TECHNOLOGY from Cat's Cradle Books

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1957. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding, clean and bright interior. Wraps are yellow and white, lightly dust-soiled overall with wear at top of spine. Contents: Bowie and Wentzel, "Wisconsin, Land of the Good Life"; Jones and Roberts, "Charting Our Sea and Air Lanes"; Gentili and Edwards, "Roman Life in… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Teubner, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Latin language. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is clean, without evidence of wear. ; Author,Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40 - 103 AD), was a prominent Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late 1st century AD whose… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has light edge rubbing. ; Author traces a thousand years of technological development from the 9th to the 20th century. Attention is given to the connection of technology… Read more about this item

New York: International Business Machines Corporation, 1953. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Second Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Book is bowed (curved) but otherwise sound. Pages clean, lightly tanned with typescript font. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with overall shelf wear, gilt lettering still bright on front. ; Extensive list of words… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Hobart Publishing Company, 1945. Ephemera. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Soundly stapled binding. Pages tanned with light handling wear. Bibliographic newsletter listing technical books published during the 90-day period preceding the date of issue. Also listed are less recent technical books, new editions, government pamphlets, directories and foreign technical works which complement books recently… Read more about this item

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1958. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wraps are yellow and white with general soiling and shelf wear; top and bottom of spine area torn. Pages clean, slightly tanned. ; Contents: Mitchell and Stewart, "The Bahamas, Isles of the Blue-green Sea"; Thesiger and Maxwell, "Marsh Dwellers of Southern Iraq"; Walker, "Arizona's… Read more about this item

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1958. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Wraps are yellow and white with general soiling and shelf wear; top and bottom of spine area with heavier wear. Pages clean, slightly tanned. ; Contents: Siple, Man's first winter at the South Pole. Abercrombie, Young-old Lebanon lives by trade. Davidson, Freezing the trout's… Read more about this item

New York: Interscience Publishers, 1956. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Exlibrary markings. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners, overall handling wear. ; Chapters: A General Approach. Problems in Indexing for Machine Searching. Making Indexes Amenable to Machine Searching. Collection of Terminology. Definition and Systemization of Terminology for… Read more about this item

Santa Monica, CA: The RAND Corporation, 1968. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, slightly off-white, with creasing at lower corner on most. Wraps are tanned, soiled, with handling wear, crease at lower front corner. Typescript font. Photographs are xerographic. ; Contents: Brief Items. Computers and the Economic Reform. Ural-2 Drum… Read more about this item

Santa Monica, CA: The RAND Corporation, 1969. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages (with exception of title page, which is lightly soiled) with some corners creased. Typescript font. Wraps and exterior page edges are heavily soiled with chip at lower front corner and overall edge wear. Photographic illustrations are xerographic. ;… Read more about this item

New York: Crown, 2003. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Square, sound binding and hinges. Clean and bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has minor edge rubbing at top. ; Popular account of the Wright brothers as individuals rather than simply airplane inventors. ; 8.75" tall; 240 pages.… Read more about this item

Toronto: Commision de la Conservation Comité de la Conservation, 1914. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the French language. Cracked front hinge, sound binding, clean but somewhat age-darkened pages. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners, overall shelf wear. ; Detailed early 20th century study of coal supplies, use, and conservation in Canada.… Read more about this item

New York: Munn & Co., Inc., Publishers, 1918. Ephemera. Poor with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is fragile with pages tearing along binding. Wrappers detached with front and back separated but present. General light tanning and handling wear. ; Various articles on science and technology, many of them related to American participation in World War I. Articles include,… Read more about this item

New York: Pi Press, 2005. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is very slightly edge rubbed. DJ has light edge rubbing only. ; Author interweaves the history of ideas with the history of aeronautics. 9.25" tall; 352 pages.

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1957. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Jack Potter (Coca Cola ad on back o. Square, tight binding. Wraps are yellow and white with general soiling and light shelf wear. Pages clean, bright. Faint dampstaining and rippling of wraps and pages on bottom edge. Contents: Byrd, "To the Men at South… Read more about this item

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1957. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Jack Potter (Coca Cola ad on back o. Square, tight binding. Wraps are yellow and white with general soiling and light shelf wear. Pages clean, bright. ; Contents: Kane and Stewart, "Rome: Eternal City with a Modern Air"; Grosvenor, G. & Marden, "Hydrofoil… Read more about this item

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1918. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Wrappers are yellow and white with general soiling and shelf wear. Pages clean, slightly tanned. ; Contents: Graves, "Ships for the Seven Seas"; Hurley, "The American People Must Become Ship-minded"; Schwab, "Our Industrial Victory"; "The War and Ocean Geography."; 10.0" tall.

Praha: Charles University in Prague Faculty of Science, Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, 2001. Soft Cover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Crease at lower corner, front of wraps and first few pages. Light handling wear. Contents: Himiyama, "Land use/cover change studies in the period of globalization";… Read more about this item

Washington: National Geographic Society, 1942. Soft Cover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Square, tight binding, clean and bright interior. No writing or marks. Wrappers are yellow and white, lightly dust-soiled overall with rubbing at spine and markings on front. Contents: Walker, "The Making of an Anzac"; "Facing War's Challenge 'Down Under'"; Vosburgh, "Metal Sinews of… Read more about this item

Bromley, Kent: Pilot Press Ltd, 1971. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Wraps have edge rubbing with light overall shelf wear. ; Articles on fighters in the RAF; development and production of largest Fokkers built to date; Soviet Lyulka engines; the Curtiss Hawk 75 and P-36 family; recollection of flying the… Read more about this item