Ray William Marlys (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. (Design, Patents, History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

hardcover. 1st. Square 4to, 132 pp. Nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. Profusely illustrated (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. Book & dust jacket show some shelf & handling wear, including minor edge wear and scuffing on the dust jacket. Dust jacket is in a plastic protector. Pages are slightly worn. Interiors are intact with unmarked text/pictures. Good reading copy.

Hardcover. xii, 132p., an unusual coffee-table item, printed to the usual selling-point specifications: large (10x10 inches, check), presswork on glazed alkaline paperstock (check), soundly hardbound and jacketed (check & check), and worth opening (check again). In this case, amid a plethora of weirdly familiar curiosities (recognizable because soon developed further), is shown (in doublespread colorphoto) an invention by none other than Abraham Lincoln, patent applied for with scale model in 1849, of a "New Improved Manner of Buoying Vessels Over Shoals" (see index). Also find a number of early Thomas Edison efforts, some of which took commercial form. Book is hardbound in white cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself is fine all around, the dj is a little edgeworn: sound, clean and unmarked in any way.…