NY:: Dover,, 1954. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; rear endpaper renewed; otherwise, condition good. Originally a paperback, now hardbound in library cloth.. appendixes + book ads. Dover reprint of 1949 Princeton Univ. edn. ||| Hadamard (1865-1963), French mathematician; `In 1896 [he] proved the prime number theorem at the same time as [but independently of] de la Vallee Poussin...[his] work on the calculus of variations helped to lay the foundations of... (more information)

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Np:: Macmillan,, 1952. Hardcover; spine a bit faded; otherwise rather good.. Full-pg. & in-text b&w + color drawings, facsimiles & photos. 12th Annual Issue. Delightful short stories with some word-visits to Scotland & 19th-c. seaside; poems, humor, essays about Pigmies & prissy young ladies; notes about Noel Coward / Gertrude Lawrence, jazz performers, Rome, classic gardens; collecting cards that came with cigarettes, the 1920s, Bobby Jones / Jack Dempsey / Rudolph Valentino. |||... (more information)

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NY:: Morrow,, 1941. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise condition good.. With 16 full-pg. b&w drawings by Chas. DeFeo + full-pg. b&w map of Oregon / Washington / Vancouver / British Columbia area. Chinook salmon's life from a fingerling floating down Willamette & Columbia Rivers to the sea, where for 3 years it swam almost to Alaska before returning 1200 miles up the Columbia to spawn and die. ||| Tale's human... (more information)

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NY:: Oxford Univ.,, 1943.. Hardcover; front cover tip lightly bumped; otherwise good.. + bibliography, index. With 16 b&w maps. Starting from before WW-1, authors trace history leading to that war; organization of peace; deterioration of security & world economic conditions; Nazi revolution; international anarchy; formation of the Axis & its offensive from Munich to Warsaw; Nazi blitzkrieg; U.S. in the war. ... (more information)

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NY:: Dutton,, 1908. Hardcover; spine + covers lightly age- & handling-soiled; some page folds carelessly opened (no loss of text); owner rubberstamp + ink name on front endpaper.. + appendixes + index. With full-pg. b&w diagrams + photos. 2nd edn. of 1903 first issue. ||| By Director, Rothamsted Station, Lawes Agricultural Trust in England--founded 1843--the oldest ag research station in the world. ||| Covers--origin, mechanical analysis, texture of soil; tillage & soil water movement; tem... (more information)

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Baltimore:: Linguistic Society of America,, 1941. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; front cover tip bumped; otherwise, condition good.. indexes of authors, titles, words, etc. History of Italian Language including Vulgar Latin; Description of Italian Language, 13th-20th centuries; Northern, Central, & Southern Dialects; History of Italian Linguistics--Renaissance through Modern Period; Indexes--by Authors / Titles, Regions / Localities, Words (Italian &a... (more information)

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Cambridge:: Harvard Univ.,, 1998. Hardcover; conditions of dust jacket & book are unusually good.. notes + index. With 32pp. b&w reproductions of earlier-day murders, etc. History Prof at Univ. of California (Davis) examines history / cases of murder & murderers in the U.S. ||| At early New England public executions, religious sermons spoke of sinful human nature. ||| Later, 19th-c. Gothic Imagination saw murderers as morally depraved--but fascinating--a view today reinforced by lurid new... (more information)

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NY:: Norton,, 1945. Hardcover; condition good.. Ms. Hamlin taught school in a logging camp; she describes the loggers & logging operations; later, she married a Maine Game Warden whose patrol area-- & their residence--was in the mostly uncharted part of the Maine woods on the Canadian border. ... (more information)

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NY:: Duffield,, 1916. Hardcover; gilt-stamped front cover & spine; fore- & bottom edges untrimmed; otherwise quite good.. index. With b&w full-pg. photos + in-text drawings. Practicing architect / Prof at Columbia Univ. School of Architecture discusses--Law of Form in Architecture; Materials; Criticism of Ornament; Planning; Meaning of Style; Social Value of Architecture. ... (more information)

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Columbus, Ohio:: Mushroom Publishing,, 1908. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine rubbed with worn ends; 2 small ink ? spots on front cover; cover tips worn; otherwise good.. + glossary + indexes. Profuse in-text + full-pg. b&w photos. Unnumbered copy of Author's Edn. ||| Comprehensive work--Varieties of mushrooms, edible / poisonous; their families & characteristics; how to identify / preserve / cook / grow them; how to make spore prints; etc. ... (more information)

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NY:: Scribner,, 1923. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. index + 4pp. book ads. Wordsworth (1770-1850) enthusiastically supported the French Revolution. While visiting France in 1792, he had a brief affair with Annette Vallon. `A daughter, Caroline, was born...the affair was kept secret by the Wordsworth family...[it] became publicly known only in the 20th century.'--Benet. ... (more information)

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Philadelphia:: Altemus,, 1910. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; inside covers discolored (old dried glue?); both covers' inner hinges a bit weak; pages age-toned; otherwise good.. With frontispiece + 7 b&w full-pg. drawings. Corra May White's (1869-1935) marriage to Rev. Lundy Howard Harris when she was 17, & her life as a rural Georgia Methodist missionary's wife, became this thinly-veiled autobiography. She revered her husband in his work & in what they endured over the years. ||| Th... (more information)

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Glenview, Ill.:: Scott-Foresman,, 1973. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; foil-stamped cover & spine; rear black endpaper shows card pocket & label removal; no spine marks/ label; otherwise good.. index. Data-Objects; Data-Structures; Programming in FORTRAN; String Processing; Evaluation of Expressions; Storage Allocation; Searching & Sorting; Hash Coding; Programming in PL/1; Pointers & Plex Processing; Recursive Programming; `Garbage Collection'; Use of Macros; LISP; SNOBOL; A... (more information)

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Manchester, England:: Univ. Press,, 1918. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; head of spine worn; cloth lightly blistered in a few places; otherwise good.. 12-pg. `List of Publications.' Manchester Univ. Lectures, No. XXI by a prominent Lecturer in Psychiatry. He differentiates between physiological & psychological causes, each calling for different treatment; also lists symptoms of `shell-shock' -- effects of what has been experienced & endured i... (more information)

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1939. Hardcover; spine ends + cover tips lightly worn; pencil name on front endpaper.. + index. With b&w photo of earlier-day & modern machines, devices, ships, etc. First edn. ||| Overview, at 9th-10th grade level, chronicling inventors & their machines / devices that transformed home-based occupations to industry--spinning jennies; Whitney's cotton gin; mining; steam engines; Fulton's steamboat; railroad locomotives; Franklin, Ampere, Faraday, & electricity; Drake strik... (more information)

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Englewood Cliffs, NJ:: Prentice Hall / Abrams,, 1979. Hardcover; gilt-stamped cover & spine; condition quite good.. index. Profuse color + b&w full-pg. & in-text photos & drawings. 2nd Edn. of 1969 first issue. Covers `roughly three centuries... embraced by the term Renaissance'--painting, sculpture, & architecture, starting in late Middle Ages, progressing through Michelangelo & the Maniera. ... (more information)

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NY:: Knopf,, 1939. Hardcover; fore- & bottom edges untrimmed; otherwise good.. index. With 4pp. of reproduced b&w maps of Roman Empire expansion, from 8th century B.C. to 2nd century A.D. Henry Joseph Haskell (1874-1952), editor of `Kansas City Star' newspaper. tells how Roman governments handled economic / political matters--Quintus Cicero advised political candidates to promise anything--`Human nature being what it is, all men prefer a false promise to a flat refusal'--&--`Get some new sc... (more information)

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Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1913. Hardcover; 5x7.5 inches; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. photos. With 16 full-pg. photos. Tells story as Hawthorne wrote it & gives history--in words & photos--of the house that was basis for his story. Located at Library of Congress & Harvard Library. ... (more information)

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1945.. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise good.. Hayes, U.S. Ambassador to Spain 1942-45, was sent to counter Axis pressure on Franco's Spain, to persuade it to remain a neutral non-combatant, (important with coming operations in North Africa). Hayes--successful, was able to gradually negotiate significant facilities concessions. ||| Since 1910 Hayes taught modern European history at Columbia Univ.; was drafted against his objections by President Roosevelt. ||| During &am... (more information)

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NY:: Harper,, 1881. Hardcover; spine ends worn; otherwise good.. `A story suggested by the doctrine of reincarnation'--DAB. ||| Hepworth (1833-1902), Unitarian minister; later, minister at Newark N.J. Congregational Church. ||| Left ministry in 1879 for full-time work as author & editor. 1880--sent by N.Y. Herald newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett as American representative on committee distributing Herald's Irish Famine Relief Fund. Hepworth joined editorial staff of the Herald; was app... (more information)

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