Search Results: Authors starting with V from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Alblasserdam: Offsetdrukkerij Kanters B. B., 1984 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White covers with black titles & decoration, [vi], 150 pp. Front cover has previous owner's name and slight spotting to bottom corner, tail of spine bumped. Doctoral thesis, printed photo-offset from typescript. Form letter signed by author laid in. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Soft Cover. VG/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.

Pune: Narendra Prakashan, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Two volumes, sewn in wraps, white spines with blue titles. Paper I: [x], 276 pp, lacks one preliminary leaf, else very good. Paper II: [viii], 314 pp, title page appears to be a cancel, else very good. Contents, Paper I: matrices; straight line; circle; parabola; ellipse & hyperbola; vectors; products of vectors; probability. Contents, Paper II: bounded sets; sequences; infinite series; limits of functions; continuity; derivatives; applications of derivatives; indefinite integrals; definite integrals; areas & volumes; differential equations; applications of differential equations. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. Wraps. Fair/No dj. 21 X 13½ cm.

Brooklyn & Athens: Pharos Press, Ltd., 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Trade paperback, 555, [3] pp. Entirely in Greek except for the helpful English title page tipped onto preliminary blank, which states: "During World War II, Greece was occupied by German and Italian Armies. The Occupation lasted from April 1941 to October 1944. The book tells the story of a few young people who lived, and hoped, at that time and how they tried to survive." In Greek. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Trade Paperback. Fine/No dj. 20 X 14 cm.

New York: Out of London Press, 1980 Extra shipping charge may apply for this item to some destinations. White wraps with black titles & dec., about 350 pp in all. Creases near spines and a few small spots to covers of Nos. 1 & 2, No. 3 is about fine. Articles on Italian literature are in English with frequent quotations in Italian, plus a reprint of an Italian-language document of about 30 pp in each issue. The editors express their intentions: "While retaining many of the instigations of the original Editorial and Advisory Boards, the present Editors find it necessary to explore new critical paths and modes of inquiry: tradition must be seen as transcendence rather than the norm. The most varied contributions are analogically related so as to generate the interanimation of philology and philosophy (rhetorics and hermeneutics). This tactic is not one of antithesis, but of oxymoron. From the non-place of our activity, the quest for definition is no more no less urgent than its… Read More

New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1938 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full brown buckram, gilt-on-black titles on spine,viii, 514 pp, 306 figures, 91 tables, index. Covers heavily rubbed & scuffed, original owner's addresses on ffep, scattered notes (mostly pencil). Contents: stresses in elementary machine members; materials; working stresses & factor of safety; riveted & welded joints; bolts & screws; keys, cotters & knuckle joints; cylinders, pipes & tubes; flat plates & cylinder heads; springs; shafts; couplings & clutches; brakes; sliding bearings; roller & ball bearings; belts & belt conveyors; rope drives; hoisting & power chains; toothed gearing on parallel axes; bevel & worm gears; metal fits & tolerances; miscellaneous machine members. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . Good/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

Bern: Buchverlag Verbandsdruckerei AG, 1943 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Large 8vo stitched in orange paper wraps, uncut, [blank], [vii], 304 pp, [blank]. Wraps lightly rubbed and Yapp edges creased, small chip at head of spine, pages unopened. My German is not good enough to give a summary of contents other than that it deals with a variety of political and economic problems "in the spirit of Swiss democracy." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Wraps. VG/No dj. 25½ X 18 cm.

New York & Toronto: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1950 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black boards, foil titles, partly in green band, on spine, [v], 439 pp. Bottom corners bumped, extremities rubbed, bookplate on fpd. DJ damp-stained on & near spine, rubbed through at fore-edges; in Brodart archival cover. Novel set in a post-WW2 ruined German city riddled with black marketeers and unrepentant Nazis. Jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . VG/G. 22 X 15 cm.

Philadelphia: B. Frank Van Cleve, 1874 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn on sunk cords in full black pebble-grained cloth, gilt titles on spine, [ii], 283 pp, index. Very worn & dirty, lacks free endpapers, hinges reglued. Contents: summary of elementary geometry; utility of the slide rule; steam engines & belting; strength & weight of materials including wood, stone, brick, lime, cement, mortar, and metals; wheels & gears; water & water power; receipts & tables for mechanical purposes. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). . Fair/No dj. 19 X 13 cm.

New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Based in part on lectures by E. Artin & E. Noether. Translated from the 7th German Edition by Fred Blum & John R. Schulenberger. Grey cloth, white titles on spine, xiv, 265 pp, footnotes, index. Very light edge wear, owner's name on ffep, scattered pencil notes, book is in a removable plastic cover. Abstract algebra for advanced undergraduates & graduates. Contents: numbers & sets; groups; rings & fields; vector spaces & tensor spaces; polynomials; theory of fields; continuation of group theory; Galois theory; ordering & well ordering of sets; infinite field extensions; real fields. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG+/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: The Viking Press, 1937 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated by Gerard Hopkins. Original title was "L'empriente du dieu." Full black cloth, titles printed on red paper labels, [iv], 273 pp. Spine sunned. The French original of this novel about tobacco smugglers along the border between France and Belgium won the Prix Goncourt for 1936. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First US Edition. . VG-/No dj. 21 X 14½ cm.

Köln & Amsterdam: Kiepenbücher, 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated into German by Gottfried Beutel. (Original title: La maison des dunes.) Brown cloth, gilt dec. on front board, gilt-on-black titles on spine, 250 pp. Corners lightly bumped, edges lightly rubbed. DJ worn at corners & spine ends, with some small chips & tears; in Brodart archival cover. Novel about tobacco smugglers in German translation. Fits in small flat-rate box. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). . VG+/VG-. 19 X 12½ cm.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, xi, 481 pp, 169 figures, footnotes, bibliography, index. Extremities lightly rubbed & spine lightly sunned. According to the preface, "This is a book about boats and the sea looked at from the vantage of a quarter of a century as a research oceanographer and of nearly twice that long going to sea in everything from two barrels lashed together to an aircraft carrier. It attempts to explain in practical terms what the ocean is really like, why boats behave as they do, and what the average skipper can do to make his voyages safer and more comfortable." Contents: origin & nature of the oceans; meteorology; ocean circulation; principles of wave motion; ocean waves; ship dynamics; heavy weather seamanship; emergency procedures. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 8 oz.). . VG/No dj. Illus. by Richard Van Dorn. 28 X 20½ cm.

Berlin et al.: Springer-Verlag, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Additional ISBN is listed: 3-540-51626-3. Silver boards, blue titles on front board & spine, xiv, 350 pp, index. Owner's name on fpd. Contents: abstract data types as initial algebras; an algebraic specification language; constructive specifications; case studies: the ferry problem, the mini PABX; error handling; abstract implementations. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. . Near Fine/No dj. 24½ X 17 cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green pictorial cloth in photo dj, maps on endpapers, 222 pp, 25 ff plates. Musty, else VG. DJ sunned and chipped with a few ½" closed tears; in Brodart archival cover. Copyright page states First Printing and First American Edition, DJ has the price, but the black dot on the rear board indicates a Book-of-the-Month Club edition. From the DJ: "Innocent Killers is that rare thing, a piece of original and highly important scientific research that reads with the pace and vividness of a best-selling thriller. The authors have lived with their subjects for four years, observing them with an intensity and limitless patience that can rarely have been equaled. They do not merely follow the behavior of an animal as a member of a species, but as an individual with personal characteristics, habits, and social status." Shipping weight 3 lbs.. BOMC. . VG-/VG. 24½… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full red cloth, gold ink titles & dec., printed paper decoration tipped onto spine, top edge dyed brown, pictorial endpapers, xxiii, 677, [2] pp, 80 plates (many in color) printed one side only, 72 illustrations in text, index. Top few cm of rear board sunned, edges browning. History of art, primarily of Europe and the Mediterranian region. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. Illus. by the Author. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Dial Press, 1943 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth, goldenrod titles, endpaper maps, 343 pp. Spine sunned, extremities rubbed. Polemical book calling for the resettlement of European Jews in Palestine. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 12 oz.). . VG/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in printed paper wraps, [iv], 275, [1] pp, footnotes, chronology, index. Underlining and marginal notes in the chapters dealing with English literature, else clean, only slight wear to wraps. Shipping weight 1 lb.. First Edition. Wraps. VG/No dj. 19 X 14 cm.

Hamden, CT: Archon (The Shoe String Press, Inc.), 1993 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Ex-Library. Full grey cloth, gilt titles on spine, xv, 208 pp. Spine cocked, extremities lightly rubbed, a few leaves dog-eared, usual library markings including "Withdrawn" stamp. DJ spine is slighlty sunned, has two library stickers, else fine (has been in library plastic since new). According to the DJ, "Van Zanten's experience in Vietnam is very different from the pictures made in Hollywood. It had no fraggings. No dope. No disaffected GIs, racial strife or civilian slaughter. No stupid commanding officers or ignorant college-boy lieutenants. It had, instead, a soldierly professionalism built on sound and rigorous training. ...commitment of man to man and man to unit was total. There was a soldier's intimacy, and a soldier's humor. Together they meant survival, and that is what this memoir is about." Shipping weight 2 lbs..… Read More

Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Teal cloth, red titles on spine and device on front board, 227 pp, 17 illustrations including title page and one full-page illustration for each chapter. DJ spine slightly browned, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. From the DJ: "Of Norwegian Ways is a light-hearted and somewhat irreverent history and description of Norway--and of Norwegians and their Norwegian-American cousins." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Henning Jensen. 23 X 15 cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White paper-covered boards, blue foil titles on spine, xix, 662 pp, numerous charts & graphs, index. Tobacco odor, tail of spine turned in, corners of a few leaves creased. DJ worn & creased at corners and spine ends. Basic personal finance, most of which is still applicable in principle, although some tax laws have changed. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 12 oz.). 3rd ptg. . VG+/VG. 24 X 18 cm.