Search Results: Titles starting with Q from johnson rare books & archives

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.

Hornsea, England: PS Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by Matthew Hughes on the title page. Octavo. Original pictorial boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.

London: George Allen and Unwin Limited, 1959. Hardcover. Very good. Second impression. An empty envelope hand-addressed by Queen Mary is laid in, along with an autograph letter signed (ALS) on Blenheim Palace stationery from Alexandra Mary Hilda (Cadogan) Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, to her sister, Edith. The standard biography of Mary of Teck, Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from the accession of her husband, King George V, in 1910 until his death in 1936, and the mother of kings Edward VIII and George VI and Mary, Princess Royal. Her intellect, good sense, and artistic taste fitted her to be the wife of a sovereign, and her concern with the welfare of servicemen in World Wars I and II helped to make her popular with all classes of the British people. Frequently depicted in popular culture, among the actresses who have portrayed Queen Mary include Dame Wendy Hiller (Crown Matrimonial), Dame Flora Robson (A King's Story), Dame Peggy Ashcroft (Edward & Mrs.… Read more

Cambridge: Charles W. Sever, 1875. First Edition. Wraps. Good. An American drama thought to be inspired in part by Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Greenough (1833-1901) was a classical scholar who served as professor of Latin at Harvard for 28 years and also assisted in the founding of Radcliffe College. 32 p.; 20 cm. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. This copy is lacking the substitutions insert. Tiny chip to the bottom edge of the title page. The wrappers are a bit toned and soiled, with a closed tear to the top of the spine and some shallow chipping to the corners and tips. Scarce, OCLC locates only ten copies.

Mountrath, County Laois, Ireland: The Dolmen Press Limited, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Nine color plates. First edition thus. In 1917, the Irish artist Harry Clarke was commissioned by the Right Honourable Laurence Ambrose Waldron PC to make a series of miniature stained glass panels to illustrate J.M. Synge's poem Queens, to be set as a frieze in his library. The nine panels were completed in September 1917 and, as Thomas Bodkin wrote of them, "they have no exact precedent in the history of stained glass. They are extraordinarily accomplished technically especially in view of the small area of glass in each panel, and are iconographically intriguing." Each panel is approximately 300 millimetres high and 180 millimetres wide, the reproductions in this book being something over half linear scale. Prospectus laid in. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt stamping. A fine copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, #22 of 55 copies printed on Shidzuoka Japan Vellum and signed by Hergesheimer. Octavo. Full gray vellum binding, with burgundy and black stamping. Internally crisp and clean. Tiny bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. The spine is sun faded; otherwise very good or better. Signed by Author.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by John Gardner on the title page. The third novel featuring British Intelligence officer Herbie Kruger. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. The top corners are lightly bumped; else a crisp, unread copy in a pristine dust jacket.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition, Number 775 of 1,075 copies signed by Sarah Zettel. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from The Easton Press. Additionally signed by illustrator Frank Mayo. When scientists discover an alien artifact on Venus, intrigues and conflicts proliferate. Octavo. Full blue leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

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.

Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2007. First edition. Soft cover. Fine. 63 p. Signed by Falconer on the title page. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy. Signed by Author.