Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

[Barcelona: ACAR, 1997]. Folio. 176 pp. 100s of colour illusts., blk & wht illusts., diagrams, illusts. Thick colour-illust. softcvrs, thick flaps, w/ architectural cutouts on flaps still present, NF copy from the collection of Dr. Rochelle Martin. First edition of this scarce work tracing the architectural efforts of Adriaan Geuze, Enric Ruiz, Bea Goller, Edouard Francois & Duncan Lewis, and many more.

San Francisco: San Francisco Press, Inc., [1971]. 8vo. 160 pp. Colour frntsp., numerous photo illusts. Blue boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (mnr shlfwr, rubbng), NF/VG copy. Second edition of this informative history of the famed ship.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1910. 12mo. v, [3], 326 pp. Colour frntsp., plates. Green cloth, white & gilt illust. & lettrng on frnt cvr & spine (rubbng, edgewear, startng to rear hnge), still a G copy. First American edition of this adventure fantasy, an Abyssinian romance quite similar to She in its plot.

London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Designed in England, Printed in Germany, [ca. 1900]. 12mo. 3 x 4.75 in., opens up to 17.75 in. long. Six die-cut raised embossed chromolithograph plates, bound in accordion-style format, each panel with different illustration (old paper reinforcement & repairs to joint folds forcing pieces to be folded into 3 panels, rather than six, very minor edgewear, very minor loss to upper fore-edge 1 panel), still G- copy. First edition, RT & S Artistic Series imprint, of this early version of the popular nursery rhyme as a Panorama Toy Book by Raphael Tuck. The panels feature the tarts being cooked by the Queen, stolen by the Knave, the Knave being beaten, and then apologizing by the same Tuck artist who also created The Life of Nelson, No. 995. These Panorama Toy Books could be purchased in series, or, were often used as giveaways and promotions by businesses. These were also often published as large sheets for Victorian Scrapbooks, with each separate book to be cut away from the… Read More

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1996]. Two vols. 1st - 12mo. xvi, 252 pp. Photo frontisp. Full red leather, gilt lettering & star front & back covers, raised bands & lettering in gilt on spine, silk moire endpapers, a.e.g.; 2nd - 8vo. [8], 160, [8] pp. Including tables, charts. Frontisp. photo. Gray full calf, gilt decoration front & back cover, raised bands, & gilt lettering on spine, silk moire endpapers, a.e.g., a fine set, second volume w/ Easton Press promo leaflet, from the library of Robert A. Taylor, w/ bookplates on front pastedowns. First Easton Press Editions of Mao Tse-Tung’s “Little Red Book” published originally from 1964 to 1976, and widely distributed during the Cultural Revolution. The second work established Mao as one of the most important architects of modern guerrilla asymmetric warfare.

Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [2016]. Tall 8vo. [12], 304 pp. Numerous photo plates. Full black leather, gilt decorated covers, raised bands & gilt decorated spine, silk moire endpapers, a.e.g., NF copy, w/ Easton Press Collector’s Notes laid-in, from the library of Robert A. Taylor, w/ bookplate on front pastedown. First Easton Press Collector’s Edition of this work examining the efforts of Meig’s monumental effort to guarantee supplies for the Northern Armies during the Civil War, and judged by Lincoln and Seward both to be the indispensable architect of the eventual victory. Issued as part of Easton’s “Military History” series.

Bangkok, Thailand: Orchid Press, 1999. 4to. 126 pp. Maps & colour photos throughout. Blue cloth, gilt illust. & lettering on front cover, colour photo-illustrated endpapers (minor shelfwear), w/ d.j. NF/NF copy. First edition of this work tracing the Korean influences on the ancient kingdom of Kibi in western Japan.

Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., [1927]. 8vo. 263, [1] pp. Frntsp. map. , illust. endpapers. Blue cloth, silver lettrng & illust. (slght shlfwr, mnr soilng ft of spine), w/ d.j. vivid cover art of man holding a sea otter behind a seated Native American by Gustavson (mnr edgewear, some dustsoilng to spine & bk cvr), VG-/VG, numbered and signed by the author on half-title. First Old Oregon Country edition, No. 875 of 1500, of this historical novel set against the backdrop of the establishment of the first American fort and Trading Post on the Columbia River by John Jacob Astor. Scarce in the original colour dustjacket.

Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co., [1909]. 8vo. 363, [1] pp. Photo frntsp., 10 plates by Carqueville. Beige cloth, arts & crafts illust. of cowboy, w/ spurs & lariat in red & gray on frnt cvr, red & gray lettrng (slght bmpng hd & ft of spine, crnrs, slght fryng), still VG bright copy, w/ bkplate on frnt pstdn of Willie M. Christopher. First edition of this fascinating work about the wild and wooly days around Fort Griffin, Texas in the 1870s and 1880s, containing accounts of John Selman (spelled as Sillman in the book), and John Larn. Rye (1848-1920) was a western journalist and cartoonist who founded the Tomahawk Newspaper in 1879, and then worked for the successor papers, the Western Sun and the Albany Sun until 1882. While working for the Albany Weekly News from 1889-90, he published a series of articles entitled Old Times in Texas, and Character Sketches, which were incorporated into this work. Although Rye had intended the work to be full of exaggeration and tall tales, apparently one prominent ranching… Read More