Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA)

Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1930. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). xvi, 402 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. The unclipped dustjacket is unevenly browned on the spine, with several tiny tears and creases, and with a large scuff to the rear panel; protected in archival mylar. Contains 14 illustrations and the endpapers are map-illustrated. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

Ann Arbor, MI: No publisher listed, 1874. Book. Good- condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 259 pages of text including an index. Hardcover binding is heavily sunned on spine, and quite rubbed and worn but remains intact. Moderate rippling to spine cloth at lower corner. Handwritten institutional bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, with no other library markings present. Numerous pages are affected by sometimes heavy, scattered staining and rippling, with a few instances where the text lacks a letter or letters. This book was evidently used in the lab, and suffered from it. First edition..

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1956. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 222 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with several small chips to extremities, and minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated by Harold Munson..

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1960. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 64 pages of text. Decorative hardcover cloth binding, with minimal shelfwear. Dustjacket is slightly rubbed at the extremities, with slight soiling; protected in archival mylar. With an introduction by Sir John Neale. A facsimile of the 1558 publication, including a large fold-out plan of the city. Queen Elizabeth I. Queen Majesty's Passage Through the City of London..

Chicago, IL: Cathedral Publishing Company, 1976. Book. New condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 159 pages of text. Blue hardcover binding. Illustrated with historic black & white photographs. Business..

New York: Lieber-Atherton, 1976. Book. Very good+ condition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Octavo (8vo). 80 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with minimal shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Signed by author in ink on the front endpaper with no further inscription. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition..

Amsterdam: H. J. W. Becht, 1940. Book. Good+ condition. Paperback. First Edition. Quarto (4to). 60 pages of text. Stiff paperback binding with affixed printed dustjacket. Moderate shelfwear to binding, and a few small stains on wrappers, which are overall slightly soiled. Illustrated with dozens of black & white facsimiles of paintings. No date listed; circa 1940..

London: Alexander Hogg, 1790. Map. Very good+ condition. No Binding. Early edition. A circa 1790 engraved folded map, measuring 8 1/2" x 13 1/4". Originally issued in a book on the voyages by English explorer Captain James Cook (1728-79). Solomon Islands; South Pacific..

no place: Not published, 1906. Autograph. Very good+ condition. Unbound. Signed by Author(s). No edition. Handwritten quote from Thomas Carlyle's work "From Hero As Poet" on a 3+15/16" (width) x 2+7/16" (height) card, dated 1906. Entirely handwritten by Meynell and signed by her "All Deep things are Song [signed] Alice Meynell." Minor smudging to first part of quote. Previously mounted on dark paper, with minor adhesive and paper remnants on back of thick cardstock. English poetess and novelist, who spent most of her youth in Italy. She converted to Roman Catholicism in 1872, and wrote much on religious subjects. Poetry. Suitable for framing..

no place: No publisher, 1864. Autograph. Very good- condition. Unbound. Signed by Author(s). No edition. Four line quote from "Poems" signed and written entirely in the hand of poetess Jean Ingelow. It reads: "Far better in its place the lowliest bird; Should sing aright to God the lowliest song; Than that a seraph strayed should take the word; And sing his glory wrong. [signed] Jean Ingelow Nov. 29th 1864." Her work "Poems" was first published in 1863; this quotation was published as the last stanza of the section titled "Honors II." Paper measures 5+15/16" (width) x 3+3/4" (height). It was folded into thirds, and has minor creases. Bottom edge has two small tears and a small chip, not affecting any writing. However, an old tape repair at the bottom edge has stained the writing, affecting the date only. Suitable for framing..