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Features: Giant relief map of Messines Ridge; Photo of General Sir Henry Wilson; Photo of Signor Caproni - Italian Aeroplane inventor; On the western front in Flanders - a railway laid by the Canadian Royal Engineers; Super two-page photo of a Baghdad street crowd watching British gunners hauling a heavy gun; General Allenby's advance towards Jerusalem; Romances of the Regiments - the 10th and the 37th; The "Friedrich der Grosse" brings U.S. troops across the sea; Two-page photo of a British Battery under attack near Passchendaele; Bad weather road traps on the Flanders front; using x-rays on the Western front; Devastation on the Flanders front; Admiral Mayo visits Sir David Beatty; Picking the brain of a captured Zeppelin; Women operating tractors; With General Allenby's Army in Palestine; Average wear. Staples almost disintegrated. Book
56 Pages. Features: John Gamble Kirkwood - a personality in science; Breeding machine brains; The Road to Empire - II - an archeological discovery of unusual interest was made during the excavation of a sacred well in Minturnae; Science at the scene of the crime - J. Edgar Hoover with the inside story of how his special agents operate; New high-efficiency fluorescent mercury lamps; Are We Inside a Dark Nebula?; High-Speed Paving for California Aqueduct - fantastic photos; The operation of the human brain; Tracking down your trade mark title; Polar Molecules; Cutting metal underwater using pressurized oxygen; The senses of sight and taste vary greatly between individuals; The amateur telescope maker; World-wide radio; and more. Three-inch opening along top of front cover at spine. Above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
Paperback in very good condition. Crease to spine and minor edgewear to covers. Contents clean, text and illustrations bright and clear. AD Used
in-8, 271 pp, broché, couv. - ISBN 2950736602 Exemplaire en parfait etat. [TX-19]
Paperback with minor shelf and edgewear, no other faults. Clean throughout and very good condition. AD Used
Like new, unread, shop store room stock. CE Book
32 pages. Includes full-page calendars, weather forecasts, horoscopes, signs of the zodiac, farm and household helps, first aid and puzzles and brain teasers. Alternate pages include ads for various Vicks cold remedies. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy of this unusual item which, perhaps not surprisingly, came to us via Winnipeg. :-) Book
64 pages. Features: U.S. Ideals vs. Nuclear Concepts; Ten Best; Transfer the Unit; FMF Organization and Composition Board Report; Service Elements (part 4 of 4); How the Allies Let Victory Slip in 1944; Seaborne Striking Force - great photos; Operation Musketeer - the Royal Marine Commandos executed their first brigade-sized landing since WWII - unrehearsed; Nice photo-ad for Sikorsky helicopters - theS-56, S-58 and H-19; Planning Future Medical Support; Tito's Army - the strongest military force in the Balkans; The Brain Pickers of Barrett Hall; Bell Telephone ad features photos of award winners Walter H. Brattain, H.F. Dodge, H.T. Friis, Axel G. Jensen, R. Kompfner, Warren A. Marrison, W.G. Pfann and Claude E. Shannon; and more. Average wear. Bits of writing on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
32 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The 'brain' of the big guns -great photo of the crew of a height indicator at work; photo of 16" shell being lowered onto deck of a British battleship; The H.M.S. Punjab is welcomed by a band of Royal Marines; Super photo of a pom-pom gun being loaded; Great photo of a British sea convoy, despite Hitler's proclamation of a 'total blockade'; Article on the Royal Marines by Sir William W. Godfrey; Illustration of the submarine Truant arresting a Nazi jail ship, the Tropic Sea. Dramatic photos of bomb damage in England; Downed German aircraft and one of their crews; Centerfold illustration by S. Drigin shows the R.A.F. and Channel gales combining to disperse Hitler's armada; War with Italy develops; Hangar afire at Neghelli Aerodrome in Italian East Africa after an R.A.F. attack; various middle east photos including Tel Aviv where 96 people were killed by an Italian attack and a photo of a smiling Major-General Romolo La Strucci together with his fellow Italian POWs; Photos of men decorated for their bravery including G.F. Berry, J.K.U.B. McGrath, R. Learoyd, R.L. Cummins, G. Gristock, R.W. Annand, J. Pinkney, H. Shove and W. Quirk.; Summary of the activities of the Royal Air Force during the first year of the war - photo-illustrated article; A Commentary on the war this week; Overhead photos of Le Havre and Flushing, the Netherlands; Photo of Goerlitzer Station - Berlin's "Liverpool Street"; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Paperback in very good condition. Minor edgewear to covers and small nick to rear cover. Annotations on several pages, mostly in pencil. Pages are sound and contents are clear. TA Used
Hardcover in good condition. Marks and scores on dust jacket. Jacket leading corners, edges and spine ends are worn and creased. Hardcover spine foot is bumped. Early and closing pages are marked and warped. Binding is intact, contents are clear. AM Used
Large 8vo, 25.5cm. Pp. 255-362, 55 drawings in text, bibl. Complete volume (pp. [4],viii,362,[6]) in orig. printed wrs., uncut. Very good. Small stamp of brain neurologist Prof. Giorgio Pilleri on front cover.
180 pages. Features: Migration between the core and the periphery; radar images of the earth from space; the development of maps and stripes in the brain; personal computers; samples of the Milky Way; the interaction of moving water and sessile organisms; the search for prime numbers; the lamps of Cosa; and more. Bit of writing to front cover and page 3. Covers partially detached from staples. Many nostalgic color photo ads, including an early Microsoft ad which incorporates their early green logo. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: The cost of world armaments; Ribosomes; Acoustical Holography; The Exploration of the Moon; Brain Damage by Asphyxia at birth; Experiments in Time Reversal; The Physiology of the House Mouse; The Possessions of the Poor. Prior owner's name atop first page. Average wear. Sound copy. Magazine
Like new, unread, shop store room stock. CE Book
This is an about very good hardcover copy in dark red cloth covers with title in gilt to the spine. Some foxing internally. Covers clean. This copy signed and warmly inscribed on the front endpaper to a friend and colleague. 232 illustrations. Color frontispiece and charts. 9" high X 6" wide, 757 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Hardcover in like new condition. No jacket; printed boards. A couple of minor imperfections to boards but no other faults. TA Used
Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket. From the private library of the late Michael Newton Marsh and with a few of his pencilled annotations in the margins and some light underlining - all of which can be erased if desired. Minor shelfwear to boards and faint marks to page block. Very good condition throughout. AD Used
Fine English Original bdg. Dust wrapper. 4to. (29 x 24 cm). In English. 212, [23] p., color and b/w ills. M. Gazi Yasargil: Bir beyin cerrahinin meslek yasami, düsünceleri ve anilari.
Hardcover (no dust jacket). Very good condition. Spine ends and boards' corners are slightly bumped. Pages are sound and clear. TA Used
Contents: Managing solid waste; the geometric phase - the behavior of particles in certain quantum-mechanical situation; Plasticity in brain development; Patterned ground; Fertilization in mammals; Soft X-ray lasers; Snakes, blood circulation and gravity; Canal builders of Pre-Inca Peru. Average wear. Book
96 pages. Features: Reports from Washington, London and on Science and Industry; The Crisis in Teaching, by Oscar Handlin; Italian Communism, 1956 - by Paolo Pavolini; The Communist Approach to Burma, by David L. Cohn; Bella! Bella! - by Constance Tomkinson; The Word of Willow (poem), by Leah Bodine Drake; The Meanest Man in Washington County, by Dillon Anderson; How the Brain Works, by George R. Harrison; A Pair of Hands (poem) by May Sartun; The Dollmaker - story by Niccolo Tucci; The Musician - poem by R.P. Lister; The Illusion of Owning a Business, by Frederick W. Copeland; A Word for Farewell (poem), by Richard Church; Apley, Wickford Point, and Pulham - My Early Struggles, by John P. Marquand; Max Beerbohm, by Evelyn Waugh; Mitchell Goodman on Mexico (part II). Nice colour ad for the Tennessee Gass Transmission Company inside front cover. Attractive colour ad for Martell Cognac inside back cover features a Versailles theme. Nice colour ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whisky on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
234 pages. Features: 50 Classic looks for spring; The Timeless Coat at Irresistible Prices; Kristen Stewart; Surviving a Near-death Brain Trauma; Mario Testino on his day with Catherine Middleton and Prince William; Perfect Hair at What Risk?; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
307 pages. Index. Reproductions of several black and white photos. "Traces the life of Frank Turnbull from his boyhood in Vancouver to the 1930s when neurosurgeons used celluloid Ivory soap boxes to repair holes in the skull, to the many years of treating people with sciatica, brain tumour, epilepsy, etc., to his work as an instructor in neurosurgery and his service in medical and neurological associations." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. A nice copy. Book
Like new, unread, shop store room stock. CE Book
