Search Results: Technical from Dave Shoots, Bookseller

Detroit, MI: Cadillac Motor Car Division, GMC Book. Illus. by Photos and Drawings. Good Plus to Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original brown soft cover factory service manual. Very heavy book will need extra postage. Very clean and sound. COMPLETE information on maintenance, body, air conditioning, steering, suspension, drive train, brakes, engine, transmission, wiring, and accessories. Weighs about 2.15 Kg.

Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966 Book. Illus. by Drawings and Photos. Very Good. Original Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original brown cloth on boards. Good DJ with several small repaired tears. With its companion volume on direct current(not included), this book is intended to give the student complete training in applied electrical circuit fundamentals. P.O.N. and some pencilled notations, OW very good. 367 pp. with appendix on trigonometric functions..

London: Faber and Faber, 1959 Book. Illus. by Photos and Drawings. Very Good. Hardcover. First - First Published 1959. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original blue cloth on boards. DJ price-clipped with no other damage and no writing. A thorough exposure to the whole process of photographing the heavens, including cameras, lenses, filters, darkroom equipment, emulsion speeds, developers, and papers when shooting through a telescope. 232 pp..

Toronto: Key Porter Books, Ltd., 1998 Book. Illus. by Colour Photos, Maps, Drawings. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Inscribed and Signed By Author. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original colour photo cover trade paperback. Foreword by Farley Mowat. Afterword by Glen W. Davis. A province-by-province report on our forests. Inscription and signature by the author. 294 pp. plus ads..

N.Y.: Theo. Audel & Co., 1962 Book. Very Good Minus. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original black cloth with large, blindstamped "A" on boards. Two front endpapers rumpled, previous owner's name, but no other faults. "Abacus" to "Zoom". 740 pp. plus ads..

N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1964 Book. Illus. by Photos and Diagrams. Very Good. Original Cloth. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original tan cloth with yellow lettering on boards. DJ has minor scrapes and edge chips. SEE PHOTO. "A technician-oriented text for workers at all levels of training." - DJ. Principles, elements, computers, controllers, transducers, flow measurement, relays, valves, dampers, initial adjustment, startup, other types of systems, and analog computers are some of the subjects covered. Problems at the end of each chapter test reader comprehension. 259 pp. with index..

Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company Book. Illus. by Photos and Drawings. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original colour illustrated soft cover. Part No. 6844. Smudges on front edges, but interior clean and easily readable. No writing. 476 pp. including index..

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941 Book. Illus. by Charts. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth on boards. Policies, Management and Operations, Research and Technology, Politics, Regulations, Statistics. 248 pp..

Detroit, MI: Chas. A. Strelinger & Co., 1895 Book. Illus. by Photos and Wood Engravings. Good Plus to Very Good. Cloth Card Cover. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original brown cloth on flexible card covers, stapled. Second Edition. One of the most sought-after tool books, full of no-nonsense descriptions, photos, and wood engravings. Everything from micrometers to steam engines ! Previous owner's name. Light soil to covers and edges. Clean inside. 526 pp..

Concord, NH: Rumford Press Book. Illus. by Photos. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original dark blue cloth on boards. No writing or damage, Milling Cutters, Hobs, Reamers, Twist Drills, Taps, Dies, and Screw Plates. Faint marks from tape used to secure dust jacket. No DJ. 496 pp. with index..

Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada Ltd., 1933 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original brown cloth on boards. DJ has four spots on rear. Previous owner's light name stamp. First free endpaper excised. Serious students of railway history will devour this book, for it provides so much more textual information than the average railroad book. There are several photos, however. Both authors are trained engineers with years of related experience in England and Canada. Whether looking for the broad picture, or the history of a single line or location, readers will learn something new. 402 pp..

Montreal: Canadian Pacific Railway, 1890 Book. Good. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Original green cloth on flexible card cover. Pocket-sized rule book covers everything from air brakes to injured workers. Only 4 years after the "Last Spike" was driven, this is a very early official publication, and Van Horne was still the boss. Permanently edge-soiled and bent into hip pocket shape, but all readable. A prize for a railway collector. 87 pp..

N.Y.: Hyman and Oppenheim, 1918 Book. Illus. by Uncredited Photos and Drawings. Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original brown paper boards with red and gilt decoration. Much of paper backstrip worn away, but cloth hinges intact. A catalog of wigs, toupees, switches, pompadours, transformations, bangs, curls, nets, coloring, and accessories for men and women. A special Holiday Section offers wigs for dolls ! A few pencilled prices, and notes inside back cover. Pgs. 63-64 (men's section) missing. Exceedingly scarce. Edgewear and cover spotting as shown in photo. One 2-inch edge tear. 78 pp..

Toronto: The Bryant Press, Limited, 1914 Book. Illus. by Photos and Drawings. Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark green cloth on boards. Gold titles. Covers grubby, interior clean. Hinges cracked. Forestry work in the Trent Watershed and B.C., Bore-hole records and capping of gas wells, Migratory birds, Fur farming, Karakul sheep, Toronto Housing Company, Laws for sanitary plumbing, Infant mortality, Leasing oyster beds, Forest reserve in Lake of the Woods, Wheat shipments, First aid, and many other topics. 287 pp..

Toronto,ON: Construction Safety Association of Ontario, 1975 Book. Illus. by Drawings. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Stated. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Black cloth on boards. DJ taped to endpapers. Signed by L. Sylvester, General Manager, and G.J. Samson, Executive Director. Part I treats of Mobile Cranes, while Part II deals with Tower Cranes. It is intended as a working guide for training personnel and as a standard guide for the same use of cranes. Large format will need extra postage. 304 pp. plus blank note pages..

Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth Book. Illus. by Photos (683 Abbildungen). Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Original maroon cloth on boards. All text in German. Brief pencil note inside cover. No other marks. Full-page photos without tissue guards tend to stick together, but are easily separated with no damage. Cover mottled/faded. Laid in is a large page showing two chairs, a commode, and a buffet which was removed from a different book. 320 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage..

Bristol, England: Adam Hilger Ltd., 1982 Book. Illus. by Diagrams. Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original grey cloth on boards. Green DJ. No writing or damage except April, 1988, and NSERC in ink on title page and underlines in Preface only. OW, clean as new. Phenomenological Understanding of Deep Levels in Semiconductors, Electronic Structure of Perfect Semiconductors, Formulation of the Defect Problem, Effective Mass Theory, The Green Function Method, Cluster Method, Self-consistent Electronic States in a Reconstructed Lattice, Evaluation and Detection of Observable Properties of Deep Levels, Simple Substitutional Impurities, Elemental Lattice Defects and Related Defect Systems, Transition-metal Impurities, References, and Index. 302 pp..

N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1958 Book. Illus. by Photos and Drawings. Near Fine. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original blue cloth on boards. Exceptionally clean and sound. No writing or damage. Types of asphalt pavements; Petroleum asphalts; Mineral aggregates; Design of hot-mix asphaltic concrete; Construction of hot-mix asphaltic pavement; Asphalt pavements and bases employing liquid asphalts; Asphalt surface treatments and seal coats; Reconstruction of old pavements; Design of the flexible system; Testing exercises; Appendices; Index. 305 pp..

N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1995 Book. Illus. by Drawings. As New. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original maroon plasticized cloth on boards. No marks or damage to book or DJ. Planning, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, animal facility, laboratory, appendices, glossary, standard forms, and index. 525 pp..

Calgary, AB: British Railway Modellers of North America, 1995 Book. Illus. by B/W Photos and Maps. Very Good Minus. Soft cover. Inscribed and Signed By Author. First. 8 1/2x11. White softcover with B/W photos on the front and back. Stapled. Small loss of glossy paper at edge of rear cover where something sticky was carelessly removed (not affecting text). More than 25 locomotives are pictured in this scarce 33 pp. booklet..