Search Results: Authors starting with Q from North Books: Used & Rare

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. Hardcover. 5.5 x 8in. 304pp. Publisher's boards. FINE/BRAND NEW in Fine/Brand New dust jacket. Flawless. As pictured.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1956. Hardcover. First Edition, First Impression. Duodecimo (12mo). 222pp. Publisher's cloth boards. VERY GOOD in Very Good dust jacket. The book itself shows the back endpaper with a short closed tear, a small dot of discoloration on the fore-edge, else Fine. The dust jacket shows some marginal toning, otherwise is not price-clipped remaining bright, colorful, and distinct. As pictured.

Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1835. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Thick Paper Issue. 5 x 8.75in. 94pp. Publisher's quarter gilt stamped red morocco over diamond patterned cloth boards. The binding is nearly uniform with those produced for presentation by John Quincy Adams, however this variant, with the diamond patterned cloth boards, seems to have been produced specifically for presentation by officials of Congress. The front paste-down and first blank, in ink and pencil respectively, state this copy to have been presented by the U.S. Representative of New York, Abijah Mann Jr., to his successor, Arphaxed Loomis. VERY GOOD. Shows the corners rubbed with slight loss, the spine with some marginal surface cracking, a chip from the spine at the topmost, title page with the slightest possible hint of foxing, otherwise the binding is strong, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 6 x 9in. 197pp. Publisher's cloth boards. FINE/AS NEW in Near Fine dust jacket. The book itself is flawless. The dust jacket shows marginal shelf rubbing along the edges, else Fine/As New. As pictured.

Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 5.5 x 8.25in. xv. 359pp. Publisher's cloth boards. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: 'For Morty, with best regards. Van.' The inscription is to Morton White, the philosopher and historian, who was a colleague of Quine's at Harvard. NEAR FINE in Near Fine dust jacket protected in a removable archival cover. The book itself shows a hint of shelf rubbing at the bottom edge, else Fine/As New. The dust jacket shows just a hint of tanning, else Fine/As New. As pictured.