Killian james r (24 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. First. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). …

Fourth printing. Oblong softcover. A fascinating look at how the use of a strobe allowed for stop motion images. Includes numerous color and black and white images. A near fine copy in wrappers.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. (ecology, science, technology) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Slightly cocked else fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Second printing. 11 x 9 in. Black cloth boards. Lavish B&W photos. Signed by Edgertin and Killian on title pg. Condition is VERY GOOD ; no war, upper spine bumped, covers clean. Binding tight and text unmarked. Text pgs have a slight ripple. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not price-clipped, edges a bit worn and chipped, clean but a bit rubbed. In a new Mylar wrapper. Photo. RGR.…

hardcover. Zustand: Sehr gut. 192 Seiten; 9780262050227.2 Gewicht in Gramm: 2.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Gut. Quer-Gr.-8°. 177 S. mit zahlr. teils farb. Abb. OLn. mit farbig illustr. OU. Schutzumschlag mit stärkeren Gebrauchsspuren, gutes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First Edition. First edition. Oblong hardcover. 177 pages. A fascinating look at how the use of a strobe allowed for stop motion images. Features text by James R. Killian, Jr. Includes numerous color and black and white images. A clean near fine copy in blue cloth boards in a near fine price clipped dust jacket with some very minor wear. Signed and inscribed by Edgerton and Killian to fellow photographer Lee Lockwood on the half title page and in the year of publication. A very nice copy and with a couple of pieces laid in related ephemera.…

Hardcover. dj. Oblong Octavo, [12], 178 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good plus dust jacket in a Good acrylic presentation box. Bound in black cloth with white titling to spine. Jacket is black with white lettering. Acrylic box is slightly yellowed with age, has two inches of splitting to upper fore seam, streaks of dried paint to lower edge and bottom of spine edge, and rubbing and scuffing throughout. Jacket has creasing, scuffing, and shelfwear to spine, shelfwear to other edges, and rubbing throughout. Spine and boards have light shelfwear to edges. Text block has slight separation from spine at head, light scuffing to endpapers and some light stress marks to leaves throughout. Flat signed by Edgerton and Killian on title page. Accompanying photo has light rubbing to dark gray matting. Shelved in Case 11. Moments of Vision: The Stroboscopic Revolution in Photography, written by Harold E. Edgerton with James R. Killian Jr., is a fascinating book that explores how high-speed photography can reveal moments that are normally invisible to the human eye. Edgerton, an MIT scientist and engineer, developed and improved stroboscopic and electronic-flash techniques that allowed him to freeze extremely rapid movements in photographs. The book presents nearly two hundred photographs, including famous images of falling milk drops, athletes and dancers in motion, hummingbirds in flight, and bullets passing through objects. This copy is from a limited run of signed presentation copies which paired the book with a glossy color print of one of his milk drop images, packaged in an acrylic slip case. 1417181. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Signed.…

Zustand: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some wear and internal barcode may have been clipped, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Zustand: Assez bon. READER'S DIGEST (illustrator).

Zustand: Assez bon. READER'S DIGEST (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Second edition, revised and expanded edition, and the first edition by this publisher. Quarto. 215pp. Grayish-tan cloth stamped in red. Illustrated throughout. Top edge of front cover has light mottling on cloth, else a near fine copy in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a 3/4" chip on front panel with one small clear tape mend on verso. Text for this second edition is expanded with a supplement of "last-minute data for the scientifically curious." Originally published in Boston, by Hale, Cushman & Flint in 1939.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. xxii, 327 p. 25 cm. B&w portrait photos. Cream cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket has soiling, small chip in bottom front. Faint spots to text block edge. Topics include: the founding of the award; first award to Niels Henrik David Bohr with remarks by D. D. Eisenhower; second award to George Charles De Hevesy with comments by Dag Hammrskjold; third and fourth awards to Leo Szilard, Eugene Paul Wigner, Alvin Martin Weinberg, and Walter Henry Zinn; fifth award to Sir John Cockcroft; sixth award to Vladimir Veksler and Edwin McMillan with a letter by President Kennedy; seventh award to Bertrand Goldschmidt, Wilfrid Lewis and Isidor Rabi; eighth award to Sigvard Eklund, Abdus Salam and Henry Dewolf Smyth with address by U Thant; ninth award to Aage Niels Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, Floyd Leroy Culler, Jr., Henry Kaplan, Compton Rennie and Anthony Leonid Turkevich; tenth award to Dwight David Eisenhower. Appendices and name index.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Quarto. 203pp. Illustrated throughout, reproducing high-speed, stop-motion photographs. Yellowish-tan cloth stamped in brown. Owner's contemporary inscription on front fly, a near fine copy in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a 1" chip at the crown, and moderate wear and few short tears to extremities.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Quarto. 203pp. Illustrated throughout, reproducing high-speed, stop-motion photographs. Yellowish-tan cloth stamped in brown. Light tanning on endpapers else a fine copy in near very good, price-clipped dust jacket with rubbing and several smallish chips and tears.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Hale, Cushman and Flint, Boston, MA. 1939. 203 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (spine is missing from the DJ). Bound in tan cloth boards with titles present to the spine and the front board. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Harold Eugene Edgerton also known as Papa Flash (April 6, 1903 January 4, 1990) was a professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is largely credited with transforming the stroboscope from an obscure laboratory instrument into a common device. He also was deeply involved with the development of sonar and deep-sea photography, and his equipment was used by Jacques Cousteau in searches for shipwrecks and even the Loch Ness monster. EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 203 pages.…

Second edition. 4to., 213 pp., color frontis and b&w plates. A fine copy in the color illustrated dust jacket that is missing a few tiny chips at the edges and has three short closed tears. SIGNED by the photographer. Harold Edgerton was the inventor of the modern electronic stroboscopic flash. His stop action photographs on a variety of scientific disciplines, display an accomplished visual aesthetic and a wonderful sense of humor. Edgerton, Harold E. (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint. Very Good. 1939. First Edition. Tan cloth with brown title to front cover and brown particulars to spine. Pictorial dustjacket suffers some creasing and losses to edges and corners, please see image. Front fly inscribed by Edgerton to Joe Keithly "with rememberances of pleasant experiences with high-speed photography.M.I.T. 1939." A nice clean copy. ; 4to; [viii], 9-203 pages; Signed by Author; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .…