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470 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Topics include: Some New Concrete Bridges; Stithians Dam; Cruachan Dam; Prestressed Precast Concrete Construction at Cardiff; A Calculator for Concrete Mixes; Motorway M6 - Preston/Lancaster Section; New Equipment for Concrete Road Construction; Piccadilly Plaza Building Manchester; Prestressed Concrete Pressure-Vessel for Wylfa Nuclear Power Station; Building Constructed over a Railway Tunnel; Large Cooling-water Chambers at Tilbury; Sewage Works, Dalmarnock; Sewage Works, Godstone; Restrained Ribbed Slabs with Distribution Ribs; Library and Swimming Baths, Hampstead; The Analysis of Symmetrically-loaded Circular Conical Shells - I; Early Concrete Buildings in Britain; Precast Construction of Asbestos-cement pipe factory, Eire; A Precast Concrete Fire-drill Tower; A Cantilevered Concrete Grandstand - Coventry City Football Club; Pierced Shear-Walls - I; Modern Designs for Prestressed Concrete Bridges; Stockbury Viaduct; The Analysis of Symmetrically-loaded Circular Conical Shells - Parts II and III; Oil-Tanker Jetty at Milford Haven; Repairs to Piles in Sea-water; Market Hall, Wakefield; Pierced Shear-Walls - II; Developments in Formwork for concrete structures; Air-Permeability of Concrete; A simplified Method of Analysing Free-standing Stairs; Pierced-Shell-Walls - III; Recent Lightweight-Concrete Structures; Prestressed Concrete Pressure-Vessels; Research on Concrete Structures in Nuclear Engineering; Stresses in Wide-Flanged T-beams; Members Subjected to Bending and Thrust; Town Hall Extension, Ealing; Foundations and Other Construction Below Ground; The G.P.O. Tower during construction; The Design of the G.P.O. Tower, London; Data for Load-Factor Design of Beams and Slabs; The Interaction of Parallel Frames; A Pioneer of Concrete - George Semple of Dublin; Fatigue Behaviour of High-Yield Steel Reinforcement; A Computer Programme for the Analysis of the Effects of Torsion; Design of Continuous Concrete Slabs Supported on Steel Beams; Concrete Roads in Nigeria; Economic Design by the Ultimate-Load Method - Parts I, II and II; Cracking of Slabs Spanning in Two Directions; Design of Bow Bridge Intersection; Membrane Analysis of Parabolic Conoids; Concrete Dam in Yorkshire - The Thruscross Dam; A Code for Structural Lightweight-aggregate Concrete; A New Gauge for the Measurement of Internal Strains in Concrete; Circular Members Subjected to Bending and Thrust; Recent construction of silos; and more. Prior owner's name in gilt upon front board. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tightly bound. High quality copy. Book
Features: Kingdom in the Clouds - Kangchenjunga was once thought to be the world's highest mountain; Swimming into the Past - The St. Lawrence River as underwater playground and history teacher; Missing Angela - HIV is sweeping through Vancouver's Downtown Eastside; Wagner's Wonderland - a city-encircled wetland is a refugium for creatures great and small, and an army of volunteers is working hard to keep it that way; Remains of the Day - Giganotosaurus carolinii is the largest theropod known to science, but as a team of Argentinean and Canadian paleontologists recently discovered, in the world of dinosaurs, there's always a bigger bone to pick. Clean with light wear. Nice copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: Arranging Bouquets; Ladies' and Children's Bathing Suits; Autograph Seekers; Manners upon the Road - of a drop of oil; New York Fashions - fall fashions, sea-side suits, wraps, bathing suits; Personal; Carriage-leather bathing bag; pink satin, crape, and mull sachet; embroidered pen-wiper; carriage-leather bathing slippers; Swiss muslin jackets; Edith Causton's Highland Campaign; English Gossip; "Ladies' and Children's Summer Dresses" - full-page illustration; Swiss muslin and pink gros grain ribbon breakfast cap; Swiss muslin and blue ribbon breakfast cap; ladies' breakfast and dress caps; Sayings and Doings; London's Heart - continued; Silk Gauze and gros grain bow for the hair; coiffure for little girl; oiled silk bathing caps; twisted crod border for trimming dresses, skirts, etc.; Embroidered Swimming Belt; Foundation for bags, slippers, footstools, etc.; humor. Average wear. Clipping from cover page. Clipping from page 467. Book
120 pages. Contents: The Command and Control of Nuclear War, by Ashton B. Carter; Collapse and Formation of Stars, by Alan P. Boss; The Perception of Speech in Early Infancy, by Peter D. Eimas; Alzheimer's Disease, by Richard J. Wartman; Hot Nuclear Matter, by Walter Greiner and Horst Stocker; The Reliability of Computer Memories, by Robert J. McEliece; Jet-Propelled Swimming in Squids, by John M. Gosline and M. Edwin DeMont; The Crossbow, by Vernard Foley, George Palmer and Werner Soedel. Nostalgic ads for floppy disks and the IBM PC - with Charlie Chaplin look-alike, and more. Initials written atop front cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this interesting and informative issue. The crossbow article is particularly interesting. Magazine
140 pages. Features: The homelessness problem; Undersea volcanoes; Immunotoxins; Form and function in fish swimming; Symbiotic stars; Multilingual word processing; the mathematics of three-dimensional manifolds; medieval roots of the industrial revolution; and more. Nostalgic ads including several from the early days of the PC industry. Bit of writing atop front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
60 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Undated. Appears to be circa 1942 as ad atop page 4 indicates a printing date during WWII. Offers recipes for: Soups; Meats, Fish & Supper Dishes; Salads and Dressings; Quick Breads; Pies and Tarts; Puddings and Desserts; Cakes and Icings; Small Cakes and Cookies; Pickles and Preserves; Beerages; and Candy. Blue card covers. Vintage Neilson's Cocoa ad on back cover. Interesting ad for Camp Tapawingo inside front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Nibbling to top corner of all covers and pages. Tanning to contents. A worthy copy of this uncommon work. (Driver 099.1) Book
47 pages. Features: I Like Hollywood Children - so says Montreal artist Eva Prager, who has painted portraits of leading stars' youngsters; I became a spy for the man I loved - Ethel Gee, Harry Houghton and the Lonsdale Spy Ring; Lovely full-page colour ad for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles; The Royal Commission on Publications; Salute to the Salmon - mosaic depicting salmon swimming upstream is part of a fountain in Nanaimo, B.C. which was a belated centennial gift from the city's Italo-Canadian community - two nice colour photos with text - great Nanaimo history; Man O' War's farewell drama - $80,000 thrill for Windsor, Ontario; 10 Photos of Canadian MPs exercising; Terry the tricky dog - drives tractors, water skis, and more; Toronto taxis set up their own theatre; They got what they wanted - Gerry and Elspeth Burnett of Matane Air Services, Matane, Quebec; Muscle men rented out for photo shoots; Sunnyview Outdoor Science School on Toronto Island; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
78 pages. Features: cutting and polishing stones is a lot of fun; 14 ways to hunt 'worked out' areas; Coinshooting old homes; Detecting accessories improve hobby; Arkansas pearls; Digging a Minie Ball "Gloryhole"; How to find coins around old swimming holes; The mystery of the beautiful bottle; A dump by any other name; Find where the ancients wandered; Roubaix and the Uncle Sam gold mine; Coal Town - Pennsylvania. Above-average wear. Book
Features: Behind the scenes of news gathering - a co-operative, non-profit organization aids in disseminating accurately the news of the world (the Associated Press); Editorials - cause or effect of war? - fundamentals of education - "Rolling down to Rio" by airplane - drug control; More hard luck for the ether - a funal blow is dealt to the ether theory by experiments performed with a highly refined interferometer; Tungsten bows to the plating bath - this important metal can now be deposited electrolytically; The sun an atom builder - a new theory - an attempt to explain where the sun gets the energy which it radiates; Wings over three Americas - safety and comfort for passengers are the aims of international airways; Science lends a hand to the Red Cross; New paints from synthetic resins; Are swimming pools a health menace?; Some important exhibitions in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; A solar observatory for the amateur - how to build simple equipment for solare research work; Cotton stalks - a new source of rayon; Celluloid taxidermy; Taming Silicosis; Combating magnetism in watches - Elinvar makes possible non-magnetic watch parts; When a sunbeam splits - an elementary principle of physics and an unusual analogy; The private car, yacht of the rails - the utmost in luxury that can be built within the limitiations of a railroad car. Two creases to front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
2009G0981580335I5N00National Swimming Pool Foundation 2009. Spiral-bound. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. National Swimming Pool Foundation unknown
193050401930 Paris : Berger-Levrault, 1930,In-12,broché, 72 p.Premier manuel pratique, en français, portant exclusivement sur la technique du Crawl.
84 pages. Features: Farewell to Sir Thomas Beecham; Colourful one-page ad for Libby's juices; Crocus got its Seaway - by W.O. Mitchell; George Hees - Ottawa's Biggest Surprise Package; The Strange and Savage World of Hollywood, by Bruce Hutchison; Sir William Macdonald - the strangest millionaire who ever drew breath; Does your face reveal your character?; Two-page colour-photo ad for Kodak movie cameras; One-page photo ad for Esther Williams swimming pools; Two-color half-page ad for film "Say One For Me"; Photo of Mickey Mantle in small Bantron ad; Canadian Club ad with colour photos features Gilbert Winfield in Sherwood Forest; What the New Pope Means for Canada; Back cover ad for Crane plumbing fixtures features designer Henry Dreyfuss; and more. Please note: missing page 7-8, 13-17, 39-40, and 69-74, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
With Index. 333 pages. A couple of marks on front cover.
20152111New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fair/fair. Nicely signed roughly treated. Signed boldly by Nyad on the first blank in black sharpie no inscription. Blue hardcover in dustjacket stated first edition no number-line. A fair copy of both book and dustjacket. Notably edgeworn with bumping and discoloration along the bottom edge and spine ends impacted. Binding is cocked forward and although all pages are still bound in there is a feeling of looseness. Joints and hinges are solid. All pages are clean and unmarked other than the author's signature. The dustjacket is shiny and bright not clipped but suffers from a series of small toothmarks at the top of the front and rear panels spineward - otherwise this would be a very nice jacket. 308 pp. color photo inserts corresponding to the areas of looseness in the binding. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1925139261925 br. in-8, 347pp., illustré, P. La construction moderne, 1925
358pp VG/G dw slightly creased at the edges and stained on the lower side rear, stamp on endpaper otherwise very good conditions. Standard reference work on swimming pools for architects, engineers and owners.
20019866Barcelona, Loft, 2001. Pappband, Schutzumschlag, Lex-8°, 175 S., durchgehen farbig illustriert; -Umschlag etwas berieben und an einer Stelle etwas beschabt, sonst sehr gutes Exemplar/ hard board, dj, large 8vo, 175 pp, numerous colour illustrations; dj worn, near fine copy.
1905VBA-435Édité par l'auteur, Imprimerie L. Decléris et Fils, Lyon Non daté [vers 1905 d'après le recto de la dernière page de couverture]. Hommage autographe signé de l'auteur. Couverture souple 27,5 x 19 cm. 40 pages. Illustrations en noir. Poids : 105 grammes.
1905VBA-261Édité par l'auteur, Imprimerie L. Decléris et Fils, Lyon Non daté [vers 1905 d'après la fonction du signataire de la préface et d'après le texte]. Couverture souple 27,5 x 19 cm. 30 pages. 28 illustrations en noir + illustration en dernière de couverture (voir photo). Poids : 84 grammes.
28 pages. Features: Nice photo of Iris Steeves with photo of post-war 'shortages' company ad; Two pages of photos of lovely young lady employees; One-page photo of operator and swimming star Miss Mary Baggaley; Photo of the Trail switchboard at work with related article - 18,000 calls a day; Welcoming employees back from the armed forces; Article on the supply difficulty situation (result of war); Photo of Charlie McAndrew who has installed 40,000 phones!; Article on new Air-Sea-Land phone service; Fascinating article on page 19 requests female operators - either single or widowed; In Memoriam - James H.H. Nelson and David H. Charles; Much company ocial information. Average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Book
200419345Constantin Film, 2004. 1 DVD unbekannter Einband
10693P., Delagrave 1938; plaquette in-12 brochée, 78 pages. Planches. bord couverture légèrement défraîchie..
195019312New Haven CT: Yale University Press 1950. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good -. The 1950 1st edition of this charming instructional on swimming authored by the head swimming coach at Yale and published by Yale University Press. Tight and VG just a touch of soiling to the rear panel in a bright price-clipped VG- example of the pictorial dustjacket with roughly 1/4 of the rear panel missing. Still though quite presentable. Octavo hundreds of black-and-white photos supplementing Coach Kiphuth's text. Yale University Press unknown
195019312New Haven CT: Yale University Press 1950. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good -. The 1950 1st edition of this charming instructional on swimming authored by the head swimming coach at Yale and published by Yale University Press. Tight and VG just a touch of soiling to the rear panel in a bright price-clipped VG- example of the pictorial dustjacket with roughly 1/4 of the rear panel missing. Still though quite presentable. Octavo hundreds of black-and-white photos supplementing Coach Kiphuth's text. <br/><br/> Yale University Press hardcover books
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Front endpaper has been removed. Interior pages clean and unmarked. 54 pages. 8 1/2"w x 11"h. Beautiful illustrations by Irene Robinson.
