Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Keel Row Books

London; Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1940., 1940. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. 252 pp, [iv] advertisements. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Orange cloth with black titles & crests in pictorial dust-jacket. Several closed tears, large chips and numerous nicks & creases to jacket; minor loss at corners and across head of spine and loss to tail of spine (approx one-and-a-half inches square). Price of 7'6 net to jacket spine; illustrations bright. Light toning to endpapers; name & date tidily handwritten to front pastedown. A little minor foxing to textblock edge only. Scarce, particularly in genuine dustwrapper.

London; Hodder & Stoughton, 1913., 1913. Hardcover. Undated circa 1913. Quarto. 198 pp. 22 tipped-in plates in colour by Hugh Thomson, each with pictorial captioned tissue guard, plus black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Book Condition: Near Fine. Publisher's original lilac cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. Lilac illustrated endpapers. Spine very lightly sunned; cloth lightly rubbed at corners and spine tips. A little foxing to textblock edge; no annotation or inscriptions. Promotional sheet for an exhibition of Hugh Thomson's water-colour drawings, dated 1913, loosely inserted. A particularly clean example of this handsome volume. Heavy, shipping outside the UK may require a contribution towards additional postage costs.

London; Pitkin Pictorials Ltd, 1978., 1978. Square octavo, pp 24. Illustrated with colour photographs throughout. Stapled pictorial stiff card wraps. Small chip to upper cover foredge and corners lightly rubbed otherwise as-new. No annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Well illustrated guide to the famous royal dolls' palace, including images of the major rooms such as the library and drawing room, with close-up features on the Strong Room with Crown Jewels and the miniature artwork.

London; Harper Collins Children's Books, 2015., 2015. Mass Market Paperback. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, second impression. Softcover landscape quarto, pp. [32] unpaginated. Colourfully illustrated throughout by Tony Ross. Publisher's laminated pictorial card wraps. A clean, neat copy, boldly SIGNED by the author to pp. 1. A Fine copy. Originally produced for Comic Relief, the bored Queen asks for an orang-utan for her birthday, causing chaos in Buckingham Palace. A hilarious picture-book by the much-loved best selling children's author, brought to life with illustrations by Tony Ross.

Carbondale and Edwardsville; South Illinois University Press, 1976., 1976. Hard Cover. Reprint. Octavo, pp. [10], 9-285, [1]. Publishers' purple cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine in price-clipped printed dust-jacket. Spine tips a little creased; small light mark to lower board. Contents clean and bright with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket lightly surface scuffed, with nicks & creases to edge. A Near Fine copy in very good jacket. A novelisation of the corruption in Hollywood during the 1920s.

Birmingham; John Baskerville, 1762., 1762. Hardcover. FIRST THUS. 16 mo. [viii],300 pp. Lacks errata. Engraved frontispiece of Virgil and pupils, Britannia copperplate vignette to title page and Bute armorial to Dedication. Book Condition: Very Good. Later full white vellum with black leather title label & gilt titles to spine. Marbled endpapers; all edges stained red. Upper board a little bowed; vellum slightly darkened with small nick at upper front joint, but sound & tight. Bookplate of Charles Smyth to front pastedown; gift inscription to J J Coulton to second fep dated 1903 and Coulton's signature with that of William Cooper to following leaf. Foxing & light toning throughout. First Baskerville edition, by the eponymous type designer and printer to Cambridge University (1706-75). Scarce. Gaskell, pp 40-42.

Belfast; John Aiken and Son. November 1946, 1946. Mass Market Paperback. [5], 102-197, [1], 24. Final 24 pages are pictorial advertisements. Illustrated with full page plates in black and white. Original publishers' wrappers in cream with forest green lettering. A small closed tear (3cm) to spine tip and some minor soiling and creasing. Overall in Very Good condition. Volume. XIII, November 1946. Illustrated with humorous cartoons and black and white photographs.