Nomadic
Research Labs Book Sale!
(also magazines, videos, CDs, etc)
by Steven K. Roberts
Number claimed: 47
Number shipped: 42
last updated Sep 6, 2010 - 20:00 Pacific
Nomadic
Research Labs Book Sale! | |
| Author |
Title |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, & Randall Schwartz | Programming Perl, 2nd edn (covers Perl 5) | THE classic, and it's even autographed with a personal note by Randal. I'm only selling this because I have a newer edition on the boat; it's a treasured item in my library, and a memory from my first Geek Cruise. | 12.00 | |
| David Pogue | Mac OSX - the Missing Manual | Original 2002 version, O'Reilly & Assoc, excellent cond | 3.00 | |
| Douglas E. Comer | Internetworking with TCP/IP, Vol 1 (2nd edn, 1991) | Classic and still very relevant - hardcover. I went to a 2-day seminar by Doug at Interop, and bought this book. | 12.50 | |
| Michael Santifaller | TCP/IP and NFS - Internetorking in a Unix Environment | Hardcover, 1991, Addison Wesley. Excellent cond. | 3.00 | |
| Bryan Pfaffenberger & Bill Karow | HTML 4 Bible, 2nd edn | IDG, 2000 - 750-page monster with CDROM | 2.75 | |
| Derrick Schneider | The Tao of Applescript, 2nd edn | BMUG classic from 1994, with floppies, 386 pages | 1.50 | |
| Hewlett-Packard | DC Power Supply Handbook | Ancient (1970) softcover, published as application note 90A, 138 pages. RARE. | 10.00 | |
| Jack Spoor, Aham | Heat Sink Application Handbook | Quite rare 1974 book on getting heat out of electronics. 180 page softcover. | 11.00 | |
| Martin Schwartz | Ameco Advanced Class Radio Amateur FCC Test Manual (1990-1991) | Not sure how dated the question pool is, but still useful | .50 | |
| Andrew Sennitt | 1991 World Radio TV Handbook | An old edition of the must-have SWL reference to stations around the world | 1.50 | |
| Richard Barnett | Monitor America | 822-page scanner directory - frequencies, codes, maps, and descriptions of public-safety and business radio in the US | 3.00 | |
| Randall Brink | The Seagoing Computer | 1994, and thus very dated, though useful background. Excellent condition. | .50 | |
| Donald A. Norman | Turn Signals are the Facial Expressions of Automobiles | A classic in usability - AUTOGRAPHED in July 1995 to the Microship project (Apple was a major sponsor). | 5.00 | |
| Kevin Baird Hal Fulton Dave Thomas |
|
I
bought these 4 books in anticipation of using Rails for an embedded
database-backed web application on my boat, but have since decided on a
different approach. I love Ruby and these books were well-chosen as the
best of breed, but I'm moving aboard soon and need to minimize tonnage. The current online price on these totals over $100 - here's a chance to jump-start your Ruby reference library with one combined purchase! Photo of the batch is here. |
50.00 | |
| Peter Huyck & Nellie Kremenak | Design & Memory | A 1980 hardcover (with clean DJ) about the future of computer programming. | 4.50 | |
| Carl Malamud | Stacks - Interoperability in Today's Computer Networks | AUTOGRAPHED to me ("a 200-page flame"), and quite a classic in network lore. 1992 hardcover with dust jacket, excellent condition. Interop. | 5.00 | Taken |
| Luecke, Mize, and Carr | Semiconductor Memory Design and Application (Texas Instruments) | Seminal work from 1973 - hardcover with DJ. 320 pages of details about paleo-RAM. | 1.50 | |
| Lockheed | System Seminar - Dialog Information Retrieval | This is an historic relic from February, 1981 - from a conference seminar on online searching. WAY before Google, it was a gritty and difficult business. This should go to the author of a book on the history of this era. | 12.00 | |
| Indiana University | Digital Integrated Circuit Applications (Vol 1 and 2) | This is hopelessly antiquated - these are the books from an excellent course I took in 1973-74. I have thought of tossing them over the years, but they really are excellent... 590 pages of clear text on the 7400 series TTL family. Needs a home. | 5.00 | Taken |
| Trimble Navigation | GPS - A Guide to the Next Utility | When published in 1989, the idea that GPS would be a utility was radical. This 76-page softcover is a clear introduction to the technology, written by Jeff Hurn and signed to me by my sponsor at Trimble during the BEHEMOTH era. | 4.00 | |
| Scientific American | Microelectronics | From 1977, this is a collection of highly significant writings from notables, including: Robert Noyce, Alan Kay, Ivan Sutherland, Carver Mead, and others. Very dated now, of course, but good for a library of industry history. | 2.00 |
| Author |
Title |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Alan Villiers | Captain James Cook | Bicentennial Reissue of the classic 300-page biography of this great explorer. | 5.00 | |
| Sir Ranulph Fiennes |
To the Ends of the
Earth |
Heavy hardcover
with dust jacket, 546
pages. Grand transglobe expedition: pole-to-pole circumnavigation. A
rare one; the few on Amazon are expensive. |
17.00 |
|
| Barbara Marrett & John Neal | Mahina Tiare - Pacific Passages | Log of a well-known cruising couple, with lots of practical information about offshore voyaging | 2.00 | |
| Robin Lee Graham | Dove | A 16-year-old boy sails his 24-foot sloop around the world to discover adventure and love. Softcover, very good condition. | 3.00 | |
| Peter Hall | Penguin World Atlas | 1979 small softcover atlas | .50 | |
| Bo Keeley | Catman Keeley | Self-published (GBC bound) collection of tales... pretty obscure book | 2.00 | |
| Marcus Endicott | The Electronic Traveler | Directory of tourism information resources for the connected nomad. I wrote the Forward of this book, and it is autographed... Marcus is one of the iconic travelers of our age (he wrote the excellent Vagabond Globetrotting). Tech content here is very dated (1994), but it's signed. | 5.00 | |
| UK Hydrographic Office | Nautical Almanac 2008 | I have no idea if this might be useful for someone learning celestial navigation, but it's too new and crisp to throw away. 317 pages of 2008 data, plus reference material in the back that never changes (sight reduction tables, procedures, explanations, forms, correction tables, etc). | 1.00 | |
| William H. Shellenberger | Cruising the Chesapeake | Like new hardcover with dust jacket, subtitled "A gunkholer's guide." 430 pages of details about this intriguing cruising area, published in 1993. | 10.00 | |
| Claiborne Young | 5 East Cosat Cruising Guides | All in perfect condition: Cruising Guide to Coastal North Carolina, Cruising Guide to Western Florida, Cruising Guide to Eastern Florida, Cruising Guide to the Northern Gulf Coast, and Cruising Guide to Coastal South Carolina and Georgia. 10 pounds of solid East Coast reference material... over 2,000 pages. Selling as a set... it will be a while before Nomadness reaches the East Coast, so these should find their way aboard another boat. Here is a photo of these and the Chesapeake book. | 50.00 | |
| Jan & Bill Moeller | The Intracoastal Waterway - A Cockpit Cruising Handbook (Fourth Edition) | The definitive quick-reference guide to the ICW (Norfolk to Miami), arranged by mile marker (to the nearest .1 mile). 152 pages, lay-flat wire binding, a MUST for cruising the Ditch. I'm not going to be over on that side of the US for quite a while, so I'm letting this go... | 12.00 | |
| Bernard Magnouloux | Travels with Rosinante | 5 years' cycling around the world... this fellow is amazing, and makes me look like a lightweight with some of his adventures. This copy is AUTOGRAPHED, and I'm including a couple of his photo postcards. Hardcover, dust jacket, very clean. A must for the library of a bicycle adventurer... | 12.00 |
| Author |
Title |
Condition &
Comments |
Price |
Status |
| Michael Arbib |
The Metaphorical
Brain |
Hardcover with dust
jacket. I love
this book - read it in the '70s, and it was my first real look into
artificial intelligence and brain research. A fun and fascinating text. |
3.00 |
|
| Ernest W. Kent | The Brains of Men and Machines | My all-time favorite book on brain research, published by Byte Books in 1981. This is an utterly fascinating read, mapping the language of computer science onto then-current work on neuroscience... including neuron modeling, the layered visual system, parallel processing, and more. Seriously, this one is a winner if you're interested in how brains work, even if it is 30 years old. Fun to read, too. | 15.00 | |
| Eugene Eccli | Low-Cost, Energy-Efficient Shelter | over 400 page hardcover (with DJ), filled with excellent material on efficient housing (acquisition, optimizing what you have, and building) | 4.00 | |
| Selena Maranjian & Roy Lewis | Motley Fool's Investment Tax Guide 2000 | Perfect condition, very dated (of course) but still with lots of relevant info. 368-page trade paper. | 1.00 | |
| Betty Oppenheimer | The Candlemaker's Companion | Complete guide to rolling, pouring, dipping, and decorating your own candles. Softcover, 164 pages, VGC. 14 used copies on Amazon start at $10. | 8.00 | |
| Ken Aslet, John Warwick, Jan Bolders | Water Gardens | Royal Horticulture Society guide (all color, 64 pages) to building informal water gardens. | 1.00 | |
| Helen Fling | Marionettes - How to Make and Work Them | Wonderfully fun book for would-be puppeteers of all ages, a very well illustrated how-to (184-page softcover, excellent cond) | 5.00 | |
| Deborah S. Harper | The New Complete Pembroke Welsh Corgi | Definitive Corgi book (with strong emphasis on breeding). Hardcover, 290 pages. | 5.00 | |
| Jerry Mason, Editor | The Family of Woman | In the spirit of the classic Family of Man, this is a powerful collection of photos from all over the world. 192-page hardcover with dust jacket. | 20.00 | |
| John Estill Reeves | Kentucky Government | 1958 booklet (104 pages, saddle-stitched) covering the Commonwealth of KY, constitution, voting, elections, general assembly, governor, administrative agencies, statutory departments, and the courts. Rare... and should find its way home. If you get this, you can have the one just below for free. | 12.00 | |
| Businessmen for Better Government | A Political Primer | 76-page GBC-bound booklet on government, starting with national and drilling down to Louisville, with tips on dealing with it. Some water damage (not affecting readability) and a few written notes. | FREE | |
| Leonard W. Cowie | The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century | Harcover with DJ, clean, 128 pages. The story of a major upheaval in society - including Luther, Calvinism, the Counter-reformation, Protestantism, Henrican Reformation, and Puritanism. Such a bizarre planet we live on... glad I wasn't around then! Fairly rare book. | 18.00 | |
| Donald W. Kemper | Healthwise Handbook | Produced by Group Health, 354-page large format softcover on self-care: prevention, when to call a doctor, health-care tips, symptoms. Good general home health book, though not nearly as substantial as Merck or Mayo Clinic books. | 1.00 | |
| American Medical Association | Women: How to Understand Your Symptoms | Over 80 Charts that could save you a visit to your doctor. Large format, 144 pages. Very clearly presented flow charts that let you start with a symptom and drill down to a cause. | 1.50 | |
| American Medical Association | Men: How to Understand Your Symptoms | Over 60 Charts that could save you a visit to your doctor. Large format, 128 pages. I guess men are simpler! | 1.50 | |
| Dave Finnigan | The Complete Juggler - All the Steps from Beginner to Professional | I can do a basic 3-ball juggle, but this book covers everything in its 550 pages! You can make a living as a street performer if you get through this... not only balls, but clubs and rings, devil sticks, hat manipulation, plate spinning, performance tips, and a lot more. Illustrated on every page. | 5.00 | |
| Public Citizen Health Research Group | Worst Pills, Best Pills | Excellent guide to adverse drug reactions, covering 104 pills that older adults should not use and 183 safer alternatives. Lots of tips on safe drug use. 532 pages. | 2.00 | |
| Bicycling Magazine | Instant Bicycle Repair | 80-page booklet on the basics (Rodale Pres 1979, 7th printing 1987) | .50 | |
| Thomas Prehn & John Allen | Expert Bike Handling | 62-page booklet on general technique, including smooth riding, cornering, emergencies, crash management, climbing & descending, groups, slipstreams, pacelines, and safety. | .75 | |
| Rustum & Della Roy | Honest Sex | "A revolutionary sex ethic by and for concerned Christians," according to the subtitle - I can't tell you anything else about it. From the Sycamore Community. Harcover with DJ; copies are $6 and up on Amazon. | 4.50 | |
| National Geographic | Titanic - Collector's Editions | Large-format (9 x 12) softcover full of excellent color photos and descriptive text. | 3.00 | |
| Denys Brunsden & John Doornkamp | The Unquiet Landscape | Series of 25 articles from the Geographical Magazine on volcanoes and other natural earth-changing processes. 168 pages, lots of color, large format (8.5 x 11), published in 1975. Would be a great resource for kids learning about volcanoes, glaciers, landslides, and other earth science. | 1.50 | |
| Harry C. Helfman | Origami | 1960 pamphlet-style 24-page book... I used this as a kid. An April 1962 origami how-to from Pageant is tucked into the front. Rare little gem for paper-folders... | 3.50 | |
| Scientific American | Altered States of Awareness | A 132-page collection of readings, published in 1972 | 1.50 | |
| Richter & Schwan | Practical Electrical Wiring, 13th edition | Excellent reference book based on 1984 NEC standards, covering residential, farm, and industrial power wiring. 680 pages, with dust jacket. | 10.00 | |
| Colin Fletcher | The New Complete Walker | I love this book... part of the inspiration for my bicycle travels long ago. Hardcover, with dust jacket - 470 pages of brilliantly practical advice for nomadic efficiency and traveling light. A must-read for technomadlings... | 10.00 | Taken |
| Alberts, Bray, Lewis, Raff, Roberts, Watson | Molecular Biology of the Cell | This is a monstrous and wonderful book, published in 1983. The field has of course evolved since then, but this is the underpinnings... beautifully illustrated and 1146 pages. I sure wish I knew everything that is in here... | 10.00 | |
| Robert A. Haag | Field Guide of Meteorites (10th edn) | 60-page magazine-format book from 1992, covering meteorites in detail, including stone and metallurgical analysis. Very interesting, and apparently rare. | 9.00 | |
| Black Pages, Amsterdam - the Rawgide | This underground guide to the coffee shops and other resources of Amsterdam is very rare, and has a funky, streetwise feel. I'm honored to be in the acknowledgments. It's at least 10 years old, so how practical it is in today's scene I do not know. | 12.00 | ||
| George Thornally | Help, I'm not a Vegetable | self-published 80-page autobiography about recovery from polio | 2.00 | |
| Grand County Travel Council | Moab, Utah | 16-page color booklet (letter-size) full of color glossy photos of Moab and Arches | FREE with next... | |
| Utah Travel Council | Utah, Best of the West | Sweet little book (8" square, 40 pages) of Utah photos and captions | 1.00 | |
| Peter Schiff | The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets | strategies for keeping your portfolio up when the market is down (mostly non-dollar-denominated, dividend-paying commodities). Near-perfect condition, hardcover with jacket. | 3.00 | |
| American Iron & Steel Institure | The Picture Story of Steel (1965) | 58-page booklet (magazine-size) about transforming iron ore into steel and related products... a relic of America's industrial age. Lots of good photos. | 2.00 | |
| Kurt, Mike, and Brett Brungardt | The Complete Book of Butt and Legs | 290 pages, excellent condition, huge collection of exercises and fitness routines. | 3.00 | |
| National Geographic | Guide to America's Outdoors: Northern Rockies | perfect condition, glossy 288-page travel guide to one of my favorite parts of the world | 5.00 | |
| National Geographic | Window on America | 198 glossy pages, hardcover with clean DJ, lots of photos of America's natural beauty | 3.75 | |
| Department of the Interior | Islands of America | 1970 softcover (magazine size) about US recreational islands. 95 pages. | FREE | |
| Drs. Phyllis & Eberhard Kronhausen | Erotic Art - 41 Color Plates, 400 Black & White | 1969 classic large hardcover with dustjacket, 312 pages, very multicultural. Dedicated to the people of Sweden & Denmark for the openness to host the first international exhibition of erotic art. | 12.00 | |
| Suzanne Beedell | Brasses and Brass Rubbing | 1973 tight trade paper, 98 pages. | 2.00 | |
| Peter Collier & David Horowitz | The Kennedys - An American Drama | VGC, hardcover with DJ, 575 pages. Some yellowing and mustiness. | 5.00 | |
| Jay Doblin | Perspective - A New System for Designers | large clean 1958 hardcover about perspective product drawing. I wish I actually had these skills, not just a couple of books about it (see next item)! | 4.75 | |
| Ernest Norling | Perspective Drawing | Wonderfully approachable 40-page 10x14 how-to-draw book. Would go well with the above. | 2.00 | |
| M.C. Escher | The Graphic Work of M. C. Escher | Softcover edition, 1971, embossed owner stamp (mine) on front page. | 7.00 | |
| John Prenis | Energy Book 2 | Natural sources and backyard applications. 10x13 softcover, 1977, good how-to material on solar, wind, methane, and other renewables. | 8.00 | |
| Jerome Tuccille | It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand | Special for my libertarian friends! The book's hero is a political Odysseus, discovering a new direction in middle-of-the-road anarchism after running the gamut of the Right and flirting with the radical Left. Hardcover, DJ, 1971, 192 pages. | 7.50 | |
| Bernard Steffen | Silk Screen | A 30-page how-to booklet from 1963, published by Pitman | 1.00 | |
| Jane Howard | Inside Iran: Women's Lives | What it means to be a woman in Iran today. Very clean hardcover with dust jacket, 2002. | 5.00 |
| Author |
Title |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Bruce Balan | Cyber.kdz 5 - In Pursuit of Picasso | I have a special connection to this book - I'm one of the characters, and am on the cover with my BEHEMOTH bicycle. This is part of a series of 6 books about the Cyber.kdz, who connect around the world to solve mysteries. Delightfully written fiction for early teen geeks-to-be. One copy is in my permanent media archive, and this is an extra. NEW (I'll sign the copy to your young reader if it you like, and throw in an article or two about the bike). | 6.00 | |
| Bruce Balan |
Buoy |
AUTOGRAPHED -
Beautiful little book,
hardcover with dust jacket. A soft and lovely prose poem of the sea,
ostensibly for children but enjoyable at any age. Bruce is a friend of
mine, excellent story-teller, and experienced voyager; it's hard to
sell signed books but I'm
moving to a boat! |
5.00 |
|
| Gregory Maguire | Mirror Mirror | from the author of Wicked, perfect condition | 2.75 | |
| André Pieryre de Mandiargues | The Girl Beneath the Lion | softcover, Grove Press, 1958. Some old smoky/musty smell. Fairly uncommon, judging by Amazon. Quite sexy and evocative for its time. | 3.00 | |
| William Hamilton | Money Should be Fun | Somehow painfully wistful, this is a 128-page softcover collection of Hamilton's New Yorker cartoons, published in 1980. | .50 | |
| Anthology | Vampires at Midnight | 17 tales, including Ray Bradbury, August Derleth, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Bram Stoker, and others... all on the vampire theme. Published in 1970, hardcover with DJ (priced at the bottom end of the eBay range). | 5.00 |
| Author |
Title |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Mary Barnard |
Sappho - A New
Translation |
Rare 1958 paperback |
7.00 |
|
| Emily Dickinson | Final Harvest (Thomas Johnson introduction) | Some annotations, 1961 softcover | 2.00 | |
| T. S. Eliot | The Waste Land and Other Poems | Some annotations, 1979 edn | 4.00 | |
| e. e. cummings | Selected Poems | 1959 Evergreen | 1.00 | |
| Rainer Maria Rilke | Letters to a Young Poet | Norton paperback | .75 | |
| Seamus Heaney | Selected Poems 1966-1987 | 270-page trade paper | 1.00 | |
| Anne Sexton | The Complete Poems | 620 pages, excellent cond | 4.00 |
| Group |
Titles |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Journal of High Treknowledgy & Nomadness | Journal of High Treknowledgy and Nomadness issues 1-12, April 1987 thru July 1993 Monographs NRL 401-404: - From BEHEMOTH to Microship - The Microship Project Chronicles: Birth of the Project, Jun93 - Nov 93 - The Microship Project Chronicles Plunging into Control Systems, Nov 93 - May 94 - The Microship Project Chronicles: The Fulmar Epoch, May 94 - Dec 94 Notes From the Bikelab print-outs #1 (Dec 1990) thru #20 (Nov 1992) | This
is a very rare complete collection of my techomadic zines, Bikelab
reports, and early Microship project chronicles. There's lots of fun
stuff here. These were collected by Rick Gould, and will be shipped by him. Price includes $10.00 postage allowance, which will cover Priority Flat Rate shipping anywhere in the US. | $35.00 | |
| F. Van Wyck Mason (5 books) |
|
This
batch is from the old family library - my father was a fan in the 40s,
and most of these (except the paperback) appear to be first edition.
All the hardcovers have my dad's name written on the inside front
cover.
All
smell musty (it was a smoking household until about 1990), but this is
a nice set of originals for a van Wyck Mason collector. There's a photo of the batch here. |
10.00 | |
| 4 Quaker Books |
|
From the old Quaker
family library come these gems...
|
$26.00 | |
| 4 by Norman D. Ford |
| The
utopia book is softcover guide to the island paradises of the world,
published in 1966. Interesting to see how things have changed... The other three are 8.5 x 11 softcovers from the mid-60s, all about low-cost world travel... published by Harian. The batch is about 2 pounds, and is musty but fascinating. | 5.00 | |
| 5 Claiborne Young Cruising Guides | (please see the Nautical section above for more detail) | East-coast cruising guides, perfect condition. | 50.00 |
| Author |
Title |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Isabel Allende |
The Stories of Eva
Luna |
Very good
(brilliant collection of tales) |
1.00 |
|
| John Steinbeck | Travels with Charley | Classic on-the-road tale, a must for any budding traveler. Age-yellowed but good condition | 1.00 | |
| Sebastian Junger | The Perfect Storm | Terrifying tale for a sailor! Bestseller, movie, etc... very good condition | 1.00 | |
| John Krakauer | Into Thin Air | As if I ever needed convincing to never climb Everest! VGC, light spine crease. | .85 | |
| John Glennie & Jane Phare | The Spirit of Rose-Noelle | 119 days adrift in a capsized trimaran off New Zealand. Scary book. VGC | .75 | |
| Western Writers of America | Water Trails West | Quite rare, this is a collection of stories about exploration and development of western waterways. Good stuff for kayakers, canoeists, and those into steamboat lore. Good cond, spine crease, B&W photo insert. | 5.00 | |
| Scrabble | The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary | The 660-page classic reference. Pocket Books, 1978. | 3.00 |
| Author |
Title |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| White House Historical Assoc | The White House | 1962 softcover, 130 pages, all color. JFK-era guidebook to all the rooms of the white house, with historical details, furniture, and more. | 1.50 | |
| Elton Trueblood | The Common Ventures of Life | 1949 hardcover, Earlham College Quaker history. Gift inscription from my Quaker father to my mother on Christmas, 1949 (before my time). This brings the concept of "wholeness" into daily life, addressing the needs of young men and women. Very crisp condition, age-yellowed dust jacket, old musty smell. Photo here. | 7.00 | |
| Harry Scherman | The Last Best Hope of Earth | 1941, Random House, 35 pp. This little screed is about the need for World War II... the economic unification of all mankind and the fact that it is a clean turning point in the destiny of the American people. It is a simple stapled booklet with a wrap, and the title sheet is glued on (and is wrinkled). Otherwise clean with no marks, and a musty smell. Photo here. | 7.00 | |
| Charles Kingsley | Westward Ho! | Thomas Nelson hardcover, Illustrated by A.S. Forrest. | 15.00 | |
| Shepherd Mead | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | First edition, second printing - 1952, hardcover with dustjacket. Remarkable and humorous glimpse into the distinctly non-PC world of corporate America around the time I was born... my father's name from that year is written on the flyleaf. | 6.00 | |
| Robert Day | All Out for the Sack Race | A strange and wonderful collection of early New Yorker cartoons... I grew up with these in the family library and I think they shaped my twisted thinking. Published in 1945, hardcover, gift inscription to my mother (while recuperating from surgery). | 7.50 | |
| Captain Benjamin Dutton | Navigation and nautical astronomy: A textbook on navigation and nautical astronomy | Published in 1939 by US Naval Institute - 477-page hardcover with errata sheet. Navigation and piloting from a time before calculators... good solid knowledge. Sixth Edition. | 5.00 | |
| Francis Henry Taylor | Fifty Centuries of Art | Hardcover with dust jacket, 342 reproductions in color, 184 pages. Some old cigarette smell from childhood home, | 4.00 | |
| Hammond | Nature Atlas of America | 1952 large hardcover with dust jacket, old cigarette smell, 1952. 320 color paintings, 34 pages of maps, 250 pages | 4.50 | |
| Germain Bazin | A Colorslide tour of the Louvre | Amazing package - hardcover book with 32 paintings described (and it smells of tobacco from my childhood home). Two great features: packet of color transparencies in a sleeve inside front cover, and 33 1/3 RPM record in the back with a narration (2 sides) by Vincent Price. | 8.00 | |
| National Park Service | The History of Castillo de San Marcos & Fort Matanzas | Rare little booklet from 1955 about the St. Augstine region of Florida. 38 pages. | 5.00 | |
| Horace C. Deming | General Chemistry (1925) | My father's textbook from Swarthmore College. Subtitle: "emphasizing industrial applications of fundamental principles." One group of 3 pages has sections cut out. | 5.00 | |
| Chemical Rubber Company | Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 28th edition | The 1944 edition of the classic CRC book! Quite beautiful condition, over 3" thick, 2571 pages. | 15.00 | |
| Editors of Life | Life Treasury of American Folklore | Large 1961 hardcover with dust jacket, old cigarette smell, 348 pages. All those old classic tales. | 5.00 | |
| Julius Meier-Graefe | Vincent Van Gogh | 1933 hardcover with DJ, Christmas gift inscription from 1935. Tight condition, but musty old tobacco smell. Currently $35 on Amazon. | 20.00 | |
| Lionel S. Marks | Marks' Handbook, Third Edition | Beautiful 1930 mechanical engineering handbook, 2,264 pages. This belonged to my father, who graduated from Swarthmore as a mechanical engineer. $35-ish on Amazon. | 20.00 | |
| Christopher Hibbert | Charles I | Portrait of the king. 295 pages, hardcover, dust jacket, old smoky smell, lots of illustrations. | 9.00 | |
| Max Jakob & George Hawkins | Elements of Heat Transfer and Insulation | 1950 edition of a classic thermodynamics text. HC with DJ, musty, 230 pages. Bonus: 4-leaf clover on page 195. | 10.00 |
| Author |
Title |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Miss Mulock | Mulock's Poems, 1883 | Leather, 362 pages. From what I've been able to determine, this is one of the more scarce books from Miss Mulock (author of John Halifax, Gentleman and others). It's in beautiful condition, with uniform age yellowing, supple covers, and excellent gilt edges. The cover is separating from the spine (mostly from the front), but can easily be re-glued; the binding itself is very tight. Endpaper carries a bookplate from my grandparents' library. Three photos: cover, edge, title | 23.00 | |
| C. K. Smoley |
Five-Decimal
Logarithmic-Trigonometric Tables, 3rd edn, 1941 |
Beautiful little
184-page hardcover, owned by my grandmother and used in a drafting
class. |
10.00 |
|
| Frederic Newlin Price | Benjamin West: Founders' Day Address at Swarthmore College, 1938 | Published
in 1939 under the auspices of the Benjamin West Society and Swarthmore
College, this 24-page booklet (6x9 inches) is a celebration of West's
200th birthday. It contains the full text of the address, sketching the
artist's life and work. The booklet includes photos of some of West's paintings, all courtesy of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art. The full list is: * George III * Christ Healing the Sick * Penn's Treaty * Death of General Wolfe * Conference of the Treaty of Peace with England * The American School * Birthplace of Benjamin West Exterior wrap is yellowed and foxed as shown in the scan; interior is very clean but for a penciled circle around "Swarthmore" on page 3. This should find its way to a library of Swarthmore College history... or that of a West collector. Here are links to a scan of the cover and one of the interior images. | 20.00 | |
| Eliza A. Youmans | The First Book of Botany, Designed to Cultivate the Observing Powers of Children | 1882 hardcover from Appleton & Co - 300 engravings. Binding tight, boards firm, spine bumped a little but very strong. My name written on flyleaf; grandparents bookplate inside front cover. | 22.00 | |
| American Sunday School Union | Netty's Acorn Frames | This
rare little gem comes from my family estate library. It was published
anonymously in Philadelphia by the American Sunday-School Union in 1864
with a subtitle of A Little Girl's Work.
From what I can gather through online research, this is the only
edition ever printed of this sweet little book, which features full
page illustrations. It is similar to today's chapter books, and is
designed to teach young folks not to let themselves become disheartened
in their efforts to do good in the world. It would be an excellent
addition to a homeschool curriculum on the American Civil War. The story highlights Christian values throughout, and follows the adventure of young Annette who lives with her Aunt after the death of her father in the Battle of Bull Run. When she reads a bulletin about soldiers needing warm socks for the winter, she determines to earn some money for the cause. She sets out to make and sell ornamental picture frames. No setback or hardship can keep proud young Netty from her goal which, in the end, may save a young soldier's life. It is in good condition and quite readable, and measures 4" x 6" with 141 pages. Cover is elaborately embossed green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Head and foot of spine are worn, corners are bumped and there are three small dark spots on front cover. Binding is holding; interior is clean with a little foxing. Photos: spine - corner - title page - random selection - illustration - moral | $44.00 | |
| William Watson | Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems (1893) | Published
in New York by Frederick A. Stokes in 1893, it features a frontispiece
with tissue-guard of Grasmere Churchyard, has 94 pages, and measures
4.25" by 6.25." Burgundy leather spine and corners cover gorgeous red
marbled boards with matching endpapers. Gilt top edge and spine
lettering. This volume is in very good condition. Edges are rubbed, corners bumped, and there is some spine wear, but binding and hinges are strong, text is clean and bright, and it has virtually no foxing. This edition includes four pieces that were not in the first edition, twenty seven additional epigrams, a letter to Professor Dowden, and numerous illustrations throughout. Copies of this unusual little book in such good condition are apparently scarce, based on my online research. Photos: cover - endpapers - pages - illustration - spine | 35.00 | |
| John S. Jenkins | Heroines of History (1874) | Ten beautiful engravings, a little loose binding in spots, 520 pages. Fascinating relic... | 15.00 | |
| Owen Meredith | Lucille (circa 1889) | Epic poem (not rare) - story of Lucille, loved by French Duke and an English Lord, who fought over her. Becomes a nun, and the sone of one falls in love with the neice of the other. Was a hit in its day. | 5.00 | |
| Webster | Encyclopedic Dictionary, 1941 | In our family library as I was growing up. 3" thick, a little tattered, very yellowed, loose binding. These are $10-25 on eBay. | 10.00 | |
| Friedrich Nietzche | Thus Spake Zarathustra | Undated, Modern Library, early 1900s. Tight, but some water staining in the lower corner (no effect on text or page feel). Not rare. | 5.00 |
| Author |
Title |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Crown Publishers | Living Japanese - 2 CD set plus book | 40 lessons on 2 CDs, with corresponding 376-page book | 4.00 | |
| Mitsuko Saito | A Theory of Listening | Japanese (Kanji, vertical typeset). | 1.50 |
|
| Roland Lange | Barron's Japanese Verbs | Tight, plastic-sleeved, 320-page book with complete conjugations | 5.00 | |
| Carol & Nobuo Akiyama | Barron's Japanese Grammar | Language guide on sentence structure | 5.00 | |
| Carol & Nobuo Akiyama | Barron's Japanese Vocabulary | My favorite vocabulary guide, very nicely organized by concept groupings. | 5.00 | |
| Akira Miura | Japanese Words & Their Uses | A most interesting collection of about 300 words, including idiomatic uses, tricky synonyms, and sentence examples. Scarce book - cheapest of 10 on Amazon is $7.95 (March 2010), Very clean condition. | 10.00 | |
| Tina Wells | Easy Katakana | Best book I found for learning katakana! Cover a little dirty, and I've written (pencil) into some of the practice boxes. Essential for reading "loan words," or garaigo. | 5.00 | |
| Fujihiko Kaneda | Easy Hiragana | Great basic writing book, presenting characters in sensible groups with good exercises and vocabulary. Some writing in the practice boxes. | 5.00 | |
| Noboru Inamoto | Colloquial Japanese | Tuttle Language Library - very good book on sentence structure | 4.00 | |
| Living Language | Common Usage Dictionary | Paperback dictionary with lots of idoms | 2.00 | |
| J. D. Bisignani | Japan Handbook | 500-page travel guide, 1988. General handling wear but tight. A friend used this when bicycling around the country. | 2.00 | |
| John Young & Kimiko Nakajima-Okano | Learn Japanese, New College Text, Volume III | Some pencil annotations from previous owner (I never got past the first book in the series). | 5.00 | |
| Pokrovski | Svet Glaz Informatsia | (Title anglicized by me from the Cyrillic). 1968 booklet that I got when studying Russian in the '60s, apparently about the brain and visual system. 32 pages, yellowed. | 2.00 | |
| Howard Tomb | Wicked Japanese for the Business Traveler | "get in, have some fun, carve up the oppostion, and get out alive." | 1.00 |
| Magazine |
Issues |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Latitude 38 |
64 issues, 1993-2006 |
This is THE
sailing/cruising rag - even though it is produced in the San Francisco
Bay Area, it covers the whole world of cruising and has something
for everyone... destination pieces, reports from folks mid-voyage,
chartering, racing, local sightings, and the best letters column you'll
find anywhere in the sailing press. This batch includes issues ranging from 1993 to 2006...
here's what you get:
|
38.00 |
|
| Atlantic Coastal Kayaker | Premier issue, May 1992 | This first issue is a time capsule, and introduces Tamsin Venn (author of Sea Kayaking Along the New England Coast) and Bob Hicks (publisher of the wonderful and folksy Messing About in Boats). The popular sea kayaking culture was yet young, MITA was just getting going in Maine, and the energy was palpable. Photo here. | 4.00 | |
| Backwoods Home | 8 issues, 1998-2000 | Superb reference for survival, homesteading, food production, defense, livestock, brewing, low-level business, canning, and so on. Great stuff. | 20.00 | Taken |
| True, The Man's Magazine | June 1961 | This little time capsule from a half-century ago is quite striking - with huge cigarette ads (it's what's up front that counts!) and sexist cartoons that would never play today. But there are some editorial gems as well, including a long piece on the Winchester Gun Museum, Russian murders in outer space, a long article about Earl Warren, and a variety of fiction and non-fiction. The issue is 128 pages, is in very good condition, and even has a tucked-in Father's Day gift card. Photo here. | 8.00 | |
| Seven Seas Cruising Association | 11 issues, 2006-7 | This is the Commodore's Bulletin, averaging 46 pages per issue, covering voyaging notes and news from members all over the world. | 5.50 | |
| Dwell | June 2004 | Intriguing Interiors feature. I have it because of an article about a friend's (very cool) solar house in Seattle. | 2.00 | |
| Antique Trader Price Guide to Antiques | Summer, 1973 | 100 pages, yellowed, but a great resource on historical antique values. | 1.00 | |
| The Kentucky Naturalist | November 1977 | Photo salon issue, vol 31 no 1 | FREE | |
| TAPR Packet Status Register | 5 issues, 1998-1999 | Issues 72-76 inclusive, with lots of detail about the packet and APRS scenes. I spoke at the 17th Digital Communication Conference and joined TAPR there. | 3.50 | |
| BYTE | Reprint - see detail | This is a reprint from 1985, covering Steve Ciarcia's "Super System, the S-180 single-board computer. Full schematics and other details, plus a tearsheet from August 1985 about the BASIC-52. Nice geek relic from a quarter-century ago. | 1.00 | |
| Machine Design | Sept 28, 1978 Reference Issue | This is completely focused on Fluid Power and is an excellent reference... kinda hate to let it go but I'm not doing hydraulics these days. Dated, but the basics of this technology haven't changed much. | 3.00 | |
| Science News Letter | 2 issues from 1965 | Lots of info on science fair winners, as well as science news highlights of the day. One includes a photo of J. Richard Gott, whom I knew at the time - I'll include two original B&W photos of his Pseudo-Polyhedron exhibit which won big (a new class of geometric figures). | 3.00 |
| Artist |
Title |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Banjo Dan and the
Mid-Nite Plowboys |
Self-titled first
CD, 1990 |
This out-of-print
first CD from Banjo Dan is also one of the first productions by Wayne
Green's Greener Pastures Records - label number GPR-003. I got it back
when it was new and I was visiting Wayne in New Hampshire. The CD
itself in beautiful condition along with the usual jewel case scuffs.
The image
shown here is a scan, not a stock photo. Much more on this
brilliant disc may be found on this page at Banjo Dan's
discography. |
12.50 |
|
| Prince | Diamonds & Pearls | 1991 CD with hologram cover | 2.00 | |
| Wolna Grupa Bukowina | Niechaj Zabrzmi | Polish music, apparently very rare | 17.50 |
| Video Title |
Condition & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Go Farther with Charger Bicycles |
This is still in its original sealed
packaging - I do not know its content or length. I used to have a
Charger (great machine!) and this came with it. I have no idea if this
is a marketing piece or a users guide... luck o' the draw! Photo here. |
4.00 |
|
| The Real Jurassic Park | Hosted by Jeff Goldblum, this is a Nova production about the viability of recreating live dinosaurs. 55 minutes, excellent condition, bought from Blockbuster in 1999. | 1.00 | |
| Animal Bloopers | Jack Hanna leads you through a fun adventure with funny, weird, and amazing moments. Delightful for kids, or anyone hooked on the "awwwww" moments. 21 minutes. | .50 | |
| Africa Quest | By my friend Dan Buehler, this Classroom Connect video is about his amazing bicycle adventure in Africa... with frequent connection back to groups of school kids. Autographed. | 2.50 | |
| Wonderful World of Easy Rider sea kayaks | (ISBN: 0-9636768-0-6) Ages ago, when starting the Microship project, I was researching kayaks... and I bought this 2-1/4 hour tape. It contains lots of good material about the state of the sea kayaking art in the early 1990s. The tape is mentioned on the company website, and is apparently still available for $20. Photo here. | 8.00 | |
| WaterCycling 2000 - 4 Human Powered Boats videos | This
definitive archive of the HPB state of the art (circa 2000) was
produced by Ron Drynan, and includes footage of over 200 boats...
including my Microship project. Video includes extensive racing
coverage, expedition boats (including some ocean-crossings),
hydrofoils, commercial pedal boats, and a lot more. If you're working
with human-powered watercraft, this is a must for your library. I'm now in the process of moving aboard a sailboat, and am reluctantly letting go of treasured artifacts. I'd like to see this collection go to someone in the active HPB community; as far as I can tell, these videos are no longer available. There is a tremendous amount of creative energy and boat geekery documented here. Condition is excellent - probably played all the way through only twice, with occasional fast-forwards to specific projects for reference. They have been in a non-smoking environment, stored in their plastic boxes. Here's a photo. | 50.00 | |
| 2 copies of "Three Tenors" | Recorded by my father on VHS - selling just for the cassette value. | 1.00 |
| Manufacturer |
Product |
Description & Comments | Price |
Status |
| TAPR |
TAPR Software Library, 1996 |
Over 400 MB of packet-radio and
related information, including spread-spectrum SIGs, TAPR mail
archives, Quicktimes, DSP and APRS software, APRS maps, and more. |
7.00 |
Taken |
| Connectix | QuickCam diskettes 1 & 2, plus manual | I sold the camera itself on eBay a few years ago, and this turned up later. I have no way to test the floppies. | 1.00 |
| Title |
Date or Number |
Description & Comments | Price |
Status |
| Paddle Trails - Carteret County |
2001 |
Way too nice to toss, but I don't need
it - canoe and kayak map of the Western Carteret, White Oak River, and
Bear Island areas of North Carolina. This has 8 trails with
corresponding details on the back. 18x24 inches. Price includes
postage in business envelope. |
2.50 |
|
| Kentucke, reproduction of antique John Filson map | 1784 | These were printed by the Filson Club and faithfully reproduce the beautiful old map of the region (Jefferson, Lincoln, and Fayette Counties) produced for George Washington in 1784. They are 16x20 inches, yellowed, rolled, and very suitable for framing. I have three of them; price is shown for each. Will require mailing tube. | 6.00 or all 3 for $15.00 | |
| Idaho Panhandle National Forests | 1989 | From USDA Forest Service - South and Central regions. | 1.00 |
