Authors starting with Q from Thorn Books

Manhasset, NY: Stone Stable Press, 1940. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Yes. 12mo. 8pp. Publisher's green paper boards, printed label on upper board. Three pages of "Saint Nicholas Nonsense" signed "Q.E.F." Printed in red and black. One of 222 copies printed in Goudy mediaeval, of which none were for sale. A fine copy. "Der next night vas Christmas--Der ight it vas shtill--Der stockinks ver hung--By der chimney to fill....... more information

Lugduni (Lyon): Sebastian Gryphius, 1540's. Hardcover. Very good. Small 8vo. 247,(1)pp. This is the "Declamationum Liber", or part two (complete) of Quintilian's "Institutionum Oratoriarum Libri XII" and though it has its own title page and pagination, there is no publisher indicia; that was printed only in part 1. The final page is a woodcut of Gryphius' trademark griffin printer's device. Gryphius issued ten editions of Quintilian, all between 1531 and 1575. Of these... more information

Los Angeles: n.p., 1940. First edition.. Softcover. Very good. Yes. 8vo. (18),223p. Printed stiff wraps. Illustrated. Biographical information compiled in connection with the beatification process for Juan Diego and Catherine Tekakwitha (both now canonized). Dedicated to John J. Cantwell, the Archbishop of Los Angeles, as well as the Episcopacy of Mexico. Place and date of publication taken form the spine. Author's name taken from an internal preliminary page. Fore-edge soiled, wraps dusty and spine ... more information

London: Thomas Tegg, 1816. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Yes. 4to. x,30,33-74,73-252pp. Engraved title page, folding frontispiece, and 26 plates, all hand-tinted in sepia. Contemporary half leather, spine simply ruled in gilt; marbled paper boards. The cancel leaf C8 (pp.31-32) is usually lacking and was removed because of a revision to Canto I, there being no loss of text; minor pagination duplication at 73-74. Boards worn at edges and rubbed, with a neat repair to the upper hinge; frontispiece re... more information