very well in its professionally reproduced color illustrated dust wrapper. Book is not exlib, no names or tears, inner hinges are fine, pages are bright and fresh. Brown and white illustrated end papers of horses framed with assorted tack and English style accoutrements. This is a comprehensive study of the history of the horse throughout time and throughout the world including horse racing, polo, fox hunting, the various uses that horses are put to, breeding stock and the various breeds, buying a horse and its care, the horse in art and literature, books on horses, etc., etc., etc. A foundation volume for any sporting library, profusely illustrated with b/w line drawings, b/w photographs and some gorgeous full page, full color illustrations by Lionel Edwards. This hefty tome weighs 4lbs, 9oz and will require additional funds for priority post or international destinations. Please email for a total prior to placing an order unless book rate or 'media mail' is acceptable.

Condizione: Fine. Number of pages: 405p Size: B6.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. A very good hardcover book with a small inscription to half title page. Complete with a very good dust jacket. Text is English & Vietnamese.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. W. Thirring, A. Wehrl, "On the mathematical structure of the B.C.S.-model" and many others, in Communication in Mathematical Physics, Berlin and New York, Springer-Verlag, volume 4, pp 303-314. Offered in the full volumes 3 and 4 bound in a single volume, 1966 and 1967, 374 and 364pp, total. Ex-library copy, but very strongly bound in red cloth, and with all wrappers bound in, and in crisp and fresh condition. Very Good. [++] Also in these two volumes are found, for example: Attempt of an axiomatic foundation of quantum mechanics and more general theories. II, by Günther Ludwig; Analytic continuation of group representations. II -AND- III by Robert Hermann; Application of spectral representations to the nonrelativistic and the relativistic Bethe-Salpeter equation", by G. Kramer; Rigged Hilbert spaces in quantum mechanics, by J. E. Roberts; Fock representation and massless particles, by S. Doplicher; Scattering of two plane electromagnetic waves in the non-linear Born-Infeld electrodynamics, B. M. Barbashov, N. A. Chernikov; Collision cross sections in terms of local observables, by H. Araki, R. Haag; Range of forces and broken symmetries in many-body systems, by J. A. Swieca; Fields at a point, by A. Grossmann; The energy momentum spectrum of quantum fields, by Richard V. Kadison. And much else! For example: Inhomogeneous completion of non-compact semisimple groups with the maximal compact subgroup as little group, by Y. Ne'eman.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. First Edition. Approx. 900 p., clean within but front end page pages stained with penciled markings, and second page mostly torn away; paper very fine and strong, only mildly age-toned although foxed; small open tear at upper edge of p. 45/46, January 1849, "American Characteristics" by T.S. Arthur; corner of p. 429-430, June 1949, "Anecdotes of Washington" by Henry F. Harrington, and "Cottage Furniture"; many wonderful engravings as well as scores to songs; sewn signatures coming apart but text block complete although not firm; badly abraded boards detached. Rebinding would greatly enhance value.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Wernher von Braun, "Reminiscences of German Rocketry", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, volume 15, no. 3, May-June 1956, pp 125-145, offered in the bound volume for the year of 360pp. Green cloth. Very Good copy. Also in the volume are contributions by a dozen others, including Eric Burgess, "High Altitude Research" (pp 261-280); J.M. Kooy, "Space Travel and Future Research into the Structure of the Universe"; "Analysis of Reports of Flying Saucers", and much else. One of the (true) sub-heads in this interview with von Braun in the BIS is "Did We Hit the Wrong Planet?", which sounds very much like a joke, but isn't. That is the non-question that can be easily answered by anyone in the U.K.(and Belgium, and France, and the Netherlands) from 1940-1945.  That question was asked by Wernher von Braun of himself, semi-third person, wondering aloud to his interviewer about what he saw was the unintentional use of his A-4 rocket--renamed the V-2, or Vergeltungswaffe 2, Retaliation weapon 2, or Vengeance Weapon 2--in the rocket attack upon Britain (and to a lesser extent Belgium and then to a lesser extent as well on France and the Netherlands).  He writes that the A-4 was intended for interplanetary flight--and at some distant point that was true, but not so much in the early 1940's, when the intention regarding the use of the rocket mattered most.  Perhaps von Braun was hanging on to a distant memory, back to the early days when he dreamed along with Hermann Oberth and others about leaving the Earth.  "The A-4's subsequent career is no mystery" says von Braun, without irony and in high reportage. Indeed not.  The V-2 was huge compared to its older and slower brother, the V-1--it was 45' tall and weighed 28,000 pounds, delivering a 2,000lb Amatol warhead.  The odiously-sound-of-death V-1 came in slowly, slow enough to be outrun by a Spitfire--the V-2 came in with a different awful sound, the crack and boom of the sound barrier as it braced for a Mach 2+ impact (which would cause the detonation of the weapon).  6,000 of these weapons were made (beginning in September 1943) and more than 5,000 were launched. These weapons killed some 9,000 Earthlings, so the weapons didn't really get very close to another planet. Nor, really, was it ever intended to during the war.  Von Braun et al used it very effectively as a bargaining too with Hitler to gain more money for the program--not for interplanetary exploration, but to kill as many people as possible. I don't know what von Braun was complaining about here in this brief semi-memoir about his A-4 becoming the V-2--it certainly could have come as a surprise. And that 9,000 killed figure is misleading--it is actually more like 21,000.  That figure would include the 12,000 human slaves from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp who were killed or worked to death while building the rockets. So in a weird and horrible twist of sick ironies, the weapon actually consumed more lives than it caused in its use for death.  How von Braun didn't know about the thousands of slave laborers at work on his non-Moon rocket is simply impossible to comprehend. Von Braun was single-minded and determined--lives consumed and lost, plus an enormous amount of money (his project costing more than the Manhattan Project) and energy.  The return on this particular investment was exceptionally poor in the long run--close to the point of the whole affair being created by the Allies to crush the Nazi economy. 714.3.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. LVIII, 599 pages. 236 x 160 mm. Illustrated. Printed on very good quality paper. Bought new from the publisher in 1971 and has never been opened.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First edition. Thick octavo. xxi, (1) 934pp. Index. Text in German. Dark blue boards lettered in white and lighter blue. A fine, as new copy. In Objektiver und absoluter Geist nach Hegel. Kunst, Religion und Philosophie innerhalb und au?erhalb von Gesellschaft und Geschichte, challenging Hegelianism?s current tendency to reduce absolute spirit to objective spirit, Thomas Oehl and Arthur Kok offer an extensive selection of papers exploring the wide spectrum of Hegel's philosophy of spirit from the viewpoint of the distinction between objective and absolute spirit (art, religion and philosophy) and their relation to society and history, thereby addressing the universal issue about whether there are cultural phenomena which transcend society and history anew from a Hegelian perspective. (Publisher) Contents: Intro; Inhalt; ?ber die Autorinnen und Autoren; Einleitung: Objektiver und absoluter Geist nach Hegel; Hegels Begriff des absoluten Geistes; Teil 1 Objektiver und absoluter Geist -- von der Ph?nomenologie des Geistes aus; Das Dieses ist ein Baum ist ein Baum: Der absolute Geist als freies Dasein der Wirklichkeit in Hegels Ph?nomenologie des Geistes; Die Bedeutung der Religion in den Grundlinien aus der Sicht der Ph?nomenologie des Geistes; Zwischen Scheinkritik und Absolutheitsanspruch -- zur Eigent?mlichkeit der philosophischen Wissensbildung in Hegels Ph?nomenologie des Geistes; Teil 2 Objektiver und absoluter Geist -- vom objektiven Geist ausHandlungen und T?tigkeiten in Hegels Philosophie des objektiven und des absoluten Geistes; Fokus 2.A Recht, Moralit?t, Sittlichkeit; Das Verschwinden der Moralphilosophie: Zum Verh?ltnis von subjektivem, objektivem und absolutem Geist in Hegels Rechtsphilosophie; ?bersoziale Kriterien in der Theorie sozialer Geltungen: Zur pluralistischen Logik der hegelschen ?System'-Form des objektiven Geistes; ?Unvollkommene Gerechtigkeit": Hegel, Antigone und die Menschenrechte; Zweite Natur und Sittlichkeit: ?ber Hegels Auffassung von InhabitanzDie praktischen M?glichkeiten des Individuums in posthistorischer Zeit; Fokus 2.B Staat und Religion; Die Religion als Grundlage der Sittlichkeit und des Staates bei Hegel; Religion als Grundlage, und nur als Grundlage des Staats: ?ber Quietismus, Fanatismus, Tyrannei, und . Freiheit; Elemente von Hegels politischer Theologie: Ziviler Republikanismus, soziale Gerechtigkeit, Konstitutionalismus und universelle Menschenrechte; Religion in der modernen Demokratie: Ein Vergleich zwischen Hegels offenbarer Religion und Rawls' ?ffentlicher VernunftTeil 3 Objektiver und absoluter Geist -- vom absoluten Geist aus; Selbstbewusstsein und absoluter Geist; Absoluter Geist als sich vollbringender Skeptizismus; Fokus 3.A Kunst; Art in Times of Historical Crisis -- A Hegelian Perspective; De spiritu et littera: Von der Kunst, Hegels ?sthetik zu verstehen; Die Bedeutung der Religion f?r die Kunst bei Hegel: Zur Frage nach dem absoluten Geist in der Kunst; Die Kunst der ?sthetischen Bildung bei Hegel; ?Gegenw?rtige prosaische Zust?nde": Hegels melancholische ?sthetik und Schillers politische EschatologieFokus 3.B Religion; Tod Gottes und Andersheit des Geistes: Die Ambivalenz von Hegels Philosophie der geoffenbarten Religion; Grundlinien von Hegels Theorie der Liebe; Fokus 3.C Philosophie; Philosophie als Institution?: Zwischen dem ?noch nicht" und dem ?nicht mehr"; Philosophieren als Sterben: Selbsterkenntnis und Vers?hnung bei Hegel (eine Ann?herung); Teil 4 Vom objektiven zum absoluten Geist -- der ?bergang im enzyklop?dischen System (OCLC) Volume 21 of the Brill series, "Critical Studies in German Idealism" (CSGI).