Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Evening Star Books

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company [1944], 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [16], 15-384, [2] pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine, gold decoration on the front board; dark yellow topstain. Illustrated maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Title page printed in green and black. Illustrated with several plates. Part of The American Lakes series. Edited by Milo M. Quaife. A history of the region around Lake Michigan (including Milwaukee and Detroit and Ontario). Jacket has a few traces of edge wear and rubbing.

Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4 vol. Large 8vo. [2], 5-608, [2]; [2], 3-599, [1]; [4], 5-678; [4], 5-682 pp. Green publisher's cloth (reinforced with green cloth at the gutters) with a border in blind on each board, the spines in five compartments, gold lettering on the spines; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author in volume one, volume one also with several full-page illustrations. Volume two is also illustrated with several full-page images and a color frontispiece of the state flag. Volumes three and four with several full-page black and white photographs, the photographs depict the subjects in the short biographies included in the volume. The history begins with a chapter on the Native people of Wisconsin, contines with the first European exploration of Wisconsin, and concludes at the early twentieth century. The illustrations depict the driftless area, buffalo, the… Read More

Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, 1859. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. [2], iii-vii, [1] ,9-103, [3] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with gold lettering on the front board. Coated yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Excerpts taken from Tracts Illustrating the History, Doctrine and Discipline of the Society of Friends, published in London in 1851. A few nicks to the cloth; leaves show minor foxing with a contemporary gift inscription on the front flyleaf.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [6], vii-x, [2], 3-310 pp. Gold cloth with grey and silver lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $6.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. An important overview of African-American citizens' contributions to the fight to end American slavery. Black Past: "Benjamin A. Quarles". Benjamin Quarles was a black scholar who earned his PhD at Wisconsin and taught at Morgan State College in Baltimore. Quarles was also a Guggenheim Fellow. A Near Fine book with a bit of foxing to the top textblock and a faint erasure to the front flyleaf in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a bit of age toning and edge wear.

London: John Russell Smith, 1856. Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo. [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-174, [2] pp. Half brown calf over marbled boards, spine in six compartments with black decorations and a brown morocco label lettered in gold; all edges decoratively stained red. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Quarles. Oxford DNB, Karl Josef Höltgen, "Quarles, Francis (1592-1644)". Quarles wrote this book of aphorisms based on the writings of Machiavelli and Bacon. Written during the English Civil War, the book provides invaluable political advice for a monarch, expressed in compact but useful language. Light rubbing to the extremities, a contemporary gift inscription on the first blank leaf.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. vi. [3], 4-321, [1] pp. Tan cloth with brown lettering on the front board and the spine. Price of $2.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Henderson 888. Hubin 661. A nice example of an Ellery Queen mystery, difficult to find in collectible condition. A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket with traces of rubbing and a small closed tear to the rear panel.

New York: Triangle Books (1940), 1940. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [3], 325, [1] pp. Blue cloth with black decorations and lettering on the spine, a black skull on the front board. First printing of the Triangle edition, reprinting of one of the earlier Queen novels. A Very Good book with the usual heavy age toning to textblock and pages; jacket is Good only with several large tears to front panel, traces of edge wear, darkening to rear panel.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [6], vii-xix, [3], 3-197, [1] pp. Black publisher's cloth with orange lettering and decorations on the front board and spine; orange topstain. Price of $2.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with several full-page drawings of artifacts from Greece. A book intended for young readers to learn about regular life in Ancient Greece. Part of The Everyday Life series. Foxing to the top textblock and fore-edge; jacket has traces of edge wear and some sunning to its spine panel.

London: Printed for R. Dutton, W.J. & J. Richardsons, R. Lea ... and J. Cawthorn, 1805. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], iv-xxxii, [1], 2-448, [2]; [5], 2-458, [2] pp. Contemporary calf with a gilt rule on each board and the spines in six compartments, gilt decorations and a red and black morocco label lettered in gilt on each spine; all edges decoratively speckled. Translated into English with notes by W. Guthrie Esq. With the armorial bookplate of George Palmer. Brueggemann 673. Moss 543. Oxford Classical Dictionary, "Quintilian", 1290. Smith 257. This is the second edition of Will Guthrie's Quinctillian, first published in 1756. Moss cites a review which states that Guthrie's was an accurate and correct English translation of Quintillian's work from the Latin original. Quintillian was a powerful orator, a tutor to Emperor Domitian's sons, and a teacher of Pliny the Younger. This is Quintillian's only surviving work, titled Training in Oratory. His magnum opus was written a… Read More

Boston: John H. Eastburn...City Printer, 1832. First edition. Pamphlet. Fair. 8vo. [3], 4-21, [1] pp. Disbound from the original green wrappers (which are not present). A Fair copy with a large yellowed stripe on the spine from cellophane tape, final leaf is starting to separate.

New York: Random House [1966], 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 4-258, [2] pp. Blue cloth with a blue decoration on the front board, silver lettering on the spine; light blue topstain. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. A collection of 21 essays written over the course of 30 years. Topics include logic, epistemology, metaphysics, Strawson and Carnap's work on these topics, among other subjects. A name on the free front endpaper and a few ink underlines in the first few leaves of text, a small tear to the spine's heel; jacket has a bit of edge wear including a tiny tear to the bottom of its spine panel.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [3], 2-165, [1] pp. Half black cloth over grey paper boards with white lettering on the front board and spine. Price of $5.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Slater 743. The first John Dewey lectures delivered at Columbia. Quine's lectures were intended to clarify several arguments that he made in his earlier work, Word and Object. The nature of meaning, the meaning of existence, and the nature of natural knowledge are all expounded upon in these lectures. A few annotations at the end of the volume; jacket shows minor edge wear and rubbing.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 2-113, [3] pp. Grey cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Grey endpapers and pastedowns. A touch of sunning to the spine panel, else Fine.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [13], 2-219, [1] pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. A collection of later essays from Quine, concentrating on the history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of langauge and science, metaphysics, and moral values. A lovely copy. A Near Fine book with a touch of foxing to the textblock in a very near Fine dust jacket.

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [7], viii-xv, [2], 2-359, [1] pp. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Price of $5.95 on front jacket flap. Slater 743. A presentable copy of Quine's overview of set theory which includes comparison of his own ML and NF with Russell's Theory of Types, NBG, and the now standard ZF (consideration of MK is omitted, but Kelley's system was relatively new at the time of publication). A Near Fine book in a Very Good lightly edge-worn dust jacket with some tiny chips and a few areas of minor discoloration.

Boston / New York: The Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology / John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [1960], 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. [8], ix-xv, [1], 1-294, [2] pp. Light green cloth with twin gold rules, black lettering, and publisher's device in blind on the front board, twin gold rules and both gold lettering and black lettering on the spine. Part of The Studies in Communication Series. Slater 742. With a card signed by Quine laid in. The card measures 7.5 c.m. x 12.5 c.m. W.V.O. Quine was a distinguished philosopher who spent the majority of his career at Harvard and was widely recognized as one of the leading analytic philosophers of his era. A student of Carnap, Quine was an extraordinarily influential analytic philosopher, known for propagating the Verification Theory of Meaning, empiricism, and the examination of philosophical problems using scientific principles. Word and Object explores how human language affects ontology and our objective… Read More

Chicago: Clarke & Co., Publishers, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo. [5], 6-1022, [4] pp. Recent imitation sheep with the spine in five compartments, recent maroon leather label lettered in gilt on the spine. Later endpapers and pastedowns with the original endpapers bound in as well. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with eleven steel-engraved plates. Broadfoot 466. Nevins II 161. With a history of the campaigns in which Wisconsin soldiers have been conspicuous, regimental histories, sketches of distinguished officers the roll of the illustrious dead, movements of the legislature and state offices, etc. A large compendium of Wisconsin's role in the Civil War, with histories of several individual units, beautifully illustrated. Some foxing to the pageblock and minor chipping to the edges of the free front endpaper.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [5], vi-viii, [3], 2-166 pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. An examination of the philosophy of Divine Command, the idea that moral actions are based on the will of a divine being. Quinn explores objections to this argument. Jacket's front flap has its bottom corner clipped.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Small 8vo. [8], ix-xii, [2], 3-404 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Number 127 in the Loeb Classical Library. Edited and translated by Donald A. Russell. Latin text on the left, English on the right. A very slight wave to the fore-edge; a few hints of edge wear to the jacket.

Glasguae [= Glasgow]: Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis [= Published by Robert and Andrew Foulis], 1750. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Small (Pot) 8vo. [5], 2-248, [2] pp. Contemporary full calf, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations, maroon morocco label on the spine, boards' edges show gilt tooling. Gaskell 155. Editio Altera. The second Foulis press edition of Horace, the first Foulis Horace published in 1744. Contains Horace's satires, his Epodes, the shorter poems (known as the Carmina), his Ars Poetica, and his letters (Epistolarum). Oxford Classical Dictionary, "Horace", 724-76. Horace's body of work ranges from comedic to philosophical, rendering him one of Rome's most appreciable but weighty literary figures. He writes about his experiences at the Battles of Philippi and Actium, fighting in Brutus' army. He was lucky to retain his land after being on the losing side of the Roman Civil War. His writings helped him make sense of the violence he witnessed… Read More