Boston: American Bell Telephone Co. 1980. Hardcover. iv, 469 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Yellow floral endpapers. Stamps on endpapers and title page indicating that this book belonged to the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Public Relations Library and the A.T. & T.... More

Chestnut Hill, MA: Adams Brown Co. 1945. Paperback. 6 p.; 22 cm. Folded pamphlet. This pamphlet is about the "Miraculous New Insecticide" DDT, or dodiphenyltrichloroethane. It discusses its use during the war and expectations of post-war use, listing 13 American companies from which experimental quantities could be obtained. Scarce. In... More

Chicago: Fred de Land, Publisher, 1894. Paperback. iv p., [approx. 30] leaves: illustrated advertisements; 23 cm. Light green wrappers (paperback) with advertisements on both sides of front and back wrapper. The publisher, Fred de Land, was involved in the development of telephone companies in the United States in the late... More

York, Pa. York Graphic Services, 1990. Paperback. 33, [3], p.; 23 cm. White paper covers printed in blue. Text printed in blue. No date of publication; York Graphic Services was in business from the early 1970s to 1999 or later. In Near Fine Condition: spine is lightly rubbed; clean and bright. More

Chicago: Under-Feed Stoker Company of America, 1910. Paperback. 46, [1] p.: illustrations, plans; 31 cm. Stapled brown card covers with embossed green-and-silver cover title. No date of publication. Evan William Jones (1852-1908) invented the under-feed stoker in 1892 and formed the Under-Feed Stoker Company of America to manufacture the Jones... More

Schaffhausen, Switz. George Fischer Limited, 1947. Hardcover. 53 p.: 16 p. of illustrations; 30 cm. Red cloth spine with white handmade paper over boards. Gilt-stamped spine and cover titles: Johann Conrad Fischer 1773-1854 a Swiss Metallurgist. No dust jacket. Former owner's name stamped on front free endpaper: R.J. Luebbers. In... More

West Hartford, Conn: American Radio Relay League, 1931. Paperback. April 1931. Vol. XV No. 4. 96 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Orange and black paper covers. This issue of QST features articles by George Grammer, VHF pioneer Ross A. Hull, and others. In Good condition: front cover separated; lower corner of... More

New York: Society of Automotive Engineers, 1933. Hardcover. viii, [2], 733, [5] p.: drawings, charts, tables; 22 cm. Black pebble-grain cloth. Gilt?-stamped spine title (lacking gilt). Embossed cover title. Final 16 leaves containing American standards, standards committees, an alphabetical index, and an index to advertisers are printed on yellow paper... More

Cambridge, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1925. Hardcover. 520 p.: 1 leaf of engraved portrait of Allan Winter Rowe, 3 leaves of color illustrations of the campus reproduced from the original water colors by Nelson C. Chase with captioned tissue guards, many black-and-white photographs; 28 cm. Full leather binding with... More

Pittsburgh, Pa. Westinghouse Air Brake Company, 1890. Hardcover. 63 p.: tables, and, in pocket following text: 4 large folded plans, 2 cards with moveable levers over plans, and 8-page pamphlet; 17 cm. Black morocco-grain cloth with gilt-stamped title on flap: The Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Instruction Book. Errata slip tipped... More

New York and London: Longmans, Green, and Co.; Edward Arnold, 1914. Hardcover. xii, 336 p.: in-text drawings, photographs, tables; 19 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Errata slip bound in between p. xii and p.1. Includes examinations, glossary of technical terms, and an index. Ex-library: remains of white... More

Philadelphia: William W. Woodward, 1806. Hardcover. "This American Edition, printed from the last London edition, edited by William James, mathematical instrument maker, is carefully revised and corrected, by Robert Patterson, Professor of Mathematicks, and Teacher of Natural Philosophy, in the University of Pennsylvania." 508 p., 10 folded leaves of engraved... More

London: Amalgamated Press, 1929. Paperback. 28 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Front wrapper has illustration in red and blue of boys playing cricket. Running title: The Gem Library. Contents: Grundy's Cricket Match by Martin Clifford [complete] -- Famous Daredevils: Ernest Shackleton -- Marvels of the Future: Television in War [a fascinating... More