Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Thomas J. Joyce And Company

London: Cassell & Company, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, 364 pages, contemporary red cloth, spine recased, tips worn, spot on cover Author's first book, published in the same series as KING SOLOMON'S MINES, KIDNAPPED and TREASURE ISLAND. Note: this is complete but not in collector's condition. Offered "as is" . This Freudian psychological short story by this troubled master. Very Scarce in this first appearance. "In the first part the most impatient reader will find that he cannot afford to skip a couple of lines without detriment to the narrative" - Punch magazine.

Chicago: D. F. Keller & Company, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, 278 pages, cloth. Inscribed on the endpaper to Ralph Frese, the vital force behind the Chicagoland Canoe Base, and canoeing and kayaking in regional rivers. "Everything in Frese's life could be tied to the canoe. He was passionate about history, particularly Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette, the French explorers who traveled by water to establish Chicago on a 1673 voyage down the Mississippi. In 1973, Frese caught the paddling community's attention with a 3,000-mile reenactment in replica canoes and period costumes." Quaife's seminal study of Chicago's roads and transportation. Quaife "has pictured the life, the travelers, and transportation methods before the coming of trhe canal and the railroads; he describes an eventful period which has hertofore had but little considerations, and has succeeded in linking the old with the new in a most interesting way - Joy… Read More

University of Chicago Press, ( 1913). First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, vii, 480 pages, blue cloth lightly stained Quaife was, arguably, the foremost historian of Chicago working in the first half of the 20th century. This is his revisionist history of the first 150 years of Chicago history. The final quarter of the book gives the texts of first-hand accounts of the Ft. Dearborn massacre. [ Howes Q1]. Note: his extensive annotated bibliography is more than noteworthy.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, tan cloth soiled, inked name on endpaper Ellery Queen opens his first detective agency office. Murder ensues.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1942. First, Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo, 146pp., red cloth, paper label on spine; dj spine darkened from nicotine Annotated. Fundamental. One of 1060 copies, of which 1000 were for sale. In an ultra-violet light-resistant dj protector

New York: Lancer Books, 1966). Paperback Orig. Paperback. 12mo, wrappers rubbed at edges, cocked, Lancer Book #73-469. [DeWaal I:6065]. "The first Holmes-Ripper book -Lovisi, S.H. IN PAPERBACK, p. 62". "This is an enjoyable Holmes pastiche by a great American partnership of the detective story. It is also a pastiche-with-a difference in that it is Inspector Queen who, in the final chapter, solves the mystery of the Ripper's identity, naturally proving that Holmes has been right and poor Watson, as usual, wrong --Lord Donegal." N.B. According to Lovisi, Lord Donegal was wrong. He claims the work was written by Paul W. Fairman under the EQ name !

Berne, Adams County, IN: Economy Printing Concern / American Legion of Decatur Post No. 43, [ 1933 ? ]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Duodecimo, 141 pages, blue cloth, owner's label on endpaper; dj nicked at extremities. Scarce. Signed by Quinn on the free endpaper in 1945. Anecdotal account of Adams County. With text and photogravure of The Peace Monument at the Decatur Courthouse, the first War Memorial dedicated to Peace in America.

Ottawa, IL: Jameson Books, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Octavo; 269 pages, clothbacked boards Foreword by Ralph Abernathy. Biographical study of Jackson in connection with his quest for the U. S. Presidency.

San Francisco: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1926. First edition. Wrappers. Good. 8vo, 96 pages, stiff wrappers torn at heel. Alma Spreckels has been called "The Grandmother of San Francisco". After modelling for artists in her youth, she became a philanthropist and art collector based on the Spreckels sugar fortune. She favored the sculptures of Rodin. 48 pages of plates.