Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Michael Joseph / M. & J. Hobbs 1979. 4to. First Edition 128 pp. Illustrated Boards. Signed presentation from the Author 'Paul | Happy birthday | from | Spike Milligan' in his calligraphic hand. A little fading to the spine, and a couple of minor rubs, else a Very Good copy. 0718118707 . Near Fine. Illustrated Boards. First Edition. 1979.

Turici: Sumptibus Orellii Fuesslini et Sociorum 1843 / 1844. 8vo. In 2 volumes. viii, 732; 895 pp. Full vellum. Gilt panels to spines with brown leather title & volume labels. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Bound by White of Pall Mall. Minor marks to vellum. Scattered spotting, occasionally heavy. Text in Latin. A nice pair. . Very Good. Full Vellum. 1843.

London: Hodder & Stoughton c.1901. 4to.Illustrated. viii, 199 pp. Bound in gilt lettered black half morroco with grey blue cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Minor wear to the corners and slight marks to the boards. Some scattered foxing to the front and endpapers. 22 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards by Hugh Thomson. 'Bound by W. H. Smith and Sons Ltd.' A gift inscription to an amateur dramatist who had played Miss Susan Throssel, with a cast list from the production in 1958. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1901.

London: Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription 1898. 8vo. This is copy no. 232 of a limited numbered edition. lxxi, 206 pp. Publisher's white parchment-paper covered boards. Gilt lettering to front board & spine, with decorative red cloud design to boards. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Boards spotted & darkened. Tear to head of spine. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Internally clean. . Good. Parchment Paper Covered Boards. 1898.

London: Horace Cox 1902 - 1905. 16mo. A very nice, complete set, consisting of a mixture of first, second and third editions of the volumes, published between 1902 and 1905, including the scarce 'Household Hints' (no. 14), as follows: Soups (3rd ed); Ices (2nd); Pickles and Preserves (2nd); Entrees (3rd); Meat and Game (2nd); Sweets. Part 1 (3rd); Sweets. Part 2 (2nd); Breakfast and Lunch Dishes (2nd); Salads, Sandwiches and Savouries (2nd); Vegetables (1st); Bread, Cakes and Biscuits (1st); Fish. Part I (1st); Fish. Part II (Cold Fish, 1st); Household Hints (1st). There are variations from copy to copy (not necessarily according to the edition) in the shade of red-orange that is used for the cover text; some of the cream cloth covers are cleaner and brighter than the others, and there are black marks to 'Breakfast ans Lunch Dishes', but all are very good and tight. . Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 1902.

London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1891. 4to.Illustrated. 40, (2), 8 pp. Cloth spine over green and red decorated boards. Some wear to spine ends and joints, with repair to spine. Boards edgeworn. Colour illustrations and calligraphy throughout by Walter Crane. Publisher's catalogue at rear. Internally quite clean. . Very Good. Decorative Boards. First Edition. 1891.

London: The Blackamore Press, Limited 1928. 4to.Illustrated. First Edition. 111 pp. Quarter vellum binding over brown boards with gilt lettering on boards and spine; inside original packaging with protective tissue paper. Top edge gilt. Engraved illustrations in colour throughout by A. Alexeieff and a preface by Prince D. Sviatopolk-Mirsky. The first edition of The Queen of Spades to contain a full English version of the text; number 228 of 250 copies printed on Rives vellum. Original packaging box is tattered with some panels detached. However, it has kept the book's binding firm, boards and spine very clean. Page edges untrimmed, but internally clean. A lovely copy in near fine condition. . Near Fine. Vellum Spine. First Edition in English. 1928.

Morrell Wylye Head. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 92 pp., Soft cover, clean and bright with price sticker to the rear. . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1985.

London: Collins Clear-Type Press n.d. 12mo. pp. 379 + publisher's adverts, with illustration by Paul Hardy and introduction by A.T. Baker. In full maroon leather with gilt lettering and decoration on spine, top edge gilt in a slipcase which has wear to edges and corners. Minor wear to head and foot of spine otherwise a very good copy. . Very Good. Full Leather.

London: Faber and Faber Limited 1946. 4to.Limited Edition. xii, 162 pp. Black cloth with red cover design by Mervyn Peake. Top edge gilt. Boards spotted and marked. Corners bumped. One of 500 copies on handmade paper. With 30 full-page line drawings by Mervyn Peake. Near Very Good condition. . Very Good. Cloth. 1946.

Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark 1993. 8vo. xv, 344 pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Clean copy. Near Fine in a VG dust jacket. 0567096165 . Near Fine. Hardback. 1993.

London: Privately Printed 1997. 4to. Unnumbered Limited Edition for private circulation. xii, 220 pp. Hardcover in illustrated jacket. A few small tears to top edge of jacket, clean. Otherwise all clean and firm. A bibliography of Victorian penny dreadfuls ('bloods') - pulp horror/crime fiction - compiled by occult writer A. E. Waite but only published for the first time here. . Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited First Edition. 1997.

Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2002. 4to. 282 pp. Publisher's colour pictorial laminated boards in dust jacket. Very clean bright copy. No wear. No ownership marks. With over 950 colour photographic illustrations. 9780764314797 . Near Fine. Laminated Boards. 2002.

London: Book Club Associates 1981. 4to. 448 pp., Illustrated in colour. Limited edition bound in gilt decorated brown morocco signed by Bonington on bookplate on ffep. AEG. . Near Fine. Full Morocco. 1981.

London: Grayson & Grayson 1932. 8vo. 244 p. Original orange cloth with lettering in black to front board & spine. Slight fading to spine. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally clean. Know as Viscount Coverdale, and son of conservative PM Stanley Baldwin, he was a Labour MP for many years. He was openly homosexual. . Very Good. Cloth. Second Impression. 1932.

Great Britain: Privated Printed 1978. 8vo.Limited Edition. 48 pp., Blue printed paper wrappers. Covers clean. Some scattered spotting internally. One of 200 copies printed by Rampant Lions Press. . Very Good. Paper Covers. Limited Edition. 1978.

Italy: Trolley Ltd 2004. 4to. 160 pp., 70 b/w photos. Still shrinkwrapped. In 1916, with the Great War reducing northern Europe to a treeless, shattered void, a boy was born to the prosperous director of a pharmaceutical firm in Zurich. He was named Werner. It was not an auspicious time to be born and, indeed, his mother died soon after. As a child, young Werner sought order in his life by dissecting snails and photographing, in the limpid light of his creation, the elegant whorls revealed. He did not become the physical training instructor (a compromise) his father wanted him to be. He did not become the painter he had once wanted to be in Paris in 1939, on the brink of another devastating conflict. He became Werner Bischof, the man, and a photographer of incalculable artistry who found in both order and the chaos he confronted and experienced a sublime beauty, a humanity that was singularly his own. His photographs of the post-war Europe in poverty and despair expressed infinite hope for the human… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins Limited 1940. 8vo. 252, (4) pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine lettering dulled and stain to front board. Neat ink owner's name to front endpaper. Internally clean. . Good. Hardback. First Edition. 1988.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House [c. 1950]. 16mo. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965. 647, 619, 686, 864 pp. Brown hardbacks with decorative embossed spines and stamped signature of author to front panels. In illustrated dust jackets. Volumes are in very good, clean and unmarked condition internally, with clean boards. Occasionally there is light bumping to a spine end or a few marks to endpapers. Embossed endpapers, ribbon bookmarks. Rubbing to jacket extremities, a few tears and chips but overall clean and intact. Considered as one of the most important works of world and Russian literature of the 20th Century. This is the first complete publication of the four volumes in English, based on the original English translation by Stephen Garry, and revised and completed by Robert Daglish around 1950. Includes a key to principal characters. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1950.

Quimper: Editions Ouest-France 1990. 4to. Two volumes in slipcase. 144; 271 pp. Large format paperbacks in slipcase. Slight crease to one spine. Very clean and bright copies. No ownership names. Colour and b&w illustrations throughout. Text in French language. . Fine. Paperback. 1990.