j c douglas marshall (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition and has highlighting/writing on text. Used texts may not contain supplemental items such as CDs, info-trac etc.

paperback. Zustand: Good.

Zustand: like_new. In unread excellent condition. Pages are crisp and clean with no markings. Item may have minor shelf wear on the cover, spine, pages, or dust cover. Item may contain remainder marks on edges.

hardcover. Zustand: Fine.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9781349949687.

Zustand: New. In.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Marshall, Tom C. (illustrator). 1954. Good condition. Light blue card wraps. Revised edition, illustrated by Tom C. Marshall. B/w illustrations. Covers scuffed and marked. Slight splitting to top and tail of spine (with very slight loss). Old tape marks to endpapers. Contents generally clean and bright. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. de Walton, John; Tresilian, S.; Caney, C.E.; Prater, Ernest; Holloway, Cyril; Soper Geo.; Goss, G.W.; Thompson, Kenneth; Peddie, T.H.; Tresilian, S.; Gale, W.J. (illustrator). First Edition. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Guardians of the "Last Frontier" - Excellent photo-illustrated article on the three-hundred men who patrol America's 2,000-mile Mexican border; Brown's Tiger - A decidedly unusual hunt in India in which a herd of buffaloes played an important part; "Blood Will Tell" - What happened after James Vance Marshall saved the life of a young South American; Photo of Buddhist "Rice Boat" in Ceylon; Hunting Sea-Lions - Tony Rosato hunts these creatures near California's Coronado Islands - interesting photo-illustrated article; Law and Order in East Africa - Amusing stories about police work among whites and natives; The Lost Mine - A. Hyatt Verrill was in Panama to study the wild Indians but everyone assume he came in search of Tisingal, the mythical lost Spanish gold mine - with photos; The Interlopers - A cattle drover's story of a strange adventure in Australia's little-known interior; My Monkey - A lonely rubber planter buys a monkey as a pet; The Bear Lake Affair - How two RCMP officers dealt with 150 wild Indians near Fort St. James, British Columbia; More About Africa's "Mystery Beasts" - Patrick Bowen believes hitherto unknown animals and reptiles do actually exist; At Grips With the Desert - Part II of Donald R.G. Cameron's account of a trip across the Sahara in which his party became lost for ten days - with photos; "When No Man Pursueth" - The tragic story of what happened to a 14-year-old boy on his first trip away from home; and more. 84 pages plus 28 pages of great ads. Backstrip entirely nibbled away so front cover loose but present and back cover barely holding. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating issue.

Softcover. Zustand: Very good. Francisco Toledo (illustrator). First Edition. AMA (Automatic Message Accounting), computerized telephone call accounting articles reprinted from Bell Laboratories Record, ca 1953. Automatic message accounting (AMA) provides detailed accounting for telephone calls. When direct distance dialing (DDD) was introduced in the US, message registers no longer sufficed for dialed telephone calls. The need to record the time and phone number of each long-distance call was met by electromechanical data processing equipment. Articleas include: "Code Patterns in Telephone Switching and Accounting Systems" by J.W. Dehn; "The AMA Tape Perforator" by P.B. Drake; "The AMA Assembler" by Glen C. Drew; "The AMA Computer" by A.E. Hague; "Tape-to-Card" Converter" by W.B. Groth; and much more. 138 pages. Halftones, diagrams, Pictorial stiff paper, spiral binding. Triffle rubbed. "WW Brown 1954" top right corner of the title page. 10" - 7". book.