Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Bartlebys Books

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. First edition, 1/1200 copies. 8vo. xvi, 133 pp. Plates, some in color, endpaper maps. Bruns C-10: "Much fish and fishing." Biscotti, p. 353. Heller 294: "Four chapters on bear hunting." Very good. Tan fabrikoid, gilt-stamped labels on spine (rubbed) and upper board. (6896).

NY: Scribner's Sons, 1941. 1 of 1200 copies. 8vo.; xvi, 133pp. With photos by the author (many in color). Top page edges gilt. Very good in chipped glassine.

New York: Ducks Unlimited, 1946. First edition. Large 4to. xiii, (1), 255, (1) pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, plates, line drawings, vignettes, illustrated dust jacket. Isaac Walton bibliographer Bernard Horne's copy, with his bookplate on the verso of the front endpaper. Very good copy and uncommon in dust jacket. Original tan cloth, printed dust jacket (a little wear at the extremities). (8823).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. First edition, 1/1200 copies. 8vo. xvi, 133 pp. Plates, some in color, endpaper maps. Bruns C-10: "Much fish and fishing." Biscotti, p. 353. Heller 294: "Four chapters on bear hunting." Very good. Tan fabrikoid, gilt-stamped labels on spine (rubbed) and upper board. (#6896).

Boston, (MA): Printed by Russell and Cutler, 1801. First edition. 12mo. viii, [9]-155 pp. Original drab paper boards and tan paper spine. Soiling and cracking to paper spine, paper chipping from boards, text clean. A good, somewhat tender copy. STODDARD and WHITESELL 702. WEGELIN 1157.

Cambridge, [MA]: Printed at the University Press, by Hilliard & Metcalf, 1822. First edition. Disbound pamphlet. 21 cm. 28pp. Rear page with closed tear, slightly affecting one word of text. Inscription on title page "from the author" closely trimmed, recipient's name has been trimmed away. "Here, as a judge of the Boston Municipal Court, Quincy speaks on the relationship of poverty to crime and urges reform in the city's jail system."- COHEN 4378.

NP: np, 1811. One of several editions of this speech printed in 1811. 8vo. 19, (1) pp. Presentation slip to "Revd. Professor Norton" (Andrews Norton, 1786-1853, Biblical scholar and Dexter Professor of Sacred literature in the Harvard Divinity School), signed by Quincy, tipped-in at the title page. Quincy (1772-1864), served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, 1805-1813, here opposing admission of Louisiana as a state on the grounds that the federal government's limited powers included no authority to enlarge the borders of the "Union"; his rant had little effect and Louisiana was admitted to the Union, 30 April 1812. Quincy later served as mayor of Boston, 1823-1829, and as president of Harvard University, 1829-1845. American Imprints 23772. Thompson 1087: "Admission of new territory violates the constitution and is grounds for secession." Later blue wrappers (worn). (#5467).

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1845. 8vo. 64 pp. Original printed wrappers (a little soiled). Very good copy housed in a custom three-point cloth folder with leather labels on the upper cover and spine. First edition. Inscribed at the head of the title page "Revd. Dr. Nichols / with the respects of / Josiah Quincy." Correcting false statements made by Bancroft in his report concerning the "condition of the seminary and the labors of its Professors." Quincy (1772-1864) served as mayor of Boston, 1823-1828, and President of Harvard, 1829-1846. "Josiah Quincy was a fine example of a cultured and aristocratic public servant" (DAB).

Boston, (MA): True and Greene, City Printers, 1826. First edition. 8vo. 30 pp. Stirring 50th anniversary address, given on the day that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died, their passing acknowledged in a note at the foot of pp. 5-6. Inscribed at the head of the title page "J. P. Thorndike, Esq. / with respects of / Josiah Quincy"; Quincy (1772-1864) served as Mayor of Boston, 1823-1829, and as President of Harvard, 1829-1845. American Imprints 25887. Disbound pamphlet. Very good.

Cambridge, [MA]: Printed at the University Press, by Hilliard & Metcalf, 1822. First edition. 8vo. 28pp. Stitched sheets. Very good. Inscribed by Quincy to Samuel P. Land [Loud?] Esq. "Here, as a judge of the Boston Municipal Court, Quincy speaks on the relationship of poverty to crime and urges reform in the city's jail system."- COHEN 4378.

Jackson, MS: Printed by C.R. & J.S. Fall, 1836. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. Quitman's state of the state address, covering states rights and slavery (pp. 3-7), Indian treaties (pp. 8-9), and support for internal improvements to reduce dependence on New Orleans (pp. 11-12). Inscribed (by Quitman?) at the upper corner of the title page "S.T. Mason / Gov. of the Territory / of Michigan" (parts of "territory" and "Michigan" trimmed in binding; "acting" written in another contemporary hand ahead of the word governor in the title). Quitman (1798-1858), a native New Yorker, emigrated to Mississippi where he became an influential champion of states rights, a defender of slavery, and a brigadier general in the Mexican War; he served as acting governor, December 1835 - January 1836, as governor, 1850, and in the national House of Representatives, 1855-1858. Mason (1811-1841), de facto Governor of the Michigan Territory, 1831-1836, served as the first Governor of the State of Michigan, 1836-1840. American… Read More