Search Results: Titles starting with Q from AARDWOLF Fine Books

The Peace Association Of Friends In America, , 1909; 12mo (3 1/2" x 5 1/2"), 8 pages each. A pair of Quaker pacifism booklets with lessons exemplifying the power of forgiveness and non violence. In the first, the story is told of the virulent enmity between American statesman Daniel Webster and Missouri Senator Thomas H. Benton and how it was ended when Benton’s life was saved by a twist of fate after a cannon exploded during a firing exhibition on board the vessel Princeton. Benton felt the hand of God in the sparing of his life and one day he sent word to Webster to join him and his wife for dinner at their home. As bitter a pill as it was for him to swallow, Webster joined them, the two men thence becoming fast friends for the reminder of their lives. Later, Webster performed a like kindness for another, illustrating the chain of events set in motion by acts of goodness. The second story, as the title implies, is that of a young boy who decides to resist violence and turn the other… Read More

Lucien Vogel / Conde Nast, Paris, 1921; First Edition; 7 1/2" x 9 3/4". Color pochoir print by Pierre Brissaud of a brooding young woman in a Doeuillet dress sharing cocktails with two well attired gentlemen beneath the shade of a summer gazebo. From La Gazette Du Bon Ton, Lucien Vogel’s legendary fashion journal issued between November 1912 and December 1925, but for a hiatus during The First World War between the Summer of 1915 and January 1920. The Gazette was steadfastly uncompromising both in its print quality and choice of artists and illustrators, who formed a veritable Who’s Who of the Art Deco period, with George Barbier, Pierre Brissaud, Andre Marty, Charles Martin, Edouardo Garcia Benito, Erté, Thayaht, Georges Lepape, Pierre Mourgue, and Robert Bonfils listed among them. Likewise, its articles were authored by the leading Parisian writers, academics, and critics of the day, and its opinions highly influential. Vogel signed exclusive contracts to feature the lines of… Read More

Librairie Hachette et Cie., Paris, 1904; Fifth Edition; large 8vo, 296 pages; illustrated. Librarie Hachette illustrated edition of Walter Scott’s 1824 novel "Quentin Durward," elaborately bound in red cloth with ornate black and gold floral designs. Text illustrated with thirty-nine b&w engravings. Text in French. Very Good, clean and crisp, binding tight, sound and square, corners sharp. The gilding of the blindstamped spine titles has faded. All page edges gilt and bright.