Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1973]. Oblong 4to. [36 pp (unpaginated)]. Colour-illust. throughout. Yellow cloth, colour-illust. endpapers, w/ d.j. (1 vry sml clsd tear at lwr rt crnr, price-clppd), F/VG-, inscribed by the author on verso of title, from library of Ann Shapiro. First edition, stated & signed, of this colourful interpretation of the popular American song.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1976]. Oblong 4to. [36 pp (unpaginated)]. Colour-illust. throughout. Red boards, blk illust. & lettrng, colour-illust. endpapers, w/ d.j. F/F, from library of Ann Shapiro. First edition, stated, of this colourful rendition of the story of the American Revolution in New York through the songs of Pop! Goes the Weasel, and Yankee Doodle.

Hamilton, NY: The Republican Press, [1939]. Tall 8vo. 171, [1] pp. Illust. title, illustrations throughout. Brown cloth, gilt lettering, w/ d.j. cover art by Coye (slight dustsoiling, shelfwear), NF/NF copy, inscribed & signed by both authors on dedication page, & numbered, from the library of Martin K. Howes (1904-1972), noted collector of Robert Frost, professor and librarian at Allegheny College, PA. First edition, signed & numbered, No. 276 of 550 copies, of this second title in the Meadville Trilogy, largely written by these noted pacifist and Quaker poets during their extended residence in the Allegheny region of Pennsylvania. After acting as conscientious objectors during World War II and living in New York. After the War, Albert (1904-1968) and Helen (1907-1968) moved to Rosemont, PA, founded the Ahab Press, edited Toynbee’s War and Civilization, and continued to publish and write anthologies of poetry and verse. Coye (1907-1981) is perhaps best remembered for his 1000s of illustrations… Read More

New York: Junior Literary Guild & E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1951. 8vo. 192 pp. Illustrated title, illustrations throughout. Illustrated green cloth, lilac-coloured illust. & lettering, illustrated endpapers, w/ d.j. cover art by Orbaan (price-clipped, minor shelfwear), still NF/VG copy. Early printing of this Girvan mystery adventure set in Quebec.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1942. 8vo. vi, 318 pp. Orange pictorial publisher’s cloth, illust. on front cover of poison dripping into a wine glass (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing), w/ d.j. cover art by John O’Hara Cosgrave II (minor chipping head & foot of spine, edgewear, creasing, couple minorclosed tears), still, VG/G copy, w/ former ownership markings on front pastedown. Third printing of this Ellery Queen sleuthing tale, as he unravels a tragic tale of blackmail, extortion, bigamy, and murder.

San Francisco: San Francisco Press, Inc., [1971]. 8vo. 160 pp. Colour frntsp., numerous photo illusts. Blue boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr shlfwr, rubbng), NF/VG copy. Second edition of this informative history of the famed ship.

Anderson, SC & New York: Droke House, Publishers, Grosset & Dunlap, [1969]. 8vo. 285, [3] pp. Over 100 photo illusts. Blue linen, white lettrng, w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by Lewis N. Schilling, Jr. (mnr shlfwr, couple mnr clsd tears, edgewear), VG/VG- copy. First edition, stated, of this definitive history of the ship and the people who made her famous.

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, [printed by The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelly & Sons], 1941. 8vo. xvi, 133, [1] pp. Colour photo frontisp., numerous colour and black & white photo plates, colour map endpapers. Cream-coloured linen, blue & gilt label w/ lettering on front cover & spine (very slight toning, slight shelfwear), NF copy. First edition, 1 of 1200 copies printed.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1929. 8vo. xiii, [1], 420 pp., plus 2 pp. publ. ads. Green cloth, gilt lettrng (vry slght bmpng to couple crnrs), w/ d.j. (vry mnr chppng hd & ft of spine, edgewear), VG/VG-, inscribed by author on ffep. to Robert Lawson, former Oregon State Geologist. Second printing of this comprehensive and authoritative work on the publicity work, and the pitfalls to avoid.

[Portland, OR: Geneva Hale Quigley, 1971]. Folio. 168 pp. Over 150 photo & text illusts., numerous colour plates. Simulated brown calf, gilt illust. frnt cvr, lettrng, w/ d.j. (3 small clsd tears, mnr creasng, dustsoilng), NF/VG-, signed by artist and author on ffep. First edition, signed, of this excellent collection of western Art by Ed Quigley, much of it representing horse roundups on the Yakima Indian Reservation.