Fifer J (74 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. unmarked, light shelfwear-NICE Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pages slightly tanned otherwise Good Plus. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Pages slightly tanned otherwise Good Plus. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Pale yellow pictorial jacket , boards and pages pristine and binding firm, price not clipped, "New perspectives in American History".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. hardback in fine condition with fine dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: New. Brand new book, sourced directly from publisher. Dispatch time is 6-7 days from our warehouse. Book will be sent in robust, secure packaging to ensure it reaches you securely.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 203 pages, a very good hardback in a very good dust-jacket with 6 figures [0719028450].

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:9780893813901.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0719028450. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 320 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** CONTENTS: PART I: SPAIN'S COMPRESSION STRUCTURE; 1. The Spanish Initiative; 2. Preparation for Empire: Early Construction Work on the Peninsula; The Medieval Builders; 3. Building the Castilian Compression Structure; Strengthening the Structure; New Institutional Tie-Beams; Final Testing; 4. Laying Out the First Site-Lines in the New World; Initial Reconnaissance: Spain's Discovery of the West Atlantic and the Caribbean, 1492; 1519; 5. Design Enlargement; The Need for Increased Compression; The Implications of "Scaling Up"; 6. Extending the Ground-Plan of Empire; Continental Expansion: The Land and the Rivers, 1519; 1543; The Problems of Coordinating the Ground-Plan; 7. Spain Crosses the Pacific: Delimiting the Western Perimeter of Empire; The Insertion of a New Tie-Beam; 8. Oceans Apart: Spain's Search for Certainty in the New World; Weight and Mass; Prestressing; Beams and Cantilevers; Joints; Resilience and Fracture; Spain's "Reduced Risk" Construction Policies: Administration, Church, Town, Immigration, Trade, Overland Transport; Its enduring perception as "interoceanic" travel; 9. The Survival of Empire; New Survey Work and New Construction; PART II: THE UNITED STATES' TENSION STRUCTURE; 10. The English Initiative; Laying Out the First Site-Lines and Starting Construction; 11. The Failure of the First Tension Structure; 12. A Newly Designed Tension Structure: The Invention of Federalism; Utility; Economy; Expansion; 13. Spain's Influence on the Early U.S. Perimeter Ground-Plan: Part I; The Mississippi "Coast"; 14. Spain's Influence on the Early U.S. Perimeter Ground-Plan: Part II; The Development of Transoceanic Empire; New England Enters the Pacific; 15. The First Phase of Land Empire; Spanning the Interior: The Problems of Diverging Styles of Construction, 1800-1860; New Bridging and Trussing Skills Strengthen the North and West; Pseudo-Tension and Greater Compression Weaken the Deep South; Echoes of Imperial Spain; 16. The Extension of Land Empire in the Trans-Mississippi West; Structural Engineering After the Civil War; Strengthening the Foundations, Supports, Spans and Surfaces; The Structural Significance of the Work "Transcontinental"; 17. After word and Conclusion; Design and Construction in the New World; Contrasts in Interpretation: Responses to Risk; Contrast on the Peripheries of Empire; Cross-bracing; Maintaining and Strengthening the United States' Tension Structure: Structural Analysis; Tension Structure: Structural Analysis; Critical Load; Americanization; The Language Component. Size: 8vo. Collectible.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine as New. First Edition. Graphic novel. unpaginated. I.N.J. Culbard (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1991.

First Ed.- 1st Printing Hardcover near fine in vg dj; top of dj spine wrinkled and stained else a tight unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Spine ends slightly bumped. DJ extremities lightly bumped and worn, spine lightly sunned.

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 320 pages. Very clean hardback with a dust jacket. (The Master Builders: Structures of Empire in the New World - New perspectives on American history series).

8pp, 2 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

11pp, 2 figs, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. From the personal library of Mr. Robert Allen as conveyed to me by his widow, Ms Priscilla (Brownie) Allen, he having been a noted bookseller and appraiser and also editor of a number of volumes of the The Eighteenth Century: a current bibliography series in a project headed at the University of Southern California. His ink-stamp at first free endpaper, which is vertically creased. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn though sunned at spine, protected by a plastic coat. Contributions by Gellert S. Alleman, Gwin J. Kolb, Curt A. Zimansky, Henry K. Miller, Charles N. Fifer, Donald T. Torchiana. Foreword by Curt A. Zimansky. xi [1], 1-386 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

12pp, 5 figs, plus 2 full-page b/w pls, Printed Card Cover, VGC.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Original publisher's red cloth hardback, gilt lettering on label spine, dustjacket, 8vo: xiv, 302pp., 15 maps, 21 plates, acknowledgements, lists maps & plates, footnotes & references, general bibliography, index. Volume 13: Cambridge Latin American Studies.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: Good / Bien. 1ª Ed. en español.- Buenos Aires: Ed. Francisco de Aguirre, 1976.- 474 p., [1 h.]; 8º mayor (19,7 cm.); Cartulina Ed. ilustrada, con solapas. Libro en español HISTORIA, POLÍTICA Y DERECHO POLÍTICO-INTERNACIONAL AMERICANOS DESDE LA INDEPENDENCIA.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Hbk 320pp. illust. maps an unread copy excellent clean tight unmarked in sleeve-protected dj as new.

100pp, Printed Card Cover, VGC.