Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Bookworks MWABA, IOBA

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press / The Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1961. Scholarly study of Black activities in the War. Originally tolerated by the revolutionaries, recruitment of Black colonials was discontinued once war began, but later, as the army ran short of men, was resumed, and enslaved men were offered freedom in return for their military service, though more found employment - or were forced to work - as laborers. Quarles, himself African-American, was a professor of history at Dillard University in New Orleans and then at Morgan State University in Baltimore. First edition (first printing), listing no later printings. Hardcover, full rust cloth, gilt titling; about 6¼" by 9¼". Light wear to book, minor bumping & rubbing to corners; jacket shows minor edgewear with a few short tears, minor creasing & chipping, faded spine, $6.00 price intact; minor tanning & smudge to endsheet. Text clean; xiii, [3], 231 pages; index,… Read More

Camden, ME: International Marine / McGraw-Hill, 2004. Updating of cases first explored in the 1970s, with many new cases adding to mystery of the foremost zone of unexplained phenomena on the planet. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book & jacket, text clean, no names or marks; [8], 294 pages; index, bibliography, notes, b/w photos, figures, maps. . First Edition in Czech. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.

Sainte-Foy: Publications du Québec, 1994 Full color glossy cover, likely never had a jacket, some wear with tiny tear at base of spine, slight cover creasing, faint scratches. Bookplate inside front cover.Text clean. Massive tome, 925 pages, profusely illustrated in color, indexes, bibliography, maps. Dictionary of the people and places of Canada's Frenchest province. Over 6,000 entries, 20,000 place names, 500 pictures, 35 maps. Text in French. No extra charge if going to Canada. Nice production.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 23 cm by 30 cm.

Cleveland/New York: World Publishing Co., 1946. "A wild-west mystery in the heart of New York." Reprint, first Tower edition stated. Hardcover, full black cloth, red titling. Light wear to book, sporadic silverfish nibbling; jacket edgeworn with light chipping, minor rubbing; pages tanned. Text clean; xi, blank, 308 pages.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Octavo.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1906 Paperback. Good/No Jacket. Chap Book. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 33 pages. Translated from Portuguese by Edgar Prestage. Green paper wraps with gilt pattern. Small tears at tail of spine and head of front cover; small stains on back cover. Edges of text are uncut. Text is clean..

New York: Greenberg, 1932. British mystery: visitor to an English country house becomes involved with a murder at a theatre rehearsal. Hardcover, as pictured; first edition (first printing), noting no later printings; lacking the jacket. Book shows some wear, smudging, spine lightly creased, no jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Small Octavo.

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1960. Smug upstate New York village tries to send crafty old drunk to the Poor House for the winter: he resists. Stated first edition, SIGNED "Sincerely, [signature]" on the free endsheet by the author. Quarter orange cloth over grey boards, black & silver titling. Light wear to book & price-clipped jacket, but book spine faded, minor water stain; jacket spine tanned with some rumpling at head and foot, more extensive water stain. Text clean; [6], 248 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Good/Good. 5¾" by 8½".

New York: Tribune Association, 1869. Manual for growers of pear trees, still of interest to organic & heirloom growers. Small hardcover, as pictured. General wear, some stains, creased page corners, pencil name & initials here & there, in ink on the flyleaf. Text clean; xviii, [3], pages 14 to 136; a few engravings, orchard record sheets. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Duodecimo.

Madison WI: Borderland Books, 2008. Philosophic notes on nature & farming on a Wisconsin dairy farm. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Stated first edition (first printing). Hard cover, full red cloth. Light wear, one corner bumped; jacket shows minor wear, hint of spine fade. Text clean; b/w photos.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Richard Quinney. 6¾" by 9¼".

Washington D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1958. Scholarly study of race relations in the American south in the wake of the Brown v. Board decision integrating schools, which included South Carolina's Briggs v. Elliott case. After the Reconstruction period, South Carolina eliminated its last vestiges of integration by 1902, and established a rigid caste system based on race, which the Brown decision threw into turmoil. Quint, a professor of constitutional & intellectual history at the University of South Carolina, resigned prior to the book's publication, later rising to chair of the history department at the University of Massachusetts. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; review slip laid in. Light wear to book, corners bumped - the base of the spine badly, affecting the pages; jacket edgeworn & chipped; endsheets & jacket foxed. Text clean; vii, [3], 214 pages; references, index, appendix reprinting the court decision.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.

New York: Walker & Company, 1974. "A very personal novel" of 1960s free love in all its unpleasantness & meaninglessness, including quite a bit of explicit sex; clearly inspired by the Beat movement and 1960s counterculture. The author, like the protagonist, left Ohio for New York, working several jobs and having a child along the way. First edition, first printing, with full number string. Light wear to book & jacket, minor bumping to corners & spine ends; short crease to rear jacket panel. Text clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.