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Book shows a little wear to covers, corners. Binding is solid, text and interior are clean with no marking of any kind. 402 pages with b&w photos throughout. " if you want to find the right shop to build you a wooden boat, if you're a boathuilder and want to tune in to the wooden boat "grapevine, " or if you simply want to study the stat of a highly skilled traditional craft in contemporary America, this book is for you. The author's experiences as a wooden boatbuilder in Maine led him to want to find out more about the craft throughout the United States. He traveled 40,000 miles in search of his answers, visiting wooden boat shops in almost every active boatbuilding community. He took with him a carefully prepared questionnaire...." This book is the result.
8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, and very numerous photographs, diagrams and tables throughout; navy cloth, upper board framed in blind and lettered in gilt, gilt back, backstrip very slightly dulled else a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
383 pages. A 1947 reprint of the 1939 first edition. Printed upon glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams. "Offers, in simple, non-technical form, information that may aid the beginner and the more experienced mechanic to a better understanding of the care and use of modern milling machines, and to foster a knowledge of the fundamental principles of sound milling practice." - Preface. Chapters include: Types and Characteristics of Milling Machines; Erection and Care; Operation; Cutters; Attachments; Universal Spiral Index Centers - Indexing - Cutting Spirals; Toolroom Operations; Cam Cutting - Graduating - Gear Cutting; Manufacturing Milling; Fixtures - Production Estimating; Helpful Hints; plus tables. Also includes an interesting seven-page introduction which reviews the history of milling. Short piece of masking tape inside front board. Name atop front free endpaper and title page. Prior owner's address inside back board. Somewhat above-average wear to publisher's navy blue cloth. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this very informative and, now, historical reference from a time before electronics had entered this field. Book
172 pages including index and line drawings. Authorized by the Department of Education of British Columbia for use in the technical schools of the province. Above-average wear. Binding intact. School markings. Useful working copy. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 170pp. Britain's biggest music magazine with features on Robert Plant, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Codeine Velvet Club, Zane Lowe, Florence and the Machine, Ellie Goulding, Front Men, Iggy Pop, Queen, Meat Loaf and lots more.
Inspiring designs from USA, Hawaii, Britain, India, Japan, Canada, Sweden, France, Pakistan, Australia and Panama. Eighteen projects, How-to instructions in photographs and texts. Stage by stage making by machine.
330 p. Illustrated with photographs, charts and drawings. Typed letter from the American Institute of Steel Construction to Architects, Engineers and Public Officials for revised AISC Specifications for Feb. 14th, 1946. Also pamphlet for Promulgation for Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Structural Shapes, 1946. 250mm. Original binding with slight tear on spine. Scarce. SCIENCE BX 5
102 pages. Text in French. Features: Le drame de l'homme de quarante ans; Mon premier voyage interplanetaire (III); "Comme mes eleves travaillent bien a l'ecole des Quatr Jeudis!"; Gare Saint-Lazare, leve-toi et marche!; Le feu d'artifice du baroque allemand; Il epie le petit monde bruissant de la foret; Une vie de photographe; Jean Larteguy vous parle; Histoire de rire au "Machine". Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
187pp + 17 plates in Atlas VG/none First (only) edition. Full title "Rudimentary and Elementary Principles on the Construction and on the Working of the Machinery illustrated by numerous examples of modern machinery for different branches of manufacture". Book (Text) in contemporary green hardback with gilt lettering on spine, Atlas with editorial (?) flexible cloth olive green wrappers and Title inset pasted on front board, light signs of wear, paper slightly age-browned, overall a VG copy. XIX century work on machinery, very scarce complete with the accompanying Atlas in 4o with its 17 large folding plates.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 117 pages. Many b&w illustrations. Previous owner's name inside.
in-8, 159 pages, broche, couv. Bon etat general. [MI-26]
156 pages. Features: Breast Feeding; Molecular Clouds, Star Formation and Galactic Structure; The Diamond-Anvil, High-Pressure Cell; The Tornado; Vision by Man and Machine; Cell-Adhesion Molecules - a molecular basis for animal form; The nesting behavior of dinosaurs; Prehistoric rice cultivation in southeast Asia; and more. Nostalgic ads including several from the early days of the PC industry. Bit of writing on front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
PARIS, Everat. 1833 - 2 Gravures sur la couverture - Plaquette de 31 pages - Bn on coupée - Très propre. Rapports sur les expériences agricoles faites aux différents points de la France, en 1832 & 1833
127pp. 29 cm. Hardcover Very good condition
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly marked rear board, dusty page edges, slight bumping to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 492pp. The physics and mathematics of every aspect of machines and their properties with a large number of worked examples of questions and answers.
1st UK edition. Good hbk in pictorial boards. Rear endpaper removed. Former public library copy. ISBN 0853407215. (Machines of today and tomorrow). 16383. eng
40 pages. Features: The Fallout Shelter Dilemma - are they useless and immoral or a dire necessity?; Nice colour Campbell's Soup ad; Colour-photo ad for the 1962 Chevrolet; Goodwill in Coventry - Germans return to Coventry to repair the Cathedral their country destroyed in 1940 - Operation Reconciliation - with photos; Photos from various holiday movies; Recruiting ad for Canadian peacekeeping soldiers; Photos from movie El Cid - Legend of Spain; Nancy Kwan in photos from movie Flower Drum Song; Singer Sewing Machine centerfold colour ad; New Man in Saskatchewan - Woodrow S. Lloyd takes the place of Tommy Douglas, who has resigned to lead the NDP; Canadian Football (CFL) Faces a Crisis - Jim Hunt argues why the game is losing paying customers; The Last Carrioles - a handful of hardy sleigh drivers keep alove a French-Canadian tradition - article with nice photos; Large photo of a "Canadian Worth Knowing" - Vancouver artist Toni Onley; Crossword; Montmorency comic strip; Colour-illustrated fashion article entitled "Dress Informal"; Winter care of trees; World photo news; Back cover photo ad promotes coffee as the... "warmest word to bring the crowd home to". Centerfold holding by one staple, otherwise binding intact. Somewhat above-average wear. Partially yellowed with age. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 447; Ex - Library. Previous owner's stickers on the front cover. Ink stamp and small pen inscription on title page; library catalogue sticker on colophon. Faintly bumped spine head and leading corners. Minute scuff resulting from sticker removal on spine head. Sound, clean book with tight binding. ADG. Ex - Library
77 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Undated but appears to be circa 1972. Covers dozens of subjects including: History of Glass, Glass in Australia, Manufacturing, Free Blown, Pontil & Lipping Process, Moulds, Moulding, Embossing, Coloured Glass, Natures Work, Clear Glass, Patents, Hollands - Geneva, Schnapps, Whisky, Whisky Jugs, Beers, Pots & Lids, Ginger Beers, Stoneware, Owen's Automatic Bottle Making Machine; and many more. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this very informative work. Book
With over 350 illustrations. A complete guide to every branch of needlework. 576 pages. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has wear and small loss at top/tail of spine and wear to edges and corners. Hinge between frontispiece and title page cracked.
176, [4] ads, pages. Frequent grainy black and white reproductions of photos. Author seeks to inform his Western readers of "remarkable developments going on inside the USSR." - p.174. "In my opinion, we are kept in the dark about wonderful new Soviet technology because if our people knew these things they would see that the USSR is not a threat to us." - p.175. Scattered ink marginalia and underlining throughout. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reading copy of this interesting cold war-era work. Book
128 pages. Index. "Over 100 recipes for easy-to-make spectacular breads." - from dust jacket. Excellent colour photography throughout. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound working copy. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Creases on spine. 306 pages. Black and white photos.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Light wear and fading to spine.. 306 pages. Black and white photos.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Full black cloth boards. Facsimile of H.G. Wells's earliest surviving narrative of any length when Wells was 12 years old.