fraser douglas c (8 Ergebnisse)

New Binders Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 188pp, map, b/w photographic plates, new binders cloth, new endpapers, V.G. *Much on Nigerian Life and Big Game Hunting in the early days.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good to Near Fine. Binding tight; interior clean other than previous owner's name upper corner ffep. Dedication in sticker form on title page. White wraps. A guide to practical geophysics to aid geologists more intelligently using geophysics in their exploration and endeavors. 570pp., including index. Priority/international shipping will cost quite a bit extra as this is a thick and tall book.

Original Green Cloth Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. 1966. 164pp. Includes 7 b/w illustrations (Douglas' drawings in the text, and a photo frontispiece). Introduction by Edmund Blunden. "It is now widely acknowledged that Keith Douglas (k.i.a. 1944), though not only a war poet, was the most considerable poet of the Second World War. This volume and the prose journal Alamein to Zem Zem make up the definitive edition of Keith Douglas's work." Turquoise cloth hardback with gilt titles to spine, in very good condition with light browning to page edges. Unclipped dust jacket is very good with light soiling.

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (faint spotting on page edges - otherwise Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 164, illus with b&w plates and drawings in text (no inscriptions).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Plates (illustrator). 1st Edition. Xx, 111 Pp. Salmon Cloth, Gilt; Black Endpapers. First Printing. Lightly Used, No Fraying, Gilt Bright, Hinges Very Tight, Pages Crisp. Presentation Inscription From The Author To The Duke Of Bedford, With An Additional Letter Of 23 April 1883 From Siemens To The Duke, Francis Charles Hastings Russell, 9Th Duke Of Bedford Kg (1819 -1891) (The Dedication Is Dated April 4, 1883), 2 Pp. An Early British Essay On The Dynamics Of Solar Radiation, With Reprinting Of Many Scientific Comments Thereupon. Per Wikipedia, Charles William Siemens (1823- ) Received His Education At The Gymnasium Of Lubeck, The Art School Of Madgeburg, And The University Of Gottingen. In 1843 He Visited England And Again Came To England To Patent An Invention, Becoming Naturalized Subject In 1859. In 1851 Mr. Siemens Introduced His Water-Meter. Between The Years 1856 And 1861, Mr. Siemens, In Conjunction With His Brother Frederick, Worked Out The Regenerative Gas Furnace. Siemens Became Interested In Telegraph Engineering, And In 1858 He Established, With His Brother, Werner Siemens, Mr. Halske, Of Berlin, And His Brother, Carl Siemens, The Firm Siemens, Halske, And Co. With Telegraph Works In London, Laying Cable Throughout The World. Siemens Presented Many Scientific Papers To British Societies. His First Paper Was Presented To The Institution Of Civil Engineers On The 17Th Of May, 1853, And Was Entitled, "On The Conversion Of Heat Into Mechanical Effect." It Was The First Paper Published In Great Britain Which Considered The Subject Of Heat Engines From The Point Of View Of The Mechanical Theory Of Heat, And, Although A Quarter Of A Century Has Nearly Elapsed Since It Was Read, It May Be To-Day Taken As A Guide To The Subjects To Which It Has Reference. Between This Period And 186O He Described His Governor, Steam Engine, And Water-Meters, In Papers To The Institution Of Mechanical Engineers. On The 14Th February, 1867, Was Read His Paper "On The Conversion Of Dynamical Into Electrical Force Without The Aid Of Permanent Magnetism," Which Is Peculiarly Interesting As Being The First Scientific Enunciation In The Uk Of The Dynamo-Electric Principle Upon Which The Most Powerful Light Producing Machines Depended. Another Scientific Paper Presented By Him To The Same Society In 1871, "On Electrical Resistance," Was Made The Bakerian Lecture For That Year. It Treats Of A Method Of Measuring Variation Of Temperature By Variation Of Electrical Resistance; And The New Instruments Described In This Paper, The Electrical Resistance Thermometer And Pyrometer, In Connection With The Differential Voltameter, Became Appreciated As Valuable Auxiliaries In Thermometry, And In Metallurgical Research. The Society Of Arts Presented Him With Its Gold Medal For His Regenerative Condenser In The Year 1850, And The Institution Of Civil Engineers, In The Session 1852-53, With Its Telford Medal For The Paper Already Referred To. In 1851 And 1862, Dr. Siemens Received Prize Medals Of The London Exhibition, And In 1867 Was Awarded A Grand Prix At The Universal Exhibition, Of Paris For His Regenerative Gas Furnace And Steel Process. In 1869 The Degree Of Doctor Of Civil Law, Honoris Causd, Was Conferred Upon Him By The University Of Oxford, And In 1874 He Received The Royal Albert Medal For His Researches On Heat, And For His Metallurgical Processes. In 1875 He Received The Bessemer Medal Of The Iron And Steel Institute "In Recognition Of The Valuable Services He Has Rendered To The Iron And Steel Trades By His Important Inventions And Investigations.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Very scarce first edition piublished by herbert jenkins all plates and maps in place but a couple plates loose.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Various (illustrator). A charming early edition of a wry memoir from a war poet considered to be a great loss to literature, with an introduction by novelist Lawrence Durrell. A charming early edition of Alamein to Zem Zem, a wry memoir from the Western Desert Campaign, written by war poet and soldier Keith Douglas, with an introduction by British poet and author Lawrence Durrell, and edited by John Waller, G.S. Fraser, and J.C. Hall. Published by Faber and Faber in 1966, first published in 1946.In the publisher's original navy blue cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Contains a frontispiece, and in-text illustrations.An intriguing writer, rather than his memoir being sentimental like many other war poets, Douglas writes with a candid observation that critics have claimed as being cold while admirers consider it refreshing. Killed during the 1944 Invasion of Normandy, many consider Douglas to have been a great loss to literature. In the publisher's original navy blue cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with a couple of small faint marks to spine. Minor knocks to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Dust wrapper is bright and clean with minimal edgewear. Very minor printing marks to rear flyleaf joint. End papers are bright and clean. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Chilmark Press, New York. 1966. 152 pgs. Illustrated. Frontispiece. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Few records of war are a lucid, vivid and sensitively written as Keith Douglas' "Alamein to Zem Zem". The author himself was a man of great poetic gifts who had established himself as a leading light in the Oxford literary circles, tutored by no less a person than First World War veteran and acclaimed poet Edmund Blunden. A talent that did not outlast the war, killed in action in Normandy 1944, but his lasting legacy is contained in this exceptional book. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages.