Search Results: Authors starting with Q from JimsOldBooks

New York: Scribner, 2000. Slight creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor bumping to ends of blue cloth spine and to corners of green paper-covered boards, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. A selection of twenty-six pieces by the author, originally published in "Outside" magazine in the 1980s and 90s, all on natural-history related topics. 287pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1952. Minor creasing to edges of unclipped dustwrapper, some bumping to spine ends and corners of gray boards, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book. Twenty-eight pieces by the author, originally published in magazines between 1930 and 1951, on various literary topics including Elizabethan dramatists, Kipling, H G Wells, "Les Liasons Dangereuses", "Moll Flanders" and more. 224pp, 6 b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Harvill Press, 1962. Some creasing and a couple of small tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, also a scuff-mark to lower half of spine of same; minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, otherwise a good tight copy of this hard-cover novel. Originally published in Italian in 1959 as "Capitale mancata", this is the first UK edition, translated by Isabel Quigly. 190pp.. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.