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1952059635New York: Viking Press 1952. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 11 " Tall. Xiv 147 Pp. First Edition Stated First Printing 1952. Green Cloth Stamped In Silver Thick Pages. A Bright Clean Almost Unworn Example No Marks Or Dampstaining. Dustjacket Priced $3.95 Small Chip To Head Of Spine Some Surface Loss Along Front Spine Edge And Along The Flap Folds Spine Faded But Lettering Very Clear. <br/> <br/> Viking Press hardcover
1845104486BBLeipzig, Barth, 1845. 8°. VIII, 646 S. mit 2 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. Pbd. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Rückensch.
1954057392New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1954. First Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 289 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Silver. First Printing. Analysis And Formulas Throughout. Light Wear Lettering Bright No Fraying. "Engineering Cybernetics" Was A Groundbreaking Work Applying Principles Of Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics To Problems Of Engineering Particularly Aeronautics. The Only Book Published By This Author In The Us. During The 1940'S Qian Was One Of The Founders Of The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Including Early Experiments In The Arroyo Seco. During The Second Red Scare Of The 1950S The United States Government Accused Qian Of Having Communist Sympathies As He Was Providing Chinese Contacts With Scientific Technical Information And He Was Stripped Of His Security Clearance In 1950. Qian Then Decided To Return To China But Instead Was Detained At Terminal Island Near Los Angeles. After Spending 5 Years Under Virtual House Arrest Qian Was Released In 1955 In Exchange For The Repatriation Of American Pilots Captured During The Korean War. Notified By U.S. Authorities That He Was Free To Go Qian Immediately Arranged His Departure Leaving For China In September 1955 On The Passenger Liner Ss President Cleveland Of American President Lines Via Hong Kong. He Returned To Lead The Chinese Rocket Program And Became Known As The "Father Of Chinese Rocketry" Or "King Of Rocketry". He Is The Cousin Of The Mechanical Engineer Hsue-Chu Tsien And His Nephew Is The 2008 Nobel Prize In Chemistry Winner Roger Y. Tsien. Asteroid 3763 Qianxuesen And The Ill-Fated Space Ship Tsien In The Science Fiction Novel "2010: Odyssey Two" Are Named After Him. A Near Fine Book.No Marks. Lacking The Scarce Dust Jacket. <br/> <br/> McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover
1960050418New York City Ny: Columbia University Press 1960. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Jacket. Xii 93 Pp. Beige Cloth. First Printing. Near Fine Small Bump At Center Of Lower Edge F Front And Rear Covers. Inscribed On 6/16/1960 From Dubridge President Of Caltech To John Simon Fluor Jr. President Of Important Space Contractor Fluor Corporation And A Caltech Trustee. Dust Jacket Priced $2.50 Light Wear. <br/> <br/> Columbia University Press hardcover
1989059727New York: W W Norton & Co Inc 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 381 Pp. Black Cloth Spine Red Boards. First Edition Stated First Printing Indicated. Inscribed By The Author To Caltech Physicist Robert Leighton And Dated July 1989; The Book Was First Published In July 1989 Per Norton Publicity. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. <br/> <br/> W W Norton & Co Inc hardcover
1951005002New York: L. Harper & Brothers Publishers 1951 First printing of the first American edition with an "A" on the title and half-title page light blue cloth boards with blue-lettered spine illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price on the front flap sixteen inserted photographs including the frontispiece and fourteen diagrammatic line drawings within the text 164pp. with index. Clarke's first published book while Chairman of the British Interplanetary Society. Book with faint toning to page margins else in fine condition; dust jacket with a bit of tanning to spine and folds and light edge wear else fine. L. Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
1901042035New York: McClure Phillips & Co. 1901. First Edition First Printing . Embossed Blue Cloth. Near Fine. 7 3/4" Tall. I-Xii 1-299; P. 300 Blank. Blue Cloth. Gilt Lettering And Design On Front Cover And Spine. Deckled Fore Edge And Bottom Edge. A Scarce Title But Exact Number Of Copies Printed Is Not Known. Library Of Congress Copy Deposited May 15 1901. This Copy With Cover Gilt Brilliant Spine Gilt Bright But No Longer Brilliant Tiny Rubs At Corners With No Fraying. Front Hinge Cracked At Endpapers But Still Tight. No Marks No Fraying. <br/> <br/> McClure, Phillips & Co. hardcover
1920042796Philadelphia: George H. Doran 1920. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Maps Diagrams Photographs. 540 Pp. Green Cloth Lettered In Black. First Edition. Authorized History Author Given Access To All War Department Maps Etc. Theodore Roosevelt's Pre-Publication Comment: "For A Correct And Readable Statement Of The Work In Europe I Know Of No Other Book That I Consider Better Than Yours." Book Near Fine No Marks. Dust Jacket With Browning 1" Chip At Base Of Spine Removing The Publisher's Name Small Losses At Corners. Small 1920 Illustrated Bookstore Label Of "The Satyr Book Shop" Hollywood On Rear Pastedown. <br/> <br/> George H. Doran hardcover
1937022682New York: William K Vanderbilt / Richard K Ellis 1937. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Full Page Photographic Plates Throughout. 137 Pp. Blue Cloth Stamped In Silver. First Edition. One Of 1000 Copies Designed By Richard Ellis And Published Under His Supervision At The Haddon Craftsmen Press And Signed By Ellis On The Colophon. Additionally With A Long Inscription By Ellis To Robert Hathaway Also Signed By Ellis And With Robert "Bob" Hathaway's Calligraphic Ownership Information On Front Pastedown. Lightly Used Book No Damage Or Fraying. Except Two Short Tears To Last Page . Dj Worn At Edges With Short Splits At Spine And Flap Folds. Richard Williamson Ellis Was Born In Washington D.C. In 1895. After Being Introduced To And Inspired By The Acclaimed Typographer Bruce Rogers Ellis Began Collecting The Books Of Master Printers As Wells As Their Letters Pamphlets Ephemera Broadsides And Proofs. In 1924 Ellis Launched His Own Press The Georgian Press Initially Located On Fifth Avenue In New York. In 1927 Ellis Moved The Georgian Press To A Renovated Barn In Westport Connecticut Where He Stayed Until 1933. Ellis Printed Some Fifty Books. Although Some Of Them Carried His Own Imprint The Majority Of Books Produced At Georgian Were Printed For Publishers And Private Collectors. At Georgian Press Ellis Became Associated With Many Of The Famous Printers Publishing Houses Bookshops And Private Collectors Of The Day Such As Cheshire House Random House Rimington And Hooper And Doubleday Doran And Company. In 1930 Ellis First Collaborated With The Limited Edition Book Club With Whom He Would Establish A Lifelong Relationship. Despite Ellis' Artistic Success And Fame At Georgian Press Financial Difficulties Exacerbated By The Depression Forced Ellis To Close His Business And Sell The Press In 1933 To George Macy Founder Of The Limited Edition Book Club And The Heritage Club. In 1935 He And His Wife Esther Moved To Camden New Jersey Where Ellis Took A Position With Haddon Craftsmen. Ellis' Time At Haddon Craftsmen Ended In 1942. From 1942 To 1944 He Worked For Kingsport Press In Kingsport Tennessee. In 1945 Ellis Moved To New York As A Consulting Book Printer. Ellis Worked At Curtis Publishing In Philadelphia From 1947 To 1956 Working On The Firm's Popular Magazines The Saturday Evening Post Ladies' Home Journal Country Gentlemen Jack And Jill And Holiday. After Leaving Curtis Ellis Once Again Struck Out On His Own. Ellis' Final Work Was Commissioned By The Free Library Of Philadelphia And Was Completed While Ellis Was In His Eighties: Pennsylvania German Fraktur Of The Free Library Of Philadelphia. Publication Of The Book Marked The End Of A Sixty-Year Career In Book Designing And Printing. During His Lengthy Career Ellis Gained Recognition Amongst His New York And Philadelphia Colleagues As A Master Of Fine Printing. Ellis Died On October 9 1982 In Philadelphia. <br/> <br/> William K Vanderbilt / Richard K Ellis hardcover
1960047116London: Hodder And Stoughton 1960. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 352 Pp. Blue Cloth Gilt. First Printing With 1960 Date On Title Page. Near Fine. Inscribed "For John S. Habib From The Author" Signed In Arabic And Dated 17 April 1968. Habib Was A U.S. Mideast Diplomat For Decades. Dust Jacket Price Clipped Some Wear And Dust With A 1/2" V-Shaped Chip At Base Of Spine Removing The "Ho" In The Publisher's Name. Per Wikipedisir John Bagot Glubb Kcb Cmg Dso Obe Mc Kstj Kpm 1897 - 1986 Also Known As Glubb Pasha Arabic: And Abu Hunaik By The Jordanians Was A British Military Officer Who Led And Trained Transjordan's Arab Legion Between 1939 And 1956 As Its Commanding General. He Served In World War I The Ikhwan Revolt World War Ii And The 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He Became An Officer Of The Arab Legion Subsequently Known As The Jordanian Armed Forces In 1930. In 1931 He Formed The Desert Patrol - A Force Consisting Exclusively Of Bedouin - To Curb The Raiding Problem That Plagued The Southern Part Of Jordan. Within A Few Years He Had Persuaded The Bedouin To Abandon Their Habit Of Raiding Neighbouring Tribes. He Also Took Part In Suppressing The Ikhwan Revolt. In 1939 Glubb Succeeded Frederick G. Peake As The Commander Of The Arab Legion. During This Period He Transformed The Legion Into The Best-Trained Force In The Arab World. During World War Ii He Led Attacks On Axis-Aligned Arab Forces In Iraq And On Vichy Forces In Lebanon And Syria. During The 1948 Arab-Israeli War The Arab Legion Was Considered The Strongest Arab Army Involved In The War. In May 1948 Glubb Led The Arab Legion Across The River Jordan To Occupy The West Bank. Despite Some Negotiation And Understanding Between The Jewish Agency And King Abdullah Severe Fighting Took Place In Kfar Etzion May 1948 Jerusalem And Latrun May-July 1948. According To Avi Shlaim "Rumours That Abdullah Was Once Again In Contact With The Jewish Leaders Further Damaged His Standing In The Arab World. His Many Critics Suggested That He Was Prepared To Compromise The Arab Claim To The Whole Of Palestine As Long As He Could Acquire Part Of Palestine For Himself. 'The Internecine Struggles Of The Arabs' Reported Glubb 'Are More In The Minds Of Arab Politicians Than The Struggle Against The Jews. Azzam Pasha The Mufti And The Syrian Government Would Sooner See The Jews Get The Whole Of Palestine Than That King Abdullah Should Benefit.' " Glubb Remained In Charge Of The Defence Of The West Bank Following The Armistice In March 1949. In 1952 Differences Emerged Between Glubb And The Newly Acceded King Hussein I Especially Over Defence Arrangements The Promotion Of Arab Officers And The Funding Of The Legion. Arab Nationalists Believed That Glubb's First Loyalty Was To The United Kingdom And That He Had Attempted To Pressure Hussein Into Joining The Baghdad Pact. Glubb And His Wife In 1944 Adopted Naomi A Bedouin Girl Who Was Then Three Months Old. In 1948 They Adopted Two Palestinian Refugee Children Called Atalla Renamed John And Mary. Hussein Wanting To Distance Himself From The British And To Disprove The Contention That Glubb Was The Actual Ruler Of Jordan Dismissed Glubb And Several Other British Senior Officers From The Arab Legion On 1 March 1956. <br/> <br/> Hodder And Stoughton hardcover
1957034847New York : Farrar Straus Cudahy 1957. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine Dust Jacket. 244 Pp. Red Cloth Spine Over Patterned Boards. Stated First Printing. Book Is Near Fine Slight Rubbing At Corners And At Ends Of Spine. Dj Not Price Clipped $3.50 Minute Losses At Upper Corners Spine And Top Edges A Little Browned. Signed By The Author In Green Ink In Both English And Chinese And Additionally Inscribed Above In Blue Ink By Lee To His San Francisco Friend The Actress Marjorie Lord Mrs. Randolph Hale "To Marjorie Lord With Chinese Character". <br/> <br/> Farrar Straus Cudahy hardcover
190599991BBGöttingen, Dieterich'sche Univ.-Druckerei, 1905. 4°. 31 S.; 28 S. mit zus. 15 Text-Figuren. Ln. d. Zt. [28 Warenabbildungen]
1998x-0521632552Cambridge Univ Pr 1998. Hardcover. New. 607 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.50 inches. Cambridge Univ Pr hardcover
In 8°, Legatura coeva Mz. Pergamena ed angoli, titolo oro su tassello al dorso, pp. C, 523(1 n.n. Druckfehler) + 10 tavv. litografiche f.t. Prima edizione rara. Piccoli difetti alla legatura, altrimenti buon esemplare.
1910030646Washington: Smithsonian Institution 1910. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. Xiv 940 Pp. Original Brown Printed Wrappers. Date Stamp June 23 1910 At Very Upper Left Corner Of Front Cover No Other Names Or Marks. Pages Entirely Unopened Still Attached At Top. Light Wear 1/2" Tear At Edge Of Rear Cover 3/4" At Top Of Spine Panel Is Chipped Away With No Loss Of Text. <br/> <br/> Smithsonian Institution paperback
1903042028New York London: The Macmillan Company 1903. First Edition First Issue 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 7 9/16" Tall. 262 Pp. 3 Pp Ads At Rear. Blue Green Cloth Decorated In Darker Shades Gilt Spine Lettering White Spine Lettering. Top Edge Gilt. First Edition First Issue With The Authors' Names Omitted Throughout. Publisher's Name On Spine In Letters 3/16" Tall; No Priority Established. Number Printed Unknown But From Scarcity Of Listings In Past 20 Years I Expect It To Have Been Well Under 5000. Written As A Collaboration Between Jack London And Anna Strunsky. Ms. Strunsky Was An Active Socialist Was Married To Socialist And Naacp Founder William English Walling And Was The Aunt Of Leonore Strunsky Born 1900 Who Was The Late Wife Of Composer Ira Gershwin; Her Biography Is Worth Reading. Some Wear Gilt Still Bright 1/2" Long 1/4" Tall Fray/Damage At Bottom Of Spine Fray To Upper Rear Tip Pinpoint Fray To Lower Front Tip. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
1938042263New York: Stackpole Sons 1938. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good /No Dustwrapper. 266 Pp. Green Cloth Spine Stamped In Orange Front Panel Stamped In Blind. First Printing 1938. An Attractive Copy Lightly Used Some Fading To Spine Cloth But With All Lettering Still Clear A Few Very Small And Very Faint Damp Spots On Covers No Names Or Marks Or Book Plates. <br/> <br/> Stackpole Sons hardcover
1919036290New York: The Macmillan Company 1919. First Edition 1st Printing. Blue Cloth. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 7 5/8" Tall. Vi 229 Pp. One Of 4972 Copies Printed. 1919 Date On Copyright And Title Pages. Blue Cloth Stamped In Yellow-Orange And Darker Blue. First Printing. Near Fine: Cloth Clean And Unfaded Color Bright Rubbing Only At Corners. <br/> <br/> The Macmillan Company hardcover
1969039071Cape Canaveral: National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1969. Original Photograph . No Binding. Near Fine. Original NASA Color Photograph of Apollo 12 astronaut Alan L. Bean smiling at camera. Inscribed "To Lew - with warmest best wisheslooking forward to many good meals with you at the Cape- alan L. Bean" Inscribed for Louis Hartsell the chef in the Astronaut Training Facility at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy/Cape Canaveral. An original photograph but without NASA serial number and notations on reverse. From Hartsell's collection of astronaut photographs all taken and signed circa 1964-1972. <br/> <br/> National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown
1989041167New York: Springer Verlag 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Vii 207 Pp. Catalog At End. Fine. Inscribed By The Honoree Liepmann To Fellow Caltech Professor Anatol Roshko "To Anatol Roshko For Over Forty Years Of Shared Work Ideas And Responsibility- Without A Cloud! Hans". Hans Wolfgang Liepmann 1914 -2009 Was An American Engineer And Emeritus Theodore Von Kármán Professor Of Aeronautics At The California Institute Of Technology. He Is Known For His Numerous Contributions In Fluid Mechanics Covering A Wide Range Of Problem Areas Such As Flow Instability And Turbulence Gas Kinetics Viscous Compressible Fluids And Liquid Helium Flows. Hans Liepmann Received A Dr.Ing.H.C. From The University Of Aachen And A Ph.D. From The University Of Zurich In 1938. In 1939 Liepmann Joined Theodore Von Kármán At Caltech As A Research Fellow In Aeronautics. He Became Assistant Professor Of Aeronautics In 1945 Associate Professor In 1946 And Professor From 1949 To 1974. From 1974 To 1976 He Was Professor Of Aeronautics And Applied Physics From 1976 To 1983 Charles Lee Powell Professor Of Fluid Mechanics And Thermodynamics And 1984-85 Von Kármán Professor Of Aeronautics. From 1972 To 1985 Liepmann Was Director Of The Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory And Executive Officer For Aeronautics From 1976 To 1985. He Retired In 1985 But Remained He Emeritus Von Kármán Professor At Caltech. Liepmann Received Several Awards Including: 1968: Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring From Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Luft- Und Raumfahrt; 1980: Fluid Dynamics Prize By The American Physical Society; 1985: Otto Laporte Award By The American Physical Society; 1986: National Medal Of Science; 1986: Daniel Guggenheim Medal; 1993: National Medal Of Technology For "Outstanding Research Contributions To The Field Of Fluid Mechanics". Anatol Roshko 1923-2017 A Canadian-Born Physicist And Engineer. He Was The Theodore Von Kármán Professor Of Aeronautics Emeritus At The California Institute Of Technology Pasadena Ca. Roshko Is Known For His Contributions To Gas Dynamics. He Along With H. W. Liepmann Is The Co-Author Of The Widely Used Textbook "Elements Of Gasdynamics". He Has Made Research Contributions To Problems Of Separated Flow; Bluff-Body Aerodynamics; Structure Of Turbulent Shear Flow. He Completed His Undergraduate Education At The University Of Alberta With A B.Sc. Degree In Engineering Physics In 1945 Received The M.Sc. Degree From Caltech In 1947 And The Ph.D. In 1952. Most Of His Academic Career Has Been At Caltech Where He Was The Theodore Von Karman Professor Of Aeronautics Emeritus At The Time Of His Death. He Was Also A Member Of The National Academy Of Engineering; A Fellow Of The American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics The American Physical Society The American Academy Of Arts And Sciences And An Honorary Fellow Of The Indian Academy Of Sciences. Roshko Received Fluid Dynamics Prize By The American Physical Society Aps In 1987. He Was Also Awarded The Timoshenko Medal In 1999. In Fluid Mechanics The Roshko Number Ro Is A Dimensionless Number Describing Oscillating Flow Mechanisms. <br/> <br/> Springer Verlag hardcover
1998011274Dordrecht Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998. HEAVY. 823pp index num bw ills/diagrams few colour ills. Near new with just the previous owners name on front free endpaper. Collection of highly technical papers on Substorms-4. Sections include: Geomagnetic Signatures; Magnetotail Dynamics; Substorm Drivers; Magnetotail; Plasma Instabilities in the magnetotail; Observations of Substorm Associated Waves; and much more. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 4to. Kluwer Academic Publishers Hardcover
189220995Paris: Gauthier-Villars Et Fils. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1892. First Edition. Hard Cover. Withdrawal from major Canadian museum reference section. Bound in recent burgundy buckram with just a hint of shelfwear; barcode and large spine stcker to boards; fresh endpapers with Museum withdrawl stamp to front endpaper; 608 pp are very well preserved bright and clean in very tight binding; dampstain to lower corner of two-page tinted map at page 296 that extends from both lower corners in an arc 3" deep; also a small 1" deep stain at top fold; further effects limited to a superficial diagonal line to lower foreedge; otherwise a remarkably well-preserved book; illustrated with "580 dessins tesecopiques et 23 cartes." Flammarion promoted the idea of "canals" being built on Mars as indication of life there. 608 pp . Gauthier-Villars Et Fils hardcover
20151160513.49Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univel San Diego CA 2015. Hardcover. New. 4to hardcover. 3 volume set; no dj's as issued. NEW. Bright crisp & clean unread; covers glossy. 2 of the volumes still in plastic wrap. xxx 3598 total pp. includes CD-ROM. Published for the American Astronautical Society by Univel, San Diego, CA hardcover
1938003104New York: Time - Fortune Inc. 1938. First Edition . Cloth. Fine. 14" Tall. Six Issues Complete With Covers And 6-Month Index As New Except Solidly Bound In Morocco Buckram Apparently Unopened Since Binding For A School Library. No Internal Marks; Pages Cut Down From 14" To 13 5/8" Height And From 11 1/4" Down To 11" Width. Contents Fine Otherwise Lithographic Covers As New And Remarkable Thus. This Volume Contains The July Quarterly Survey With A Full Page Chart Of Results For Roosevelt People In General Approved Of Him In General. Liked His Personality Liked His Rearmament Wage And Hours Economic Policies But Other Six Factors The Result Was Quite Mixed. July Issue Also Contains Four Page Foldout Of Zeppelin In Article On "Tomorrow's Airplane. December Areticle On Coca Cola With Color Lithograpic Illustrations. Rear Covers Missing Front Covers Spectacularly Fresh Including October By Covarrubias Index To All Issues At Front Of Volume. Many Full Color Spectacular Automobile Ads. Postage Via Surface Mail. <br/> <br/> Time - Fortune, Inc. hardcover
1902042484Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1902. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 336 Pp Ads At Rear. Red Cloth Stamped In White Greenish-Black And Gilt. First Printing. Very Good Some Wear Tiny Frays At 4 Lower Corners Small Loss At Right Edge Of White Ground On Front Cover. Loss Of Part Of White Lettering On Spine Title And Author's Name With About 50% Loss Of White But Still Barely Readable Although All White Is Lost From The Publisher's Name; Copies With Even Partial White Lettering Are Quite Scarce. Inscribed From Balloonist Jay B.Benton To O. L. Stevens And Dated Dec. 25 1902. Jay B. Benton 1870- Of Vermont Graduated From Dartmouth In 1890; He Was Editor Of "The Dartmouth" For Two Years. He Then Worked For The Boston Evening Transcript And From 1894 The "Boston Journal" And Was In Guildhall Essex County Vermont Son Of Judge Charles E. And Was A Member Of The Papyrus Club A Literary Society. He Piloted The Dartmouth Entry In The 1911 Intercollegiate Balloon Race; A. Leo Stevens "Prominent In Aero-Planing And Ballooning Circles" Acted As Referee And As Starter Of The Race. Benton'S Ballooning Scrapbook Is In The Smithsonian National Air And Space Museum. O. L. Stevens May Be The Bicycle Racer Active Nationally About That Time. <br/> <br/> J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover
