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.....
Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Co. Hard Cover. 4to. 411 pp. Brown leatherette with gold titling to spine and Ballinger blindstamping to front board. In white dust jacket with orange design and black text. Orange text to spine faded, otherwise both book and jacket are in as new condition. Congressional office of.....
Washington, D.C. U.S. Field Artillery Association, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 910 pp., 8vo. Hardcover. First edition. Slight scuffing & edgewear to boards. Creasing to joints. Scuffing, edgewear, cocking & shaking to spine but binding sturdy. Foxing & slight soiling to textblock edges. Light soiling & paste action to pds; po.....
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.....
New Britain, CT: Stanley Electric Tool Division, circa 1930s. Paperback. 16 pp., 8vo. Stapled paperback. Technical catalog. For routing, shaping, dovetails, relief work, carving, veining, inlays, templet work, beading & fluting, & other woodworking operations. Slight soiling & wear to covers; lg creases down center of covers through textblock. Interior.....
Albany: The Argus Company, 1912. Cloth. 8vo. 1075 pp. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and worn. Hinges weak, front hinge split at bottom. Former owners stamps to fpd, fep. Pages are very nice and clean. Plates include map of New York, of prize winning poultry in New York, various.....
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.....
Washington, CA: Government Printing Office, 1896. Half leather. 8vo. 656 pp. Corners and spine ends bumped and worn. Rubbing to covers, edges of covers. Joints worn, leather torn at joints. Damp staining to covers, book is lightly rolled. Leather spine chipped. Scratching to covers. Former owners name to fep. Pages.....
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.
Spring City, TN: Hillcrest Books, 1973. Wraps. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". 72 pp. Faint pencil note at top edge of front cover. Interior fine. Printed in brown ink (text and illustrations). Plows, sowers, cultivators, drills, shellers, churns, stalk cutters, mills, hoes, scythes, hay forks etc.
