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Arizona Law Review, Vol 12, No. 4
Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. The College of Law of the University of Arizona 1970 Soft Cover Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
this book is from the personal library of Mason Coggin, mining engineer & late Director of the Arizona Dept. of Mines & Mineral Resources; Winter 1970; pages 627 to 912; Articles: Capital Gains & Losses..., Wyandotte Case, Major Strikes & Public Interest, National Land Use Policy for Urban America, Uninsured Motorist Coverage, Property Taxation of the Mining Industry, Home Solicitation & Referral Sales, Issuing Bank's Duty of Payment under an Irrevocable Letter of Credit; front cover corner creased; text clean
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The Far East and Australasia - A Survey and Directory of Asia and the Pacific
London Europa Publications Limited 1970 2nd Edition Cloth Good No Jacket Ex-Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
1368 pages including bibliography; Hard Cover; an annual survey & directory of states & territories extending eastwards from Afghanistan, fanning out in the north through the Soviet Union to the Bering Strait, and in the south through Asia to Australia, New Zealand, & Pacific territories; provides systematic directory of political & economic organizations in each country and introduces problems encountered in developing viable economy, social & political structures; sticker on front board & markings of card pocket on back board; bump on edge of boards; publisher's bookmark with ribbon attached to spine; tables, maps, lists of institutions; Heavy Book - will require extra postage
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The Far East and Australasia 1978-1979
London, England Europa Publications Limited 1978 0-905118-24-3 10th Edition Cloth Very Good Fair Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
annual reference book on countries of Asia, including Soviet Union, Australia, New Zealand, & Pacific Islands; first part of book deals with development problems, commodities, international organizations; second part deals with individual countries' geography, history, economy, commercial institutions, prominent personalities in these areas; 1311 pages including bibliography of periodicals; clean text; Heavy Book - will require extra postage
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The Last Two Million Years
London, England The Reader's Digest Association 1974 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Parts 1-3 contain great color photos of artwork, artifacts, locations, maps; some B&W historical photos, sketches; Part 1 - Countdown to Civilization, Part 2 - The Great Civilizations, Part 3 - Man & His World, Part 4 - Tha Nations of the World has B&W photos; 88 pages including index; a wonderful overview of creative accoomplishments of civilization; Large Book - will require extra postage
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Materials Survey - Copper
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines 1952 Soft Cover Good+ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
complied for the National Security Resources Board by the U.S. Dept. of the Interior Bureau of Mines with the cooperation of the Geological Survey, September 1952; ex-corporate library stamp on front cover; report is one of a series of basic surveys on strategic & critical materials; provides a general perspective on the copper industry, properties, products, & uses of copper, major mining methods & metalllurgical processes, domestic & foreign resources; analyzes U.S. & world supply-distribution positions; annexes listing principal governement, labor, & industry groups related to copper industry, and descriptions of individual domestic & foreign industry operations; contains tables, graphs, maps; 1 5/8 inches thick; good condition, pages clean, tight
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Direct Utilization of Geothermal Energy: A Symposium - January 31-February 2, 1978, San Diego, California
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. U.S. Dept. of Energy 1978 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
prepared by Geothermal Resources Council under contract; scientific papers presented at three-day conference; utilization of geothermal energy from around the U.S.A.; 145 pp.; tiny print, two columns per page; former owner's address stamp on back cover; library stamp on corner of front cover; corners slightly bumped; pages clean, no markings; very good condition
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Association of Mine Managers of South Africa, Papers and Discussions, 1976-1977
Cape Town, South Africa The Chamber of Mines of South Africa 1978 Buckram Very Good+ No Jacket Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
474 pp. including index of authors; previous owner's name, city, date on FEP; spine edges & corners slightly bumped; presents numerous papers on mining operations in South Africa; b&w photos, diagrams, tables, graphs, maps; many papers are listed under these major topics: Shafts, Stoping, Development, Support of Mining Excavations, Legal Aspects Dust & Ventilation, Plant & Equipment, Black Labour & Hostel Administration, Loss Control, and Raise Boring; pages clean, bright, tight; very good condition
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1991 NPRA Q&A Session on Refining and Petrochemical Technology
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A. Publishing Division, Gerald L. Farrar & Associates, Inc. 1991 Hard Cover Very Good+ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
259 pp. including transcript of session, 44 questions with answers from panelists, panel biographies & photos, participation index, subject index, references, registration list; two columns of print per page; b&w photos; ex-corporate library stamps on end papers & card pocket on front board; call numbers on spine; top edge of spine slightly bumped; silver ink on cover design slightly rubbed; pages clean, bright, tight; very good+ condition
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Contributions of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, University of Hawaii, For the Year 1975
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. University of Hawaii 1975 Paper Very Good No Jacket Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
628 pp. including author index; 72 papers (world-wide research), contributions from many individuals, bound together in one volume; title page has some contribution numbers circled in ink; slight edgewear, corners bumped, upper spine bumped; pages clean, tight; very good condition; Heavy Book - will require extra postage
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Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, Held in Geneva, 31 August - 9 September 1964, Volume 12, Nuclear Fuels - III. Raw Materials
New York City, New York, U.S.A. United Nations 1965 Cloth Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Multilingual Edition (English, French, Russian, Spanish); contributions from individuals world-wide; Table of Contents lists title of paper in original language of submission, followed by abstracts in 3 other languages of conference; Hard Cover; 496 pp.; conference produced 16 Volumes; Section 2.11- Uranium & Thorium Resources & Requirements; Section 2.12 - Prospecting Techniques & Recovery from Ores; Section 2.10 - Isotope Separation; ex-library stamps on end papers; front board is loosening from spine; UN symbol in gold, with electron orbitals design on green cover; multilingual titles in blue around perimenter of cover; pages clean; very good condition; Heavy Book - will require extra postage
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Geothermal: State of the Art, Transactions, Vol. 1 May 1977, Papers Presented at the Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting 9-11 May 1977, San Diego, California
Davis, California, U.S.A. Geothermal Resources Council 1977 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
technical papers (310 pp.) contributed by many individuals; focus is on developments that have taken place since the United Nations Symposium on Development & Use of Geothermal Resources, held in May 1975; topics include: active & passive seismic techniques, thermal, electrical & geological methods, physical properties & data files, drilling, production & logging, electrical applications/heat exchange, non-electrical applications/heat exchange, environmental, reservoir engineering, corrosion & deposition, foreign & domestic case histories, economics, institutional issues & Imperial Valley geothermal development; ex-corporate library stamps on top outer edge of pages, title page, last page; card pocket inside front cover; call numbers on spine; cover lightly scuffed; upper spine bumped; pages clean, bright, tight; very good condition
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Radar Geology: An Assessment Report of the Radar Geology Workshop Snowmass, Colorado, July 16-20, 1979, JPL Publication 80-61
Pasadena, California, U.S.A. Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA 1980 Paper Very Good No Jacket Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
prepared by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, September 1, 1980; presents recommendations & papers from workshop; Topics: Overview, Technique Development, Engineering/Environment, Mapping, Exploration; 513 pp. including references, appendices of workshop attendees & program agenda; b&w photos and maps, graphs, color-coded maps; bottom of spine has small tear; upper spine bumped; ex-corporate stamp on cover; pages clean, bright, tight; very good condition
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Schlumberger Cased Hole Applications
New York, New, U.S.A. Schlumberger Limited 1975 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
references made to other Sclumberger publications, "Log Interpretation Charts" (1972), "Vol. 1 - Principles" book & "Vol. 2 - Applications" book; Chapters: 1 - Interpretation Principles; 2 - Charts; 3 - Production Services; 4 - Perforating; 5 - Testing; 6 - Hydraulic Sealing; 7 - Production Logging; 8 - Field Units; 123 pp. including figures, references, logs; ex-corporate library stamps, card pocket inside front cover, call numbers on spine; pages clean, bright; very good condition
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Hydraulic Effects at the Glaciar Bed and Related Phenomena, International Workshop 16-19 September 1985, Interlaken, Switzerland
Zurich, Switzerland Versuchsanstalt Fur Wasserbau, Hydrologie Und Glaziologie 1986 Paper Very Good No Jacket Soft Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
VAW Nr.90 Versuchsanstalt fur Wasserbau, Hydrologie und Glaziologie; text in English; material from the workshop; 148 pp. including b&w snapshots made during workshop; Contents: Current State of Research on Hydraulic Effects at the Glacier Bed (Introduction), Summary of Workshop, Abstracts of Papers Presented at Workshop, General Discussion; previous owner's name on front corner of cover; pages clean, bright; very good condition
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Etages Tectoniques, Colloque De Neuchatel 18-21 Avril 1966
Neuchatel, Switzerland A La Baconniere 1967 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Institut de Geologie de L'Universite de Neuchatel; 27 papers with text in either German, French, or English; 332 pp. including bibliographies, wonderful fold-out maps & figures, a beautiful color map; ex-library markings are crossed out in black marker on outer edges of pages, spine, end papers; cover is slightly scuffed; upper edge of spine bumped; spine is slightly loose; pages are in fine condition, clean, bright; very good condition
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Sogetsu Exhibition
Japan 1959 Pictorial Cover Very Good No Jacket Soft Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
text in JAPANESE; 72 pp. of primarily b&w photos (some color) with captions of the Sogetsu Exhibition; photos include artwork of various types, sculptures, mobiles, wall hangings, floral arrangements, interior views of gallery, & people; slight peeling of color photo of glass vases & dishes inside front cover where spine glue stuck to title page; front cover has color photo of gray sculpture & back cover has color advertisement for Mikimoto Peals; cover slightly scuffed; corners bumped; pages clean; very good condition
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Haliksa'i, U.N.M. Contributions To Anthropology, Vol. 1, Spring 1982
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. University of New Mexico Press 1982 Plastic Spiral Binding Very Good+ No Jacket Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Haliksa'i = a Hopi Introduction to Narrative; a publication of the University of New Mexico Anthropology Society; 11 papers reflecting importance of methodology & theory in anthropology in this first departmental publication developed by students & faculty of the Univeristy of New Mexico Anthropology Society (established in fall of 1981); Contents: 1 - On the Classification of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominids; 2 - The Comanche Pow-wow: Pan-Indianism or Tribalism; 3 - The Development of Complex Societies in North & Central Peru: An Ecological Perspective on Subsistence, Settlement, and Social Relations; 4 - Hunter-Gatherer Linguistics and Long-Term Adaptation; 5 - Racial Differences in Infant Skeletal Growth Rates as a Mechanism for Motor Precocity; 6 - El Pachuco: A Study of Symbolism; 7 - Augustin Perez's Lament: The Rhetoric of a Land Conflict in Jalisco, Mexico, at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; 8 - Technological Strategies and Tool Roles: A Study of Lithic Assemblage Composition; 9 - Rubric Cubed: Escaping the Confines of Southwestern Methods; 10 - Site Structure and Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology; 11- Space Use and Site Structure; 143 pp. including sketches of sites, maps, tables, graphs, references, lists of authors & contributors; text two columns per page; pages clean, bright, no markings; very good+ condition
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Haliksa'i, U.N.M. Contributions To Anthropology, Vol. 3, Spring 1984
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. University of New Mexico Press 1984 Plastic Spiral Binding Very Good+ No Jacket Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Haliksa'i = a Hopi Introduction to Narrative; a publication of the University of New Mexico Anthropology Society; 11 anthropological research papers, many originally presented at professional meetings, compiled for this 3rd year departmental publication; publication developed by students & faculty of the Univeristy of New Mexico Anthropology Society (established in fall of 1981); Contents: 1 - Quality Control in Lithics Analysis: A Test of Precision; 2 - Accuracy in Archaeological Surface Survey in the Seedskadee Project Area, Southwestern Wyoming; 3 - Anthropology at the BAE 1897-1902: Problems with the Powell Paradigm; 4 - The Evolutionary Ecology of Encephalization; 5 - Coping with Famine in Agricultural Socities; 6 - A Disussion of Some Aspects of Behavior and Motivation Among the Street Working Male Prostitutes of Denver, Colorado; 7 - Patterns in Accidents and Deaths by Drowning in the Aland Islands 1749-1850; 8 - Survey Data Retrieval Methods: Intensive Surface Recording Versus Sampling; 9 - Archaelogical Interpretations of Site Function and the Role of Ethnographic Data; 10 - Natural Distrubance Processes: A Preliminary Report on Experiments in Jemez Canyon, New Mexico; 11- A New Look at the Discovery of "Peking Man;" 156 pp. including references, sketches of sites, maps, tables, graphs, list of authors; text two columns per page; pages clean, bright, no markings; very good+ condition
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Haliksa'i, U.N.M. Contributions To Anthropology, Vol. 4, Spring 1985
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. University of New Mexico Press 1985 Paper As New No Jacket Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Haliksa'i = a Hopi Introduction to Narrative; a publication of the University of New Mexico Anthropology Society; 12 recent research papers contributed by students in Anthropology (some originally presented at national conferences, others encapsulations of student theses) to this 4th year departmental publication; publication developed by students & faculty of the Univeristy of New Mexico Anthropology Society (established in fall of 1981); Contents: 1 - Captains of Industry: Formation of Elite Executives; 2 - Mayan Words Spoken and Written: A Linguistic and Epigraphic Approach; 3 - Thermal Adaptation: Literature and a Model of Thermochemical Input to Bone Growth; 4 - Population Subdivision and the Spread of Disease: Application to Hepatitis A in Day Care Centers; 5 - Largest Settlement Size and the Interpretation of Socio-political Complexity at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; 6 - A Internal Economic Dynamics of Feudal England; 7 - An Analysis of Sexual Dimorphism in Human Populations; 8 - The Comanche: Paradigmatic Anomaly or Ethnographic Fiction; 9 - An Investigation of the Archaelogical Derivation of Prehistoric Population Estimates; 10 - Approaches to Variability in the Lower Paleolithic: the Clactonian Question; 11- "Australiopithecus afarensis" and "Australopithecus africanus:" One Hominid Species or Two?; 12 - Predictive Modeling: Current Abuses of the Archaeological Record and Prospects for Explanation; Book Reviews: 1 - The Hunters or the Hunted?; 2 - The Origins of Modern Humans; 188 pp. including references, sketches, figures, tables, graphs, list of authors; text two columns per page; pages clean, bright, no markings; book looks New
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Haliksa'i, U.N.M. Contributions To Anthropology, Vol. 5, Spring 1986
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. University of New Mexico Press 1986 Paper As New No Jacket Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Haliksa'i = a Hopi Introduction to Narrative; a publication of the University of New Mexico Anthropology Society (est. fall 1981); 11 research papers submitted by members of the University of New Mexico anthropological community to this 5th year departmental publication; Contents: 1 - Prescribed Burning and Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence Systems; 2 - The Proximal Femur of "Australopithecus" and its Relation to Early Hominid Locomotion; 3 - Polygyny as a Human Female Reproductive Strategy; 4 - Ceramic Production and the Archaeological Record: Some Questions and Considerations; 5 - Clonal Divergence of mtDNA and Hominoid Phylogeny; 6 - Las Fallas, the Festival of Fire, Valencia, Spain: Multiple Planes of Meaning in Celebration; 7 - Residentially Constrained Mobility: A Preliminary Investigation of Variability in Settlement Organization; 8 - Concurrent Radiation Among Plio-Pleistocene Generalists: A Case for Competition?; 9 - Ethnographic Museum Collections and Their Uses by Anthropologists; 10 - Dating the Middle Pleistocene; 11- Are Allen's and Bergmann's Rules for Primitives Only?; Archaeological Review from Cambridge; 179 pp. including references, figures, tables, graphs, list of authors; text two columns per page; pages clean, bright, no markings; book looks New
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Haliksa'i, U.N.M. Contributions To Anthropology, Vol. 6, Spring 1987
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. University of New Mexico Press 1987 Paper As New No Jacket Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Haliksa'i = a Hopi Introduction to Narrative; a publication of the University of New Mexico Anthropology Society (est. fall 1981); 8 research papers submitted by graduate students in anthropology to this 6th year departmental publication; Contents: 1 - An Examination of Infanticide Practices Among Mobile and "Sedentary" Hunter-Gatherers; 2 - On the Evolution of Concealed Ovulation in Humans: A Critical Review of Leading Hypothesis; 3 - Steps in Research Design for Biological Anthropology Studies; 4 - Evaluating the Concept of Food Storage "On the Hoof;" 5 - A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Relationships Between Agriculture and Ceramics; 6 - Trauma: It's Happening in New Mexico, A Hospital-Based Survey of Fatal and Non-Fatal Injuries; 7 - Psychological Stress, Gender, and the Problem of Measurement: Variability and Change Among Miskito Refugees; 8 - Estimation of Cerebellar Capacity from Dry Crania; Review: Mayan Society Under Coloniel Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival; 115 pp. including references, figures, tables, graphs, list of authors; text two columns per page; pages clean, bright, no markings; book looks New
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Conference on The Origin and Constitution of Coal, Sponsored by Nova Scotia Department of Mines, Nova Scotia Research Foundation, June 21-23, 1950, Crystal Cliffs, Nova Scotia
Crystal Cliffs, Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Department of Mines & Nova Scotia Research Foundation 1950 Paper Very Good+ No Jacket Soft Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
this book is from the reference library/inventory of the late author, mineralogist, gemologist, John Sinkankas; Papers - Address of Welcome; Nova Scotia Coal Reserves; The Nomenclature and Classification of Coal Petrography; Plant Microfossils and the Application of Their Study to Coal Stratigraphy; Afternoon Sessions; Some Geological Aspects of the Sydney Coal Field with Reference to Their Influence on Mining Operations; Metamorphism of Coal; The Vacuum Differential Thermal Analysis of Coals; The Chemical and Structural Relationship of Lignin to Humic Substances; A Thermographic Study of the Role of Lignin in Coal Genesis; Pennsylvanian Stratigraphy and Sedimentation of the Northern Appalachian Region; 159 pp. with fold-out figures, b&w photomicrographs, graphs, tables, sketches, discussions, & list of personnel attending conference; previous owner's name on front cover & FFEP; cover very slightly worn around edges; corner slightly bumped; pages very clean, tight; very good+ condition
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Crystal Structure and Chemical Constitution, A General Discussion Held By the Faraday Society, March,1929
England The Faraday Society 1929 Soft Cover Fair to Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
420 pages including tables, graphs, b&w photos; fold-out table of X-ray examinations of binary intermetallic systems; signed on front corner & inside front cover by previous owner, dated 1929; Contents: Lecture - Crystal Structure & Chemical Constitution; 20 contributions divided into four sections: 1 - Inorganic Compounds; 2 - Organic Compounds; 3 - Metals, 4 - General; plus Discussions for each section; green cover in fair condition, & peeling from paper cover in some areas; 2 cm tear along base of spine; edgeworn; some pages beginning to separate from binding; pages clean & in good condition; cover in fair condition
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Aldrich Handbook of Organic Chemicals
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Aldrich Chemical Company, Inc. 1972 Pictorial Glossy Cover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
a chemical catalogue with tabbed page edges, listing 18,000 Aldrich chemicals available for shipment; glossy cover is a reproduction of a painting by Dutch artist, Cornelis Bega, depicting an alchemist in his 17th century laboratory; 1110 pp.; Contents: Foreword - To Help You in Ordering; Alphabetical Listing of Aldrich Chemicals; Alphabetical Listing of Chemicals in the Library of Rare Chemicals; Classes of Compounds; Molecular Formula Index; Disposal Methods; Kits and Other Useful Laboratory Items; Numerical Cross Reference; ex-corporate library historic bookplate inside front cover; glue browning from former card pocket inside back cover; glossy cover & spine edges rubbed; lower spine worn; corners bumped; pages clean, tight; very good condition
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1937 Year Book on Coal Mine Mechanization
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. The American Mining Congress 1937 Cloth Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Hard Cover; historic ex-coporate library bookplate on front pastedown; contains 66 pages of committee reports followed by 57 papers presented at The American Mining Congress' Cincinnati Coal Convention & Exposition covering topics such as: 1 - Mechanical Loading; 2 - Mechanical Loading on Conveyors; 3 - Hand Loading on Conveyors; 4 - Scraper Loading; 5 - Face Preparatory; 6 - Power; 7 - Transportation; 8 - Surface Preparation; 9 - Pillar Recovery; 10 - Mine Drainage; 11 - Ventilation; 12 - Safety; 13 - Personnel Training; 14 - Coal Research; 428 pp. including tables, maps, graphs, diagrams, historically interesting b&w photos of people, booths, equipment, mines, advertising, exposition exhibitors; card pocket on back pastdown; pages clean, bright; some minor edgewear; very good condition
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Three American Microsope Builders
Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. American Optical Company, Scientific Instrument Division 1945 Paper Very Good++ No Jacket Soft Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
memorializes the accomplishments of three early microscope builders; Contents: Foreword by Simon Henry Gage; Introduction; Charles A. Spencer; Robert B. Tolles; Angular Aperature Question; Herbert R. Spencer; Quotations of: Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes; on Use of Fluorite; of Dr. William C. Krauss; on the Spencer Telescope; from Smithsonian Reports; from Carpenter; from Grunow; Spencer-Tolles Memorial Fund; 77 pp. with brown & white illustrations that look like engravings; clean textured ivory cover with title in raised seal; very slight wrinkling to bottom edge of booklet; small 1 cm tear on edge of back cover; pages clean; very good++ condition
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Progress Achieved in the Geological Reconnaissance of African Countries (Prague Meeting, 1968) / Progres Dans La Reconnaissance Geologique Des Pays Africains (Reunion De Prague, 1968)
Paris, France Association Des Services Geologiques Africains 1968 Paper Very Good++ No Jacket Manuscript 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
reports from the Prague August 1968 meeting of Association des Services Geologiques Africains (ASGA) of the 23rd session of the International Geological Congress (Commission du Congres Geologique International Affiliee a l"Union Internationale des Sciences Geologiques), whose purpose was to review the geological reconnsaissance of African countries since 1960; some articles are in FRENCH (Fr.), others in ENGLISH (En.); includes maps, fold-outs, references; appears to be a photocopy of a typed manuscript, in glued paper binding; Contents (Table des Matieres): Algerie (Fr.); Angola (En.): Botswana (En.); Burundi (Fr.); Cameron (Fr.); Congo (Fr.); Cote D'Ivoire (Fr.); Gabon (Fr.); Ghana (En.); Katanga (Fr.); Kenya (En.); Liberia (En.); Madagasikara (Fr.); Malawi (En.); Maroc (Fr.); Mauritanie (Fr.); Niger (Fr.); Rwanda (Fr.); Senegal (Fr.); South West Africa (En.); Sudan (En.); Swaziland (En.); Tanzania (En.); Tchad (Fr.); Tunisie (Fr.); Uganda (En.); U.A.R. (Egypt) (En.); Zambia (En.); fold-outs & maps in very good condition, with some faded around edges; text print on one side of paper only; ex-corporate library name stamp on slightly faded front orange cover; call numbers' sticker on spine; 3 small tears on top edge of back paper cover; remnants of glue from card pocket inside back cover; pages clean; very good++ condition; Oversize Book - may require extra postage
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Economics of Mineral Engineering, An Inter-Regional Seminar Organised By the United Nations in Co-Operation with the Government of Turkey, Ankara, April 1976
London, England Mining Journal Books Limited 1976 0-900117-10-9 First Edition Cloth Very Good+++ No Jacket Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
10 technical papers from a United Nations meeting on the economics of mineral engineering held in Ankara, Turkey, April 1976; allowed for an exhange of views & experience from international participants working in the mining sector, an analysis of the pattern of world trade, factors involved in mining development, and a review of technology as it effects mining development; Contents: Opening Address to Seminar; Part 1 - The Economic Setting: 1 - Developing Countries Position in World Mineral Trade; 2 - The Role of Mineral Engineering in Resources Development in Developing Countries; Part 2 - The Technological Contribution: 3 - The Recent Development of Non-ferrous Extractive Metallurgy; 4 - Recent Advances in Hydrometallurgy with Implications for the Developing Countries; 5 - In Situ Extraction and Leaching Technology; 6 - Recent Developments in Mineral Processing and Their Economic Implications; 7 - Recent Advances in the Fields of Iron Ore Processing and Sponge Iron Production; Part 3 - Social, Administrative and Financial Considerations: 8 - The Importance of National Training Facilities; 9 - Environmental Factors and the Requirements for Control of Effluents; 10 - Financing Mineral Developments; Closing Address to the Seminar; Statement by the Participants; List of Participants; 223 pp. including tables, graphs, figures, references; bright gold lettering on navy blue spine; paper clip indentation on upper edge of first three pages; previous owner's signature on FFEP; pages clean, bright, tight; very good+++ condition
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Abstract Booklet, 2004 Joint Conference, 21st American Society of Mining and Reclamation Meeting, 25th West Virginia Surface Mine Drainage Task Force symposium, April 18-22, 2004, Morgantown, West Virginia
Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S.A. American Society of Mining and Recalamation 2004 Plastic Spiral Binding As New No Jacket Conference Abstracts 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
booklet of abstracts from 2004 Joint Conference of the 21st American Society of Mining and Reclamation Meeting and the 25th West Virginia Surface Mine Drainage Task Force Symposium, held in Morgantown, West Virginia, April 18-22, 2004; Contents: A - Conference Overview and Schedule; B - Program and Sessions; C - Workshops; D - Field Trips; E - Student Presentations; F - Poster Presentations; G - ASMR Technical Division and General Business Meetings; H - Abstracts (158 listings): 1 - Plenary Session; 2 - Underground Hydrogeology; 3 - Valley Fills; 4- ADTI; 5 - Revegetation/Forestry; 6 - AMD Passive; 7 - Hydrology; 8 - Selenium; 9 - AML/Remining; 10 - AMD Passive; 11 - Overburden/Soils; 12 - Forestry West Virginia; 13 - Revegetation/Wildlife; 14 - Posters; 15 - AMD Passive; 16 - Minesoils; 17 - Tailings; 18 - Stream Restoration; 19 - AMD Chemical; 20 - Minesoils; 21 - Watershed Restoration; 22 - Acidity; 23 - Aquaculture; 24 - Stream Characterization; 158 pages, very clean , bright; bright golden paper covers in black plastic spiral binding; as new condition; Oversized Book - may require extra postage depending on destination
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Billings Land Reclamation Symposium 2000
Billings, Montana, U.S.A. 2000 Soft Cover Good No Jacket Symposium Abstracts 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
abstracts of the 2000 Billings Land Reclamation Symposium, "Striving for Restoration, Fostering Technology and Policy for Reestablishing Ecological Function," held at the Sheraton Billings Hotel, in Billings, Montana, March 20-24, 2000; Contents: 1 - Revegetation ( 23 abstracts); 2 - Hydrologic Recovery (7 abstracts); 3 - Sagebrush Establishment on Mined Lands (9 abstracts); 4 - Geochemistry, Fate and Transport in Disturbed Ecosystems (3 abstracts); 5 - Wetlands Mitigation and Riparian Health ( 7 abstracts); 6 - Emerging Technologies for Reclamation (10 papers); 7 - Grazing of Reclaimed Lands and Rangeland Health (5 papers); 8 - Tailings Reclamation (8 abstracts); 9 - Mine Waste Technology Program (4 abstracts); 10 - Soil Caps - Seals, Liners and Water Movement (4 abstracts); 11 - Soil Amendments (5 abstracts); 12 - Channel Restoration (4 abstracts); Added Abstract Insert: Field Data Collection - Techniques & Applications; 89 pages; front green cover paper rubbed off in a 5 x 10 cm area; lower corners have small crease; lower spine binding tape slightly bumped; pages very clean, bright, tight; good condition
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Mineral Resources: Research Objectives for Continental Scientific Drilling
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. National Academy Press 1984 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
prepared by a scientific panel with members from the Continental Scientific Drilling Committee, the Board on Earth Sciences, the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, & Resources, and the National Research Council; develops a research drilling program that will provide answers to scientific questions regarding mineralized hydrothermal systems; Contents: 1 - Summary & Recommendations; 2 - Mineral Resource Problems to be Addressed; 3 - Mineralized Hydrothermal Systems; 4 - Active Hydrothermal Systems; 5 - Examples of Objectives to be Addressed by Add-On Investigations; 6 - Drilling, Diagnostics, and Data Needs; 56 pp. including table listing fossil & active systems, map of drilling targets, references, & Appendix listing Contributors to the Mining District Summaries; ex-corporate library name stamp on front cover & title page; call numbers' sticker taped to spine; minor wrinkles to cover; pages very clean, bright, tight; very good condtion
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Chemical Industries
London, England Leonard Hill Limited 1948 21st Edition, Enlarged & Revised Cloth Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Hard Cover; reference book, with alphabetical listings, forming a link chemical manufacturer, user, scientist, & student; Contents: Preface, Index to Technical Data; Index to Advertisers; 1 - Commercial Indices; 2 - Constructional Materials; 3 - Fuels; 4 - Power Production & Transmission; 6 - Water Treatment; 7 - Chemical Plant; 8 - Handling, Conveying, Transport; 9 - Industrial & Scientific Instruments; 10 - Glossary of Industrial Chemicals; 11 - Fine Chemicals; 12 - Chemical & Physical Tables; 13 - Mathematical & Conversion Tables; 14 - Tables to Sections 3-5; 405 pp. including tables, figures b&w photos, advertisers; added bonus: includes insert of original form from publisher asking reader to evaluate book purchase (form is wrinkled, with small tears, along bottom edge); historic ex-corporate library bookplate on front pastedown; card pocket on rear pastedown; corners, lower edge of boards, & spine edges bumped; call numbers on spine; gold lettering fading along navy blue spine; pages clean, some faded; good condition; Oversized Book - may require extra postage depending on destination
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International Land Reclamation and Mine Drainage Conference and Third International Conference on the Abatement of Acidic Drainage, Volumes 1-4
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines 1994 Soft Cover Very Good+++ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
4 Volume Set; Bureau of Mines Special Publications: Volume 1 - Mine Drainage (SP 06A-94) 440 pages; Volume 2 - Mine Drainage (SP 06B-94) 433 pages; Volume 3 - Reclamation and Revegetation (SP 06C-94) 353 pages; Volume 4 - Abandoned Mine Lands and Topical Issues (SP 06D-94) 422 pages; proceedings of a conference held in Pittsburgh, PA on April 24-29, 1994; conference served as annual meeting for both the American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation and the Canadian Land Reclamation Association; includes abstracts, graphs, tables, figures, maps, references, author index; Volume 1: 1 - Modeling Mine Water Quality (6 papers); 2 - Water Treatment with Wetlands (6 papers); 3 - Predicting Mine Water Quality (7 papers); 4 - Water Treatment - Chemical (7 papers); 5 - Control of AMD - Wet Covers (6 papers); 6 - Site Characterization Monitoring (6 papers); 7 - Control of AMD - Alkaline Addition (4 papers); 8 - Mine Water Geochemistry (4 papers); Volume 2: 1 - Mine Drainage - Case Studies (5 papers); 2 - Control of Mine Drainage - General (6 papers); 3 - Control of Acid Mine Drainage - Dry Covers (6 papers); 4 - Mine Hydrology (6 papers); 5 - Poster Sessions - Manuscripts (24 papers); Abstracts (alphabetical listing); Volume 3: 1 - Productivity Criteria for Restored Sites (6 papers); 2 - Ecological Restoration (7 papers); 3 - Soil Amendments (6 papers); 4 - Revegetation of Mine Waste (4 papers); 5 - Post-Mining Land Use (6 papers); 6 - Forestry (5 papers); 7 - Poster Session - Manuscripts (6 papers); Abstracts (alphabetically listed); Volume 4: 1 - Subsidence - Reclamation, Characterization (6 papers); 2 - Subsidence - Structural Response (7 papers); 3 - Abandoned Mine Land Studies (6 papers); 4 - Mine Hydrology - Topical Issues (4 papers); 5 - Mine Waste - Topical Issues (6 papers); 6 - Policy Issues (6 papers); 7 - Poster Session - Manuscripts (14 papers); Abstracts (alphabetical listing); ex-corporate library name stamp on front covers; call numbers' sticker on spines; spine edges bumped, with tiny tear on upper spine edge of Volume 1; minor library notations on title pages; corners slightly bumped & small indentation on cover of Volume 2; faint pink mark on cover of Volume 3; slight crease on front covers of Volumes 3 & 4; pages bright, clean, tight; very good++ condition; Heavy Four Volume Set - will require extra postage
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The AusIMM Annual Conference, Broken Hill NSW, 17-21 May 1992
Parkville, Victoria, Australia The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1992 0 949106 66 6 Soft Cover Very Good+++ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
32 papers from annual meeting of The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy held in Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1992; 214 pp. including abstracts, b&w photos, graphs, figures, tables, calculations, references, list of other publications from publisher; text print in two columns per page; ex-corporate library name stamp on front cover, title page, & inside back cover; call numbers' sticker taped to spine & title page; very minor edgewear & creases to corner of back cover; pages clean, tight; very good+++ condition; Oversized Book - may require extra postage depending on destination
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Symposium on the Engineering Geology of the Cities in South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa Association of Engineering Geologists, South Africa Section 1981 Soft Cover Very Good++ No Jacket Symposium Abstracts 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
extended abstracts from papers presented at the Symposium on the Engineering Geology of Cities in South Africa, held 15-17 September 1981, at the C.S.I.R. Conference Centre in Pretoria, South Africa; sponsored by the Association of Engineering Geologists, South Africa Section; Contents: 1 - Keynote Address; 2 - Johannesburg (12 papers); 3 - Other Cities & General (2 papers); 4 - Durban (5 papers); 5 - Pietermaritzburg (2 papers); 6 - Cape Town (7 papers); 7 - Pretoria (8 papers); 8 - Port Elizabeth (5 papers); 252 pp. including tables, graphs, figures, a few b&w photos & maps, references; previous owner's signature on title page; minor edgewear; spine edges & corners rubbed; pages very clean, bright, tight; very good ++ condition
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Rapports, VI International Mining Congress, Madrid, June 1970
Madrid, Spain Graficas, Refunidas, S.A. 1970 Soft Cover Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
text in English; contains summaries of various technical papers which could be grouped as "Application of Economic Theory Techniques in Mining;" Contents: 1 - Exploration of Deposits and Estimation of Reserves (summaries of 8 works); 2 - Mathematics and Other Sciences in the Mining Technology (9 works); 3 - Rock Mechanics ( 9 works); 4 - Organization of Research Programmes in Mining (9 works); 5 - Field Research (8 works); 6 - Planning and Scientific Management of Big Mining Companies (9 works); 7 - Perspectives of Changes in Mining Technology Through the Application of Science (9 works); 8 - Results of Technical Progress in Mining (10 works); 9 - Development and Evolution of Technology for the Optimum Use of Mineral Resources (9 works); 10 - Human Factors in Mining (8 works); 155 pp. including graphs, tables, b&w photos, figures, fold-outs, calculations, some references; text print is in two columns per page; ex-corporate library name stamp on FFEP & front cover; call numbers' sticker taped to front cover; library notations & initials on corner of front cover; glue browning inside back cover; spine edges & corners bumped; 1 cm tear along lower spine edge; minor edgewear; pages are clean, tight, bright; good condition
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Proceedings of a Symposium on Decision-Making in Mineral Exploration
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Western Miner Press 1968 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
proceedings from symposium on Decision-Making in Mineral Exploration, held on 25 January 1968 in Vancouver, British Columbia; organized to encourage use of operations research and other mathematical & computer-oriented decision-making methods in mining industry, particularly in the search for & exploration of mineral deposits; designed to introduce selected methods at elementary level and indicate what might be achieved through application, thereby creating a motivational atmosphere rather than a tutorial one; reprinted from Western Miner, February & April, 1968; Contents: 1 - Keynote Address - An Overview of Decision-Making Methods in Exploration & Evaluation of Mineral Properties; 2 - Applications of Simple Statistics to Geology; 3 - Storage & Retrieval of Geologic Data, Using Digital Computer Methods; 4 - Selections of Target Areas for Factor Analysis; 5 - Trend Surface Analysis in Mining; 6 - Decisions and Probablities; 7 - Classification of Geologic Data; 42 pp. including abstracts, tables, graphs, b&w photos of authors, references; text print is primarily in three columns per page; call numbers' sticker taped to front cover; previous owner's name on front cover; very minor edgewear; cover slighlty faded around edges; pages in very good condition, clean except for tiny erased pencil marks next to references on p. 9; very good condition
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Abstracts 28th International Geological Congress, Washington, D. C. USA, July 9-19, 1989, Volumes 1-3
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. International Geological Congress 1989 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Abstracts 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
alphabetically arranged (by first author) abstracts from the 28th International Geological Congress held in Washington, D. C., July 9-19, 1989; Volume 1 (624 pp.); Volume 2 (766 pp.); Volume 3 (536 pp.); includes detailed directories of presenters, figures, references; text print is in two columns per page; previous owner's signature on front covers; notations in ink on title pages, & occasional minor notations throughout text; very minor edgewear; pages tight, in very good condition, slightly faded; Three Volume Set; Heavy Three Volume Set - will require extra postage
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Office Personnel Policies and Salary Administration, Special Investigation, Report No. 587
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. The Dartnell Corporation 1949 6-Ring Notebook Binder Very Good No Jacket Loose Leaf 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
no author listed; Part One provides brief overview of average levels of payment & usual policies governing variety of clerical personnel problems (1949); Part Two includes number of case history studies of successful solutions to these problems without reference to how commonly they were employed; executives may find ideas which may be used to cut administrative costs by increased production & lowered turnover resulting from fair, realistic salary & personnel policies; 61 pp. including tables, plus additional insert pages, forms, fold-outs of alphabetical listing in table form of Facilities & Privileges of Clerical Workers in 207 U.S. Companies, Clerical Personnel Policies of 207 Companies, Summaries of Hours & Conditions of Work in 207 Companies; text print primarily on only one side of page; loose-leaf pages, 6-hole punched; print resembles mimeographed pages (black ink); title impreinted on front binder cover in gold lettering; call numbers on spine of notebook binder; minor edgewear to binder; upper spine of binder frayed; binder corners slightly bumped; pages very clean; very good condition; Oversized, with 6-Ring Notebook Binder - may require extra shipping depending on destination
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Physical Sciences Engineering, A Directory of Information Resources in the United States
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Library of Congress 1971 0-8444-0001-7 Soft Cover Good No Jacket Directory 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Science & Technology Division, National Referral Center; alphabetical listing of physical science & engineering information resource agencies, including name, address, telephone number, areas of interest, holdings, publications, & information services; 803 pp. including subject index; text print is in two columns per page; two reading creases along spine; minor edgewear; back cover & spine edges rubbed; faint notation on spine; small tear to lower area on title page; pages very clean, bright; good condition; Heavy Book - may require extra postage depending on destination
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Seminario Sobre Recuperocao de Fosforo - Seminar on Phosphate Recovery
Brazil Instituto Brasileiro Do Fosfato - Ibrafos 1987 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
most of text in Portuguese; pp. 373-392 in English; based on seminar held in Sao Paulo on 19 & 20 November, 1987; Contents: 1 - Sessao de Abertura; 2 - Panorama da Recuperacao de Fosforo; 3 - Eficiencia Agronomica de Fertilizantes Fosfatados para Culturas Anuais, Perenes, Pastagens e Reflorestamento; 4 - Utilizacao Eficiente do Fostoro no Sistema Solo-Planta; 5 - Evolucao da Recuperacao de Fosforo na Mineracao; 6 - Estrategias para Aumento na Recuperacao Global de P205 na Mineracao; 7 - Solubilizacao de Rochas Fosfaticas Practicas Adotadas e Rendimentos Industriais; 8 - Rotas Opcionais Visando o Aproveitamento de Fosfatos Brasileiros na Producao de Fertilizantes; 9 - Mesa Redonda; Apendice (in English): Personal Record of Guy Soubrouillard; article on Valorization of the Phosphate Fines & Utilization of the Fine Concentrate Thus Obtained - by R. Darius (16 pages); 392 pp. including tables, figures, graphs, debates, references; cover has wrinkles along spine; minor edgewear; pages very clean & bright, tight; very good condition
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Provinciehuis Noord-Holland
Netherlands Provinciaal Bestaur Van Noord Hard Cover Near Fine Near Fine Non-fiction 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
text in Dutch; 48 pp. including b&w photos of buildings, statues, rooms, grounds; bright orange cloth boards, with bright gold lettering; very slight wear to dust jacket, with a tiny repaired tear along rear upper edge; pages very clean & bright, unmarked, tight; near fine condition
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The World's Best Cowboy Songs, The World's Best Music Series No. 17
New York City, New York, U.S.A. Amsco Music Publishing Company, Inc, 1941 Stapled Good No Jacket Music Folio 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
music folio of approximately 50 cowboy songs arranged for various instruments and voice; "combining traditional songs of the trail and range with accompaniment for voice and piano, guitar, banjo, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, violin, accordion, and others;" 96 pp. of lyrics & music, illustrated with occasional small diagrams of cowboys; old price sticker on cover; minor edgewear; pages in very good condition, clean, slightly fade; good condition
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Science, Vol. 291, No. 5509, 2 March 2001 - Human Evolution: Migrations
Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2001 0036-8075 Stapled Very Good No Jacket Journal 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
ISSN 0036-8075; Science periodical published weekly on Fridays, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; pp. 1651-1846; includes articles: News of the Week, News Focus, Science's Compass, Letters, Essay/Policy Forum, Perspectives, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, Editorial, color and b&w photography, references; text print in multiple columns; minor wrinkles to cover; remnants of address label on front cover; very good condition
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Science, Vol. 292, No. 5514, 6 April 2001
Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2001 0036-8075 Stapled Very Good No Jacket Journal 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
ISSN 0036-8075; periodical published weekly on Fridays, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; pp. 1-156; includes articles: News of the Week, News Focus, Science's Compass, Letters, Essay/Policy Forum, Perspectives, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, Editorial, color and b&w photography, references; text print in multiple columns; minor wrinkles to cover; remnants of address label on front cover; very good condition
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Science, Vol. 292, No. 5515, 13 April 2001
Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2001 0036-8075 Stapled Very Good No Jacket Journal 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
ISSN 0036-8075; periodical published weekly on Fridays, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; pp. 157-384; includes articles: News of the Week, News Focus, Science's Compass, Letters, Essay/Policy Forum, Perspectives, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, Editorial, color and b&w photography, references; text print in multiple columns; minor wrinkles to cover; remnants of address label on front cover; very good condition
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Science, Vol. 292, No. 5516, 20 April 2001
Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2001 0036-8075 Stapled Very Good No Jacket Journal 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
ISSN 0036-8075; periodical published weekly on Fridays, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; pp. 385-588; includes articles: News of the Week, News Focus, Science's Compass, Letters, Essay/Policy Forum, Perspectives, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, Editorial, color and b&w photography, references; text print in multiple columns; minor wrinkles to cover; remnants of address label on front cover; very good condition
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Science, Vol. 292, No. 5518, 4 May 2001
Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2001 0036-8075 Stapled Very Good No Jacket Journal 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
ISSN 0036-8075; periodical published weekly on Fridays, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; pp. 797-1008; includes articles: News of the Week, News Focus, Science's Compass, Letters, Essay/Policy Forum, Perspectives, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, Editorial, color and b&w photography, references; text print in multiple columns; minor wrinkles to cover; remnants of address label on front cover; very good condition
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Science, Vol. 292, No. 5519, 11 May 2001 - Ecology and Evolution of Infection
Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2001 0036-8075 Stapled Very Good No Jacket Journal 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
ISSN 0036-8075; periodical published weekly on Fridays, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; pp. 1009-1248; includes articles: News of the Week, News Focus, Science's Compass, Letters, Essay/Policy Forum, Perspectives, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, Editorial, color and b&w photography, references; text print in multiple columns; minor wrinkles to cover; remnants of address label on front cover; very good condition
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Science, Vol. 292, No. 5520, 18 May 2001 - Comet C/Linear
Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2001 0036-8075 Stapled Very Good No Jacket Journal 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
ISSN 0036-8075; periodical published weekly on Fridays, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; pp. 1249-1436; includes articles: News of the Week, News Focus, Science's Compass, Letters, Essay/Policy Forum, Perspectives, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, Editorial, color and b&w photography, references; text print in multiple columns; minor wrinkles to cover; remnants of address label on front cover; very good condition
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Science, Vol. 292, No. 5521, 25 May 2001
Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2001 0036-8075 Stapled Very Good No Jacket Journal 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
ISSN 0036-8075; periodical published weekly on Fridays, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; pp. 1437-1596; includes articles: News of the Week, News Focus, Science's Compass, Letters, Essay/Policy Forum, Perspectives, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, Editorial, color and b&w photography, references; text print in multiple columns; minor wrinkles to cover; remnants of address label on front cover; very good condition
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Science, Vol. 292, No. 5522, 1 June 2001
Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2001 0036-8075 Stapled Very Good No Jacket Journal 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
ISSN 0036-8075; periodical published weekly on Fridays, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; pp. 1597-1784; includes articles: News of the Week, News Focus, Science's Compass, Letters, Essay/Policy Forum, Perspectives, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, Editorial, color and b&w photography, references; text print in multiple columns; minor wrinkles to cover; remnants of address label on front cover; very good condition
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Science, Vol. 288, No. 5473, 16 June 2001 - Understanding Earth's Dynamics
Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2001 0036-8075 Stapled Very Good No Jacket Journal 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
ISSN 0036-8075; periodical published weekly on Fridays, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; pp. 1921-2084; includes articles: News of the Week, News Focus, Science's Compass, Letters, Essay/Policy Forum, Perspectives, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, Editorial, color and b&w photography, references; text print in multiple columns; minor wrinkles to cover; remnants of address label on front cover; very good condition
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Science, Vol. 296, No. 5565, 5 April 2002 - The Rice Genome
Washington, D.C. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2002 0036-8075 Stapled Very Good No Jacket Journal 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
ISSN 0036-8075; periodical published weekly on Fridays, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; pp. 1-204; includes articles: News of the Week, News Focus, Science's Compass, Letters, Essay/Policy Forum, Perspectives, Reviews, Research Articles, Reports, Book Reviews, Editorial, color and b&w photography, references; text print in multiple columns; minor wrinkles to cover; remnants of address label on front cover; very good condition
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Allen's Directory of the Chemical and Oil Industries, Including Company Personnel (1949-1950)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania & New York Soft Cover Good No Jacket Directory 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
1949-1950; Directory of Chemical and Oil Industries, including company names, addresses, & personnel; alphabetical listing by state; published annually; 133 pp., including some advertising b&w photos or diagrams; text print in two columns per page; card pocket inside cover; covers slightly scuffed; minor ex-corporate library notations & name stamp on title page; book tape spine slightly frayed at edges; pages faded, but clean; good condition
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Allen's Directory of the Chemical and Oil Industries, Including Company Personne (1951)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania & New York 1951 Soft Cover Good No Jacket Directory 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Directory of Chemical and Oil Industries, including company names, addresses, & personnel; alphabetical listing by state; published annually; 179 pp., including some advertising b&w photos or diagrams; text print in two columns per page; card pocket inside cover; covers slightly scuffed; historic ex-corporate library bookplate inside front cover; rear cover is loose along spine; minor ex-corporate library notations; book tape spine slightly frayed at edges; pages clean; good condition
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Allen's Directory of the Chemical and Oil Industries, Including Company Personnel (1952)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania & New York 1952 Soft Cover Good No Jacket Directory 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Directory of Chemical and Oil Industries, including company names, addresses, & personnel; alphabetical listing by state; published annually; 216 pp., including some advertising b&w photos or diagrams; text print in two columns per page; card pocket inside cover; covers slightly scuffed; minor ex-corporate library notations; pages clean; good condition
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Allen's Directory of the Chemical and Oil Industries, Including Company Personnel (1954)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania & New York 1954 Soft Cover Good No Jacket Directory 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Directory of Chemical and Oil Industries, including company names, addresses, & personnel; alphabetical listing by state; published annually; 234 pp., including some advertising b&w photos or diagrams; text print in two columns per page; card pocket inside cover; covers slightly scuffed; minor ex-corporate library notations; pages clean; good condition
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Biochemical Genetics, Vol. 46, No. 1-2, February 2008
New York City, New York, U.S.A. Springer 2008 00006-2928 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Journal 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
February 2008, Vol. 46, No. 1-2 journal of research papers on Biocemical Genetics; Contents: 1 - Polymorphism of Two Indels at the PRNP Gene in Three Beef Cattle Herds; 2 - Genetic Screening of the Canine Connexin 40 Gene in Dogs with Inherited Cardiac Conduction Defects; 3 - Sequence Characterization, Polymorphism, and Chromosomal Localizations of the Porcine Capz Genes; 4 - Evaluation of FORS-D Analysis: A Comparison with the Statistically Significant Stem-loop Potential; 5 - Biochemical, ECF18R, and RYRI Gene Polymorphisms and Their Associations with Osteochondral Diseases and Production Traits in Pigs; 6 - Substitutions of Three Amino Acids in Human Heart/Muscle Type Carnitine Palmitoyltransferase I Caused by Single Nucleotide Polymorphism; 7 - Association of Interleukin-6, Interleukin-12, and Interleukin-10 Gene Polymorphisms with Essential Hypertension in Tatars from Russia; 8 - Strong Genetic Differentiation of Primula sikkimensis in the East Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains; 9 - Mating Systems of Psychotria tennuinervis (Rubiaceae): Distance from Anthropogenic and Natural Edges of Atlantic Forest Fragment; 10 - Erratum - Molecular Analysis Using Mitochondrial DNA and Microsatellites to Infer the Formation Process of Japanese Native Horse Populations; 104 pp. including abstracts, tables, graphs, figures, references; pages very clean, bright, tight; very good condition
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The International Monthly Magazine of Literature, Science, and Art , Volume 5, January to April, 1852
New-York, U.S.A. Stringer & Townsend 1852 First Edition Hard Cover Fair to Good No Jacket Magazine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
four monthly issues of The International Monthly Magazine (January-April, 1852) bound together in 5th Volume, completing the series; from this point on, the magazine "will be blended with 'Harper's Monthly Magazine,' and, therefore, suspended as a distinct publication;" gold lettering along spine; appears to have original brown boards, with gold lettering along spine & decorative indentations on covers; tight; 568 pp. including illustrations, covering a variety of topics, such as: Adventures of an Army Physician in New York; The Fine Arts; Authors and Books; Brooding Places on the Falkland Islands; Divinity, Witchcraft, and Mesmerism; Recent Deaths; Scientific Discoveries and Proceedings of Learned Societies; Reminiscences of Printers, Booksellers, Authors, etc. in New-York; The Treatment of Gold and Gems (pp. 525-530); Underground Territories of the United States (Mammoth Cave, p. 17-28); text in two columns per page; corners, spine edges, and lower cover edges are rubbed, with small pieces of cover missing, exposing boards; end papers & pastedowns are heavily foxed; minor fading to pages, and occasional foxing to pages along binding; binding material visible between front board & FFEP; three small holes appear in all pages near spine; fair to good condition, especially considering its age
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Souvenir of Flagstaff and Coconino County, Arizona 1917
Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S.A. Northland Press 1964 Soft Cover Fine No Jacket Souvenir Book 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
published in 1964, this is a facsimile edition of a souvenir booklet of Flagstaff and Coconino County, Arizona dated from 1917; includes text and reproductions of historic brown & white photographs of interesting tourist features and scenery from these two Arizona counties; title page caption reads "Flagstaff and Its Surrounding Country...Where the Sky and Mountain Meet; "text describes points of interest for tourists; some examples of photos (with descriptions) are as follows: The San Francisco Peaks, Sunset Mountain, Lava Beds, Lake Mary, Santa Fe Depot, First National Bank, Post Office, Mansion, Emerson High School, Masonic Temple, the Pine Hotel, Citizens Bank, cave dwellings, Normal School, General Store, Hotel Weatherford, Lowell Observatory, Main Street, Hotels, Electric Company Plant, Businesses, Orpheum Theater, Riordan Residence, garage building, town of Williams, Stores, Lumber Yard, Red Cross Station, & County Hospital; original copyright was from the Arizona Illustrated Book Company located in Flagstaff; unpaginated; includes fold-out page of the Grand Canyon; brown textured soft covers, with gold background and corner designs; pages very clean, tight; booklet actually looks new, in fine condition
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Mercedes (Vol. 1-3, 5-25, 33 & 34) & The Star (Mercedes-Benz Club of America) - Vol. January/February 1982, July/August 1982, September/October 1982, May/June 1991)
Montvale, New Jersey, U.S.A. Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Magazine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
25 Volumes of "Mercedes" magazine (1980-1981: Vol. 1-3; 1982-1987: 5-25; 1990-1991:33 & 34), which is published four times a year by Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc; approx. 23-31 pp., including color photos, articles about the design, models, performance, technology, road trips, events, history, art, and other interesting articles, with some early on recurring articles, such as About Mercedes-Benz, Dialogue, Your Mercedes-Benz, Tours on a Tankful, Tailgating, Classic Portrait; Volume 18 is a Special Issue celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Mercedes-Benz; also included are four issues of "The Mercedes-Benz Star" (Mercedes-Benz Club of America) - Vol. January/February 1982, July/August 1982, September/October 1982, May/June 1991), a magazine published by The Mercedes-Benz Club of American (MBCA), in Colorado Springs, Colorado; approx. 48-87 pp. each, includes articles, features, events, technical news, history, departments, advertising; stapled binding; in total, 25 Volumes of "Mercedes" magazine and 4 issues of "The Star;" minor edgewear; pages very clean, bright, tight; very good condition
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A Special Committee of the Governor's Oil Shale Advisory Committee Report on Economics of Environmental Protection for a Federal Oil Shale Leasing Program
Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Department of Natural Resources for the State of Colorado 1971 Plastic Spiral Binding Very Good++ No Jacket Soft Paper Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Signed by Author
inscribed by John B. Tweedy, chairman of Governor John Love's Oil Shale Advisory Committee's subcommittee, the "Special Committee on Economics of Environmental Protection;" purpose of report was to fulfill requirements set forth in Memorandum dated May 28, 1970 regarding the environment & return of residue from mining & refining to the earth for further use and the involved costs; Contents: 1 - Introduction, Summary, and Conclusion; 2 - Natural Resources; 3 - Site Selection; 4 - Underground Mining and Surface Retorting; 5 - Surface Mining; 6 - In Situ Operations; 7 - Off Site Requirements; 8 - Land Use Planning; 9 - Legislative and Administrative Protection of the Environment; 10 - Economics of Environmental Protection; 11 - Recommendations; 204 pp. including figures, maps, appendices; green paper cover shows slight edgewear; front is protected by a clear plastic cover page; slight browning to edge of clear pastic cover near spiral; pages clean, bright, tight in plastic spiral binding; very good++ condition
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A. A. Beus Geochemistry of Beryllium and Genetic Types of Beryllium Deposits
San Francisco, California, U.S.A. W. H. Freeman and Company 1966 Cloth New Good Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
NEW book; first published in Russian by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow in 1960, with K. A. Vlasov as editor-in-chief; comprehensive compiliation of mineralogic & geochemical data concerning beryllium in rocks & mineral deposits of the USSR, emphasizing the author's theoretical views about the origin of abnormal concentrations of beryllium; author draws many examples from outside the Soviet Union by referring to mainly older literature; 399 pp. including index; dust jacket is simple, clean, pressed brown butcher-paper type with window cut out for title on spine; book is New
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A. A. Beus Geochemistry of Beryllium and Genetic Types of Beryllium Deposits
San Francisco, California, U.S.A. W. H. Freeman and Company 1966 Cloth New Good Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
NEW book; first published in Russian by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow in 1960, with K. A. Vlasov as editor-in-chief; comprehensive compiliation of mineralogic & geochemical data concerning beryllium in rocks & mineral deposits of the USSR, emphasizing the author's theoretical views about the origin of abnormal concentrations of beryllium; author draws many examples from outside the Soviet Union by referring to mainly older literature; 399 pp. including index; dust jacket is simple, clean, pressed brown butcher-paper type with window cut out for title on spine; book is New
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A. A. Bogdanoff, M. V. Mouratov, & N. S. Schatsky, Editors Tectonics of Europe - Explanatory Note to the International Tectonic Map of Europe, Scale 1:2,500,000; Tectonique De L'Europe - Notice Explicative pour la Carte Tectonique International de L'Europe, au 1:2 500 000 (Congress Geologique International)
Moscow, Russia Publishing House Nauka 1964 Hard Cover Good Very Good Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
International Geological Congress, Commission for the Geological Map of the World, Subcommission for the Tectonic Map of the World; translated from Russian into either English or French; Introduction (in French); Contents: 1 - The East-European Platform (5 articles in English); 2 - The Caledonian Folded Structures in North-Western Europe & in Greenland (6 articles in English); 3 - Areas of Variscan Folding (14 articles in English, 5 in French); 4 - Region Plisse Alpine (20 articles in French); 5 - Plateforme Africaine et son Encadrement Paleozoique Septentrional (7 articles in French)360 pp. including figures, tables, maps, fold-outs, bibilographies; text print is in two columns per page; hard gray flexible boards, with red & white lettering and imprinted seal reading "Geologorum Conventuso. IXX. Mente et Malleo. 1960" on front cover; page gutter forming between title pages and pp. 358 & 359, where binding material is peeking through smalle holes in paper; corners & spine edges bumped; lower corners of pages bumped; spotting to front cover; boards wiggle along spine; pages very clean; good condition; Oversized Book - may require extra postage, plus insurance, depending on destination
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A. A. Levinson, Editor Precious Metals in The Northern Cordillera - Proceedings of a Symposium Held April 13-15, 1981 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Ontario, Canada The Association of Exploration Geochemists 1982 0-9691014-0-6 Cloth As New No Jacket Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Special Publication Number 10 of The Association of Exploration Geochemists; symposium was jointly sponsored by The Association of Exploration Geochemists & The Cordilleran Section of The Geological Association of Canada; 214 pp. including subject index, author index, localities index; a selection of 13 papers dealing with gold, silver, or platinum from the symposium; previous owner's miner bookplate on front board; bottom edge of spine slightly bumped; gold lettering on bright yellow-gold cover & spine; pages clean, bright, tight; looks NEW
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A. B. Cummingham Modeling and Analysis of Hydraulic Interchange of Surface and Groundwater
Reno, Nevada, U.S.A. Water Resources Center, Desert Research Instittue, University of Nevada 1977 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Technical Report 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Technical Report Series H-W, Hydrology & Water Resources, Publication No. 34, July 1977; soft paper covers with book taped, reindforced spine; report focuses on "modeling the exchange of water between surface streams and groundwater reservoirs on a portion of the Truckee River, Nevada;...research represents the first successful attempt to investigate the application of linked groundwater and surface water models to a real situation;" Contents: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Overview of Hydrologic Modeling; 3 - Development of Solution of Flow Equations; 4 - Evaluation of Model Performance; 5 - Analysis of System Components & Parameters; 6 - Conclusions; 89 pp. including abstract, figures, tables, calculations, references; ex-corporate library name stamp on outer edges of pages, title page, call numbers' sticker on spine & front cover; minor nick to edge of front cover; pages very clean & tight; very good condition
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A. B. Parsons The Porphyry Coppers in 1956
New York City, New York, U.S.A. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (A.I.M.E.) 1957 First Edition Cloth Good+ No Jacket Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Fund; 270 pp. including epilogue & index; b&w photos, graphs, tables; Chapters: Twenty-five Years of Progress, Utah Copper, Morenci, Nevada Consolidated-Consolidated Coppermines, Braden, Miami-Castle Dome-Copper Cities, Ray, Chino, Inspiration, Chuquicamata, New Cornelia, Copper Queen, Andes, Bagdad, Yerington, Silver Bell, San Manuel; previous owner's signature on FEP; name stamp on bottom outside edge of pages; spine slightly faded; corners bumped; pages clean, tight; good+ condition
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A. C. Thaysen & L. D. Galloway The Microbiology of Starch and Sugars
London, England Oxford University Press 1930 Hard Cover Very Good++ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
compiled as a complementary volume to the "Microbiology of Cellulose, Hemicellulose, Pectin, and Gums;" book is a review of the microbiology of carbohydrates, written from the point of view of the research worker; collection of existing knowledge (1930) & attempts to point out paths which may be followed by researchers who wish to extend their knowledge of the action of micro-organisms on starch & sugar; Topics include: Constitution & Biochemical Properties of Starch & Sugars; Hydrolysis of Starch, Glycogen, Insulin, Tetra-, Tri-, & Disaccharides, Glucosides; Fermentation of Monoses & Pentoses; Dehydrogenation, Aerobic & Faculatative Anaerobic Dehydrogenation, and Obligatory Anaerobic Dehydrogenation of Hexoses; Synthetic Activities of Micro-organisms; Mucus Fermentations; Microbiology of Cereals & Cereal Products, Grain & Its Milling Products, Bran, Flour, Starch-containing Sizing Materials & Adhesives, Baking, Sugar-Cane, Sugar-Beet, & Their Raw Juices; Diseases of Bread; Microbiological Deterioration of Sugar in Storage; 336 pp. including literature cited at end of each chapter, tables, author index, & subject index; historic ex-corporate library bookplate inside front board; call numbers on spine; card pocket on back pastedown; 128 & 129 beginning to separate from spine between pages; spine edges slightly bumped; pages clean; very good++ condition
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A. D. Bradshaw & M. J. Chadwick The Restoration of Land - The Ecology and Reclamation of Derelict and Degraded Land
Berkeley, California, U.S.A. University of California, Press 1980 0520 03961 0 Cloth As New Very Good Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
deals with problems of derelict land on a global scale, and shows how problems may be effectively solved with proper scientific understanding of ecological factors affecting plant growth; invaluable text for those intereseted in land restoration, such as scientific researchers, civil engineers, landscape architects & planners, citizens; forest green cloth with bright gold lettering on spine; Contents: 1 - The Problem; 2 -The Possibilities; 3 - Plants and Soils; 4 - Natural Soils and Their Improvements; 5 - Derelict Land Problems; 6 - Derelict Land Solutions; 7 - Techniques of Investigation; 8 - Deep Mines; 9 - Strip Mines; 10 - Quarries; 11 - Domestic and Industrial Wastes; 12 - Coast Lands; 13 - Roads, Reservoirs and Renewal; 14 - Prospect; Appendix: Conversions of Weights & Measures; Species Index; General Index; 317 pp. including tables, b&w photos, graphs, further reading, indices; dust jacket sun-faded along spine; spine edges slightly bumped, otherwise book looks NEW
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A. D. Mail, Editor Sedimentation and Tectonics in Alluvial Basins, Geological Association of Canada Paper 23
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Geological Association of Canada 1981 0-919216-19-6 Hard Cover Very Good++ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
9 papers focus on sedimentary basins that form in nonmarine to shallow marine settings on continental crust; authors summarize stratigraphy & sedimentology of basins, discuss tectonic controls, and attempt to relate basin history to local plate tectonic history; many of these papers were presented at symposium on "Molasse & Related Nonmarine-Paralic Sedimentary Facies in North America" at the annual meeting of the Geological Association of Canada in Halifax, 19 May 1980; abstracts in both English & French, text of papers in English; Contents: 1 - Alluvial Sedimentary Basins: Tectonic Setting & Basin Architecture; 2 - The Odyssey of Molasse; 3 - Alluvial Deposits & Tectonic Style: Devonian & Carboniferous Successions in Eastern Gaspe; 4 - Molasse Deposition & Basin Evolution in a Wrench Tectonic Setting; The Late Paleozoiuc, Eastern Cumberland Basin, Maritime, Canada; 5 - Late Paleozoic Molasse of Central Appalachians; 6 - Late Mesozoic - Paleogene Bowser Basin Molasse & Cardilleran Tectonics, Western Canada; 7 - Dextral Strike-slip Faults in the Canadian Cordillera & Depositional Environments of Related Fresh-Water Intermontane Coal Basins; 8 - Upper Devonian & Lower Mississippian Redbeds, Brooks Range, Alaska; 9 - Late Cretaceous & Paleogene Sediemntation & Tectonics in the Canadian Arctic Islands; 272 pp. including abstracts, maps, tables, figures, b&w photos, references; ex-corporate library name stamp on FFEP; minor library notation on title page; call numbers' sticker taped to spine; lower corner bumped; pages very clean, bright, tight; very good++ condition
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A. D. McQuillan & M. K. McQuillan Titanium - Metallurgy of the Rarer Metals - 4
London, England Butterworths Scientific Publications 1956 Hard Cover Very Good+ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
full account of the basic properties of titanium metal & its alloys; discusses principles involved in all aspects of production & processing of titanium on industrial scale; historic mining company library bookplate inside front board; 466 pp. including b&w photos, graphs, diagrams, tables, references & subject index; Contents: 1 - History & Occurrence of Titanium; 2 - Recovery of Titanium Metal from its Ore; 3 - Purification of Titanium; 4 - Melting & Casting of Titanium and Its Alloys; 5 - Fabrification & Joining of Titanium; 6 - Physical Properties of Titanium; 7 - Constitution of Titanium Alloys; 8 - Deformation Mechanisms & Textures; 9 - Transformations in Titanium & Titanium Alloys; 10 - Mechanical Properties of Titanium; 11 - Heat-Treatment & Mechanical Properties of Titanium-Rich Alloys; 12 - Reaction of Titanium with Gases; 13 - Corrosion of Titanium; 14 - Metallographic Techniques for Titanium & its Alloys; card pocket on back board; call numbers on spine; cover very lightly soiled; pages clean, tight; very good+ condition
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A. E. Alexander & P. Johnson Colloid Science, Volume II, Part III
Oxford, England Oxford at the Clarendon Press 1949 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Part III: The Principal Colloidal Systems; Chapter Contents: 20 - Dilute Suspensions (SOLS); 21 - Gels & Pastes; 22 - Foams; 23 - Emulsions; 24 - Colloidal Electrolytes; 25 - Clays & Zeolites; 26 - Proteins; 27 - Polymers; 28 - Membranes; Appendices; follows the general scheme of: method of preparation or formation, structure (both microscopic & interfacial), stability (its measurement & its origin), outline of more important properties; 837 pp. including graphs, figures, references, index; historic ex-corporate library bookplate on front pastedown; card pocket on rear pastedown; call numbers on spine; minor numerical notations in ink on FFEP; spine edges slightly bumped; bump on lower front edge of board; minor fading on portions of spine & upper edge of board; pages clean, slightly faded around edges; a few brown dots on outside edges of pages; overall very good condition
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A. F. Killin The Canadian Copper Industry in 1966 - Mineral Information Bulletin, MR88
Ottawa, Canada Mineral Resources Division, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources 1967 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Bulletin 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Mineral Information Bulletin MR88 on "The Canadian Copper Industry in 1966" published by the Mineral Resources Division of the Dept. of Energy, Mines and Resources; "contains pertinent information on the Canadian copper industry for the years 1963 to 1966...statistical tables provide information on Canadian production of copper and copper products. Brief notes are included on each of the producing companies and an introduction is given to the mining, milling and smelting methods used in Canada. Notes on ore reserves, exploration activity and prospective producing mines are included as are notes on world production and prices." text is in English; abstract is in both English & French; 212 pp. including figures, fold-outs, b&w photos, tables, maps, index to companies; ex-corporate library name stamp on front cover; call numbers' sticker on front cover; small 2 cm tear to lower edge of front cover; spine edges rubbed; pages very clean, tight; very good condition
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A. G. Moncrieff, Chairman Extractive Metallurgy '85, Papers Presented at the Extraction Metallurgy '85 Symposium, Organized by the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and Held in London from 9 to 12 September, 1985
London, England The Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1985 Decorative Hard Cover Very Good+++ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
57 papers from Extraction Metallurgy '85 Symposium; 1124 pp. including figures, tables, b&w photos, references; ex-corporate library name stamp on FFEP; call numbers' stickers on front cover; small one cm tear on bottom of last page; spine edges bumped; corner slightly bumped; pages very clean, bright, tight; very good+++ condition; Heavy Book - may require extra postage
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A. G. Ward The Nature of Crystals
London, England Blackie & Son Limited 1938 First Edition Hard Cover Good+ No Jacket Ex-Library 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Blackie's Tracts on Recent Physics; Chapters: 1 - Introduction; 2 - From Hooke to Hauy; 3 - From Bravis to Laue; 4 - Atoms, Molecules & Ions; 5 - Methods of Model Construction; 6 - Common Salt & Diamond; 7 - Copper & Paraffin Wax; 8 - Ionic Crystals; 9 - Homopolar Crystals; 10 - Metallic Crystals; 11 - The Physical Properties of Crystals; 114 pp. including diagrams, 4 b&w plates of crystals/models, Appendices (Bibliography, Periodic Classification & Electronic Structure of the Elements - fold-out, Apparatus, Notes on the Elements), & index; ex-library notations crossed out with black marker on outer edge of pages & elsewhere; library sticker on bottom of front cover; separation of pages beginning between pp. 36 & 37; corner bumped; slight fading near edges of spine; gold lettering on spine; interesting compact book, in deep blue cover; pages clean; good+ condition
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A. H. Koschmann & F. G. Wells Preliminary Report on the Kokomo Mining District, Colorado (Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings, Volume 15, No. 2)
Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Colorado Scientific Society 1946 Stapled Pamphlet Good- No Jacket Proceedings 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
preliminary geologic report on the Kokomo District, part of an extensive mineralized area in the Rocky Mountains of north-central Colorado; Contents: 1 - Introduction; 2 - History & Production; 3 - Geology; 4 - Structure; 5 - Mineral Deposits; Folded Maps (inserted between the pages): 1 - Geologic Map & Sections of the Kokomo Mining District, Colorado, Southwestern Part; 2 - Geologic Map of Kokomo Mining District, Colorado, Northeastern Part; pp. 51 - 112 including references; many pages are still uncut along top edge or side; 4 pages jagged along side because they were not cut at printing, but separated later; ex-library name stamp on front cover; stapled pages show minor edgewear & wrinkles; pages clean; good condition
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A. Hildreth, Editor Westward (January - December 1955)
Oakland, California, U.S.A. Kaiser Steel Corporation 1955 Leatherette Near Fine No Jacket Magazine 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
corporate magazine published monthly by Kaiser Steel Corporation; soft cover magazines (Jan. - Dec.) are bound within hard cover, tan, leatherette boards; each magazine is 48 pages in length; previous owner (whose name is imprinted in gold lettering on lower edge of front cover) was the Mine Manager for Kaiser's Eagle Mountain Iron Mine, located in San Bernardino County, California; text print is often in two columns per page; includes colored illustrations, b&w photos; articles pertain to industry, technology, modern advances, general interest, entertainment, cartoons, history, gold prospecting/history, biographies, the Old West, "The Last Word" (humorous brief anecdotes), "The Golden Gazette" (historic headlines & brief articles from 100 year old newspapers of the American West, for that particular month), "Men Make the Difference," current events, travel, manufacturing, plus each December issue has stories for the holidays; sample articles: Fairyland in 4-d; The $9,000,000 Gamble (polio vaccine); The Saddlemaker; Winchester House; A Bullfight to Remember; Payload for Progress; Medicine Man - 1957; Trial By Fire; All That Glitters is Not Gold; 20,000 Fish Under the Sea; The Golden West; Wyatt Earp on Gunplay; Canned Pop...Can Do; Cursed Be the Gold; Record Breaking Pioneer; Power in Reserve; The Boom in the Rolling Stock MarketThe Bay Aroung Us; The Western Way; Jedediah Smith; It's A Small World, and more; corners bumped; lower corners bumped on first 17 pages; pages clean, tight; near fine condition
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A. J. C. Andersen Refining of Oils and Fats for Edible Purposes
New York, New York, U.S.A. Pergamon Press 1962 2nd Edition, Revised Cloth Very Good No Jacket Ex-University Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Hard Cover; 247 pp. including 105 figures (diagrams, graphs, b&w photos), 7 tables, fold-out schematic of a continuous bleaching plant, bibliography, subject index; Contents: Introduction; 1 - Removal of Fat-Insoluble Impurities; 2 - Removal of Fat-Soluble Impurities - Pretreatment by De-gumming, Neutralization or De-acidification, Bleaching or Decoloration, Deodorization; 3 - Process Control; 4 - Complete Refinery Planes; 5 - Statistical Information; ex-library white sticker on front cover; library markings crossed out with black marker; first & last pages beginning to separate from spine; spine edges slightly bumped; cover slightly scuffed; pages clean & bright; very good+ condition
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A. Jacob Magnesium, The Fifth Major Plant Nutrient
London, England Staples Press Limited 1958 Cloth Very Good++ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
historic ex-corporate library bookplate inside front board; text in English (translated from German) by Norman Walker;159 pp. including references, 8 color plates, 10 b&w photos of leaves exhibiting magnesium deficiency; Contents: 1 - The Chemical Porperties of Magnesium; 2 - The Magnesium Content of Plants; 3 - Magnesium Deficiency Symptoms (at least 35 plants listed); 4 - Ion Antagonism of Magnesium; 5 - The Functions of Magnesium in the Living Processes of Plants; 6 - The Importance of Magnesium for Animal and Human Organisms (illnesses mentioned); 7 - The Magnesium Economy of the Soil; 8 - Soil Investigations for Magnesium; 9 - The Magnesium Content of Soils (around world); 10 - Fertilizers Experiments with Magnesium; (with specific plants) 11 - The Magnesium Fertilizers; 12 - Conclusion; corners bumped; edges of boards & spine's green cloth slightly faded; call numbers on spine; card pocket inside back board; pages clean, bright, tight; very good++ condition
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A. K. Denmead, G. W. Tweedale, & A. F. Wilson, Editors The Tasman Geosyncline, a Symposium - Papers Read at a Symposium in Honour of Professor Dorothy Hill, Held in Brisbane on 31st May and 1st June, 1973
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Geological Society of Australia, Inc., Queensland Division 1974 0 909869 04 9 Hard Cover Very Good+++ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
July 1974; collection of papers & discussions from a symposium organized to honour Research Professor Dorothy Hill on the occasion of her retirement in December 1972, from the staff of the Department of Geology & Mineralogy at the University of Queensland; designed as a tribute to her work on the Geosyncline; Contents: 1 - Opening Address; 2 - Tectonic Setting (7 papers); 3 - Metallogenesis (5 papers); 4 - Geochronology & Stratigraphy (4 papers); 5 - Coal Geology (1 papers); 6 - Summation Address; 7 - General Discussion; 409 pp. including abstracts, figures, fold-outs, maps, references; navy blue boards with gold lettering; ex-corporate library name stamp on FFEP; spine edges & corners slightly bumped; call numbers' sticker taped to spine; pages & fold-outs very clean, tight; very good+++ condition
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A. K. Miller, Carl O. Dunbar, & G. E. Condra The Nautiloid Cephalopods of the Pennsylvanian System in the Mid-Continent Region, Bullletin 9, Second Series
Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. Nebraska Geological Survey 1933 Cloth Very Good+++ No Jacket Hard Cover 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
3rd in a series of monographs on various groups of fossil invertebrates occurring in Pennsylvanian system of Nebraska & adjacent states; treatment is mainly morphologic & taxonomic; lists descriptions of nautiloids by genera; 240 pp. including figures, b&w photos, tables, fold-out of Virgil, Missouri, and Des Moines Series of the Pennsylvanian, & bibliography, plus 24 full page b&w plates of labeled fossils & index; beautiful unique gold marbled endpapers; gold lettering on spine; spine edges & corners very slightly rubbed; BFEP slightly separating along spine; glossy pages clean; very good+++ condition; fairly thin book but heavy, so may require extra postage depending on destination
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A. L. Mehring, Lola S. Deming, & Herbert Willett A Survey of Plant-Food Consumption in the United States in the Year Ended June 30, 1939
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. The National Fertilizer Association 1940 Stapled Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Survey 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
July 1940; report presents the results of The National Fertilizer's Association's third, comprehensive & most complete survey since 1925; survey was carried out to find out what grades of fertilizer were being sold in a particular region and in what amounts, so that the association could determine what list of grades will best meet the needs of agriculture in any particular region, and avoid unnecessary multiplicity of grades; Contents: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Methods; 3 - Completeness of Returns; 4 - Commercial Fertilizer Mixtures; 5 - Fertilizer Materials Consumed as Such; 6 - Total Consumption of All Fertilizers; 7 - Trends in Plant-Food Consumption; 86 pp. including footnotes and numerous tables; ex-corporate library stamp & sticker on front cover; minor wrinkles to covers, especially along spine; pages clean, tight; very good condition
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A. Lahiri, Director of Institute Proceedings of the Symposium on the Nature of Coal, Held at the Central Fuel Research Institute, Jealgora, India, from 7th to 9th February 1959
Jealgora, Bihar, India The Central Fuel Research Institute 1959 Hard Cover Very Good Fair Proceedings 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed By Director of Institute/Conference Organiz
proceedings from symposium organized by the Central Fuel Research Institute in collaboration with The Institute of Fuel (Indian Sections); signed "With Compliments of" A. Lahini, Director of the Institute, Chairman of Session 6, speaker for the Welcoming Address, and dated 5/8/60; Sessions: 1 - Origin & Systematics of Coal (7 papers); 2 & 3: Petrographic and X-Ray Studies on Coal - Ultra-fine Structure of Coal (7 papers); 4 - Coal Constitution: Physical Methods (6 papers); 5 - Coal Constitution: Chemical Methods (14 papers); 6 - Physico-Chemical Properties of Coal (6 papers); 321 pp. including Welcome Address, President's Address, Inaugral Address, abstracts, figures, tables, graphs, b&w photos, calculations, fold-out, references, general discussions; text print is in two columns per page; previous owner's name stamp on FFEP; last page of table of contents & page 1 beginning to separate along spine, so that binding material is peeking through; spine edges & corners bumped; very light foxing to top outer edges of pages and around perimeter of boards near glue of pastedowns; dust jacket has edgewear & small tears on upper spine, edges, & corners, with small pieces of dj missing on lower front edge & upper spine; minor soiling to dust jacket; pages clean, slightly faded; small 2cm tear near lower edge of p. 289; book is in very good condition, with dust jacket in fair condition
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A. M. Kelly & A. J. Sinclair, Editors Proceedings of a Symposium on Decision-Making in Mineral Exploration II
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada The University of British Columbia 1969 Plastic Spiral Binding Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
papers from proceedings of two-day symposium held in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 6-7, 1969; symposium organized & sponsored by The Ad Hoc Committee on Computer Applications in the Mineral Industry and Engineering Programs, Extension Department, The University of British Columbia; "Decision-Making in Mineral Exploration II" was designed as a follow-up to a January 1968 symposium (Decision-Making in Mineral Exploration), which introduced selected mathematical techniques, operations research, & applications of computer-oriented decision-making methods in mining exploration; II built on those first symposium principles & is case-history oriented; Contents: 1 - Supply & Demand of Geoscience Data; 2 - Development of a Flexible Computer-Processible File For Storage & Retrieval of Mineral Deposits Data; 3 - Classification Procedures in Geology; 4 - Betting on Your Guesses; 5 - Development of a Geological Data Retrieval System - A Case History; 6 - Wavenumber Domain Analysis & Design of Potential Field Filters; 7 - Applications of Optimum Filters in Mining Geophysics; 8 - An Introduction to Trend Surface Analysis in Mineral Exploration; 9 - Trend Analysis & Frequency Distribution of Whalesback Copper Values; 10 - An Example of Trend Surface Analysis Applied to Exploration Data; 11 - A Statistical Examination of the Metallic Mineral Resources of British Columbia; 12 - Q-Mode Factor Analysis Applied to Mineral Exploration Data; 13 - Quantifying Diamond Drill Logs for Data Processing; 14 - Two Dimensional Representation of Three Dimensional Surfaces; 279 pp. including abstracts, figures, tables, graphs; ex-corporate library name stamps on title page & front cover; call numbers' sticker on plastic spine; previous owner's name on front cover; soiling to front cover; paper clip indentation of upper edges of cover & first few pages; pages clean, tight; very good condition; Oversized Book - may require extra postage depending on destination
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A. M. Moore Compilation of Water-Temperature Data for Oregon Streams
Porton, Oregon, U.S.A. U.S. Department of the Interior Geological Survey 1964 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Open File Report, November 1964; prepared in copperation with State, Local & other Federal Agencies; Contents: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Cooperation; 3 - Explanation of Data: Station Descriptions, (Location, Drainage Areas, Water-temperature Records Available, Remarks), Tables of Water-temperature Data, (Thermograph Records, Spot-observation Records); 4 - Water-temperature Records; 134 pp. including numerous tables, index, and folded map of Oregon showing sites where water-temperature data have been obtained in rear pocket; also included is an insert page of data from the U.S. Dept. of Interior - Geological Survey - Water Resources Division listing temperatures of water for the Willamette River at Salem, Oregon from Oct. 1963 to Sept. 1964; ex-corporate library name stamp on covers & title page; call numbers on front cover; minor edgewear to covers; two pairs of staple holes along upper edge of front cover; pages very clean, bright, tight; very good condition
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A. N. Sachanen The Chemical Constituents of Petroleum
New York City, New York, U.S.A. Reinhold Publishing Corporation 1945 Cloth Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Hard Cover; historic ex-corporate mining library bookplate on front board; 451 pp. including author & subject indices; many tables, figures, calculations, graphs; references end each chapter; Chapters - Petroleum Gases & Natural Gases; Physical Methods of Determining Hydrocarbons in Distillates, Chemical Methods of Determining Hydrocarbons in Distillates, Hydrocarbons of Straight-Run Distillates, Hydrocarbons of Synthetic Distillates, Petroleum Wax, Oxygen Compounds, Sulfur & Nitrogen Compounds, Resins & Asphaltic Products, Classification of Crude Oils; spine edges bumped; call numbers on spine; card pocket on back board; upper front corner bumped; pages clean; very good condition
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A. Olaf Wolff, et al. Metallic Minerals Program - 1981, Volume 4, World Zinc
Menlo Park, California, U.S.A. SRI International (Minerals & Metals Department, Chemicals & Resources Division) 1982 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Report 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
January 1982; SRI International Project No. 5156; marked "Client Private" on front cover; "World Zinc report is part of the 1981 Metallic Minerals Program, initiated by SRI International as a multiclient program in January 1980...objective is to provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on the outlook for key minerals and metal commodities on a continuous basis to consumers, producers, and other organizations interested in the minerals sector. This report reviews the structure and anticipated evolution of the zinc industry, with particular emphasis on the demand/supply outlook, production economics, and the impact that normal economic forces may have on prices and trade for consumer and producer nations." Contents: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Summary & Conclusions; 3 - Zinc Consumption; 4 - Zinc Supply; 5 - Integrated Outlook; Appendix - Western World Zinc Mining Capacity Additions; paginated by sections; includes tables, graphs, figures; ex-corporate library name stamp & call numbers' stickers on front cover; minor wrinkles to front cover; upper spine edge slightly bumped; small 1 cm ink line on cover; pages very clean & bright, tight; very good condition
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A. R. Palmer, Editor Perspectives in Regional Geological Synthesis, Planning for The Geology of North America, D-NAG Special Publication 1
Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A. Geological Society of America 1982 0-8137-5201-9 Soft Cover Very Good++ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
project leaders for 20 regional geology volumes of synthesis series titled "Geology of North America" prepared short manuscripts presenting plans for synthesis of geological knowledge of their areas or topics; this book represents a part of the process of creating the twenty-nine 400 page volumes of the series, which was to bring together all knowledge of the geology of North America & its surrounding oceanic regions in a variety of documents compiled within a few years; Contents: 1 - Introduction; 2 - Geology of the Craton (6 papers); 3 - Phanerozoic Orogens (7 papers); 4 - Continental Margins and Adjacent Oceanic Regions (7 papers) ; 176 pp. including many maps, tables, figures, references; two columns of text print per page; ex-corporate library name stamp on title page & outer edge of pages; call numbers' sticker taped to spine; previous owner's signature on title page; paper clip indentation on upper front cover & first few pages; minor edgewear along spine; small faded area on back cover; pages very clean, bright, tight; very good++ condition
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A. Raistrick & C. E. Marshall The Nature and Origin of Coal and Coal Seams
London, England English Universities Press Ltd. 1952 Cloth Good+ No Jacket Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
describes the conditions & events which accompany the formation of coal seams; interprets the "abnormalities" of coal seams in terms of the condition of formation; deals briefly with the petrographic constitution of coals as it relates to their origins; a large number of collieries were visited, with time spent underground, examining all kinds of phenomena affecting coal seams; intended to help correlate & link the practical problems of the miner with the laboratory results of the research worker; 282 pp. including b&w photos, sketches, tables, graphs, bibliography, appendices, & index; Contents: 1 - The Strata of the Coal Measures; 2 - The Coal Seams; 3 - The Coal Swamps; 4 - The Splitting of Coal Seams; 5 - Wash-outs and Associated Phenomena; 6 - The Dislocation of Coal Seams; 7 - The Correlation of the Coal Measures; 8 - The Economic Products of the Coal Measures; 9 - The Coal Measure Flora; 10 - The Petrology of Coal; 11 - The Chemical Consitution of Coal and its Relationship fo the Different Coal Types; 12 - Rank in Coal; 13 - The Igneous Alteration of Coal Seams; Appendix 1 - The Preparation of Coal for Petrographic Examination; Appendix 2 - Nomenclature of Coal Petrology; Appendix 3 - Classification of Coals According To Rank; previous owner's signature on FFEP; cover scuffed; spine edges & corners bumped; pages appear slightly faded around edges, but clean & tight, no markings; b&w plates bright; good+ condition
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A. Richard Cannon, Editor Year Book and Directory of the Geological and Mining Society of American Universities - Stanford Section, Volume 14
Palo Alto, California, U.S.A. Stanford University 1928 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Directory 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Year Book and Directory of the Geological and Mining Society of American Universities, Stanford Section, Volume 14, for the year 1928; contains List of Officers and Members of the Stanford Section, Progress of the Branner Memorial, Notes from the Field, List of Officers and Members of the Louisiana Section, History of the Louisiana Section, and Alphabetical Listing of Members with the following information: time served in the Departments, degrees and date conferred, permanent or home address, positions held and dates, present position and business address, regular or associate membership in the Geology and Mining Society, honorary membership, married, number of children, members of Branner Memorial Association, life members of the Branner Memorial Association, Geographical Index, Missing Members, In Memoriam; 103 pp. including a few b&w photos and old advertisements; brown soft covers with black lettering; book tape spine, with a 2.5 cm tear along lower edge; pages very clean, tight; very good condition
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A. S. Joyce Exploration Geochemistry
South Australia Techsearch Inc. & The Australian Mineral Foundation 1976 0 909386 04 8 2nd Edition, Revised Stapled Soft Cover Good No Jacket 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
basic source of information on principles, capabilities, limitations & actual practice of exploration geochemistry, with a deliberate bias towards prospecting in Australia & nearby countries; Contents: 1 - Introduction; 2 - The Types of Geochemical Surveys; 3 - Important Geochemical Concepts; 4 - Associations; 5 - Dispersion Patterns Formed at the Same Time as Ore Accumulation; 6 - Dispersion Patterns Formed Later than Ore Accumulation; 7 - Analytical Procedures; 8 - Interpretation of Geochemical Data; 9 - Selected Annotated Bibliography on Statistical Methods; 10 - Design of Geochemical Prospecting Programs; 11 - Bedrock Surveys; 12 - Gossan Surveys; 13 - Soil Surveys; 14 - Stream Sediment Surveys; 15 - Water Surveys; 16 - Biogeochemical Surveys; 17 - Gas Surveys; 18 - Sediment Sampling of Oceans, Estuaries & Lakes; 19 - Abundance & Mobility of Individual Elements; 20 - Exercises in Interpretation ; 220 pp. including figures, tables, graphs, calculations, references, index; entire stapled soft cover book & pages are rippled (wrinkled); corners bumped; previous owner's signature on title page; pages clean, with no markings; good condition
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A. S. Kislali, Technical Editor CENTO Seminar on Recent Advances in Earthquake Hazard Minimization, Tehran, November 1976
Ankara, Turkey CENTO 1976 Soft Cover Very Good No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
CENTO Science Report No. 27; seminar where latest achievements in seismology & earthquake engineering are discussed by world experts; text in English; Contents: Welcoming Address; 1 - Status of Earthquake Hazard Minimization in CENTO Countries (4 papers); 2 - Evaluation of Earthquake Hazards (13 papers); 3 - Determination of Seismic Design Parameters (6 papers); 4 - Earthquake Engineering Practice for Urban & Rural Buildings (6 papers); 5 - Earthquake-Resistant Design of Nuclear Power Facilities (4 papers); 6 - Lessons from Recent Earthquakes (3 papers); Recommendations; 340 pp. including graphs, tables, maps, b&w photos, calculations, references, list of participants; ex-corporate library name stamp on title page; call numbers' sticker taped to spine; light crease near lower front corner of cover; minor shelfwear; pages very clean, tight, with no markings; very good condition; Oversized Book - may require extra postage depending on destination
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A. Silvestri Nuove Notizie sui Fossili Cretacei della Calcasacco presso Termini-Imerese (Palermo), Palaeontographia Italica, Memoire di Paleontologia - Volume XVIII
Pisa, Italy Tipografia Successori Fratelli Nistri 1912 Soft Cover Good No Jacket Memoir Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
text in Italian; this publication is from the reference library/inventory of the late author, mineralogist, gemologist, John Sinkankas; publicate per cura del Prof. Mario Canavari, Museo Geologico della R. Universita di Pisa; 28 pp. including figures of specimens, footnotes, bibliography, plus two b&w plates on thick paper, displaying photos of 8 labeled figures; pages uncut along upper edges; original paper covers faded, with a 5 cm black marker line on front; 7.5 cm tear along upper spine & paper rubbed off from removal of small sticker on lower front cover; minor edgwear; brown tape along length of spine; pages are faded, but clean; good condition
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A. V. Astin, Director Tables of Normal Probability Functions
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. National Bureau of Standards 1953 Hard Cover Very Good++ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
issued June 1953; United States Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Mathematics Series - 23, a reissue of Mathematical Table 14, with corrections; prepared by the New York Mathematical Tables Project; practical purpose of tables in statistics is for testing the significance of a deviation in a normally distributed variate & fitting normal distributions to observations; high accuracy of tables, with their 15 decimal places, make them particularly suitable to serve as a basis for the computation of further tables related to the normal distribution; Contents: Preface; Foreword; Introduction - Direct Interpolation, The Problem of Approximate Arguments, Inverse Interpolation, The Asymptotic Expansion of P(x); Method of Computation, Bibliography of Tables; Table 1- pp. 2-338; Table 2 - pp. 339-343; Constants; gold lettering & seal on blue boards & spine; card pocket on front pastedown; spine edges & corners slightly bumped; call numbers on spine; pages very clean, bright; very good++ condition; Oversize Book - may require extra postage
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A. V. Astin, Director Tables of the Bivariate Normal Distribution Function and Related Functions
Washington, D.C., U.S.A. National Bureau of Standards 1959 Hard Cover Very Good++ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
issued June 1959; United States Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Mathematics Series - 50; prepared by the National Bureau of Standards Institute for Numerical Analysis, Los Angeles; compilation & extension of various tables of Karl Pearson, Evelyn Fix & Jerzy Newman, and H. H. Germond relating to the bivariate normal frequency distribution; the work of collating, rounding to a uniform number of decimal places, subtabulating, differencing, & preparing these tables in final form was carried out from 1951-1953 under the direction of Gertrude Blanch; Contents: Preface; 1 - Introduction, by Gertrude Blanch; 2 - Applications of the Tables, by D. B. Owen; Bibliography; List of Errors in Pearson's Tables of L(h,k,r) and L(h,k,-r); Table 1: L(h,k,r) - pp. 1-126; Table 2: L(h,k,-r) - pp. 127-214; Table 3: pp. 215-234; Table 3: pp. 235-256; Table 4: pp. 257- 258; gold lettering & seal on blue boards & spine; card pocket on front pastedown; spine edges & corners slightly bumped; call numbers on spine; pages very clean, bright; very good++ condition; Oversize Book - may require extra postage
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A. Wahab Khair, Editor New Technology in Mine Health and Safety, Proceedings of the Symposium Held at the SME Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, February 24-27, 1992
Littleton, Colorado, U.S.A. Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. 1992 0-87335-108-8 Soft Cover Very Good+++ No Jacket Ex-Corporate Library 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
objective of SME Symposium was to review the state-of-the-art (1992) in health & safety associated with coal mining, by reviewing program & technological enhancements of the past, for assessment of increased productivity and improving mine environments in the future; 34 papers are included, with six to eight papers selected for each topic; Contents: 1 - Implementation of Technology for Safe Working Conditions; 2 - Atmospheric Hazard Monitoring and Control; 3 - Mine Dust and Diesel Emission; 4 - Ground/Roof Control; 5 - Reduction/Monitoring of Physical Hazards; Late Paper - Radio Remote Control Continuous Miner Operator Position; 361 pp. including abstracts, graphs, figures, calculations, tables, references, author index; text print is in two columns per page; ex-corporate library name stamp on title page & inside back cover; call numbers' sticker taped to spine & title page; pages clean, bright, tight; except for previously mentioned ex-corporate library markings, book looks NEW
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