Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Appledore Books, ABAA

New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1972. Laminate boards. Near Fine/Very Good. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR ROBERT QUACKENBUSH on the front free endpaper. A very presewntable copy to boot of the 1972 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bight, VG dustjacket, with very light chipping along the edges. Oblong quarto, nicely illustrated throughout in rich color by Robert Quackenbush.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973. 1st. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. A beautiful copy of the 1973 stated first edition. ****NOT AN EX-LIBRARY****. VG+ in a bright, VG+ dustjacket with its original price of $4.95 intact. Minor, negligible chipping along the foot of the jacket spine. Octavo, oblong, unpaginated. With wonderful illustrations by the author himself.

New York: Ticknor & Fields (Houghton Mifflin Co.), 1984. Pictorial boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Robert Quackenbush. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR ROBERT QUACKENBUSH. A lovely copy to boot of the 1984 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. Playful, colorful illustrations by Robert Quackenbush throughout.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. Laminate boards. Near Fine. Robert Quackenbush. SIGNED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR ROBERT QUACKENBUSH on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1963 presumed 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial, laminate boards. No dustjacket (as issued?).

New York: Atheneum, 1978. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. Robert Quackenbush. INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR ROBERT QUACKENBUSH on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1978 stated 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (light spotting to the panels) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with a bit of creasing along the front panel's lower-edge. Square 16mo, nicely illustrated throughout in rich color by Robert Quackenbush.

Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1969. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. A solid copy of the 1969 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, VG dustjacket, with fading to the spine and very light scuffing and soiling along the panels. "What are Puts, Calls and Straddles? What returns can they offer investors? Who should use them?" (from the front cover).

Paris: Gallimard, 1959. Original wraps. Very Good +. A crisp copy of the 1959 1st edition. Solid and VG+ in its original wrappers, with mild darkening along the spine. 12mo,

New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1949. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. NICELY INSCRIBED BY PATRICK QUENTIN (AND SIGNED ADDITIONALLY AS HIS ALIAS "RICHARD WEBB") on the verso of the title page. A beautiful copy to boot of the 1949 1st paperback edition, which was originally published in hardback by Simon and Schuster in 1946 as "Puzzle for Fiends". Bright and crisp and Near Fine in its wonderful pictorial wrappers. "One of the three women in his life had a plan for murder....his murder!" Signed by Author.

Hamden, CT: The Shoe String Press, 1954. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION to Brandeis Professor Milton Hindus on front blank endpaper. Williams, along with his mother Raquel Helene Williams, translated this classic 17th century Spanish text in 1954. A clean, VG+ copy in a bright, price-intact, VG distjacket. One quarter-sized chip to the top-edge of the front panel (affecting the word "Fever" in the title), otherwise crisp and tight and well-preserved. 12mo, 96 pgs. Light, scattered ink underlining and notes (in ink) to the very last page of text.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. The 1953 1st edition. Solid and VG+ (very light rubbing along the spine) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the spine ends and the tips. Seminal collection of 9 of Quine's essays related to "semantics and adjacent areas of philosophy and logic"

The Technology Press of MIT/John Wiley & Sons, 1960. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. A very solid copy of the 1960 1st edition. Tight and VG+ (light offsetting at the endsheets and pastedowns) in a crisp, VG dustjackjet, with light chipping along the top-edges and light soiling to the panels. Octavo, "an inquiry into the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference"

Cambridge, MA and New York: The Technology Press (of MIT) and John Wiley & Sons, 1960. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. A very solid copy of the 1960 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with just a bit of light creasing along the spine. Octavo, "an inquiry into the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference"

Princeton University Press, 1990. Cloth. Fine/Fine. A flawless copy of the 1990 2nd printing, in its less common hardback. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Octavo, #39 in the formidable "Princeton Mathematical Series"

New York: Dell Publishing, 1965. Original wraps. Near Fine. A gorgeous copy of the 1963 1st American printing. Bright, crisp and very tight. Almost as new. Small former owner stamp at the bottom of the title page. Pocketbook, Dell 9661.