Schenectady, NY: American Locomotive Co. & General Electric Co., 1949. Leather. 8vo. Leather binder. Instructions for operation service of the standard 1500-HP Road Switcher, 1500-HP Freight Locomotive, & 2000-HP Passenger Locomotive. Slight edgewear & light soiling to covers & spine; some warping to front cover. Binding sturdy; metal interior spiral.....
Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1849. Cloth. 8vo. 816 pp. 65 b/w illustrations to rear, some fold-out. Foxing to fore-edge. Wear, tears to covers at spine, head. Rubbing to covers, wear and staining. Corners bumped and worn. Some light foxing throughout. Fep torn at top all the way across. Two.....
New York: C. H. & E. S. Goldberg, 1925. Leather. 205 pp., 4to. Leather binder. 1920s catalogue illustrated w/ b&w drawings of products. Slight wear & some very light soiling to covers & spine. Binding very sturdy. Light foxing & soiling to eps; sm po pencil signature to rrep. Otherwise.....
NYC: Rubber World, 1947. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. 640 pp. Pebbled blue cloth with gold titling. Spine cocked, some rubbing to cloth at joints and board edges. Corners lightly bumped, faint soiling to boards. Dampstaining to text block bottom edge, affecting lower margin of interior, text otherwise clean. A catalog.....
The India Rubber Journal, 1909. 1/4 Cloth. Folio. 102pp. Slightly rolled; cover corners worn down; light bumping to spine ends; covers lightly bowed; staining to covers; light rubbing to spine; foxing to endpapers & some illustrations. Light dampstaining to head edge of fpd & ffep. Light offsetting to p. 90-91.....
Boston: John Hetherington & Sons, 1892. Cloth. 195 pp., 8vo. Cloth hardcover. A.e.g. "Makers of all kinds of cotton opening, scutching, carding, preparing, spinning, & doubling machinery; also engineers' tools, mill gearing, hoists, &c" Illustrated w/ line drawings of these machines, w/ short descriptions, dimensions, speeds, net & gross weights.....
Schenectady, NY: American Locomotive Comapny, 1950. Booklet. 8vo. 1410 pp. Pebbled black flexible wraps with metal multi-ring binder. Gold titling to front slightly rubbed and faded. Light soiling to wraps. Previous owner's handwritten label to interior front cover: Book No. 182 / William Diamond, Machinist, Framingham Eng. Hse. Very faint.....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863. Cloth. 8vo. 440 pp. Vol 2 only. Brown cloth with gilt to spine. Discolored spotting to front board. Rubbing and soiling to spine and boards, with chipping to spine ends. Foxing to front and rear matter, lightly scattered throughout text block. Approximately 3000 images of.....
Philadelphia: American Society for Testing and Materials, 1974. Cloth. 194 pp. 8vo. Yellow cloth with red titling. Light foxing to rear board, scattered to front and rear matter. Interior otherwise clean, with halftone photos, charts, and graphs throughout. A symposium presented at the Seventy-Sixth Annual Meeting, American Society for Testing.....
Fort Belvoir, VA: The Engineer School, 1942. Paperback. 119 pp., 8vo. Red paperback w/ cloth spine. Some slight scuffing, creasing, shelfwear & po pen/pencil inscriptions to covers. Some sunning, wrinkling & edgewear to spine. Slight foxing to textblock edges. Slight foxing to eps & some very light creasing scattered to.....
Cambridge, MA: MIT Technology Press, 1932. Hardcover. 264 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Compiled by The United States Institute for Textile Research, Inc. Physical testing, textile microbiology, cotton fiber research, the laundry industry, & more. Slight wear to boards & spine; light cocking but binding very sturdy. Some light soiling to textblock.....
Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1913. Cloth. 8vo. 1642 pp. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and worn. Former owners stamp to fpd and ffep. Light sunning to spine. Light rubbing to covers. Otherwise book is nice and clean. Transmitted to the legislature January 15, 1913. Illustrations include those of.....
Boston: The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, 1928. Hardcover. 348 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Containing the constitution & by-laws of The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, as well as statistical & technical data. Light shelfwear to boards & spine; sm bump to front board top edge. White of spine lettering mostly.....
Boston: The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, 1929. Hardcover. 359 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. Containing the constitution & by-laws of The National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, as well as statistical & technical data. Slight shelfwear & some very light soiling to boards & spine; soiling to a front board number, spine.....
Chicago: The Professional Press, Inc., 1922. Hardcover. 96 pp., 12mo. Hardcover. "A manual of practical refraction w/ instructions for the operation of the trial case & refractive instruments & methods for successfully carrying out a case of ocular refraction." Illustrated w/ b&w line drawing diagrams. Moderate rubbing, soiling, & edgewear.....
New York: Atlas Portland Cement Co., 1927. Pamphlet. 12mo. 10 pp. of information + several pages of tables. cover slightly scuffed, pages lightly discolored. Tables on how mix, measure, and pour concrete for the best results.
New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1883. Hard Cover. 8vo. 170 pp. Wear and bumping to corners and spine ends, soiling. Former owner's name to ffep. "to stationary, portable, locomotive, and marine engines with new and simple methods for proportioning the parts". With folding plates.
London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1910. Cloth. 8vo. 155pp. Light soiling to covers, light shelf wear to spine ends & cover corners. Covers slightly bowed, ffep missing. dampstain to rpd, rep & last few pages of index; sunning to spine. Contents: Exposed Circuit Wiring; Residence Wiring; Special Lighting Devices; etc......
Cleveland: The Penton Publishing Co, 1915. Cloth. 338 pp. 4to. Cloth. Light shelfwear and very light stains. Sunned spot to front cover. Bumping to spine ends and lower corners. Light foxing to textblock.
Chicago: American Technical Society, 1972. Wraps. 4to. 96 pp. Stapled purple paper wraps. Rubbing and scuffing to wraps, light soiling to text block top edge, very faint foxing to interior of wraps. Illustrated with halftone photos and diagrams.
Boston: Lord & Nagle Company, 1912. Second edition. Cloth. 822 pp., lg. 8vo. Cloth in 2 vols. Second edition. Includes folding plates, illus. machinery, 96 samples. Boards lightly rubbed/soiled; mild edgewear w/ slight sunning to spines; vol 2 spine lightly cocked. Both vols shaken w/ hinge split but binding stable;.....
White Plains, NY: Environmental Health Institute, 1989. Paperback. 93 pp. 8vo. Paperback, green paper wraps. Light shelfwear. Sunning to spine and joints. Interior clean and sound. Monograph No. 2. March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.
Boston, MA: Joseph Breck & Sons, 1903. Cloth. 4to. 350 pp. Cloth sl. dampstained, edges chipped. Gilt lettering sl. rubbed. Boards sl. warped. Front hinge starting. Few pages are creased. Title page bears copyright notice to include illustrations. Illustrated by engravings.
New York: New York University Press, 1931. 1/4 Cloth. 8vo. Black cloth-backed stiff brown paper wraps. 2 volumes. Both have tearing to cloth at spine ends, owner's ink signature and date 1934 to top of title pages, and some scattered pencil notations throughout text. Mathematical equation written out in pencil.....
New York: The Industrial Press, 1937. Leather. 172 pp., 4to. Leather hardcover. Scuffing, soiling & slight edgewear to boards & spine ends. Sunning, edgewear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding tight. Slight foxing to textblock edges. Po pencil note to bpd; po pen note, sticker & stamp to fep.....
