Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Common Crow Books

Lutetiæ Parisiorum (Paris): Apud Alexium de la Roche, et al., 1728. Hardcover. Very Good. Published 1728, small 8vo, contemporay specked calf, 348 (10) (6) xviii, 63 (1) pp. very good crisp copy. The hymn cited is Pervirgilium Veneris, or The Vigil of Venus, authorship unknown.

Damascus: al-Fannal-Hadith al-Alami, 1962. First printing. Paperback. Good. 8vo, wraps, good with some wear, soil, tanning, light abrasions. 92 pp, illustrated. Uncommon. In Arabic.

Shanghai: Shanghai Scientific and Technological Education Pub, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 1999. Hardcover, 8vo., green cloth. Text in Chinese. 307 pp. Illustrated in color and b&w. Very good in a very good dust jacket. DJ lightly edgeworn. Slight lean and dent to spine. Extremities bumped. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.

China: The Nationality Publishing House of Qinghai, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. c.1984.. Brown cloth, gilt titles. 4to. 136pp. Illustrated with many full-color photographs. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket. Light general shelfwear.

Beijing: China Machine Press, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. 2007. Softcover, octavo. Text in Chinese. 255 pp. Very good. Contents clean and unmarked.

Taipei: Qi dong wen hua, 2011. First Printing. Wraps. Near fine. 8vo, wraps in slipcase, about fine. 230 pp, illlustrated. In Chinese. A translation of the blurb on the slipcase: "In 1939, Qu Xiaowei's grandmother Xu Yun was just a 21-year-old girl from Shanghai. Her fiancé had already retreated to Chongqing. At this time, Shanghai was in danger, so she and another girl crossed the sea and took a ferry from Vietnam to Yunnan. Looking for a fiancé in Sichuan... After more than 70 years, Qu Xiaowei wants to retrace the route of her grandmother's escape, and re-taste her grandmother's hometown dishes, which may be what her grandmother must do on her birthday every year. Simmered noodles with shredded pork and pickled vegetables, or perhaps a homemade pickled cucumber. Therefore, she went to participate in the Cloud Gate Homeless Project. In the interview room, Teacher Lin Huaimin said to her: "If you go, you will be free and don't think about anything." But she thought it was ridiculous, "A man full… Read More

Moodus CT: Fowler, 1894. Fair. Revised edition (first published in 1891), wraps (5.75 inches tall) 32 pp, fair copy, lacking rear wrap, some wear to front wrap at spine, light repairs to spine, pages tanning. Enclosed is a single page flyer over 13 inches in length, 'To Weak, Nervous Sufferers...' plus an order sheet. Touts Dr. Rudolphe's Specific Remedy. 2 copies -- at most -- located by OCLC.

Oxford University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Hardcover. c.1982. 8vo. 290pp. Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Previous owner's stamp on flyleaf. Mild edgewear to dustjacket.

Singapore: Eastern Universities Pr, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. 2004. Softcover. 250 pp. Very good. Light edgewear. Tiny stain to title page. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.

Bordentown, NJ: Aaron Bellangee, 1854. First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo, publisher's embossed dark blue cloth, gilt spine. Unusually crisp, fine copy, pages toned and foxed. 331 pp. Bellangee (1788-1853), born at Little Egg Harbor in Burlington County, NJ, moved with his family in 1818 to Ohio and became a member of the Plainfield Monthly Meeting, and eventually became a minister. In the late 1830s, the family moved again, to Illinois, near Ipava in Fulton County, where he spent the remainder of his life. His brother, Aaron, the publisher of this book, visited him there shortly before his death and was given this manuscript which he published after James's death. 331 pp, errata.

Philadelphia, etc.: Emmor Kimber et al., A. Fagan Printer, 1815. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, original sheep, red morocco label, very good, light foxing, 118 pp, ad, errata. Kersey, of Chester County PA, according to notes on him by Peter Sippel found online, "In the course of his long life he worked variously as a potter, teacher, merchant, pipefitter, farmer, surveyor, real estate developer (there is still a "Kersey Street" in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, named after him,) and postmaster. He was also, at various times, owner or part owner of a woolens mill, an iron foundry ("The Brandywine Iron Works and Nail Factory," better known today under its later name, "Lukens Steel Company,") and a coffee and tea shop. When he was not involved in the ministry, in writing, or in trying to earn a living his favorite pastime was fishing." 1919 annotated photo of a meeting-house in eastern PA loosely inserted.

Philadelphia: Friends' Book-Store, ND. Hardcover. Good/q. No date, 1870s? 8vo, cloth, good copy with some fading to upper part of upper board, some darkening to spine, light wear, lacking rear flyleaf, both inner hinges show neat strengthening, with torn off scrap of paper signed by the great grandson, Thomas Scattergood, in 1904. 496 pp. Thomas Scattergood (1784-1814) was a Quaker from Philadelphia who brought the concept of the ‘moral treatment' of mentally ill patients to the US from The Retreat in York, England. He was instrumental in the foundation of Friends Hospital, the first mental hospital in the US to follow this model.

Philadelphia: John Richards, 1843. Wraps. Fair. 8vo, plain wraps, fair copy with quite a bit of wear, rubbing, abrasions and edge-loss, light restoration and touching up to spine, contents good and clean. 108 pp, plus 10 blank sheets and index.

Philadelphia: Friend' Book-Store, 1870. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo, 6.25 x 4 inches, publisher's brown cloth, very good, mild wear, 1910 previous owner's inscription. 107 pp. First published 1795 in the UK and 1799 in the US.

Venezia: Electa Editrice, 1970. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Square quarto, cloth hardbound in dust jacket, 155 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, minor soil/discoloration to the page-edges and endpapers, dust jacket with light rubbing or wear to the tips and edges. Uncommon book. Text in Italian.

Wurzburg: Edition Georg Popp, 1978. Hardcover. Near Fine. 1978 Maroon cloth 4to, 193pp. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Near fine with light shelfwear. Previous owner's signature on the front flyleaf; else clean and unmarked.

London: Ghana Timber Marketing Board/A.S. Worth & Co, 1969. Paperback. Very Good. Printed paper wrap, quarto, 109pp., illustrated in color. Book has toning, soil and mild foxing to wrap, cornerwear, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. No DJ. Text in English, French, German, and Spanish.

Galatina: Mario Congedo, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Volumes 1 and 2. Italian text. Near fine copies in blue cloth. No dust jackets, but both volumes in mylar wraps. Minimal edgewear to boards. Slight fading of page outsides, but text is clean, bright and unmarked.

Pierre: South Dakota State Historical Society, 1994. First printing. Paperback. Very good +. Four index pamhlets. Stapled wraps, clean unmarked text, very good+ volumes, minor soiling and discoloration, light edgewear.

Stony Brook NY: The Stony Brook Poetics Foundation, 1968. Wraps. Very good. 8vo, wraps, very good, price sticker on front wrap, light soil to covers, contents very good. Contributors include: Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, William Carlos Williams, John Wieners, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Jackson Mac Low, Denise Levertov, James Laughlin, Muriel Rukeyser, Jerome Rothenberg, Czeslaw Milosz, et al.