Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Twin City Antiquarian Books

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Pale grey boards, grey cloth spine with foil titles, foil Q on front board, brown endpapers, [xi], 385, [1] pp. Book has been read; bottom edge slightly sunned. DJ in Brodart archival cover. This is the seventeenth in Grafton's series of Kinsey Millhone mystery novels. Two detectives approaching retirement make one last try to solve an old Jane Doe case--the slaying of an unidentified woman whose body the discovered in a quarry eighteen years earlier. Kinsey gets involved. Based in outline on a real case, but the characters and resolution are fictional. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/Fine. 23½ X 16 cm.

Ottawa: Canadian Society for Italian Studies/Société Canadiennes pour les Études Italiennes, 1980 Extra shipping charge may apply for this item to some destinations. Black & white stiff paper wraps, about 116 pp per issue (232 pp in all). Slight wear to edges of covers, spine rather brittle. Official Journal of the CSIS. Officially trilingual, but most articles are in English or Italian (one article in No. 2 is in French). No. 2 also contains a directory of the Society's membership. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). Magazine. VG/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

Ottawa: Canadian Society for Italian Studies/Société Canadiennes pour les Études Italiennes, 1985 Extra shipping charge may apply for this item to some destinations. Black & white stiff paper wraps, ii, 167-303, [7] pp. Creasing to front cover, pencil notes on one page. Official Journal of the CSIS. Officially trilingual, but all articles are in English or Italian. Also contains a directory of the Society's membership. Shipping weight 1 lb. (International 12 oz.). Magazine. VG/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

Ottawa: Canadian Society for Italian Studies/Société Canadiennes pour les Études Italiennes, 1981 Extra shipping charge may apply for this item to some destinations. Black & white stiff paper wraps, about 116 pp per issue (232 pp in all). No. 1 is Fine, but No. 2 suffers from a cracked spine, pages have fallen out and been glued back in, and there are rather sloppy pencil notes in two articles. Official Journal of the CSIS. Officially trilingual, but all articles are in English or Italian. No. 2 also contains a directory of the Society's membership. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 4 oz.). Magazine. Varying/No dj. 21½ X 14 cm.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Brown cloth, gilt titles on spine, viii, 523 pp. Spine & top part of front board heavily sunned, front board spotted near bottom of joint, else VG. Translated from the second Russian edition by Arnold Ross, Robert Bass, John McCarthy, & Lawrence Markus. Contents: Part One (existence & continuity theorems; integral curves of a system of two differential equations; systems of n differential equations (the asymptotic behaviour of solutions); a study of neighborhoods of singular points and of periodic solutions of systems of n differential equations; bibliography; appendix (problems fo the qualitative theory of differential equations; bibliography); index); Part Two (general theory of dynamical systems; systems with an integral invariant; bibliography; index). Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First US Edition. . VG-/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards, gilt-on-black titles on front board & spine, xix, 1047 pp, glossary, bibliography, index. Slight edge wear, owner's name on ffep. Contents: fundamentals; lot acceptance sampling plans; rectifying inspection; control charts; statistics useful in industrial research. Appendices: selected mathematical proofs; tables & charts. Shipping weight 4 lbs. (International 3 lbs., 4 oz.). 4th ed, 1st ptg. . VG/No dj. 23½ X 16½ cm.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1962 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full yellow cloth, black titles on spine, blue endpapers, 254 pp. Spine and outer inch of front board slightly browned. Anthology of 25 essays about real murders committed mostly in the preceding 90 years (with one from 1630), written both by those who normally write fiction as well as true-crime writers. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 21 X 14½ cm.

Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full grey cloth, foil titles on spine, 590 pp, chapter notes, bibliography, index. Snag to top edge of front board, else fine. Top edge of DJ somewhat tattered, 2 X 5 cm chip to top edge of front panel; in Brodart archival cover. Twenty articles on cities and city life by twenty-four authors including the editors. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/G. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright 1989, "Sponsored by The American Society for Quality Control." Blue laminated boards, gold, white, & light blue titles on front board & spine, xix, 309, [1] pp, bibliography, index. Owner's name on fpd, faintly musty, else fine. Chapters on types of, applications, managing, initiating, and planning quality audits; the quality auditor; systems analysis; working papers; sampling plans; implementation & analysis of quality audits; corrective action & follow-up; reporting quality audits; measuring & improving effectiveness of quality audits. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd ptg. . Very Good/No dj. 23½ X 15½ cm.

New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1994 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Laminated pictorial boards, beige spine with black titles, xviii, 392 pp, index. One corner bumped, else fine. Particle physicist Gell-Mann shares his thoughts on how the simple, such as fundamental particles, is related to the complex, such as galaxies and biological systems. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. 24 X 16 cm.

Washington, D. C, 1948 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. A 20 pp magazine stapled through fold in black & white printed paper wraps, for DC-area nurses. Small tear with creasing to rear cover, else VG+. Shipping weight 4 oz. in envelope.. Magazine. G+/No dj. 26 X 19½ cm.

Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1991 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect-bound in mostly white pictorial covers with black titles, 184, [4] pp. Vertical wrinkles in covers, otherwise very good. Novel in French. Fits in small flat-rate box. Shipping weight 12 oz.. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. G+/No dj. 18 X 11 cm.

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full pale grey cloth, white titles & yellow decoration, 6 ff b & w photo plates, footnotes, bibliography, glossary. Few spots on spine, otherwise fine. Anthology in French aimed at providing a sample of French Canadian culture and history to students in anglophone colleges and high schools. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 22½ X 14½ cm.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Purple cloth, gilt titles on spine, blind decorations on front board & spine, [xvi], 336 pp, 13 ff b & w plates including frontispiece, large folding genealogical chart, notes, index. Bottom corners bumped, boards slightly worn. DJ rubbed & creased at corners & spine ends, with a few tears under 2 cm; in Brodart archival cover. This biography of Alexandra, wife of King Edward VII, is based primarily upon materials in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First US Edition. . VG+/VG-. 23½ X 15 cm.

New York, London & Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in mostly black covers with red & white titles & a portrait of Martin Luther on the front cover, xvi, 281 pp, 2 b & w illustrations in text, 3 maps, footnotes, vocabulary, index. Unmarked, covers moderately rubbed. Source book of German history beginning with the Reformation, mostly in German with preface and footnotes in English. According to the preface, "The purpose of this volume, in crystallized form, is simply stated: to acquaint the student with the course of German history through the words and ideas of men who made it and of their contemporaries. To these 'primary' documents we have added passages from the works of historians that will provide the perspective of subsequent interpretation." Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

Zürich: Druck und Verlag von Schulthess & Co., 1910 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt-on-brown titles, top edge dyed blue, blue endpapers, [v], 637, [2] pp. Paper browning, otherwise fine, pressed flower laid in. Contains a selection of documents beginning with Julius Caesar ("Gallien im weitern Sinne zerfällt in drei Teile....") through 1907. Just at at glance, it appears that documents originally in German are printed in Fraktur, while those translated into German are printed in Roman type. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). . VG+/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Copyright 1951, but Harper date code is B-B (February 1952). Tan boards, brown cloth spine with gilt titles, endpaper maps, xi, 340 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates. Head of spine slightly frayed, else VG, address label recto ffep, gift inscription on half-title. The Lambs, members of The Adventurers Club, strike out across the Sonoran Desert heading for blank areas of the map of Mexico looking forn the Lost City of the Maya. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . G+/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1929 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue ribbed cloth, gilt titles on spine, [v], 318 pp, index. Titles dull, extremities rubbed, owner's name rubber-stamped on fpd & title page, shaken rear hinge reglued with acid-free PVA, 2 small rust spots on rpd & one on rear board. Partially unopened. Contains the Gifford Lectures for 1929. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . VG-/No dj. 23 X 15½ cm.

Minneapolis: T. S. Denison & Company, Inc, 1963 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Foreword by Herbert Hoover. Black cloth with gilt publisher's device on front board, 410 pp, 2 ff color plates, 4 ff b & w plates, index. Top edge lightly soiled, spine ends turned in, loose plate reattached with acid-free PVA, gift inscription on recto of ffep, a few small pencil notes in margins. "Exploring for, and developing, new mines has been my principal occupation for forty-three years, and from my experiences I have selected certain episodes to enable the general reader to participate vicariously in the quest." Contents: the alien world below; beginnings of the Mesabi range; my father, iron pioneer; the mighty Mesabi; prospecting in the pre-Cambrian shield; jungle trails in Cuba and Honduras; a mine in the Chihuahua desert; matching wits with the conquistadores; a mine in the Sierra Madre of Mexico; above timber line in British Columbia; Old… Read More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1934 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue-grey cloth, top edge dyed red, [xiv), 293 pp, 4 b & w ill., index. Spine faded, light overall wear, front endpapers browned by clippings laid in. Only part of one flap of the DJ remains. J Harold Kittleson's copy, with these items laid in: the blurb from the dust jacket, a book dealer's catalogue listing 30 items relating to Corvo (Frederick Rolfe), and two book reviews, one of a later book on Corvo, the other apparently unrelated. According to the DJ, Symons "takes the reader with him as he follows the trail through letters, personal interviews and revelatory unpublished manuscripts" to piece together a picture of the life of "this outcast," who "sat in a garret or a gondola and poured out magnificent prose. Nor was his bitter pen confined to his novels for this biography contains a large number of his letters which are masterpieces… Read More