John Armstrong Introduction (16 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. National Model Railroad Association, Published 1998. Paperback, vi, 567 pp.; 24 cm; facsimile reprint of the 1925 McGraw-Hill second edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, plans and diagrams, including a folding plan. New introduction by John Armstrong. In Very Good condition. Glossy paper covers, black-and-white pictorial front cover, cream rear cover printed in blue. Bump and crease to top fore-edge corner, mild shelf and edge wear with some scuffing and light soiling. Binding tight. Light crease to top corner of text block; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Facsimile of the 1925 second edition of John A. Droege's work on the design and operation of American railroad freight terminals, yards and engine facilities, reprinted by the National Model Railroad Association from the copy in its Kalmbach Memorial Library. Droege (1861-1961) rose from telegrapher to general manager of the New York, New Haven and Hartford. The first edition appeared from McGraw-Hill in 1912; the 1925 revision added chapters on electrical operation and on integrating motor-truck and rail freight. Includes chapters on classification yards, team tracks, live-stock handling, water-front terminals, coal piers, grain elevators, freight houses and engine houses, with yard plans and photographs of named terminals (Selkirk yard, the Kansas City stockyards, the Santa Fe elevator at Chicago, the Boston freight houses on Fort Point Channel). Armstrong's introduction reviews Droege's career and the book's use to model railroaders planning layouts. Cover photograph: Chesapeake and Ohio's Peach Creek, West Virginia, freight terminal, January 1946. Contents: Preface; The Terminal Problem; Terms and Definitions; General Requirements of Terminal Design; Track Construction and Maintenance Details; Classification Yards; Operation of Yards; The Yardmaster; Management and Discipline; Loading Cars; Makeup and Movement of Trains; Time-freight Service; Team-delivery Yards; Live-stock Handling; Weighing Freight; Records and Statistics; Water-front Terminals; Coal Piers and Storage Plants; Ore and Lumber Docks; Grain Elevators; Freight Houses; British Freight Service; Mechanical Handling of Merchandise Freight; Transfer Stations; The Freight Agent; Operation of Freight Houses; Refrigerating, Ventilating and Heating; The Engine House; The Engine-house Foreman; Engine-coaling Plants; Ash and Sand Plants; Electrical Operation; Integration of Freight Transportation; Index.…

92 pages. Paperback: H 28cm x L 21.5cm. White paper covers lightly rubbed and soiled, museum bookstore price/bar code sticker still affixed at rear cover's lower right, some bumping at book's top spine corners. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy. With b/w and color illustrations, Acknowledgments and Introduction by Elizabeth Armstrong, Foreword by Martin Friedman, and concluding Lenders to the Exhibition and Reproduction Credits. Features five essays: "Jasper Johns: The Magic of Numbers" by Robert Rosenblum; "Encaustic and Lead in the Work of Jasper Johns" by John Yau; "An Interview with Jasper Johns about Silkscreening" by Katrina Martin; "Translation and Transformation in 'Target with Four Faces': The Painting, the Drawing, and the Etching" by Charles W. Haxthausen; "Reading the Seasons" by James Cuno. Published as the accompanying catalog for an exhibition held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota from February 18 to May 13, 1990 and touring to six other museums in the United States and Canada through November 10, 1991. ISBN 0935640320.…

Staple-bound Softcover. Condition: Very Good. v + approx. 44pp. A facsimile reprint from various portions of a longer work. Pages crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks; stapled binding is clean and secure; soft cover shows a pair of thumbnail creases at the middle rear and a little chipping at the spine ends, otherwise excellent.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 8.25x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Exhibition catalogue. 220x170mm unpaginated. Illustrated, some colour. Card covers. Very good indeed. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with 30 years experience and a real-life bookshop. You may order with confidence.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With an inscription and initial 'T' in Armstrong-Jones writing on the front end paper. The interior is in very good condition with a few small marks on the end papers. The cover is very good except light tanning and a few small dents on the edges. The unclipped dust jacket has shelf wear but no tears. Slightly musty smell. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd Edition. Xxxvi, 852, 124 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. Second Edition Of The Included Works, But First Edition Thus Of The Two Printed Together With The New Introduction. Fine. Glue Attaching The Large Folding Map Has Lost Its Adhesive Power.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Reprint. First edition thus 2012, with new introduction of the original second edition. Published by National Model Railroad Association. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square, tight and crisp book, no edgewear, corners not bumped, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners. Not a reminder. DJ new, bright, no edgewear, no tears, no chips, not clipped. 8vo, 567 pages, illustrated. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. PAPERBACK 2002. Flat spine. Flat covers. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 22/26. Inside Israel: The Faiths, the People, and the Modern Conflicts of the World's Holiest Land. Maps by Lieutenant C. C. J. Bond (illustrator).…

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 176 pages. 12.00x9.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Vii, 358 Pp. Blue Boards, Spine Lettered In Silver. First Printing. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. Includes A Long Ayer Bibliography. Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer (1910 - 1989), Usually Cited As A. J. Ayer, Was An English Philosopher Known For His Promotion Of Logical Positivism, Particularly In His Books Language, Truth, And Logic (1936) And The Problem Of Knowledge (1956). He Was Educated At Eton College And The University Of Oxford, After Which He Studied The Philosophy Of Logical Positivism At The University Of Vienna. From 1933 To 1940 He Lectured On Philosophy At Christ Church, Oxford. During The Second World War Ayer Was A Special Operations Executive And Mi6 Agent. He Was Grote Professor Of The Philosophy Of Mind And Logic At University College London From 1946 Until 1959, After Which He Returned To Oxford To Become Wykeham Professor Of Logic At New College. He Was President Of The Aristotelian Society From 1951 To 1952 And Knighted In 1970. He Was Known For His Advocacy Of Humanism, And Was The Second President Of The British Humanist Association (Now Known As Humanists Uk). Professor A. J. Ayer Was President Of The Homosexual Law Reform Society For A Time; He Remarked That "As A Notorious Heterosexual I Could Never Be Accused Of Feathering My Own Nest.".…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.