Preston w a (23 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Stacey, W. S. (illustrator).

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

Zustand: Fine. some wear to,cover rips to cover,some notes on content,reading content fine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. New series, (vol. 1 was published July 1946) ; v.; illustrated in black & white ; 25 cm. ; ISSN: 0003-5866; LCCN: 55-30426 ; serial OCLC: 3583423 ; LC: NK1125 ; color stapled paper wrappers ; three punch-holes along spine ; G. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Light wear. Solid hardcover.; Anthology of lyric poems from students at Penn State. ; 0 pages. Illustrated by Dan J Preston cover design (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Unused copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. Single Issue In Original Wrappers. Light Wear, Bright, Foxing On Edges Of Page Block.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp [iv], 156. Original publisher's pink and grey printed boards with dark grey lettering at front and spine. Illustrations in black and white. ISBN: 0727715313 Very good indeed.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Oversize paperback. Former owner and butterfly expert, L. Brower, has written "on EN" in silver sharpie on spine which refers to ENDNOTE, the bibliographical program that he used to organize his books. Cover is otherwise neat and clean. Brower has written his initals dated April 1992 and "on EN" in pencil on title page. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature. Copyright page dated 1989. A very nice copy. We've got a wonderful bookcase or two of books from Lincoln Brower's collection listed here. Everything you know about Monarch Butterflies, you know because of Brower's work, both scientific and outreach. He was a great teacher, an important researcher, a torch-bearing conservationist, and a leading light in lepidoptery. We are extremely excited to offer his books. This volume came from the Lincoln Brower collection, though it does not have his name in it. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs. This is an oversized book, so extra postage will be necessary for priority or international shipping.…

Hardcover. Zustand: gut. 138 S., 24 cm, sekundär gebunden, gebräunt. Sprache: fra.

Zustand: BUONO USATO. Da revisionare INGLESE Brossura datata, esterno segnato da lieve deformazione, punte esterne ed interne piegate, da consultatazione o conservazione, copertina con dissolvenza e scoloriture, aloni polvere e, bordo stropicciato con usure da scaffale, fogli avorio, arricchiti da illustrazione clinica d'epoca, pulviscolo e fioriture ai tagli. N. pag. 314.…

Zustand: New. Martha L. Cottam is Professor Emeritus of Political Science in the School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at Washington State University, USA. She specializes in political psychology, international politics, and intercommunal conflict.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Green cloth over boards with gold lettering on front board and spine. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1886. Unpaginated. Shelf wear along top and bottom edges of boards. Spine has some minor fading. Gold lettering on front board and spine still shiny and legible. Cloth covering over front board is lightly faded at top left corner. Previous owner name and address on sticker attached to front attached endpaper. Fore edges gilt. Pages are toned. 84 illustrations by E. H. Garrett, G. F. Barnes, and Jessie McDermott on pages. Illustration of a child being read to as frontispiece. Binding partially separated at page 36 but pages are still held in place. Good condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Zustand: Good. Business Card, 5 x 8.5 cm., Very Good.Provenance: Butterfield and Butterfield auction of WC Fields Memorabilia from 1997.

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO40239651: 1868. In-12. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 384 pages. Gravure en noir et blanc en frontispice (portrait). Text in English. Titre doré sur le dos. Etiquette de code sur le dos. Tampons de bibliothèque en page de titre. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.…

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. The format is approximately 8 inches by 10.5 inches. 36 pages. Illustrations (figures, tables). Ex-library copy with the usual library markings, some blacked out. Some cover soiling. The authors were with the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and Sandia Corporation. This is part of Plowshare--civil, industrial and scientific used for nuclear explosives. The US Army Corps of Engineers Nuclear Cratering Group (NCG) program activities include: (1) cratering calibration of various geologic media and development of techniques designed to provide a desired crater geometry with chemical high-explosive detonations; (2) joint planning of and technical participation in AEC nuclear-excavation experiments; (3) development of data on the engineering properties of nuclear craters; (4) development of civil works nuclear construction technology; (5) accomplishment of engineering studies of nuclear construction feasibility; and (6)execution of joint CE/AEC civil works nuclear-construction experiments. Four conceptual nuclear-construction applications have been identified as having a significant potential for accomplishment: (1) nuclear quarrying to produce rock fill or aggregate; (2) nuclear ejecta dam construction; (3) nuclear harbor construction; and (4) nuclear canal excavation. The work reported on herein addressed the challenge of controlling the potential hazard from nuclear cratering detonations to structures at wide ranges from the site of the explosion(s). Air Blast, Ground Shock, Throwout, and Dust were addressed. Lewis Cauthen, Jr. was born in 1932. He entered The Citadel, where he studied Civil Engineering. Upon graduation in 1954, he entered the US Army Corps of Engineers, where he served for just over twenty years. His service took him to Germany, Korea, Canada, Turkey, and Vietnam, as well as across the United States, and he was decorated for deeds of valor. Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. The program was organized in June 1957 as part of the worldwide Atoms for Peace efforts. As part of the program, 35 nuclear warheads were detonated in 27 separate tests. A similar program was carried out in the Soviet Union under the name Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy. Successful demonstrations of non-combat uses for nuclear explosives include rock blasting, stimulation of tight gas, chemical element manufacture, unlocking some of the mysteries of the R-process of stellar nucleosynthesis and probing the composition of the Earth's deep crust, creating reflection seismology vibroseis data which has helped geologists and follow-on mining company prospecting. The project's uncharacteristically large and atmospherically vented Sedan nuclear test also led geologists to determine that Barringer crater was formed as a result of a meteor impact and not from a volcanic eruption, as had earlier been assumed. This became the first crater on Earth definitely proven to be from an impact event. Negative impacts from Project Plowshare's tests generated significant public opposition, which eventually led to the program's termination in 1977. These consequences included tritiated water (projected to increase by CER Geonuclear Corporation to a level of 2% of the then-maximum level for drinking water) and the deposition of fallout from radioactive material being injected into the atmosphere before underground testing was mandated by treaty. Peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) are nuclear explosions conducted for non-military purposes. Proposed uses include excavation for the building of canals and harbors, electrical generation, the use of nuclear explosions to drive spacecraft, and as a form of wide-area fracking. PNEs were an area of some research from the late 1950s into the 1980s, primarily in the United States and Soviet Union. In the U.S., a series of tests were carried out under Project Plowshare. Some of the ideas considered included blasting a new Panama Canal, constructing the proposed Nicaragua Canal, the use of underground explosions to create electricity (Project PACER), and a variety of mining, geological, and radionuclide studies. The largest of the excavation tests was carried out in the Sedan nuclear test in 1962, which released large amounts of radioactive gas into the air. By the late 1960s, public opposition to Plowshare was increasing, and a 1970s study of the economics of the concepts suggested they had no practical use. Plowshare saw decreasing interest from the 1960s, and was officially canceled in 1977. The Soviet program started a few years after the U.S. efforts and explored many of the same concepts under their Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy program. The program was more extensive, eventually conducting 239 nuclear explosions. Some of these tests also released radioactivity, including a significant release of plutonium into the groundwater and the polluting of an area near the Volga River. A major part of the program in the 1970s and 80s was the use of very small bombs to produce shock waves as a seismic measuring tool, and as part of these experiments, two bombs were successfully used to seal blown-out oil wells. The program officially ended in 1988.…

Wraps. Zustand: Good. Pale yellow printed wraps, side stapled and bound with cloth tape. 56 leaves, printed on single sides only. Apparently issued for private circulation. A journal issued by the Institute of Experimental Method, an institute that failed to register when doing internet searches. But, we are also not prone to clicking beyond the first page. That said, it appears to have been a collaborative effort between philosophers, scientists and educators who believed in experimentalism. Its editors were Edgar A. Singer Jr., C.W. Churchman and R.L. Ackoff. This issue includes: "The Methodology of Toxicological Research," by Willard Machle; "Notes on the Definition of Experiment," by Malcolm G. Preston; "Philosophy of Experiment," by Edgar A. Singer Jr. (reprinted from another journal); "What Should the Engineer Know," by Sebastian Littauer; "Esthetics and Music," by John S. Adams, Jr.; "Operational Defining," by C.W. Churchman and R.L. Ackoff. Provenance: this came from a collection of books where some were owned by mathematician James Andrew Clarkson. GOOD condition. Some soiling and smudging to the covers. General fading. Minor edgewear. Faint foxing to the spine. Rear cover offset and toned. …

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. An exciting collection of seventeen profusely illustrated installments in the prominent archaeological series, neatly bound as nine volumes. Collection comprised of Volumes 56 to 72 of the Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, uniformly bound in navy cloth as nine volumes. Highly illustrated throughout. Excluding the first three works, all subsequent installments are introduced by a vignette title page printed on blue paper. Volume 56 contains five folding maps; Volume 57 contains ten; Volume 58 contains seven; Volumes 59-60 contains five; and Volumes 67-69 contains one. Volumes 59-60 also features sixteen pages of plates, and twenty-two pages of figures to the rear. Volumes 61-63 contains one hundred pages of figures between pages 74-128 and 36-72. A number of relevant inserts are tipped in throughout the collection, including several publisher's order forms, the minutes of a 1963 meeting of the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club, and, most notably, a very scarce copy of The "Itinerary" of John Leland, So Far as it Relates to Shropshire, of which only twenty-five were printed. An extensive collection of articles detailling the research of the society, alongside contemporary administrative information, such as members, meetings and publications. Formed in 1877, the Shropshire Archaeological Society, now the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society, is still running today. Uniformly bound in navy cloth. A number of items tipped in throughout the collection, including several publisher's order forms, a 1970 letter alongside the rules of the society, a number of leaflets for a 1994 concert at St Michael & All Angels High Ercall, the minutes of a 1963 meeting of the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club, the 1995/6 Autumn & Winter Programme of the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club and, most notably, a very scarce copy of The "Itinerary" of John Leland, So Far as it Relates to Shropshire". The first four copies are ex-libris from Lincoln's Inn Library, containing several stamps to the first few pages, with Volume 58 featuring the ex-libris bookplate to the front paste down. Externally, smart with minor bumping and rubbing, resulting in a number of marks, more common to the shorter volumes, and the beginnings of peeling to the title pieces of the larger volumes. Internally, firmly bound, the odd few pages being stuck together. Very bright and clean with the occasional spot, more common to the first and last few pages. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition De Luxe hard back binding in publisher's original quarter vellum backed brown boards, black lettering panel to the spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, decorated end sheets. 4to. 10½'' x 8¼''. pp. [viii], 9-126, printed on fine hand-made paper; strikingly illustrated with a total of 16 fine coloured lithographs alongside historiated initials and other decorations in line and 2 additional colour printed woodcut plates printed by Y. Urushibara after designs by Brangwyn, of which one is SIGNED in pencil by the artist 'Frank Brangwyn'. Limited to only 75 copies for the English and American markets, this copy unnumbered. The top corner of the front free end paper neatly clipped and in near Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [British].…

London, Taylor & Francis, 1908-1921. Four parts in four. 8vo (22.8 x 15.8 cm). More than 1,500 pp.; two plates, numerous text figures. Uniform red cloth with gilt titles on spines. Black endpapers (white in Vol. II). = Seldom-seen original editions of still the most important malacological contribution to India and neighbouring countries. Not to be confused with the cheap, poorly copied "reprints". With many figures in the text (shells, radulae, anatomical details). Part I (Testacellidae and Zonitidae) ,W. T. Blanford & H. H. Godwin-Austen (1908), xxxii, 311 pp., 90 text figs.; Part II (Trochomorphidae-Janellidae) G. K. Gude (1914), xii, 520 pp., 164 figs.; Part III (Land operculates, Cyclophoridae, Truncatellidae, Assimineidae, Helicinidae), G. K. Gude (1921), xiv, 386 pp., 42 text figs, 2 plates; Part IV (Freshwater Gastropoda & Pelecypoda) H. B. Preston (1915), xix, 244 pp. The fourth part preceded the third and is not internally listed as being the fourth. Part III is inscribed by the author (Gude) in the top margin of the title page. All with a stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) in the top margin of the title page. Light wear to spine tops and corners, but in all an excellent set. Complete sets, such as this one, are definitely rare.…