Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Cat's Cradle Books

Roma: Edizioni dell'Ateneo, 1991. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Primarily in the Italian language with some essays in English. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages with light handling wear throughout. Wrappers have general shelf wear. ; Essays exploring ancient Greek and Hellenistic poetry. Sections: Poesia omeria, Lirica greca arcaica, Poesia ellenistica, Epigrafia e storia greca, Recensioni. Contributing authors: A. Suter, L. E. Doherty, D. Clay, B. Gentili, C. Catenacci, E. Cingano, L. Lomiento, R. Pretagostini, M. Brioso, M. Guarducci, D. Ambaglio, R. Campagner, M. Bettalli, R. Scuderi, M. Cesa. ; 9.5" tall; 164 pages.

Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1990. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Sound binding. Writing on first page. Other pages clean, bright. Wrappers have general shelf wear, handling wear. ; Contents: Interview with Sir Laurens van der Post. Whitmont, The cosmic organism. Myers, An activist's perspective: the inner nature of the environmental crisis. Noel, Soul and earth: traveling with Jung toward an archetypal ecology. Short pieces by Andrew Samuels, Paul K. Kugler, Marga Speicher. Book reviews. ; 10" (25.4 cm) tall; 112 pages.

Haverford, Pa: Friends Historical Association, 1985. Soft Cover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear. 67 pp. Contents: Sharman, "George Fox and His Family I"; Martin, "The Pre-Quaker Writings of George Bishop"; Higgins, "Some Aspects of Style in William Penn's Maxims"; Densmore, "Quaker Publishing in New York State, 1784-1860"; book reviews, other regular features. 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 67 pages.

Haverford, Pa: Friends Historical Association, 1987. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Square, tight binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have light shelf wear with previous owner's address stamp on top front. 71 pp. Contents: Ingle, "From Mysticism to Radicalism: Recent Historiography of Quaker Beginnings"; Horle, "Death of a Felon"; Beeth, "Between Friends: Epistolary Correspondence among Quakers in the Emergent South"; Wood, "Evangelical Quaker Acculturation in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1850-1875"; book reviews, other regular features. 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 71 pages.

New York: Penguin, 2010. First Thus. Softcover. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. First Thus. Sound binding. Clean, bright pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing. ; Collection of writings by members of the Society of Friends. ; 7.75" tall ; 370 pages.

Belo Horizonte: Editora Comunicação, 1979. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Binding sound, pages clean and bright. Wraps have light shelf wear. ; Fiction by Brazilian author. 8.25" tall; 181 pages.

Princeton, NJ: Quarterly Review of Literature, 1976. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean, off-white pages. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Sections on Franz Kafka, Paul Valery, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Giacomo Leopardi, Friedrich Hölderlin, Eugenio Montale ; 8.5" tall; 574 pages; Renumbered.

New Bern: Eastern North Carolina Genealogical Society, 1974. Ephemera. Good with no dust jacket. Mimeographed pages are age-darkened, clean. Typescript font. Stapled binding is tight. Wraps age-darkened with light shelf wear. ; Contents: Editor's note. Eighteenth century New Bern. Carteret County militia records. Dobbs County, list of justices of the peace and militia officers, 1784-1806. Cedar Grove Cemetery. ; 11.0" tall; 35 pages.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1967. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Pages slightly off white with general handling wear including some creasing at bottom corner. Wrappers have general handling wear including creasing at lower front corner, some tanning at spine. ; Contents: Travers, Only connect. Orr, The trials of minor biography. Staff of the Division, Recent acquisitions of the manuscript division. Sólyom-Fekete, The Hungarian constitutional compact of 1867. Cho, The Tokyo war crimes trial. Chua, Communist China and international law. Index to Volume 24. ; 10.25" tall; 120 pages.

Chapel Hill: Quarterly Review of Literature, 1943. Softcover. Good+ with no dust jacket. Square, sound binding. Clean, age-darkened pages. Wraps have age-darkening around edges and at spine, light handling wear. ; Contents: poetry by e e cummings, Jorge Carrera Andrade, Richard Lyons, Alice Moser, Porfirio Barba Jacob, Calvin Claudel, M. J. A. McGittigan, T. Weiss, Edna Givens. Fiction: Paul Green, "Evening Sun Go Down." Alain Jean Paul, "Awakening." John Eisenhard, "Whiter Than White." Warren Carrier, "The Tale of the Decadent Lord." Articles: Carlos Garcia-Prada, "An Errant Shadow and His Song." H. R. Huse, "Anatole France on Art and Aesthetics." H. C. Montgomery, "Thomas Jefferson, Critic of the Classics." Reviews. ; 9.5" tall; 66 pages.

Mamaroneck, New York: Old Town of Mamaroneck Historical Society, 1951. Ephemera. Very Good with no dust jacket. Stapled booklet has clean, slightly age-darkened pages. Typescript font. Wraps have light shelf wear. ; Inaugural newsletter with content about local history: The Story of the Great Lots of John Richbell in 1669. Lists of persons who acquired land in Mamaroneck before 1700. Census of the inhabitants of Mamaroneck in 1698. Town officers of Mamaroneck before 1700. Abstract of Anne Richbell's Will. Notes of general interest. ; 9.0" tall; 12 pages; Re#.

New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1961. Soft Cover. Good with no dust jacket. Wrappers of book have slight fading and edgewear. Single stamp on the title page. Interior pages glossy, just off-white. Binding sound. ; Catalog of auction held November 25, 1961. Many black and white photographs with written descriptions. 10.25" (26 cm) tall; 77 pages.

Ilfracombe, Devon: Arthur H. Stockwell, Ltd, 1953. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding and hinges. Writing on front endpaper. Pages clean, tanned. Cloth over boards is generally shelf worn with edge rubbing and bumped corners. ; Anthology of poetry in honor of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. ; 7.5" tall; 174 pages.

Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding, cracked hinge papers with hinges holding. Pages clean, tanned. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic plates. White paper over boards is tanned. Profuse gilt decoration on front and spine with blue lettering. ; Descriptions with historical background of Venetian sites of interest to tourists: Cathedral of San Marco (Saint Mark's), the ducal palace, the Rialto bridge, churh of Santa Maria della Salute, Bridge of Sighs, Museo Civico, the clock tower, the Grand Canal, and more. ; 8.25" tall; 380 pages.

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Pages clean, tanned. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed with bumped corners and overall light wear. Signed by author on title page. Writing by former owner of book on title page as well. DJ has deep chip on back at top, with edge wear and overall shelf wear. ; Fifth novel in Fletcher's "Carolina" series fictionalizing 200 years of North Carolina's history from the beginning of the colonial period to the ratification of the Constitution. Set in Edenton, in the Albemarle region of North Carolina. Constitution Edition; 8.5" (21.5 cm) tall; 448 pages; REMOVED - condition.

Paris: Librairie Hachette Et Cie, 1912. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by É. Bayard. Book is in the French language. Square, sound binding and hinges. Pages clean, age-darkened. Writing on ffep. Cloth over boards is edge rubbed, gilt faded at spine, with overall light shelf wear. ; Novel by Russian-born French writer, the Comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874) . Engravings; 7.0" tall; 392 pages.

New York: Richard R. Smith, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Front hinge cracked but binding is holding. Pages tanned, clean. Cloth over boards is edge worn with bumped corners. ; 8.5" tall ; 540 pages.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is clean. DJ has light edge wear, overall light shelf wear. ; Story of the first Chinese man to travel to the West, John Hu, who accompanied a French missionary returning from Canton to France in 1722. ; 8.5" tall; 187 pages.

Petrópolis: Editora Vozes Ltda, 1977. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Binding holding, a bit brittle in the center. Clean, off-white pages. Wraps have light handling wear. ; Selections from the writing of Brazilian author Tobias Barreto de Meneses (1839—1889). Coleção Dimensões do Brasil; Vol. 6; 8.25" tall; 353 pages.

Paris, Kentucky: Plum Lick Publishing, 1996. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Illustrated by Larkins, Jackie. First Edition. Signed on title page. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Paper over boards is lightly edge rubbed. DJ has light overall shelf wear and crease on front flap. Illustrated with drawings. ; Vignettes from the lives of real Kentuckians, "rooted in the values of little people in little places doing little things but receiving little recognition." ; 9.25" tall; 250 pages; Signed by Author.