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

New Jersey State Museum, 1979. Softcover. Good. Softcover bound with two heavy-duty staples. Publication printed in connection with the display of sculptures and ceramics by the 19th century artist, Herman Carl Mueller. The exhibition took place at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton, New Jersey, between January 13 and March 18, 1979. Cream colored covers have light dirty spots. The back cover has has areas of green close to the spine where something has rubbed against the cover. Top and bottom of "spine" are gently bumped. The pages are a shade of manila. Black and white photographs are accompanied by descriptive text regarding the items on display. 46 pages.

Sinauer Associates, Inc, 2015. Sixth. Hardcover. Acceptable. 11x1x8. Hardcover, large, heavy. May require additional postage. SIXTH edition. Textbook has gotten wet along top edges of the page block. Moisture rippling and staining along text block and upper page edges. HEAVILY highlighted with red pencil and pen. Writing in the margins with red pen. Due to moisture, backside of FEP was stuck to title page, causing lifting of the top layer of the end page at the gutter. Pages are yellowed. Smudges and ink marks on text block. Boards are scratched and scuffed. All corners are dented. Wearing to bottom of boards with dings and chips. Smashed spine ends. PLEASE NOTE: This book has no access/key codes. It is the textbook only. 761 pages plus the subject index.

C.W. Daniel, 1986. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Scuffed/scratched wraps. Bumped tips. Reading creases. Previous owner name on title page. Toned pages. 104pps.

Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961. Hardcover. Good. Hardback. No dust jacket, but not sure it had one. Orange boards with black title and design. Top portion of text block and spine has a bit of a twist to it, so tends to cock, with the lower half of block and spine are square. Doesn't affect readability at all. All pages intact. Boards are a bit soiled, with rubbing along edges, slightly dented at top and bottom of spine. Pages are clean, with some staining to outside edge of text block. Handy dandy Spanish grammar book. 321p.

Nauka Publishing House, 1987. Softcover. Acceptable. IN RUSSIAN. Acceptable condition. Wearing all along edges of wraps. Bumped/creased corners. Scraping along spine edges. Smudged. Binding is in decent condition. Good reading copy, as long as you can read the Cyrillic alphabet. Photos provided upon request.

The Curtis Art Gallery, 1971. Softcover. Acceptable. Extremely worn copy. Heavily creased wraps. Rubbed, scratched. Edges are scraped and chipped. Scraping to spine edges. Very stained. Full of interesting stories about the life of John Tatsey, as told by him. 79 pages.

Texian Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Autobiography of Dr. William Edgar Tatum, as told to his daughter, Doris Tatum Green. Published as one of a limited run of 500, by Texian Press in Waco, Texas. This is an EX-LIBRARY book. Has stamps on edges of text block, title page, penciled Dewey decimal number on title page. FFE also has red pen mark. The library pocket on the back free end page has been removed leaving remnants on the page, and more stamps revealed. Front paste down end paper has the remains of an ex-libris sticker that somebody has attempted to remove. Also a small sticker for the store where book was purchased. The tape used to keep the mylar-covered DJ on the book has yellowed and left markings on inside end papers. The mylar on the DJ is very scuffed and scratched and dirty. The DJ itself is dirty, with small rips, and both DJ and mylar are dinged at the tips and at the tops and bottoms of the spine. The DJ was taped to the boards, and bottom of the red boards are… Read More

LPD Press , 2005. Third Edition. Softcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. Softcover. Soiling to wraps. Bumped tips. Lower corner of front wrap is torn away, and the page block turns downward. Nicks to edges, light creases. No loose pages. Good reading copy. 93 pages.

Northwest Missouri State Teachers College, 1949. Softcover. Good. Softcover. Wearing to spine ends, bumped tips, chipping to fore-edge of front wrap. Articles within: Why Don't We Really Help Youth? (Taylor); Trippingly on the Tongue (Canton); The Long Reign of the Dinosaurs (Colbert); "Trying to Spell God": A Study of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Dykes)

Pyramid Books, 1966. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Mass market paperback. Scuffed, scratched wraps. Ex library and has taped on Dewey decimal number on the spine. Scraped along edges. Cocked a bit. Reading creases on spine strip, and scraped along same. Light toning to inside of wraps, and light toning to pages. Bumped tips. Binding is in good shape. 237 pages.

Saalfield Publishing Company, 1935. Softcover. Acceptable. Reproduced from Silver Screen magazine in 1935. Gertrude Temple told this story originally to Mary Sharon. Soft cover wraps and all pages are age-toned, with wearing around the edges. Saddle stitched binding (stapled) with splitting to the spine edge. Staples are rusty. Dark discoloration and staining in the the top of the gutters of pages. Card pocket inside front cover. "Shirley Temple's life" is written in pen on inside front cover. Front cover is stained, creased and scraped. Owner name written in pen on front cover. Many b&w photos of Shirley throughout with accompanying text. Years are showing. 40pp. 9.5" x 10

American Book Company, 1904. Hardcover. Acceptable. Part of the Series of English Texts. Red cloth cover w/ "gilt" stamped cover and spine. Doubtful it's gilt, looks more like yellow pigment. Cloth boards are scratched and soiled. Spine is faded with rubbing along edges along hinge. Bumped/dented and worn corner tips and head and heel of spine. Front pastedown has delightful drawing, in pencil, of what appears to be a hobo smoking a cigarette. Artist/owner name next to the artistic handiwork. Foxing on paste downs and FFE. Rear pastedown and end papers have scribbling and writing, all in pencil. Spine cocked. Dirty textblock. Age-toned pages with underlining and marginalia. Spine is firm. 187pps.

Dell, 1961. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Scuffed and scraped wraps. Dinged corner tips. Age-toned and foxed. Decent reading copy. 288 pages.

Vintage Books, 1960. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Softcover. Fair shape. Yellowed, scuffed, soiled, scratched wraps. Quite age-toned pages. Back pages are cracking at gutter. Bumped corners. Scraping to edges of wraps. 219 pages.

University of Texas, 1987. Hardcover. Good. Hardback. No dust jacket (as printed). Big ding on front board. Dented upper corner tips. Shelf-wearing to bottom edges of boards and heel of spine. Dented spine strip at heel. Clean pages, good and firm binding. 462 pages of recipes. Heavy.

2011. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Green cloth boards. Spots and stains on boards. Corners are square. No dust jacket. Text in Swedish, English and Russian. Trade edition, only 1,000 copies printed. This is not dated, or signed, or hand numbered. Does not take away from the brilliance of the photographs. Mischa Pedan appeared on the Kharkiv, Ukraine, art scene in the early 1980s. He was one of the founders of the Gosprom group in 1986—1987.151 pages.

Deutsch Buch-Gemeinschaft, 1957. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. IN GERMAN. No dust jacket. Paper covered boards with illustration on front board. Leather covered spine, faded and scraped on edges. Dirty text block. Worn braided bookmarker. Lightly toned pages. Sewn binding in nice shape. Good reading copy. 295 pages.

The Madison Insurgent, 1991. Softcover. Acceptable. Softcover. "Digressing diatribe by Jan Landers Thal. Lifted from The Madison Insurgent, 1988-1991." Worn, rubbed and smudged wraps. Some fading. Bumped tips, with light scraping along spine edges and to edges of wraps. Inscribed by author. Nice binding. No reading creases. Small ding on back cover. 125 pages.

American Meat Institute, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable. No DJ. Faded and stained brown cloth boards, with more pronounced staining to the rear board, perhaps DJ had gotten damp and became stuck to the cloth of the board. It does NOT smell like mildew. Bumped corner tips with wearing to cloth along bottom edges of boards and heel and head of spine strip. Rubbing along spine strip edges. Yellowing to hinges between paste downs and end pages. Very light age toning to pages. Binding good. All pull-out worksheets are still bound in. 207 pages.

The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997. Softcover. Good. Catalog for exhibition of Guston's work at the U of I Art Museum in 1997. Lightly scraped edges.