Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Putnam, 1966. First American Edition. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine, some light scuffing and bumping to extremities and dulling of the gilt, a strong, solid copy in a clean, bright pictorial dustjacket with some marginal wear, creasing to upper edges, and a couple of small closed tears, two pieces of old tape reinforcement to the verso of the jacket. A very good copy with some light signs of wear. 198pp. [4pp.] Index to rear. Internally clean, with two sections of black and white photographs. Quant's autobiographical account of her fashions successes, inspirations, and failures.

[Vega, TX: Privately published, 1923]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Pictorial red cloth hardcover; 266pp, seven unnumbered leaves of plates. Tight, square copy, gilt slightly faded on spine and cover; solidly VG. A flawed and sensationalized account of the Missouri pro-slavery terrorist and his band of raiders, including much on the Jameses and Youngers. Quoting Adams: "Somehow one loses confidence in a biographer who does not know how to spell his subject's name correctly." SIX GUNS 323.

Winchester: Winchester - Frederick County Historical Society, 1989. Second printing. Octavo. Staple-bound card wrappers; 80pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy. Volume 8 of the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Papers.

Winchester, VA: Winchester - Frederick County Historical Society, 1975. Ca. 1990s reissue. Octavo (24cm.); green printed wrappers (softcover); viii,119pp.; illus; includes index. Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear.

Winchester: Farmers and Merchants National Bank, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound printed card wrappers; 64pp. A fine, apparently unread copy - near-new, in original wrappers.

Winchester: Farmers & Merchants National Bank, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Printed textured brown wrappers; 105, viii pp; illus. A clean, tight, unmarked copy; small bump to upper corner, else Near Fine.

Winchester: Farmers & Merchants National Bank, 1989. First Edition. Second printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; 105, viii pp; illus. A clean, tight, unmarked copy, about Fine.

Winchester: Winchester - Frederick County Historical Society, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound card wrappers; 80pp; illus. Mild soiling to front cover, else a tight, clean copy free of internal markings or significant wear, VG or better. Volume 8 of the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Papers.

Winchester: Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, 1996. First Thus. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; 269pp. Fine, apparently unread copy - appears new. Omnibus volume, gathering Quarles' four works on Winchester history original published 1952-64: Historic Winchester (1952); The Streets of Winchester, Virginia (1958); The Churches of Winchester, Virginia (1960); The Schools of Winchester, Virginia (1964).

Shepherdstown, WV: by the Author, 1965. First, Limited Edition. Octavo (24cm). Cloth boards (hardcover); 185pp. Frontispiece portrait. Fine, unread copy. Selected essays by the distinguished Frederick County educator and historian, long-time Superintendent of the Winchester Public Schools. Copy no. 500 of the Limited Edition (but edition size not specified).

Shepherdstown, WV: by the Author, 1965. First, Limited Edition. Octavo (24cm). Cloth boards (hardcover); 185pp. Frontispiece portrait. Fine, unread copy. Selected essays by the distinguished Frederick County educator and historian, long-time Superintendent of the Winchester Public Schools. Copy no. 500 of the Limited Edition (but edition size not specified).

Winchester: Winchester - Frederick County Historical Society, N.d. [ca 1990s]. Undated reprint, likely 1990s. Octavo. Staple-bound blue card wrappers; 80pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy. Volume 8 of the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Papers.

Winchester, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's grey staplebound card wrappers; [2],64pp. Minor soil to wrappers, including bleach stain to rear, previous owner's address label to front cover and signature on front free endpaper, else Near Very Good and sound.

Winchester: Farmers and Merchants National Bank, 1971. First Edition. Signed by the author on title page. Octavo (23cm). Pale blue printed wrappers (softcover); 346pp; illlus. Small, faint stain at top of spine; private embossed ownership stamp at base of title page, else a tight, clean, Near Fine copy. Signed by Garland Quarles, long-time Frederick County educator and the dean of local historians in the upper Shenandoah Valley.

Quebec: William Cowan et Fils, 1843. First Thus. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; iv,[2],130pp.; two folding plates. Title page (serving as upper cover) separated but present and extremities rather chipped, stock generally brittle though contents remain clean, plates in fine condition. Good or better overall. Compilation drawn from several texts, including the manuscripts of Ramusio and Hakluyt on three voyages made by Cartier. SABIN 10620.

Stony Brook: Stony Brook Poetics Foundation, Fall 1968. First Edition. Typographic glossy wrappers; large 8vo. 255 pp. Ambitious issue of a short-lived (two volumes) magazine: Pound "Canto "CXIV"; W C Williams, Duncan, Snyder, Ammons, James Tate, Jackson MacLow, Dahlberg, Olson, Wieners, Jim Harrison, Ginsburg, Levertov, Andrade, Popa and many others. About very good, covers bright, tight and clean.

Barrytown, NY: Station Hill, n.d.. First edition. Incidental pieces by Kelly, Quasha and others "created & designed by the author" and printed on "unused portions of press sheets at the Open Studio Print Shop" On Beckett laid paper. One of 1000 copies. All in a printed folding card envelope. Very good.

London: Gollancz, 1975. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20cm); red paper-covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 159pp.; evidence of bookplate removal on front free endpaper; minor offsetting inside covers; few spots of soil to the textblock; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced £2.50 net) with mild rubbing; Near Fine.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1946-1955. First American Edition. First Printings. Octavo (19.5cm); The first ten volumes of The Queen's Awards; all bound in various color cloth with the Queen vignette on the cover and spine; dustjackets; 380pp., 403pp., 368pp., 313pp., 242pp., 247pp., (review copy); 263pp., 286pp., (review copy); 276pp., 262pp. All volumes are Very Good+ or better; dustjackets are Very Good to Near Fine. The first three volumes are uniform in style with jacket design by Oscar Ogg. The remaining 7 volumes are uniform in the new style jackets by Samuel H. Bryant. [The format and series title changed starting with the eleventh book.] First apperance of many stories by authors such as Kenneth Miller (Ross MacDonald), William Faulkner, Jack Finney, Stanley Ellin and many more.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1951. First Printing. Publisher's review slip loosely laid-in. Octavo (20.25cm); red cloth titled in black on cover and spine; dustjacket; 245pp. Minor dampstain to the heel of spine; mild spots of toning to gutters; Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50) with tiny nicks and short tears to the extremities; evidence of dampstaining to the heel, most prominent on the verso; thin strip of toning to the edge of the rear flap; Very Good.