Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Monkey House Books

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Company, 1896. Tan cloth boards, dark blue decorated cover and spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. 1890s American fiction about a quirky traveling salesman. Scarce edition. 253 pages plus advertisements. Text clean, unmarked, some discoloration in the gutters of early pages. Hinges good but binding cracked at pp16-17 with other leaves loosening. Light wear to covers, boards quite nice, especially for their age.

Dr. Gourmet Books, 2009. Softcover. Very Good. Meal ideas and food preparation for people taking the anti-coagulant medication (blood thinner) Coumadin, aka Warfarin. Recipes, breakfast, main courses, soups, extras. Chart with Vitamin K content of various foods. 143 pages. Previous owner's address label inside front cover, else Fine.

New York, Los Angeles: Vantage Press, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket condition very good. Contains A Tribute to Man's Best Friend; The Western; Armenia, The Trial of a People; and The Mystery of the Wise Men. Shahpazian has written 4 stories that are an intriguing admixture of disparate subjects with somewhat spiritual and philosophical themes. Jacket spine somewhat faded, light cover wear.

New York: The McClure Company, 1870 [later printing]. Green cloth boards, red cloth spine. Good/No Dust Jacket. Translated from the German by Chapman Coleman. McClure Edition, 383 pages, later undated printing. Bookplate, ex-library, frontispiece tissue spotted. Faded, slight spine cock. Hortense, 1783-1837, was the wife of Louis Bonaparte, mother of Napoleon III, sister of Eugene (Napoleon's viceroy of Italy).

Naperville: Sourcebooks Landmark, 2011. Softcover, trade paperback. Fine. Biographical fiction set in 15th century Britain. 344 pages, reading group guide.

Coats & Clark's Inc., 1953. Stapled softcover booklet. Good/No Jacket. 21 Easy-to-do items in New 'Speed-Cro-Sheen' J & P Coats-Clark's. Includes linens and housewares, pillbox & pixie hats, bags, rugs, slippers, lace belt, casserole jackets, and pot holders. Wear to spine and back cover, internals nice.

Big Sandy, Texas: Jerry Gentry Inc., 1991. Stapled softcover magazine. Good/No Jacket. Creasing to cover, tear to back cover. 32 pages, jar topper critters, mini international flags, woven basket, child's art frame, lamb 'baath' set, tissue box cover, tropical fish desk set, table setting, button pals, and zipper pulls.

Big Sandy, Texas: Jerry Gentry Inc., 1991. Stapled softcover magazine. Very Good/No Jacket. 40 pages, spring designs (bunnies, daisy bouquet, notebooks), heart & home (valance, note holder), fun family game sets, bunny basket, magnets & coupon holder, earring caddy.

New York: Random House, 1964. Hardcover. Good Minus./Dust Jacket condition Good . Comical and unlikely pair in Antarctica. First printing, so stated. Ex-library, wraps, spine label, card pocket. 247 pages, text clear and readable. Both hinges cracking, staining to early pages.

Wheatridge, Colorado: Leman Publications, Inc., 1987. Softcover magazine. Good. Volume 18, number 1. 62 pages. Reproductions of traditional American quilts, modern cathedral window variations, magic pinwheels scrap quilt feature, 7 Kansas patterns (old-time quilt designs from America's heartland). Cover wear, creasing.

New York: Popular Library, 1974. Softcover, mass market paperback. Very Good. Quin travels from the Bronx to the Far East to investigate connections amongst a host of bizarre & disparate characters. 256 pages, previous owner's name, else Fine. Edward Whittemore was an American novelist active in the 1970s and 1980s. He was born in New Hampshire and spent his career with the CIA before turning to writing. His best-known work is the Jerusalem Quartet, a fictional telling of the history of the Middle East which blended historical fiction and magical realism.

Pontiac, Michigan, 1947. Green card covers, white plastic comb binding. Good. Lots of ""swell"" signatures on endpapers. 112 pages, some wear. A few pages pulling away from comb.

Pontiac, Michigan, 1948. Blue large format hardcover. Very Good. Pontiac Senior High School Presents the 1948 Quiver Golden Anniversary Edition. Lots of friends' inscriptions. 112 pages. Endpapers covered in signatures.