Search Results: Titles starting with A from Quirky Used Books & More

Good. A collection of photographs from a 1990 exhibition of Stankowski's works at the Mayer & Mayer Gallery in Cologne, Germany. In square cardboard slip case with wearing to outside edges and along edges of interior fold over wraps. Case is also yellowed with remnants of price sticker affixed at some point. Photographic works represented on 9 separate glossy foldouts. Slick paper is yellowed somewhat.

Science for the People, Madison Collective, 1973. Softcover. Acceptable. Hard to find publication by the Science for the People collective. This copy has scuffed, stained, yellowed and dirty covers. Bumped and creased corners. Stapled binding is still in good shape, all 119 pages remain firmly intact. Pages are yellowed, with darker yellowed edges. Light erasure of penciled writing on title page.

American Society for Surgery of the Hand, 2017. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelf rubbing to covers. Tiny little bump to front upper corner tip. NO DJ, as printed with pictorial cover. Clean pages, no highlighting, no name written on end papers. Like new.

1975. Hardcover. Good. The DJ is rubbed, faded, scuffed, and crimped with worn corner tips and top and bottom of spine. It's a worn DJ but has kept the royal blue boards clean. Light bumping to the heel of spine and the corner tips. Previous owner name in pen on FFE, and faint traces of pencil writing. Small pen scribble on front paste down. Paste downs are slightly darkened on the edges. Faintly yellowed pages. Binding remains strong, although between first and second group of signature sections, pages tend to fall open. 220 pps.

Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc, 1939. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Volume Two ONLY. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards, faded, scuffed and scratched. Shelfwear to bottom of boards and spine. Rough cut fore-edges. Clean pages. Quite readable. Binding remains sound. 655 pages.

California Clinical Trials , 2006. Hardcover. Good. Blue glossy pictorial covers, with white titling. No DJ, as printed. Inscribed by Stan Jhee. Scuffed covers, with small dings on outer edges, lightly bumped corner tips and at heel of spine. Tight binding. Clean and unmarked pages. 157 pps.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Dust jacket is rubbed, scratched, with bumped corner tips. Small tear on edge of DJ, with shelf wear along edges and at top and bottom of spine. Bluish green boards are faded Foxing on the bottom of spine and along spine edge. Bumped corners and dented heel and head of spine. Pencil erasure marks on end pages. Pages are mellowed to a light manila color. Binding is good, however tends to fall open at title page, between pages 16 and 17 and 48/49. 255 pages.

American Meat Institute, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable. No DJ. Faded and stained brown cloth boards, with more pronounced staining to the rear board, perhaps DJ had gotten damp and became stuck to the cloth of the board. It does NOT smell like mildew. Bumped corner tips with wearing to cloth along bottom edges of boards and heel and head of spine strip. Rubbing along spine strip edges. Yellowing to hinges between paste downs and end pages. Very light age toning to pages. Binding good. All pull-out worksheets are still bound in. 207 pages.

Self-Published, 1997. Second Edition. Softcover. Acceptable. Softcover. Second edition. This manual was first published in 1996, and revised in 1997. A heavy, clear plastic, archival dust jacket protects the softcover wraps. Inserted into the book at the front is a three page stapled addendum. It's stuck to the glue of the original binding and we have chosen not to unfold it and are leaving that to the buyer of this manual. These pages protrude along the bottom and outside edge. Author has inscribed the book. The corner tips are lightly bumped, but are now protected by the clear dust jacket. Black and white diagrams and photographs throughout the book. Dr. Cain received his degree in veterinary medicine in 1955, and built a large veterinary practice. He became interested in acupuncture in 1973, earning his certification in acupuncture. In 1987 he sold his practice and began to focus solely on horses, and eventually he combined his experience as an equine vet and the practice of acupuncture as a… Read More

Criterion Books, 1955. Hardcover. Acceptable. Brownish cloth boards are faded and stained, with bumped, dented and worn corner tips. Top and bottom of spine cloth are very bumped with wear and fraying. Board edges are worn. Foxing to end papers. Traces of pencil writing on half title page. Leaves are yellowed. Darker yellowing in the gutters. The dust jacket is worn with bumping at corner tips and wearing and bumping along all edges. DJ has yellowed and is dirty, scuffed and stained. Readable copy.

Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1975. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. IN SPANISH. Rubbed, scuffed, scratched yellowed and aged dust jacket. Forest green boards have square corners. Much age-toning to pages. Book tends to twist. Light foxing to text block. 226 pages.

West Publishing Co, 1965. Hardcover. Good. Large, heavy book, with green and embossed boards. Gilt titling on cover remains bright. Silver titling on spine has rubbed and scraped spots. No DJ, as printed. Dented heel of spine, with dented corner tips. Lightly toned pages and text block, with small red pen mark on the bottom of block. Owner name on FFE. Unmarked pages. 609 pps.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1960. Second Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. Well worn grey cloth boards. Head of spine is worn and frayed at a small part of back corner. Scaped board edges, with wearing to cloth of corner board tips. Stain on outside edge of textblock. Scattered through out are notes, particularly on FFE. Light age-toning to pages. 696 pages.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Hardcover. Good. Third printing, 1940. No DJ. Sunning to spine. Boards are covered with a tannish and brown flecked cloth. Front board has design imprinted on edge and middle of board. Ex-libris sticker and embossed stamp of previous owner. Small bookstore sticker on rear paste down. Very readable copy. Book remains nice and square. Age toned pages, with darker toning in the hinges front and back. Dented corner tips with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Thumb marks to lower text block. Small dirty spots on bottom of text block. Hand trimmed pages. 295 pp.

The CHAY Commission of the Labor Zionist Movement, 1957. Softcover. Acceptable. Softcover. Brown textured wraps w/ green titling. Bumped corner tips. Scuffed and lightly soiled covers with scraping along edges and along spine edges. Bumped heel. The glue between the wrap and book block is beginning to crack and lower portion of the wrap at spine is beginning to pull away. The page signatures are section sewn, so those are hanging together. Pencil erasure at top of title page. Book does fall open between page signatures. 198 pages.

Harper & Brothers, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. Part of the Better Little Books series of small, but thick, titles published in the late 30's. 3.5x4.5". #1422. Pictorial front board still has good color to it, but spine and rear board are a little more faded. Scraped on all edges, with more wearing to the top corners of spine. Dented corner tips. Pages are well age-toned and free of markings, but there are pages with creased corner tips. Binding is intact, no loose pages, although due to age of book and fragility of binding, care is advised when opening the book. It IS readable. 424 pages.

Little, Brown and Company, 1952. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Black and tan cloth covered boards with light shelf-wearing to bottom edges of boards and heel of spine. Bumped and dented corner tips. Slightly cocked. Previous owner names on front paste down and on back end paper. Gilt titling on spine is lightly faded and scraped. Deckled edges. "Deckled" page edges. Page 211 has a "dog-ear" fold/crimp. Age-toned pages.

Akademic Forlag, 1980. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Rubbed wraps. Scraping to spine edges. Bumped tips, with scraping to edges of wraps. Title page has former owner name. It appears that there was something glued to the title page which has been removed, taking the top layer of paper with it. On page six is what appears to be a correction to text which is affixed over whatever characters had originally been printed there. Preface is in English, the rest of the book is in Arabic and Egyptian Arabic. Binding is in decent shape, page block falls open in a couple of different spots, however pages remained glued to binding. A couple of smudges on the last few pages. 191pps.

Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, 1984. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Lightly yellowed wraps with a little darkening around edges of the wraps. Bumped tips. Thumbprint staining on lower corner of text block. 189 pages.

United States Air Force, 1999. Softcover. Good. Winter 1999. A quarterly journal published by the United States Air Force. Very light scuffing of covers, a couple of tiny scratches, and two small creases to front cover in the middle of cover. Pages are clean and white, spine is un-creased. Little to no usages. Light pencil erasure at top of first page/table of contents.