Search Results: Authors starting with U from Flamingo Books

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, 1970-01-01. Paperback. Acceptable. 1970 first edition U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District (Los Angeles, California), copiously illustrated (7 tables, 42 figures and 32 plates), 8 x 10 1/2 inches tall stapled paperbound in green printed covers, v, 49 pp. plus 32 full page (or larger, folding) plates, many printed in blue and black ink. Covers foxed, stained and edgeworn, with a one-inch closed tear to the fore edge of the front cover. Staining or creasing to a couple of the folding plates. Otherwise, apart from minor age toning, a very good copy - clean and unmarked - of an important study, loaded with data from the era. Scarce. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP29~ Contents include: Introduction, Summary of Flood Situation, general Conditions (The streams and their valleys, Settlement, Developments on the flood plains, Bridges across the… Read More

Almquist and Wiksell (distr.), 1971. paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1971 Almquist and Wiksell (Stockholm, Sweden), four 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall paperbound volumes in tan printed covers, 158 pp. plus 57 full-page plates with descriptions on facing pages, complete. Very slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Ink prior owner name (micropaleontologist S.A. Kling) to top margin of front cover of each volume. Otherwise, a very good to near fine set - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP11~ [2.0P] In the first three parts of this work, fossil nannofloras of sediments from Paleocene to Oligocene in age is recorded. Part 1 deals with the nannofossils of the Paleocene of two closely situated sections of west-central Persia and the Upper Paleocene to Upper Eocene of three different localities of West Pakistan. Part 2 documents the nannoplankton of Oligocene age from West Germany including some of the localities of type Oligocene. Part 3 once again deals with the Middle-Upper Oligocene nannoflora of a continuous… Read More

Purdue University, 1953-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1953 Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana), 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches tall green cloth hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), white and blue design and lettering to front cover and spine, green endpapers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs, index, 480 pp. Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP13~ [6.5P] The 1953 yearbook for Purdue University, a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money to establish a college of science, technology, and agriculture in his name.

Academic Press, 1987-02-11. Hardcover. Very Good. 1987 Academic Press (London), 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches tall glossy pictorial hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued), illustrated with black-and-white photographs and diagrams, index, xxv, 551-941, [2], xxviii pp. Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~VV~ [2.5P] A complete clinical guide to leishmaniasis, a tropical and subtropical disease caused by leishmania and transmitted by the bite of sandflies. It affects either the skin or the internal organs. Contents: Introduction; Genetics of susceptibility and resistance in the vertebrate host; visceral leishmaniasis and post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis; Old World Cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; American cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis; Pathology; Diagnosis; Immunity: Clinical and Experimental; Experimental Chemotherapy; Therapy in Man; Control of Transmission; Vaccination: Past and Future Role in Control; Index.

Society of Petroleum, 1992-10-01. Paperback. Very Good. 1992 first edition Society Of Petroleum Engineers (n.p.), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall x 1 1/2 inches thick paperbound, illustrated with black-and-white photographs, charts and diagrams, 824 pp. Very slight rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP21~ [5.0P] Presents more than 70 papers presented at the International Meeting on Petroleum Engineering held in Beijing, China in March 1992.

Henry Hoyt. Good. 1869 Henry Hoyt (Boston, Massachusetts), 6 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches tall embossed full leather bound, five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers with gilt dentelles framing both pastedowns, illustrated by engraved frontispiece and numerous full-page engravings (all with tissue guards), extra engraved title page (printed in red, purple and brown), all page red-ruled, 258 pp. Slight to moderate staining, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with about two inches of cracking to the leather along the upper hinge of the front cover. A bit of bumping and chipping to the lower spine cap. Very slight bowing to front board. Marginal sun fading to marbled pastedowns. Slight cracking between marbled front pastedown and adjoining free-endpaper, though the binding is quite solid. Christmas 1868 gift inscription and prior owner name stamp to blank front free-endpaper. Slight staining to title page, and to a few interior pages. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean,… Read More

Ductile Iron Pipe Research, 1972-01-01. Paperback. Good. 1984 Ductile Iron Pipe Research Association (Birmingham, Alabama), 8 1/2 x 11 inches tall stapled paperbound in glossy blue covers, copiously illustrated with black-and-white line drawings, 48 pp. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers. Prior owner name to top margin to title page, with business card of Ductile Iron Pipe Research Association taped to the bottom of the page. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. ~SP11~ [1.0P] Presents suggested design procedures for the restraint of thrust forces in pressurized, buried ductile iron piping systems.

KNOPF, ALFRED A, 1970. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. 1970 Alfred A. Knopf (New York), rebound in 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches tall full leather, gilt ruling to front and rear covers, six raised bands, gilt design and lettering to spine, vii, 206 pp. Slight soiling and rubbing to covers. Slight staining to lower margins of first few pages of the prefatory material. Otherwise, a very good copy of this Updike title in a magnificent leather binding. ~SP30~ [2.0P] The Jewish American novelist Henry Bech - procrastinating, libidinous, and tart-tongued, his reputation growing while his powers decline - made his first appearance in 1965, in John Updike’s 'The Bulgarian Poetess.' That story won the O. Henry First Prize, and it and the six Bech adventures that followed make up this collection. 'Bech is the writer in me,' Updike once said, 'creaking but lusty, battered but undiscourageable, fed on the blood of ink and the bread of white paper.' As he trots the globe, promotes… Read More

Abbeville Press, 2010-10-26. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2010 Abbeville Press Publishers (New York), 9 7/8 x 13 1/8 inches tall black cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, silver lettering to spine, pale blue endpapers, copiously illustrated with full color photographs and black-and-white line drawings, 336 pp. Prior owner address label to top margin of front pastedown. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~SP36~ [6.5P] A standard reference for the serious student and an intellectual delight for the interested amateur. This authoritative yet accessible study begins with an overview of the aesthetics, meanings, functions, and techniques of Mesoamerican architecture, and then proceeds to survey the historical development of the… Read More