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181 pages. Index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Oblong 11" x 9". "With specific information that reflects the state of the art and knowledge of the pitfalls, this book is the one source you need for heating with wood and coal. Seasonal checklists give stove users assurance that they have taken the necessary steps each season to qualify as safe, dependable providers of heat for the household." - from dust jacket. Somewhat above-average wear. Front hinge taped. A worthy reference copy. Book
166 p. + Frontis. Bookseller's label, E. H. Stick, Scranton, Pa. on front paste down. 12mo. Pictorial color paper boards, slightly soiled and worn at extremities. Tale of the coal mines written in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. PA 28 x2
No marks or inscriptions. Very light creasing to covers adjacent to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 38pp. Eleven humorous and true stories with sketches from the British Coalfields.
13 pages plus geological sketch plan in pocket inside back cover. Moderate wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
208 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Colour Geological Reconnaissance Map of Southern Vancouver Island stored in pocket inside back board. This map has been bolstered in many places with adhesive tape which has yellowed over the years. Above-average wear. Binding intact. It appears that a reference library may have added stiff boards to what was initially a softcover copy. A worthy copy of this very informative work. Book
16 pages. "With facts and figures to help you understand 'The Crisis'" - subtitle. Author was Chairman of the I.L.P. Topics include: labour and the crisis; the export target, what should be done, economic tendencies in Britain, ineffectivenss of labour policy, increase profits, huge national incomes, fuel and power, apply science to coal, I.L.P. immediate plan of action. Numerous data sets include: balance of payment, sale of gold and assets, loss of national wealth, cost of the war in British human life, dwellings destroyed and built, how many rich and how rich are they?, capital levy - opinions of two experts, and more. Printing date unstated but appears to be circa 1948 based on data cited within this booklet. Average external wear and soiling. Handwritten price on front cover, otherwise unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this interesting work. Book
8vo, 22cm. Pp. 556,[2], 8 col. facsim. pls., some illus. in text, notes & refs. Orig. quarter morocco, top edges gilt.
203 p. Illustrations. Welsh miners in Pennsylvania. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!
8vo., First Edition, with a map as frontispiece, 11 plates on 4 and tables in the text; plum cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. A PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HIS SIGNED HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER.
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall eng
Small 8vo, 21cm. Pp. 104, many photos (mostly col.), 1 double-page col. topogr. map in pocket, refs. Orig. pictorial stiff wrs.
257 p. + Color frontis map. Marbled end papers. All edges marbled. First signature loose. 8vo. Original quarter leather over cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Edges scuffed. Hardbound. Very good copy. In the summer of 1902 the anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania went on strike for over 160 days and sent the nation into a panic over a possible coal shortage, prompting President Teddy Roosevelt to intervene. Includes sections on: the coal region and its production; market conditions; hazards of mining; losses from the strike; and the commission's findings - with appendices of names of companies and individuals affected by the work stoppage. Quite important, though rarely consulted. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 42
197 p. Numerous charts and tables. Blue cloth. XLib. (Bureau of business research monographs, number 4). .
Sarreguemines, Synchro/Pierron, 1992. In-4 relié toile avec jaquette, 143 pages de photographies en couleurs et en noir et blanc.
Features: 40,000 People Visit New Oregon-Washington Passenger Terminal - Over two pages of informative content including illustration of the new Seattle passenger terminal of the O.W. R. & N. Co. on opening day, May 20, 1911; C.M. & P.S. Ry. Co. Inaugurates Through Passenger Service; Former Seattle Mayor Robert Moran sees the Panama Canal causing trouble ahead for Seattle unless a change in system is effected; Professional biography of E.J. Pearson who, for the past five years, was chief engineer of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound (with photo of Mr. Pearson); The Lumber Trade and the Railways; "Railophone" tests in England allow phone calls from one moving train to another; Canadian Pacific to burn Oil; Government Must Act Now on Alaska Coal Cases! - major article; Description of the Pace Oil Engine - including photo; Influence of the Panama Canal on the World's Commerce; Death of Capt. Franz S. Moore - brief article and photo of "one of the best known, most experienced and skillful navigators on the North Pacific"; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Description of the largest-ever Air Reversing Propeller designed by L.H. Coolidge of Seattle for the barkentine Archer - article with photo; News of Tacoma; Prospects Are Promising for the Bering Sea Season; Casualties to Pacific Coast Shipping; and more. 44 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
P., L'Harmattan, 1997. In-8 broché, 550 pages.
This book tells "in popular form about that how great effort man must expend to prove to pay the debt to nature"(sic) Very interesting photographs. 256 pages. Czech and English. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries
P., mercure, 1943. In12 broché, 202 pp. Dos insolé, sinon bon état.
256 p. + Illustrations. 8vo. Original printed wraps, worn and chipped. Uncut edges. Includes: Coal Celebrations; Anthracite Mines; Capt. Shoemaker's Rangers Northampton County 1781; Olden Times in Bradford County; Capture and Rescue of Rosewell Franklin's Family by Indians 1782; Turtle Shell Rattles from Indian Graves; Etc. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 38
194p + Illustrations. 8vo. Original full cloth binding. Includes: Grand Canyon as an Object Lesson in Geology; Indian Trails in Pennsylvania; Mineral Coal; Portraits of Eminent Americans; Etc. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA38
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.
Two volumes in one. pp. 308; 207. Over 200 wood engraved illustrations. Lacks map as usual. 8vo. Attractive original full cloth leather binding, embossed in gold and blind. Some browning, but not brittle. Includes: Locomotive Sketches, with Pen and Pencil. From Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. A book that deserves greater attention as a repository of: interesting local history; accounts of the coal, railroad, canal, and iron industries; as well as specifics of travel and sightseeing in mid-19th century America. PA 15
167 p. Illustrated. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth binding. Original dust jacket, slight tear on top edge. The son of a famed Pennsylvania German printer, Cist developed the coal regions of the Wyoming Valley. PA 26.
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
Metz, éd. Serpenoise, 2001. In-4 cartonné, 187 pages abondamment illustrées.
