John Claybourn (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In very good condition; light rubbing top of spine, moderate to hard rubbing bottom of spine, with cloth fraying, and hard rubbing tips of outside corners, with board exposure; slight tilt to spine; moderate toning outside edges of book; former owner's book plate adhered to front end paper; extensive pencil notations front free end paper and occasional paragraph circling with pencil throughout book; light toning to otherwise clean interior pages; vertical crease to outside margin of chart on page 100; partial page separation at gutter at page 101; binding sound. Paper presented at the first meeting of the Panama Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, held in Panama City on February 27, 1931, in honor of the members of the Interoceanic Canal Board and the Chief of The Nicaragua Canal Survey. 97 pages of text + black-and-white plates through page 261. Green cloth boards with yellow stamped lettering on front board and spine. 9 1/4 x 6 1/8 in.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1931. Green cloth covered boards with yellow titles; mild edge wear; small chip in crown with fraying; jacket is worn with chipping at crown of spine; no win Brodart like cover; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 97 text pages followed by approximately 130 black and white photos.

Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Bound in green cloth with pale yellow lettering stamped to upper board and to spine. Tips and ends of spine lightly rubbed; hinges and binding strong. Dust jacket has significant tears and chips and is held together, in part, by three pieces of clear tape on the printed side. Inscribed by the author on the title page "To My Friend Bill Arthur / John G. Claybourn / 10-14-58". This copy has been augmented by the inscribee, Bill, with three B&W snap shots taped (tape has browned) to the front endpaper showing Bill and the author together in 1958 and 1962. 97 pages of text and approximately 80 full page illustrations from photos on glossy paper showing the work on the Panama Canal and one fold-out table.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Octavo with dark green boards; 261 pages: illustrations, map, portraits; 24 cm. Many full-page b&w quality photoplates of the Canal's construction. "Paper presented at the first meeting of the Panama section of the American society of civil engineers, held in Panama city on February 27, 1931, in honor of the members of the Interoceanic canal board and the chief of the Nicaragua canal survey." "Illustrations are so arranged and referred to in the text that they practically tell the story of the dredging wok on the Panama Canal from its beginning to date." --Introduction. Prior owner, Robert L. Beckwith appears to have worked on Canal. (Address provided is in C.Z.--Canal Zone). Very good (-); ex libris sticker and ink inscription to front pastedown; pages are clean and binding is tight; slight must; no jacket; a couple dampstains and cup rings to boards; corners bumped; some fraying to spine and rubbing to edges.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 272. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1931 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 272.