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

Egyptian Publishing Company, UNK. Hardcover. Acceptable. Small hardcover, 5"x7.5". Poor condition. Unknown date of publication, but presuming early 1900's. Binding copy. Has bookbeetle/worm damage to the cloth of the rear hinge, boring almost all the way from top to bottom; a small bit of damage to cloth of front hinge and fore-edge of front board. Red cloth covered boards, faded, worn on all sides, threadbare at tips. Staining to boards and at bottom of age-toned pages. Fingerprint stains on pages. Despite the damage along the outside hinges, the binding is still good with no pages loose. Full title: The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses; or, Moses' Magical Spirit-Art, Known as the Wonderful Arts of the Old Wise Hebrews, Taken from the Mosaic Books of the Cabala and the Talmud, for the Good of Mankind (Translated from the German, Word for Word, according to Old writings) with Numerous Engravings. We will gladly supply pictures of this interesting, and rare, book upon request.

Hugo Gernsback, Various. Softcover. Good. BEING SOLD AS ONE LOT. These 17 vintage issues of Sexology are being sold AS A SET. NO cherry picking. You must buy them all. Dates of publication range from May 1958 to December 1961. Not all months for each year are present. The lot contains the following issues: 1958 - May, August, October, November; 1959: January, March (2 copies), May, July, December; 1960: March, May, August, September, October & November; 1961: December only. Magazines are in good shape, with minor rubbing, fading, scuffing, with scraping to the edges of the wraps, bumped and creased corner tips, and reading creases. A couple of issues have pages that are a little more sunned than others, with more fading to the spine. Very readable copies with firm bindings. A couple of issues have had an ad clipped off of the back cover. A wide variety of articles addressing a wide variety of topics. Once again: Being sold as a SET only.

Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Reprint of the original 1823 publication. Brown cloth covered boards, scuffed and rubbed on front board. Light wearing to board edges, corner tips and heel of spine. Tight binding. Free of markings. 248 pages.

Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1836 original publication. No dust jacket. Light shelf-rubbing and fingerprints on brown cloth covered boards. Bright gilt lettering on spine. Firm binding. Book possibly never opened. Corner tips are bumped, and light bumping to spine ends. 187 pages.

Fidelity House, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. 2008 reprint of the 1951 edition. Slick, glossy boards, with light scuffing. No DJ, as printed. Square corner tips. Clean pages, no reading creases, firm binding. Very nice copy! 191 pages.

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1941. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardback. Loose binding. Faded and soiled black cloth covers. Bumped and worn corner tips and heal and head of spine. Gilt titling on spine has faded. Cracked hinges with occasional staining in the gutters. Previous owner name and scribbles on FFE. Toned pages and rippled pages, with staining and a few dog-eared pages. Smudges on endpapers, and darkening in hinges front and back. 348 pages.

Head of Zeus, 2013. Hardcover. Good. Good++. Light scratches to DJ with shelf wear to bottom edges of DJ and bottom of spine strip. Crimping along all edges of DJ. Gently bumped corner tips of boards. Clean unmarked text, with firm binding.