Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Kubik Fine Books Ltd, ABAA

London: Macmillan, 1961. Hardcover. 410p. A small red cloth hardcover book in good condition. Front cover slightly warped. Owner's bookplates and notes on front endpaper. Text clean and binding secure. A good reading copy. Main text in Latin; introduction and notes in English. Macmillan's Classical Series; measures approx. 6.75" x 4.5

London: Macmillan, 1958. Hardcover. 410p. A small red cloth hardcover book in good condition. Front cover slightly warped and back edge of spine cloth nicked. Owner's bookplates and notes on front endpaper. Text clean and binding secure. A good reading copy. Main text in Latin; introduction and notes in English. Macmillan's Classical Series; measures approx. 6.75" x 4.5

Surrey: Islam International Publications Ltd, 1996. Paperback. 142p. A softcover book in very good condition. Former owner's private library stamps inside covers and on title page. Otherwise clean and tight.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. for the Parents' Institute, 1939. Hardcover. 306p. A blue pictorial cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Edges lightly rubbed, but otherwise clean and tight. From the "What Every Child Should Know Library," second series. An interesting vintage guide to manners and good character.

Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1894. Paperback. 300p. A vintage paperback book in POOR condition. The cover is badly chipped and could entirely detach is not handled very gently. The wrappers and edges are dampstained. All pages tanned with age. A very brittle copy that ought to be handled with great care. The "Lime Kiln Club" was a fictional fraternity of African American men, created by journalist/humorist Charles Bertrand Lewis for episodic newspaper pieces geared toward working-class readers. Written in dialect, the pieces depict the Club's members discussing politics and current events, negatively satirizing and stereotyping American blacks as ignorant and inadvertently humorous.

Pantheon, 1957. Hardcover. 159p. Ex-library. A pictorial hardcover book in good reading condition. Vintage library binding. Corners and spine ends heavily worn. Lots of old library markings inside and on spine, and card pcoket in back. Old mylar cover is badly chipped and torn. Text itself unmarked and binding tight. A vintage Catholic children's book about saints with popular given names. Contains many illustrations.

New York: McGraw-Hill Companies Inc, 2010. Hardcover. 1990p. A hardcover book in fine condition. The text is clean and the binding tight.

London, 1991. First edition. 216p; plates. A fine hardcover copy in like dustjacket.

Brooklyn: New City Press, 1990. Paperback. Fair. 183p. A softcover book in good+ condition. Edges of spine lightly rubbed. Owner's tiny signature inside front cover. Scattered tiny marks in margins; most pages clean, and binding tight. A scarce biography of Trappistine nun Maria Gabriella Sagheddu (1914-1939). She was beatified in 1983.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 244p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a dustjacket in poor condition. Corners worn. Otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is chipped and had a lengthy closed tear along the front flap fold. An Inner Sanctum mystery novel set in the 1920s.

New York: The American Mercury, Inc, 1937. Paperback. 126p. A softcover book in very good condition. Edges scuffed and spine slightly faded; otherwise clean and tight. Abridged text of this Ellery Queen mystery. Mercury Book #32.

New York: Triangle Books, 1943. 11th printing. Hardcover. Good. 354p. A golden-yellow cloth hardcover book in good condition. Corners and spine ends weraing through. Faint spotty stains on the spine and boards. Margins tanned throughout interior; otherwise, text clean and binding tight.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1930. Hardcover. 316p. A red cloth hardcover book in acceptable condition. Edges worn, corners bumped, and a bit of spotting to boards. Former owner name on front endpaper. Front hinge cracked, but cover remains attached to textblock. Fragile; should be handled with care.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 217p. An orange hardcover book in very good condition. Edges rubbed and endpapers partially tanned. Pen note on half-title page. Otherwise, text clean and binding secure.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1969. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 185p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Edges lightly rubbed; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is tanned, lightly chipped, and spotted with a few tiny stains. Otherwise generally intact.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 224p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a good dustjacket. Bookplate inside front cover; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is worn along the edges and has a small tear near the bottom of the spine. The spine is also faintly dampstained. Still mostly intact. Vintage edition of this Ellery Queen mystery novel.

New York: The New American Library, 1967. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 215p. Ex-library. A hardcover book in good condition with a FAIR dustjacket. Corners rubbed and library marks inside; otherwise, text clean and binding secure. The jacket is badly torn, with a large piece gone from the front panel and lots of chipping along the edges. Vintage edition of this Ellery Queen mystery.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1937. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good. 318p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a good dustjacket. The binding is slightly cockeyed, but still tight. Edges lightly shelf-worn; otherwise, text is unmarked. The jacket is chipped and torn; the edges of the flaps have been reinforced with clear tape. Still mostly intact. Vintage reprint of this Ellery Queen mystery novel, published in the same year as the first edition.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1945. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 191p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a good dustjacket. Jacket is edgeworn, with chips in the corners and along the rear top edge. Pages tanned but clean; binding tight. A nice vintage copy. Second printing of the Tower Books edition.

New York: Viking, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 338p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is fully intact, but has a stain at the base of the spine.