Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Decorated orange cloth, 318 pp. Boards and spine worn and soiled, cocked, hinges reglued with acid-free PVA, one leaf (pp 7-8) separated but re-attached with paste. Blurb from DJ tipped in to fpd. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fair/No dj. 20½ X 13½ cm.

London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Joint publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. Blue cloth-textured paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine, top edge dyed blue, 236 pp, 182 illustrations including 2 ff color and 4 ff b & w plates, index. 'Representative's Copy' is rubber-stamped on top- & fore-edges, slight wear to bottom edge. DJ shows some wear at corners & spine ends, British price is clipped but American price still present. This is the second printing under this title (copyright 1959), which combines and revises Everyday Life in Roman Britain with Everyday Life in Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman Times. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Reprint. . Near Fine/Near Fine. 22 X 14½ cm.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Magenta cloth, gilt titles on spine & facsimile signature on front board, dec. endpapers, [vii], 216 pp, 7 ff color plates, 28 ff b/w plates, notes, index. A small spot on front board, else fine. DJ has a 5 mm tear and a bit of rubbing to extremities; in Brodart archival cover. A collection of essays on Proust's life and art. Contents: introduction, by Peter Quennell; the making of a novel, by Philip Kolb; the faubourg Saint-Germain, by Marcel Schneider; Bergotte, by Elizabeth Bowen; Israel's way, by Sherban Sidéry; Proust and painting, by I. H. E. Dunlop; Proust and the nineteenth century, by B. G. Rogers; Proust as a soldier, by Anthony Powell; the world of fashion, by J. M. Quennell; Proust and Cocteau: a note, by Francis Steegmuller; triumph over time, by Pamela Hansford Johnson. Illustrated with numerous b/w photos, drawings, and paintings, and seven color… Read More

St. Paul: The 1006 Summit Avenue Society, 1981 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by editor. Pictorial boards, xiv, 191 pp, 8 ff color photo plates, numerous b&w photos, index. Corners and ends of spine slightly worn, else fine. Inscribed to previous owner by First Lady (and executive editor) Gretchen Quie, who wrote the preface. History of the Minnesota governor's mansion, along with favorite recipes of the governors, their families, and the previous occupants of the house. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. 22½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Random House, 1998 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue boards & endpapers, black spine with gilt titles, [vii], 293, [2] pp. DJ in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Harper & Row, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sewn in printed card covers, mostly black with red & green titles, xii, 346, 10 pp, bibliography, index, list of other Harper Torchbooks. Covers rubbed, owner's name on inside front cover. Contents: statements; quantification; terms; extended theory of classes; relations; number; syntax. Appendix: theorem vs. metatheorem. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Revised Ed, 2nd Ptg. Trade Paperback. VG/No dj. 20 X 13½ cm.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Black simulated leather, xv, 874 pp, index. DJ has just a hint of wear at corners and spine ends, else as new; in Brodart archival cover. Thirty-two chapters cover just about every aspect of life that involves money, such as budgeting, saving, checking accounts, borrowing, buying & insuring a car, buying or selling a house, renting an apartment, homeowner's or renter's insurance, life & health insurance, education, taxes, investments, estate planning, retirement, divorce, funerals. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . Fine/Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1957 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. This is a volume in the series "Methuen's Old English Library," and except for the imprint appears to be printed from the same type as the Methuen edition. Putty cloth with purple & gold titles, x, 166 pp, footnotes, index. Pencil underlining & notes. DJ smudged, browned, a few tears; in Brodart archival cover. This brief grammar is aimed at students of literary Old English, and therefore concentrates on the Wessex dialect in which most of the surviving literature was written. Shipping weight 1 lb.. . VG/VG. 19 X 13 cm.