Titles starting with Q from Antiquarian Bookseller

London: Newsnes, 1901. 8vo, xii, 310pp. Double-page color frontispiece and title-page by Savage, 5 illustrations by Rackham. Original pictorial blue cloth, upper cover and backstrip stamped in gilt and green with fairy deswigns, gilt edges, a fine copy. First edition of this very scarce title, very much in the style of Andrew LangÕs Fairy Books. ... more information

London: W. Clark, 1821 8vo, 182, (1, ad) pp. Untrimmed in original drab boards, rebacked, later paper backstrip label, some soiling, scuffing and extremity wear to covers with tears to head of backstrip strip, hinges cracked, occasional light foxing and internal soiling. First published edition. This copy is without the dedication leaf to Harriet and with the bowdlerized passages on pp. 39, 54, 55, 65, 77, 82, 98, 146-48, and 171. Tinker 1888. ... more information

London: Trustees of the B.M. [Horace Hart], 1912. Folio. (6), 92, (2) pp. + 316 pp. of collotype illustrations. Half red morocco over red cloth boards, gilt backstrip, top edge gilt. Bookplate of Julia Wightman. A very fine copy. First edition. Donati, Bib. Miniat. I, 388. ... more information

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915 4to, 160 pp. With numerous color plates and black and white illustrations, including one color plate and two drawings by Rackham. Original blue cloth, birthday gift inscription dated 1915 at front. First edition of this charity publication designed to raise funds for the wounded in WWI. Many famous artists and authors contributed, including J.M. Barrie, John Buchan, A. Conan Doyle, and artists including Russell Flint and W. Heath Robinson. ... more information

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Publishers, (1932). 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip & front cover gilt-lettered, in tinted pictorial dust-jacket. 259 pp. Color frontispiece & two plates; fourteen vignettes after sketches. Dust-jacket worn along edges and soiled; covers discolored along joints; foxing and mildew traces on pastedowns; a copy that probably spent some time in humid storage but survived, and that has a significant association inscription. First Edition. Inscribed on front free... more information

London: John Pine, 1733Ð37. 2 vols., 8vo, [32], 264, [2]; [24], [192], [13, explanation of images]pp. Contemporary red morocco, covers with gilt borders, backstrips divided in six compartments with gilt lyres, raised bands, green and black morocco labels, turn-ins gilt, gilt edges. Without the List of Antiquities in Vol. I, as always; engraved text and illustrations throughout. Bookplate of Thomas Roper in both vols., a lovely copy just as it should be. First edition, second issue, with the reading po... more information