NY:: Thomas Crowell,, 1933. PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK; binding tight; contents complete & clean; spine ends worn; otherwise, condition good.. appendix + index. With b&w frontispiece + 16 b&w full-pg. photos + profuse b&w in-text schematics & drawings. 7th edn. revised--chapters on photoelectric cell, latest vacuum tubes, TV apparatus, talking motion pictures, etc. ||| For hands-on enthusiasts--How to Begin; Aerials; Simple Receiving Sets--how they work; Tuning; Tube Detector Set; Amplifie... (more information)

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Cambridge:: Harvard Univ.,, 1962. Hardcover; front cover & spine faded; ink name on front endpaper; otherwise good.. + bibliography + notes + index. With 12pp. of b&w photos + 4 maps. Rural village life in Greece--the people; topographic influences; land ownership; peasant farming / shepherding; family customs & division of labor; mutual aid & cooperatives; social life; government; schools & importance of education; role of religion; social changes resulting from foreign aid; etc. ... (more information)

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Des Moines:: Iowa Geological Survey,, 1918. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends lightly worn; contents good.. + index. Profuse in-text drawings & full-pg. b&w photos. Letter of Transmittal, Editor's Preface, & four preliminary pages (with portrait) eulogize 42-year-old Dr. Bailey (1875-1917), physician, zoologist, teacher, curator of Iowa's Coe College Museum (renamed Bert Heald Bailey Museum). ||| `Aim of this work is to convince the ... (more information)

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Englewood, Colo.:: Information Handling Services,, 1976. Hardcover; condition rather good.. index. Covers--Environment of Law Libraries; Law Librarianship as a Profession; Organization of Law Library Services; Legal Research & Information Handling (including Computer Applications in the Law Library); New Directions for Law Libraries. ... (more information)

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NY:: Columbia Univ.,, 1968. In wrappers; sewed signatures; condition quite good.. sources + index. Second prtg. of 1958 first issue. For students of Slavic philology-- Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian--`historical phonology, morphology, syntax, & dialectology...[&] history of the three literary languages...from eleventh to late seventeenth century...glossary comprises words which are not identifiable on the basis of Modern Russian, Belorussian, or Ukrainian.' ... (more information)

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1944. Hardcover; spine ends worn; spine age-darkened; otherwise good.. 4th prtg. of 1943 first issue. ||| Surveys the state of English prose; use & abuse of English; ornate & plain styles; defines `principles of clear statement.' Critiques 54 British & American authors--T.S. Eliot to Hemingway. ||| Joint authors, yet clearly bearing the marks of Robert Ranke Graves (1895-1985)--poet, critic, considered one of Britain's most versatile men of letters. His 1929 `Good-Bye t... (more information)

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Chicago:: Open Court Publishing,, 1904. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/labels; top edges gilt; spine ends worn; cover tips bumped; tear in contents page repaired; otherwise good.. With 29 b&w pen-and-ink portraits of authors. Starr (1858-1933), anthropologist; organized work of--& taught at--Univ. of Chicago 1892-1923; traveled widely for anthropological studies. ||| Offers short biographies of 29 contemporary Mexican authors who wrote about geography,... (more information)

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NY:: Scribner,, 1927. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; discreet name stamp on front endpaper; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn; otherwise, condition good.. index. Transcripts of Supreme Court decisions--Political & Civil Rights under 14th Amendment; Extension of Federal Authority-- Regulation of Commerce, Interstate R.R. Rates, Trust Regulation, 16th & 18th Amendments, Federal Police Power, Federal Subsidies to States; Structural & Functional Changes in Governm... (more information)

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NY:: Crowell,, 1941.. Hardcover; light shelf-wear at bottom edges of covers.. + appendix, index. Parkes believes Teddy Roosevelt began a new U.S.epoch; he traces the economic, political, intellectual, & foreign policy history 1900-40; then concludes that among our problems were: `a complex economic system--international in scope--beyond the control of any individual or group of individuals...one-eighth of the population owned seven-eighths of the wealth...the people of the United States [have to] hu... (more information)

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NY:: Harper,, 1893.. Hardcover; spine ends worn; owner rubberstamp on front endpaper; otherwise, condition good.. + index. Profuse b&w drawings & photos. Layman's appreciation of flora & fauna--tropical, parasitic, aquatic, cone-bearing, & flowerless plants; ferns, mosses, lichens, algae, fungi, seeds, & fruits. ||| Illustrations & photographs are remarkably clear & detailed. ... (more information)

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NY:: Crown,, 1960-61. Hardcover; dust jacket lightly age-soiled on rear fold-over; otherwise, jacket & book in good condition.. Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith (1906-82), most widely-syndicated sports columnist in America, was a modern master of the English language; his columns in the Philadelphia Record, N.Y. Herald-Tribune & The N.Y. Times--free of sports journalism cliches--were a delight to read, & won 1976 Pulitzer Prize. ||| He covers racing--the ponies, cars, Tour de France... (more information)

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Washington, D.C.:: U.S. Govt. Printing Office,, 1911. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends a bit worn; lacks blank front endpaper; otherwise good.. + appendix, index. Experience with quartering British troops prompted the Second Amendment to the Constitution--`The right of the people to keep & bear arms.' It equipped citizens to be on-call soldiers, `a well-regulated militia,' & an economical alternative to an expensive standing army. Regr... (more information)

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1911. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; rear cover a bit bowed; otherwise good.. + index. With b&w portrait + 11 full-pg. b&w photos. 2nd prtg. of 1910 first issue. ||| 76-year-old Smith (1824-1910) knew anecdotes of, & had decided opinions about: British government leaders he knew--people of Ireland--American Civil War & American friends--his travels--teaching history at Oxford--woman suffrage-- Mafia in Sicily--teaching at newly-established Cornell University--his ... (more information)

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NY:: Thomas Selzer,, 1920. Hardcover; Hamilton College bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; cover tips lightly bumped; otherwise good.. + index. With frontispiece portrait. Bax (1854-1926), English Socialist / barrister / economist / philosopher; helped William Morris found Socialist League, co-edited its organ `Commonweal'; joined Social Democratic Federation after League became anarchist, edited paper `Justice.' ||| He reflects on Morris, Kropotkin, Engels, G.B. Shaw, Hyndman, Joynes, Champi... (more information)

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Philadelphia:: Markley & Son,, 1879. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; ink name on front endpaper; spine ends lightly worn; otherwise condition good.. Reported at this 2nd meeting of ABA, (Saratoga Springs, Aug. 20/21, 1879) --ABA added 201 members (for total of 490), including: Senator Luke P. Poland (investigated Credit Mobilier & codified U.S. laws); Minister to Austria A.R. Lawton; Connecticut Gov. S.E. Baldwin; ICC Chairman T.M. Cooley;... (more information)

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Burlington, Vt.:: Free Press,, 1921. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) rubberstamp on front endpaper; no card pocket or spine marks/label; paper-covered boards worn at bottom edge, cover tips bumped & quite worn.. + 46 plates + index. With 45 full-pg. b&w photos + one full-pg. b&w map, + in-text b&w drawings. Lacks plate 22 (Geol. map, western Vermont). Reports (& authors): `Structural / Metamorphic Geology, Hanover District, N.H.' (J. Merritt); `Geology, Essex County' (R. Schroe... (more information)

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Washington, D.C.:: Government Printing Office,, 1864. Collector bookplate; 1/4 leather; cover tips repaired; three 16-pp. sections lightly waterstained at top corner; paper color varies from white to light tan; several small ink blots affect text; otherwise, condition generally good.. With in-text & full-pg. charts / full-pg. drawings + full-pg. & fold-out maps. Monitor-Merrimack fight destroyed--in one day--all world navies' `Wooden Walls of Ships.' ||| Official documents from Welles, Ericss... (more information)

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London:: John Murray,, 1916. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends lightly worn; cover tips bumped; waterstained front endpaper + title, tho' curiously, no stains elsewhere.. + index + list of members, societies. With 11 full-pg. b&w photos & 2 fold-out maps + tables, charts, graphs. 1915 meeting at Manchester, reporting `On the State of Science'--Mathematical & Physical; Chemistry; Geology (with reproduced charts of the Milne-Shaw seismog... (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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Washington D.C.:: Brookings Institution,, 1992. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends of dust jacket lightly worn, otherwise condition quite good.. + recommended readings + index. Ms. Rivlin, economist & first Director of Congressional Budget Office, examines Federal policies for Governing; National Security; Globalization; the Economy; Productivity; Inequality; Savings Rate; Medical Costs; Deficits; etc. She recommends eliminating most Federal ... (more information)

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