Search Results: Authors starting with V from Quirky Used Books & More

Ratna Pustak Bhandar. Softcover. Good. We are listing this book in keeping with how the name of the author is spelled on the cover, on Wikipedia and other sites. Small book with red wraps and sketches of the various characters and animals featured in the stories. Covers are rubbed. Crimping along bottom edges of the wraps. Rear cover has old price sticker at lower corner near spine. Lightly bumped corner tips. Spine is firm. Nice reading copy. 113 pages. No year of publication, so we can definitively say this is the 1971 initial printing, or 1997 reprint, but we're leaning towards the first.

1968. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover, first printing. Bilingual edition. DJ scuffed, rubbed, with wearing to corners and spine ends. Upper spine area of DJ in chipped and worn. Black cloth covered boards are lightly faded, smudged, lightly dented corners. Previous owner name on both end papers, and the title page. Clean pages, smudging to text block. 326 pages.

Princeton University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. DJ under clear protective jacket. Condition of dj is poor: chipped, rubbed, soiled, crimped, etc. Old price sticker on outside of clear jacket. Toning to pages, fading to outside edges of the end papers and paste downs. Good binding. Nice reading copy of the letters exchanged between Ben Franklin and his sister, Jane, between the 1727 and 1790. 380 pages.

The Higher Learning Commission, 2001. Softcover. Good. Softcover. "Serving the Common Good: New Designs in Higher Education," published by the Higher Learning Commission for the 106th Annual Meeting of the North Central Association, March 31-April 3, 2001. Rubbed wraps. Bumped tips. Light scraping to edges and spine ends. Firm binding. Unmarked. Good reading copy.

Dainam Publishing, 1986. Hardcover. Good. Former library book and has the usual stamps, stickers, and markings. Green boards covered with plastic book jacket. Heavy, thick book. Dirty thumbmarkings on lower corners of text block. Bumped corner tips and dented on lower spine. Firm binding. Appears to not have been heavily used. 1755 pages. 3 inches thick.

East-West Publications Fonds B.V, 1975. Second Edition. Softcover. Good. Hazrat Inayat Khan was the founder of the Sufi movement which was based on the spiritual teachings of mystic Mohammed Abu Hasan Madani. Pictorial covers are yellowed, scuffed, stained, scratched and have dinged and bumped corner tips. The head and heel of spine are scraped. This is a softcover book, and as such, the spine is slightly twisted. Thumbmarks at lower corners of text block. Text block all the way around is dirty with a few stains here and there. Previous owners name on inside front cover, and half title page has small, red, bookstore stamp at the bottom. Book has underlining and marginalia in pen. Spine is creased and the binding is a little loose, but all the pages remain intact. 207 pp.

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1970. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover, large (Qto). Inscribed by Ms. Vanderbilt thusly: "To Carlotta, Gloria Vanderbilt." Toned, scuffed, lightly soiled DJ with crimped and scraped edges. Shelf wear to spine ends of dj. We've placed a Brodart archival jacket over paper DJ. Purple gingham patterned cloth-covered boards are scuffed and scraped. Toned board edges and hinges. Shelf-wear to bottom edges. Dented corners. Foxing throughout, more predominant at the beginning of the book. Yellowed page block. Good binding, nice reading copy. We will send photos upon request. 111 pps plus index.

Deutsch Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1958. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. IN GERMAN. No dust jacket. Paper covered boards featuring a bamboo design, designed by Dietrich Evers. Yellow leather covered spine. Bumped tips with shelf wear to bottom edges. Slightly coked. Braided ribbon bookmark present. Has frayed ends. Sewn binding in nice shape. Good reading copy. 291 pages.

New School for Social Research, 2007. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Volume 74, No. 3, Fall 2007. Never read. Scuffed wraps. Bumped tips, light crimping to edges. 940 pages.

University of Nebraska, 2009. Softcover. Good. Volume 31, No. 1. Scuffed, scratched wraps, crimped along edges, bumped spine ends. Creased pages.265 pages.

Scott, Foresman and Company, 1924. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Dark orange textured board cover. Embossed title. Gilt title on spine. Lightly bumped corners. Sewn binding is nice and firm. In remarkably good condition for the age of book. No dust jacket.

Gunma Museum of Natural History. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Rubbed wraps. Lightly bumped tips and slightly faded

The Jewish Museum of Greece and Le Foundation Auschwitz, 1996. Softcover. Good. Published in conjunction with a conference in Athens, Greece in November 1995, focusing on "The historical and educational mission of a contemporary museum." Reprinted lectures in English and French. Lightly rubbed, slightly dirty and scuffed covers. Minor denting to corner tips. Bumped spine ends. Exposure to moisture in the gutter at the top of 8 pages in the middle of the book. Looks like a paper clip might have been attached to those pages. Very minor. 135 pp.

Heresies Collective, 1982. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Orange wraps featuring a goddess on the front cover. Scraped and nicked wraps. Scuffed/rubbed. Wearing/scraping to spine edges, but not excessively so. Lightly toned pages. 136 pages.

Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, 2001. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Qto. Published as a guidebook for the special exhibit of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum on "Dinosaurs of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology", held from July to October 2001. Scuffed dj, crimped along edges and shelf wear to spine ends of dj. Brick reddish boards, bright silver title. Tips on front board are lightly dented. Firm binding. Nice reading copy. Text in Japanese and English. Unpaginated.

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1990. Softcover. Good. Softcover magazine. Rubbed/scuffed wraps. Faded and yellowed along spine. Bumped tips. Creases on edges of wraps. Light toning to pages. Magazine has a wave to it. Binding is good. Nice reading copy. pp. 141-272

Acorn Publishing, UNK. Softcover. Acceptable. Softcover. Acorn Book III. Printed in England. Dirty and stained wraps with stains here and there on various pages. Bumped corners with wearing along edges. Saddle stitched binding (stapled) Undated, but seems to be early 80's. 55 pages.

Academic Press, 1999. Softcover. Acceptable. Volume 251, Number 2, September 15, 1999. Scuffed and scratched wraps. Dented corner tips. Scraping to edges of wraps. 501 pages.

Macmillan Company, 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. While book is copyrighted 1924, this particular copy was printed in 1932. From the title page: "(Essays) Contributed by Students of the Late William Archibald Dunning, Ph.D., Litt.D, LL.D. Lieber professor of History and Political Philosophy, Columbia University, In Affectionate Memory and Grateful Recognition of His Scholarly Inspiration and Sympathetic Guidance and Counsel." No DJ. Brownish cloth-covered boards are scuffed, soiled, with scratches along bottom edges of boards. Wearing at corner tips, spine edges and head and heel of spine. Spine has darkened with faded gilt titling. Age-toned pastedowns, endpapers, and pages. FFE writing and former owner name and date (1934). Markings and underlining throughout book. Binding remains in good shape, very readable copy. Text block has darkened, with thumbmarks on lower corner. Rear pastedown has roman numerals written at very top. This listing is for THIS VOLUME ONLY, not the complete set.… Read More

Norman Kark Publications, 1969. Softcover. Acceptable. Softcover. Wraps are scuffed, with scraping to bottom edges and along spine edges. Lightly bumped corner tips. Darkening along the edges of spine. Binding is nice. Book falls open between pages 30-31 (signatures one and two). Tanned pages. 121pps.