Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. History of ideas leading to the modern theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the lives of those involved, particularly the three men who won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in the field, and Dyson, who showed the different approaches used by the three were equivalent. Hardcover, as pictured; the first edition (first printing) with full number string; no jacket, possibly as issued. Light wear to book, tiny spot to front free endsheet, tiny smudge to page fore-edge; text clean, no names or marks; xxviii, 732 pages; index, bibliography, notes, equations, figures, a few b/w photos. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo.

Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. Scarce study using food & cooking as an introduction to the deeper culture of the peoples of the Peruvian Andes. Translated from the German. Paperback, color covers. Shows some rubbing, wear, light spine fade, minor creasing, some pages lightly tanned. Text clean; [2], 377 pages, errata slip laid in; bibliography, glossary, figures, b/w photos.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 6¼" by 8½".

Garden City: Doubleday, 1986. Four horror tales. First edition with review slip laid in. Light wear to book & jacket, quarter-inch chip to upper edge of rear jacket panel, light purple remainder spray to bottom edge. Text clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Austin, TX: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 1965 Pamphlet. Good. Fifth Printing. Large Octavo. 46 pages. Bulletin No. 34 from Texas PWD. Some light foxing on covers. Text is clean and binding is tight..

International Harvester Company, 1923 Small scarce tractor & implement catalog, undated, circa 1923-29. Features pictures and descriptions of the McCormick-Deering 10-20, 15-30 & Farmall tractors, other Farmall machines, McCormick-Deering plows, tillage tools, drills, planters, cultivators, engines, cream separator, haying machines, grain machines, corn machines, wagons & spreaders; International trucks; twine; service centers. Small square pamphlet, folded once; brown ink on tan paper. Light wear, dealership name stamped on rear (or, rather, left half of front cover). Text & images clean; 24 pages. IHC brochure # A-606-S.. First Edition. Staple Bound Pamphlet. Very Good. 6" by 6".

New York/Washington/Hollywood: Vantage Press, 1965. Biography of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, sculptor of Liberty Enlightening the World (commonly known as the Statue of Liberty), and his native Alsace-Lorraine, then "under the Prussian heel"; the author was also Alsatian, a draftee into the Kaiser's navy during the Great War, then the French afterwards, until he emigrated to America, finding in Chicago's Hull House the ideas of tolerance & freedom. Maroon hardcover, silver titling. Light wear to book, minor corner bumps; jacket shows a little rubbing, minor spine fade. Text clean; 251 pages, frontispiece dual portrait of the author in German & French naval uniforms.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1990. "This book prepares readers who have had exposure to quantum mechanics to read primary sources"; suitable for graduate students or historians of science, intended to be readable & comprehensible without lectures. Red hardcover, silver titling. Light wear to book; jacket spine & edges quite faded. Text clean; xxi, blank, 483 pages; index, references, figures, equations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998 Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC). Octavo. In cardboard slipcase. Slipcase is worn at corners and has a few small scratches..

Godfrey, IL: RPC Publications, 1985. Study of operational details of Santa Fe's passenger trains, based on 19 of the company's consist books, issued to its officials with instructions on train composition & distribution, and thus an indicator of the usage & economics of passenger train operation from its late heyday to twilight years: 1946-1971. Stated first reprint, 1985; first published 11 years earlier and now quite scarce. Paperback, as pictured; minor creasing, corners lightly bumped. Typescript text clean, no names or marks; 208 pages; small b/w photos, floor plans (not all very well-reproduced), reprint of a timetable. . Second Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8½" by 11".

New York: Vantage Press, 1970. A sort of science fiction, positing alien visitors who come to Earth to learn the basics of our system of genetic sharing and the harmony of nature. Stated first edition. Small hardcover. Light wear to book, some foxing, particularly to page edges; jacket foxed, smudged, chipped & lightly edgeworn with a few short tears, minor stains. Text clean; 105 pages, printed author's note laid in. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Small Octavo.

London: Vision Press, 1952 Good/Fair. Octavo. 89 Pages. Introduction by Ernest Lindgren. Outline of film Eisenstein never completed. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Corners lightly bumped; boards warped. Chips and tears at ends of jacket hinges. Text is clean and binding is tight..

London: Henry Fisher at the Caxton Press, 1822. An omnium gatherum of brief articles and anecdotes by various contributors (some named), many of humorous or practical nature; ranging from the death of a cat to tests for the purity of soap, the extent of the Great Wall of China, shipwrecks, scams, crime, witches, Irish, riddles, poems, the English character, American Indian ways, Hindoo & Mohammedan practices, travel and natural history notices, 'Pugilism & Bull-baiting', the arctic, etcetera, etcetera.. There were three volumes in the 'Bee' series, each collecting 24 individual numbers; this is the second collection. Undated, circa 1822, based on dates mentioned in articles. Half brown calf over marbled boards, gilt titling. Heavily worn & rubbed, gilt dull; two-inch split in lower front hinge, inner hinge cracked, but binding still reasonably sound; partly effaced bookplate inside front, pencilled note dated 1865 on first white page; some foxing and tanning to many… Read More

Edinburgh: Her Majesty's Stationery Service, 1954 Paperback. Fair. Octavo. 80 pages. Guide to the park, with photos and illustrations. Includes large folded map tucked into rear cover pocket. Cover torn along lower two inches of spine; smaller tear at head of spine; rear cover rubbed. Text is clean..

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1977. Historical novel of English romance, set in 1560, involving (then) Princess Elizabeth, Robert Dudley, and Dudley's wife Amy, mysteriously dead. Stated first American edition (first printing), hardcover in jacket as pictured. Light wear to book; jacket shows some rubbing & edgewear, short tear & crease to rear panel; small stain to half-title age, marker spot on top edge. Text clean; [10], [277] pages. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968 Cloth. Very Good. Signed by Author. Octavo. 209 pages with index. Inscribed on front end sheet: "1-6-69. To Walter [Rideout], With Warm Best Wishes, Herb." Half-inch tear on upper front jacket along spine hinge; otherwise fine..

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1942. Light blue cloth, orange titling, orange 'silhouette' endsheets. Light general wear, spine mottled/spotted with pale blue and white spots, minor edgewear and two short tears to lightly rubbed jacket. Farah 1942A-1, the first printing, with 19 ND titles listed on the jacket, 10 Dana Girls, and 15 Judy Boltons. Nice copy.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 5¼" by 7½".

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Hardcover, stated first edition. Light wear to book; jacket has a short tear, chip, creasing.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 6" by 8¾".

New York: Hammel, Riglander & Co., 1937 Original stapled green wraps, red design, black titling. Some wear and minor staining, smudge, ome short tear, rubberstamps of distributor (Sweazey, Chicago) on front and rear. 64 pages + inside covers, profusely illustrated. Pre-war watch parts catalogue, with silhouettes of hundreds of tiny parts, lots of other tools of the trade, table of manufacturer's models and their corresponding 'Quick Fit' model numbers.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 7" by 10¾".

Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1974. In his fourth adventure, McGee takes on a blackmailer with telephoto pictures of a movie star at an orgy. Stated second printing of the first hardcover edition, 1974; originally published in paperback ten years earlier. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, spine a bit dished; jacket shows some edgewear, short tears & small chips, scratch to rear panel, light cockling to spine; $5.95 price intact. Text clean, no names or marks. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

New York: Dale Carnegie & Associates, 1950. Techniques & tricks for public speaking from the famous inspirational instructor. Small stapled pamphlet, blue cover, black & white titling. Light rubbing, text clean. 24 pages.. First Edition. Staple Bound Pamphlet. Very Good. 4" by 6".