Arthur draper (48 Ergebnisse)

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paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: new.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: no dust jacket visible. The book is in good condition, with some wear on the cover edges and corners. The binding remains intact and strong. There is no dust jacket present, and the pages show typical signs of aging but are free from significant marks or inscriptions. Barry Bart (illustrator).…

Trade paperback. Zustand: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Guilford, CT: Twodot, c2006. 234pp, black and white illustrations. 8vo. Uncreased spine, fine bright looks unread trade paperback.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. APPEARS LITTLE READ. 1st printing.Minimal wear to large hard back book. Colour frontispiece. Dust jacket has light edge wear.256 pages Pages are clean and tight. Name on f.e.p. D/j price clipped.

Zustand: Good. 1949. First Edition. 255 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Colour frontispiece. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Clipped jacket has very light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.…

Zustand: Good. 1949. No edition stated. 255 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth with black lettering to spine and front board. Colour frontispiece. Pages are slightly tanned with minor foxing throughout. Heavier foxing to text-block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Minor crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Small tear along spine long edge.…

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Zustand: VG++, Wear, Label Ghost,Foxing. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG+, Chips, Tears, Staining. 1st Edition. Adventure in 'The Magnet Library' series. Coloured frontispiece, no illustrations in the text. Expanded condition report/scan on request.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Red hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 255pp.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Brand new out of print book. Light yellow overstock mark on one edge.

Softcover. Zustand: Good with no dust jacket. Binding is sound. Pages tanned, clean. Wrappers faded, soiled, worn. Contents: Draper, "Israel and World Politics"; Laqueur, "Israel and the Arabs"; Hertzberg, "Israel and American Jewry"; Elon, "Israel: Letter from the Sinai Front"; Goodman, "Two Issues in Planning"; Garis, "Art-Movie Style"; Mandelstam, "An Interview with Ho Chi Minh - 1923"; Books in Review. 11.0" tall; 96 pages; Re#.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 256 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. (Space, Astronomy, Juvenile Literature) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. First Thus. 4to. A good copy. Illustrated board covers with 3 boys playing ice hockey, some bumping to edges and corners. Plain red cloth spine worn at top & tail. Internally very clean, probably unread. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Illustrated dust jacket, edge rubbed and soiled. Tight binding, solid blue boards with silver illustration to front, bright silver lettering to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages. Inscribed and dated on front end paper to previous owner by Marian Lockwood. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good -. Barry BART (illustrator).

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Library marks remain. Physical description; xiv, 70, 39 pages : illustrations plans, portraits (1 color) ; 31 cm. Notes; 41 illus. incl. 40 (1 col.) plates, sections, elevations, plans and map. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Marble Hill House (London, England). Historic buildings Great Britain. Historic buildings England London. Art Public collections Great Britain. Art Public collections England London. Architecture History England London. Architecture England Twickenham. Colen Campbell (1676-1729). Roger Morris (1695-1749). Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke (c. 1689-1750). Historic buildings England Twickenham. Twickenham (London, England) Buildings, structures, etc. Twickenham (Middlesex). Middlesex Twickenham. England Richmond upon Thames Twickenham. Londres (GB) Marble Hill House. London (England) Buildings, structures, etc. London (England) Historic houses, etc. Twickenham (London, England) Buildings. Marble Hill House, Twickenham. Twickenham (Middlesex). Middlesex - Twickenham. Twickenham (London, England) Buildings, structures, etc. Marble Hill House. Marble Hill House (London, England). Twickenham (London, England) Buildings, structures, etc. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (spine and part of boards faded and some light marks to upper board), no dustwrapper. Pp. 256, illus with coloured frontispiece (front free endpaper slightly creased with large pencil inscription; half title spotted with crease to top corner).

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. The Story of Astronomy (1941) By Arthur L. Draper & Marian Lockwood | The Scientific Book Club ISBN: none (published in an age before numbers ruled everything) Condition: Fair (a bit faded, still intellectually luminous) Offered by: Crappy Old Books This is The Story of Astronomy , printed in 1941 , when: The Second World War was very much in progress Rockets were still mostly things that exploded in the wrong direction And ?space travel? lived primarily in pulp magazines and the heads of ambitious physicists. Into this steps Arthur L. Draper and Marian Lockwood, here to tell you how humanity went from ?Ooh, look at that bright dot? to actual science , armed with nothing but telescopes, trigonometry and stubborn curiosity. What?s inside (besides starlight and slightly browned paper) You?re getting a proper pre-space-age grand tour of astronomy : Ancient sky-watchers ? Babylonian, Greek, Arab and assorted wise people looking up and saying ?Those aren?t random.? Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler et al. ? the brave souls who gently pointed out that the Earth is not, in fact, the main character. Newton and gravitational enlightenment ? apples, orbits, and the dawning horror that the maths is going to get harder from here. 19th- and early 20th-century advances ? spectroscopy, nebulae, variable stars, galaxies? all the good stuff, explained just before anyone had the chance to mention quasars or dark matter. Because it?s 1941, there?s a wonderful sense of ?this is the cutting edge? about things we now file under ?intro astronomy? It?s like reading a proud status update from science just before the Space Age turned up and said, ?Hold my telescope.? The tone: calm, clear, and wartime-brisk Draper and Lockwood write in that classic mid-20th-century popular science voice: Patient, but not patronising Confident, but not shouty Quite certain that the reader is an adult with a functioning attention span You get: Solid explanations of big ideas (orbits, light, distance, stellar evolution as understood at the time) Historical narrative to keep you anchored Zero memes, zero ?fun fact!!!? boxes, zero cartoon planets with faces It?s all very: ?Here is the universe. Here is what we know so far. Let?s behave sensibly about it.? This particular copy (aka: the frankly honest bit) From the photo and its travels, we?re calling this Condition: Fair : The once-proud jacket appears to have either escaped or never been issued; what remains is a plain, faded board that?s gone a gentle pale yellow/cream , like an old observatory wall. The spine label ?a nice blue patch with the title on it?still does its job admirably, even if the rest of the spine looks like it?s seen some shelving action. Corners and edges show honest wear: the sort of softening that comes from being pulled out of bookcases by people muttering ?Where?s that astronomy book gone?? Pages: all present and readable; likely tanned, maybe with the odd spot or smudge, but no galactic black holes where chapters ought to be. This is not a collector?s museum piece. It?s a working, elderly hardback that has probably spent its life being used , not whispered about. The vibe Reading The Story of Astronomy feels like: Sitting in a quiet 1940s study while a measured voice explains the cosmos over the gentle ticking of a clock. Visiting a time when ?astronomy? meant nights at the eyepiece and long calculations by hand , not space telescopes beaming data to a laptop. Realising that, despite everything we?ve discovered since, a lot of the big ideas were already in place , and still beautifully presented here. It?s oddly comforting: war on Earth, yes, but the stars carry on, and someone in 1941 thought it important enough to write a clear, human-scale book about them. Why you might actually want this You love history of science and want to see what astronomy looked like just before Sputnik, Apollo, Hubble and the modern cosmological zoo. You enjoy old-school popular science that assumes you?re capable of followin.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Very good in a very good (edge worn with a few moderate sized chips, faded along the spine) dust jacket. ; 394 pages B00085DGJE.

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Library marks remain. Physical description; xiv, 70, 39 pages : illustrations plans, portraits (1 color) ; 31 cm. Notes; 41 illus. incl. 40 (1 col.) plates, sections, elevations, plans and map. Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; Marble Hill House (London, England). Historic buildings Great Britain. Historic buildings England London. Art Public collections Great Britain. Art Public collections England London. Architecture History England London. Architecture England Twickenham. Colen Campbell (1676-1729). Roger Morris (1695-1749). Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke (c. 1689-1750). Historic buildings England Twickenham. Twickenham (London, England) Buildings, structures, etc. Twickenham (Middlesex). Middlesex Twickenham. England Richmond upon Thames Twickenham. Londres (GB) Marble Hill House. London (England) Buildings, structures, etc. London (England) Historic houses, etc. Twickenham (London, England) Buildings. Marble Hill House, Twickenham. Twickenham (Middlesex). Middlesex - Twickenham. Twickenham (London, England) Buildings, structures, etc. Marble Hill House. Marble Hill House (London, England). Twickenham (London, England) Buildings, structures, etc. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Allen 1940 1st GB ed. sound clean hardback, minor shelf rubbing, name on fly - Sent from Scotland by Royal Mail, all international orders by PRIORITY AIR-MAIL. all books carefully packed. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. the jacket is worn and torn. edge wear on the boards. foxing and markings. ownership inscription. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.