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A Textbook on BUILDING CONSTRUCTION: Carpentry, Joinery, Stair Building, Estimating and Calculating Quantities, Specifications, Answers to Questions (International Correspondence Schools, Scranton, Pa.)

By: N/A

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Scranton, International Textbook Co.: 1900

Seller ID: 1787

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Brown leather spine and corners, brown pebbled cloth boards, brown I.C.S. endpapers, illustrated, sections have separate page numbering (500+ pages). No volume copyright, 1900 is latest date among section copyrights listed. ; 6 x 9"; Covers very lightly worn, ownership markings on FFEP. Solid hinges, clean pages.
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Thermal Properties of Buildings

By: Billington, N. S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Cleaver-Hume Press Ltd: 1952

Seller ID: 1013

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Technical work by the head of the National College for Heating, Ventilation , Refrigeration and Fan Engineering, London. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt titling, illustrated dust wrapper. Laid in is the original purchasers receipt. ; 6 x 9"; 208 pp; Dust wrapper has wear at top and bottom of spine and 3 closed tears of 1" or less. Faint circular mark on front board. Not ex-library. Signature of prior owner inside front cover.
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Image for RECOMMENDATIONS of Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific for Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings, Structures and Tank Towers

RECOMMENDATIONS of Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific for Earthquake Resistant Design of Buildings, Structures and Tank Towers

By: Engle, H. M. and J. E. Shield

Price: $15.00

Publisher: [San Francisco], Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific: 1935

Seller ID: 4170

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Gray stapled wraps, color frontispiece map, 49 pages of text with illustrations, remaining pages (about 50) are photographs of damage to specific structures from earthquakes. A later printing; OCLC notes editions from 1934, 1935 and 1950.; 4" x 6-1/4"; Covers splitting at spine (2" or so at top, 1/2" at bottom), prior owner name on front cover, covers and pages show wear/creasing at corners, one page with tiny stains, remaining pages clean and unmarked.
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engineerings - geological classification of arid soil and rock

By: Fagerström, Hans

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Stockholm, VBB: 1981

Seller ID: 3121

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Issued as Special Report 21:81.2 by the Water, Soil & Environment Division of VBB, Members of the Swedish Association of Consulting Engineers. Blue card covers, cover illustrated with chart, pages printed front side only, well-illustrated with photos, two fold-out tables at rear. Examples are taken from Peniche, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.; 8-1/4" x 11-1/2"; 65 pp; Spots of waterstaining on each cover, internally fine.
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foundation conditions for housing projects in Saudi -- a theme in five variations

By: Fagerström, Hans

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Stockholm, VBB: 1981

Seller ID: 3122

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Presented at the Symposium on Geotechnical Problems in Saudi Arabia, organized by the University of Riyadh, Department of Civil Engineering, 1981-05-13. Issued as Special Report 21:81.3 by the Water, Soil & Environment Division of VBB, Members of the Swedish Association of Consulting Engineers. Blue card covers, cover image of flower, pages printed front side only, well-illustrated with photos. This copy with presentation inscription on title page penned and signed by the author. ; 8-1/4" x 11-1/2"; 25 pp; Signed by Author; A tiny bit of spotting to front cover, internally fine.
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CONSTRUCTION IN COLD REGIONS: A Guide for Planners, Engineers, Contractors, and Managers

By: McFadden, Terry T., F. Lawrence Bennett

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: (1991)

Seller ID: 6216

ISBN: 0-471-52503-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Brown cloth, covers lettered in gilt, additional volumes in the Wiley Series of Practical Construction Guides listed on front endpaper, illustrated with photos, diagrams, charts, etc. ; 6-1/4" x 9-1/2"; xviii, 615 pp; Slight wear at corners and spine ends, prior owner name inked inside front cover, five lines of "notes and equations" inked to rear free endpaper.
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Foundation Failures

By: Szechy, C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Concrete Publications Limited: 1961

Seller ID: 2398

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Part of Concrete Series; list of Series titles at rear. Blue cloth, black lettering, well illustrated with photos, drawings, figures, etc. ; 6" x 9-1/4"; vi, 141, [2] (ads) pp; Cover with only slight wear, prior owner name and date inked on FFEP, otherwise clean and unmarked..
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Fireproof Construction

By: Voss, Walter C.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, New York and London, D. Van Nostrand Company: 1948

Seller ID: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Author was Professor, Head of the Department of Building Engineering and Construction at MIT and editor of A Technical Series on Building Construction and author of this title from the series. Same date on title and copyright pages. Light green cloth, brown titling, many detailed architectural drawings, some photos. Scarce title.; 6.25 x 9.25"; ix, 286 pp; Covers lightly soiled, spine darkened, solid hinges, interior clean and free of tears or writing.
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CAMP CENTURY: City Under the Ice

By: Wager, Walter

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Chilton Books: 1963

Seller ID: 6110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, includes section of photos of the camp. Blue dust jacket with image of snow. ; 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"; viii, 143 pp; "The most amazing community of our time is the extraordinary Arctic outpost called Camp Century, an incredible base that the stubborn, brilliant U.S. Army Engineers have gouged out of the Greenland glacier." jacket front flap. ; Little wear to book. Jacket worn along edges with small closed tears, not price clipped ($3.95), in clear protective cover.
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