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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good -. No Jacket. Interior clean. Binding holding tight; repaired hinge crack at back. Red boards with gilt lettering have light wear at corners and spine and very faint spotting in places. This book of mostly religious poetry written by a priest from Pocatello, ID. His 285 poems range in topics from "God's House" to "the Urologist." Stated on title page - "In Idaho, Sept. 1887-June 1921. In Los Angeles, July 1921 to date." 382 pp.

Very good softcover. 158p.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Octavo hardcover (7" x 8 1/2") in navy blue cloth lettered in gilt. No place of publication or date but as Roberts was born in 1899, the title would indicate a publication date of 1988 or 1989. 262 pp. printed from typescript original. A fine, bright example and quite scarce. Thomas C. Roberts (1899-1995) was a native of Titusville, Pennsylvania. He was a member of Princeton's Class of 1921 and also studied at Columbia Business School. Roberts began to acquire oil leases and royalties in the early 1920s, thius being able to "retire" at age 31. During World War II, he helped develop and test a major military innovation, the proximity fuse, a miniature vacuum radio fired in antiaircraft and artillery shells. That invention has been ranked with the atomic bomb and the development of radar as key technology leading to the winning of the war. After the war, he and three partners invested in the infant technology of telemetering, building up the Applied Science Corp. of Princeton, an NYSE listed company.