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Holon, Israel:: Freund Publishing House, 1969. A clean, square, tight copy. Spine a little sun-faded. Sharp corners. Inner hinges are perfect. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings. Text pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Complete with Errata slip. Illustrated with figures and a few highly magnified photographs. Tables. Graphs. List of 362 bibliographical references. Author Index. Subject Index. Bound in the original brown cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY./No jacket.. 8vo. (iv), 252pp..

New York: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1967. Revised Edition, with improvements/corrections made on some 30 different pages (per preface). NOT a library discard. Near Fine condition. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. 1967. Illustrated with 191 measured drawings. Tables. Index. Full title: "Air Conditioning Metal Layout : A Textbook and Working Guide with Practical and Shortened Methods for Laying Out and Forming the Patterns used in Air Conditioning, Heating, and Ventilation : Mathematical Formulas Applied to Sheet-Metal Work." Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in bright blue.. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No jacket. 8vo. xii, 308pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Serpent's Tail, 1987. EX-LIBRARY but still a Very Good reading copy. Clean, square, and tight. Novel of WW2 by Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translated from the Albanian. . First English Language Edition . Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. 8vo. 277pp .

New York: New Amsterdam, 1988. 5" wide by 8" tall. Bright, clean, tight, square, unmarked copy. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Appears unread. Not price clipped (9.95). An age-old legend transformed into a splendid fable by Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translated by Jon Rothschild from the French version of the Albanian of Jusuf Vrioni. First Printing of the First US Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Fine condition. 180pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: Harvill, 1993. EX-LIBRARY but still a Very Good reading copy. An Orwellian narrative and attack on totalitarianism by Albania's best-known poet and novelist. The 1981 Albanian original was banned by that country's Communist authorities. "Spare, suspenseful, and quietly terrifying." This novel was written in Albanian and translated from the French of Jusuf Vrioni by Barbara Bray. . First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. 8vo. 190pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London: The Harvill Press , 1996. EX-LIBRARY but still a Very Good reading copy. Clean, square, and tight. A political fable set in Ancient Egypt by Albania's best-known poet and novelist. Translated by David Bellos from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf Vrioni. . First English Language Edition . Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. 8vo. 119pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Flat spine. NO creases. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Bound in the original pictorial wraps. 7" wide by 10" tall. From the rear cover: "In this timely volume based on a special issue of COMPARATIVE EDUCATION REVIEW, leading comparative education scholars explore the world of education in Islam from the medieval era to today, illuminating the continuing struggle among Islamic scholars and educators over whether to reform or resist as a way of preserving identity. ISLAM AND EDUCATION offers a rare overview of the great diversity in forms of Islamic education, dispelling misinterpretations and documenting the ever-evolving relationship of Islamic education to the West. The book is necessary reading for all humanists and social scientists wishing to understand the… Read More

New York: The Free Press / A Division of Macmillan, Inc, 1983. Heavy set with shipping at our actual cost. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. A handsome set, that looks great on the shelf. In each volume, part of the front free endpaper is neatly clipped, else Near Fine condition. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall. All four volumes are continuously paged. A massive, A-Z dictionary/encyclopedia of criminology, law and jurisprudence. From the Foreword: "This Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice is an attempt, the first of its kind to draw together in one set of volumes all that is known about criminal behavior and the responses of societies to it." Includes bibliographies, glossary, legal index (table of cases), index of legal documents, and a comprehensive general index. Listed ISBN (0029181100) represents the complete 4 vol set. [Individual ISBNs for vols 1-4, are respectively, 0029181208; 0029181305; 0029181402;… Read More

New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006. SIGNED by the AUTHOR directly on the title page (her signature only, NOT personalized to anyone). Very Good+ conditionin a bright and shiny Very Good+ dust jacket. NO chips, tears or creases. NOT price clipped ($16.95). The jacket is protected by a clear-plastic sleeve. Sharp corners. Previous owner's name marked out on the top and bottom edges of the text block. Pages are otherwise fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked. For ages 11 and up. By the Newbery Award-winning author of KIRA-KIRA. Bound in the original orange boards with a red spine, stamped in bright gold. From the dust jacket: "Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has had her flowers and family to go home to. That all changes after the… Read More

New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1952. A clean, square, tight copy. Previous owner's bookplate. Pages are fresh and unmarked -- probably never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Index. Bound in the original dark green cloth. Gilt on the spine and front cover is still bright and shiny. From the Preface: "The present book is concerned chiefly with the wider aspects of the rabbinic mind. It discusses such problems as the transmission of social values, the integration of the self, the relation of the self to society. It treats of such topics as the category of significance, indeterminacy of belief, normal mysticism, the commonplace and the holy, rabbinic dogma, the relation of rabbinic thought to philosophy. The sources on which these discussions are based are drawn from both the Haggadah and the Halakah." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ condition./No Dust Jacket.. 8vo. xvii, 394pp. .

New York: Published by the Author/The Talmud Society, 1917. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Original burgundy wine-color cloth. Front cover has an embossed design, and bright, shiny gilt-stamped lettering. Backstrip is a little dull, with a bit of fraying at top. Pages are clean, fresh and crisp. Parts 3 and 4 only, in one volume, paged continuously. Text in English, except for a few pages in Hebrew. Title page says: Published by the Author. Foot of spine reads: The Talmud Society. Foreword begins: "I have the honor of introducing you to my second edition..." . Second Edition?. Hard Cover. Very Good condition./No Dust Jacket.. 8vo. vii, pp[251]-528 + 6 page index..

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. Very Good condition in a Good only dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($3.50). The jacket is protected by a removable Gaylord clear-plastic sleeve. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Just a touch of binder's glue brownish offset on the rear free endpaper. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. First Printing of the First Edition (per McBride's GUIDE TO THE IDENTIFICATION OF FIRST EDITIONS]. Illustrated with 28 photos (mostly players/teams) and a frontispiece showing Milwaukee County Stadium, Bound in the original light blue boards, stamped in red on the spine. Complete with dust jacket, although the jacket is lightly soiled/stained with small edge chips, and its front panel and part of the spine are heavily sun faded (although all lettering is still legible).. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo.… Read More

New York: Praeger, 1983. NOT a library discard. Appears unread. Fine condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked - apparently never read. Economic Relations and Philanthropy: Volume 3 only (of 3). Expertly annotated. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in bright gold.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xviii, 142pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Praeger, 1982. NOT a library discard. Very Good condition. Light cover wear. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked. Political Relations and American Zionism: Volume 2 only (of 3). Expertly annotated. Bound in the original red cloth, stamped in bright gold.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket, as issued. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xviii, 142pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New York: Arno Press, 1980. NOT a library discard. Appears unread. Near Fine condition (only light cover soil). Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are clean and unmarked - apparently never read. American Presence: Volume 1 only (of 3). Expertly annotated. Bound in the original light brown cloth, stamped in dark red.. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. xvii, 127pp. + 8 pages of photos. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1974. 6.25" wide by 9" tall. A square, tight copy. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Flat, uncreased spine. Bound in the original silver and black wrappers. Three appendices. Bibliographical references. Index. From the rear cover: "System Identification problems are basic problems in many fields of the physical, engineering, biological and other sciences. These are problems in which one wishes to determine the structure of the system which produced a given set of observations... While the underlying fundamental equation may be a partial differential equation, integral differential equation, differential difference equation, or only approximately known, the book emphasizes that it may be reduced to an initial value problem for ordinary difference equations which is readily solved on a digital or analog computer."… Read More

New York: American Elsevier Publishing Company, Inc, 1966. Very Good EX-LIBRARY. Square and reasonably tight. Inner hinges are perfect. Corners are NOT bumped. Spine label rubbed. "WITHDRAWN" stamp, and a few other library markings on the endpapers. Text pages are clean and crisp. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. English translation edited by A. R. Edmonds. Translated by H. Ingram from: Theorie des Groupes en Physique Classique et Quantique, Volume One: Structures mathematiques et fondements quantiques (Paris, 1960). Illustrated with figures. Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original gray cloth. . First Edition in English. Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY./No jacket. 8vo. xxiii, 566pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

New Brunswick, New Jersey & London: Transaction Publishers, 1989. Flat, uncreased spine. Sharp corners. Very Good condition but for previous owner's name and occasional margin notes. There is highlighting in the first third of the book and one sentence on page 313. Otherwise all pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Originally published in 1957. This 1989 edition features a new 9-page Introduction by Joseph Frank. Bound in the original peach color wraps. From the publisher: "This book shows the various evolutionary forces which have converged from different directions to effect human disintegration. It discusses the evidences of disintegration in all fields of contemporary experience, from social, political and economic processes to those in learning, art and poetry.". 1989 expanded edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. xxi, 337pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Stuttgart [Germany]: Gerd Hatje, 1998. Very Good condition. We have only this one copy, but it is available now and ready to ship today from Nevada, USA. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. Biligual text: German and English. Profusely illustrated -- most in beautiful full color. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in white. Oversize Hardcover. 9" wide by 11.75" tall. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 152pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Budapest: Medicína Könyvkiado, 1984. Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket (light edge wear). Square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. NOT a remainder. Hinges are perfect. Pages are clean and unmarked NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Translation into Hungarian by Dr. Brencsan Janos. Bound in the original orange cloth, stamped in black. Complete with orange dust jacket lettered in white and black.. Hungarian edition. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 491pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.