Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Knickerbocker Books

New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 1995 First Printing. FINE in NEAR FINE price intact dust jacket. A fresh, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Bound in black hardcover with gilt lettering on spine: cover is clean and unworn. Unclipped jacket is clean and complete, no tears or chips. Small crease to front flap and a bit of light surface rub. Binding firm, hinges tight. An informative look at the science behind the microchip and an intriguing glimpse at possible "future" chip development. Over fifteen years later, we are gaining historical perspective on such predictions. Illustrated with line drawings. 6 x 9-1/2"; 211 pages. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.

San Francisco and Berkeley: Pacific Editions and the Arif Press, 1986. October 1986. FINE in clamshell box. No. 62 of hand-numbered 165-copy Limited Edition. Signed by both author Lewis Thomas and artist Joseph Goldyne on limitation page. Thomas also inscribed the half-title page "To Fred Seitz with best wishes, Lewis Thomas." (Dr. Frederick Seitz, distinguished physicist and president of Rockefeller University.) Complete with five etchings: four color etchings by Joseph Goldyne, and signed by Goldyne in pencil. A fifth etching - also signed by Goldyne - representing the Quartet - is laid into a paper folder. Four essays by Lewis Thomas. Designed and letterpress-printed by Wesley B.Tanner, who hand set the text. Binding and text papers by Twinrocker Papermill. Hand-binding by Klaus-Ulrich S. Rotzsher, San Francisco. Etchings proofed by Kay Bradner at Katherine Lincoln Press; edition printing on the etching presses of Robert Townsend, Inc. of Georgetown, MA. Book is bound in leather spine… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1993. 1993 First Edition. FINE First Printing in VERY GOOD price-intact dust jacket. A lively tale of a queen's vanity that gets her into all sorts of trouble. Intricately and colorfully illustrated by Cheryl Harness. A totally unmarked, clean, crisp and tightly bound copy. Hardcover of buff paper over boards with red titling on spine is clean and unworn. Unclipped jacket, is clean and bright; lightly edge worn with a small chip at the top of spine and a couple of short closed tears. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. Binding firm and intact, spine and boards straight. 9-1/4 x 11-1.4". 32 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Harness, Cheryl. 4to.

Annapolis, MD: United States Naval Institute, 1961. 1967 reprint of 1961 edition. FINE in NEAR FINE price intact dust jacket. A crisp, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Pages and map endpapers are fine; handsomely bound in ivory cloth hardcover, title gilt stamped on navy blue panels on spine. Cover is fresh and unworn. Binding and hinges firm and straight. Unclipped pictorial jacket is clean and complete - paper a bit wavy along spine but no scuffs, no tears, chips or creases. A history of American packet ships, the men who conceived and made them. the captains and seamen who sailed them, and "an account of how the American merchant marine, paced by passenger liners, in the first half of the nineteenth century climaxed two centuries of unparalleled progress with a prodigious burst of speed , to overtake and by-pass the greatest sea power in history." Foreword by Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz. Illustrated with black & white reproductions as well as several ship and sail… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923 1923 First of this illustrated edition, Scribner seal on copyright page. With 9 color plates and front cover illustration by C. Bosseron Chambers. VERY GOOD+. A clean, totally unmarked copy: no writing, bookplates or stampings. Pages and color plates are fresh and fine. Printed endpapers are also clean, intact and fine. Bound in black cloth with illustrated color pastedown on front, gilt lettering on spine. Cover is clean with light edge rubbing, corners slightly bumped. There is a soft crease to front board, about 2" from lower right corner. Pastedown is lightly rubbed but overall is remarkably well-preserved and colorful. Binding is very good. Front hinge is wobbly but intact, endpaper not torn. All pages secured, no splits or cracks. Spine and boards straight. 7-1/4 x 9-1/2"; xxxv + 422 text pages, 9 color plates. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Chambers, C. Bosseron.

Chicago: Writing Our World Press, 2006. FINE soft cover. Second printing. A crisp, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy in fresh, unworn pictorial paper cover. The autobiography of "a quiet giant" who made history in the world of corporate accounting, as told to Janis Kearney. Foreword by Richard D. Parsons. Born in St. Kitts, boyhood in Yonkers, New York, college, experiences as young professional, entrepreneur and eventually to the board room of the international auditing firm, KPMG. 6 x 9"; xix + 196 pp plus 8 pages of B&W photos.. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Fine.