Industry Science, Signed (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good Plus jacket. 1st Printing. Signed by Kogan. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. DJ has some edge wear, and is in a mylar protector. ; SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed by author on FFEP. Stated first edition. Tight binding. Green boards with 1/4 black cloth with title printed on spine. B&W photographs. 190 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Poetry. Covers very nice, spine ends bumped, corners sharp. Author signed inscription on the half title page, interior clean and tight. Dust jacket rubbed, 1" tear on the front, some soil on the rear, spine panel faded. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardback in near fine condition. Signed by author, T.P. Lyons. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Well-Illustrated (illustrator). 1st. Small 4to, 229 pp., Signed by the author on the front free endpaper., Dust jacket missing a 1"x3" strip from the top edge of the rear panel. Nearly fine copy in very good dust jacket.

Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by author on half title page. Several pages unopened. (Poetry, science).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book is signed by both authors Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber on the full title page. The book is very good with light edge wear in a very good dust jacket with light edge wear. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Columbia University Press, 1950. Third printing, 1950. Personalized inscription signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Green cloth, 157 pages, dustjacket. Extensive spotting to the outer edges of the covers, light shelfwear, good hinges, sound text block, some age-toning to endpapers, pages clean and free from other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has some age-toning and edgewear, minor chips to corners and spine ends. Inscribed by The Author. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good (some cover wear). Dust Jacket Condition: Worn. First Edition. 159pp Half-title page has an inked presentation note signed by the author on April 30, 1949. Bottom edge of spine is frayed. (Loc 365/1). Signed Presentation Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Collectible-Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed. VG+ hardcover in VG+ dj. Inscribed by Author.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. SIGNED and inscribed by author. Physical description: vii, 103 pages frontispiece; 23 cm. Notes: "Notes and references": p. 99-103; Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Technology and civilization; Industries Social aspects; Technology Social aspects; Industrialization Social aspects. 3 Kg.

Condition: Good. 1946. First Edition. 159 pages. Signed by the author. Blue pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Front endpaper has been signed by the Author and dedicated. Rough cut pages. A few pages are uncut, thus unread. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf wear with bumping to corners. Spine ends are a little crushed with light tanning. Boards are slightly bowed. Prominent forward lean to text block. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, tears and chips. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Considerable loss to jacket edges and corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This copy has the name "George F. Aiken" in gilt on the front cover (probably for those who pre-ordered a deluxe edition). Tipped in after the title page is Aiken's "service record" and a photo of him in uniform. He was the commanding officer for the Ninth Mobile Ordance Repair Shop in WWI. At the time of publication he notes that he is in the Sales Division for Cadilac in NY City and a member of the Friar's Club, the Motor Racing Association, the Belleclair Golf Club and the Beach Club of Palm Beach. A Good solid, worn, usable hard cover first printing with wear to the corners and the top and bottom of the spine. The spine has a 4 inch tear along the front cover. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. SIGNED and inscribed by author. Physical description: vii, 103 pages frontispiece; 23 cm. Notes: "Notes and references": p. 99-103; Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Technology and civilization; Industries Social aspects; Technology Social aspects; Industrialization Social aspects. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscription by author to endpaper. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good or Better Book in a Very Good or Better Dust Jacket, Unclipped (Unpriced). Signed with Warm Inscription to Flyleaf by Author. Book has trivial shelf wear and moderately sunning to extremities. Text block has trivial soiling and tonight. Text is unmarked though a few leaves have impressions/damage from something like a paperclip. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has a few bumps and chips along top edge. Light fading from sunning. Hardcover. Octavo. [xii], [1], 2-235pp. Publisher's Lavender Grey Cloth, Stamped Gilt Detailing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. x, 1 leaf, 235 pp; illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Beranek on front flyleaf: 'To: Helen/With glowing memories/of our years serving/Boston's non-profit/organizations!/Leo Beranek/Dec. 2010'. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo.pp. 234. Signed presentation copy: "Rodney & Jane Stanford with Best wishes, George Dyke. 15 June 1993." Loosely inserted signed handwritten letter from the author to Rodney Stanford enclosing the book and requesting "Please tell me if you find any red snags or faults." Original publisher's boards in rich glossy yellow, lettered black and featuring a short biography and portrait of John Lawes. Black and white photographs,drawings and diagrams illustrate the text. Biography.ISBN:095213060Z./Sir John Bennet Lawes, (1814Ð1900) was an English entrepreneur and agricultural scientist. He founded an experimental farm at his home at Rothamsted Manor that eventually became Rothamsted Research, where he developed a superphosphate that would mark the beginnings of the chemical fertilizer industry About fine. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Stated 1st Ed. Pictorial essay of Moore's renowned doll house, conceived as a fairy castle, & permanently displayed at the museum. Included is a short account of Moore's screen life as an actress & an index of the signed minature books in the castle. Illustrated with 160 color photographs. Museum Exhibit, Doll Houses. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 231 pages; Physical desc. : 3 p : l. , 231, [1] p ; 20 cm. Subjects; Great Britain - Industries. Signed and inscribed by the author. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 231 pages; Physical desc. : 3 p : l. , 231, [1] p ; 20 cm. Subjects; Great Britain - Industries. Signed and inscribed by the author. 1 Kg.

First edition. Green cloth, rear hinge strengthened, covers lightly spotted; very good. One of 3000 numbered copies, signed by the author,

Soft Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. Soft Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Author. PBO, 1980, 1st edition, Oversized Square paper covered Wraps 12 X 12 inches, Minor Cover Wear & Rub, F/F-, SOFTCOVER. Signed by Author.

4to. XIX, (1), 548 pp. With colour frontispiece, 99 plates (including 17 in colour and one engraved). Citron crushed levant gilt, title in six compartments with five raised bands and gold tooling and gilt lettering, board edges and turn-ins gilt. One of the highlights of American gemology from the beginning of the 20th century. Richly illustrated with plates from various sources, some in colour, this is a presentation copy inscribed by the author to the head of Tiffany's jewelry workshop: "To Miss Julia Halsey Munson, with the compliments of the senior author George F. Kunz. New York, July 10, 1913". - For this book, Kunz drew heavily on his encyclopedic knowledge of gems. The Book of the Pearl presents the history of pearls from ancient China to the author's own times. Kunz describes the historical and current practices of pearl harvesting and how pearls are processed into jewellery and cult objects. He devotes much space to the region that he describes as the pearling centre of the world: the Gulf and the Red Sea. Kunz describes the mastery of pearl fishers and pearl cutters of the region and the rich collections of pearls of Arab shahs and princesses. He illustrates all of this through detailed maps. The text covers all aspects of ancient and modern knowledge of pearls, including the formation of pearls and the natural history of fresh- and saltwater pearls. In his bibliography of gemology, John Sinkankas praised the book as "[a] beautiful example of modern book design, executed in high quality materials [.] prized not only for the enormous amount of reliable information that it contains, indeed still unmatched in any work since", but also for the large number of high-quality illustrations in black and white. - G. F. Kunz (1856-1932) was one of the United States' earliest gem experts. Born into a Swiss immigrant family in New York, he was primarily raised in New Jersey, where he developed an early interest in minerals. He began collecting his first specimens by the age of 14 and had amassed a collection of approximately 4,000 stones only six years later. A self-taught expert, Kunz made his unrivalled knowledge as a gem expert available to Tiffany & Co. at the age of 23. He remained with Tiffany's for 53 consecutive years, eventually becoming the company's vice president. During his career, Kunz also became a prolific author, and he is credited with a legacy of important books on gemstones. He was one of the founders of the New York Mineralogical Club, a Secretary of American Society of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Curator of Precious Stones at the American Museum of Natural History, and a Curator for the New York Academy of Sciences. The pink gem variety of spodumene was named "kunzite" in his honour in 1903. - In very good condition, with only very slight wear to extremities. All plates intact, without browning or foxing. - Sinkankas 3690.

E.Albumblatt (1 S. kl. 8 to), in Tinte mit schöner Unterschrift in latein und Hindi eigenhändig signiert (Indien, Nov. 1972) (autograph album page double signed in person by indian writer, PROVENIENZ : aus Reisealbum / from autograph album of world traveller ROLF ITALIAANDER (1913-91, Professor Dr., deutscher Schriftsteller und Völkerkundler / german writer and folklorist ).

The book of the pearl by Georg Frederick Kunz (1856-1932) is one of the highlights of American gemmology from the beginning of the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with plates from various sources, some in colour, this is the presentation copy, inscribed by the author himself: 'To Miss Julia Halsey Munson, with the compliments of the senior author George F. Kunz New York July 10 1913'.Kunz drew heavily on his encyclopaedic knowledge of gems for this book. The book of the pearl presents the history of pearls from ancient China to the author's present day. Kunz describes the historical and current practices of pearl harvesting and how pearls are processed into jewellery and cult objects. Kunz devotes much space to the region that he describes as 'the pearling center of the world' (p. 140): the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. There lay the origins of pearl fishing in the Persian Gulf and Kunz describes the mastery of pearl fishers and pearl cutters of the region and the rich collections of pearls of Arab Shahs and princesses. He illustrates all of this through detailed maps. The text covers all aspects of ancient and modern knowledge of pearls, including the formation of pearls and the natural history of fresh- and saltwater pearls. John Sinkankis in his bibliography on gemmology praised the book as '[a] beautiful example of modern book design, executed in high quality materials [] prized not only for the enormous amount of reliable information that it contains, indeed still unmatched in any work since, but also for the large number of high quality illustrations in black and white'.Georg Frederick Kunz was one of the United States' earliest gem experts. Born into a Swiss immigrant family in New York, he was primarily raised in New Jersey where he developed an early interest in minerals. He began collecting his first specimens by the age of 14. He had amassed a collection of approximately 4,000 stones only six years later. Kunz was a self-taught expert and his knowledge was second to none. He applied his knowledge as a gem expert for Tiffany & Company at the age of 23. He remained with Tiffany for 53 consecutive years, eventually becoming the company's vice president. During his career at Tiffany's, Kunz also became a prolific author. He is credited with a legacy of important books on gemstones. Kunz was also one of the founders of the New York Mineralogical Club, a Secretary of American Society of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Curator of Precious Stones at the American Museum of Natural History, and a Curator for the New York Academy of Sciences. The pink gem variety of spodumene was named kunzite in his honour in 1903.Very good condition, only very slight wear to very slight wear to extremities, all plates included and intact, no browning or foxing.l Sinkankas 3690. Bound for presentation in light olive-brown goatskin morocco by The Atelier Bindery, New York (stamp on free endleaf), sewn on 5 supports, gold-tooled spine (title and author in 2nd & 3rd of 6 compartments, others with decorations), gold fillets on the boards and board edges, gold-tooled turn-ins, light brown watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt. With a signed autograph presentation inscription from the "senior author" to the Tiffany's jeweller Julia Halsey Munson, signed "George F. Kunz", New York 10 July 1913. With a colour halftone frontispiece portrait of the last Empress of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna Alix (1868-1918), wearing her pearls (she, the Romanov last Czar Nikolai II and their five children were executed by the Bolsheviks ten years after publication), 99 other plates (2 folding) including 17 in colour, mostly halftone photographs, but including 1 lithographic(?) reproduction of a 1743 engraving of Maria Theresia of Austria (facing p. 24, with a plate impression) and 2 collotypes(?) (facing pp. 416, 472). Further with 10 line illustrations on the integral leaves (including 4 maps), many full-page. The colour plates, lithograph and collotypes are p.