Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin. 1955 1st ed. thus. 220pp. paperback: good reading copy only [covers are darkened; text is completely age browned; else a complete & tight copy] A collaboration by the prolific British born writers Richard Wilson Webb (1901-66) and Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912-87) writing under the pseudonym, originally published in 1946.

London: Batsford. 1949 4th ed. SIGNED by author on half-title p. under a personal but unnamed inscription. 120pp. illus. tan cloth 8vo: about Good/no dj [rear hinge is cracked but firm; foxing; couple of corner bumps; else a complete copy with folding color map tipped to rear pastedown]

New York: A. S. Barnes, 1969. 390pp. illus. green cloth sm 4to: ex lib. copy; no library markings at all but evidence of some scuffs where tipped down dj was lifted; rfep has been clipped; else a clean, complete & tight copy in dj.

New York: Random House, 2010 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 299pp. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj [a very light top corner bump; text is lightly age browned; else a nice crisp copy]

Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2005 1st ed. 289pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of edge foxing; else F] The author brings the perspective of being both a native of Ireland and a long time resident of the Deep South to this fascinating scholarly study, winner of the 2004 Jules and Frances Landry Award. Jacket praise from Kerby Miller, Forrest McDonald and Betram Wyatt-Brown.

Lombard, IL: Great Quotations, Inc., 1984. 83pp. spiral ring-bound 24mo in stiff covers: Very Good [ink notes on last p.; else VG] Pithy one-liners from various sporting types; e.g. Joe Adcock’s famous line: "Trying to sneak a pitch past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun past a rooster."