Barcelona: the Colegio, 1924. 83p., oblong booklet, softbound in 6.5x8.5 inch buff wraps decorated with a drypoint cartouche and illustrated with many sepia vignettes from photogravures; further decorated with chapter dividers in apricot and dark brown, text-frames in blue and orange. A production meant to please, deriving from a 1923..... More
Cat.No: 228489
n.pl. Haskins & Sells, 1957. Paperback. 107p., stiff card covers, 6x9 inches; mild handling, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 295308
Fort McClellan AL / Ft.Benning GA: U.S. Army Chemical Corps School, June 1959 / 12 Oct 60. Paperback. iii, 115p., text reproduced from typed mss, illustrated with charts and graphs, softbound, a 10x8 inch side-stapled textblock under a printed cover leaf. Staples a little rusted and one is crooked, cover..... More
Cat.No: 236895
New York: Neptune Meter Company, 1954. Paperback. Variously paginated, a compilation aimed at inducing small Alaskan towns to save money by measuring water usage, thus correcting sloppiness, gross leaks, and fraud. Typewritten general text, typed and printed individual reports, supplemented with graphs & stats from all over the US. Clean..... More
Cat.No: 286959
Shanghai: Shijie shuju 世界書局, 1935. 33p., pastebound pamphlet, very good. Text in Chinese. Manual for business students learning how to use the abacus for commercial transactions. More
Cat.No: 215757
Lexington MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. Magazine. 227p., printed on coated paperstock with profuse color and b&w diagrammatic and photographic illustrations, charts with spot-color highlights, mathematical formulae in the text. Softbound magazine, 11x8.5 inches, entirely sound and clean, a near-fine copy. Radar interpretation, mostly air to ground. No mention..... More
Cat.No: 191383
New York: Consultants Bureau, 1965. Hardcover. x, 240p., running text with swarming math formulae on every quarto leaf, hardbound in blue papered boards enclosed in badly chipped and rubbed dust jacket. The casebinding, the book itself, is quite edgeworn with minute roughings-up at head, tail and corner-tips and severe marginal..... More
Cat.No: 235028
Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1989. xiii, 189p., illustrated with charts, first edition hardbound in boards and dust jacket. The spine panel of jacket is mildly sunned and its back panel is faintly rubbed, books' free endpaper bears a barcode sticker, an else unmarked nice copy. More
Cat.No: 229926
Hawthorne NY: Ray Leonardo and Sons, Inc., 1987. Pamphlet. ii, 54p., illustrated with diagrams and tables that demonstrate conformities in the historical trajectory of (all?) recorded civilizations. Softbound in dark blue 9x6 inch stapled wraps, a near-fine copy with a tiny bump to tail corner and a "Review Copy" stamp..... More
Cat.No: 289824
London: Routledge, 1994. Hardcover. Set of three complete volumes in blue cloth-covered slipcase. Individually paginated, 1,491 pages combined. Volumes in very good condition, some scuffing to slipcase. More
Cat.No: 281196
N.pl. [Louise Brown], [1930]. Pamphlet. 48p., wraps toned, one corner bumped else very good condition, frontispiece portrait tipped in, Illus. Memorial work for Ellen Hayes (1851-1930). Hayes was a math teacher at Wellesley College for decades, wrote a number of math textbooks, was an astronomer, and was active in the..... More
Cat.No: 274780
Bangkok: The World Fellowship of Buddhists, 1974. Paperback. vii, 73p., first edition 9x6 inch glossy printed wraps, excellent presswork and a very good copy. WFB book series no. 50. More
Cat.No: 161663
New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. First American edition: xiii, 186p., illustrated with a few diagrams and substantial swatches of quoted poetry, 8.5x5.5 inch openweave red cloth boards titled in silverfoil. Find a small cross-out in ink on ffep, lacks publisher's dust jacket, but is bright, clean and..... More
Cat.No: 261654
London: Verso, 1991. xi, 324p., has a few tables & charts, large softbound in 9x6 inch decorated wraps. Externally handled with a little thumbsoil to foredge, quite clean within but bears many pencilled underlines and a doubtless learned marginal note. The pencilling is lightly-done. A good reading copy. More
Cat.No: 258164
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959. Pamphlet. 71p., later impression, touch of soil on front warp, slightly toned wraps, slightly handled wraps, else very good. International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Otto Neurath, who had passed away by the time this later edition was published, was an Austro-Marxist and founder of..... More
Cat.No: 291427
Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1983. Hardcover. xi, 301p., 6.25 x 9.25 inches, frontispiece portrait of Descartes, very good condition. No dj. More
Cat.No: 239681
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Paperback. xii, 295p., wraps, wraps slightly handled from use, small indentation in front wrap and first few pages else good condition. More
Cat.No: 215695
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. xv, 271p., very good condition in like dj. Praeger library of US government departments and agencies. More
Cat.No: 52251
East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University, 1961. Paperback. x, 114p., 6x9 inches; graphs, illus., spine slightly browned, minor edgewear on wraps, small pen mark on front wrap, ownership signature in pencil on front wrap and title page, else very good. More
Cat.No: 286274
Stockholm, Sweden: University of Stockholm, Department of Zoology, 1984. Paperback. Noncontinuous pagination between essays [iii], 17p., + 387-410p., + [i], 23p., [3p. of graphs], + 21p., [13p. of tables], + 26p.; tables, graphs, illus., bottom back wrapper corner slightly nicked, title page starting to come loose, else in very good..... More
Cat.No: 285465
Woodbury NY: American Institute of Physics, 1996. Paperback. viii, 328p., presswork on bright-white alkaline paperstock and softbound in 10x8 inch decorated wraps. Top edge of textblock mildly foxed, cover is slightly curled, otherwise perfectly sound and clean, and entirely unmarked in any way. A very good copy. Text, while as..... More
Cat.No: 281891
Wellesley: A. K. Peters, 1993. Hardcover. xv, 415p., introduction, afterword, appendix, references, sources and notes, bibliography, index, illustrated with photos, later printing, remainder mark on bottom edge else very good condition in like dj. More
Cat.No: 106919
Urbana: Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Illinois, 1966. xiv, 360p., first edition cloth boards. Somewhat edgeworn and handled, yawns a little, edges faintly foxed. Studies in consumer savings, no. 6; consumer savings project inter-university committee for research on consumer behavior. More
Cat.No: 69700
Chicago: Society for Research in Child Development, 1981. 69p., slightly worn wraps. Two studies comparing black and white children. More
Cat.No: 125417
