Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Putnam, 1966. First American Edition. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine, some light scuffing and bumping to extremities and dulling of the gilt, a strong, solid copy in a clean, bright pictorial dustjacket with some marginal wear, creasing to upper edges, and a couple of small closed tears, two pieces of old tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket. A very good copy with some light signs of wear. 198pp. [4pp.] Index to rear. Internally clean, with two sections of black and white photographs. Quant's autobiographical account of her fashions successes, inspirations, and failures.

[Vega, TX: Privately published, 1923]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Pictorial red cloth hardcover; 266pp, seven unnumbered leaves of plates. Tight, square copy, gilt slightly faded on spine and cover; solidly VG. A flawed and sensationalized account of the Missouri pro-slavery terrorist and his band of raiders, including much on the Jameses and Youngers. Quoting Adams: "Somehow one loses confidence in a biographer who does not know how to spell his subject's name correctly." SIX GUNS 323.

Winchester: Winchester - Frederick County Historical Society, N.d. [ca 1990s]. Undated reprint, likely 1990s. Octavo. Staple-bound blue card wrappers; 80pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy. Volume 8 of the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Papers.

Winchester: Farmers and Merchants National Bank, 1971. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. Octavo (23cm). Pale blue printed wrappers (softcover); 346pp; illlus. Small, faint stain at top of spine; private embossed ownership stamp at base of title page, else a tight, clean, Near Fine copy. Signed by Garland Quarles, long-time Frederick County educator and the dean of local historians in the upper Shenandoah Valley.

Shepherdstown, WV: by the Author, 1965. First, Limited Edition. Octavo (24cm). Cloth boards (hardcover); 185pp. Frontispiece portrait. Fine, unread copy. Selected essays by the distinguished Frederick County educator and historian, long-time Superintendent of the Winchester Public Schools. Copy no. 500 of the Limited Edition (but edition size not specified).

Shepherdstown, WV: by the Author, 1965. First, Limited Edition. Octavo (24cm). Cloth boards (hardcover); 185pp. Frontispiece portrait. Fine, unread copy. Selected essays by the distinguished Frederick County educator and historian, long-time Superintendent of the Winchester Public Schools. Copy no. 500 of the Limited Edition (but edition size not specified).

Winchester: Winchester - Frederick County Historical Society, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound card wrappers; 80pp; illus. Mild soiling to front cover, else a tight, clean copy free of internal markings or significant wear, VG or better. Volume 8 of the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Papers.

Winchester, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's grey staplebound card wrappers; [2],64pp. Minor soil to wrappers, including bleach stain to rear, previous owner's address label to front cover and signature on front free endpaper, else Near Very Good and sound.

Winchester: Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, 1996. First Thus. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; 269pp. Fine, apparently unread copy - appears new. Omnibus volume, gathering Quarles' four works on Winchester history original published 1952-64: Historic Winchester (1952); The Streets of Winchester, Virginia (1958); The Churches of Winchester, Virginia (1960); The Schools of Winchester, Virginia (1964).

Winchester: Farmers & Merchants National Bank, 1989. First Edition. Second printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; 105, viii pp; illus. A clean, tight, unmarked copy, about Fine.

Winchester: Farmers and Merchants National Bank, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound printed card wrappers; 64pp. A fine, apparently unread copy - near-new, in original wrappers.

Winchester: Winchester - Frederick County Historical Society, 1989. Second printing. Octavo. Staple-bound card wrappers; 80pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy. Volume 8 of the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Papers.

Winchester, VA: Winchester - Frederick County Historical Society, 1975. Ca. 1990s reissue. Octavo (24cm.); green printed wrappers (softcover); viii,119pp.; illus; includes index. Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear.

Winchester: Farmers & Merchants National Bank, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Printed textured brown wrappers; 105, viii pp; illus. A clean, tight, unmarked copy; small bump to upper corner, else Near Fine.

Quebec: William Cowan et Fils, 1843. First Thus. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; iv,[2],130pp.; two folding plates. Title page (serving as upper cover) separated but present and extremities rather chipped, stock generally brittle though contents remain clean, plates in fine condition. Good or better overall. Compilation drawn from several texts, including the manuscripts of Ramusio and Hakluyt on three voyages made by Cartier. SABIN 10620.

Stony Brook: Stony Brook Poetics Foundation, Fall 1968. First Edition. Typographic glossy wrappers; large 8vo. 255 pp. Ambitious issue of a short-lived (two volumes) magazine: Pound "Canto "CXIV"; W C Williams, Duncan, Snyder, Ammons, James Tate, Jackson MacLow, Dahlberg, Olson, Wieners, Jim Harrison, Ginsburg, Levertov, Andrade, Popa and many others. About very good, covers bright, tight and clean.

Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, n.d.. First edition. Incidental pieces by Kelly, Quasha and others "created & designed by the author" and printed on "unused portions of press sheets at the Open Studio Print Shop" On Beckett laid paper. One of 1000 copies. All in a printed folding card envelope. Very good.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1953. First Edition. First Printing. Publisher's review slip laid-in. Octavo (19.5cm); gray boards titled in red on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 239pp. Spine ends pushed, else Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00) with minor rubbing/nicks, mostly to spine ends; Near Fine. "Beginning with a night rendezvous in the park and a punch in the jaw from Irate Husband, Ellery finds himself hot on the trail of an unknown Casanova...suspected lover, home wrecker, and likely target for a .45." (from the dustjacket); HUBIN, p.335.

boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1952. First Edition. First Printing. Ocatvo (20.5cm); red paper-covered boards titled in black on the cover and spine; dustjacket by John O'Hara Cosgrave, Il; 250pp. Spine ends lightly pushed; faint soil marks mostly to to upper front board, else Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75) with light rubbing to spine ends; minor nicks and a few tiny short tears; faint finger soil to rear panel; Very Good+ or better. "Armed men invade the Queen apartment. At their head is Abel Bendigo, brother of one of the world's most powerful men, King Bendigo of Bodigen Arms, industrial monster whose tentacles embrace the planet. Someone is threatening to kill King Bendigo, and Ellery must undertake to save that hated life!" (from the dustjacket); HUBIN, p.335.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1943. First Edition. First Printing. Octvao (20cm); tan boards titled in brown on the cover and spine; dustjacket; 321pp.; spots of soil to the lower fore edge of textblock; faint foxing to upperedge; former owner's bookplate inside front cover; minor scuff to spine; tiny soil mark at rear; still Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. "In their third period, the cousins [QUEEN] used complex deductive puzzles with in-depth characterization, finely detailed evocation of place and mood, occasional ventures into topsy-turvy Alice in Wonderland otherworld ." PRONZINI & MULLER; p.656; HUBIN, p.335.