Titles starting with Q from Gene Sperry Books

Peierls, R.E., Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1956, 2nd printing, blue cloth (hard cover), very near fine with vg dj (slightly chipped, minor edge tears), 229 pp with bibliography, references & index, B&W diagram illus., tall 8vo, 'This book develops the subject from the basic principles of quantum mechanics', 'The International Series of Monographs on Physics' ... more information

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Maguglin, Robert O., published by Wrather Port Properties, Ltd., nd, c1985, illus. soft cover, vg-fine, 120 pp, B&W/full color photographic illus., 4to, "The Stateliest Ship, 31 Years and 3 Million Miles ... more information

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Rice, Anne., Alfred A. Knopf, 1988, c1988, 1st Edition, 1st printing, boards & cloth (hard cover), near fine with near fine dj, 448 pp, tall 8vo, ISBN: 0394558235, 'The Third Book in the Vampire Chronicles', 'It is a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world' ... more information

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Goodfield, June., Hill & Wang, 1987, c1985, 1st U.S. trade pb edition, illus. soft cover (trade paperback), very near fine, 244 pp, B&W photographic & other illus., 8vo, "From the highlands of New Guinea to the streets of Greenwich Village, this book takes the reader on an epidemiological journey that shows just how doctors and scientists work to eradicate disease ... more information

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Reeves, Thomas C., The Free Press, 1991, c1991, 6th printing, blue cloth (hard cover), 2 corners bumped o/w vg++ with dj, 510 pp with notes & index, B&W photographic illus., tall 8vo, "Disquieting stories that have surfaced about the morally suspect personal conduct of John F. Kennedy ... more information

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Harvey, Gordon E., The University of Alabama Press, 2002, c2002, 1st Edition, 1st printing, boards (hard cover), fine with fine dj, 229 pp with notes, bibliography & index, tall 8vo, ISBN: 0817311572, 'Represented a new breed of progressive moderate politician that helped demolish Jim Crow segregation and the dual economies, societies, and educational systems notorious to the sunbelt South' ... more information

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Browne, Patricia Harrigan., Arcadia Publishing (Chalford Publishing Corp.), 1996, c1996, 1st Edition, 1st printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very near fine, 128 pp, extensive B&W photographic illus., tall 8vo, ISBN: 0752402994, 'Browne's new visual history of this fascinating city chronicles its development from the 1870s through World War II in a series of remarkable vintage photographs', 'Images of America', scarce ... more information

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Lyons, Paul Robert., Donning Co. Publishers (VA), c1983, Limited Edition of 2500 (#214), blue leatherette with gilt titles (hard cover), fine (but no dj), illus. endpapers, 224 pp with bibliography & index, extensive B&W photographic & other illus., 4to, hand numbered limitation bookplate SIGNED by the author & affixed to fpdep, 'Quincy, Massachusetts, the City of Presidents, celebrated its 350th anniversary in 1975', Special Limited Edition; Lavishly illustrated; scarce ... more information

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Mathieson, Gordon., GMCI Books, 2001, c2001, illus. soft cover (trade paperback), fine, 281 pp, 12mo, ISBN: 1588984788, nicely SIGNED by the author (with no personal inscription), "Cape Cod's village of Quissett is shocked when one of its own marine biologists, Sam Parker, has mysteriously drowned in a local bay... ... more information

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Murphy, Jr., James F., Rawson Assoc. Pub., nd, c1978, 1st Edition, red cloth (hard cover), small name stamp on rpdep, slightly cocked o/w vg with dj (light wrinkles & soil), 230 pp, 8vo, lengthy presentation inscription by & SIGNED by the author, "Fear seems to spread more easily and be more threatening in a small town...", author's first book ... more information

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