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

Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, ( 1962 ). First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo, 80 pages, rear wrapper a bit toned, almost a vertical ripple Howard's first book. Advance Copy with Review Slip laid in .

Camden, AR: Hurley Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Quarto. 175 pages, maroon cloth Comprehensive and illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs and drawings. With over 300 examples shown of the pottery.

New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/price-clipped . 16mo, unpaginated, pictorial boards Pictures by Arnold Lobel. Some days everything seems to go from bad to worse, and then from worse to worst. And this was one of those days.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First edition. Octavo. Very Good/good. 8vo, 47 pages; dj worn, chipped Competent poems by a socialite whose work appeared in Poetry Magazine. The daughter addressed married, of course, Charles Lindbergh.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 8vo, 448 pages, clothbacked boards; price corner of dj flap crinkled

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Univ Press, ( 1987 ). First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. photos. 8vo, 216 pages, cloth Fwd. by Dame Jean Conan Doyle. The 13 include: Liebow, Greenm Blau, Redmond, Malec, Utechin, Austin, Shreffler. [DeWaal C4400]

London, Liverpool, Boston: The Medici Society, No date . First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo, 25 pages, tawny boards, paper label on top cover Printed at the Curwen Press. Drayton was born in the reign of Elizabeth I. His work was re-discovered, re-examined in the mid-20th century - at the time of this production. His fresh appreciation began in 1895. WorldCat cites [ 1945? ] as the date of this publication, but Robin Phillips, in his record and bibliography of the Curwen Press, dates it to 30 November 1922 ( based on the British Library Catalogue), with the bibliographical references of " Ew " and " F77 ".

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, ( 1951 ). First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 8vo, 230 pages, blue cloth; dj jammed somewhat at bottom of top panel, partial crease at bottom of rear panel First novel in his Dance to the Music of Time Series

Lynn, MA: Nichols-Ellis Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo, 389 pages, battered reddish cloth, silverfishing marks, spine separated ar rear joint: offered "as is", not subject to return for condition. Pencilled name of George McCoomb, Fall River, Mass. Williams was the Assistant Chief of the Lynn Fire Department, and edited Fire Protection Magazine. He wrote THE FIREMAN'S AID. He compiled the ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FIRE CONTROL, and FIRE PREVENTION ENGINEER. Extensively illustrated with diagrams and photographs.

Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1983. First, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo, 68 pages, embossed blue boards in publisher's white cloth slipcase Copy numbered 115 of only 330 copies, signed by Graham Greene. Printed by Patrick Reagh.

(New York): New Directions, 1954. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Cloth. Fine/Fine. First American Edition. Octavo Posthumous collection of two dozen pieces of prose and poetry, including the now-classic "Child's Christmas in Wales."

New York: Pocket Books, (1969). First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 16mo, 125 pages, metallic green wrappers, inked inscription and ownership on inside of top cover. "Together we must rise to ever higher and higher platitudes - quoted in Newsweek, 3/13/67" This is about Mayor Richard J. Daley; but, in truth, a sequel volume might have been done for his son, Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Sioux City, Iowa: Correspondence Chess League of America, 1944. First American edition. Flexible covers. Good. Narrow 12mos, stapled wrappers, owner's rubber stamp on titles, used

Calcutta: Ayurvediya Dhanwantari Bhaban, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 921, iv pages, red cloth. Scarce and apparently the only printing of this work. "Some people earnestly desire to know what Yogic acts are. ... My book ... is an attempt to remove this want - Apologia." This is his maiden work in English, preceded by an abridged edition in Bengali under the title ASIMER ANVESAN. "The references to atoms, planes, mortal weapons found scattered in the MAHABHARAT and other philosophical treatises on ancient India clearly testify that researches on such things did actually take place and discoveries in this line were made in India several centuries before the birth of Christ." One color plate.

Berne, SW: Societe Typographique, 1762. First Edition. Good. Duodecimo; xi, 439 pages, contemporary mottled calf, raised bands, edges stained red, marbled endpapers, previous owners names, including the owner in 1772, extra-gilt spine, joints tender, lacks turn-in at head of spine. [ Sowerby 1413 - Thomas Jefferson's copy held by LC; Querard X,69; Conlon 62:1348 ]. "Vattel was a disciple of de Wolf, whose writings he freely copies. HIs work is not characterized by uncommon research, or depth of thought, but 'by the high tone of feeling, and high standard of morality, of its author. He has done for the morality of Nations, What Paley did for the morality of individuals; both wrote, not so much for the professed scholars as to inform and enlighten the mass of mankind.' ... 'with all his defects, he is more generally read than any other writer upon the Law of Nations, and in no country more than in ours. - Marvin, LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, p.706. Although written in 1753, it was first published here, at… Read More

Evanston, IL: The Schori Press, 1958. First, Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/issued without dj. 12mo, 57 pages, red cloth Arthur Abbott Gilbert was a renaissance man, and a former Commander in the U. S. Navy, who contributed quips to the Chicago Tribune's 'Line o'Type Or Two' column under the pen name, Incunabulus. A charming book. Gilbert designed this volume, had it printed on Gilbert Vellum paper (natcherly), printed by Ward Schori, and the binding was by the Monastery Hill Bindery in Chicago.

New York: A. L. Burt Company, ( 1921 ). Popular edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 12mo, blue cloth; short tears in dj "Quill's Window" was an opening in a cave high up on a rocky cliff on a river in the neighborhood of Old Vincennes, Indiana. A bit of history, a bit of romance, a bit of a detective novel. The dust jacket illustration is by the famous artist, C. Allan Gilbert.

Philadelphia: Joseph Rakestraw, 1815. Second edition revised & enlarged. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo, 554pp., full tree sheep, morocco spine label, spine repaired, extremities scuffed Dow was the most widely travelled and most eccentric of the early American gospel ranters. [Howes D440; Sabin 20753]. With separate portraits of Mr. & Mrs. Dow as frontispieces.

Napoli, IT: Salita Infrascata, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, 471 pages, quarter calf, pastepaper boards, light semi-circular dampstain at top edge Nicolini taught Criminal Law at the University, and was the Advocate General before the Supreme Court. This is one volume of 6.