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New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1969. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Edges Lightly Soiled. BOOK NUMBER: 01740. INTRODUCTION BY: Air Vice-Marshal "Johnnie" Johnson. MILITARY CONSULTANT: Sir Basil Liddell Hart. RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Yvonne Marsh. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Barrie Pitt. EXECUTIVE EDITOR: David Mason. DESIGNER: John Marsh. COVER: Denis Piper. PICTURE EDITOR: Robert Hunt. ART DIRECTOR: Peter Dunbar. SPECIAL DRAWINGS: John Batchelor. CONTENTS: Prologue; Schneider trophy and prototype; Into service and training; The Battle of Britain; Marks II-V; Spitfires abroad; Spitfire strength and Spitfire pilots; Marks VI-XI; Griffon, photo-reconnaissance and floatplanes; Seafire, Spiteful and Seafang; Epilogue; Bibliography. SERIES: Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II is an entirely new and exciting venture in paperback publishing. Never before has the attempt been… Read More

Toronto: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1987. Previous Dealer Modifications (Index Tabs Applied to Certain Pages to Create Finger Tab Index System); Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Coves, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. PRODUCTION EDITORS: Dennis Bockus/David Jolliffe. COPY EDITOR: Greg Ioannou. DESIGN: Robert Garbutt. MANUFACTURING BUYER: Matt Lumsdon. COVER PHOTO: Luis Veiga/The Image Bank Canada. CONTENTS: 1 Introduction: Data Collection and Presentation 2 Graphs and Diagrams 3 Averages 4 Dispersion and Skewness 5 Index Numbers 6 Probability 7 Probability Distributions 8 Four Useful Probability Distributions: The Binomial, the Normal, the Poisson, and the Hypergeometric 9 Sampling Methods 10 Statistical Inference - Estimation 11 Tests of Hypotheses: Theory and One-Sample Procedures 12 Tests of Hypotheses: Two-Sample Procedures 13 The Chi-Square Test 14 Linear Regression and Correlation 15 Time Series 16 Analysis of Variance 17 Non-Parametric Tests;… Read More

Princeton: Petrocelli Books, Inc. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Fading to Spine Area Due to Sun Exposure; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGNED BY: Diane L. Backes. CONTENTS: ONE Introduction; TWO Establishing Computer Security; THREE Physical Security; FOUR Hardware Security; FIVE Software Security; SIX Personnel Security; SEVEN Contingency and Disaster Recovery Planning; EIGHT EDP Insurance; Glossary; Bibliography; Index. SYNOPSIS: "Computer crime costs American business at least $1 billion a year and could be as high as $10 billion per year."--The American Bar Association To appreciate the extent to which human factors play in computer crime, we have to be aware of its role in crime deterrence,… Read More

New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc., 1939. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Three Ink Lines and Some Dots to Lower Edge); Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Ink on Cover Panel, Lower); Blemish on Cover Panel, Due to Previous Sticker Presence; Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderately Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: 1903-1938. CONTENTS: 1. Youth in Holland 2. In the Backwash of War 3. Parisian Days 4. Men and Events 5. The Street of Our Lady 6. Notes from an African Diary 7. Ethiopian Interlude 8. After Seven Centuries 9. L'Infame 10. World Without End. SYNOPSIS: Days of Our Years is autobiography, but autobiography in which the details of the author's life are incidental and subordinate to the more significant chronicle of his times. In a larger and more literal sense, this book is the biography of a generation as… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. BOOK: Corners, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Red Marks (Paint?) Below Title; Moderately Creased; Heavily Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A warm, personal story of the First Lady illustrated with family pictures. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH OF MRS. KENNEDY BY: Mark Shaw. JACKET DESIGN BY: Charles Gottlieb. SYNOPSIS: From first hand knowledge and with access to family journals, scrapbooks, letters and photographs, Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer has written this authentic and engaging biography of an extraordinary woman--the thirty-first First Lady of the United States. Enlarged from a series of articles published in the Ladies' Home Journal, this delightful personal portrait is illustrated with many photographs, most of which have never appeared in book form. Here is Jacqueline Kennedy--the mischievous imaginative little… Read More

Markham: A Pocket Book Edition published by Simon & Schuster of Canada, Ltd., 1976. Previous Dealer Markings; Repaired; Moderate Creasing on Front Cover, Spine; Light Creasing on Rear Cover; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. A stunning collection of futuristic tales by the author of The Weapon Shops of Isher. INTRODUCTION BY: Barry N. Malzberg. CONTENTS: Introduction; Don't Hold Your Breath; All We Have on This Planet; War of Nerves; The Rull; The Semantics of Twenty-first-Century Science; Future Perfect; Being an Examination of the Ponsian and Holmesian Secret Deductive Systems; Home of the Gods; The Violent Male; Prologue to "The Silkie"; The Proxy; Intelligence; Final Comment. SYNOPSIS: Thirty-two days before the earth's supply of oxygen is due to give out, a tiny band of men and women make a desperate attempt to prevent the transformation of humanity into a fluorine-breathing species.… Read More

A Kangaroo Book Published by Pocket Books Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks Ltd., a Licensee of the trademarks of Simon & Schuster, a division of Gulf + Western Corporation, 1979. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. The shattering novel of Earth's ultimate revolution. SYNOPSIS: THE MEN, THE WOMEN--AND THE ALIENS! It is a world of the future where women are the dominant sex and men wear chemically treated glasses to keep them in line. But Dr. Peter Grayson has accidentally discovered the key to his chains--an unnoticeable crack in his rose-colored glasses that liberates him from the tyranny of women. Suddenly, Grayson is virile, he is powerful, women notice him, want him--he is alive! But, unknown to him, his liberation is being monitored--by dangerous underground revolutionaries who want his powers to help overthrow the extra-planetary… Read More

London: Panther Science Fiction published by Panther Books, 1970. Previous Dealer, Owner Markings; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Author of The Voyage of the Space Beagle. ALSO KNOWN AS: Moonbeast was originally entitled The Beast. SYNOPSIS: Time out of mind. In the secret caves of the moon, a strange society flourished. Blue-skinned flat-nosed men, lithe uniformed German girls, tough frontier desperadoes from the Old West--all lived together in an uneasy state of tension, ruled by a brutal Neanderthal man a million years old. All were immortal, all had been caught in the vortex of a weird time machine which snatched its Earthly victims from their own eras and transported them to the lunar caverns of eternal life. Into this bizarre and frightening set-up stumbled Pendrake, an Earthman in the process of becoming superhuman. Kidnapped from… Read More

New York: Ace Books A Division of Charter Communications, Inc. Previous Dealer Markings; Repaired; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Light Moisture Damage; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Beware, spacemen, the children are taking over--and aliens are waiting for you to rebel! SYNOPSIS: "The child is father of the man."--Wordsworth. Welcome home, Space Commander Lane. We know you've had a difficult time this past year evading those enigmatic, hostile aliens you encountered out there in the unmapped spaces between the stars. But you've also been gone a total of ten years--and things have changed back here on Earth. Take Spaceport now--it's a special city with peculiar problems all its own. So we kids had to organize and take care of each other--because our dads are men just like you. Our dads have been gone too long too, and they'll be just as surprised… Read More

New York: A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1968. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. by the author of Destination: Universe! and The Players of Null-A. BOOK NUMBER: X1543. SYNOPSIS: SUPERIOR BEINGS. Years ago, Mankind fought against the hated slan race in the fierce Slan Wars. The result was the extermination of almost all slans, and the establishment of a world-wide police state. But slan Jommy Cross had escaped extermination and was now living in constant fear in the world of cruel humans. Jommy was determined to avoid detection, track down other surviving slans, and with them, solve the mystery of the slans' strange existence and superiority.... First Thus 1st Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: A Timescape Book Published by Pocket Books - Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1983. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. A SEQUEL TO EMPIRE OF THE ATOM. THE MUTANT CLANE MUST REPEL A DEADLY ALIEN INVASION! SCIENCE FICTION'S CLASSIC MASTER. SYNOPSIS: THE SPHERE KILLS THE FURY OF ALIEN WEAPONS--AND ONLY CLANE CAN WIELD ITS POWER! When an alien Riss ship invades Earth's solar system, the empire of Linn is threatened with violent extinction. The Royal Mutant Clane must battle the Riss with only one weapon--a deadly sphere of light. The sphere can cut through time and space, and the aliens covet its power. Now Clane must journey sixty-five light years to a distant planet to learn the ultimate secrets of his only weapon. Hunted by enemies in space, threatened by treacheries on Earth, Clane confronts the Riss in a final, total war for Earth's survival!. First Separate 1st Printing.… Read More

DAW Books, Inc. Published by The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1977. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; Line of "Z" Stamped on Lower Edge. Intelligence Quotient Ten Thousand! BOOK NUMBER: 224. SYNOPSIS: RESEARCH ALPHA sought the answer to the ultimate intelligence--and also to certain problems of other intelligent beings sharing our galaxy. RESEARCH ALPHA sought the reason for humanity's very existence in a vast and apparently hostile cosmos. RESEARCH ALPHA found answers they never expected. What they found ultimately lead to... POINT OMEGA--when man becomes one with totality! Supermind reveals the classic science-fictional hand of A. E. Van Vogt. Here is science fiction in the grand old style! - and - TAKE A SENTIENT BEING - Everyone aboard the Dreegh supership that flew to the moon Europa in thirty hours (instead of many weeks) fitted… Read More

New York: Paperback Library A Kinney Service Company a division of Coronet Communications, Inc., 1971. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. HIS GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE! A TIME TRANSPORT TRAPPED IN A BATTLE FOR SURVIVAL IN A WORLD HE WAS CREATED TO RULE. ALSO KNOWN AS: (Original Title: The Book of Ptath). SYNOPSIS: "HE WHOSE STRENGTH IS UNLIMITED, WHO TIRES NOT, AND KNOWS NO FEAR..." "He" was Ptath, the greatest god the mind of man had ever created. He had returned, but against his will. The goddess Ineznia, his deadly rival, had thrust him into the dangerous world of 200 million A.D. in mortal form. Would Ptath, with only the limited strengths of a mere man, win his furious contest with Ineznia? Or was he secretly still the most powerful force in all the worlds of time? A. E. Van Vogt is an undisputed master… Read More

New York: Manor Books Inc., 1974. Previous Dealer Markings; Moderately Scuffed; Moderate Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SYNOPSIS: WHAT TERRIFYING CREATURES ...exist in the vast stretches of the universe not yet penetrated by man? The expeditionary ship Space Beagle had been sent to find out. Its crew, eminent scientists from every field of human knowledge, had been specially trained and equipped to overcome any danger they might encounter. But their greatest peril was aboard ship--where advanced technical knowledge, in the hands of ruthless men, could become an irresistible force for destruction. - and - ATTACKED! The crew of the Space Beagle had gone willingly into infinities of the universe where men had never ventured before. Now they were countless light years from home--vulnerable, cut off from outside help. Then the attacks started: from a catlike monster… Read More

Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc. BOOK: Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Fading Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 2145. JACKET DESIGN BY: John Lisco. SYNOPSIS: Centuries ago, human beings fought the slan race for control of Earth. Most of the slans were exterminated, and a world-wide police state was established to protect humanity against the scattered survivors. The exact circumstances of the Slan Wars were long forgotten, but the fear and hatred of slans remained...kept alive by the human government. Because slans were mutants--superior human beings capable of taking over the world if given another chance. They were many times stronger than ordinary men and women, phenomenally intelligent and--most frighteningly--telepathic. And since they could be easily identified by their strangely beautiful mind-reading organs--delicate golden tendrils which mingled with their hair--slans were often… Read More

DAW Books A Signet Book from New American Library Times Mirror - The New American Library of Canada Limited, 1976. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front Cover, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: 206. ALSO KNOWN AS: Original title: The Secret Galactics. SYNOPSIS: Reality twisted...slightly. Earth shivered in a momentary absence of vibration. For a split second the solar system wasn't. And then was again. Less than a billionth of a second...but a time shift occurred for connected persons. As the shadow ship started to emerge from the time jump, men and aliens were locked in a secret, undeclared war to rule Earth. The aliens, genetically changed, looked exactly like humans. They were everywhere--in government, in business, in finance. Opposed to them were two women and one isolated brain in a mechanical body. But between them they possessed the one secret that the… Read More

Markham: A Kangaroo Book Published by Pocket Books Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks Ltd., - Simon & Schuster, 1977. Previous Dealer Markings; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. Back in Print at Last! The classic story of an intergalactic struggle for the rebel cities of a super-race. A Science Fiction Novel. ALSO KNOWN AS: (Originally published as The Mixed Men). SYNOPSIS: DESPERATE REBELLION IN THE FAR-DISTANT FUTURE. The colonies of Fifty Suns, hidden for eons in an ocean of stars, are finally traced by the warship, Star Cluster, of Imperial Earth. Torn by rebellion, Fifty Suns must crush the titanic Earth forces or submit to the domination of the Great Galactic Union. It falls to one man, Peter Maltby, brilliant leader of the feared Mixed Men, to unite the warring factions of his galaxy and guide them to victory. But first he must resolve his own… Read More

New York: DAW Books, Inc., 1972. Previous Dealer Markings; Heavy Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE ENTIRE COSMIC SPECTRUM OF A. E. VAN VOGT. A NEW AND ORIGINAL COLLECTION. BOOK NUMBER: 4. CONTENTS: The Timed Clock; The Confession; The Rat and the Snake; The Barbarian; Ersatz Eternal; The Sound of Wild Laughter; Lost: Fifty Suns. SYNOPSIS: A. E. Van Vogt, author of Slan, The Weapon Shops of Isher, and other permanent science fiction classics has put together especially for DAW books this astonishing new collection. The Book of Van Vogt containing interstellar classics never before anthologized, such as Lost: Fifty Suns and The Barbarian, and all-new Van Vogt stories such as The Sound of Wild Laughter, The Timed Clock, and others never seen in print before. The Book of Van Vogt is "must" reading for all science… Read More

New York: Ace Books, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. BOOK NUMBER: G-660. SYNOPSIS: Did you ever hear of The Inter-Time Society for Psychological Adjustments? Well, neither had Morton Cargill when he accidentally killed a girl in an auto crash. But a year later that very girl turned up, apparently alive, and announced that the mysterious society had condemned him to death! Cargill's astounding adventures began when he escaped the execution chamber to find himself in the far future. Three conflicting societies were hunting for him for use in their own desperate schemes. There were the Floaters, a nation of aerial vagabonds. There were the Tweeners, who dreamed of world conquest. And finally, interwoven through everything, there were the sinister figures of the Shadow Men-supermen without visible substance. Van Vogt's rarest novel is worthy of the author of Slan and The… Read More

New York: ace books, Inc. A Division of Charter Communications Inc., 1974. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Moderate Creasing on Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Featuring the first paperback publication of The Storm and The Expendables. ALSO KNOWN AS: Twelve of the stories in this collection originally appeared in the 1968 collection, The Far-Out Worlds of A. E. Van Vogt. CONTENTS: The Replicators; The First Martian; The Purpose; The Earth Killers; The Cataaaaa; Automaton; Itself!; Process; Not the First; Fulfillment; Ship of Darkness; The Ultra Man; The Storm; The Expendables; The Reflected Men. SYNOPSIS: The celebrated author of The Weapon Shops of Isher, Slan and The Universe Makers, brings to this collection the same unforgettable concepts and the same surprises that have put him among the top names in science-fiction. This representative collection of 15 stories portrays Van Vogt in all his… Read More