Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Frogtown Books, Inc.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Stated First Printing. Yellow cloth binding stamped in green. 109 pp. 12 mo, 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Former owner's name neatly written in ink in upper corner of recto of free front endpaper. Otherwise unmarked and in fine condition./Jacket has a little wear at top and bottom edge including one 1/2" tear. Otherwise crisp very good condition. Ghoulishly witty illustration by Edward Gorey: One (and sometimes two) to each poem.. A treasury of poems about nuclear war. In a stinging effort to confront mankind with the idiocy of its course toward self-destruction, Paul Dehn has taken the songs of our former innocence and readjusted each one to show how far we have departed from the spirit of the original. The result would be terrifying if it were not so funny - and funny if it were not so terrifying.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Stated first printing. Small 8vo hardcover. 8-1/4" x 5-1/4". Yellow textured paper covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owner's name at top of free front endpaper, otherwise book is in fine condition./Dust jacket with a few very tiny nicks and tears, overall very good to fine.. Ghoulishly witty illustrations by Edward Gorey: one (and sometimes two) to each poem.. Paul Dehn's hair-raising parodies of familiar verses are a stinging effort to confront mankind with the idiocy of its course toward self-destruction. He has taken the songs of our former innocence and readjusted each one to show how far we have departed from the spirit of the original. The result would be terrifying if it were not so funny - and funny if it were not so terrifying.

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1929. First Edition. Large 8vo. 9" x 6-1/8". 318 pp. including index. GIlt on spine flaking a little. Name in ink on free front endpaper. 2 facing pp. have browning from a laid in newspaper clipping, a review of this book published in The New Republic. Impression on back free endpaper from a paper clip. A slight fading around margins of front cover and spine. Overall a clean, tight, very good copy.. Gifford Lectures 1929. Contents: Escape from Peril; Philosophy's Search for the Immutable; Conflict of Authorities; The Art of Acceptance and the Art of Control; Ideas at Work; The Play of Ideas; The Seat of Intellectual Authority; The Naturalization of Intelligence; The Supremacy of Method; The Construction of Good; The Copernican Revolution.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1942. Probably printed between 1943 and 1945. 8vo. Blue cloth covered boards stamped in orange with silhouette of Nancy Drew with magnifying glass on front cover. Orange silhouette endpapers. Plain paper frontispiece illustration. No other illustrations. Top edge of text block stained orange. Text block is 1" thick. 213 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ad for Nancy Drew stories and Jane D. Abbott Books for Girls. A little light spotting on front cover and a few splashed spots on top edge of text block. Overall a tight, clean very good to fine copy.. Illustrated by Russell H. Tandy.

Dial Press, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. fine/Good Plus - Chipping to the top of the spine.