Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Buddenbrooks, Inc.

New York: E.P.Dutton, 1978. First American Edition. 8vo, original white cloth over light orange boards, lettered in copper on the spine and in the dustjacket. 218 pp. A very good copy with a hint of edgewear to the spine tip of the jacket. WRITTEN WITH THE WIT AND STYLE OF A TWENTIETH-CENTURY JANE AUSTEN. Barbara Pym has made a beautifully constructed, almost musically perfect tale. It is the story of the subtle triumph of human dignity over the threats of solitude and death.

Boston: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1867. An early Boston Imprint, essentially identical to the first. With engraved frontispiece, pictorially illustrated title-page, engraved plate by John Hyde-Del, and with engraved initials and headpieces throughout. Small 8vo, in the publisher's bright blue textured cloth, the upper cover with gilt vignette and lettering within a blind embossed boarder, the spine with decorative gilt lettering. 129 pp. A especially fine copy, unusually so. Children's books and American printings from this era, are rarely if ever found in such condition. The cloth is bright and fresh and as close to pristine as could be hoped, the text-block is clean and fresh without so much as a single spot to be found. VERY SCARCE ANY OF THE ORIGINAL EARLY IMPRINTS ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO FIND, AND UNHEARD OF IN THIS CONDITION. OCLC lists only one copy of this issue in institutional collections. The story of a little orphan girl whose demeanor suggests a royal heritage. Her secret… Read More

New York: Knopf, 1988. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original white cloth and boards, in the pictorial dustjacket. 448. A mint copy. The third book in the Vampire Chronicles.

New York: Knopf, 1988. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original white cloth and boards, in the pictorial dustjacket. 448. A mint copy. The third book in the Vampire Chronicles.

Chautauqua: Chatto & Windus, 1921. First Edition, early printing, December 1921. With nine black and white illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s original beige cloth, lettered in black on the spine and upper cover which also is bordered in black. 434 pp. A handsome and well preserved copy. THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY OF QUEEN VICTORIA. "One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time" - Chicago Daily News

Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., 1823. 3 volumes. First edition. 8vo, contemporary three quarter calf and marbled boards with red morocco lettering pieces lettered in gilt within gilt panelled spine. lxiii, 273; 331; 360 pp. A handsome set with very light wear to the bindings primarily at the extremities, a binder's free-fly excised. FIRST EDITION. A story of France in the days of Louis XI (1461-1483) and of the love of Quentin Durward, a young soldier of the Scottish guards, for Isabelle, Countess of Croye.

Oregon: Story Line Press, 1999. First Edition. 8vo, publisher's original lavender cloth over boards, in the original dustjacket. 185 pp. A lovely copy in the dustjacket. “QUIT MONKS OR DIE! is one fine debut mystery, all the more remarkable for its coming from the pen of one of the best poets of this or any other generation. Once again, Maxine Kumin has delivered the goods: an irresistible, intricate narrative, characters as lifelike and affecting as the folks next door, themes as timeless as the sun-baked landscape itself, all of it done in prose as crystalline and evocative as we might expect from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Find a comfortable chair before you start in on this book-it is yet another triumph from one of our most valued writers.”-Les Standiford