Search Results: Authors starting with K from Quirky Used Books & More

Islamic Theological Assoc. of Singapore, 2000. Softcover. Good. Softcover book, 157 pages. Bumped spine ends and corner tips. Light shelf wear to the covers. Un-creased spine with tight binding. Fine reading condition. Published in Singapore.

Little, Brown and Company, 1969. Hardcover. Acceptable. Heavy book. Faded and worn red boards, with wearing to gilt lettering on a black background. Black is rubbed and cracking. Book twists, and cocked at the top portion of book. Former owner name scrawled on front paste down. Sunning and toning to outside edges of pastedowns and end pages. Lots of underlining and marginalia in ballpoint pen. Soiling and spotting in hinge between back board and the end pages. Soiling to lower text block. 1,462 pages. Heavy.

Lithuanian Book Club, 1978. Softcover. Good. Softcover. In Lithuanian. Rubbed and worn dustjacket with chipping to bottom and top of spine. Bumped corner tips. Softcover wraps are also rubbed, chipped and dinged. Erased pencil writing in top corner of half title page. Glued binding remains fairly strong. Off white pages are unmarked. 223 pages.

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. DJ shows wearing, fading and smudging. Scraping along outside edges and at the spine ends. Foxing on inside of dust jacket. Boards are stained. Scraping along edges of boards, mashed lower spine. Light foxing to textblock. This *might* have been a library book at one point, although we are not sure. The FEP has the discolored remnants of adhesive which had previously taped something into place. A news article? Who knows. Former owner name on half title page. The binding is sound. Quite nice reading copy in that regard. 392 pages.

Century House, 1961. Hardcover. Good. BOTH volumes. Gold textured boards. Small nicks along spine edges on both volumes. Both books have lightly bumped/dented corners. Light wearing to corner tips and heel and head of spines. Rubbing along edges of spines. Tanning to outside text block on both volumes. Aging/tanning to inner hinges. Pages have lightly yellowed. Tight bindings.

Meridian Books, 1969. Softcover. Acceptable. Trade paperback. Seventh print. Rubbed and scuffed wraps. Discoloration to white print. Creased tips. Scraped edges and bumped spine ends. Age-toned pages. Old price sticker stuck to front cover. 396 pages.

Fawcett Crest Books, 1956. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Paperback. First edition Fawcett Crest Books publication. Light scuffing to wraps, with rear cover showing light yellowing. Reading crease on top edge of spine, no reading creases to the spine itself. Head of spine has been exposed to moisture, but has not stained back cover or upper edge of page block, it's only affected a small area of top layer. Binding remains firm. Gently bumped corner tips. Three small stains to outside text block. Yellow stained text block edges are slightly faded. Lightly age-toned pages. Foxing to inside of both covers. 176 pages.

Henry Holt & Company, 1933. Hardcover. Acceptable. Edited with introduction, notes, exercises and vocabulary by Lilian L. Stroebe, Ph.D. Vassar, and Ruth J. Hofrichter, Ph.D, Vassar College. Dirty, stained and scuffed green cloth boards. Faded silver foil title and designs. Dented heel and head of spine. Dented and worn corner tips. Book cocks to right. Foxing on FFE to preface, and various other pages. Red smudges on bottom of a page in the vocabulary section. Small greenish stain/bleed on rear paste down. Text block yellowed, slightly dirty, with green stain/bleed from the cloth cover. Primary text in German, with the notes, vocabulary, etc. in English. 4 1/2 inches x 6 3/4's. 134 pages of text, with unpaginated vocabulary section. Readable copy.

Eastern New Mexico University, 1997. Softcover. Good. Softcover, saddle-stitched binding. Wavy. Lightly yellowed wraps with some small nicks on edges. 28 pages.

Eastern New Mexico University, 1997. Softcover. Good. Softcover, saddle-stitched binding. Wavy. Lightly yellowed wraps with some small nicks on edges. 28 pages.

The C.V. Mosby Company, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Fading to cloth on spine and board edes. Dented tips. Mashed spine ends. Former owner name on FEP. 107 pages

Kaufman and Greenberg, 1994. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Dust jacket is scuffed, scratched and rubbed along all edges. Top and bottom of DJ spine is crimped and worn. Chipping on edges of DJ. Black buckram boards have fingerprint smudges and light areas of soiling. Dented corner tips, and shelf wear to the bottom of the spine. INSCRIBED by Paul Gertner on half title page. Binding remains firm. 213 pages.

Oxford University Press, 1991. Good. Hardback. VOLUME TWO ONLY. Upper corners of board tips are dented. Clean, unmarked pages. Tight binding. 1,473 pages.

Dell, 1970. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Yellowed, scuffed and scraped wraps. Creased corner tips. Old bookseller stamp on FEP. Ghost erasure of old penciled price. Outer edges of text block are green tinted and have a few light discolorations. Fair binding. All pages intact with no markings. Introduction by Charles Garry. First printing, November 1970.

Viking Press, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Fourth printing, 1966. Rips along top edge of DJ repaired with clear tape. Fading to spine and edges of dust jacket, yellowing to outside edges. Worn corners and ends of DJ. Lower corner of inside flap is clipped. Beige cloth boards, red printing and design of Willie. Book cocks slightly and corners are lightly dented. Sewn in binding, with stitches visible between some of the page signatures. Perfectly readable. Sweet book. 33 pages.

The Lawyers Co-Operative Pub. Co, 1936. Hardcover. Good. Black textured boards are clean, with minor rubbing along the board and spine edges. Upper corner tips are dented/bent. Shelf wear to ends of spine. Front paste down has the names of two previous owners. Title page has stains and fingerprint smudges. Underlining and marginalia in pencil scattered throughout. Age-toned pages, with a group of 30-or so pages creased at lower corner. Text block is dirty all the way around. Rear paste down and end page are dirty. Firm binding. 720 pp.

The Lawyers Co-Operative Pub. Co, 1928. Hardcover. Good. Third Edition. Leather bound board covers, printed without DJ. Lightly scuffed boards worn through to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Bumped tips worn through. Pages are yellowed, as is outer text block. Names of three previous owners written and lightly erased penciled prices on FFE. Underlining throughout with marginalia. Binding is loose and has separated from headband.

University of New Mexico Press, 1982. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Scuffed wraps. Nicks and crimps to cover edges. Rubbed edges of spine. Dirty lower text block. Binding is sound. Good reading copy. Lightly soiled page block. 534 pages.

Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Book itself is in very nice condition. Nice firm binding. Beige linen covered boards are clean. Nice square corners. DJ is a little worse for wear. Yellowed. Old price sticker remnants. Soiled. Worn around the edges. Clipped inner flap. 236 pages.

New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources, 1977. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Stapled binding. Bumped tips, smudging, some scraping to spine edges. Binding is in very good condition. All plates/maps are present in the rear pocket.