Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Brillig Books

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984. Book. As New. Hardcover. Octavo, black textured paper covered boards with red and white titles and spine titles. Rear endpapers illustrated with "Useful Formulae". 396 pp. including index, references and list of supplementary reading. A seminal work in particle physics. This volume is very tight, with fresh cloth and titles and an interior of bright white pages; unmarked, unblemished and, from the tightness of the binding, apparently never read. There are four 1/8" separation spots at the inner hinge, but these are simply a result of the excessively tight binding by the publisher, and there is not the slightest weakness to the binding. In an unclipped tight, glossy dust jacket with a couple of short tears at the top of the spine and minor associated creasing and some very minor edge rubbing. A perfect volume in a near fine dust jacket. Very scarce in the original hardback edition..

Philadelphia: Girard Bank, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Small octavo, green paper covered boards with color pictorial onlay, in matching printed green paper covered slipcase. 85pp. Illustrated in with full page color plates by James B. Wyeth, (son of Andrew Wyeth and grandson of N.C. Wyeth). With printed presentation slip from the bank president to shareholders, folded over endpaper. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked and unread volume in a perfect slipcase. All elements, including the presentation slip in pristine condition. Fine..

New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1907. Book. Illus. by Griselda Marshall McClure. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, decorative red cloth covered boards with gilt titles surrounded by a gilt garland with white roses blindstamped rules and gilt rules and gilt spine titles. Fore edge untrimmed. .270 pp. Illustrated with glossy plates in black and white with green borders with frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and children. A paean to motherhood and the family with a wealth of advice and a snapshot of the traditional American view of marriage at the turn of the century. A remarkably fine copy with very bright gilt, and fresh cloth. Absolutlely bright with no loss to gilt or white roses. A slight dulling which is only actually visible when examined under bright light at an angle and a faint spot on rear board which is likewise only visible when veiwed angled to the light.Giftr inscription on free front endpaper. Near fine and quite scarce in such excellent condition..

San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.:: Harper, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto, green paper covered boards. 160pp. including index and glossary. Very generously illustrated throughout with color photographs and reproductions. A sumptuous book production. A very tight, clean, fresh and unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, bright dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..