Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

Np: Fantod Press, 1990. Original Wraps. Orig. white wrappers, front cover paper label. Fine. Gorey, Edward. Unpaginated. Square 4to, 14 x 10 cm. Signed by Gorey on the title page.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. full vellum gilt. Teg. Very good. Thomson, Hugh. 198 pages. 33 x 26 cm. Limited edition, copy 554 of 1000 signed by Hugh Thomson. Twenty-two tipped-in color plates with lettered tissue guards, plus additional black and white illustrations in the text. GORDON RAY p181, said Thomson "was properly regarded as the `chef d'ecole' for his prodigious output of drawings for the gift book trade." Solid copy without the usual covering bowing, elaborate front cover design motif -- gilt tea cups and roses plus gilt pictorial illustration of three ladies having tea, framed by gilt and blue boarder panels -- backstrip illustrated and lettered in gilt, endpapers toned, interior contents clean, spine darkening, modest front cover toning mostly at edges, lacking cloth ties.

Ryton, Dymock, Gloucester: New Numbers, 1914. First edition. Wraps. Orig. gray wrappers lettered in black. Very good. 152 pages. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Covers slightly shaded at front cover perimeters.

Np: Privately Printed, 1906. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth front cover gilt lettered, paper spine label nicked. Near fine. 290 pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. With An Introduction By Nathan Haskell Dole. Frontispiece in two colors showing the Quatrains in the margin of the page. Limited edition, one of 435 copies signed by the author, and also signed by him on his portrait at p.272. Signed presentation copy dated October 9, 1912. This copy printed on Old Stratford paper.

Np: Privately Printed, 1906. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth spine and brown boards, front cover lettered in gilt. Very good. 290 pages. 24.5 x 16.5 cm. With An Introduction By Nathan Haskell Dole. Frontispiece of author signed in ink by him. Signed presentation copy. Spine slightly darkened, paper spine label chipped.

London, Paris, Edinburgh: Boussod, Valadon & Co, 1896. leather_bound. Full crushed olive green morocco. Near fine. [1] 202 pages. Folio, 32.5 x 24.5 cm. 39 photogravures, 23 full-page inserted plates, and one double-page, all with lettered tissue guards. First edition of the "best short biography of Elizabeth" (Conyers 514) and the first book in the Goupil series with the publisher's bookplate: "The Firms's Book." The author, an English historian had an "irrepressible and often daring humor"; this, "together with his frank distaste for much conventional religious phraseology, was a stumbling block to some pious people" [BRITANNIA VII, 402]. In Creighton's preface he notes, "The Chief merit of the volume....lies in the attempt to bring together the most remarkable portraits of Elizabeth and her contemporaries, and to put before the readers careful reproduction of artistic sources of information which have hitherto been little known. BMC 6: 543.929. CBEL III, 912. Hand-colored frontispiece portrait… Read More

London & Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and William Blackwell, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. watered brown silk cloth, lettered paper spine label. Very good. 443 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Dedicated to "the daughters of Caledonia." Hogg, born in Selkirkshire had little formal education, worked as a shepherd, fortunately had access to books and began writing verse. He settled in Edinburgh where he began a promising literary career, finding friends in Walter Scott, Byron, Wordsworth, Southey and the publisher John Murrary. Wordsworth's poem "Upon the Death of James Hogg" expressed respect and affection shared by many of his contemporaries.DNB p.984. "The spontaneity, freshness and energy of Hogg's verse are readily apparent. Armorial bookplate of Exam, text clean, rubbing to spine head and foot.

London: George Rutledge and Sons, 1879. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. Caldecott, Randolph. 30 pages. 23 x 20.5 cm. Illustrated in black and white with colored engravings by the premier color printer of the 19th century, Edmund Evans. Caldecott died in St. Augustine, Florida in 1886 at the age of forty while on holiday. Interior contents clean and bright. Front cover a bit dusty.

London: Cassell & Co, 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth spine and decorated boards. Very good. 40 pages. 28.5 x 20.5. SPENCER p.138. "The theme is of the flower masque and tournament of suitors for the Queen Summer's favour. The style is medieval; a kind of decorated Gothic of Crane's own devising." Text is written on scroll placards. Interior particularly bright and fresh, decorated endpapers. Decorated endpapers, corners bumped, overall a clean copy.

Geneve: Albert Skira, 1968. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Very good in clear printed overwrapper. 228 pages. Text by Maurice Besset. Twenty plates in color, and 200 illustrations in black and white. Jean Leymarie, General Editor. Bibliography. Index of Names and Places.Text in French. A survey of modern art with particular emphasis on Le Corbusier..."Who was Le Corbusier?," FREITAG 5255. Back cover soiled. Plastic cover wrapper repaired.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. First edition. Boards. Orig. gray boards. Fine in near fine dust wrapper. 188 pages. 29 x 24 cm. 149 illustrations, 32 in color. Artist Biographies. Owner inscription.

Quito: Ediciones Paralelo Cero, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in very good dust wrapper. 377 pages, 27 x 22 cm. Profusely illustrated; black and white and color photographs. Texts by Andres Penaherrera Mateus, Juan Fernando Peres Arteta and Milton Barragan Dumet. Text in English, Spanish, French and German. Bright, fresh copy.