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Soft cover. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a collection of western stories from the 1910s through the 1940s. Penguin 654. Contents include The Man From Cherrycow (Dane Coolidge), The Caballero's Way (O Henry), Pecos Bill and the Willful Coyote (William C White), Gonzaleze Again, or The Bravo's Stratagem (Charles W Webber), The Ghost of Billy the Kid (Edwin Corle), The Marshall of Broken Lance (Frank Gruber), Guns Against the Law Badge (Will Ermine), The Drifting Kid Moves On (Harry Sinclair Drago, Shotguns Ain't Particular (E B Mann), The Seeing Eye (Will James) and How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar (Bret Harte). Light edge wear. Crease along the top edge of the front cover. Light browning to the pages. A good to very good copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A 1st print (stated) from the mid 1940s of a collection of western stories from the 1910s through the 1940s. Penguin 654. Contents include The Man From Cherrycow (Dane Coolidge), The Caballero's Way (O Henry), Pecos Bill and the Willful Coyote (William C White), Gonzaleze Again, or The Bravo's Stratagem (Charles W Webber), The Ghost of Billy the Kid (Edwin Corle), The Marshall of Broken Lance (Frank Gruber), Guns Against the Law Badge (Will Ermine), The Drifting Kid Moves On (Harry Sinclair Drago, Shotguns Ain't Particular (E B Mann), The Seeing Eye (Will James) and How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar (Bret Harte). Light edge wear. Small scrape at the top of the back cover. The laminate is starting to peel at the top and bottom of the spine. Spine lean. Light browning to the pages. A very good copy.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Not stated (illustrator). A scarce complete set of these informative works on electricity and electrical engineering, with an array of illustrations and plates throughout. A scarce six-volume set.In the original cloth bindings with cover designs from prolific artist Talwin Morris.Profusely illustrated throughout the text with diagrams and photographs.This is a of essays and materials on the topic of electricity from various experts within the field, complete in six volumes.Edited by Magnus Maclean, an electrical engineer who assisted Lord Kelvin in his experiments and later became Professor or Electrical Engineering in Glasgow.This set includes:Vol I - Section I: The Measuring, Generating, Transforming, and Storing of Electric Currents with essays by Alfred Hay, E. W. Marchant, W. C. Mountain and J. Leggat, E. J. Berg, and A. T. Snell. Five plates.Vol II - Continues with Section I with essays by M. B. Field, A. F. Berry, and J. T. Niblett. It begins Section II: Electric Lighting and Power Distribution. Three plates and two folding plates.Vol III - Continues Section II, with essays by W. B. Esson, W. W. Lackie, G. Byng, F. Biliotti and C. J. Robertson. Begins Section III: Electric Tramways. Ten plates.Vol IV - Continues Section III, with essays by I. Everson Winslow, A. G. Seaman, H. C. Buckmaster, W. W. Beaumont and Philip Dawson. Seven plates and one folding plate.Vol V - With two plates of mini portraits of the series' contributors to the front. Section IV: Boilers and Prime Movers with essays by J. K. Stothert, H. O. Beckh and W. H. Booth. Begins Section V: Miscellaneous Applications of Electricity with an essay by John Shields. Four plates and one folding plate.Vol VI - With a portrait frontispiece of editor Magnus Maclean. Continues Section V, with essays by A. C. Booth, Dane Sinclair, Daniel Burns, Philip Dawson, Dawson Turner and W. E. Langdon. Errata tipped in to page 1. Seven plates and one folding plate.Collated complete.With eight pages of publisher's advertisements to the rears of all volumes except for Vol I. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities, heaviest to Vol I. Bumping to the spines. Light marks to the boards. Ink mark to Vol III front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with offsetting the endpapers. Instances of light spotting to the endpapers in all volumes apart from Vol II, Vol III, The odd spot throughout all. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A scarce six volume set on electricity and electrical engineering, richly illustrated with diagrams and photographs throughout. A six-volume set in the publisher's original Talwin Morris cloth bindings. Very hard to find in this sort of condition. Ink inscription to the half title of Volume II. Article loosely inserted to the front of Volume I. Illustrated in the text with diagrams and photographs throughout. 5 plates to Volume I. 3 plates and 2 folding plates to Volume II. 13 plates to Volume III. 23 plates and 1 folding plate to Volume IV. 12 plates and 1 folding plate to Volume V. 9 plates and 1 folding plate to Volume VI. This is a six-volume set on electricity and electrical engineering, with essays by various experts, edited by Magnus Maclean (1857-1937), who was an electrical engineer who assisted Lord Kelvin in his electrical experiments and later became Professor of Electrical Engineering in Glasgow. Volume I contains Section I: the Measuring, Generating, Transforming, and Storing of Electric Currents with essays by Alfred Hay, E. W. Marchant, W. C. Mountain and J. Leggat, E. J. Berg, and A. T. Snell. Volume II continues Section I with essays by M. B. Field, A. F. Berry, and J. T. Niblett. It starts Section II: Electric Lighting and Power Distribution with essays by W. E. Warrilow and J. C. A. Ward. 8 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Volume III continues Section II with essays by W. B. Esson; W. W. Lackie; G. Byng and V. Zingler; F. Biliotti; C. J. Robertson. It starts Section III: Electric Tramways with essays by John R. Wignall and Victor Watlington. 8 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Volume IV continues Section III with essays by I. Everson Winslow; A. G. Seaman; H. C. Buckmaster; W. W. Beaumont and Philip Dawson. 8 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Volume V contains Section IV: Boilers and Prime Movers with essays by J. K. Stothert, H. O. Beckh, and W. H. Booth. It starts Section V: Miscellaneous Applications of Electricity with an essay by John Shields. Volume VI continues Section V with essays by A. C. Booth; Dane Sinclair; Daniel Burns; Philip Dawson; Dawson Turner, and W. E. Langdon. 8 pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally very smart, Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean except for the odd spot and handling mark, with more spotting to the fore edge and the first and last pages. Very Good. book.