Search Results: Titles starting with Q from William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop

Lipsiae & Martisburgi: various publishers, 1682.. The five works bound together in one volume; small 4to., marbled wrappers. Some foxing and yellowing, old stains and bent corners of first few leaves, clean and very good generally. Woodcut headpieces and tailpieces throughout, some decorative initials. Possibly a Hulse family bind-up, though nowhere so indicated. The works comprise writings by Conrad Hulse, also publications containing congratulatory poems and writings about him, and dedicated to him at the time of his graduation. The first two works are recorded by WorldCat with very few holdings, the third work is recorded only in a facsimile copy; the final two works published in Martinsburg are not recorded, and are rare.

Halae Magdeburgicae: Johannis Christiani Hendelii, 1726. . Original wrappers. 24pp. Disbound from a larger volume, spine finished with a strip of marbled paper, very good condition, small chip from outer edge of front wrapper, minor wear to upper corner. A small library stamp on the title. Woodcut headpiece & tailpiece. Hoheisel was a lawyer, born in Danzig in 1698, died in 1732. This looks to be a work on inheritance. Text is in Latin.

[San Francisco]: Intersection, 1981. . First edition. Folio. An illustrated poetry broadside measuring 20 X 26 inches. Illustrated by Robert Duncan, this prints an excerpt from PASSAGES. Designed and printed by Wesley Tanner. Limited to 100 copies which were to be hand-colored and signed by Duncan; this copy is neither colored nor signed. Apparently only about 20 copies were actually colored. An attractive broadside, and very uncommon. Despite the French title, the poem is in English. Some tiny blemishes, but a fine copy.

cat40a. NY: Dutton, (1927). First edition. Orange cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. A bit of dust soilng, moderate edge wear, a small stain to the fore-edge affecting the first 50 pages; in general a bright very good copy. Small ownership sticker in the front. Also seen in green cloth, no known priority.

London: Epworth, (1925). First edition.. Blue cloth lettered in black. Frontispiece and four inserted plates. A nice clean copy in a slightly worn pictorial dust jacket, a few tears to edges and moderate edge wear. An unusually nice copy of this biography. Issued as a volume in Epworth's Noble Life Series.

anticat16. London: For W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1773. A copper plate engraving from Cook's first voyage, showing the Queen Charlotte's Islands, part of the Solomon Islands. Inset of Carteret's Island. Condition is fine, matted, covered by glasine. Printed area measures 25 X 40 cm. Shown is Capt. Byron's track in "Swallow". Not to be confused with the Queen Charlotte Islands, which are on the coast of British Columbia.

Toronto: Oberon Press, 1984. First edition. . Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy in dust jacket. This is copy V of 26 lettered copies, signed by Souster and Brooks on a laid-in slip.

London: Hutchinson, [1925]. First edition.. cat40a. Green cloth lettered in black, design in black on front cover. Shelf wear to edges, white stain to lower rear cover; about very good. This copy does not have the 1925 catalogue bound in at the rear, but is otherwise identical with other copies of the first edition. One of 10,000 copies, issued about a month after the US edition.

London, etc.: Cassell, 1887. First edition.. Red pictorial cloth designed and lettered in black on spine and front cover, title in gilt on spine, floral design in black on rear cover. Floral patterned end papers. Armorial bookplate on the inner front cover, modest dust soiling and light edge wear; a fresh very good copy. A page has been carelessly opened at the rear, occasioning some small tears to margins. Two groups of 8-page publisher's ads at the rear, dated "5 G. 9.87" and "5 B 9.87". [We have handled another copy with ads dated "5 G. 7.87" and "5 B. 7.87. - priority unknown]. This is the very copy described by George Locke in Spectrum of Fantasy, pg. 229. Of an island in the West Indies, populated by the descendants of 17th century English castaways, who have adopted a unique culture. An uncommon book in the first edition, these days.

[Vancouver]: Pulp Press for the March 28th Committee, 2 December, 1978. First edition. . Broadside, a single sheet measuring 8 X 10 inches. Fine condition. Issued as March 28th Committee Publication No. 1. The March 28th Committee was named for the day federal legislation formally constituted the Canada Council.

anticat16. London: Byfield, Hawksworth, 1857. First edition. 8vo. 34pp. Disbound, later sewing along spine. Addresses the question of which arm of government should control the army. Some page numbers in pen throughout, very good condition.

Finsbury: Eastern Post Steam Printing Works, 1873. . Disbound. 8pp. Self-wrappers. Very good condiiton. A slender pamphlet, on the subject of supernaturalism, and the question of a divine origin of religion. Reprinted from the Eastern Post, a newspaper from the East end of London: "The Eastern Post was a weekly local workers paper in circulation between 1868 and 1938. It was a working menÂ’s alternative to other local papers such as the Hackney Gazette (focused on social reform through parliament) and the Hackney Mercury (a Conservative paper). Its readership incorporated local residents from the Hackney, Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Poplar and Stepney Metropolitan Boroughs. The Eastern Post was greatly concerned with workers rights with a heavy focus on the unions and labour unrest." This rare pamphlet presents a rationalist view. Not in Worldcat.