Search Results: Titles starting with M from S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)

Corte Madera, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks. Very Good. 1987. Revised Edition. Paperback. 0876542089 . This book is in Very Goodc ondition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition The folder cover has several bumps, rubbed spots and edge tears. The interior book is in Very Good condition and has some toning to the top edge of the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The Kaleidocycles are mostly clean, bright, and un cut. The very first Kaleidocycle has a couple of lines of the punch out lines punched, but not completely. "A kaleidocycle or flextangle is a flexible polyhedron connecting six tetrahedra (or disphenoids) on opposite edges into a cycle. If the faces of the disphenoids are equilateral triangles, it can be constructed from a stretched triangular tiling net with four triangles in one direction and an even number in the other direction. The kaleidocycle has degenerate pairs of coinciding edges in… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. This book has been signed on the title page by the author. ; Signed by Author .

Carrollton, TX: Squadron / Signal. Very Good+. 1989. Trade Edition. Paperback. 0897472225 . B&W Illustrations & Photographs; This is an oblong paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. .

London, England: New Vanguard / Osprey. Very Good+. 1994. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W and Color Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book with illustrated covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. "The M3 half-track was an American armored personnel carrier half-track widely used by the Allies during World War II and in the Cold War. Derived from the M2 half-track car, the M3 was extensively produced, with about 15,000 standard M3s and more than 38,000 variant units manufactured. The M3 was extensively modified with several dozen variant designs produced for different purposes. During World War II, the M3 and its variants were supplied to the U. S. Army and Marines, as well as British Commonwealth and Soviet Red Army forces, serving on all major fronts throughout the war. The M3 and its variants were produced by many manufacturers including Diamond T, White Motor Company and Autocar and were designed… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1965. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is in generally clean bright condition, but has noticeable rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an ink stamped Property of U. S. Navy on the bottom edge of the text block - but there are no other marks of any type of library on the book. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks, and a chip to the top spine end. "By 1927 a chance meeting with one of his college professors, John Gallishaw, encouraged him to try writing. He attended Gallishaw's course in short fiction on the condition that he pay for the course out of future sales. He married socialite Dorothy L. MacReady in New York City during November of that year. [9] By May 1928 he had his first story published. He enjoyed immediate success selling to the… Read More

Reading, PA: Fantasy Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1949. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Limited First Edition, this copy is # 220 of 500 copies with a special limitation page inserted. This copy is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and has a Good only dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a former owner's bookplate (science fiction related) to the front pastedown page. The top edge of the text block has some ground-in dirt and darkening. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has large chunks missing from the spine ends (both top and bottom) and several other smaller chips missing from the top edges. The black dust jcaket has some rubbing to the spine and flap joints and some toning and foxing to the rear cover. The dust jacket art is by A. J. Donnell. "Stanley Grauman Weinbaum (April 4, 1902 – December 14, 1935) was an American science fiction writer. His career in science fiction was short but… Read More

New York, NY: Pocket. Very Good+. 1975. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. 0671789414 . This is a mass market paperback book and a First paperback edition. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning edge wear. The front cover, spine and spine joints have some light toning. The text pages are generally clean, but have some lightish generalized toning. "Hiester Richard Hornberger Jr. (February 1, 1924 – November 4, 1997) was an American writer and surgeon who wrote under the pseudonym Richard Hooker. Hornberger's best-known work is his novel MASH (1968) , based on his experiences as a wartime United States Army surgeon doctor during the Korean War (1950–1953) and written in collaboration with W. C. Heinz. It was used as the basis for an award-winning, critically and commercially successful movie – M*A*S*H (1970) — and two years later in an acclaimed long… Read More

New York, NY: Pocket. Very Good. 1976. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. 0671804081 . This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are generally clean and bright, but there is generalized toning. .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good. 1935. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers are generally clean and bright. There is some light bumping and wear, along with some rubbing and beginning fraying to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a small old, Christmas sticker on the rear pastedown page. .

New York & London: Crowell-Collier Pr.. Very Good-. 1963. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and has a clean, bright text block. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have edge wear, and some light rubbing. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing, wear and ground-in dirt. This book is part of the "Modern Masters Books for Children." "Saroyan published essays and memoirs, in which he depicted the people he had met on travels in the Soviet Union and Europe, such as the playwright George Bernard Shaw, the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, and Charlie Chaplin. In 1952, Saroyan published The Bicycle Rider in Beverly Hills, the first of several volumes of memoirs. Several other works were drawn from his own experiences, although his approach to autobiographical fact contained a fair bit of poetic license. Drawn from such deeply personal sources, Saroyan's plays often… Read More

San Francisco, CA: San Francisco State University College of Creative Arts. Fine. 1999. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Pamphlet. Color Illustrations; This is a stitched booklet compiled by the Art Dept. of SFSU for their annual reception for the Masters of Fine Arts program. The booklet is in fine condition. Included are visual arts bits by Heidi Buscher, Emily Payne, Ani Gregorians, Alyson Belcher, Donald L. Cain, Susan Friedland, Max Kelly, Jeff Levine, and, Sylvia Rios Metcalf. "Since 1999, the Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture has been awarded annually to final-year students who are graduating from an M.F.A. degree program in the United States. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $20,000. In addition to the monetary award, in 2013 Dedalus obtained dedicated studio space to further enhance the development of the fellows’ artwork." .

Croton-on-Hudson, NY: General Electric. Very Good+. 1979. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is an educational module prepared by the Manufacturing Education / Management Education Services of General Electric. The oversized paperback textbook is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a small edge tear to the top front spine joint of the book cover and a previous owner's inked name on the front cover at the bottom corner. The covers have some beginning toning / sunning, especially to the spine and spine joints. The text pages are clean and bright. Chapters include: Variation and its Causes, Measuring Variation, Samples and their Interpretation, Normal Distribution, Hypothesis Testing, Confidence Intervals, Correlation Analysis, Introduction to Probability, Geometric and Binomial Distributions, The Hypergeometric Probability Function and more. .

New York: Canaveral Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1962. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0940724065 . B&W Illustrations; First Canaveral Press Edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine - dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is some light toning to the edges of the text block and text pages. The price clipped dust jacket is in very good condition. There are very small chips missing from the bottom corners of the dust jacket. This book and dust jacket appear to have been in the warehouse that was burned in the mid 1960's. There is some very slight residue of smoke to the dust jacket edges. "As he dropped the last grisly fragment of the dismembered and mutilated body into the small vat of nitric acid that was to devour every trace of the horrid evidence which might easily send him to the gallows, the man sank weakly into a chair and… Read More

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1984. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0520054350 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light, but noticeable rubbing to the bottom edges of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, but has noticeable fading / sunning to the spine. "Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay (April 1888) was a Russian explorer, ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who became famous as one of the earliest scientists to settle among and study indigenous people of New Guinea who had never seen a European. Miklouho-Maclay spent the major part of his life travelling and conducted scientific research in the Middle East, Australia, New Guinea, Melanesia and Polynesia. Australia became his adopted country and Sydney the hometown of his family."… Read More

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.. Very Good-. 1936. Early Reprint. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There are several spots of faiding to the book covers, especially the front cover, along with some gorund-in dirt. The text pages are generally clean, though there are some stray spots of foxing, and ground-in dirt. The endpapers are clean and bright. .

Garden City, NY: Nelson Doubleday, Inc. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1986. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some rubbing to the spine ends and corners, along with one sem-closed tear to the top front panel. "During 1978, Asprin began the "MythAdventures" series, chronicling the comic adventures of Skeeve and Aahz, with the book Another Fine Myth. Illustrated originally by Frank Kelly Freas, and later by Phil Foglio, the pun-rich books concern a "demon" magician who has lost his powers and his inexperienced human apprentice as they travel through a variety of worlds. Some of the early "Myth" novels were adapted later as comic books by Foglio and others. The Myth books have been published by three publishing companies over the… Read More

Grand Rapids, MI: Fleming H. Revell. Near Fine. 1997. Trade Edition. Paperback. 0800753208 . B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "Since serving in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Max Schwartz has worked as a consulting civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Licensed in several states, he's worked jobs from small residential developments to major industrial facilities - from the California suburbs to the Central American rainforest. A recognized authority with extensive experience. Mr. Schwarts has lectured and taught civil engineering at UCLA Extension, and has written several books on concrete construction, including Builder's Guide to Swimming Pool Construction." .

Osceola, WI: Infografix / Photo Archive Series. Near Fine. 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. 1882256549 . B&W Illustrations; This is an oblong paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is a tiny bit of ground-in dirt to the spine edges. The text pages are clean and bright. .

Cleveland, OH: The Goldsmith Publishing Co.. Very Good+. 1921. Early Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There is a strip of toning to the front endpaper and a previous owner's bookplate (Frances Rasmussen) on the front pastedown page. "William Tufnell Le Queux (2 July 1864 - 13 October 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino) , a traveller (in Europe, the Balkans and North Africa) , a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His… Read More

Deep River, IA: Brennan Printing / St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Very Good+. 1996. 13th Printing. Spiral bound. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback book with a spiral binding. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning ground-in dirt to the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "Winterset was platted during a cool spell in the summer of 1849. The name was originally to be "Summerset", but the unseasonable coldness made the commissioners reverse this to "Winterset". " (from Wikipedia) .