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New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1974. A bright, square, tight copy. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (6.95). No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are clean, crisp and unmarked. Bound in the original yellow cloth, lettered in black on the spine. First printing, with complete number row (123456789) on the copyright page. Illustrated with photos and line drawings. Juvenile literature. Contains 12 chapters: 1) The Search for a Queen's Mummy; 2) Answers to Some Riddles; 3) How a Mummy Was Made; 4) The Tombs: Their Builders and Plunderers; 5) The Golden Mummy of the Boy-King; 6) Who Were the Tomb Robbers?; 7) The Mummy Unwrappers; 8) Unwrapping a Mummy in Brooklyn; 9) Where Did All the Mummies Go?; 10) Solving Mummy Mysteries by X Ray; 11) "Mummies" of Caves, Bogs, and Mountains; 12) Mummies and Mummy Treasures Still to Be Found. Bibliography. Index.. First Printing of the First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine condition/Very Good dust… Read More

London & New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. 5.25" wide by 8.5" tall. Trade paperback. Very Good+ condition. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Flat, uncreased spine. Pages are clean and crisp, probably never read. Illustrated with a few photos and numerous chessboard positions. Algebraic notation. Includes a fascinating history of chess computers; insight into the chess computer style and game plan; an examination of the chess computer in action against grand-masters, amateurs, and other computers; etc. The second part of the book (pp. 125-186) features games annotated by chess theorist and International Grand Master Ludek Pachman. . First Edition in English. Soft Cover. Original pictorial wraps. viii, 186pp..

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955. Fine condition in a Fine clear plastic dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. Previous owner's bookplate on pastedown endpaper. NOT a library discard. Pages are fresh and crisp. A translation of the 1505 first edition concerning Portuguese voyages to the East to buy spices. Also contains the first printed reference to the discovery of Brazil. Illustrated. Translated by Sergio J. Pacifici. A publication from the James Ford Bell Collection in the University of Minnesota Library. Limited to 1000 numbered copies; this being #408. Map endpapers. Two-tone binding (decorated blue paper covered boards with a pale yellow cloth spine printed in blue). Complete with clear plastic dust jacket.. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. 8vo. (viii), 27pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1966. Very Good condition. Clean, square, and tight. EX-LIBRARY copy, stamped "WITHDRAWN" on endpapers. 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Original black cloth/No Dust Jacket. v, 114pp..

Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Academy of Science, 1871. A solid reading/reference copy. The textblock is clean, tight and in Near Fine condition. The exterior is Fair only, with binding rubbed/worn and spine cover missing. Front and rear boards are hanging-on by the cords. Quarter bound in black leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Hardcover. First Edition. Volume 4 (containing 774 pages). Illustrated. . First Edition. Hardcover. Fair condition. 8vo. xii, 774pp.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1989. 9" wide by 11.25" tall. Appears unread. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No creases. No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. A useful source of building construction information such as general planning and design data; concrete, masonry, metals, and wood; thermal and moisture protection; doors and windows; finishes and specialities; equipment; mechanical and electrical systems; metric units, etc. Well illustrated with technical drawings. Prepared by the American Institute of Architects. Index. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fine condition. x, 499pp.

Chicago, Illinois: Popular Mechanics Press, 1950. Appears unread. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($3.50). NOT a library discard. A square, tight copy. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are clean and crisp -- probably never read. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Hardcover. Illustrated with hundreds of figures, diagrams, and photographs. Service standards/specifications. Index. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in green on the spine and front cover. From the Dust Jacket: "A guide to Smooth Operation, Economical Repairs, Wise Maintenance… POPULAR MECHANICS MANUAL FOR PLYMOUTH OWNERS takes up all phases of operation, service and maintenance, including those which apply to all automobiles and those which apply especially to the mechanical features introduced by Plymouth engineers. The reader will find entire chapters devoted to special problems of the storage battery, ignition,… Read More

New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1988. NOT a library discard. Near Fine. Condition would be Fine but for just a touch of cover soil. Bright, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are crisp and unmarked. Identified here are 221 works by Margaret Drabble and 346 about her. Most entries are annotated. Index. Bound in the original yellow cloth, stamped in black.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket, probably as issued. 8vo. xvi, 189pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2003. A clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The Dust Jacket is NOT price clipped (24.95). No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. Tiny dot (remainder mark?) on bottom edge. Pages are fresh and crisp. Bound in the original gray boards and dark gray cloth spine. Silver lettering and decorations are bright and shiny. The author's first book, a collection of short stories. A PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, and NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book. Keywords: African-American Women. . Signed by Author (on title page - signature only). First Printing of the First Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine condition./Fine dust jacket.. 8vo. (xvi), 238pp..

New York & Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1990. BRAND NEW in PERFECT condition. Sharp corners. NO rubbing. NO fading. Square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. Crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. Bibliographies and Indexes in World History. Bound in the original green cloth. From the publisher: "This book is a milestone achievement in the documentation of the newspapers of the British Caribbean islands, a field that, until now, has been neglected by many scholars. The existing and bygone papers, and several commonly unknown publications, listed in this work provide a wealth of information about these obscure times. No other work, before this one, has been as extensive in its documentation and coverage of the individual papers. Of special assistance is the index, which completes the work. This bibliography seeks to determine the extent of newspaper publications in the British Caribbean colonies and to organize it into a useful form. In the past,… Read More

Warszawa, Krakow: Nakladem Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego : Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1979. Very Good condition in a Very Good dust jacket. NOT a library discard. 1975. Polish edition. The introduction is given in 4 languages. There are 6,701 entries, some in English, that provide basic information about writings dealing with the history of 19th and 20th century emigration and life in Polish communities in the Americas. Series: Zeszyty naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, Prace polonijne, zeszyt 3. Complete with dust jacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Very Good dust jacket. 528pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Plume, 1999. 5.25" wide by 8" tall. Appears unread. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No creases. No remainder mark. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Not price clipped (13.95). A Paperback Original (PBO). Map. Rear cover praise from Frank McCourt. Sources. Index. First Printing of the First Edition. Softcover. Fine condition. xx, 332pp . Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

No place: Design and Art, Inc. , 1973. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Illustrated with photos by Marty Posner and drawings by Peter Wolfe and S. Taylor McCan. A collection of poems and art about love, life, Frank Sinatra, and the rock music band Humble Pie, and the J. Geils Band. . First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by Wolfe, Peter & S. Taylor McCan. 8vo. unpaginated (but 24pp).

EAP Publishing, 2020. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the half title page. SIGNED copies are SCARCE. Very Good condition (light wear to corners). Flat, uncreased spine. Bright and shiny. Square and tight. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in the original pictorial wraps. From the rear cover: "GAMERS takes the reader inside the secret Chinese Military Cyber-Division as they contemplate infiltrating a Top-Secret U.S. nuclear missile complex on Kadena AFB on Okinawa Island, Japan, where General Blair, Launch Officer Owens and Technician Buehler try to prevent a nuclear missile launch. Watch Chinese Colonel Fangqi uncover a plausible vulnerability for the last ICBM of its type. For political and logistical reasons, the nuclear missile was left undisturbed yet functional…". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition (so stated). Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. (x), 363pp. Great Packaging,… Read More

Wellesley, Massachusetts: Wellesley College, 2005. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped. No chips. No tears. Protected by a removable Brodart clear plastic sleeve. Oblong. 12.25" wide by 9.25" tall. Bright, clean, square, tight. Sharp corners. No owner's name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Pages are fresh and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with photographs throughout, many in beautiful full-color. Nehoiden was originally known as the Wellesley Golf Club. In 1927 it adopted its current name, after that of a 17th century Native American chief. The book is bound in fine green cloth and lettered in shiny gold on the spine. From the Dust Jacket: "This book was originally intended to commemorate the centennial of golf at Nehoiden, the Wellesley College golf club, but has instead become a history of golf at what is probably the oldest college golf club in the country. Nehoiden Golf Club is remarkable in its… Read More

Hackensack, New Jersey: World Scientific, 2009. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are bright white, crisp and unmarked -- obviously never read. 2009. First U.S. Edition. Bound in the original blue pictorial boards, lettered in blue and white, with an image of Albert Einstein on the front cover. From the rear cover: "Quantum theory is one of the more abstract branches of theoretical physics, yet it makes clear and concrete predictions which are repeatedly verified experimentally. More recently, there has been some confluence between the concepts of microphysics and those of macrophysics. Currently fashionable ideas in cosmology are also deeply linked to concepts from quantum theory, thus attracting greater interest in this subject. This timely book takes stock of what quantum theory has achieved and where it is leading to at present, in a manner… Read More

Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1974. A square, tight copy. Pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. 3 appendices. List of Symbols. Index. First printing, with complete number row (987654321) on the copyright page. Bound in the original maroon cloth, lettered in silver. Bottom of title page has a small label from Hemisphere Publishing Corp., Washington D.C., that covers the name of original publisher.. First Printing of the First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket.. 8vo. xvii, 779pp..

Cambridge and London: James Clarke & Co. Ltd, 1969. Appears unread. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped (50s net). Protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Crisp, clean and unmarked - apparently never read. NO highlighting. NO underlining. NO margin notes. A volume from the ASPECTS OF LIBRARIANSHIP SERIES, edited by E.V. CORBETT, F.L.A From the dust jacket: "This book... is a clear and concise introduction to the methods used in analytical and descriptive bibliography... Since R. B. McKerrow's classic work AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR LITERARY STUDENTS was first published in 1927, there have been many advances... locked away in numerous professional journals, but BIBLIOGRAPHICAL METHOD now makes this new material easily accessible by bringing it together, for the first time... Students will also find a digest of the methods of bibliographical… Read More

Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1970. Very Good EX-LIBRARY, stamped "WITHDRAWN" on rear endpaper. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean and square. Original light green cloth. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/No Dust Jacket. 4to. xxxviii, 517pp.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. SIGNED by the AUTHOR: "Buon appetito! Loretta Paganini" directly on the half title page. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket (only a little rubbed). The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped ($23.95). NO chips. NO creases. NO fading. Sharp corners. Previous owner's name on the endpaper. Pages are otherwise crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 2000. First Printing with "First Edition" so stated and full number line (10 987654321) on the copyright page. Bound in the original black boards, stamped in bright gold on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Loretta Paganini had the good fortune to be raised in Bologna, the kitchen of Italy, by two generations of Italian chefs. In BOLOGNA MIA, she has gathered together over ninety of her family's treasured recipes, each one evoking vivid memories of the kitchens she spent… Read More