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Stapled wraps. Zustand: Very good. [32p.] 3rd printing (1971) Cover corners lightly worn. Instructions for block printing and stenciling on fabric. 1960s styles. Original edition "Bunte Stoffe" by Helena Hornung. Booklet. B&w and color photographs. (6-1/2"x6-1/2").

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Reprint, with additions. 8.5" x 5". viii + 272pp. Fine hardback in fine protected dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Book Club Edition. Condition: (see pics.) Red leatherette boards with red ribbon marker and finger indentations for alphabetical categories. 1.2 kg weight and over 1100 pages thick. Some stain discoloration to the red tipped top of pages and some marks to page edges when the book is closed. Still in general very good condition. NOTE ON POSTAGE: THIS IS A HEAVIER THAN AVERAGE BOOK AND AN ADDITIONAL UNAVOIDABLE REASONABLE POSTAGE FEE WILL NEED TO BE ADDED IN ORDER TO COVER THIS COST. PLEASE CONTACT FOR DETAILS. SYNOPSIS:A wonderful reference guide to the English language no home should be without one.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "First edition" and "Published October 1964" stated. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine dust jacket ($3.95). Barely noticeable trace of price (1 inch by 1/2 inch) erased/abraded from front free endpaper. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, xvii, [3], 310pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. Illustrated endpapers. The first printing, with no additional printings mentioned on copyright page. Light soiling to endpapers and leafends, internally clean. Vibrant cloth binding, a near fine example. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $4.00 retail price on rear flap, numerous archival tape repairs to verso, closed tears, some loss at head of the spine, previously folded, a presentable copy. Includes authentication from Beckett, with sticker on the half title and associated paperwork. Inscribed by Fleet Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, and the co-author, to Chief Yeoman James W. Sands, USN, who assisted in the preparation of the typescript for Admiral Halsey's Story. Halsey specifically acknowledges Sands by name in the foreword. Inscription on the half title reads: "To J.W. Sands - with gratitude for assistance in the preparation of this book - W.F. Halsey / And with the additional thanks for his friend / J. Bryan III." Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey (1882-1959) was an American Navy admiral during World War II, commanding the South Pacific area. He oversaw Allied forces during the Battle for Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands. After promotion to the command of the Third Fleet, he took part in the Battle for Leyte Gulf, which was the largest naval battle of the Second World War and, by some accounts, the largest naval battle in history. He retired in 1947. Halsey died in 1959 and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. First edition of Admiral Halsey's Story, inscribed by Admiral W.F. "Bull" Halsey to Chief Yeoman James W. Sands, USN, who prepared the manuscript for this book. (illustrator). Signed. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Berthollet, C[laude] L[ouis] & A[médé] B[erthollet]: Éléments de l art de la teinture, avec une description du blanchiment par l acide muriatique oxigéné. Seconde édition revue, corrigée et augmentée, avec deux planches. Paris, Firmin Didot, an XIII (1804). 2 vols in 8vo. viii + 478p; [2]f +357+ [3]p including tables and publisher s advertisement. 2 folding plates with 10 illustrations engraved by Sellier after Girard at the end of volume II. Marbled endpapers. Contemporary quarter sheep, back-strip decorated in gilt with russet & green gilt-stamped title and number labels; corners & edges worn. The second French edition (first 1791) of this classic on dyeing prepared with the assistance of the au thor s son, enlarged by a section on bleaching with chlorine. Amédé Barthélemy, worked in a small lab oratory at Oberkampf s cotton printing factory in Jouy-en-Josas which gave him first-hand experience in dye substances, textiles and chemistry. The first volume contains chapters on the theory of colours and their distinctive properties, mordants, acids, the differences between wool, silk, cotton, linen and hemp, bleaching, washing, the different processes of dyeing and their chemical agents; the second volume comprises observations on dyeing in various colours, their properties, the fast colours indigo and madder together with a discussion of natural and chemically produced colours. (Cole, p49). Dictionary of Science Biography II, pp73-82; En Français dans le text no 215; Partington III, p514.…