Search Results: Titles starting with U from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

Alameda, California: Alameda Naval Air Station Association. Very Good with no dust jacket. Softcover. Captain McCabe endorses the brochure, after which Alameda NAS Association President A. R. Thurson provides the introduction: "This brochure has been created to give you a capsule account of the importance of our Station to the community and the nation." Stapled wraps, front cover with photograph of four jets flying over the Station, History, Facilities, Management, etc., many illustrations including two-panel Organization Chart at center. Comes with original unused mailing envelope noting issuance "With the Compliments of" the Association". Also included are four sheets of Association letterhead and a photograph acquired with the brochure, likely of Brochure Committee members. Title from cover. Not dated; likely issued circa 1965; a search finds references to McCabe as commanding officer at that time. ; 5-1/2" x 8"; 16 pp; This brochure does not appear… Read More

Copenhagen: Hoffensberg, Jespersen & Fr. Traps. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Original tan printed wrappers, rebacked with library tape. Text in Danish.; 5 x 8.5"; viii, 558 pp; Wrappers chipped. .

Association for Computing Machinery. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1992. Softcover. 0-89791-549-6 . Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Monterey, California, USA, November 15-18, 1992. Blue wraps, perfect bound. ; 8-1/2" x 11"; 209 pp; Very slight cover wear, otherwise fine. .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1885. Hardcover. With copious notes for the use of English students by Léonce Stievenard. Brown cloth, front pastedown label, decorative endpapers. Notes at rear offer explanations in English for French text. Eighteen pence cover price.; 4" x 6"; iv, 197 pp; Binding worn at corners and spine top/bottom, not cracked but a bit loose, bookplate inside front cover and name/1893 date on Avant Propos page. .

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1930). Hardcover. Number 339 from 356 copies of the Autographed Edition. Rose cloth beveled boards, blindstamped decoration to front board, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, remaining edges untrimmed, signed by the author on the bound in limitation page, Including a (tipped in) page 338 of the original (typed) manuscript corrected and initialed by the author and a ribbon bookmark. Housed in matching rose cloth slipcase with printed publishers label pasted to rear panel. ; 6" x 8-3/4"; 351 pp; Signed by Author; Boards with light wear to the sheen, spine dulled, a (bookseller?) label removed from inside rear cover, otherwise fine. Slipcase scuffed and worn at the corners. .

Nanking, China: Chimes Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1933). Softcover. Red crepe paper covers, gold paper label to front, bound with cords at left, printed/bound fan-fold on lightweight paper having design of a tree in pink. This copy signed by the author on the title page. ; 5-1/4" x 7-3/4"; 65 pp; Bottom cord has been cut, binding remains stable, pages show some faint creasing. .

Union Pacific System. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1919. Hardcover. Issued by/for Union Pacific Railroad Company, Oregon Short Line Railroad Company, Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, The St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway Company. Pebbled black cloth, gilt lettering front, illustrations include limited use of spot color. ; 4" x 6-3/4"; 135 pp; Covers worn along edges and at spine, crease seen inside rear cover, small closed tear on last leaf, pages free of writing. .

Sacramento: California State Department of Education. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1943. Hardcover. Eighth in the California series of courses dealing with various shipbuildin g trades. Green paper over thick boards with black lettering, red cloth spine, well-illustrated including three fold fold-outs at rear..; Ex-library with pocket and slip removed and with other usual library markings. Worn along edges, covers rubbed, endpapers have caused toning to adjacent leaves, pages generally clean and unmarked, first fold-out mis-folded.. .

New York: United Nations Information Office. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1945. Stated Second Edition. Softcover. Scarce early UN publication. Original wraps, illustrated cover, illustrated with b&w drawings. ; 5.5 x 8"; 47 pp; Printed on thin paper, slight wear to wrappers, no tears or writing. .

Washington, D.C.: Research Section, Bureau of Ships, Navy Department. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1943. Softcover. Arranged by means of a decimally-symbolized classification with annotations , cross-references and supplemented by classification and index, inventor index, asignee index, patent-number index. Issued April, 1943. Details results of a patent search, reporting on patents by Holzwarth, Buechi, Allis-Chalmers, Robert C. Allen, R. Franks, R. Hadfield, N. Pilling and W. Rohn. Blue card covers, stapled, 621 patents described, supplements follow numbered pages.; 8" x 10-1/2"; 195+ pp; Covers worn, with 1/2" closed tear on front cover, prior owner name stamped on cover and first page, brief annotation on front cover in pencil, some pages show corner wear, a few pages with marks or other brief notes. .

Washington: Government Printing Office. Good with no dust jacket. 1916. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth, contents, descriptions of places, index at rear.; 6" x 9"; Covers rubbed and worn along edges, rear board and last few pages waterstained at bottom of spine with rippling limited to last few pages, a few pages with spots or small tears along edges. Ownewship stamp of Pacific Net & Twine Co of Seattle, Wash. to front free endpaper. .

Santa Barbara, California: Associated Students, University of California, Santa Barbara. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Publishers cloth with wrap-around color seascape photograph on covers, lettered in black, light blue endpapers, profusely illustrated with photographs, some color. Publishers reply card laid in. Note that this book is heavy. It has been priced to include USPS Media Mail shipping within the continental U.S. for the normal shipping charge. Shipping to other locations or by other methods will cost more. ; 9" x 12-1/4"; 512 pp; Boards lightly worn along top and bottom edges, solid hinges, pages clean and entirely unmarked. .

East Sussex, England: Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. (1998). No edition noted. Softcover. 0 907954 24 3 . Stiff white wraps, perfect bound, text accompanied by b&w photographs, tipped-in Supplementary Sheet. 1998 copyright with no additional dates noted. Laid-in is Notice re: funding from the author. ; 8-1/4" x 11-3/4"; 94 pp; Slight soiling to covers else fine. .

Stroudsburg, Pa.: Clifford & Lawton. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1931. Softcover. Wraps, stapled and perfect bound, pictorial cover, well-illustrated with photographs, 4 pages of which are on cream colored paper, ads at front and rear. ; 9 x 12"; 34, 95-137, 178-192 pp; Wear at edges and spine, pencil notations on cover, faint waterstain at spine and top with no impact on printed content. .

Stroudsburg, Pa.: Clifford & Lawton. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1932. Softcover. Wraps, stapled and perfect bound, pictorial cover, well-illustrated with photographs, 4 pages of which are on cream colored paper, ads at front and rear. ; 9 x 12"; 34, 95-137, 20, 25-63, 68-80 pp; Wear at edges and spine, faint waterstain at spine and top with no impact on printed content. .

Washington, D. C. / Falls Church, VA: Life Sciences Division, NASA Headquarters / BioTechnology, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1981. Softcover. Report prepared under Contract NASW-3469..Green wraps, stapled.; 8-1/4" x 10-3/4"; 68 pp; Faint soiing to covers, prior owner signature to front cover, two staple holes.to front cover and first leaf, mild wrinkling to first two leaves, text clean and unmarked. .

Falls Church, Virginia: BioTechnology, Inc.. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1982?]. Softcover. Report prepared under Contract NASW-3469..Beige wraps, stapled.; 8-1/4" x 10-3/4"; 54 pp; Small spot to rear cover, text clean and unmarked. .

Ukiah, Mendocino County, California: Students of the Ukiah Union High School. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1922. Softcover. This is the first publicaton of a school annual the U. U. H. S. has put out since 1912. Brown wraps, perfect bound, photos of students and events, advertising for local businesses at rear. ; 8" x 11"; 107 pp; Lacks front free endpaper, edgeworn, covers lightly soiled, pages show light creasing from handling, free of tears or writing, last page lightly soiled. .

San Francisco, California: Chronicle Books. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. (1973). Hardcover. 0-87701-044-7 . Blue cloth, silhouette of two hikers on front cover, black spine lettering, illustrated endpapers, many b&w photographs. Blue dust jacket features color photos of hikers on both panels. On the half title this copy inscribed "To _____" in one hand, and "from one backpacker to another" and signed by Eric Ryback.; 6" x 9-1/2"; 208 pp; Signed by One Author; Little wear to book, unmarked apart from noted inscription. Jacket rubbed along folds, edgeworn including a small loss at top of rear panel, not price clipped ($7.95), in clear protective cover.. .

Lugano: Corner Banca. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. Softcover. White wraps lettered plainly in black, perfect bound, pictorial dust wrapper, frontispiece with b&w portrait of Giuseppe Antonio Mainoni, additional b&w illustrations on plates including one fold-out. Text in Italian. Copy number 37 from an edition of 2,000 copies. ; 8-1/2" x 12"; 139 pp; Book with little wear, unmarked, Dust jacket curled at edges with 2 small closed tears at top. .