Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Parnassus Book Service

Spokane, WA:The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1992. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Spokane, WA: The Arthur H. Clark Company. 1992. 237pp. Illustrated. Hardcover.  Green boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with a bit of age-toning to end-pages and page edges lightly soiled with dust residue,  but otherwise, a very good clean copy, inside and out. 

New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons. 1941. 1st edition (Of 1200 copies). xvii+133pp. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Hardcover.  Boards soiled/darkened with spine strip sun-faded. Top edges gilt, foreedges and bottom edges soiled.  Internally, a very good, clean copy, free of previous owners marks or signatures.

New York:George H. Doran Company, nd. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:George H. Doran Company. nd. 1st American edition. 228pp. Illustrated with 16 tipped in plates by Edmund Dulac. Hardcover.  Red boards decorated on front cover in gilt, with title in gilt on spine, is lightly soiled, rubbed and shelfworn with light wear along edges, spine ends, and edge points.  Gilt on spine is almost completely rubbed off. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. All plates are present as called for and in very good condition. The binding is tight with hinges intact.  A very good copy.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1914. hard cover. Very Good. New York:E. P. Dutton and Co. 1914. 60pp. Hardcover. Blue boards lightly soiled and shelfworn at spine ends and edge points. Internally, a very good, clean copy. No previous owners marks or signatures found. 

San Francisco:The Peoples World., 1940. soft cover. Good/No jacket. Illus. by Carleton Williams, A. Redfield, and H. Davidson.San Francisco:The Peoples World.1940. 102pp. Softcover.Binding worn and separating, spine end chipped.S007.

San Francisco:Pacific Publishing Co., (1948). soft cover. Good/No jacket. A Selection from the Writing of Mike Quinn. A Memorial Volume. Edited, with a biographical Sketch by Harry Carlisle. San Francisco:Pacific Publishing Co. [1948]. 244pp. Wrps. Covers worn and curled at edges, internally, paper browned and brittle.S007

Alexandria:S. Snowden, 1812. First Edition. soft cover. Very Good/No jacket. Alexandria:S. Snowden. 1812. 30pp. Sewn wrappers.  Disbound. Front cover lightly soiled and edges are lightly frayed. Otherwise a very satisfactory copy. Advocate for establishing a permanent national naval establishment. Shaw & Shoemaker #26555. .

Northwestern University Press, 1972. First Edition. hard cover. Fine/No jacket. Northwestern University Press. 1972. xxiii+211pp. Hardcover.  In fine condition, still in publishers shrinkwrap. *"Synthesizing a wide range of European and African documentary sources, and drawing on the oral traditions of the Senegambia, Charlotte Quinn re-creates the history of the revolutinary nineteenth-century transformation of the Mandingo state system. She combines the methods of history and social anthropology to define in the Gambian context the confrontation between traditional ruling elites, reformist Muslim scholar-warriors, and expansionist European commercial communities."...back cover.

Providence: John Carter Brown Library., 1996. First Edition. soft cover. As New/No jacket. Providence: John Carter Brown Library. 1996. 93pp. Soft cover. Fine copy. S107.

Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran, Publishers, 1966. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft and Moran, Publishers. 1966. 1st edition, limited to 2000 copies. 263pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good condition, light soiling to boards, with gilt on spine still bright. Internally clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The Frank Utpatel dust jacket is lightly soiled on rear panel with an old vertical crease down the middle of the spine strip, otherwise in very good condition.

Hyannis, MA:Parnassus Imprints, 1996. First Edition. hard cover. Fine/Good. Hyannis, MA:Parnassus Imprints. 1996. 230pp. Illus. With dust jacket. Over-size. A fine copy.

[The Lower Cape Publishing Co.], [1979]. First Edition. soft cover. Very Good/No jacket. Signed by authors. [Orleans, MA]; [The Lower Cape Publishing Co.], [1979]. First Edition, second printing. Softcover. Profusely illustrated. 230pp. Signed by author on title page. Very Good condition. Softcovers moderately rubbed with two creases to back cover. Internally clean and bright, unmarked, and securely bound. "This book is a collection of photographs of marine accidents and disasters" from the 1870s to the 1970s, with text describiing the circumstances, largely taken from newspaper accounts. (cfm)

San Juan, PR:Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, 1978. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. San Juan, PR:Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena. 1978, 301pp+Indice. Hardcover.  A small tear to bottom spine end of front and rear gutters, but otherwise a very good, clean copy, inside and out. Gilt on spine still bright. 

Impresora Delta, 1965. soft cover. Fine. Caracas: Impresora Delta. 1965. Softcover. 262pp. Near Fine. Back cover has minor sunfading and a small pencilled number. Otherwise a beautiful copy. (cfm)

New York:The Macmillan Company, 1943. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. New York:The Macmillan Company. 1943, 1st edition, stated. ix+268pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  Blue boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with title in yellow print to spine strip. With light wear along edges and edge points gently bumped. Internally, end-pages age toned with a previous owners signature to inside front board, but otherwise clean. The binding is tight with hinges intact.  The dust jacket is still in one piece and not price clipped, but lightly soiled and worn along edges and folds.

Bloomington, IN:Indiana University Press, (1973). First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/Very Good. Bloomington, IN:Indiana University Press. (1973). 1st edition. 276pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very good, clean copy inside and out. The dust jacket is lightly soiled and shelfworn along edges else in very good condition. *"This history of the long and dramatic struggle between Church and State in Mexico reads like an eyewitness account, as absorbing as the best journalism - except that events are placed in perspective by an accomplished historian with a thorough mastery of his field. The struggle was unflagging and bitter, with both parties to the dispute presenting rival and mutually exclusive social programs, each seeking control of education, agrarian reform, and labor organizations."...dj

London:William Heinemann Ltd., 1956. hard cover. Very Good/Good. London:William Heinemann Ltd. (1956). 81pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket is worn at the edges with some fraying and several small chips and tears. Covers show some soiling. Book itself is only mildly shelf-worn. Interior is clean and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.