Waldemar Kaempffert Edited By (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not Stated. The cover has a two inch tear on the top back right corner edge and some smaller tears in the cloth over the top and bottom corner edges.

Red Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. 577 pages; Over 300 illustrations; deals with Transportation, Communication, and Power. Book condition: Book corners are a little bent, and the corners show some board. Spine has darkened slightly, has a some small spots of blue paint (as has the top edge of the front cover). Residue of water glasses being set on both covers are evident with bleached partial circles on about 25% of the covers. One corner has a bump, and spine ends has some wear. Book edges are a light tan color, end papers are nearly that cover, and front hinge paper cover has split, but hinge is secure. Contents are off white, complete, Good+, binding is secure.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. Nice condition, complete set of "A Popular History of American Invention" edited by Waldemar Kaempffert. 1924 1st edition; A.L. Burt; New York. Complete set in two volumes. The set features over 500 illustrations. Inventors include Thomas Edison, Robert Fulton, Alexander Graham Bell, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Samuel Morse, Eli Whitney, Elias Howe, Henry Ford, Charles Goodyear.and many more. The contents are as follows: VOLUME I - From Stephenson to the Twentieth Century Limited - The Story of American Railroading, How Power Won the Inland Waters, Electric Cars and Trains, The Rise of the Automobile, Man Conquers the Air, The Story of the Printed Word, Writing by Machine, Sending Messages and Pictures over a Wire - The Story of the Telegraph, Talking over a Wire - The Story of the Telephone, Signalling and Talking by Radio, Putting Sunlight to Work, Pictures that Live and Move, Frozen Music and Speech - How Edison Invented the Phonograph, Putting Steam to Work, The Rise of Electricity, From Rush light to Incandescent Lamp; VOLUME II - The Story of Iron and Steel, Mining Copper and the Nobler Metals, Striking Oil, Buried Sunshine - The Story of Coal, The Story of the American Lumbering Industry, From Plantation to Loom, Farming by Machine, Automatic Machine Tools, Putting Air to Work, Making Clothes by Machine, How Shoes are Made by Machine, Index. Condition: The set is in overall Near Fine condition - clean both inside and out with only some light smudging on the front end papers and pastedowns, and foxing on the rear end paper of Volume I. Both volumes are tightly bound with no cracks and no loose pages. All covers are firmly attached. Each front end paper has a previous owner's bookplate affixed. Some light stains at the top and bottom edges of the text blocks. A very nice set.…

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. penciled, 1931 Christmas gift inscription on ffep, else textblock immaculate and tight; bright, clean and lighlty shelf worn binding, but with crunched spine extremities and bumped corners; 314p.; no dust jacket; aviation-related frontispiece drawing in color, showing a circular rooftop airport in operation. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Photographs/Pictures/Maps (illustrator). Hard Cover.…