Search Results: Titles starting with Q from ZH BOOKS

James R. Osgood, Boston, 1875. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. This first American edition of Tennyson's influential work bears the bookplate and signature of Robert Clarence Pruyn, who was a famous American inventor, banker, businessman, and politician. Among other things, he established the Santanoni Preserve in the Adirondack Mountains, which is today a state park and National Historic Landmark. Book Condition: Good - original green boards with gilt decorations and title; head and tail of spine worn; some rubbing to corners, otherwise covers mostly clean with a few spots to back cover; pages clean.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1886. Hardcover. First edition, binding B (BAL 7337); 8 1/2 x 6 1/2; pp. [9], 10-58; unbleached linen over boards, ruled and lettered in gilt and black; front board illustration from pp. 13, back board from pp. 16; engraved and printed by Edmund Evans; frontispiece and 27 in-line illustrations in color by Kate Greenaway; slight bump to bottom edge of boards; a bit of wear to tips of spine; all page edges reddish-brown; offset to ffep from a tipped-in period newspaper article about the book; two small, tasteful bookplates to front board verso; very good condition.Centered around four children in a mining camp in Gold-Rush California, the story follows their adventures playing pirates.

New York: The American Social Hygiene Association, 1942. Softcover. Revised edition; 7 x 3 1/4; three-fold, pp. 6; illustration to front wrap; light age-toning and wear to corners; small nicks to tips of fold-lines; handwritten address to back wrap; very good.Published mostly for the benefit of the American soldiers in the Second World War, but also addressing civilian men and women, the pamphlet described the two diseases and outlined their symptoms, modes of infection, treatment, prevention, etc. Two copies at Harvard and Yale, none other in the trade.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1899. Hardcover. Very Good. Early edition; 5" x 7 3/4"; pp. [16], 1-541, (1-10) publisher's list, [8]; original embossed red boards; gilt title; minor wear to covers; spine slightly faded; small closed cut to tail of spine; engraved portrait frontis; illustrations from paintings and photographs; very good. The famous tale of love between a young Christian woman and Marcus Vinicius, a Roman patrician. 'Quo Vadis" translated from Latin means "Where are you going?" referring to the apocryphal Acts of Peter, in which Peter flees Rome, meets Jesus on his way and asks him why he is going to Rome.