Search Results: Titles starting with T from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

Berkeley, CA: Sports Scientific Design. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1978). Hardcover. Red paper boards, gilt lettering to front panel, illustrated with diagrams and equations, text followed by Appendix. Author was Table Tennis Champion, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ; 6" x 8-1/4"; 44 pp; The author, on his LinkedIn page notes: "The book predicted double-hitting, which was legalized in tennis around 1980 and in table tennis in 2004. It is now a rare book with about 1000 out of the printed 2000 sold to almost all the major sports manufacturers." ; Light wear to corners with small abrasions to paper, a number of pages have an internal crease. .

Washington, D. C.: and Space Administration. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1972. Softcover. Prepared at NASA Lewis Research Center. Green wraps, perfect bound, chiefly tables. ; 7-3/4" x 10-1/4"; 171 pp; Front cover soiled, light cover wear, prior owner stamp front cover, mailing label rear cover, pages clean and unmarked. .

Menlo Park, California: Lane Publishing Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1954. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 36 plans for indoor tables each listing their designer, pointers on table building. Billed as indoor furniture for the home craftsman, contributors for these 50's designs came mostly from California and Honolulu with a few from other parts of the Pacific Northwest. Yellow wraps, stapled. Uncommon.; 8-1/2" x 10-3/4"; 48 pp; Covers show wear and soiling, pages lightly worn at corners, no tears or writing. .

Tokyo, Japan: Bunji Murotani / Process Architecture Publishing Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1980. Softcover. 0-89860-045-6 . The Architects Collaborative. Stiff wraps, color cover illustration, perfect bound, well-illustrated with photos, plans, drawings, some in color, text in English and Japanese. ; 9" x 11-1/2"; 164 pp; Covers sunned at spine, slight cover wear, blind cancel of Ohio architect at bottom of contents page. .

Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1990). No edition noted. Softcover. 0-8117-2309-7 . Stiff wraps, perfect bound, illustrated front cover with orange lettering, many b&w illustrations. This copy signed by the author on the title page. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"; 192 pp; Signed by Author; Mild corner wear, clean and unmarked apart from noted signature. .

Santa Monica, CA: Waverly Books. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2014. Stated First Edition. Softcover. Stiff white wraps, stapled, illustrated with a few photographs. ISBN 9781495452079. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/2"; 171 pp; Late 1960s travels through Greece, India, Turkey, Iran etc. This copy with inked and signed presentation inscription from the author to Dee (Longenbaugh, formerly of Observatory Books in Juneau, Alaska) on the first front page. ; Signed by Author; Little wear, clean and unmarked apart from the noted inscription. .

Southampton, UK: International Centre for Underutilised Crops. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; No printing noted. Softcover. 0854327274 . Stiff tan coated wraps, perfect bound, brown cover lettering with two inset color photos. illustrated in b&w with 8 pp of color photos. ; 6" x 9"; 171 pp; Unused but with light corner wear from handling. .

Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (1983). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 0-87049-380-9 . Gray cloth, silver spine lettering, includes 7 pages of portraits. Orange dust jacket with cover illustration.; 6" x 8-3/4"; xix, 145 pp; Little wear to clean and unmarked book. Jacket with almost no edgewear, in clear protective cover. .

La Celle-Saint-Cloud: Jacques Luxey. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1987. First Edition. Softcover. 2-86577-076-1 . This second volume in the series covers tastings of Reds 1975, Great Bordeaux Whites 1978 and 1979, Great Champagnes N. M. and Great Rieslings 1981. Also includes Values of Great Bordeaux Wines from 1928 to 1984. Stiff black wraps, perfect bound, front cover with photographs of members of the Grand Jury, many illustrations within (most being photographs by the author), text in English translated from the original French by Alan Spencer, scarce thus. ; 6" x 9-1/4"; 151 pp; Mild curling at edges, small split where bottom of spine meets front cover, corner creased on rear cover, clean and unmarked within. .

La Celle-Saint-Cloud: Jacques Luxey. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Softcover. 2-86577-075-3 . This first volume in the series covers tastings of Great Bordeaux 1976 and Great Champagne 1976. Stiff black wraps, perfect bound, front cover with photographs of members of the Grand Jury, many illustratio ns within (most being photographs by the author), text in English translated from the original French by Alan Spencer, scarce thus. ; 6" x 9-1/4"; 149 pp; Mild curling at edges, clean and unmarked within. .

La Celle-Saint-Cloud: Jacques Luxey. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Softcover. This third volume in the series covers tastings of Reds 1978, Great Bordeaux Whites 1980 and 1981, and Cuvees Speciales Champagnes. Also includes Values of Great Bordeaux Wines from 1928 to 1984. Stiff black wraps, perfect bound, front cover with photographs of members of the Grand Jury, many illustrations within (most being photographs by the author), text in English translated from the original French by Alan Spencer, scarce thus. ; 6" x 9-1/4"; 151 pp; Mild curling at edges, slight spine lean, clean and unmarked within. .

New York, London, Paris: Pergamon Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. Progress in Nuclear Energy, Series IV. Green cloth, printed red spine labels lettered in gilt. Publisher info on pasted in label. ; 6" x 9"; xiii, 420 pp; Ex-library with the usual markings, serious spine lean, soiling to boards, first few pages bumped upper right, text block clean and unmarked. .

New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1936. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Publishers black cloth, gilt spine lettering. Scarce without library markings, esp. in first edition.; 6-1/4" x 9-1/4"; x, 544 pp; Covers rubbed and lightly soiled, small tape repair to upper right corner of rear board, prior owner name on FFEP, solid hinges, clean pages. .

Fitzgerald, Georgia: Fitzgerald Publishing Company. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1911. Softcover. Devoted to the Reconciliation of Science and Religion. Special Subjects: The Horrors of Vaccination. Temperance vs. Prohibition. Blue wraps, lettered front in black with red highlights, frontispiece portrait of author. Scanner does a poor job representing the blue tone of the cover. ; 5-3/4" x 8-1/2"; 293 pp; Covers worn and toned, prior owner name on FFEP and a few pages with underlining or brief notes, all in pencil, pages lightly worn at corners. .

New York: Thunder's Mouth Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2005. Softcover. 1-56025-786-5 . Presents 29 papers by Pilger, James Cameron, Edward R. Murrow, Seymour M. Hersh, Greg Palast, Robert Fisk and many others. Stiff red and white wraps, perfect bound. This copy signed by author Greg Palast and dated 2016 on the half title page. ; 6" x 9"; xxix, 626 pp; Little wear to book, unmarked apart from the noted signature. .

Territorial Commission for the Commemoration of Portuguese Discoveries. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. [1990]. Softcover. Catalog for an exhibition in New Delhi of the work of these five architects which "envisages to offer a clearer version of today's architecture in Portugal." Includes essays titled Portuguese Architecture from the Thirties until today, Modernist Architecture, Rationalism - The Organic Movement and the Market Architecture, From the April Revolution to the Present. A separate section presents the works of each of the architects. Well-illustrated with b&w photos throughout and color photographs showing the work of the five architects. Red wraps, perfect bound, cover design in pink and green, lettering in white and pewter, text is presented in Portuguese and English. Pages are not numbered. ; 9-3/4" (24,8 cm) square; Uncommon, with no copies located in Worldcat or the European Library.; Slight corner wear, sunned at spine, clean and unmarked within. .

Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. Softcover. Published November 1930 as Circular No. 21. Brown stapled wraps, illustrated. ; 6" x 9"; 37 pp; Covers slightly worn, no tears or writing. .

New York: Vantage Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. (1980). Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 0-533-03981-9 . Publishers red cloth with black spine lettering, illustrations include an 8-panel fold-out. Red dust jacket includes portrait of author on rear panel. ; 6" x 9"; 138 pp; Lightly bumped at corners of spine, solid binding, clean and unmarked within. Dust jacket lightly rubbed, not price clipped ($13.00), in clear protective cover. .

Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1957). No edition noted. Hardcover. Publishers blue cloth, red printed spine label, gilt spine lettering, illustrations include three fold-out charts. ; 6" x 9"; xix, 490 pp; Covers lightly worn, solid hinges, no inscriptions, pages clean and unmarked. .

Hackettstown, New Jersey: Authors Peace Society/Hackettstown Gazette Publishing Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. Softcover. Presents three plays: Barriers, Tomorrow and White Comrade. Rose wraps, Cover Design by Howard T. Knapp, each play preceded by a photograph (blue). The plays were first produced at Centenary Junior College by the Centenary Players; the photos are from their productions. This copy with an inscription to a cast member of a different play on the front free endpaper penned and signed by the author (H. Graham Du Bois). An uncommon title remembering the first world war created in the shadow of the second. WorldCat reports 5 holdings, none west of Chicago. ; 6" x 8"; 108 pp; Light cover wear and soiling, front cover creased at spine, pages are clean and unmarked. .