|
25 Years of Programming
An open source source for C, C++, OWL, BASIC, MDB, XLS, DOT, and more... |
Home Projects Up Sitemap Search Blog Forum+Chat About Us Privacy Terms of Use Feedback FAQ Images Services Ads Donate Humor |
I've been planning to auction these items on eBay, but it hasn't been a high priority. If someone asks and if I have the time to do it, I'll try to promptly put the requested items up for public (not private) auction and let you know when it starts.
Use the email address on this site's Feedback page to inquire. If you want to check my eBay Feedback ratings and comments, ask me for my eBay user name.
I will generally sell these items only on eBay. See the My eBay terms of sale page.
The description with each item (if any) is the proposed auction listing. Some are from previous auctions where the items didn't sell.
"Likely price" is what I expect to use as the starting bid. If you think the price is too high, you can't hurt anything by suggesting a different one.
Items with a "Likely price" of $0.99 or less are items I want to get rid of, to anyone willing to pay the shipping cost. On request, I'll bundle one or more of them with other items into an auction lot. Even after you win an auction, you can request that $0.99 items be included. Make the request at any time before you pay for the auction. If the additional items raise the shipping cost, you must pay the additional charges. That is why you must ask before you pay.
Categories index
Leonardo's Inventions, by Jean Mathé.
Likely price $7
Translated by David Mac Rae. Crescent Books, 1980, olive-gray cloth hardcover, 105 heavy paper pages. Coffee-table style book, 11" H x 8 ¾" W x ¾" T. ISBN 0-517-30712-X.
Of the book's 105 pages, I estimate that there are about 26 pages of text, in an Arial-like typeface slightly larger than in most "reading" books. It provides biographical information about Leonardo, plus description and analysis of the inventions that he sketched in his notebooks. The remaining (approximately 79) non-text pages consist of enlarged reproductions of the ink drawings from his notebooks, similar to the illustration shown on the cover. The degree of enlargement varies. Two images shown here (including the cover) would be sort of "panoramas", not enlarged much. However, the majority of the reproductions in the book are of small designs taken from a page and enlarged quite a lot, like the third image shown here. The reproductions are rendered as black drawings on a beige background. They are printed on the regular-textured pages along with the text; that is, they are not printed as photographic plates on shiny paper.
This book is in good condition. There is a significant water stain on the dust jacket (2 sq. in. on front, visible in image, plus on the spine, plus 4 sq. in. on back), and a barely noticeable water staining of the book's cover in a smaller portion of the same areas. The front and back boards have minor bumps along the bottom edge. Otherwise, the book itself, especially the interior, is in excellent condition.
Technical Analysis Of Stock Trends, Revised Fifth Edition, by Robert D. Edwards and John Magee, John Magee Inc., Boston, Copyright 1966, Revised Fifth Edition Fifteenth Printing May 1984, ISBN 0-910944-00-8, turquoise hard cover with gold spine lettering, dust jacket, 494 pages. Original price $75.00. Current price new $99.95.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Likely price $38
The bible of technical analysis and charting, this book covers its subject in exhaustive detail with numerous illustrative charts.
Partial list of topics
The accompanying images of the table of contents pages are sufficiently high resolution to view some of the chapter subtopics.
The book and its dust jacket are generally in very good condition except that about 30 of the book's 494 pages have underlining with red felt pen. The boards have a trivial dent at bottom. Spine and dust jacket have a wrinkle at top. The accompanying handheld scanner images of the pages have shadow artifacts. The actual pages are bright white, printed on high quality glossy paper and are not discolored.
Granville's New Strategy of Daily Stock Market Timing for Maximum Profit, by Joseph E. Granville, Prentice-Hall, NJ, 1976, ISBN 0-13-363432-9, dark blue hard cover with dust jacket, gold spine lettering, 350 pages. Original price $19.95.
Likely price: Granville $120, Andersen $2. Or both for $120. These were planned to be bundled together, but they don't have to be.
This book discusses major market indicators, bull and bear market phases and chart patterns, Granville's Climax Indicator and On-Balance Volume concept; long-term cycles in the Advance-Decline line; 56 daily market indicators; and "Presents a far-reaching application of market cyclical conclusions up through the year 2000"! That far ahead, eh? That should be interesting.
This book is in excellent condition except about 14 pages have passages marked with yellow highlighter that is fading with time, about 2 pages have some pencil notations, and about 1 page was previously dog-eared. The dust jacket has a couple of minor tears, visible in the scanned image.
I wrote a short BASIC program that tried to automate his "56 Day To Day indicators", which I will send to the auction winner.
Making Money, by Ian Andersen, The Vanguard Press, NY, 1978, ISBN 0-8149-0797-0, dark green hardcover with dust jacket, gold spine lettering, 232 heavy paper pages. Original price $10.00.
The author discusses Negotiating; How To Deal With People; The Stock Market; How To Invest In Real Estate; How To Establish And Use Credit; The Subtleties Of Swiss Banking; Liechtenstein Corporations And Trusts; and What To Do About Income Taxes.
The book is in good condition. About 3 pages have passages underlined with red felt pen, about 2 pages have pencil notations, and about 4 pages have a rust mark at the top edge where a paper clip was used as a bookmark. The dust jacket has small tears, a couple of hard creases, and rubbing.
How To Make Money In Stock Options, by Norman Saint-Peter, Prentice-Hall, NJ, 1984, ISBN 0-13-423830-3, cream colored hard cover with dust jacket, black spine lettering, 290 pages. Original price $24.50.
Likely price $7
This book covers options basics (terminology and how options work), the various trading strategies (puts, calls, spreads, straddles, naked selling, covered writes) and the market conditions where each is appropriate. For each strategy: When to use it; What the strategy involves; How it makes money; How best to implement it; What kinds of returns can be expected; How changes in stock price and diminishing time to expiration affect profit/loss; Where the risks lie with the strategy; How to follow up on the strategy.
However, I bought the book mainly for its 14 pages of appendices in which the author provides the Black-Scholes option valuation equation and several other related equations with explanations. These were sufficient to allow me to write several C programs to do these useful calculations.
The book is in good condition. Boards and spine very good. About 2 pages have passages underlined in red felt pen, about 3 pages have pencil notations (example shown in image), about 3 pages were dog-eared, and about 21 pages have a rust mark at the top edge where a paper clip was used as a bookmark. The pages are not discolored; the dark region in the image is a handheld scanner shadow. Dust jacket is good with a 1/4" tear and some curling.
Pamphlets, clippings, and single items about options
|
|
|
|
|
Likely price $0. These are intended to be included with How To Make Money In Stock Options, by Norman Saint-Peter (shown above), but could be included on request with a different item.
19 options strategies and when to use them, by William H. Degler and H. Phillip Becker, Futures The magazine of commodities & options, Iowa, 1984, 6 original pages (3 physical pages) clipped from magazine. Presents profit, loss, and decay characteristics of 19 options strategies. 3 stapled pages, good condition, no reader marks.
Options At A Glance, by New York Stock Exchange, NY, 1987, 1 page. Strike price and expiration date codes on a quick reference popup card that attaches to desk with adhesive strip. Unused condition.
Options Symbol Codes, by New York Stock Exchange, NY, 1987, 1 page. Expiration date codes of calls and puts on a card with adhesive backing for sticking to keyboard keys. 2nd section adheres to keyboard (rather than individual keys) for reference. Unused condition.
Characteristics And Risks Of Standardized Options, by The Options Clearing Corporation, 1987, 73 pages. The standard characteristics and risk disclosure document that you get from the OCC, with passages underlined or circled in red felt pen and one or more pages dog-eared. Required reading if you are interested in trading options.
Taxes & Investing: A Guide For The Individual Investor After The Tax Reform Act Of 1986, by NYSE, NY, 1987, pamphlet, 32 pages. Tax effects of various options strategies, as of 1987! Likely out of date in its specifics, but its explanations and examples might still be helpful.
Pamphlets, booklets, clippings about the stock market and investing
|
|
|
|
|
Likely price $0. These will be bundled with one of the stock market books. If you request that a book be auctioned, you may request that these be included with it.
How To Select Stocks Using Daily Graphs, by Daily Graphs, Los Angeles, 1986, booklet, 30 pages. Original price $4.95. How to interpret and use the data in Daily Graphs charts, with commentary on cycles, trends, and fundamental and technical analysis (chart patterns). Good condition, with some passages marked with yellow highlighter that is fading with time.
How & When To Sell Stocks Short, by William J. O'Neil, Los Angeles, 1984, 11th printing, 29 pages. Original price $4.95. Text describes under what conditions to sell short and how to select and follow up your short positions. Includes about 15 examples of shorting opportunities as shown on Daily Graphs charts (technical analysis, e.g. head and shoulders tops). Good condition but with numerous passages underlined with red felt pen and an ink smudge on the back cover.
13 clipped magazine articles about the stock market and investing, by various, about 42 pages, from about 1986-1987. These are all original articles clipped from magazines or received as subscription bonuses, not copies. There are no images of these. The pages of each article are stapled together.
Articles from the AAII Journal (American Association Of Individual Investors):
Articles from DOWLINE Magazine:
Dow Jones Reprint Service authorized copies of Barron's articles:
A Lifetime Strategy For Investing In Common Stocks, by James B. Cloonan, American Association Of Individual Investors, 1986, pamphlet, 31 pages. Risk, diversification, transaction costs, market efficiency, historical returns, strategies for the 3 investment stages of your life, tactics.
How Professionals Invest: A Guidebook of Ideas for the Mature Investor, by Dean Witter & Co., 1965, pamphlet, 31 pages. The unemotional logic, intensive research, rigorous analysis, tireless vigilance, and finely honed expertise and judgment that make large institutions like Dean Witter your best choice for a brokerage company. Cue brass band...
It begins:
"Many people instinctively treat other people's money with greater respect than their own. The most conservative guardian of another's trust may take a "flyer" now and then with his own petty cash, if only to relieve the tension of trusteeship. But his clients' cash and securities are inviolate. The investment manager is constantly alert to the slightest sign of erosion in the value of his client's invested dollars or even in a sign of slackening of their previous rate of growth. He is dedicated to the application of his art to the science of making money for others..."
Thank goodness we have Dean Witter!
HOW TO BUY: An Insider's Guide to Making Money in the Stock Market, by Justin Mamis, Fireside/Simon & Schuster, NY, 1985, ISBN 0-671-62009-6, paperback, 245 pages. First Fireside edition. Original price $8.95.
Likely price $12
From the back cover:
"At long last, an experienced professional trader, former Exchange member, and highly regarded market advisor has sat down in clear, easy-to-understand terms all the guidelines that anyone involved in Wall Street will need in order to stop losing and start gaining profits. Justin Mamis has written the book on how to buy stocks for profit, when to buy them, and which ones to buy."
Chapter headings (with some notes)
The book is in good condition. The newsprint-like pages have some warping where they enter the spine. About 16 pages have passages underlined or marked with a vertical margin line in red felt pen.
WHEN TO SELL: Inside Strategies for Stock-Market Profits, by Justin Mamis and Robert Mamis, Cornerstone/Simon & Schuster, NY, 1977, ISBN 346-12340-2, paperback, 256 pages. Original price $6.95.
Likely price $12
From the back cover:
"Dozens of books have been written on how to choose stocks to buy. But do you know how and when to sell? How to turn a paper profit into a real one at the right time? How to prevent a minor loss from turning into a major disaster? WHEN TO SELL tells you how experienced professionals make sensible selling decisions -- the decisions that not only make the difference between profit and loss but can lock in a big gain before it vanishes completely."
Chapter headings (with notes)
The book is in good condition. The newsprint-like pages have a small amount of warping where they enter the spine. Cover has a few minor nicks and a trivial curl and partial crease at top corner, visible in image. About 15 pages have passages underlined or marked with a vertical margin line in red felt pen. About 1 page was once dog-eared.
Introduction To Management Accounting, Fourth Edition, by Charles T. Horngren, PhD, CPA Stanford University. Copyright 1978, Prentice-Hall. Hardcover, 714 pages.
College textbook.
Likely price $0.99
I remember this book as one that teaches its technical and complex subject matter in a style that is well written, interesting, and readable, which in my experience is unfortunately rare for a college textbook. It has some discussion of bookkeeping and financial statements, but it is not about basic bookkeeping. It is on a higher level than that, dealing with the role of accounting in management decision-making.
This book is in generally excellent condition. Prior owner's name is blacked-out on front endpaper, there are some minor scratches on the cover, a few (not many) of the pages have some pencil markings, and a (very) few of the pages were once dog-eared.
The original price of this book was $19.95. The list price of a more recent (13th) edition of this book appears to be $133.00. If you are taking a course that requires this book, I doubt you will find this auction item usable for the course (though it obviously might be worth finding out for sure). But if you just want to learn the subject matter, you can learn a lot from this book. You will need a sincere interest in the subject and some self-motivation. When I say it is well written, interesting, and readable, I do not mean it has an exciting plot.
Some of the topics it discusses:
Colonial Williamsburg Official Guide Book & Map, by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, "Containing a brief History of the old City, and of its Renewing, and with Remarks on the six chief Appeals thereof; and Descriptions of near one hundred & fifty Dwelling-Houses, Shops & publick Buildings. Completely illustrated. Also a large guide-map." Copyright 1972, printed 1976, Seventh Edition, Fourth printing, Paperback, 110 pages.
Likely price $0.99
The book consists largely of an architectural tour of Williamsburg, Virginia, with illustrations, descriptions, and histories of the buildings and their owners, in the course of which are discussed many details of life and society in the Colonial period. It has a removable full-color map, with an index to buildings and sites of interest, to assist you with your walking or driving tour.
The book is in fairly good used condition. As can be seen in the image, the corners of the covers and pages tend to curl. Page 16 has a tan-colored smudge. The removable map is in excellent condition.
Crystal Woman, The Sisters Of The Dreamtime, by Lynn V. Andrews, Warner Books, stated Book Club Edition, 1987, copyright page number line reads "9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2". Hardcover with dust jacket, 269 pages. Illustrator: David Tamura.
Likely price $1.19
Used.
Carlos Castaneda's don Juan books were written with a male perspective, had almost exclusively male characters, and seemed mostly to appeal to male readers. This book, Crystal Woman, follows the Castaneda narrative style and storyline formula so closely that it is, well, suspicious, but at least in the 3 respects above, it is exactly the opposite: it is written with a female perspective, has almost exclusively female characters, and probably is intended for female readers.
The dust jacket is in good condition, though it's dirty and has some minor rips. The book has bumped spine ends, a bumped board edge, a small dark ink stain on the front cover, and a prior owner's name inside front cover. The book would be in good condition except that a drop of purple ink fell onto the bottom edge of the book. From there, it seeped upward, staining pages 11 through 84 to a maximum depth of about ½" from the edge and a maximum stain width of about 1", putting a horrible blot (pun intended) on this book's condition. You can play the blot like a movie if you flip the pages. The text is readable, and has no marks that I found.
This is only guaranteed to be a readable copy of the book, and will be shipped, inexpensively, in a mailing envelope.
3 Books on LOVE and FRIENDSHIP and a pink wall plaque about Friendship
Likely price $1.73
Summary of lot contents:
Consists of the following books (and one other item) about love and friendship:
Details:
The Love Book, by Karen Casey, with illustrations by David Spohn, Copyright 1985 by the Hazelden Foundation, published by Harper & Row, ISBN 0-86683-505-9, one of the Hazelden Meditation Series books. The copyright page number line shows "5 4 3". I think this means it is the 2nd printing. About 105 pages, small format (4" x 6") paperback. Original price new, $7.95.
From the book: "This collection of [52] weekly meditations [short 1-page essays] explores the topic of love between friends, family, lovers, and strangers, as well as self-love, and the challenges and new vistas love offers in any of its forms."
The book's edges are dirt-discolored, the cover edges have some wear, the cover corners are slightly curled, and a prior owner's name is written on the title page. Inside, the text appears unmarked.
A BOOK OF GAMES: A course in spiritual play, by Hugh Prather, with an introduction by Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D. (psychiatrist and founder of the Center For Attitudinal Healing in Tiburon, California), Copyright 1981, A Dolphin Book, published by Doubleday & Company, stated First Edition, 142 pages, paperback, ISBN 0-385-14779-1, original price new $5.95.
This book consists of a series of games of role playing and imagination that "come from Hugh's counseling techniques". The goal appears to be increasing happiness by expanding the bounds of your thinking through the insights gained by the temporary imaginative role playing. The author expands somewhat on the goals of the exercises and his philosophy that underlies them, appears sometimes to wax poetic, is at times a bit preachy, but all in all the book looks rather interesting and might be fun especially for couples who enjoy this type of imaginative play.
Unfortunately, the book can only be considered a reading copy, meaning it is in poor condition. It appears to have spent time in an artist's pastel drawer, from which it picked up much pastel coloration and staining. The cover (outside and inside), book edges, and the first few and last few pages are very dirty. The back of the book has water staining and warping. Oddly however, most of the interior of the book is actually pretty clean, seems to be without reader marks, and is entirely readable. The first page is heavily decorated by a prior owner/artist. The accompanying image has a shadow that the book doesn't have (a scanning artifact), but the book does have the other discolorations in the image.
Here's Another Book, My Friend, edited by Robert Allan, Copyright 1971 by Montcalm Productions, a Stanyan book, Random House. ISBN 394-47376-0, about 61 pages, small format (4¾" x 7¾") hardcover with paper covered boards, with dust jacket.
The book consists of sayings and quotations about friendship by famous and less-famous people, printed in a large courier font so that the sayings look like they were typed on lined binder paper. Some pages contain boldly colorful illustrations of birds, butterflies, flowers, fruit, happy animals, and other cheerful things.
The book is in good condition with some edge wear and bumped corners. The title page is inscribed to someone from someone, though it is carefully printed in black to look like part of the book. Several of the quotes have short pencil notes in the margin next to them. The dust jacket is price-clipped, rubbed, and has wear and tears.
Pink wall plaque about friendship
Contains the following text surrounded by decorative artwork:
What is Friendship?
It is feeling completely
natural
with another,
shedding all pretense and all sham,
just being yourself.
It is sharing with another
both big and little things,
joy and sorrow,
laughter and tears.
The text is printed on a paper card mounted on what looks like a pink-painted wooden plaque, but is actually pink molded plastic, with a notch in the back and a ring at the top for wall mounting.
The accompanying image has a shadow that the plaque doesn't have (a scanning artifact).
Notes:
Student Collection of 4 Shakespeare Paperbacks
Likely price $1.79
4 paperback editions of plays by William Shakespeare. Each was read and carried around school by one or more students in the 1960s. All are readable, but have discolored covers and other attributes as noted below. The books will be shipped together in a mailing envelope.
A Midsummer Night's Dream, with notes by G. L. Kittredge, Blaisdell Publishing Company, 136 pages, creased cover by spine is not visible in the image, interior in good condition, no markings. The section containing useful explanatory annotations that translate obscure, archaic, or poetic phrases into modern language occupies almost half the book.
The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar, edited by S. F. Johnson, "The Pelican Shakespeare" edition, Penguin Books, copyright 1960, printed 1963, 128 pages. Many if not most pages have underlining and notes in blue ink; the book is readable, but has no aesthetic appeal. The inside back cover has a note printed in large letters, for display to another student, "I'm going to fall asleep".
Henry IV, Part One, edited by Maynard Mack, Signet Classic edition, copyright 1965, 268 pages, the pages somewhat yellowed with age, some pages (I found about 15) dog-eared, some pages (I found about 17) have pencil or pen bracketing of passages or short margin notes. Generally fair condition.
The Life Of King Henry V, with notes by G. L. Kittredge, copyright 1940, printed probably in 1960's, Ginn, 191 pages. It is in the best condition of the books in this set; in fact, except for the cover yellowing, it doesn't look like it was used or read. That's a bit embarrassing, considering it was my schoolbook.
HOW CAN I HELP? (ON
SERVICE),
by Ram Dass & Paul Gorman, paperback
Likely price $1.53
This is a used copy of the book How Can I Help? by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman, Borzoi/Knopf 1986, 3rd printing, softcover, 243 pages. ISBN 0-394-72947-1.
Its chapter headings are:
This should be considered a "reading copy" of the book, meaning that it's entirely readable, but it might not hold together much longer. Much of the binding is tight, but the glue is turning brittle; about 10 pages at the front are starting to pull out, and more will surely follow. The text is mostly clean, with a few brief passages (2 that I found) underlined in red. The accompanying image accurately shows that the cover looks pretty good, but the book's edges are dirt discolored.
This is only guaranteed to be a readable copy of the book, and will be shipped, inexpensively, in a mailing envelope.
|
|
 
|
|
|