Search Results: Titles starting with Q from The Parnassus BookShop

USA: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back First Printing. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. Gray half-cloth with silver titles, light grey boards; clean and unmarked, spine has very slight lean. Solid, tight, square with sharp corners. Former owner name on flyleaf. Jacket is grey with marbeling design, black lettering and a large red Q. Bright, clean, unmarked, untorn, with slight corner and spine head and heel wear. 385 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2002.

New York, New York USA: Quality Paperback Book Club, 1999. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Large Trade Paperback in Good Condition. A tremendous lot of exciting reading from Irish writers who write with a passion and genius for words. Many of the pieces involve great Irish writers commenting on their fellow great Irish writers: MacNeice on Joyce, Beckett on Joyce, Flann O'Brien on Joyce, Shaw on Oscar Wilde, Austin Clarke on Jonathan Swift, and Thomas D'Arcy McGee on Thomas Moore. There are jail memoirs spanning 100 years with John Mitchel's Jail Journal, Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Brendan Behan's Borstal Boy. And there is science fiction and horror as well as Irish folktales. Cover is clean with crease down the front, near the fore edge side. No soilng, trace wear to extremities. First page wrinkled on upper edge, otherwise internals are quite clean and free from any markings, noi creases. Glued binding is tight and solid. Great… Read More

U.S.A: Quality Paperback Book Club, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Near Fine Condition-almost like new with just a touch of cover wear. Geist Edition. Clean, bright, tight glued binding. A compendium of essays and little known facts about the man behind the myth. 93 pages. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. Quality Paperback Book Club, New York, 2002.

New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 2003. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Quality Paperback Book Club in Near Fine Condition, 2003. Designed by Rita Marshall. Paperback in heavy illustrated wraps, very clean and unmarked with whisper of wear to extremities, sharp corners, binding is tight, solid and square. No Dust jacket. Internals As New. Exquisite color illustrations by Etienne Delessert, Roberto Innocenti, Monique Felix, dIvan Chermayeff, John Howe, Marcel Imsand and Rita Marshall, among others--each capturing the essential qualities of the original tales. This classic fairy tales book presents the state-of-the-art in book illustration and a marvelous collection of works by the Grimms, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, and others. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 351 pages . 2003. Quality Paperback Book Club.

New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, 2003. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. Quality Paperback Book Club in Very Good Condition. 2003. Designed by Rita Marshall. Quarto paperback in heavy illustrated wraps, very clean and unmarked with slight wear to spine head and heel, corner tips creased, binding is tight, solid and square. No dust jacket. Internals As New. Exquisite color illustrations by Etienne Delessert, Roberto Innocenti, Monique Felix, dIvan Chermayeff, John Howe, Marcel Imsand and Rita Marshall, among others--each capturing the essential qualities of the original tales. This classic fairy tales book presents the state-of-the-art in book illustration and a marvelous collection of works by the Grimms, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, and others. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 351 pages . 2003. Quality Paperback Book Club.

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA: Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Francis Colburn. First published by Harcourt Brace and Co in 1947. This is the first edition, first printing of the University of Nebraska/Bison Books.The book is as new except for the previous owner last name printed on the first page. Cover is detail from "Granite Quarry" by Francis Colburn. Introduction by Ripley Hugo. A Vermont family saga and the regional history of soap-stone mining in the period between the Civil War and World War 1. 339 pages. 8 x 5.25 inches. 1995, Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

USA: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7. Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Jacket. Here is Queen Victoria's England and Queen Victoria in full historic context, from her birth low in the Royal succession to her coronation, to her sorrow at the death of the Prince Consort, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. Born in 1819, Queen from 1837 to her death in 1901, 63 years on the throne during a time of rapid change and expansion of the British Empire which she fully supported. Her life is portrayed against the political and social history of Britain and the Empire. The book is very clean in orange cloth binding, gilt lettered on spine. Tight & solid. Lower rear corner bumped; trace wear to spine head and heel. Internals very clean, no markings, no creases. Clean, edge worn dust jacket in archival protective cover. 495 pages with Chapter References and Index. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. 1972, Alfred A. Knopf,

China: Shaanxi Travel Tourism Press, 1980. Paperback. As New/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. World Cultural Heritage Trade Paperback. Heavy card pictorial cover is very clean and unmarked, bright and colorful. Pages are heavy coated glossy paper. Chinese written by Zhang Tao. Enclish translated by Liu Daoxuan and Zang Yun. English Proof read by Robert Dorning (Australia). Qin Shihuang Mausoleum is the tomb of the first Emperor in the Chinese feudal society. The vaults of Terra-cotta Army were discovered 1.5 km away east of the Mausoleum in March 1974. This discovery was called one of the great discoveries of archaeological history in the 20th century. This book is filled with magnificent color photographs and maps & diagrams of the archaeological site, the vaults, the Mausoleum and the Terra-cotta Army andother artifacts. It is in Chinese with English translation. 112 pages. 8.25 x 5.75 inches. 1980, Shaanxi Travel Tourism Press, China

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Simon & Schuster, 1984, First Edition. Hardcover Ex-library Book and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. This book demonstrates the way in which small nations can be destroyed when they are caught in grand and careless strategic designs. The clashes and the convergences of politics and humanitarianism is made clear in this history of the aftermath of America's Vietnam War and the murderous Pol Pot regime which devastated Cambodia after its takeover. This book chronicles the way the world responds to calamity. The author takes as one of his themes the famine which seemed to sweep through Cambodia in 1979 and the extraordinary way in which the Western world reacted to it. The library mylar cover over the jacket has been removed and the dust jacket is quite clean and unmarked with slight wear to head and heel, no library marks. The book is bound in black cloth covered spine with black… Read More

New York: HarperCollins, 1992. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Clean and unmarked yellow cover with red letters, a bare trace of edgewear, tightly bound, page block edges clean. Pages clean and completely free from any markings, lightly toned. Dr. Glasser has real, practical ideas for improving schools--he has worked for this for over thirty years. In The Quality School, he claims we must stop settling for minimal goals such as reducing drop-outs and start convincing students to work hard because there is quality both in what they are asked to do and how they are asked to do it--and explores what it means and how to do it. 310 pages, 5.25 x 8 inches. HarperCollins, New York, 1992.

New York: Evergreen Black Cat Book/Grove Press, 1964. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6. New York: An Evergreen Black Cat Book/Published by Grove Press, Inc., Date: 1964. on copyright page: First Evergreen Black Cat Edition, 1964. Mass Market Paperback in Good Condition. Clean glossy cover with minor wear, glued binding tight and solid, pages clean and unmarked. Two full length plays. The Quare Fellow, a tragicomedy, is set in an Irish prison on the eve of an execution. The Hostage is set in a disreputable Dublin lodging house, where a young Cockney soldier is being held hostage in reprisal for an I.R.A.man who is about to be hanged. Rough comedy, hair-raising jocularity, obscene insults, rollicking comedy, satirical songs. An Irish writer and playwright born in Dublin in 1923, Brendan Behan was one of the most colorful and controversial of Irish writers. He spent three years in Borstal, a boys reformatory, which he vividly described in his autobiography, "Borstal Boy" (1958). 182… Read More

New York: A. L. Fowle, Publishers, 1905. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback 1905 A. L. Fowle, Publishers. First published 1867 by D Appleton and Company. This is One Book in Good Condition from the Special Edition of a Set of L. Muhlbach's Historical Fiction. Luise Muhlbach is the pen name for Clara Mundt, b. 1814 Neubrandenburg, d. 1873. She was a German writer best known for her works of historical fiction. They were quite popular for a relatively short time. Many, if not all, were translated into English. This novel was translated from the German by Chapman Coleman. The books in this set are all bound in red extended cloth over the spine with the gilt rubbed off the titles which are imprinted into the spine--almost look blind-stamped now; boards covered with green cloth, quite clean, corner tips lightly scuffed, tiny bump to upper front corner, lower edges rubbed, rear panel has an indentation in the fore-edge and some pages adjacent to this have… Read More

USA: Harcourt, Brace, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Twentieth Printing 1930. Copyright 1921. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition No jacket. Eight illustration plates. Navy cloth, w/ gilt titles that are rubbed. Clean and unmarked with slight wear to corners. Tight and solid sewn binding. Spine cloth lightly rumpled. Prev owner name on endpaper. Flyleaves and title page foxed. Frontis:the royal family. Pages clean and unmarked; foxing on edges of illustration plates. Penciled short note about the book on rear endpaper. A detailed biography of Queen Victoria, Queen on England for 63 years, 1837-1901. 434 pages with Bibliography and Index. 5.6 x 8.25 inches. Harcourt Brace Publishers, New York, 1930.

USA: Harcourt, Brace, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Copyright 1921. Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition No jacket. Nine illustration plates. Navy cloth, w/ gilt titles on spine. Clean and unmarked with trace wear to extremities. Spine has a light crease. Tight and solid sewn binding. Former owner bookplate on paste-down . Pages clean and unmarked, evenly toned. A detailed biography of Queen Victoria, Queen on England for 63 years, 1837-1901. 434 pages with Bibliography and Index. 5.6 x 8.25 inches. 1921, Harcourt Brace Publishers, New York, New York, USA

USA: Harcourt, Brace, 1921. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback Ninth Printing Dec 1921. (First Printing May 1921). Hardcover Book in Good COndition. No jacket. Navy cloth, title on spine with gilt rubbed off. Tight and solid sewn binding. Pages quite clean, no markings, lightly toned. Front panel has partial ring on front; light rubbing of cover edges; spine head scuffed. Frontispiece: Portrait of the royal family; eight illustrations plates. A detailed biography of Queen Victoria, Queen on England for 63 years, 1837-1901. 434 pages with bibliography and index. .6 x 8.25 inches. 1921, Harcourt, Brace, New York, USA

Scottsdale, Arizona: Poisoned Pen Press, 2000. First US Trade Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7? - 9?" tall. Poisoned Pen Press. First US Trade Paperback Edition, 2000, in Fine Condition. White illustrated wraps spotessly clean, unmarked, tight and solid. The first novel of Edward Marston's historical mysteries set against the background of the Elizabethan theater, with protagonist Nicholas Bracewell. 193 pages. 9" x 5.5". 2000, Poisoned Pen Press, Scottsdale, Arizona.

New York: William Morrow, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Near Fine Dust Jacket. The story of the cruel and audacious slaving voyages of John Hawkyns, 1552-1595, slave trader by appointment of Queen Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1553-1603. Fine brown half cloth w/gilt titles, tan speckled boards. Tight, solid and square binding. Internals As New also. 416 pages with Notes, Bibliography and Index. 6.25 x 9.25 inches. 2004, William Morrow, New York

Garden City, New York, U.S.A: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Doubleday, Doran, 1928 First Edition, so stated on copyright page. Hardcover Book in Good Condition, without Jacket. Frontispiece and 41 quite delightful illustration plates. Edmund Pearson discusses weird, curious, or eccentric books and authors-quite unusual. Bound in the original gilt-stamped brick red cloth, three gilt decorations like hinges, on each side of spine, quite clean and unmarked, spine heel frayed. spine head , hinge and edges rubbed, corners lightly scuffed. All edges rough cut. Sewn binding tight and solid; backstrap loosened from crash. Pages are toned, very clean, no markings of any kind. Contents: I. Temperance Novels, II. Making the Eagle Scream, III. Alonzo and Melissa, IV. The Tribe of Gifted Hopkins, V. The Unfortunate Lovers, VI. Genteel Behaviour, I, VII. Genteel Behaviour, II, VIII. Crochets, IX. Side-Whiskers and… Read More

New York: Penguin Group, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. A story about making a documentary about Quentin's, a restaurant in Dublin, in an attepmt to capture the spirit of Dublin in the 1970s. A tale of love, betrayal, revenge, failure, and success. Clean, bright olive-green and tan speckled binding, with bright gilt titles on spine. Tight and solid, square, sharp corners. Interior immaculate. 359 pages. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. USA, New York, Penguin Grp, 2002.

New York, New York, USA: Penguin Books, 2012. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Revised and Updated Edition. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Clean and unmarked orange and yellow wraps, trace wear to upper edge, sound and tight binding. Internals quite clean, no markings of any kind. A leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin, continues the story begun in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Prize. In The Quest he shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new energies that are competing to replace them. He tackles tough questions and offers insights about coal, electricity and natural gas. He explains how climate change has become a great issue and leads the reader through rebirth of renewable energies, energy independence, and the return of the electric car. 820 pages with Notes,… Read More