Titles starting with Q from Bauman Rare Books

1913. SIGNED. (THOMSON, Hugh) BARRIE, James M. Quality Street. (London): Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. Folio, original full vellum, elaborately gilt-decorated cover and spine, yellow satin ribbon ties. $1200. Limited illustrated edition, number 561 of 1000 copies signed by Thomson, with 22 mounted color plates and 17 in-text line cuts. "Thomson's career was providentially sustained by the development of the color plate… [beginning] in 1909 with the publication of six plays in a sumptuous ... more information

1821. FIRST EDITION. SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab. London: W. Clark, 1821. Octavo, contemporary full calf gilt rebacked, original spine expertly laid down, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $4800. First published edition, with the rare usually-absent dedication to his first wife, Harriet. A beautiful copy. Queen Mab, privately printed in 1813, "remained unknown until a piratical reproduction of it in 1821 (which Shelley vainly tried to suppress by an injunction) excited attention" (DNB XVI... more information