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No marks or inscriptions to contents and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slightly dusty very slightly marked boards, rusty staples and no bumping to corners. 32pp. The programme for a celebration - 'Cavalcade of Sport' - at the Theatre Royal Huddersfield of Anita Lonsbrough's Olympic Gold Medal in 1960. The programme gives her sporting history and others Olympians and similar. She won the 100 metres breast stroke at the 1960 Rome Olympics, creating a new World Record in the process. Well illustrated. Extremely scarce.
Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1986. 190 p. 8º menor. Rústica editorial. Buen ejemplar. Facsímil de la Editorial Espasa Calpe para la navidad de 1986.
Madrid, Edit. Espasa-Calpe, 1986. Edición facsimil de la impresa por Albán en Madrid en 1807. limitada 3000 ejemplares, no venal.189 p. 8º. Rústica editorial ilustrada. Muy buen ejemplar. Indice: Principios en que se funda este arte. Reglas para flotar en el agua verticalmente. Edición al cuidado de Mario Fernández González.
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.
1st edition. VG in turquoise cloth with faded gilt spine lettering.12149. eng
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
Broch?. 294 pages. 22,5 x 28 cm. Rousseurs.
Signed and inscribed by author on half-title page. No other marks, no creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny indent to rear and no bumping to corners. 281pp.
CASABLANCA, Ed. Maroprint - 1955 - In-8 - Broché - Exemplaire non coupé - Planches de photographies NB HT - 173 pages - Exemplaire non coupé - Très bon exemplaire
Pages 902-964 plus 10 pages of lovely nostalgic ads. Features: Illustration of Effie Dean; Heroines of Nineteenth-Century Fiction (9th paper) - Scott's Jeanie Deans and Cooper's Lack of Heroines; Friends; The Art of Swimming; Elfin Tres (Bonsai) - photo-illustrated article; Mrs. Varney's Freedom; The Wife of a Boer President - Mrs. Steyn; Babs the Impossible; Midsummer Fashions - article with many marvelous illustrations; Fashions in Little Things; For Future Use; The Palais de Costume at Paris - article with four marvelous photos; Cut Paper Patterns; The International Council of Women - its secret sessions in Paris - article with photos of Mrs. May Wright Sewall and The Countess of Aberdeen; Mrs. William McKinley and Mrs. William J. Bryan - article with photos of each lady; A Boat Song; Summer Gayeties in Paris; Recipes for Warm Days; Editorial Comment; In Jocund Vein; and more. Detached front cover is chipped and repaired with tape. Back cover missing. Few library markings. Average wear. A worthy copy of this charmming vintage issue. 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
121 pages. Bibliography. "In lively text and more than 250 photographs, most in color, Margolies brings to life the new style of lodging that sprung up to serve the automobile traveler, from auto camps and mom-and-pop tourist cabins early in the century to today's familiar motel chains. Along the way, he highlights many of the services and amenities - the decor, the swimming pools, the restaurants, and the pulsating signs - used to lure motorists into the nearest Kozy Kottage." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's details covered by neat white address label upon front free endpaper else book and jacket clean, bright and unmarked with slightest wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy of this most wonderful and nostalgic work. Book
144 pages. Bibliography. "Captures a bygone era of red-hots, Downey Flake Donuts, and rides on the magnificent merry-go-round, before small-town quaintness gave way to big city dreams." - from back cover. Archival black and white illustrations throughout. Address label atop title page else clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy. Book
Broché. 32 pages. Couverture scotchée. 18x24cm.
français In-8 de 199 pp.; broché de l'éditeur. Nombreuses illustrations et photographies.
français In-8 de 152 pp.; broché de l'éditeur. Illustré de 185 figures.
Broch?. 214 pages.
français Iin-8 carré de 90 pp.; cartonné de l'éditeur. Dessins de Jacques Arbeau. Introduction de Christine Caron.
Broché. 264 pages.
Broch?. 64 pages. 17x24 cm.