Theory Dimensions Application Engineers by Lanchester (2 results)

Condition: Fair. 1936. No edition remarks. 314 pages. No dust jacket. White cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout with notable tanning and foxing to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Mild droplet staining and scratches to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing, mild fraying, and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has notable crushing and tearing to ends. Moderate water stains to tail of spine, droplets to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Gilt is bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition, with personal dedication by the author, Small 8vo, off-white cloth boards with a gold lettered spine (sunned) with gold titling also on front cover. pps xviii, 314, 22 chapters, 8 appendices, 56 tables. Errata slip inset in text before Ch 1. The personal dedication reads "To Sir Thomas Hudson Beare with kind regards F Lanchester 26/11/37". Sir Thomas Hudson Beare was the first Professor of Mechanics and Engineering at Heriot Watt University; then in London and at Edinburgh University (1859-1940) VG++ condition. Tight binding. Text clean & clear. No annotations in text. Covers VG for age but sl. browned at edges, spine sl. bumped at head/tail but not worn. Some sl. foxing round end-papers' edges and front fep browned, as with spine. A scarce item of a fundamental and personalised work by an important scientist, mathematician and engineer. Inscribed by Author(s).