J E Homans (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good +/Good. tears on d/j especially to rear, rubs; nice old picture of a dynamo on d/j.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown Buckram binding with green title on front panel and spine cover, binding tight and square. Name of PO on ffep, Text clean and unmarked Illustrated with b/w line drawings.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Black titles on red cloth, 248 pages including index and profusely illustrated. Light soiling and edge wear to cover and a small chip out of the front free end-paper. Otherwise a good clean tight copy.

Paperback. Condition: As new. 12-page softcover booklet, similar to a salesman's sample. Contains promotional material on the book, a sampling of pages, press reviews, and a printed order blank. The book was issued in 1901 with a second edition in 1903. This prospectus is dated 1902 based on the date on the printed order blank. Fine condition. The front cover says "hello" and the rear cover states "Ring off". A cute example of the early days of the telephone when its adoption was first becoming widespread.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 12mo. volume in tan cloth binding. B&W illustrations. Condition: minor damp-stain to top edge of front & rear covers; minor tide-marks to top edge of book block; inked name on title page; else good. Pages: v, 248.

Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. cover shows moderate wear, rubbing, soiling. pages clean. profusely illustrated.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Presumed First Edition. Nice vintage volume concerning electricity. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket.

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good(2). A practical treatise on the theory, construction, operation, care and management of all forms of autommobiles. One copy each of the 6th and 7th editions. These volumes cover the very early cars up to 1909 and 1910 respectively. Illustrated by: .

Condition: Very Good +. New York: Theo Audel & Co., 1903. Later Printing. Octavo (20 cm); 335pp+4ads, illus. throughout, including frontis of Alexander Graham Bell. Boards full bound in black cloth with yellow stamping. Black endsheets. Boards generally scuffed and lightly soiled with corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed. Slight starting at recto of rear free endsheet and binding shaky but sound. Previous owner name to title page, otherwise pages clean. A Very Good or better copy of a "practical and useful treatis" for those learning about and working in the new field of "telephony.".…

Octavo. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged. 598 pages, illustrated, index. In the previous edition issued in 1903, there were some omissions and a few errors along with the note by the author that the motor vehicle has passed out of the experimental stage and become a practical reality. He gives credit to Daimler, Benz and others who made advances to make the car increasingly accessible. The world now has the professional chauffer as well as the owner-driver. He opens with a history of early coaches. The plates were separately printed on yellow paper. Bound in red cloth stamped in blind depicting a car, spine lettering black and gilt, wear to one corner some fading to spine along with finger soiling to cloth, previous owner's bookplate. A very good copy.…