Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Renaissance Books

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. (viii), 336 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 208 x 135mm. Selected chapter titles: Auto-suggestion; Practical applications of Psycho-therapeutics - physical disease; Suggestion in Theomania, Pubertal and Climacteric Insanity, Disequilibration, Perversity, and Amnesia; Erotomania, Infatuation, Moral Perversion; Drug Habits: Morphinomania, Heroin Habit, Cocaine Addiction; Suggestion in Trained Nursing; Literary Inspiration; Psychic Pedagogy; Psychics in the Home; Appendix - Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, X-Ray Vision and other Transliminal Faculties. ; 8vo .

London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd.. Good with no dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Moderate foxing and creasing to wrappers.; Antiquarian bookseller's catalogue from the London firm of Bernard Quaritch. Of note in this catalogue are 22 titles from William Morris' Kelmscott Press, including the Kelmscott Press Chaucer (£1,400); also titles from the Fanfrolico Press; Golden Cockerel Press; Doves Press; Daniel Press; Cuala and Dun Emer Presses; and the Ashendene Press. 48 pages. Printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 235 x 155mm. ; Catalogue No. 875; 8vo .

London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Foxing and rubbing to covers. Marginalia to front cover and to Australasia and Australiana sections.; 58 pages. Printed wrappers. Page dimensions: 235 x 153mm. Antiquarian bookseller's catalogue from the London firm of Bernard Quaritch. Of note in this catalogue are some interesting items relating to the Americas, e.g. #286 Lopez de Gomara (Francisco) - La Conquista de Mexico (First edition of the second part) Zaragoza, 1552; #345 Raleigh (Sir Walter) - Guiana 1596. .

Italy: Arnoldo Mondadori. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Ends of spine slightly bumped. Creasing and small 1/4" tear to head of dust wrapper spine. 1/8" tear to bottom of front spine fold.; 273, [12], pages. Brown papered boards. Translated by Salvatore Quasimodo. Text is in Greek and Italian.; 8vo .

Wellington: Milkwood Press. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. 0908582528 . Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Adhesive tape stains to endpapers and dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xvi, 192 pages. Blue papered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 228mm x 150mm. Illustrated. "Everyone knows the names of Scott and Shakleton. This book is about ten of the lesser known explorers of Antarctica and the equally heroic but little recorded deeds of the early chapters of its human history." - from dust-jacket blurb. .

London: Printed by W. B. for Richard Sare. Fair with no dust jacket. 1715. Disbound. "The Eleventh Edition, Corrected". 140 pages + [2] leaves advertisements. Front board missing. First leaf is the title. The title leaf has staining, a 1" tear, and a 1/2" chip. Rear board is leather with a contemporary blind-stamped rectangular panelled design. Rear board very worn with loss of leather at edges. Leather spine very worn with 3/4" missing at head and tail. Page dimensions: 155 x 91mm. Woodcut initials at beginning of Preface and at beginning of each of the seven Visions. "This Preface is meerly for Fashion-sake, to fill a space, and please the Stationer; who says, 'tis neither usual nor handsome, to leap immediately from the Title-Page to the Matter." - from the Preface.; 16mo .

Oxford: Clarendon Press. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. [1920]. Softcover. Moderate rubbing and fading to covers.; No date [advertisements at rear dated June 1920]. 47, [1]; 63, [1]; 47, [1]; 32 pages. Softcover, printed cloth covers. Page dimensions": 166 x 104mm. Additional part titles: "Old Ballads"; "Robin Hood - Old Ballads Chosen by A. T. Quiller-Couch"; "Everyman - A Morality Play - With an Introduction by A. T. Quiller-Couch". Cover title: "Select English Classics - Early English Lyrics - Ballads - Robin Hood - Everyman". .

London: The Hakluyt Society. Fair with no dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 60mm tear to cloth across head of spine. Otherwise good. ; Volume One only. xxxiv, [2], 496 pages + two folding maps. Blue cloth boards with blind-stamped gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 218mm x 138mm. ; 8vo .

New York: Facts on File. Very Good with no dust jacket. (2004). First Edition. Softcover. 0816046948 . No signatures. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. A nice copy of this title.; xiii, [1], 381, [5 (blank)] pages. Page dimensions: 228 x 150mm. "From the Boer War to the Vietnam War, Arctic explorations to space exploration, Gandhi to Nixon, the fascinating events, movements, periods, and figures of the 20th century have inspired countless writers whose works reflect the society and spirit of the day. 'History in Literature' traces these deveopments and examines the ways they have been depicted in specific literary works." - from blurb on rear cover. .

London: The Religious Tract Society. Good in Fair dust jacket. Hardcover. No date (1930's) . 233 pages. Owner's card pasted to front endpaper. Moderate spots of foxing to some leaves. Dust wrapper foxed. Dust wrapper is price-clipped. Several 1 1/2" and smaller tears to dust wrapper. 1/4" missing at head and tail of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" chips at corners of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in mylar cover. "Masterly sketches of life in a little community in the Glens of Antrim. This is one of those quietly impressive books which Ulster knows so well how to give us [...]" - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 12mo .

London: Robert Hale & Company. Poor with no dust jacket. (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. 070911494X . Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Front panel of dust wrapper has been pasted to front board. Ink number on top page edges. Chipping to front panel. 2" square piece of adhesive tape on front panel. A rough reading copy.; 188 pages.; Ex-Library; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Invercargill: Southland Times Office. Good with no dust jacket. [1923]. First Edition. Softcover. Wrappers rubbed and stained. Spine worn. 1" tears at spine ends. 1/4" missing at head of spine. Staples rusted. Spine glue perished, with text block detached from wrappers. Previous owner's signature on title page.; 83 pages + frontispiece + plates. Printed paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 209mm x 137mm. [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall Q14] [Seller ref: Knightcol] ; 8vo .

Invercargill: Southland Times Office. Good with no dust jacket. [1923]. First Edition. Softcover. 1" tear at head of spine. Staples rusted. Some browning to wrappers. ; 83 pages + frontispiece + plates. Printed paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 212mm x 130mm. ; 8vo .

[Mosgiel]: [s.n.]. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. [2006]. First Edition. Softcover. 0473100231 . No signatures or other previous owner's marks. Cloth boards clean and bright. Dustjacket with moderate fading and some foxing. Some 1/2" tears at head of dustjacket spine, and 1/4" chips at upper ends of dustjacket flap folds. Dustjacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; 100 pages. Illustrated card wrappers. Page dimensions: 210 x 147mm. Autobiography of a New Zealander. Childhood in Picton. Some content on World War Two and on nautical / shipping career. Numerous small in-text b&w photographic illustrations. .

Paris: Firmin Didot, Pere Et Fils. Good with no dust jacket. 1827. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library, with library labels removed from tail of spine and front pastedowns. Minimal library markings. Heavy rubbing to marbled papered boards. Loss of marbled paper along edges of boards. Small loss of leather at head of spine on four of the five bound volumes. Moderate rubbing to leather spines. No splitting to gutters at endpapers. Moderate foxing throughout. 1/2" loss to strip along blank fore margin of half-title page to Volume Two. All half-title leaves present. Heavy creasing to one leaf in Volume Seven.; Published 1827-1839. Title continues: "historiens et gens de lettres de la France, ainsi que des littérateurs étrangers qui ont écrit en Français, plus particuliérement pendant les XVIIIe et XIXe siécles". xxix, [1], 582; 756; 562; 646; 668; 647; 574; 606; 597; 575 pages. 10 volumes in 5. Quarter leather and marbled boards. Page… Read More