SLIDE RULE: The Autobiography of an Engineer
Language: English
Published by William Morrow & Company, New York, 1954
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, CanadaLower Beverley Better Books
AbeBooks seller since January 11, 2007
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 181.65
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August, 1954. Author's Note dated October, 1953 at Langwarrin, Victoria, Australia. List of Illustrations. 11 chapters. 8 pp. of b/w plates including portrait of author by Clayton Evans. Maroon cloth covered boards have gilt text on spine only. Ep.s have light foxing, mostly at front. Sticker, on front pastedown, " Handbound at the University of Toronto Press ". An unusual copy of this somewhat rare title. Bookseller's Inventory # 231466.
Seller Inventory # 001466
- Title
- SLIDE RULE: The Autobiography of an Engineer
- Author
- Shute, Nevil
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company, New York
- Publication year
- 1954
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0261102494
- ISBN 13
- 9780261102491
- Illustrator
- Michael Hague
- Edition
- No Edition Stated, Presumed 1st
- Printing
- 2nd Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Autobiography, Military/war, Non-fiction
Film tie-in edition of the best-selling classic work of fantasy of Bilbo Baggins’ adventures in Middle-earth, featuring the complete story told in both films, with a striking cover image from Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End.
But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey ‘there and back again’. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...
The prelude to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.
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Lower Beverley Better Books
Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
AbeBooks seller since January 11, 2007
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LOWER BEVERLEY BETTER BOOKS is a virtual bookstore operated from a retired teacher's home on the shores of Lower Beverley Lake. It just 'grew' from an interest in antiques,an inability to bypass yard sales and a drive to keep books alive and out of landfill.
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