Search Results: Titles starting with S from Quiet Friends

London: Longman Brown Green Longmans. NEAR FINE set, with a MAJOR FLAW. 1st ed, 8"x5.5", 387,439pp.. 1848. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE books. Elaborate gilt decoration. MAJOR FLAW: both upper hinges repaired. Ideal candidate for quality repair. . Loose (opposed to tight) back binding so hinges repairable. Bound by a master though no binder ticket or turn in binder name. Gilt turn ins. AEG. Both FINE inside. Some plates (NOT text) with spot or two of foxing but no aging, marginalia, etc. Both tend to remain closed when stood on spines. Flaws (other than the hinges) very minor and mostly one type: scuffing. (1) All tips flat & square but scuffed. (2) Lower hinges scuffed. (3) Of the two book's 10 raised bands the very highest points of ONLY TWO are scuffed. Spine gilt quite elaborate and any scuffing at all would be very apparent. (4) "14.99" pencilled in both. (5) Vol 1 with full page pencilled gift inscription, 2nd ep with closed tear the width of the leaf. Kind of a… Read More

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. FINE book, VG DJ. Bright & attractive book & DJ.. 1940. 1st edition.. Hardcover. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Tight binding. DJ extrems sunned & worn, a 1" closed tear & many 1/2" chips. Folio, 280pp. .

NY: Norton. NEAR FINE book, GOOD DJ. DJ bright & clean but worn.. (1965). 1st edition. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book, GOOD DJ. FINE inside BUT: book's upper edge, near spine, has a 1/5" tear. 4to,336pp. .

NY: McBride. VG book, no DJ. Bright blue cloth. Bkplt, o/w FINE inside.. 1926. Early, not 1st. Hardcover. VG book, no D/J. Tight binding. Gilt lettered front & spine. Spine gilt darkened some. Bright gilt sailing ship on front. .

NY: Knopf. NEAR FINE book & DJ(in Brodart). Author SIGNED tp.. 1991. 1st trade ed.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book & D/J. DJ p/c, lower front tip wrinkled/creased. FINE book BUT: UNSIGHTLY owner's stamp & date also on title page .

London: Murray. FAIR covers. 1st ed. 3 FINE plates of 11 flies, one a fold out.. 1828. 1st edition. Hardcover. FAIR book with VG text block. Half green leather, pebbled cloth boards. Water stained cover bled to adjoining text leaves. . Spine with 5 gilted raised ribs and gilt 'SALMONIA' on a red leather spine label. Both hinges splitting but still sound. Water staining of both boards has bled into top corner margins of adjoining leaves and also the very outside of the front text block edge. Text & plates otherwise FINE. Binding still tight. There are also 8 in text fish wood cuts of. 'An Angler' is sir Humphrey Davy, a prominent scientist. He did say his most famous discovery was his student, Michael Faraday. Davy dedicated this book to William Babington, a physician scientist contemporary. .

Stanford: Stanford U Press. VG book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). DJ very worn.. (1935). Hardcover.

Garden City: DDay. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Ansel Adams DJ cover photo.. (1957). Hardcover. VG book, VG DJ. Ansel Adams DJ photo. Bright book/DJ. FINE book but: rubbed extrems. DJ w very light rubbing of edges & extrems. .

NY: Scribner's. VG book, no DJ. 1st ed. Scuffed cover extrems. 8.5"x5.5", Pp.184. 1903. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, no DJ. FINE inside. Tight bindng. Gilt lettered green cloth. Front with vine decoration in black. . Tips & spine ends rubbed. One upper tip bumped. Interior all FINE. No glue browning. No foxed or dusty text block edges. Green stained top edge, deckled fore & bottom edges. Zero aging, foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. All cover gilt bright. .

AS NEW books, AS NEW DJs. Published from 1989 to 2000, all 1sts.. 1st edition.. Hardcover. AS NEW books, AS NEW DJs. Published by Fine, Stein, St Martins & Forge. All are 1st editions, 1st printings. . cp of "Kremlin Conspiracy", by Stein & Day, states "First published in 1985" with no additional printings noted. Publishers of the other books all use the number line, all starting with a "1". Immaculate books, text block edges white as new. Each book stays firmly closed when stood on its spine, making it alnost certain they've never been read. All DJs with prices. DJs with not even the tiniest closed tear. "SANKOV" listed author is a Hunt pseudonym, P.S. Donoghue. Hunt was a major and infamous figure in American history. He wrote more than 50 books, mostly novels. The first two during & about WWII, published during WWII. Only two were non fiction, one being his account of the Bay of Figs fiasco. He had played a major role in the planning for that… Read More

Delhi: Rajpal & Sons. 1962. 1st Hindin ed.. softcover. VG paperback. FINE inside. Extrems rubbed. IN HINDI. Small 8vo, about 150pp. .

Seoul: Tamgu Dang Publishing Co. 1964. 1st Korean ed.. softcover. VG paperback. The inexpensive paper has aged a bit. With fabric page marker. Minor edgewear. IN KOREAN. Small 8vo, 185pp. .

New Delhi: Indian Academy. 1960. 1st Indian ed.. Softcover. VG paperback. The inexpensive paper has aged a bit. With fabric page marker. Minor edgewear. IN URDU. 7"x4.5", about 150pp. .

NY: Prentice Hall. VG book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Bright & tight.. 1952 (1952cp). 2nd. Hardcover.

Boston: HMCo. VG book, VG DJ. SIGNED.. 1984. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, VG D/J(in Brodart). Inscribed & SIGNED. FINE book but: spine ends rounded. Bright DJ. DJ corners creased & rubbed. .

NY, Toronto: Rinehart. VG book, GOOD DJ. DJ w $2.75 price, spine ends chipped away.. 1947. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). FINE text block. Rinehart logo on cp. Red tinted top edge. No aging, foxing, soiling, etc. .

NY: Oxford U Press. VG book, no DJ. TEG. Tight, VG+ inside. Edgeworn, eps browned.. 1922. Hardcover.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. VG book, GOOD DJ. FAE. No tp date, BUT cp: "1st published 1933".. (1933). 1st American. Hardcover. VG book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). FINE text & illustrations. Red cloth with red tinted top edge. Gilt lettered spine info. . FINE book BUT: extrems rubbed, very few foxed spots on text block fore edge, spine ends lightly sunned. PRISTINE inside, no pastedown glue browning, aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. DJ a very plain design. Both flaps and rear panel blank. Had been a price on upper flap, now clipped. Bright front panel design. Problems with DJ spine. Lower 3" chipped away. Sunned. DJ had split at spine. Now repaired inside with archival adhesive tissue. 5" closed tear upper front panel, similarly internally repaired. Still a nice DJ. .

NYNY: Seltzer. VG book, GOOD DJ. Inscribed & SIGNED on fep.. 1925. 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG book, GOOD D/J(in Brodart). SIGNED. Bkplt. ep w light age browning. DJ clean but worn, 1" chip @ spine heel. 8vo, 95pp. .

Paris: Armand Colin. FINE book. Orig half black morocco. Green marbled paper boards.. 1891. 1st edition.. Hardcover. FINE book. Folio 32x26x5.5(cm) 315pp. 5 gilt dotted raised ribs Author/title gilt lettered on 2nd panel. Fabric page marker. . Marbled eps. Cover w a few tiny rubbed spots but NO wear. All 3 text block edges spotless. Pristine inside BUT several pages not bound in as tight as should have been. This is not a wear/use problem, rather a problem when first bound. .