Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Goldring Books

New York: Crossroad Publishing, 2003. A near Fine unmarked copy. x + 227 pages. A bold exploration of the divine co-creativity emanating from one of the most ingenious scientific discoveries of the 20th century - quantum theory. For the quantum theorist, the fact that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts underpins all reality. 'This is not merely a scientific principle of immense significance for our times, it is also a theological norm, known to mystics for centuries and now maturing into a supreme wisdom for our age'. R6. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Frederick Warne, 1887. Ornate gilt title block and black decoration and star motif to spine, gilt title and author's name ( as S. Warner ) with blind embossed classical motif of charioteer and decoration to front on blue cloth boards and blind embossed number 10 to back. Front board is clean and very bright with slight wear to top corner tip, spine is faded with gilt and decoration still very bright and has some wear to head and tail, back board has some fading along spine side with a small dent to edge. Internally there is a gilt and blue prize bookplate and 'Red House School' written in to front endpaper, a few small removals to a few pages not affecting text and age/dust marked closed edges else clean. Overall a Good + copy. Number 10 in the star series by Warne and is undated but The British Library cites this as 1887. The title page states 'By the author of The Wide Wide World, Daisy etc' which were also published by the American author, Susan Bogert Warner… Read More

London: The Queen Magazine, 1953. Blus title on gold card cover which has minor marks and very light creasing and a small nick to lower spine. Internally very clean and unmarked. 176 Pages. Illustrated throughout with photographs.. First. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

London: Robert Hale, 1979. A near Fine unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket which has a small repaired closed tear. Drawing on a variety of memoirs and other sources the author presents a rounded portrait of a very popular personality, showing how her ancestry and upbringing prepared her for the role she was called on to play when, finally she agreed to marry the Duke of York. He also shows how 'the smiling Duchess' transformed a shy, introverted and stammering Duke into a confident and popular King George VI. 60 illustrations. **** NOT EX LIB **** 16. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First US edition. 143 pages. 13 illustrations. Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg produced nine children before his untimely death in 1861. Daphne Bennett provides character studies of all the children during their formative years. New material from the Royal Archives enables her to paint a delightfully intimate picture of the nursery and its inmates in closer detail than has ever been possible before. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY COPY **** C3B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Paul Elek, 1978. A near Fine unmarked copy with gold title on red cloth boards with dustjacket which has fading and is not price clipped. No one among her subjects enjoyed going to the theatre more than Queen Victoria, it was one of her greatest pleasures and she was one of its greatest patrons. From the age of 12 to 42 she was not only an enthusiastic devotee of ballet, opera, circus and drama, sometimes going as often as three times a week, sometimes more than once in an evening, she was also an ardent supporter of the Windsor theatricals. The book, by the noted theatre historian, shows her likes and dislikes and the performances she saw at many theatres and is well illustrated with 19 plates. 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Paul Elek, 1978. A Fine unmarked copy with gold title on red cloth boards with dustjacket which has a few surface indentations to back and is not price clipped. No one among her subjects enjoyed going to the theatre more than Queen Victoria, it was one of her greatest pleasures and she was one of its greatest patrons. From the age of 12 to 42 she was not only an enthusiastic devotee of ballet, opera, circus and drama, sometimes going as often as three times a week, sometimes more than once in an evening, she was also an ardent supporter of the Windsor theatricals. The book, by the noted theatre historian, shows her likes and dislikes and the performances she saw at many theatres and is well illustrated with 19 plates. 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: W and R Chambers, 1901. Black titles with black, green and yellow decoration and pictorial on orange cloth boards which have some minor marks but no wear. Internally there is a decorative prize bookplate to front pastedown else very clean, tight and unmaked. 144 pages. 22 illustrations and portraits. Not dated but presumably 1901. One of the more scarcer memorial editions of Queen Victoria's reign following her death. B2D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: John Murray, 1953. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has some light foxing to endpapers with Very Good dustjacket which is not price-clipped. Published by Authority of Her Majesty the Quen. Reprinted April 1953 (First was also April 1953). Photographs by the Royal Photographer with descriptive commentaries. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Chapman Hall, 1926. Translated by Eric Sutton with an introduction by Hugh Walpole. Limited edition of 1000 copies for England and America of which this is number 48. Gilt title on light brown cloth boards with decorative paper sides. fore and lower edges uncut. Top edge gilt. Age darkening to endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. Uniform with XVIII Century French Romances edited by Vyvyan Holland. Book plate of Ralph Dickinson to front pastedown. Comprises Introduction; The Queen of Golconda; Ah! If Only; The Dervish. 'Aline, Reine de Golconde' was first published in Paris in 1761, 'Ah! si...' and 'La Derviche' were published in 1810, but belong, as does their author, to the 18th century. Bound and printed at the Curwen Press. B2E. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good TEG/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1997. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to front endpaper with dedication. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. The Tasmanian born author's second novel. The author's real name is Ellie Dean and uses the pseudonyms of Tamara Lee for her psychological thrillers and Tamara McKinley for her Australian epic novels. When Gabriella Castlemaine accidentally witnesses a brutal murder, she realises that the man she married, the man she thought she knew, is a vicious stranger and that their lavish California lifestyle is based on a lie. C3D. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: "Home Words" Publishing Office, 1887. Gilt and black titles and decoration with gilt and black cameo on red cloth boards. Some minor light marks to boards but no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Hundred and Fiftieth Thousand for the jubilee year. The second printing. 27 illustrations. A very nice condition example of this work. B2D. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Methuen, 1907. Gilt decoration and title to spine on mauve cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is some light foxing to some early pages else clean, tight and unmarked. 24 illustrations. Comprises Catherine of Siena, Beatrice D'Este, Anne of Brittany, Lucrezia Borgia, Margaret D'Angouleme and Renee, Duchess of Ferrara. 31 page publisher's catalogue to rear. A1C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Lutterworth Press, 1965. Green boards are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked however frontispiece illustration is loose. Dustjacket has chipping and wear with a small loss to back and 2 small taped repairs. 224 pages. 48 photographs including 5 in colour. Comprises: Part One - The Birds of Paradise; Part Two - The People of Paradise. David Attenborough describes his two remarkable expeditions to the South Seas in search of people and their primitive way of life, although it was the lure of seeing birds of paradise in their natural surroundings that drew him into the heart of primitive New Guinea. D4D. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stroud, Gloucestershie: Sutton Publishing, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xii + 209 pages. 57 illustrations. Foreword by The Rev. Lord Soper. During the First and Second World Wars thousands of men and women followed the promptings of their conscience and refused the call to arms. Reviled, starved and beaten, theirs was a battle of conscience. They came from all classes and backgrounds, from apprentice piano-maker Alfred Evans to composer Michael Tippett, cavalry officer turned anarchist David Spreckley and Paul Eddington. In the First World War 73 conscientious objectors died as a result of their treatment, hundreds were imprisoned, and a mere handful were given exemption. During the Second World War many more conscientious objectors were given exemption, some on condition that another sort of war service was performed. This was not acceptable to all conscientious objectors, and men like Leonard Bird were prepared to go to prison - in his case three… Read More

New York: Broadway Books, 2008. An As New copy in an As New dustjacket which is not price clipped. 259 pages. First Edition, First Printing. In her twenties, Janet Carlson was a successful competitive ballroom dancer, but she abandoned dancing to raise a family and pursue a more conventional profession as an editor for a luxury lifestyle magazine. Twenty years later, she seemed to have it all: two beautiful daughters, a glamorous job, and a handsome, talented husband. Despite all of her successes, she felt a terrible void - her marriage was deeply troubled, and she was somehow withdrawn in the very midst of her own life and the lives of her children. Then, one Valentine’s Day, her husband gave her ballroom dancing lessons as a gift, and everything changed. She discovered the joy, passion, and confidence she hadn’t realized had gone missing for so long. Over time, Janet discovers that ballroom dancing also contains the secrets to life and love: the give-and-take of dance, two bodies in… Read More

Cranbrook, Kent: Circle of Pens, 2006. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A murder mystery, based on an actual historical event, set in 1918 towards the end of the Great War, which explores the problems two Plymouth detectives encounter as they investigate an horrific murder. We follow them as they try to capture their suspect whilst engaged with the bureaucracy of the British War Office when Allied forces attempt to obstruct a U-boat haven during a raid on the German controlled Belgian harbours of Zeebrugge and Ostend. 4. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Newleaf, 1996. A near Fine unmarked copy with slight age darkening to page edges with near Fine complete dustjacket. An anthology of quotations from the words of the great spiritual masters and writers - Western and Eastern religious leaders, Masters, gurus, sadhus, philosophers, and wise women and men from past and present cultures. This deeply moving book is structured thematically, culturally and chronologically and is indexed by author and subject. R2. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.