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

The Free Press of Glencoe, 1964. Softcover. Good. First Free Press paperback edition. Scuffed and rubbed wraps. Light soiling and fading . Old price sticker on back wrap. Lightly bumped corner tips. Red star stamped on top edge of text block. Lightly yellowed pages. Reading creases. Binding remains solid. 403 pp.

Schenkman Publishing Company, 1971. Softcover. Acceptable. Book number 2 in Oxaal's Trinidad Trilogy. Yellowed, dirty and stained wraps. Visible remnants of where old price tags were once affixed. Crimped and scuffed edges with bumped/dented corner tips. Foxing to inside of covers and endpages. Outer text block is dinged and dirty. FFE has old price stamped on it. 96 pages.

C.W. Daniel, 1986. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Scuffed/scratched wraps. Bumped tips. Reading creases. Previous owner name on title page. Toned pages. 104pps.

Rand McNally, 1944. Hardcover. Good. Large book. Faux green cloth boards with gilt titling on cover. Boards are a bit dirty, with some scuffing scuffing, finger print stains, and small flecks of what looks to be white paint splatter front and back. Worn and dented corner tips and top and bottom of spine. Outer text block has small pinprick areas of foxing. Reproduction of the Map of the World by Abraham Ortelius on paste-downs and end-pages. Front paste down has small stain near bottom of cover. Pages have age-toning with darker toning to edges. All maps are still quite colorful. 271 pages. Large book. Extra postage will be needed.

Rand McNally, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. Blue boards with gold titling and star-like design in lower right corner. Scraped edges, bumped and worn corner tips and spine ends. Book has previously had a clear protective plastic wrap which has left brown stains of old cellophane tape on the endpapers and pastedowns through to the title page. Previous owner name on pastedowns and end pages. Age-toned pages, and text block. Binding is in nice shape. Good reference book. No loose pages. No twisting. 288 pages.

Rand McNally & Company, 1953. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Brown linen cloth covered boards. Faded. Dented corner tips with wearing to cloth. Scraping to spine edges. Worn cloth at head and heel of spine. Dented/shelfworn at bottom of spine. Age-toned pages. Chock full of colorful maps (as an atlas should be). 384 pages.

UNK, UNK. Softcover. Good. Small softcover. Yellowed wraps and bumped tips. Scraped edges of wraps. Scuffed/scratched.

Sintra Camara Municipal, 2005. Softcover. Good. Catalog for the exhibition of works by the Portuguese architect, designer, architectural theorist, and writer. In English and Portuguese. Dented corner tips. Name written in ink on bottom portion of front cover. Filled with colorful photo representations of Lino's work. Unpaginated.

Librairie du Liban, 1991. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 1991 second edition. Scuffed pictorial boards. Shelf wear to the heel of spine. Corner tips are bumped, but not DENTED. Old, faded barcode sticker on rear paste down. Solid binding. Full of colorful photographs of beautiful dishes (they'll get your mouth watering). Nice copy. 276 pages.

Trefoil Publications, 1992. Hardcover. Good. Hardback, part of the Design Heroes Series. Yellow dust jacket, with titling in black and photo representation. Light scuffing and rubbing to DJ. Crimped edges and bumped spine ends. Deep pink boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Bumped spine ends and corner tips. Binding remains firm. Fine reading copy. 192 pps.

Far Eastern Publications - Yale University, 1975. Hardcover. Good. Mirror Series C, No. 7. Light green dust jacket covered in mylar has faded, with more significant fading along all edges. DJ has pencil marking, remnants of a sticker on the back cover. Lightly bumped tips. Mylar is scuffed and scratched. The Foreward and Introduction to book are in English, otherwise mostly Chinese. Red cloth boards have minor tip bumping, and are clean. Erasure marks of penciled price on FFE. Binding is good. Very readable copy.

Ginn and Company, 1922. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Green cloth-covered boards, faded, sunned on spine. Black lettering is still dark, no fading. Wearing to cloth on corners and spine ends. Rubing to cloth on edge of spine. Toned pages. Binding remains solid. Former owner name on front paste down. Dog ear page corner of rear end page. There is creaking of the hinges. 849 pages.

The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. Hardcover. Acceptable. Large, heavy, law book. Navy blue textured wraps with faded gilt titling on cover and spine. Boards have areas of grime, and scrapes. Bumped and worn corner tips, with scraping along edges of spine, and bumping to head and heel of spine. Light blue speckling to edges of text block which appears to be unique to publication. Text block has foxing, smudges, and age-toning. Ex-libris sticker on FFE. Paste downs & end pages are age-toned, more so on outside edges. The table of authors page protrudes farther outside of block and is frayed. Pencil underlining throughout book. Slick, slightly glossy page stock has rippled somewhat due to exposure to moisture over the years. Very readable copy. 1183 pages.

Bootleg Po' Hymns Publishing, 2004. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Light yellowing and smudges on wraps. Autographed by author on title page. Binding is good. Page block cut crooked. Trevino L. Brings Plenty is a Lakota Sioux, filmmaker and poet and is Coordinator of Native American Student Services at Portland State University.

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Red cloth boards, no dust jacket as printed. This is the first printing of this title, from 1924. The introduction written by James A. Woodburn. The boards are faded, dirty, scuffed, with dented and worn corner tips. Bottom of boards are scraped and shelf worn, as is the bottom of spine, which is dented and worn. Top of spine is also indented and worn, as are the edges of the spine. The gilt lettering on spine has faded and darkened. Text block is yellowed, stained, dirty at the top and scuffed. Front paste down and end paper has a good deal of writing/notes. Faint traces of a penciled price remain at the top edge of FFE. Back end page also has writing. Pages are yellowed, more significantly in the gutters and all around the edges of the leaves. They are slightly fragile. Binding is a bit loose, although the page block remains intact. Sections of the book tend to fall open more easily. Pages have various stains now and again, small… Read More

Garnier-Flammarion, 1978. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Mass Market paperback. Lightly yellowed wraps. Bumped tips. Light scraping. Scuffed and scratched. Old price stamped on FEP. Binding good. Good reading copy. 249pps.

Houghton Mifflin , 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. This is the revised and enlarged edition. Blue embossed boards have scuffs and scratches. The corner tips are very bumped and frayed. Head and heel of spine are bumped, crumpled, brittle and worn. Gilt title, author and publisher on the spine are still bright. No Dust Jacket. Book tends to cock to the left. Tanning and yellowing on all pages, more so on the free end pages. Leaves of book are fragile. Book is in readable condition with binding still intact. Text block is yellowed. 680 pps.

Society of Economic Paleontologist and Mineralogists. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Brick red, cloth covered, boards. Wearing to corners, spine ends. Gilt lettering and design on front and spine is bright. Clean pages, lightly yellowed. Light smudging on outside textblock. Binding is in great shape. 349 pages.

American Museum of Natural History, 1985. Softcover. Acceptable. Faded covers. Yellowed on spine. Bumped tips.

Harper & Brothers, 1931. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. First edition. Former library book, with a single card pocket affixed to rear pastedown. Endpaper opposite appears to have an area where a "due date" sticker might have been removed. Publisher has added the following note, bound into the text block immediately underneath the table of contents: "This book was first published under the title, The Romance of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, with the present preface." No dust jacket. The inside front flap of DJ with a description of the book has been glued to paste down. Red cloth boards with rectangular title on gilt background, lightly faded with more fading to spine. Cloth is faded, and worn at tips and at heel of spine. Spine has old catalog number at the bottom. Hinge beginning to crack at front. Light foxing to text block. Age-toned pages. Sewn binding with very light twist. All pages intact. Good reading copy. 425 pages.