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0891301925.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
BAY_00_SH_080848University of Chicago Press. Used - Very Good. Binding is unblemished text block is clean boards straight without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing to dust wrapper edges. Very clean nearly like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010. University of Chicago Press hardcover
0226894908.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
20011224082PN. New. 2001. Reprint Edition. Stapled Soft Cover. Date is copyright date; this is a later reprint edition . PN paperback
1965078687New York: New York University Press 1965. Hard covers in tidy condition with a chipped dust jacket a little browned on the page edges 768pp. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York University Press Hardcover
20151379106Leiden: Brill Nijhoff 2015. Hardcover. Octavo xvi 232 pages. In Good condition. Ex-library with usual markings including library stamps to edges and title page call number penciled on title page verso label on rear pastedown. Spine is blue with white print. Boards in glossy illustrated paper. Series ISSN: 2214-7926. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column G. 1379106. FP New Rockville Stock. Brill Nijhoff hardcover
20156I-LB4I-JO9UMar 27 2015. Hardcover. Fine. Same day dispatch. Lovely copy. hardcover
20211-1543820603Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2021. Paperback. New. 7th edition. 538 pages. 10.00x8.00x1.22 inches. Wolters Kluwer Law & Business paperback
61751230Elsevier 3rd Edition . Hardback. Used. Elsevier hardcover
19604780Motor Racing Publications 1960. Hardback. Very Good. <p data-end=536 data-start=0>Fasten your goggles adjust your scarf to “heroic” and prepare for a whiff of Castrol and cord tyres. <strong data-end=135 data-start=103>Motor Racing Memories 1960</strong> by <strong data-end=156 data-start=139>W. F. Bradley</strong>—issued by the ever-octane <strong data-end=212 data-start=183>Motor Racing Publications</strong>—is the pit-lane raconteur who’s seen everything twice and still tells it as if the chequered flag is just about to drop. Bradley was there when cars looked like torpedoes with moustaches when circuits were rustic suggestions fenced with hay and optimism and when drivers brought their own nerve and occasionally a picnic.</p><p data-end=1171 data-start=538>This isn’t a stats book; it’s a <strong data-end=594 data-start=570>grandstand of voices</strong>. Bradley writes with that priceless paddock tone—half telegram half champagne—where names enter like overtures: <strong data-end=752 data-start=708>Nuvolari stalking the apex like a rumour</strong> <strong data-end=792 data-start=754>Caracciola conversing with weather</strong> <strong data-end=847 data-start=794>Birkin grinning at danger as if it owed him money</strong>. Races are sketched with a timekeeper’s certainty and a poet’s eyebrow: the start a thunderclap the middle a negotiation the finish a verdict delivered by tyres and luck. You hear the pit boards flapping smell the hot brakes and feel that particular pre-war/post-war hum where engineering and audacity are in dead heat.</p><p data-end=1187 data-start=1173>Expect within:</p><ul data-end=2010 data-start=1188><li data-end=1374 data-start=1188><p data-end=1374 data-start=1190><strong data-end=1216 data-start=1190>Circuits as characters</strong>—Brooklands brooding like a concrete Roman the Nürburgring winding its eyebrows Monza humming in italics Reims wearing a bow tie it plans to set on fire.</p></li><li data-end=1566 data-start=1375><p data-end=1566 data-start=1377><strong data-end=1396 data-start=1377>Garage folklore</strong>—spanners that solved philosophy mechanics who could reassemble a supercharger from memory and swearing and the eternal truth that safety is a mood that arrives late.</p></li><li data-end=1704 data-start=1567><p data-end=1704 data-start=1569><strong data-end=1601 data-start=1569>Drivers who refused to blink</strong>—gentlemen scoundrels geniuses all on first-name terms with velocity and occasionally with hedges.</p></li><li data-end=1871 data-start=1705><p data-end=1871 data-start=1707><strong data-end=1733 data-start=1707>Machines that meant it</strong>—Bentleys with the moral weight of cathedrals Alfas that sang Mercedes like verdicts Maseratis that flirted with catastrophe and won.</p></li><li data-end=2010 data-start=1872><p data-end=2010 data-start=1874><strong data-end=1899 data-start=1874>Moments you can taste</strong>—dawn in the pits rain learning to speak Italian a last-lap pass that looks illegal but is merely inevitable.</p></li></ul><p data-end=2352 data-start=2012>Bradley’s craft is perspective. He threads eras without dropping a nut: the derring-do of the twenties the theatre of the thirties the post-war reset when ingenuity returned lean and hungry. He refuses hagiography but can’t help affection; he’ll file the myth to fit the facts then allow himself one graceful sentence for the goosebumps.</p><p data-end=2760 data-start=2354><strong data-end=2372 data-start=2354>Why this copy</strong> It slips the scrutineering bay of the gloriously frank emporium <strong data-end=2457 data-start=2437>Crappy Old Books</strong> in <strong data-end=2485 data-start=2461>Condition: Very Good</strong>—translation: <strong data-end=2627 data-start=2499>clean pages square spine and just enough shelf-patina to suggest it once waited politely beside a programme and a pit pass</strong>. Not concours precious; <strong data-end=2678 data-start=2652>driver-grade excellent</strong>. You can read it with hands that might still smell faintly of petrol and dignity.</p><p data-end=2804 data-start=2762><strong data-end=2804 data-start=2762>Vital stats for your glovebox library:</strong></p><ul data-end=3116 data-start=2805><li data-end=2839 data-start=2805><p data-end=2839 data-start=2807>Title: <em data-end=2837 data-start=2814>Motor Racing Memories</em></p></li><li data-end=2869 data-start=2840><p data-end=2869 data-start=2842>Author: <strong data-end=2867 data-start=2850>W. F. Bradley</strong></p></li><li data-end=2924 data-start=2870><p data-end=2924 data-start=2872>Publisher: <strong data-end=2912 data-start=2883>Motor Racing Publications</strong> <strong data-end=2922 data-start=2914>1960</strong></p></li><li data-end=2968 data-start=2925><p data-end=2968 data-start=2927>ISBN: <strong data-end=2941 data-start=2933>none</strong> it answers to the revs</p></li><li data-end=3031 data-start=2969><p data-end=3031 data-start=2971>Condition: <strong data-end=2995 data-start=2982>Very Good</strong> crisp straight eager to start</p></li><li data-end=3116 data-start=3032><p data-end=3116 data-start=3034>Vendor: <strong data-end=3062 data-start=3042>Crappy Old Books</strong>—the name misfires; the stock pulls cleanly from idle.</p></li></ul><p data-end=3553 data-is-last-node= data-is-only-node= data-start=3118>Buy it for the legends; keep it for the <strong data-end=3167 data-start=3158>tempo</strong>—that rising falling lunging rhythm of a race told by someone who knows where the stopwatch hides the poetry. After a few chapters you’ll begin cornering shopping trolleys with intent referring to rain as “a set-up variable” and declaring tea “a splash-and-dash.” When the last page waves the flag you’ll close the book and hear just faintly an engine cooling itself into memory.</p> Motor Racing Publications hardcover
1930346H5279London: George Newnes Limited. Good. 1930. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Secret Submarine - Part I - A strange story of adventure in the romantic Spanish Main; The Largest Map in the World - on display in the lobby of the Ferry Building in San Francisco; The Phantom Gunman - A 19-year-old boy leads Johannesburg police on a merry chase before he is finally jailed; The Last of the Sea-Elephants - Dr. L.M. Huey visits the lonely island of Guadalupe to capture live specimens of these creatures some of which weigh 2.5 tons! - with photos; "Monty" The Man-Eater - Part III conclusion of one of the most remarkable lion stories ever published; The Land of Mystery - Part I - Colonel E. Alexander Powell and his cousin Gallowhur were among the very few white men allowed to enter "forbidden" Nepal with photos; A Car Climbs Table Mountain the mighty mass of rock that dominates Cape Town - with photos; The Boy Who Sought Adventure - Part I of the fascinating travels and adventures of B. Wicksteed; The Voyage of the "Annie Marble" - Part II of a three-month river and canal journey through France; The Secret of Black Horse Mountain - Dark happenings involving a farmer and a tramp who meet up again a thousand miles away; Teaching on the Frontier - A young teacher runs into trouble working in remote New Mexico; The Pennsylvania Witch-Murder - Three young men argue they were justified in their action to prevent evils spells from bewitching them - with photos; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy of this fascinating issue.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Wide World Magazine May 1930 Wilbert Hess John Bymyer Nelson Reymeyer John Curry The Secret Submarine Spanish Main The Largest Map in the World Ferry Building - San Francisco The Phantom Gunman Johannesburg Police The Last of the Sea Elephan . George Newnes Limited unknown
2000Q-0671042998Star Trek 2000-10-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Star Trek paperback
2003168389Gainesville Georgia: Brenau University Galleries 2003. Softcover. VG. Minimal edge wear and a small soiling spot on cover otherwise clean. Blue wraps with white lettering; French flaps. 39 pp. 16 color plates. Text by Jean Westmacott and Townsend Ludington. Exhibition held June 23 to September 21 2003. Has an exhibition checklist. Brenau University Galleries unknown books
200331261Gainesville Georgia: Brenau University Galleries 2003. Softcover. NF unopened. Blue wraps with white lettering; French flaps. 39 pp. 16 color plates. Text by Jean Westmacott and Townsend Ludington. Exhibition held June 23 to September 21 2003. Has an exhibition checklist. Brenau University Galleries unknown books
1931012522NY: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Fabulous 1931 Art- Deco period trade catalogs cum samplers printed by Westvaco to show off how effectively its paper for printing could be used for commercial and aesthetic purpose. This 1931 series includes all issues for the year numbers 61 - 70 bound in sleek Art Deco designed green cloth cover stamped in silver which is moderately worn at edges and smudged/ soiled here and there. Internals fine displaying color printing processes brilliantly. Issue 63 includes a 4-page illustrated article on American typographer and book designer Will Bradley. West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company hardcover books
6133489646John Wiley & Sons pp. 368 2nd edition . Papeback. New. John Wiley & Sons unknown
1988Q-0888821018Hounslow Press 1988-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Hounslow Press hardcover
0197673422.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ING9780197673423Oxford University Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor Oxford University Press unknown
2014x-1107042569Cambridge Univ Pr 2014. Hardcover. New. 251 pages. 10.00x7.25x0.75 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
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