NY:: McGraw-Hill,, 1943. Hardcover; spine ends lightly worn; prtd. on wartime-grade paper; otherwise good.. + appendix + index. With b&w photos, schematics, & drawings. Later printing of 1940 first issue. ||| Fundamental theory + `how to' for building / operating sets & apparatus, with explanation of why & how they work. ||| Radio waves / wave travel; vacuum tube principles; tuning; DC tube receiving sets; phones & speakers; AC tube receiving sets; short-wave sets; oscillators &... (more information)

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Washington, D.C.:: Soule,, 1885. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; cover tips lightly bumped; 3/16-inch hole paper flaw pp.55/56, not affecting text.. appendix + index + 2pp. ads. 4th edn. ||| `Register of Federal Offices & Employments in each State & Territory & the District of Columbia with their Salaries & Emoluments... [etc.].' ||| Issued during first year of Grover Cleveland's presidency as he broke with long-traditional `spoils syste... (more information)

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NY:: Appleton,, 1913. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate, `Presented by Mr. & Mrs. Edward W. Root'; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn; cover tips bumped; otherwise good.. Martin (1856-1939), humorist; an organizer of `Harvard Lampoon'; editor at Harper's Monthly; founder / editor of Life [humor] magazine; also wrote `Sly Ballades in Harvard China,' & this quite-serious deprecation of prominent American suffragettes & their arguments for equality dating from late... (more information)

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Leipzig:: Engelmann,, 1903. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends lightly worn; pencil name on title page.. references, indexes. Phototropic action of light on plants, animals, insects, etc.; theories of phototropism. ||| Located in Harvard Library & Library of Congress. ... (more information)

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NY:: Holt,, 1945.. Hardcover; 2 or 3 leaves have light folds/creases; otherwise good.. Profuse b&w caricature drawings. Willie & Joe, combat infantrymen, battle the enemy, trenchfoot, European mud, fear, High Brass--the infantry war as it really was. ||| Mauldin enlisted at age 19; was sent (1943) to cover fighting in Sicily at Salerno (where he was wounded), & locations in Italy, France & Germany for the Army newspaper `Stars & Stripes.' His portrayal of Willie and Joe hit home with... (more information)

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