Mclendon Charles (49 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used textbooks may not include companion materials such as access codes, etc. May have some wear or writing/highlighting. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Paperback. Condition: Good. Popular Science 1943 Good/ Spine chipped and torn. Bright cover. In Plastic. Includes: When Russia Fights Japan; and How Flyers Breathe at Extreme High Altitudes; etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Popular Science 1941 Very Good/ Light wear to covers and spine, small tear to lower front cover. Includes: Tanks can be Dstroyed; Guarding Our Coasts Against Night Boming; etc. In Plastic.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Popular Science Publishing 1945 Very Good/ Small tears to spine, Bright cover. In Plastic. clean tight unmarked illustratrated text, 274 pages. Includes: A-26 Our Fastest Bomber; History's Biggest Moving Day; How Radio Clears the Track; Mask Guards Against Bazooka Blast; How Soldiers Feel in Combat; etc; vintage advertising, illustrated throughout.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Popular Science 1941 Very Good/ Small tears to spine, Bright cover. In Plastic. Includes: New Tools for Army Strength; How Warplanes Fight at Night; etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Popular Science Publishing 1942 Very Good/ Light wear to bright cover. In Plastic. Includes: Our New Torpedo Warplanes; etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B/W Illus; (illustrator). 1st. items by/about: Giant "Atom Gun" to Fight Disease; Danger Meter for Your Car; Test-tube Flowers; Long-Distance Television; Radoium Air Rraid Shelter; Parachusets to Trap Enemy Bombers; X-rays; Photography; Inventions; Etc. 240 clean, unmarked pages, w/some corner wear on last pages in the rear; pictorial wraps.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B/W Illus (illustrator). 1st. items by/about: Trropers on wheels; Deep Heat Wonders; Slingshot Planes; Mass Produced Bombers, Sleep for Swing shifts; Building Dry Docks Under Water, Food from the Wild; Etc; 232 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B/W Illus; Pictorial Wraps (illustrator). 1st. items by/about: Hickman Powell (new Resin Gluecamouflage Trickery); Edwin Teale (52,000 Hobbyists go to Work for Science); Carl Dreher (Air Defense--1941 Style);transportation Organizes for Defense; David M. Stearns (Little Boats with Mighty Stings, PT-boats);two-day Turnarounds on Servince Clipper Aircraft; Americans Study Air Raid Safeguards; Robert Peck (Clifford A. Nickle, Cellar Scientist); Assembly Ines; Roy Chapman Andrews (Here's My story); Etc 240 clean, unmarked pages, w/some corner wear on last pages in the rear; pictorial wraps.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Sydney Oxberry (Art Editor) (illustrator). 224 pp. Vol. 139, No. 1, July 1941 issue only! Solidly and well bound copy with moderate overall wear and use. Light damage to top of spine.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B/W Illus; Pictorial Wraps (illustrator). 1st. items by/about: Hickman Powell (new Resin Gluecamouflage Trickery); Edwin Teale (52,000 Hobbyists go to Work for Science); Carl Dreher (Air Defense--1941 Style);transportation Organizes for Defense; David M. Stearns (Little Boats with Mighty Stings, PT-boats);two-day Turnarounds on Servince Clipper Aircraft; Americans Study Air Raid Safeguards; Robert Peck (Clifford A. Nickle, Cellar Scientist); Assembly Ines; Roy Chapman Andrews (Here's My story); Etc 240 clean, unmarked pages, w/closed (repaired) tear on front cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B/W Illus; Pictorial Wraps (illustrator). 1st. 250 clean, unmarked pages; small tears and chipping of wraps; items by/about:Hickman Powell (The Kite That Smashed Berlin); George Polk (Climb Into a Navy Scout Plane on Hight recon); Dynamite in Salvage Work; Ice Age "Zoo" in California; Wood That Fights Fire and Decay; Vultee Aircraf Corp. With Miniartures for Army Use; Davy Jones College for Navy Deep Sea divers; Pickaback Cargoes; German Junkers JU-88 and 188; Grumman Hellca F6f; Warplane Battles Markings; Model Tanks; Coast Guards Maintaining Lighthouses, and more.; pictorial wraps.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B/W Illus; George D. Erben Cover Art (illustrator). 1st. items by/about: Brigadier General Alden H. Waitt (Smoke Armour, Chemical warfare); Leonard Engel (Secret Rocket Weapons); Bernard Wolf (17 New badges and Insignias for war); Wolfpack Tactics on U-0Boats; William Vogel, Jr. (Truth About Tobacco); Space-Saving Airpo9rts; Albert Q. Maisel (Amonia); Hickman Powell (building Guns to Smash the Axis); Louis Teichman (Paper Airplanes); Arthur Grahame (Self-propelled Artillery); William S. Friedman (Has Precision Bombing Failed?); New Baseball; ; Etc. 228 clean, unmarked pages, ; pictorial wraps.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B/W Illus; Jack Coggins Cover Art (illustrator). 1st. items by/about: Kenneth M. Swezey (Paper Gets Tough, Papermaking); Night Vision glasses; Carl Deher (What Plastics are Made Of); Rubber; William S. Friedman (Aviation; Army Planes, Tpyes Quality, etc); Scorpions; Synthetic Jewels & Gems:V-mail Microfilm Letters; Herbert Asbury (Pellets of Power, Electrons)Donald H.menzel (Celestial Yardstick, Measuring Space); John H. Walker (Automatic Weapons); Etc.; 230 clean, unmarked pages; pictorial wraps; closed tear on rear cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B/W Illus; (illustrator). 1st. items by/about: Deep Sea Exploration; Telescope, Camera;;aviation: P-59 Airacomet; Devon Francis (You An't Fly Without Airfields; Airports in the Air Age)navy Rockets & Zoom Boats;Inside the B-29 Aircraft; Pressure Cabin Transports:Douglas A-26 Invader; Teaching Model for Dry-Docking; Aviation after the Warmigrating Butterflies;copper Mining;Tanks: Why Japan Can't Win on Land; Japanese weaponry Etc; 274 clean, unmarked pages; pictorial wraps.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B/W Illus; Jo Kotula Dj Art (illustrator). 1st. items by/about: Kenneth M. Swezey (Paper Gets Tough, Papermaking); Night Vision glasses; Carl Deher (What Plastics are Made Of); Rubber; William S. Friedman (Aviation; Army Planes, Tpyes Quality, etc); Scorpions; Synthetic Jewels & Gems:V-mail Microfilm Letters; Herbert Asbury (Pellets of Power, Electrons)Donald H.menzel (Celestial Yardstick, Measuring Space); John H. Walker (Automatic Weapons); Etc.; 230 clean, unmarked pages; pictorial wraps; closed tear on rear cover.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. One inch tear at top and bottom of spine. Front cover fore edge is lightly rubbed. A little soiling on back cover. One inch tear in fore edge of page four. Jo Kotula front cover airplane artist. 232 pages.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: Good. There is shelfwear, yellowing & some smudging to the covers & spine, with impacting & warping of the edge of the front cover adjacent to the spine, scuffing along the outer edges, slight curling of the tips, modest bowing of the covers & pages, & yellowed pages; the magazine has aged very well & is in good condition with clean print & secure binding.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Popular Publishing 1942 Very Good/ Light wear to bright cover. Includes: Our Warplanes Grow Stronger; A Mightly Littel Gudn Protects Your Home; etc.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Text clean; binding sound; minor wear to covers. Back cover ad features Boston Bruin Dit Clapper promoting Camel cigarettes. 240 pages. Thoroughly illustrated. Articles on camouflage, live steam model railroads, air-raid procedures, America's air defense plans, industrial conversion to war production, commercial truck driving, and more. Popular Science Monthly magazine February 1941. Cover art depicts two Grumman F4F-3 fighters. We also carry other issues of this magazine. Detailed scans of covers available.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Text clean; binding sound; numbers faintly penciled on front cover, else minor wear to covers. 256 pages. Thoroughly illustrated in b&w and color. Articles on P-47 Thunderbolt, reading clouds, gliders, Beaufort Torpedo plane, early Volkswagens, and more. Popular Science Monthly magazine May 1944. We also carry other issues of this magazine. Detailed scans of covers available.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Magazine. Text clean; binding sound; minor wear to covers. 240 pages. Thoroughly illustrated in b&w and color. Articles on the Battle of the Atlantic Ocean, making a gas mask, welding magnesium, sulphur, P-47 Thunderbolt, chlorine, and more. Popular Science Monthly magazine December 1942. We also carry other issues of this magazine. Detailed scans of covers available.

No Binding. Condition: Good. 4 books -- Shelter, Sign, and Symbol. Oliver, Paul. The Overlook Press. 1980. 228p. trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed/creased, binding tight, text stained/underlined/highlighted + Signage: Graphic Communication in the Built World. McLendon, Charles B., Blackistone, Mick. McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1982. 146p. hc w/dj, dj bumped/scuffed/shelf wear, boards clean, text clean, solid binding + SIGNS IN ACTION. Sutton, James. Reinhold, 1965, 96p, trade paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean + City Signs and Lights : A Policy Study - Prepared for The Boston Redevelopment Authority and The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (ISBN: 0262020874 / 0-262-02087-4) Carr, Stephen et al., MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973, 272p, oversized trade pb, covers bumped/scuffed, CLEAN text, solid binding--12.00.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Ex-public library copy. xvi, 328 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Green dust jacket, color fading to spine with dark impression from removed shelf sticker near heel. Green cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine, slight scuffing at spine ends, slender impressions from removed tape strips at top and bottoms of boards with associated light impressions also on front and rear free endpapers. Library stamps upon top edge; stamp on front pastedown; paper remnants from removed pocket on front free endpaper; stamp and pencil markings on title page with swath of obtrusive black marker partially obscuring bar code sticker at top, associated color run from marker on opposing half-title verso and onto copyright page; no other library markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. With Acknowledgements, Explanatory Note, Introduction, Contributors, and Index. Text comprised of various essays divided into three parts as follows. [PART 1] - MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY TO STATEHOOD: "The Disposal of Lands in the Mississippi Territory" by Robert V. Haynes; "Indian Missions and Missionaries" by Percy L. Rainwater; "Mississippi 1817: A Sociological and Economic Analysis" by William B. Hamilton; "The Great Migration to the Mississippi Territory, 1798-1819" by Charles D. Lowery; "The Division of the Mississippi Territory" by Richard A. McLemore. [PART 2] - MISSISSIPPI STATEHOOD TO THE CONSTITUTION OF 1890: The Development of the Lyceum Movement in Mississippi" by Laura D. S. Sturdivant; "John A. Quitman, Fire-Eating Governor" by James H. McLendon; "The Vicksburg Campaign" by Archer Jones; "William L. Sharkey and Reconstruction, 1886-1873" by L. Marshall Hall; "Reminiscences of a Mississippian: Henry Stuart Foote" by John E. Gonzales; "Blanche K. Bruce: United States Senator, 1875-1881" by Melvin I. Urofsky; "Democratic Dissentions in Mississippi, 1878-1882" by Willie D. Halsell; "Senator James Zachariah George of Mississippi: Bourbon or Liberal?" by May Spencer Ringold. [PART 3] - TWENTIETH CENTURY MISSISSIPPI: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Mississippi, 1890-1920" by A. Elizabeth Taylor; "Writers of Greenville, Mississippi, 1915-1950" by Holmes Adams; "Theodore Gilmore Bilbo and the Mississippi Delta" by William D. McCain; "Fred Sullens and Prohibition" by John R. Skates, Jr.; "Fact and Tradition in Southern History" by Alfred H. Stone; and "Appendix: The Archives and History Building" by Charlotte Capers.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Popular Science 1943 Very Good/ Light wear to bright cover, In Plastic. Includes: "I am a Tank-Destroyer Commander"; Can We Fly at 50,000 Feet Why We Can't Lose the War by Fletcher Pratt; etc.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.