Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

New York: The Grolier Club, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. This authoritative and entertaining exhibition catalog explores the long visual history of a rich and neglected topic: medical quackery, from the itinerant seller of nostrums four centuries ago to the unsolicited spam of today's internet. Presenting a broad variety of material: prints by William Hogarth and Honoré Daumier, posters by Jules Chéret and Maxfield Parrish, and books by H.G. Wells and S. Weir Mitchell, it offers a delightful look at the remarkable artistry and elaborate language quacks used to peddle their wares: lavish pronouncements, excessive postures, and imaginatively exalted therapeutic promises. Quarto: 252 p. with nearly 200 illustrations (some color). Original blue cloth binding, with gilt stamping. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very light fading along the spine.

Glendora, California: Citrus Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Textual photographs. Blue cloth binding, with gilt lettering. Issued without a dust jacket. Some mild wear to the spine ends and corners; otherwise very good or better.

New York: The Golden Cross Press, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This copy is no. 131 of 175 signed by Valenti Angelo, who designed, decorated, and illuminated the book. Historical romance concerning the Italian Renaissance painter and his muse. In a one-quarter blue paper over vellum binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

London: Johannes Pine, 1733. Hardcover. The second issue, with the corrected Caesar medallion in the second volume. Octavo, two volumes. In contemporary burgundy calf bindings, with a black leather spine label, five raised bands, elaborate gilt stamping, ornamental dentelles, and marbled endpapers. Period ink notation to the first blank leaf in the first volume. The bookplates of Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS (1788-1850) and noted collector Francis A. Gaskill appear on the front endpapers. The spines are darkened, with a bit of wear to the extremities. A tour-de-force of 18th century book design, Pine's Horace is entirely engraved, both text and illustration, and liberally supplied with initials, head- and tailpieces and vignettes, exhibiting a harmony and delicacy reminiscent of the best French printing of the period.

New York: The Derrydale Press, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. 145 p. The Hitchcock Edition of Frank Forester, Volume III. With the original illustrations. Limited to 750 numbered copies (this copy is unnumbered and out of series). Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Some minor wear to the corners and tips; otherwise very good.