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Features: Railroad news photos; 19th Annual Motive Power Survey - How to Merge Motive Power - article and photos; Pullman Prolificacy - when Pullman was America's passport to everywhere; Photo section; Coal - going, going gone? - replaced by nuclear?; Why is wartime so synonymous with railroad Wrecks? - article; 11 hours with 111 year-old locomotive - The General, the venerable (Rogers 1855) Western & Atlantic 4-4-0 employed in the daring, ill-fated Andrews Raid in the Civil War - photos and text; and more. Average wear. Date stamp atop front cover else unmarked. Sound copy. Book
13 pages plus geological sketch plan in pocket inside back cover. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
25 pages. Presents information in tabular format. Topics include: Quebec Peat Bogs; Ontario Peat Bogs; Miscellaneous Samples including coal, briquettes from organic city refuse, anthracite, oil shale and natural gas. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
Lille, Danel, 1934. Grand in-4 broché, 317 pp. avec de figures dans le texte, suivies de XXIV pl. en héliogravure, montées sur onglet avec texte explicatif en vis-à-vis. Tampon sur la page de garde, non coupé.
Ex-library with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 238 pages with graphs, charts, formulae, tables. 4 appendices and index.
Oversize harback with red illustrated paper over green cloth boards. 10"w x 12 1/4"h. Elaborate color map endpapers of the Saint Lawrence River, several other maps inside. Back of cover has a presentation seal identifying the book as #4485, presented to "The N.E. Dairyman" in neat cursive pen. An introduction by the commissioners, after which the book has text on the L. page with a very large b&w photo on the right, captioned below, displaying some element of the Port or some aspect of the Montreal harbor, all on glossy paper.
Dark blue cloth boards with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Book shows general wear, marking and scuffing to back cover. Front cover is fairly well preserved with light edge and corner wear. Hinges are both worn to intact binding mesh and loose. Page block still quite solid, with no marking of any kind to interior/text. Title page reads "Five comprehevsive books in one volume": The Industrial Age; The World's Science and Invention; Marvelous Peculiarities and Noteworthy Facts of All Nations and Countries of the World; Amazing Wonders of Nature; and Things We All Should Know. "Nearly" 400 photographic illustrations. A fine example of the boyish exuberance of the beginning of the industrial age, when the triumphant White Man and his Noble God were destined to rule the known world and all its native wonders as toys for the expansion of empire, no mind to the rape of the earth and any non-Christians who happen to live there. Cut the giant forests to build ships! We grow great like a virus!
288 pages. Index. Black and white diagrams and illustrations. Fold-out 3-panel plan of Newreg Colliery. Intended "to provide students of coal mining and young surveyors with an explanation of the elementary principles which are applied to the practice of mine surveying and with a description of the constructional details of the instruments in common use." - from Preface. Markings throughout. Additional information laid inside back board and affixed to back endpaper. Above-average wear. Reading copy only. Book
276 pages. Index. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. "Illuminates the origins of the 1912-14 strike by examining the development of the coal industry on Vancouver Island, the founding of Ladysmith, the experience of work and safety in the mines, the process of political and economic mobilization, and how these factors contributed to the development of identity and community." - from back cover. Book
315 pages. Archival glossy black and white illustrations. Illustrated endpapers. Chapters include: The Dreams of Men; Buildings and Memories; Community Organizations; Ethnic Backgrounds; Misguided Dreams. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Average wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. HALE & BARMAN 446. Book
36 pages. Features: The First Encounter - Samuel de Champlain transformed a tribal rivalry into a continental conflict; Robert Lowery's Laughs from the Past; William Duncan - Missionary to the Tsimshian; Coal Dust Days in Canmore; The Nanaimo Mine Disaster of 1887; Robert Campbell - Yukon Explorer. Unmarked with average wear. Mild undulations from moisture exposure. A sound reference copy. Book
802 p. + Colored maps; engraved portrait illustrations; and plates showing architecture, etc. Title page loose and torn with some text loss. 4to. All edges gold gilt. Boards detached; spine lacking. The colored maps and architectural plates really make this a stand out among PA county histories. PA 1
xi, [3], 265 pages. Footnotes and index. "Primarily concerned with the effects of the industrial disarmament policy on Germany. Examines the role of direct controls in the execution of policy objectives in the American and British zones. The Soviet and French zones of occupation are not discussed." - Preface. Former library copy with usual markings and moderate wear to publisher's beige cloth. Dust jacket not included. Binding intact. A sound reference copy. Book
79 pages including index and photos. Black and white photos and illustrations. Geological maps (back pocket). Table of contents include stratigraphy of Bullhead Succession (Monteith, Beattie Peaks, Monach, Brenot, and Crassier Group formations), description of localities and sections (French Petroleum Co, Grant Knob, Peace River Canyon, Rainbow Rocks) and economic geology (coal, oil and gas). Somewhat above-average wear. Spine taped. Usual library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
128 pages. Bibliography. Black and white photographic plates. "The early history of Sirhowy and Tredegar is more or less the history of the Industrial Revolution in microcosm." - Preface. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
24 pages. Contents: Coal - an ailing industry hopes for a cure; Photo of William C. Bullitt, Ambassador to France; Photos of Attorney General Homer S. Cummings and his assistant Robert H. Jackson; Mine disaster at Logan, WV; LaGuardia offends Nazis, with photo of William E. Dodd, Ambassador to Germany; Marie, Dowager Queen of Rumania - article with photo; Prospects of the Treaty of Locarno; Duce and Allah; French Arms; Photo of Japanese Premier Senjuro Hayashi and story about his new official residence, honeycombed with underground passages, secret exits and disappearing floors; "Undeclared War" in Spain; Heloise Martin causes excitement at Drake - with photo of her; Additional madness at Oklahoma, Columbia and Pittsburgh involving university students; Photo of Gracie Fields; Anti-Religious feelings softening in Soviet Russia?; Editorial on name-callinng between LaGuardia and the Nazi press of Germany; Modernized Railroads - with photo of a new Southern Pacific Streamliner; Justice James Clark McReynolds - article with photo; The Movie World - with photo of Dorothy Lamour Rose; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
66 pages. Features: News Photos; Grand Trunk Western and Detroit's only rail suburban service; Photo-illustrated Article on Trucks; Adding large chunks of ice to reefers; TVA to the Rescue - Its demand for coal keeps coal-hauling short lines in business; Photo Section; Nice photo centerfold shows the Polar Star pausing at Badminton Station at night; Inside Burlington - Part 2 - a detailed illustrated article; Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania - photos; Great vintage ads; and more. Small faint date stamp atop back cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality copy. Magazine
337 pages. "It is estimated that less than 50 men control more than one-third of Canada's material wealth as expressed in railways, banks, factories, mines, land and other properties and resources." - from Preface. Gilt lettering legible upon navy backstrip. Above-average external wear and soiling. Front hinge open. Pages partially tanned with age. It appears only Volume I was ever published. A worthy first edition reading copy of this important and interesting work. Book
50 pages. Circa mid-1980s. "This is a book of images - fleeting moments in a construction project captured on film. "North East Coal" conjures up many different images: to those who negotiated sales agreements in Canada and Japan there is one set; to those who spent years styding and planning the development, other memories come to the fore; to those who worked on the construction projects across northern British Columbia there are other pictures; and to those who live in Tumbler Ridge and work in jobs created by the development yet still another set of images surfaces. We hope that the pages of this book will trigger all these memories." - from foreward. Wonderfully illustrated with colour photography. Negligible wear to clean, bright and unmarked book. Three closed tears to attractive dust jacket which bears light wear. Very nice copy. Book
545 pages including index. Chapters include: Commercial Explosives; Blasting Supplies and Accessories; Blasting with Safety Fuse; Blasting Electrically; Blasting with Detonating Cord; Loading Explosives; Blasting in Underground Mines; Blasting in Coal Mines; Tunnelling Operations; Surface Blasting Operations; Blasting Ditches, Stumps, Boulders, Gravel Pits, Fills, etc.; Seismic Prospecting; Use of Explosives for Special Purposes; Transportation, Distribution and Storage; Accident Prevention; Electric Blasting Caps - Average Resistances; Copper Lead Wire - Resistance and Capacity; Maximum Number of Electric Blasting Caps for Series-in-Parallel Circuits; Properties of C-I-L High Explosives; Properties of C-I-L Blasting Agents; Approximate Average Weight per Cartridge; Approximate Average Weight of Explosives per foot in Column Loads; Properties of C-I-L Permitted Explosives. Properties of C-I-L Blasting Agents; Loading Densities. Appendices include: Blasting Check-up Form; Calculations for a Large Electrical Blast; Average Weight of Various Materials; Abstract Revised British Table of Distances. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
559pp, 560-1229pp + maps + errata VG/none First edition, in French. Editorial red cloth with gilt author and title on front board and spine, slightly worn with small stains, minute dent on the spine of vol.I, Royal Statistical Society sticker on the rear boards, one leaf in vol.I torn (no loss, repairable), unobstrusive stamps of the RSS throughout incl. Title page, Author's signed presentation on preliminary leaf detached in vol.I, small loss on margins in frontespice of vol.II, paper slightly browned on margins. Despite the defects observed it remains a nice set, tight and clean. Comprehensive work dedicated to the British coal trade, profusely illustrated by tables, large attractive folding charts and maps, some in colour. Two large coloured folding maps are included in a back pocket in vol.II. "Researches on the power of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. With charts, maps and graphs. Production and consumption of coal, lignites and petrol in the world and in the British Colonies, Navy and Army.". Heavy volumes (almost 3kg) attracting extra postage charges. Prima edizione, in francese. Due volumi tutta tela rossa con autore e titolo dorati al piatto e al dorso, leggeri segni di usura e qualche lieve macchia, piccola tacca al dorso del vol. I, etichetta della Royal Statistical Society al piatto posteriore, una pagina constrappo (senza mancanze, riparabile), discreti timbri della RSS all'interno. Presentazione autografa dall'autore sul foglio preliminare, staccato, nel vol.I, piccole mancanze al bordo del frontespizio del vol.II e carta lievemente brunita ai margini. Nonostante i difetti indicati i due volumi sono in condizioni piu' che buone. Completa ed esauriente opera dedicata al carbone delle Isole Britanniche con molte mappe e diagrammi. Due cartine di grande formato piegate sono presenti in una tasca nel vol.II.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 223 pages in an oversize format, graphs, charts, ariel photos, b&w photos, tables, flow charts, maps. Contents include: Coal slurry pipelines: electric utility considerations, & review of the economics associated with, and environmental impacts of such and unit trains. Matching coal sources and pipeline transport to utility boiler designs, Dewatering recovery and handling of pipeline coal, Coal slurry storage & reclaim facility, Coal slurry pipeline end-products, Design consideration for slurry pipeline systems, Coking coal slurry transport, Chemical interaction of water and coal constituents in slurry pipelines & problems with pumps therein, Slurry pipelines in the cement ind., Pipeline lifespan, Slurry erosion-corrosion inhibitors, Shear viscosity of settlinig suspensions, Slurry reheology on turbulent pipeline hydraulics, etc.
392 pages. Map endpapers. Black and white photographic plates. Signed atop title page by an executive of the Ladysmith new Horizons Society, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket. A quality copy. Bonus: includes two-pages of information regarding the history of the local Michael family laid inside back cover. HALE & BARMAN 445. Book
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and unmarked in any way. 202 pages in four sections: Evaluation of exposure to coal-derived pollutants (with 7 subsections) Effects specific to individual coal technologies (with 10 subsections), Epidemiological studies (with 3 subsections) and Experimental studies, with sections on pulmonary effects, skin effects, gastrointestinal , behavioral and neurotoxic, other systemic and carcinogenic, mutagenic and reproductive dysfunction effects. With references and tables.
8vo (215 x 135 mm), 194 + 16pp., of adverts printed in pink paper, pictorial title page, 8 engraved plates, illustrs., in the text, a couple of gatherings standing proud, orig. blind-stamped ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover, rubbed, head and foot of spine lightly chipped. All published of this scarce work on the Railway and Coal industry.
