Magic Numbers by Robert Tocquet (14 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A.S. Barnes & Company New York January 1961 Binding: Hardcover age toned spine. previous owner signature on front pastedown.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and has light toning. DJ with some edge wear, tears and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First American Edition, Second Printing 1963; translated by Denis Weaver. Jacket cover shows slight wear on edges and yellowing on inside boards; otherwise in good condition with clean text, tight binding. Personal inscription on inside cover. Chapters include Yesterday and Today; Simulated Mental Calculation; Trick Mathematics and Memorising Numbers; Some Unusual Problems; Animal Calculators; How Animals Do It. Tocquet's book opens up and explores this world, giving the reader a unique insight into the strange properties of numbers and the mysterious phenomenon of prodigious mental calculation. The reader is shown how, with very little effort, the reader can learn to perform amazing tricks of mental arithmetic; how to appear to have a fabulous memory, foretell the results of apparently random calculations - in fact - how to appreciate and use The Magic of Numbers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

hardcover. Condition: Good. hardcover book no dust jacket, light wear to cover and book edges.

Hardcover. Condition: UsedGood. Hardcover; first American Edition, second printing; translated by Denis Weaver; fading to cover and inside boards; otherwise in good condition with clean text, tight binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. General aging, contains a few markings that don't interfere with print. Very good reading copy.

Condition: Good. 1960. No edition remarks. 160 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine and edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable foxing. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Very Good Pp 160.

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1st UK edition, 1960. Free end papers a little browned; text clean; binding tight; top corners slightly bumped; dust jacket worn at edges, with loss at head of faded spine Used - Good. VG hardback in Fair dust jacket.