Titles starting with Q from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

New York & Boston:: H.M. Caldwell Co.,, [ca. 1910]. 8vo. 536 pp. Frntsp. Gold-coloured cloth, colour plate mntd on frnt cvr, illust. on frnt & spine (vry mnr rubbng, shlfwr), w/ d.j. (chppng hd of spine, at crnrs, dustsoilng), VG/G-. Early printing of this story from the Famous Books for Girls series, complete with very scarce dustjacket. ... more information

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New York:: Gryphon Editions/ [Notable Trials Library],, [1992]. 8vo. xxxv, [1], 679, [3] pp. Photo. Half-blue calf over decorated blue cloth, lettrng & decrtn in gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., F. First Notable Trials Library edition of this account of the trial of Louis Riel and his attempts with the Metis in the Northwest Territories of Canada to carve out their own empire on the Plains. ... more information

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[London]:: Hodder & Stoughton,, [1939]. 4to. 255, [1] pp. Frntsp. photo, numerous plates (some in colour), letters, engravings. Colour-illust. softcvrs (mnr chppng & creasng to spine, edgewear), still G copy. First edition of this fundraising anthology containing work by A.E.W. Mason, John Masefiled, A.A. Milne, Daphne Du Maurier, Eric Ambler, and others. The illustrators include Edmund Dulac, Emund Blampied, Dame Laura Knight, Arthur Wragg, Rex Whistler, Mable Lucie Attwell, and others. ... more information

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New York:: P.F. Collier & Son,, [ca. 1900]. 8vo. [4], 426 pp. Title in red & blk. Photogravure frntsp. Black cloth, gilt lettrng (mnr wear & rubbng, frnt hnge startng, slght sunng to spine), still nice copy, w/ bkplate from library of Charles E. and Maude K. Backlund on frnt pstdns. Reprint edition of this title in the Collier Works of Alexander Dumas. This novel is set at the beginning of the reign of Louis XVI, and the affair of the Diamond Necklace. ... more information

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Albuquerque, NM:: Univ. of New Mexico Press,, [1993]. 8vo. xvi, 156 pp. Photos, illusts., maps, text diagrams. Colour-illust. softcvrs, NF. First softcover edition of this excellent work on the history of original Americans living from Alaska down to South America, 12,500 years ago, the Bering Land Bridge, and Arctic prehistory. ... more information

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Cambridge, MA:: MIT Press,, [1989]. 4to. xiv, 234, [2] pp. Diagrams, text figures. Blue boards, white & blk lettrng, VG, from library of mathematician & physicist John A. Simmons, w/ ownrshp stmp on ffep. First edition. ... more information

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New York:: D. Appleton & Co.,, 1914. 8vo. [14], 315, [1] pp. Frntsp., numerous plates. Light red embssd cloth, gilt lettrng, colour-plate lozenge mntd frnt cvr (mnr rubbng, mnr sunng, couple proud signatures), still G copy. First edition of this occult fantasy adventure about crystal gazing and mystery. ... more information

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London:: John Murray,, 1914. 8vo. 336 pp., plus 10 pp. publ. ads (btm half of last ad page torn). Beige illust. cloth, blk lettrng (minor rubbng & shlfwr), VG. First edition, 2nd prntng of this charming story of an Antique dealer and his adventures in Victorian England. ... more information

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Boston:: Little, Brown & Co.,, 1897. 8vo. 541, [5] pp. Green cloth, gilt illust. of Nero on frnt cvr, gilt lettrng on spine (slght shlfwr, very mnr rubbng), VG copy, w/ frmr ownrshp signature on half-title. Second printing of this famed novel inspired by neo-Christianism, providing a broad picture of Roman life in all its light and shade. ... more information

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