Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Syber's Books ABN 40533682787

Ace, US, 1985. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. Front cover has creasing. Edge wear and age browning. there were no survivors to tell the tale of lust and horror. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. 218 pages. Distributor hole punched front cover top right-hand corner. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0441696600. ISBN/EAN: 9780441696604. Inventory No: 0249458. . 9780441696604

Putnam Publishing Group, The, New York, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 750 g; XII, 388 pages, in original colour illustrated dust wrapper. There is no damage to describe. The look is clean and free of annotation. It is second-hand, and has been read. Inspired by an actual unsolved homicide, this book finds Kinsey Millhone investigating a cold case. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; ISBN: 0399149155. ISBN/EAN: 9780399149153. Inventory No: 0247360. . 9780399149153

Putnam Publishing Group, The, New York, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 750 g; XII, 388 pages, in original colour illustrated dust wrapper. The previous owner had removed the dust wrapper for safety, and placed a crease down the spine section when they laid it flat. Otherwise in very good condition. Inspired by an actual unsolved homicide, this book finds Kinsey Millhone investigating a cold case. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; ISBN: 0399149155. ISBN/EAN: 9780399149153. Inventory No: 0216311. . 9780399149153

Granada Publishing, London, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Illustrator: Peter Gudynas – Cover Art. Colour illustrated paperback binding, by Peter Gudynas, with yellow and white coloured titles to the front panel and peach and white coloured titles to the back strip. The third of the Q series. Rubbing of the book edges, panels and other side of the backstrip stop reading creases to the backstrip. Light tanning of the textblock edges and pages. Chipping to the lower backstrip corners. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 189, [3 – of which two are further titles from publishing house] pages,. Previous bookseller's sticker to the rear panel.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Peter Gudynas – Cover Art. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0586043683. ISBN/EAN: 9780586043684.… Read More

Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Acknowledgements and at the rear there is a photograph of the forensic reconstruction artist Betty Gatiff's reconstruction of "Jane Doe, Santa Barbara County, 1969", victim. Black coloured boards with metallic red coloured titles to the backstrip. Illustrated dustwrapper with orange coloured titles to the front panel and orange and white coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour photograph of author to the rear fold over panel. Inspired by an actual unsolved homicide, this book finds Kinsey Millhone investigating a cold case. Minor rubbing of the book corners with some white marks to the front panel. Some rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. This is the First USA Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [11], 2 - 385, [5] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime… Read More

Victor Gollancz, London, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: photographs & maps. dustjacket chipped at top of the front panel and the bottom of the spine. A darkening of the edges of the pages. Non-authorial gift annotation on the title page, Otherwise nice clean copy . this story of archaeology in the Arabian Peninsula and the politics Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 735 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: photographs & maps. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; Arabia; history. Inventory No: 0265316. .

Futura, London & Sydney, 1986. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Good. Illustrated paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and red and black coloured titles to the back strip. The author's tribute and biography of the English academic Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Sunning to the back strip with light browning to the text block edges and pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 138 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Language & Linguistics; United States; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0708830021. ISBN/EAN: 9780708830024. Inventory No: 0123276. . 9780708830024

Macmillan & Co Ltd, London, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. age toning of the top edge of the textblock, otherwise clean and presentable, with the dustjacket only being slightly rubbed at the top and bottom edges. A historical novel of great power and originality, having the Emperor Augustus decided to call a conference on world peace at around the same time as the half whispered stories of the phenomena which heralded the birth of Christ are given an unexpected twist when seen through the mirror of the author's narrative. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 298 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Rome; Early (0-1000 AD); Inventory No: 0242340. .

H. R. Krygier for the Australian Association of Cultural Freedom, Sydney, 1975. Periodical, 1st thusly. Softcover (Side-stapled). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. Signs of handling, but clean and free of annotation or rude damage. This is the last edition edited by Peter Coleman because of his appointment as Minister for revenue and Asst Treas in the New South Wales government. The book features essays on politics and society and the economy, poetry, stories and memoirs and reviews and criticisms. Barry Humphries and Ross Fitzgerald provide a monologue for the music hall along with a centrefold of Craig Steppenwolf. Size: Trade Paperback. 96 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Essays & Literary Criticism; Inventory No: 0244207. .

Hoopla Theatre Foundation, Melbourne, No date. First Edition. Folded Paper. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. Ephemera The entire programme consists of a sheet of A6 paper folded in half. On the front part of the program is the play emblem and theatre details and in the middle, a list of the actors playing, a small blurb about the play, the playwright, director's note and passages: predictable crisis of adult life. The play starred Patrick Bishop, Peter Ford, Belinda Giblin and Peter Stratford. The programme is slightly rubbed and creased at the corners and there is a small horizontal tear to the front edge halfway down the page. The body of the programme has also suffered creasing and handling marks. Programme for the play's run at the Playbox, Exhibition Street, Melbourne. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Item Type: Ephemera. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under… Read More

University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Contents Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Journalism and ethics. 2. Journalism and truth telling. 3. Journalism and objectivity. 4. Codes of ethics codes of practice. 5. Corporate pressures and the media organisation. 6. The business of journalism. 7. The impact of technology. 8. A journalism for the public. 9. Journalism and privacy. 10. Intrusion into grief. 11. Future directions. References. Index. XIV, 178 pp., colour illustrated softcover binding. No damage to describe. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: philosophy; Journalism; ISBN: 0868406236. ISBN/EAN: 9780868406237. Inventory No: 0257923. . 9780868406237

Ace Publishing, New York, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Colour illustrated paperback binding with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and blue and black coloured titles to the back strip. Orange coloured tint to the text block edges. In the not too distant future the US is flying long-range reconnaissance missions overseas. The guesses as to why were ominous and wild. Captain Donald Morrison was one of the pilots flying these missions, and should know for what reason – it was for intelligence gathering. Wasn't it? Rubbing of the book edges and panels with uniform tanning of the pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 191, [1 – further titles publishing house] pages.. Previous bookseller's sticker to the rear panel.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; Inventory No: 0123124. .

Headline Book Publishing, London, 1997. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 1593: Elizabethan London seethes with political and religious intrigue, while across the sea thousands perish in the flames of the Spanish Inquisition. On the surface Roderigo, the Queen's physician, is a loyal subject of the Crown but secretly he and his family are Jewish conversos, hiding their illegal religion. Rebecca, Roderigo's daughter, is torn between her duty - which includes a loveless marriage to a converso - and her fascination with the heady world of Elizabethan London. Slipping out of her household one night, disguised as a man, Rebecca stumbles into a swordfight with someone equally romantic and heedless: Will Shakespeare, an ambitious young dramatist who, like Rebecca, has secrets to conceal and mysteries to unravel. Together, they embark on an adventure that plunges them into the sinks and stews of Elizabethan England - and into the course of history itself... – rear panel blurb… Read More

Martin Secker & Warburg, London, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. No damage to describe, clean copy with matching dust jacket. Very small stamp at the bottom right of the front page, Melbourne University press, June' 7. In this book James Michener takes a thoughtful look at the problems of pollution, the cities, race, education, drugs and crime, protest and repression. – A sane and understated book with a clear message – paraphrasing the dust jacket blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Environment & Ecology; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0436279568. ISBN/EAN: 9780436279560. Inventory No: 0269262. . 9780436279560

Centre of Policy Studies, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. about the authors, acknowledgements and three appendices. At the end of each article, there is a reference list. Plain text card cover with green and black colour titles to the front panel. "This consists of papers presented at a conference on "The Dilemma of Accountability in the Quango State", held in Melbourne on 17 July, 1982." -- from the rear panel blurb. Minor creasing to the book corners and rubbing to the book edges and panels. Some sunning to the backstrip with light age toning of the textblock edges. . Previous owners name to the top edge of the title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [1], II - XII, 87, [1] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0867461764. ISBN/EAN:… Read More

J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia . London . Montréal, 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Jean McConnell. foreword By the Administration Section of the American Dietetic Association, Prologue by Lenna F. Cooper, tables – tables of quantities and yields, approximate or average weights of various commodities and miscellaneous canned products. Black and white photographic endpapers, showing a "modern" commercial kitchen. The text is illustrated with quirky black and white cartoons by Jean McConnell. Beige coloured cloth covered boards with blue coloured illustration to the front panel and blue and beige coloured titles to the front panel and blue coloured titles to the backstrip. Inserted loosely are various pamphlets and recipes from a previous owner. Illustrated dustwrapper with blue and red coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. "This is a recipe book on quantity cookery, and the first book in which every recipe… Read More

New Science Library / Shambala, Boston & London, 1984. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition. Preface and introduction by editor and acknowledgements. Illustrated paperback binding with white and dark red coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Quoting from the rear panel blurb " ... Quantum Questions brings together for the first time the mystical writings of the world's great physicists – Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Einstein, de Broglie, Jeans, Planck, Pauli, and Eddington – all of whom express a deep belief that physics and mysticism are somehow fraternal twins." Rubbing of the book edges and panels with creasing to the lower corner of the front panel. Sunning of the back strip and rear panel with age toning of the pages. Size: Trade Paperback. 208, [6] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: New Age & Alternative; Physics; Economics. ISBN: 0394723384.… Read More

W. W. Norton & Company, New York . London, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Boards 3/4 Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. Introduction by authors, notes, acknowledgements, credits and index. The text is illustrated with the occasional black-and-white image or cartoon. 1/4 light blue coloured back strip with silver coloured titles. 3/4 blue coloured boards. Photographic dustwrapper with black and white coloured titles to the front panel and grey and black coloured titles to the back strip. Colour photographs of authors to the rear fold over panel. In this work the authors look at quantum imagery and how an obscure portion of physics has invaded not only language but imagery as well. Such phrases as quantum leaps, alternative universes, the uncertainty principle and Schrödinger's cat are reused in movies, philosophy, T-shirts, and mugs. " ... Is a "quantum leap" because small? How uncertain is the uncertainty… Read More

Rigamarole Books, Clifton Hill, Victoria, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Acknowledgements. Gray coloured paperback binding. Illustrated dustwrapper with white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. Poetry from this Australian poet. A little rubbing of the book corners with very minor age toning of the text block edges and pages Rubbing of the dustwrapper panels and to all edges of the dustwrapper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [9], 10 - 93, [3] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Australia; ISBN: 0909229279. ISBN/EAN: 9780909229276. Inventory No: 0286376. . 9780909229276

Oxford University press, Melbourne, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. previous owner's details on the inside of the front cover, indications of the book was read, but no damage that can be pointed at. This book represents the 2nd step in efforts by the strain conservation foundation to promote discussion in Australia on the way we develop our resources. Many people are becoming increasingly concerned that existing policies cannot be sustained over time, and that they are already imposing undue pressures on parts of a natural and social environments. – Page VII First softcover edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XVIII, 366 pages, with extensive footnotes.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Environment & Ecology; Mineralogy; Australia; Business, Finance & Marketing. ISBN: 0195543378. ISBN/EAN: 9780195543377. Inventory No: 0249176. . 9780195543377 Read More