Search Results: Titles starting with Q from THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

THE QUALITY OF LIFE, Lippincott, 1970, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper save for some fading to the dust-wrapper spine and 2 short closed tears to the base of rear dust-wrapper panel.

THE QUANTUM ROSE, Tor, 2000, first edition, fine in like dust-wrapper. SIGNED by the author. NEBULA winning novel.

QUARREL in Playboy for May, 1967, first edition., near fine in wraps. Also contains WISE CHILD by John Wyndham, et.al.

A QUARTER TO FOUR, Dillingham, 1909, first edition., vg in near vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and dust-soil. Very scarce in dust-wrapper. The story of a hidden treasure concealed in a sea cavern on the shores of a small island in the Pacific. Instructions for finding the treasure are written on a card which is quartered and then sent to each of the 4 persons entitled to receive it who then must join the cards before instructions can commence.

THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, FOR JANUARY, 1973, Volume 30, Number 1, Library Of Congress, first edition, near fine in wraps. Edited by Sarah L. Wallace. Contains, among other things, a nice 4 page illustrated essay showing and concerning the earliest known letter of Walt Whitman, photos from the Matson Collection, over half a century of photography from the Middle East and a nice photo of Hemingway, Andre Malraux and his editor, Robert Haas, apparently in the latters office in 1937, etc.

THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHEYYAM OF NISHAPOUR, Printed for the Villon Society for Private Circulation Only, 1898, first edition in English, some wear to the fore edge corner tips, some fading and dust-soil to both the paper boards and vellum spine, inner hinges starting, else a vg copy with fine contents. Of 625 copies printed, this is 1/26 large paper copies which is lettered 'R'. This copy bears the pencil signature of E. B. Morgan on the f.e.p., however we do not know if it is the same E. B. Morgan who was a wealthy entrepreneur and U.S. Congressman (doesn't anything ever change) nor do we know if anyone cares.

QUAYLE'S INVENTION, Dutton, 1927, first edition., some modest fraying to the extremities of the bit tanned spine, light wear to the front fore edge corner tips, else a tight near vg copy.

QUAYLE'S INVENTION,, Dutton, 1927, first edition, a fine copy from the library of writer/publisher Lloyd Eshbach rebound in his Fantasy Press motif. A unique copy. SIGNED by Eshbach on the front end-paper.

QUEEN CLEOPATRA, Bobbs Merrill, 1929, first edition., some light wear to corner tips (as usual with such books bound in paper boards as this one), the slightest of wear to the head of the spine, else a vg copy. 1/265 copies specially bound and SIGNED by the author. The sequel to the authors Tros of Samothrace.

QUEEN MAB A PHILOSOPHICAL POEM, J. Baldwin, 1821, first American edition, corner tips worn, small area of front panel effaced (from sticker removal?), some wear to spine, inner front hinge professionally tissue rein- forced as well as next several gutters, else a nice copy with a vg text block. Bound in half leather. Privately published first in 1813 in a very small number. Scarce.

QUEEN MOTHER OF EGYPT, Privately published, 1980, first edition, vg+ or better in green cloth with gold stamping on cover and spine. A 594 page reproduced typescript printed on slick paper. A novel insprired by the King Tut exhibit of the seventies. Rare !!!

QUEEN OF THE DAWN, Doubleday, 1925, first edition (issued a month prior to the British edition), some scattered foxing to the fore edge, else a bright vg+ copy in the publishers original vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with bit tanned dust-wrapper spine, some light wear and tear, clear tape reinforcement at the base of the spine and at a small area of the upper margin of the rear dust-wrapper panel and with some inner tape reinforcement along the upper and lower hinges of the dust-wrapper as well. All in all, still a very nice copy.

QUEEN OF THE DAWN, Hutchinson, 1925, first edition., a very good to very good+ copy.

THE QUEEN OF NINEVEH - A TALE OF THE WICKEDEST CITY, C-F, 1929, first edition ( third printing ), vg+/near fine in vg pictorial dust-wrapper save for 2 small chips missing from the head of the dust-wrapper spine and about half-inch square chip missing from the base of the dust-wrapper spine. Most uncommon in dw.

THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE, Chatto & Windus, 1887, first edition, fine in color pictorial cloth as well as profusely colored throughout in full color by Kate Greenaway.

QUEEN OF THE DAWN, Doubleday, 1925, first edition, a good to very good copy.

QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST, Donald M. Grant, 1978, first printing, fine in like dust-wrapper. Illustrated with full color plates and in black & white by Michael Hague. 1/2,750 copies. From the collection of esteemed Canadian fandom member Michael Glicksohn.

THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, Harpers, 1859, first American edition, lower corner tips a bit bumped, several leaves with some unobtrusive spotting, else a tight, bright vg+ copy with unbroken inner hinges. A most important title in the genre. Queen's Quorum #3. (The English 3-decker edition in original cloth sold for $18,400 at auctiion in November of 1999).

QUEEN SHEBA'S RING, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1910, first edition, top edge of text block dusty, cloth rubbed at head and heel of spine panel and corners, else a very good, bright copy of an attractive book. Illustrated.

QUEEN SHEBA'S RING, Grosset & Dunlap, (1910), vg/vg+ in an attractive dust-wrapper with some chipping. Illustrated.