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

The University of Massachusetts Press, 1968. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Quarto. NO dust jacket. Beige boards with black titles on front board and spine. Upper corners on front board are dented. Shelf-wear to bottom of spine and edges of boards. Indent on front board near spine. Binding is good. Lightly yellowed pages. In nice shape overall despite no DJ.

Signet, 1968. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Very well worn paperback. Heavily used. Yellowed, scuffed, soiled and scratched wraps. Creased tips, covers and spine. Cocks. Name of former owner on front cover. Dented tips. Stains. Pages are yellowed and stained. 349 pages.

Grove Press, Inc, 1966. Softcover. Acceptable. Softcover. Faded, yellowed, scratched, scuffed wraps, with crimping and scraping to edges of wraps. Stained rear cover with adjoining stain on outside of textblock (probably a run-in with a cup of coffee). Wearing to corners and ends of spine. Creased corners. Rolled corners. Other small stains on edges of text block. Former owner name on inside front cover. Binding is in fair shape, no loose pages. Quite readable, albeit worn. 255 pages.

Boni and Liveright, 1927. Hardcover. Good. No dust jacket. Red buckram boards. Boards have staining, fading and wearing at the corner tips and top and heel of spine. Dented corner tips. Gilt lettering on front cover and on spine has faded a bit, but still readable. Dirty, sunned and dinged text block. Foxing to paste-downs and end-pages. FFE has ghost pencil writing and has dirty smudges. Front paste down has small bookstore sticker at the bottom and rear paste-down has writing in pencil at top edge. Age-toned pages. Binding remains intact, with slight separation between 3 segments/signatures of book.216 pages.

Macmillan Company, 1968. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Dark yellow-ish (harvest gold?), cloth covered boards. Wearing to the the corner tips, and light shelf-wearing to the bottom of the spine. Corners of rear board are dented. Dirty thumb marks to lower corner of text block. Previous owner name at top of front flyleaf. Binding is in great shape. No loose pages. Quite a readable copy. 751 pages.

Industrieverlag Spaeth & Linde, Berlin, 1920. Softcover. Acceptable. In old German script. Paper overlay on cardboard. Wraps have chipped edges, are discolored around the edges and top third of front cover. Paper overlay is splitting along spine edges at top and bottom and has stains. Spine is very sunned and toned. Scraped board edges, bent corner tips. Age-toned pages. Discoloration to hinges between paste downs and end papers. Former owner names on FEP. Sewn binding. No loose pages. Some staining on edges of text block. 239 pages.

The Bruce Publishing Company, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardback. Remarkable condition. Brown cloth boards with light green and navy titling and design on front cover and spine. Square corners. Minor shelf wear to bottom of spine. Very light age toning to very outside edges of end papers. Very clean pages. 395 pages.

Columbia University Press, 1966. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No dj. Black cloth boards are smudges and scuffed. Lightly dented corners, and light shelf wear. Previous owner name on FFE. Unmarked pages. Good binding. A few smudges on textblock. 254 pages.

The H.W. Wilson Company, 1926. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. No dust jacket, as published. Dark green cloth board covers, rubbed, scuffed, with some soiling. Spine ends are worn through to the strip. Corner tips are worn through to cardboard. Book cocks. Twists. Former owner name on FFE along with library discard stamp. Age-toned pages. Occasional bit of marginalia. Sewn binding, with some cracking/splitting in gutters between page signatures.

Random House, 1958. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library copy with stamps on title page, dedication page, and all around the text block. Former library card pocket has been torn out of the back free endpaper and that has torn that page. Binding is loose and pulling away from front board cover. NO DJ. Boards are gray cloth and dirty all around the edges. Dented and worn corner tips, and bumped spine top and bottom. Stains on covers. Ratty.

New Century Books, 2001. Softcover. Good. Scuffed covers. Creased and bumped corner tips, with rolled page corners. Dented spine ends. Smudges and thumb marks on outside text block. Scraped edges of covers. Light reading creases on spine. 585 pps.

Oxford University Press, 1967. Hardcover. Good. Large hardback. Scraped DJ along edges, scuffing to front and back wraps. Blue cloth covered boards with light shelfwearing to bottom edges and spine. Bumped tips with wearing to the cloth. Previous owner name on FFE. Full of B/W and color plates. 123 pages.

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1972. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. DJ has protective archival cover. Plastic is scratched. The DJ itself is worn along edges. Chips and scratches, light tears. Former owner name on FEP, & title page. Binding is good. Nice reading copy. Smudges to textblock. Heavy. 600 pps.

Thomas Y. Crowell & Co, 1966. Softcover. Good. Trade paperback. Faded wraps and spine. Chipping to edges of wraps, bumped tips and spine ends. Dirty lower corners of text block. Ballpoint pen underlining on pages 11 - 20. Good binding. Former owner name on half title page has been blacked out. 211 pages.

Philosophical Library, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. Yellowed, stained, and chipped DJ, showing its age. Dented tips. Stained, scraped blue cloth boards. Dirty lower text block. Shelf-wear to bottom edges. Solid binding, good reading copy. 854 pages.

Verlag Julius Hoffman Stuttgart, 1952. Hardcover. Good. Hardback. Folio. 10" x 13.5" In German. Blue/gray heavy cloth covers boards. Wearing and scraping to all edges of boards. Scraping along spine edges. Bumped tips, but not DENTED. Wear to spine ends. Cloth is discolored around board edges. Smudged. Fingerprint smudges on pages. Wine red silk ribbon book marker is worn away, protrudes a bit. Toned pages. Full of wonderful fonts and descriptions of same (in German). Thumbprint stains on lower corner of page block. 210 pages.Heavy. Will require extra postage, please inquire. We will also be happy to send photographs upon request.

Lund University Press, 1991. Softcover. Good. Hard to find book. Printed in Sweden. Lightly rubbed covers and bumped corner tips. Rubbing along spine. Inscribed by author to original owner of book. The covers are predominantly white and have light yellowing. Binding is only loose between cover and the title page, but otherwise, the text block is tight and does not fall open to any pages. No highlighting or markings other than authors' inscription.

The Bruce Publishing Company, 1970. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Dust jacket is scuffed and scratched, with wearing and chipping to all edges. Split to bottom of DJ on the spine. Beige cloth covered boards are clean, with small area of discoloration at the bottom of the spine. Light foxing to bottom and outer edge of text block, with more significant foxing to top edge of text block. Lightly age-toned pages to color of manila folder. Clean text with no markings. Spine is tight. Ghost outline of old price. Nice reading copy. 187 pages.

H.S. Stuttman Co, 1958. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. All volumes present: 1 & 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6, 7 & 8. Good condition. Rubbing and light wear to the spine ends. Volume 1 & 2 (contained within the same book) has dented corner tips, all the rest are lightly bumped. Light scraping along spine edges. Yellowing to the boards and to the text block edges. Thumb staining on lower corners. Sewn bindings are in good shape, no loose pages, everything intact. Books are free of markings. An occasional pencil mark on text block. In all, very nice collection, perfectly readable. Full of black and white photos, color diagrams, etc.

Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc, 1943. Hardcover. Acceptable. Well-worn copy. WELL-WORN. Former library copy. Has stamps and remnants of old card pocket. Blue cloth on boards is worn, extremely faded, soiled and stained. Worn on all edges with corner tips worn through and revealing cardboard. Extremely loose binding. Old repair of front hinge has come apart. Foxed and stained all the way through. Age-toned pages. WELL-WORN. Dings and scratches to text block. That stated, book signatures remain attached to spine, and this copy is very readable. 301 pages.