Sheean vincent translator (11 risultati)

Softbound. Condizione: Fine. Shelf worn, with slight fading to red page edges. Tight, clean, unmarked. Remarkable for its age.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 320 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Pages clean and tight. DJ has esge wear top and bottom.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reissue edition. 393 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reissue edition. 393 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. reissue edition. 393 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. Easton Press. This is a fine hardcover Easton Press edition in blue leather, 4 rib spine, moire end papers, a.e.g., with a blank bookplate and the note card laid in. 412 Pages. Photos on request.

Condizione: clean and tight. good cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First American Edition. Stated: First Edition. Same date on Title Page and copyright page. Hard cover in very good condition with beige boards, small spot on front board. Spine contains a brown panel with title in gold gilt. Author and publisher in brown lettering above and below panel. Marie Curie initials, MC, in brown on front board. Side edges deckled and age toned. Top text block stained light brown. At the bottom of the half title page is noted: "This story was published serially under the title 'Marie Curie, My Mother". End papers age toned and showing deeper toning on the vertical edges due to underlying gluing of paste down to board versos, both front and rear. Frontispiece is a portrait of Marie Curie made in 1929 and copyright by Blanche de Lorier. In addition to the frontispiece are 32 black and white photographs throughout the volume. Interior text block clean and tight; no writings, no markings noted. Concludes with an Appendix detailing Mme Curie's Prizes, Medals, Decorations, and HonoraryTitles. 393 numbered pages. Dust jacket good with overall shelf & edge wear; small chips to head and heel of spine; largest chip on rear panel at top. See photos. From the Publisher's description, "Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867—1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. Winner of two Nobel Prizes (for physics in 1903 and for chemistry in 1911), she performed pioneering studies with radium and contributed profoundly to the understanding of radioactivity. The history of her story-book marriage to Pierre Curie, of their refusal to patent their processes or otherwise profit from the commercial exploitation of radium, and her tragically ironic death are legendary and well known but are here revealed from an inside perspective. But, as this book reveals, it was also true. An astonishing mind and a remarkable life are here portrayed by Marie Curie's daughter in a classic and moving account.".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Pale peach cloth on boards with dark monogram of subject to front, dark title box to spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings inside and out. Book is Near Fine. By Marie Curie's daughter.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Edition Unstated. Signed by Author. Size: 8 1/2" x 6". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Tan cloth over boards, gilt-stamping on spine, 419 pages, includes several black and white plates. This book is signed and inscribed by Eve Curie on front free end paper. Corners and spine ends rubbed, minor staining on top edge of text block, some foxing on frontispiece. In an illustrated dust jacket that is worn at extremities, has been preserved in a Brodart jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 5 lbs 0 oz. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Science & Technology. Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 015765.…