Racine, WI: J.I. Case Company, n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff manila printed wrappers. 32pp. Numerous line drawings. Very good. While outer wrappers (only) are age toned and soiled, booklet remain tight and internally clean; single vertical light fold. Interesting copy of this tractor plow manual that gives every appearance of having..... More
New York: Random House, [1958]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Jack Coggins. Small 4to. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 140pp. Numerous line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. Third printing, second edition, of #13 in the nifty "allabout books" series, with a fireword by Willy Ley. A tight, quite..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, [1991]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 698pp. Extensive figures and tables. Fine/fine. Later printing, tight and pristine, of the greatly expanded second edition of this 1978 classic, a pioneering book in its field -- and this copy bears a fine..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, [1966]. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown pebble-grain buckram with gilt spine lettering. xvi, 664pp. Near fine. Tight, superb eighth printing of the 1949 second edition of this bilingual edition, first published in 1944 but greatly enlarged. Small inkstamp of well-known tech-heavy patent law firm on inner..... More
New York: The Scientific Publishing Company, 1893. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green decorated library buckram. xxiii, 628pp, (6pp ads). Numerous charts. Very good. First edition, tigt ande nice, of this uncommon overview -- an ex-library copy with very few markings. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, [1963]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Light blue cloth with white and dark blue spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 980pp. Extensive figures, equations, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed and lightly edgeworn, with several chips mainly along top. A tight and attractive first..... More
Wiesbaden: Brandstetter Verlag, n.y. Hardcover. 16mo. Beige paper over boards with gilt lettering. x, 111pp. Very good. A tight and attractive copy of the first volume (only) of the revised edition of this trilogy, undated but with 1960 noted in the preface. Discreet ex-Republic Aviation Corporation engineering library, with relatively..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1992]. Hardcover. Foreword by Arno Penzias. Small 4to. Blue cloth and purple paper over boards, price-clipped dust jacket. xxiii, 318pp. Numerous color illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Tight, superb first edition of this important text -- and a unique presentation copy as well, for Nobel..... More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, [1944]. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. viii, 150pp. Numerous tables, figures, floor plans, maps, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear, with several small edge chips. Quite tight and handsome and rather scarce first edition of this "airport how-to,"..... More
N.p. National Court Reporters Association, 1997. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xiv, 257pp. Very good. Tight and handsome, but the occasional blue ink underlining and few margin notes. First edition, signed boldly in black marker by both authors on a preliminary page: "Pat, / Technology HAPPENS! / Richard" writes..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1956. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 434pp. Fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. A tight and attractive first edition of this classic page-turner, a volume in the "McGraw-Hill Civil Engineering Series." Hold on to your hardhats! More
N.p. [Prague?]: Majetek, Vydani a Naklad, 1905. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth with elaborate pictorial stamping. 323pp. Numerous illustrations, decorative endpapers. Very good. Light soiling to binding; mild age toning to text. Tight and unusual Czech study of a vast array of technological and engineering innovations, with front cover pictorial stamping..... More
Aylesbury, U.K. Shire Publications, n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 32pp. Numerous illustrations and line drawings. Very good. A tight and nice undated (ca. 1985) #85 in this publisher's "Shire Album" series, a handy slim survey of lead mining throughout history. More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1949. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth, dust jacket. ix, 230pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with a couple edge chips. Tight, attractive first edition. More