Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Boyd Used & Rare Books

[Manokotak, Alaska], 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. Revised edition, 1985. Card covers. Non-sliding binding bar over staple-stiching. Covers show light handling. Interior is clean and unmarked. 37 pages. 11 x 8.5 inches. Rare. Two copies located on OCLC (Alaska Native Language Archive, Anchorage School District). Rare. The folk legend of ''How the Porcupine Received Its Weapon'' was told by an elder resident of Manokotak, Alaska. It was recorded by the Yup'ik Literacy class at Manokotak High School in 1982 with the instructor Anecia Lomack. The original Yup'ik is presented side-by-side with the Englsih translation. The final page provides five bars of musical notation for the song ''Qaillun Issaluum Saskungellra.'' As stated, every word was written down exactly as said by the narrator. His language was the genuine, classic Yup'ik, a style which today very few Yup'iks speak or even understand. The students involved in this project were Margaret… Read More

Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Afro-American Studies, 1972. Soft cover. Fair. Monograph No. 4 from the Afro-American Studies Monograph Series. Wraps are a bit age-toned. Bottom right corner is bumped and has a crease on the front cover. Green highlighting on pages 3-5. No other markings. 6.5 x 10". 49 pages.

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second impression, 1931. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Light bump to front fore-corner. Heavy foxing to endpapers and flyleaves; some foxing on fore-edge of text block. Dust jacket has a little bit of chipping at head and foot of spine and corners; a couple short tears; unclipped flaps. DJ in clear archival sleeve. 254 pp. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Dust jacket illustration by J. L. Carstairs. Margaret Peterson (1883-1933) was an English novelist. She also wrote four novels under the pseudonym Glint Green. The Question is a murder mystery wherein Harry, a husband and drug fiend in treatment, is found poisoned with cyanide.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Red cloth boards stamped in black. Illustrated endpapers. A few pages show minor soiling, else interior is clean and unmarked. One page has a short closed tear on its bottom edge. Dust jacket shows some general edge wear with small chips and a few closed tears; not price clipped ($2.00). DJ in archival sleeve. pp. v, 104, [2]. 8.75 x 6.25 inches. Scarce in dust jacket. Appears to be an early printing. Copyright page date is 1942 and gives the code [b - 4- 43]. There is an ''A'' at the foot of each of the dust jacket's flaps. Though not stated explicitly, this story is set in the China of the early 1940s and the period of the Second Sino-Japanese War. This is the story of Lifu, an inquisitive little boy who wants to know when his father, a soldier, is coming home. He sets out on a adventure, marching across the mountains looking for his father, which includes meeting and teaming up with a girl… Read More

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1914. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Green sand-patterned cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Slightly spine cocked. Spine ends softened. Bookseller label on front pastedown, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket shows ''$1.25 net'' price on spine; spine is well-spotted; spine ends chipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. pp. vii, 303. Vatchell's 1914 novel Quinneys', which he also dramatized, the dramatization of which became the basis for two films (1919 and 1927).

Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1891. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, bound plain green cloth. Interior is clean and unmarked. pp. vii, 170. The Quintessence of Ibsenism was originally an essay read to the Fabian Society at St. James's Restaurant on July 18, 1890. Revised and lengthened for the first edition, Shaw provides an extended analysis of twelve plays and of Ibsen's critical reception in England.