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1334770840.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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194086181Lausanne : Payot 1940. 195x145mm. frontispice reliure demi-parchemin. Plats papier marbrÂŽ. Auteur titre et date imprimÂŽs en rouge au dos. Tranche supÂŽrieure rouge. Couvertures et dos conervÂŽs. Belle reliure. TrÂs bel exemplaire. Autographes dÂŽdicaces des deux auteures sur le haut de la page de faux-titre. 591 Payot unknown
2009PMV211301AParis: Centre Pompidou 2009. Hardcover. Very good/Not issued. 243 x 287 x 31 cm. Hardcover • Illustrations en noir et en couleurs fac-similés couverture illustrée en couleurs • <b><i>French text original</i></b> • Printed 2009 • No inscriptions. Centre Pompidou hardcover
200650477Mesorah Publications 2006. Hardcover. Very good condition no dust jackets. In slipcase. Top rear edge of slipcase edge-worn. . Five volumes separately paged. Artscroll Series/The Sapirstein Edition. Student-sized edition. Mesorah Publications, [ hardcover
2007933171<p>New York: Basic Books A Member of the Perseus Books Group 2007. FIRST PRINTING - NEW see scan. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo size - 9½" tall.</p> Basic Books A Member of the Perseus Books Group hardcover
1994L3 box672 a16gbRabelais: Oeuvres Completes. Bibliotheque de la Pleiade nrf In French. Texte Etablie Presentee et Annote par Mireille Huchon avec la collaboration de Francois Moreau. Editions Gallimard 1994. Leather bound 1888 pages. Editions Gallimard
19756ivAd0037New York & London: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc. & Collier Macmillan Publishers 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Copyright © 1975 by R. Buckminster Fuller. 8vo or 8° Medium Octavo: 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 876 xxxii pp. A rare hard-to-find out-of-print true collectible gem! Solidly and well bound copy with moderate overall wear and use. Clean text on crisp and bright pages. Very minor and light stains on fore-edge. Relevant newspaper clippings included from previous owner. Dust jacket suffers moderate wear with a few cuts and tears around edges. Over-sized and/ or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/ or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/ or international shipments. . Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. & Collier Macmillan Publishers Hardcover
20125FSZKH0014WJPearson 2012T. paperback. Good. 0.4000 in x 10.7000 in x 8.5000 in. Pearson paperback
197530973New York: Macmillan Publishing Co 1975. Hardcover. Stated First Edition First Printing. 6.25 x 9.5in. xxxii. 876pp. Publisher's cloth boards. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows slight handling of the beige cloth boards otherwise remains Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows slight shelf rubbing of the topmost of the spine the front flap with a hint of creasing otherwise is not price-clipped remaining Fine/As New. As pictured. Macmillan Publishing Co hardcover
1979000021815<p>New York and London: Macmillan Co. / Collier Macmillan 1979. first printing as stated. hardcover. Very good/very good. Small quarto approx. 6 1/4" wide by 9 3/8" tall maroon cloth covers with gilt facsimile signature on top cover and gilt titles on red background on spine. Small red dot on top edge of book block. xxiv 592 pages. Includes 16 color plates in front of book other black and white illustrations throughout. Also includes appendix of tables and index. Nicked at bottom of front cover. Unclipped dust jacket has light wear at edges small chip on rear panel top corner. 060299B Science Technology Mathematics Philosophy <br /><br /></p> Macmillan Co. / Collier Macmillan hardcover
2012PMV524603EMalakoff Berne Suisse: Hazan / Zentrum Paul Klee Berne 2012. Hardcover. Good/Good. 260 x 298 x 35 cm. Hardcover • Nombreuses illustrations en noir et en couleurs fac-similés jaquette illustrée en couleurs • <b><i>French text translated from German</i></b>. Hazan / Zentrum Paul Klee (Berne) hardcover
0243967861.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
rja438713<p>UK8vo HBdw/djillustrated1st edn. VG/VG-. No owner inscrptn but price-clipped dw/dj. Book is out-of-printas publisher ceased trading in the 1980's. Brightglossy laminated colour photographic illustrated dw/dj - subject's portrait photograph to frontand trackside racing-car scene to rear panel along with Rindt's white-lettered facsimile printed signaturewith some negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners as both topbottom edges of dw/dj are aged sellotape strengthened.Both inner flaps of dw/dj were once sellotaped to pastedownsbut now are free and have left residual ghosting of sellotape to pastedowns and both free endpapers.Top edges with some slight ageing/toningfore-edges similar with some sporadic foxing/spotting to same; contents generally brighttight and clean - text body near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Publisher's brightcleansharp-corneredoriginal plain black cloth boards with brightcrispblocked gilt letters to spine/backstripand the aforementioned affectedplain white endpapers with sellotape marks.UK8vo HBdw/djillustrated 1st edn11-207pp paginated includes an Introduction by Jackie Stewart with his facsimile signature towards foot of same32 chapters38 contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the book and the texta Motor Racing World Champions list to rear; plus unpaginated half-titletitle pagesseparate ContentsIllustration lists/tablesNina Rindt's facsimile letter/tributeand dedication.<br />1970 was unique in one tragic respect in the field of Grand Prix racing.It was the first year in which the World Champion did not live to see his victory.Jochen Rindt was killed while practising for the Italian Grand Prix in Septemberat which time although he had won five Grand Prix races in the 1970 season his victory was still unconfirmed; it was not until the US Grand Prix was won by Emerson Fittipaldi that it was certain that no other driver could surpass his 45 points.And so knowledge of his winning the prize for which through so many set-backs he had struggled for seven years eluded him.<br />Born in 1942 of wealthy parentsJochen Rindt was brought up in Austriataking up motor racing seriously when he was 21. After some years with Coopersand a year with Brabham he joined Lotus in 1969to gain victory for them in 1970.With his rebellious temperament and love of the high lifehe became hero-worshipped by the crowdsand his presence gave motor racing a panache and excitement it had lacked for some years. <br />Jochen Rindt had begun work on this book with Heinz Pruller some time before his deathand after the tragedy it was complete with the help and support of Nina RindtJochen's beautiful Finnish wifewho writes of it 'I am sure this book will be the most true story about Jochen and his life.'<br />Heinz Prullerthe author of this book was a close friend of Jochen and they had actually started work on it before the tragic death of Jochen at Monza.<br />Heinz Pruller is a well-known motor-racing journalist and radio and television commentatorboth in his native Austria and on the international motor-racing scene.<br />Book is out-of-printas publisher ceased trading in the 1980's.<br />William Kimber himselfworked for Hutchinson for about 17 years before founding "William Kimber & Co" in 1950.It specialized in aviation war memoirs autobiographies and motor-racing titles until 1973 when "Haunted Cornwall" took off and the Ghost Stories became another specialty.The company was bought by Thorsons in 1988and therefore ceased publishing under that name.<br />William Kimber was purchased by Thorsons in 1988 and therefore ceased publishing under that name.Thorsons was purchased by William Collins in 1989.William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers.The name of William Kimber has not been used for publishing since thatmaking all previously published titles by them out-of-printunder that name.<br />Please contact sellerfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! <br />N.B. ALL buyers please notethat stocks' actual shipping/Pp costs are adjusted and any difference is refundedafter order's receipt and before the order's despatchespecially if the items are offered either Pp included/FREE.<br /> N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can nowin some casescost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essencethen Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. </p> LONDON.WILLIAM KIMBER,1971. hardcover
19816672New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1981. Second Printing stated. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. xvi 873 7 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Maps. Appendices including Notes Source Material Selected Bibliography. Index. Black mark oon tol edge. Appears to be ex-library. . DJ pasted to boards. Fep repaired. . Rep removed. DJ has wear and soiling. Some edge soiling. Gordon William Prange July 16 1910 – May 15 1980 was the author of several WWII historical manuscripts which were published by his co-workers after his death in 1980. Prange was a professor of history at the University of Maryland from 1937 to 1980 with a break of nine years 1942–1951 of military service in the United States Navy during World War II and in the postwar military occupation of Japan when he was the Chief Historian in General Douglas MacArthur's staff. During this time Prange collected material from and interviewed many Japanese military officers enlisted men and civilians with the information later being used in the writing of his books. Several became New York Times bestsellers including At Dawn We Slept The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor and Miracle at Midway. Prange's 1963 Tora! Tora! Tora! published first in Reader's Digest and later expanded into At Dawn We Slept. Derived from a Kirkus review: A massive history-- the late Professor Prange chief of military history in occupied Japan has looked into every aspect of the attack on Pearl Harbor--starting with the Japanese side of the story--and leaves no doubt that as his collaborators and posthumous editors write "Tokyo not Washington established Japan's foreign policy; the individual responsible for the attack was Isoruko Yamamoto not Franklin Delano Roosevelt." There is much new material--on such usually neglected matters too as: the Japanese war games used to refine the attack plan; the development of special bombs and torpedoes for use in the attack; Japanese intelligence operations in Hawaii--and American counterintelligence; the nature and function of the overlapping American commands in Hawaii. But Prange also presents the well-known material incisively: the historic March 1941 Bellinger-Martin report--a plan for joint Army/Navy action in the event of an attack on Oahu or fleet units in Hawaiian waters--is wrapped up with the observation that they ""could not have done a better job of mind reading had they actually looked over the shoulders of Yamamoto."" The controversy surrounding what happened thereafter or didn't happen engendered eight separate American postwar investigations--and it is in treating these that the book is most outstanding. Prange goes into the nature of each panel and evaluates its members procedures and conclusions; most he points out illustrate "hindsight at its hindmost." In an interesting appendix Goldstein and Dillon summarize Prange's criticisms of the revisionist Roosevelt-blaming histories of the attack. From first to last--responsible intelligent absorbing. McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover
194192796New York: Reynal & Hitchcock 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. illustrations some in color and all by Poncins xi 339p. plus 32 unnumbered pages of black and white photos with captions and some text beneath each photo. Original cloth backed in red leather. Clear plastic acetate jacket and red card slipcase with a title label on the front panel. 22 cm. The jacket has modest damage at base of backstrip and some general wrinkling. The slipcase is sound with modest soiling and wear including a small heart-shaped waterspot on the back panel. The book is fresh and clean and even has the original unfaded and only minimally worn red ribbon marker. Copy No. 90 of the limited edition of 550 copies. The book is an account of Poncins' thoughts and experiences during 15 months in 1938-1939 spent in the Canadian Arctic mostly among Inuit people living near King William Land in what is now known as Nunavut. A printed slip laid in the book explains that the book is not signed because Poncins having ". joined the colors of his country France disappeared in the debacle of the French Republic following the fall of Paris." The slip promised that "in the event of his survival and return to the United States arrangements will be made upon request to his publishers . for him to sign this numbered copy of KABLOONA." In fact Poncins had survived and this copy and an unknown but apparently modest number of other copies of the limited edition were signed by Poncins. The signature on the limitation page is by "Eskimo Mike" de Poncins -- Mike being the name by which he was known among the Inuit. All in all a wonderful copy of an important book about the Canadian Arctic and the Inuit people. Reynal & Hitchcock hardcover
196987175Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday 1969. First edition. First edition stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. The format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches viii 4788 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Plans. Portraits. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Author-Collaborator Biographies. DJ is worn torn soiled and heavily chipped/portions missing. History Of Military Aircraft Carriers And Their Use In Wartime. Most of the narrative addresses the Second World War. However there is also pertinent information and discussion on the Korean War war of national liberation Indochina/VIetnam and other situations such as the Suez Canal Crisis Of 1956 etc. Norman Polmar is a prominent author specializing in the naval aviation and intelligence areas. He has led major projects for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Navy and foreign governments. His professional expertise has served three Secretaries of the U.S. Navy and two Chiefs of Naval Operations. He is credited with 50 published books including nine previous editions of Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet and four editions of Guide to the Soviet Navy. Polmar writes a column for Proceedings and was editor of the United States and several other sections of the annual publications of Jane's Fighting Ships. In 2019 the Naval Historical Foundation awarded Polmar the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award. A complete history of the aircraft carrier has long been needed tying together all the loose strings of aircraft operations at sea—the towed flying-off barges of World War I the antisubmarine hunter-killer groups of World War II the air support missions in the many post-1945 "limited wars" the attempts of continental navies "to fly" and the ship and aircraft types that evolved over these years of both war and "peace." Aircraft Carriers fulfills this need in the literature of 20th century naval history. So thorough is Mr. Polmar's research that the book is almost encyclopedic in its coverage though following a general and very useful chronological approach. The photographs and diagrams are excellent and complement the text extremely well. Between the large amount of data and the many illustrations Aircraft Carriers should become the standard reference work on the subject of the ships that have carried flying machines and the machines that have done the flying. The book is straight narrative history packed with technical details about the carriers and planes. If the reader has any doubt of this from reading the text he will find much of the data repeated in the captions to the photographs. For backup many of the ship statistics are again repeated in the appendices. The aviation enthusiast will find satisfaction in such facts as the relative rates of climb of the F4F-3 Wildcat and the F2A-2 Buffalo. It is this detail though that makes the book an indispensable reference work. Polmar pulls together all existing information about carrier aviation after 1945 the first writer to have done this in a thorough manner performing a service for which all future naval historians of this period will be indebted to him. And thus we have the chief merit of this masterwork: the first 60 years of carrier aviation history are finally between two book covers. Aircraft Carriers is then a thoroughly-researched meticulous exhaustive and encyclopedic work crammed with useful information statistics and photographs. It is a big book about a very big subject. Its overall message might be summed up by non-aviator "Thirty-One Knot" Burke's alleged remark after watching Task Force 58 pound the Hollandia beaches in April 1944: "The airplane is here to stay!" To which Norman Polmar has added "so long as the carrier is there to provide it with a deck!". Doubleday hardcover
196965887Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday 1969. First edition. First edition stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. viii 788 p. : illus. maps plans ports.; 29 cm. Illustrations. Maps. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. Author-Collaborator Biographies. History Of Military Aircraft Carriers And Their Use In Wartime. Most of the narrative addresses the Second World War. However there is also pertinent information and discussion on the Korean War war of national liberation Indochina/VIetnam and other situations such as the Suez Canal Crisis Of 1956 etc. Doubleday hardcover
A9780309216401Paperback / softback. New. The globalization of science engineering and medical research is proceeding rapidly. The globalization of research has important implications for the U.S. research enterprise for the U.S. government agencies academic institutions and companies that support and perform research and for the world at large. As science and technology capabilities grow around the world U.S.-based organizations are finding that international collaborations and partnerships provide unique opportunities to enhance research and training. At the same time significant obstacles exist to smooth collaboration across national borders. Enhancing international collaboration requires recognition of differences in culture legitimate national security needs and critical needs in education and training. In response to these trends the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable GUIRR launched a Working Group on International Research Collaborations I-Group in 2008 following its meeting on New Partnerships on a Global Platform that June. As part of I-Group's continuing effort a workshop on Examining Core Elements of International Research Collaboration was held July 26-27 2010 in Washington DC. One primary goal of the workshop is to better understand the risks involved in international research collaboration for organizations and individual participants and the mechanisms that can be used to manage those risks. Issues to be addressed in the workshop include the following: 1 Cultural Differences and Nuances; 2 Legal Issues and Agreements; 3 Differences in Ethical Standards; 4 Research Integrity and the Responsible Conduct of Research; 5 Intellectual Property; 6 Risk Management; 7 Export Controls; and 8 Strategies for Developing Meaningful International Collaborations. The goal for the workshop and the summary Examining Core Elements of International Research Collaboration is to serve as an information resource for participants and others interested in international research collaborations. It will also aid I-Group in setting its future goals and priorities. paperback
199495092Harvard University Press: Cambridge Massachusetts 1994. First edition of Phelps' important contribution to understanding the business cycle. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Edmund Phelps on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Gwen Frankfeldt. Dissatisfied by the explanations of the business cycle provided by Keynsian monetarist New-Keynsian and real business cycle schools Edmund S. Phelps developed a radically different theory to account for the long periods of unemployment that have occurred in both the United States and Western Europe since the early 1970s. Through the construction of three stylized general equilibrium models Phelps explains in the present volume how the natural rate is disturbed by real demand and supply shocks and the adjustments they set in motion. Cambridge, Massachusetts hardcover
189453698Paris; Boussod Valadon Et Cie. 1894. First Edition. Hardback. Finely bound in half contemporary aniline calf over matching buckram boards. Raised bands gilt-blocked titles with slim gilt borders. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy; scans etc. On request. ; 224 pages; Steel-engraved plates tissue-guarded with descriptive letterpress. Added t. P. Vignette. - Edition Originale. Paris; Boussod, Valadon Et Cie. hardcover
19238878Walla Walla: Bulletin Printing 1923. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 4to. Pp. 45. Frontispiece illustration of Marcus Whitman statue. White wraps saddle stapled with color illustration of Native American man in headdress. Very Good creasing soiling to covers small stain to foredges of a few pages slightly musty. Inscribed to "Mrs. Edmund Bowden from Ellen Doheny" Produced to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Whitman Massacre. The pageant was "a lesson in Americanism designed to teach boys and girls the virtues of their ancestors as well as the thrilling history of the West." As Cassandra Tate pointed out in her history-correcting Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West Penrose gave rise to the Whitman-Saved-Oregon myth using purported martyrdom as a fundraising tool for Whitman College of which he was president.<p>Mrs. Bowden is Angie Elizabeth Burt Bowden 1862-1952 author of Early Schools of Washington Territory and a pioneer herself having lived in Walla Walla from 1866 - 1882. SMITH: 8045. Bulletin Printing unknown
40950London: Martin Lawrence Limited c.1928. . First edition 8vo. pp.414 blue cloth gilt b/w frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; light foxing to prelims light rubbing to extremities a very good copy in an edgeworn unclipped dust-jacket which has 1cm loss at headband chipping and closed tears to the edges and staining/marking to the paper. Now in a protective cover. London: Martin Lawrence Limited, c.1928. hardcover
20053114167Oftfildern-ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 3775716335 . First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Text in English. 208pp. 8 3/4" X 10 3/4" Features 276 illustrations 90 in color. Texts by: Roberto Chiesi Peter Kammerer Loris Lepri Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer Marc Weis et al.; 8 3/4" 10 3/4"; 208 pages . Hatje Cantz Verlag. hardcover
196128963New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. c.1961. 2nd printing. Hardcover. nice-looking copy only minimal shelfwear to book; the jacket is very slightly edgeworn but still bright and attractive. Memoir by the woman who worked in the White House as a maid and seamstress for thirty years -- as did her mother before her with a ten-year overlap. "Through the sharp eye of her sewing needle Mrs. Parks sizes up the First Ladies from Mrs. Taft to Mrs. Eisenhower as hostesses fashion plates collectors interior decorators and managers of the world's most famous mansion. The author examines everything pertaining to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from the various rooms and their collections to the still active ghosts of Abe Lincoln Dolley Madison and Abigail Adams. She details the more amusing headaches of the Secret Service in dealing with cranks crackpots and would-be assassins and describes some of the more extraordinary gifts that the Presidents have received." The kind of memoir of which we will certainly see no more. . Fleet Publishing Corporation hardcover
