Search Results: Geology from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB

Buffalo, NY: US Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, 1969. Pamphlet. Four-panel brochure, 5.5x8 inches, some foxing at upper left on front panel. Explanation of the diversion of water from the American Falls portion of Niagara Falls, due to the accumulation of broken rock at the bottom of the falls. The cover image shows the rock bed of the falls after the water was diverted.

Lucerne: Printing Office C.J. Bucher S.A., 1925. Pamphlet. 40p., stapled wraps, 4.75x7.25 inches, illus., wraps lightly toned along edges, else very good condition.

Utrecht: Utrecht University, Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 2006. Paperback. 227p., illustrated with diagrams and tables, many printed in colors (even the tables), text predominently in English with Dutch supplementary material and a multi-lingual bibliography, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch color wraps. Slightly edgeworn, endsheets bear a few tiny flecks of dust (thank goodness, not food flecks), a sound copy that is otherwise clean and entirely unmarked by human hand; all in all, very good condition. LPP Contributions Series / LPP Foundation; No. 21. Cover decoration is partly an artistic joke, as you will see.

Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1968. Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 181p., profuse b&w and color photography with captions and nearby text, first edition (it has been reprinted) with presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock and, as an appendix, a matte section bearing text and silhouettes only. Hardbound in nice openweave linen, buff-colored, titled in dark brown. This casebinding is enclosed in the colorphoto dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket are fine, pace a little sunning to the blank rear dust jacket panel: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. A book for non-Australian Upfield fans, and any others fascinated by Australian phenomena.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1948. 31p., presswork on laid-lined paperstock, sewn pamphlet in 9x6 inch plain printed grey wraps, signatures are only partially opened (not too badly), former owner pooped out. Thread is sound, covers a little crimped and toned, clean and unmarked within, a good to very good copy. Commences, "It will, I hope, be deemed fitting that a lecture in commemoration of the work of Sir J.G. Frazer should attempt to deal with our own country's life in such a way as to bring out in some measure the deep roots of the life in a far-off past and the continuity from those times to the present''. Fleure thereupon tackles geologic history, glacial conditions during the Ice Age.

Wageningen: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1995. Paperback. 305p., illustrated with diagrams, stats and tables, main body of text in English (exclusively) and prefatory material in Dutch (exclusively). Presswork on bright-white alkaline paperstock, softbound in 9.5x6.5 inch glossy color wraps with a fine color-photo decoration, in very good condition. A hip study; author's epigraph is quoted from a Bjork poem or one of her lyrics.