Edited C M Stevens (3 results)

Title: Handy Portable Dictionary of the English Language Publisher: P. M. Productions Ltd. Publication Year: 1947 Format: Small-format hardcover (portable dictionary). Condition: good Binding: Tight and intact. Boards/Spine: Clean, with only minor shelf wear. Text: Clear and legible throughout. Overall: A very good vintage pocket dictionary, commensurate with its age. Notes A compact mid-20th-century English dictionary designed for portability and everyday use. A post-war survival, representative of practical educational publishing in the mid-20th century.

Listing Description Title: Handy Portable Dictionary of the English Language Publisher: P. M. Productions Ltd. Publication Year: [c. 1947 ? "9147" on imprint likely denotes September 1947] Format: Small-format hardcover (portable dictionary). Condition Binding: Tight and intact. Boards/Spine: Clean, with only minor shelf wear. Text: Clear and legible throughout. Marks: Funny poem inscription on prelims written by a schoolgirl of the period about "the dangers of stealing her book and being sent to hell by God" Overall: A very good vintage pocket dictionary, commensurate with its age. Notes A compact mid-20th-century English dictionary designed for portability and everyday use. A post-war survival, representative of practical educational publishing in the mid-20th century.

Soft cover. Condition: New. vi, 249 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm. Contents: Plutonism versus Neptunism at the southern tip of Africa : the debate on the origin of granites at the Cape, 1776-1844 / Sharad Master -- The sanukitoid series : magmatism at the Archaean-Proterozoic transition / Hervé Martin, Jean-Franc̦ois Moyen and Robert Rapp -- The geochemistry of Archaean plagioclase-rich granites as a marker of source enrichment and depth of melting / J.-F. Moyen, D. Champion and R.H. Smithies -- Similiarities between mantle-derived A-type granites and voluminous rhyolites in continental flood basalt provinces / Simon Turner and Tracy Rushmer -- Structural controls on melt segregation and migration related to the formation of the diapiric Schwerin Fold in the contact aureole of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa / Luke Longridge, Roger L. Gibson and Paul A.M. Nex -- Parental magmas of Grenville Province massif-type anorthosites, and conjectures about why massif anorthosites are restricted to the Proterozoic / Jean H. Bedard -- Granite formation : stepwise accumulation of melt or connected networks? / Paul D. Bons [and others] -- Emplacement and assembly of shallow intrusions from multiple magma pulses, Henry Mountains, Utah / Eric Horsman [and others] -- Four-stage building of the Cambrian Carion pluton (Madagascar) / M.O.M. Razantseheno [and others] -- Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility fabrics in syntectonic plutons as tectonic strain markers : the example of the Canso pluton, Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia / Keith Benn -- Chemical structure in granitic magmas : a signal from the source? / J.D. Clemens, P.A. Helps and G. Stevens -- Causes of compositional diversity in a lobe of the Half Dome granodiorite, Tuolumne Batholith, Central Sierra Nevada, California / R.C. Economos [and others] -- The evolution of late-Hercynian granites and rhyolites documented by quartz : a review / Axel Müller [and others] -- Trace element constraints on mid-crustal partial melting processes : a garnet ionproble study from polyphase migmatites (Damara orogen, Namibia) / C. Jung [and others] -- Crustal melt granites and migmatites along the Himalaya : melt source, segregation, transport and granite emplacement mechanisms / M.P. Searle -- Zoning and resorption of plagioclase in a layered gabbro, as a petrographic indicator of magmatic differentiation / Takashi Hoshide and Masaaki Obata.