Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., n.d. [1947].. n.d. [1947].. Good. - Square octavo, printed tan wraps. Corners lightly creased; light crease to rear wrap; head & tail of spine chipped. xvii & 91 pp. The top page corners are creased; a few bottom corners are lightly creased. B&W portrait frontispiece, B&W & color plates, & full-page & textual B&W facsimiles. Good. <p>229 items are catalogued with prices.

NY: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., (1971).. (1971).. Fine. - Quarto, cloth, in dw. Lightly bumped, rubbed & spotted; covers slightly warped with a small stain to each cover. 144 pp. Profusely illustrated in B&W & color. The contents are near fine. <p>First edition.

NY: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. / Publisher, (1971).. (1971).. Very good. - Quarto, black cloth titled in gilt, in dw. The covers are very lightly bumped & somewhat warped. 144 p. Profusely illustrated in B&W & color. Very good. <p>First American edition.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1942.. 1942.. Good. - Octavo, red cloth with paper label on spine. The cloth is rubbed & unevenly faded. The head of the spine is frayed & there are 2 light library stamps on the front cover. 146 pp. Ex-library with the usual markings, including a stamp in the text. Good. <p>First edition.<p>1/1,060 copies.

New York: Atheneum, 1967.. 1967.. Very good. - Octavo, teal cloth in a dust wrapper. The top & bottom edges of the covers and the head & tail of the spine are darkened. There is some light foxing to the dust jacket with a few small stains to the front edge of its front panel. 224 pages. The fore-edge is slightly foxed. Very good. <p>First American edition.<p>Raymond Queneau [1903–1976) was a French novelist, poet, scientist and mathematician, notable for his wit and cynical humor. He was active in the Surrealist movement until 1929. He was co-founder of Ouvroir de littérature potentielle (Oulipo) and from 1956 directed Gallimard's massive publication Encyclopedie de la Pleiade.<p>Translated from the French by Barbara Wright.

NY: Golden Press, (1970).. (1970).. Good. - Large square octavo, silver boards, in dw. There is a dent to the rear board & a few tiny dents with a small area of light spotting to the front board; the dw is rubbed & chipped with a tear to the rear panel. 379 pp. B&W illustrations. Good.

South Brunswick and New York: A.S. Barnes and Company / London: Thomas Yoseloff Ltd., (1969).. (1969).. Fine. - Octavo, gray boards titled in black on the spine in a pictorial dust wrapper. The dust jacket is slightly soiled with 1 tiny tear to the bottom edge. 303 pages, illustrated with photographs. Near fine in a very good dw. <p>Bootleggers and racketeers. Ma Barker, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie & Clyde, Alvin Karpis, John Dillinger, etc., etc., etc.

Cambridge, MA: John Wilson and Son, 1901.. 1901.. Fair. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed light green wrappers. The binding is chipped with several tears & small pieces out & with the edges of the wraps darkened. There is a large piece out of the top corner of the front wrap with several adjacent tears repaired with scotch tape. 10 pages. The page edges are chipped with creasing to their top edges & their corners bumped. There are horizontal creases to the wraps & pages where the pamphlet has been folded. Fair. <p>First separate edition.<p>Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, May, 1901.<p>Scarce.

Boston: Printed by John Eliot, Jun., 1813.. 1813.. Good. - Octavo, plain tan wraps sewn with tan cord. The wraps are soiled & chipped with the corners heavily creased. "5" and "T" are printed on the bottom edge of the front wrap. 33 pages. The top inner corner of the last page is stained & there is scattered foxing & staining throughout. The title page is darkened & the remaining pages are partially darkened & their front edges are chipped with some short tears & small pieces out. The top page corners are creased. A good working copy of a fragile pamphlet. <p>Josiah Quincy's speech concerns the war of 1812. He maintains that the additional military forces are intended for a proposed "conquest of Canada"--a venture which he ridicules as both impossible and inappropriate.

Washington, DC: The Library of Congress, 1966.. 1966.. Very good. - Octavo, stapled pictorial brown & cream wraps. Corners of rear wrap very lightly creased with a chip out of top & bottom edges. viii & 85 pp. B&W illustrations. Very good. <p>200 items are catalogued.

New York: Free World, Inc., 1944.. 1944.. Good. - Small quarto [10-5/8 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial white wrappers with a cover illustration in pink & black by Luis Quintanilla. The binding is bumped & soiled with a few light creases. The spine is rubbed with the head & tail lightly chipped. Pages [486]- [574] plus ads. Black-and-white illustrations after drawings by Stan Fraydas & others and maps by Marthe Rajchman. There are small stains to the fore-edge & the pages are darkened. There are tiny chips to a few top page corners. Good. <p>Among the contents of this issue, which is largely devoted to World War II, are an I.L.O. [International Labor Office] Round Table on "The Workings of Economic Democracy" with Jan Masaryk, Gunnar Andersson, Rolf von Heidenstam, Yu Tsune-chi and others; "The Yugoslav Peoples Fight to Live" by Marshal Tito; "War and American Women" by Anna M. Rosenberg; "Argentina Will Be… Read More

(New York: Jose A. (Babby) Quintero), 1964., 1964.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in red suede titled in gilt with an image of a globe in gilt on the front cover. The binding is lightly rubbed with a few small black marks to the rear cover. The gilt on the front cover is faded. 175 pages. Illustrated with pictorial ads in black & white. Good. <p>De Luxe Edition.<p>A book created for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. "Feria Mundial 1964-65: Suplemento Especial. Nueva York en la Mano: Un directorio de la ciudad".<p>This Who's Who is a guide to and for New York's Spanish-speaking community. It lists organizations and amenities as well 283 biographies, mostly of individuals of Hispanic, mainly Puerto Rican, extraction. Dr. Andres Mera was the biographical researcher. The guide lists 25 lawyers, 95 physicians and dentists, 10 publications, 5 radio stations, 229 Hispanic civil organizations, 20 Spanish movie houses and theatres, and 49 churches <p>The… Read More

(New York: Jose A. (Babby) Quintero), 1964., 1964.. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed wrappers with an image of a globe on the front cover. The binding is lightly soiled & foxed. The spine & the edges of the wraps are partially darkened & their top corners are slightly creased. 159 pages. Illustrated with pictorial ads in black & white. Good. <p>A book created for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. "Feria Mundial 1964-65: Suplemento Especial. Nueva York en la Mano: Un directorio de la ciudad".<p>This Who's Who is a guide to and for New York's Spanish-speaking community. It lists organizations and amenities as well 283 biographies, mostly of individuals of Hispanic, mainly Puerto Rican, extraction. Dr. Andres Mera was the biographical researcher. The guide lists 25 lawyers, 95 physicians and dentists, 10 publications, 5 radio stations, 229 Hispanic civil organizations, 20 Spanish movie houses and theatres, and 49 churches <p>The text is… Read More

(Westfield, MA: Strathmore Paper Company, 1984),. 1984),. Very good. - Large octavo, softcover bound into cream wrappers with a cream plastic ring binder. The wraps are slightly bumped with a "Lindenmeyr Graphic Resource Center" label mounted on the rear wrap. The front wrap is slightly darkened. 8 full-size sheets on various colored stock are overlaid with 3 or 4 partial sheets cut out to form a full-page layered picture by Susan Quirk illustrating an aspect of the American landscape. Also with illustrations & text on the partial sheets. On the opposite pages are poems by Jack Soos and information about the stock used. Very good.