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New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1947. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition. [vi], 218 pp. Original red cloth with black spine lettering. Near Fine with offsetting to endpapers, in Very Good+ dust jacket with a few short closed tears, rubbed and slightly darkened spine panel, a little foxing. A Bloodhound Mystery set in Gobelin, Pennsylvania, company town of the Gobelin Lock Works. It's up to cop duo Mitch Taylor and Jub Freeman to solve a murder there.
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Q as in Quicksand
by Treat, Lawrence [pseudonym of Lawrence Arthur Goldstone]
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The Quadrupeds of North America
by Audubon, John James; John Bachman
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New York: V.G. Audubon, 1854. First Octavo Edition. First octavo edition. Complete in three volumes. 20th century leather with marbled paper, spines lettered in gilt. With all 155 beautiful hand colored plates present. Near Fine with contents generally very bright, some small scratches to spines and light wear along edges, front hinges a little over-opened, former owner's armorial bookplates to paste downs. Vol. 1 has small stain to p. 45 and verso of plate 6; plates I, V, XIV, and XXII lacking tissue guards; plate XV has foxed tissue guard and small tear; plates XVI and XXX have short closed tears to top edge. Vol. 2 plate LVI missing half its tissue guard, plates LVIII and LX bound in each other's place. Vol. 3 plate CIXX misnumbered CIX; plate CXXVI lacking tissue guard. A lovely set of the legendary naturalist and painter's final work, replete with vividly colored illustrations of North American animals completed by his sons after his death.
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Quake
by Wurlitzer, Rudolph
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Company Inc, 1972. First edition. First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 158, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth and boards with red spine lettering. Very Good with waviness along bottom edge of textblock, pages toned with age, very light foxing to fore edge, in unclipped dust jacket with a few slight laminate creases as is common with this book. An earthquake destroys L.A. in this unusual novel, an exploration of how people-- specifically Americans, more specifically Angelenos-- cope with trauma, not so much in a learning-and-sharing-and-growing way as in a depressingly selfish, nihilistic '70s kind of way. But there is dark comedy in it, and it certainly pulls a reader in by beginning with a big bang and then not relenting.
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Quakerism: A New Nick-Name for Old Christianity, Being an Answer to a Book, Entituled, Quakerism No Christianity; Subscribed by J. Faldo
by Penn, William
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[London]: [Andrew Sowle], 1672. First Edition. Very Good. First edition of William Penn's early defense of the Quaker movement. Bound in later full calf with raised bands and red morocco title label stamped in gilt. Scratching to front cover, former owner name to front paste down and old ink notations to verso of rear blank sheet which is also edge-worn. Pages browned, last ten leaves have a faint marginal dampstain. Scarce.
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Quanta: Vol. 1, Nos. 2, 3, & 4 (Three Issues)
by Davis, Miles [Editor]; Franklin Kerhof [Editor]; Richard Eney; Louis E. Garner, Jr.
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Washington, D.C.: Quanta, 1950. The second, third, and fourth issues of the fanzine of the Washington (D.C.) Science-Fiction Association. The fourth issue would be the last. Stapled wraps. Very Good+ with ink checkmarks to front wraps of nos. 2 and 3, light wear. Ad for Science News Letter laid in to #2. Rare.
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Quantisierung als Eigenwertproblem. (Erste Vierte Mitteilung) + Über das Verhältnis der Heisenberg-Born Jordanschen Quantenmechanik zu der meinen. [in] Annalen der Physik, Band 79-81, Entire Issues 4, 6, 8, 13 and 18
by Schrödinger, Erwin
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Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1916. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. All five papers finely bound together in marbled boards with brown leather spine, "Annalen der Physik. Hrsg. von W. Wien und M. Planck., Vierte Folge, Bde. 79-81. Entire issues 4, 6, 8, 13 and 18 . A fine and clean set. [Schrödinger's papers:] Pp. 361-376; Pp. 489-527; Pp. 734-756 (Bd. 79). Pp. 437-490 (Bd. 68). Pp. 109-135 (Bd. 81). Text in German. A major achievement in quantum physics, where Schrodinger mathematically treats quantum mechanical systems as wave phenomena and describes the time-evolution of a system's wave function. Here he presents it in the first four papers, or one article in four parts, and a fifth, in which he compares matrix mechanics to his own wave mechanics. These papers had a profound effect, resulting in the emergence of wave mechanics. This would serve as the basis for Schrodinger contributions to the field, with which he would go on to win the Nobel prize in Physics in 1933.
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A Quantum Theory of the Scattering of X-rays by Light Elements [in] The Physical Review Second Series, Vol. 25, No. 5, May 1923
by Compton, Arthur Holly; et al.
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Published for the American Physical Society, 1923. First Edition. Fine. First edition of Arthur Compton's Nobel Prize-winning paper on the "Compton Effect." Pp. [483]-584. Complete issue, bound without wraps in green cloth with leather spine lettered in gilt. Pages toned, small bumped to edge of upper boards, else Fine. Contains a paper by Arthur Holly Compton, "A Quantum Theory of Scattering X-rays by Light Elements" on pp. [483]-502. Compton won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work in 1923, the Compton Effect, or the scattering of a photon by a charged particle, usually an electron, which results in a decrease in energy (increase in wavelength) of the photon. He would go on to be a key figure in the Manhattan Project.
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The Quantum Postulate and Atomic Theory [in] Nature, Vol. 121, No. 3050
by Bohr, Niels
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London: Macmillan, 1928. First Edition. Very Good. First edition of Niels Bohr's paper, "The Quantum Postulate and Atomic Theory," as published in Nature, vol. 121, no. 3050, pp. 561-608, April 14, 1928, the entire issue offered here, with Bohr's paper on pp. 580-590. Some soiling to covers, light creasing, ink stamp on front cover, a very good copy. Pages 581-588 are loose from binding. Rare in the original wrappers.
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Queen Sheba's Ring
by Haggard, H. Rider
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New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1910. First edition. Near Fine. First edition. (Precedes the British edition by two days.) x, 326 pp. Publisher's green ribbed cloth stamped in white and gilt. Near Fine with much less rubbing to stamping than usually found, light rubbing along bottom edge of cloth, rear hinge a bit free. A neat, clean copy of an adventure novel in the mold of the author's earlier King Solomon's Mines.
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The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography
by Symons, A.J.A.
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London: Cassell & Co, Ltd, 1934. First Edition. First edition. Signed by A.J.A. Symons, warmly inscribed to Donald van den Bergh, possibly the former director of Unilever. [xii], 293 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with light rubbing, lacking dust jacket. A biography of gay writer and artist Frederick Rolfe, who wrote as Baron Corvo.
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Questions of Travel
by Bishop, Elizabeth
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition. Inscribed on title page "For Maggie Haford [?]- Best wishes, & kindness of Carly [?] - [signed] Elizabeth Bishop Seattle, January 1966." 95 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with red, silver and green spine lettering. Housed in a custom slipcase. A little wear at tips and a thin small line of rubbing to paste down but basically Fine in a very Near Fine unclipped and unfaded dust jacket. A major collection of Bishop's poems, rarely found signed.
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Quicksand
by Larsen, Nella
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's orange cloth ruled in dark blue and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light fading to spine cloth, light crease to top corner of rear board, gilt on spine is oxidized and top edge is a little dust-soiled. Foxing to textblock edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, spine toned and lightly soiled, a thumb-nail chip and crimping to the crown, a short tear to the top end of the front flap fold, and several small nicks along the spine joints. The most obviously autobiographical of Larsen's two novels, Quicksand is the story of a bi-racial young woman who sets out on a mission to to find the people among whom she will feel she belongs. In a letter to close personal friend Carl van Vechten, Larsen referred to the emotional experiences of the novel as "the awful truth", as she herself struggled with finding a sense of belonging between the worlds of her Danish mother and African…
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Quiet Days in Clichy
by Miller, Henry
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Paris: The Olympia Press, 1956. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. In publisher's black and grey illustrated dust jacket over plain stiff wraps. Very Good. Lean to spine. Binding over-opened at front hinge. Contents toned and with light foxing to textblock edge. A novella based on Miller's experiences as an American expatriate living in Paris, coupled with the Hungarian-born photographer Brassai's nocturnal images of the city printed in gravure.
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Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera
by Horace; John Pine [Engravings]
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London: Aeneis Tabulis Incidit, Iohannes Pine, 1733. First Edition. Near Fine. 1733, 1737. Two volumes. First edition, first issue with "post est" error in the Caesar medallion on page 108 of Volume II. In a lavish full brown morocco binding with five raised bands and ornate gilt stamping to spine, borders on covers, wide turn-ins and beautifully patterned endsheets; all edges gilt. Near Fine, with a light amount of rubbing to joints, spines lightly faded, a scuff to the front cover of Volume II and small former owner bookplates of noted collector Abel E. Berland to the front pastedowns. Pine's Latin text was based on Talbot's 1699 edition, and is remarkable for being entirely illustrated with engraved copper plates throughout the text.
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