Parry James M Editor (5 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Good. Friends Home Service Committee, 1963; stated fourth impression; 75pp. Good saddle-stapled pamphlet from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Stapled binding remains intact and sturdy. Some corner/edge-wear; minor staining to front panel; more extensive staining to rear extremities, interior unaffected, and free of markings, save small previous owner name to first page. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 433 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 433 pages. 10.00x7.01x1.07 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: New. vi, 253 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm. Abstract:Developments in Engineering Geology is a showcase of the diversity in the science and practice of engineering geology. All branches of geology are applicable to solving engineering problems and this presents a wide frontier of scientific opportunity to engineering geology. In practice, diversity represents a different set of challenges with the distinctive character of the profession derived from the crossover between the disciplines of geology and engineering. This book emphasizes the importance of understanding the geological science behind the engineering behaviour of a soil or rock. It also highlights a continuing expansion in the practice areas of engineering geology and illustrates how this is opening new frontiers to the profession thereby introducing new knowledge and technology across a range of applications. This is initiating an evolution in the way geology is modelled in engineering, geohazard and environmental studies in modern and traditional areas of engineering geology.

First Edition (& 1st printing). Small octavo, original pictorial boards. 255 pp. 500 copies printed.Pictorial postcard, bookmark, and facsimile signature of M.R. James laid in, as issued. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "If there is anything about which the present generation is bewilderingly well-informed it is the subject of spooks." "Seraphita" Friends and Spectres is a companion volume to Ghosts of the Chit-Chat (2020), an anthology of ghost stories by authors who had been members of the Cambridge University Chit-Chat Club along with M. R. James. Here the associations with MRJ are less formal, but stronger and more enduring: for it is the bond of genuine friendship that ties these writers to him. The majority of pieces here were originally published under pseudonyms, and over half appeared first in amateur magazines or local newspapers. All deal with the supernatural, and several of the stories are themselves spectresor more properly "revenants", only now re-emerging into the light after decades of oblivion. There are rediscoveries here of "lost" tales by Arthur Reed Ropes, E. G. Swain, and the enigmatic "B.".