Subsurface Drainage, First Edition (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. (19 cm.) x, 474p. Tables and Index. Plus four Supplements as follows: A: Low-Clearance Drainage Structures, 8p.; B: Tunneling Methods, 8p.; C: Steel Sheeting, 8p.; D: Retaining Walls, 12p. Heavy blue buckram with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine and with the name in gilt of Edward J. Rhodes, previous owner of the book. Laid in is the business card of Roy L. Anderson, District Manager, ARMCO Drainage & Metal Products, Inc., who must have gifted Rhodes with this volume. Near fine with only hints of wear to covers, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket, probably as issued.

Not stated, presumed 1st edition. Encyclopedic, profusely illustrated guide to solving industrial and highway drainage problems. Altho pages are somewhat rippled, all info easily readable and still a tight clean copy. Rare. 4-3/4 x 7-1/4, 474 pp + 36 pp, index, appendixes, b/w photos & illus, gray endpapers. Good unmarked, with faint dampstain & rippling to pages, stained edges. Hardcover in black textured cloth boards w gilt spine titling.