Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Old Saratoga Books

NY: W. W. Norton & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly worn.. 1993. Second Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0393035476 . Blue cloth binding. Foreword by HRH Prince Philip. Many illustrations and photos. History of the iconic ocean liner, the Queen Elizabeth II. Index, bibliography. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages .

Toronto: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket and boards sunned, jacket . lightly worn and foxed on top edge of rear panel.. 1986. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0195405056 . Unpaginated. Glossary. Color reproductions of drawings by Ruth Annatuusi Tulurialik, an Inuit artist who lives in Baker Lake, Northwest Territories. Her artwork depicts various aspects of Inuit life and mythology. ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall .

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Owner bookplate on front free . endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed and worn.. 1963. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A curious book, a satirical autobiography of a dissolute aristocrat whose dear Mother is featured in many of the accompanying humorous photos. Photographs by Cecil Beaton, chapter heading vignettes and jacket art by Edward Gorey as per Toledano B-18, although not attributed in this book. Cloth-backed boards. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 172 pages .

NY: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed, gift inscription on . half-title.. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Illustrations by Edward Gorey. Yellow illustrated cloth. Illustrated endpapers. Dolorous Atomic Age parodies of familiar verses with Gorey’s mordant illustrations. Toledano B13a. Fantastic front jacket illustration of two picnicking Beatniks with mushroom cloud in the distance. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 109 pages .

NY: Benjamin Blom. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly soiled.. 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. vi, 232pp. Tan cloth binding. Reprint of this examination of Quaker costume first published in 1901. Discusses coats, hats, beards, wigs, bands, bonnets, and the dress of the Quakeress. Index, black and white photos and illustrations. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill. Good; Coverw worn and has large are of lift-off.. 1946. Softcover. Inscribed by Ruth and Irvin Poley on the title page. Green printed stapled card covers. Quaker anecdotes collected and arranged by the Poleys. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 57 pages .

London: East-West Relations Group of the Friends' Peace Committee. Good; Covers worn, soiling to first several pages.. 1952. Softcover. vi, 145pp. Blue softcover binding. Photos. Analysis of East-West relations at the height of the Cold War and about a visit by seven Quakers to Russia. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

The Girard Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Slipcase rubbed.. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Green boards with color illustration of sawblade affixed to front boards. Housed in green cardboard slipcase. Color paintings by James B. Wyeth. Essays on aspects of American society by the late James A. Michener. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 85 pages .

Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0827602111 . Selected and edited by Marguerite Dorian. Gray paper quarter-bound in black cloth with deckled fore-edge and lower edge. xxxiii, 350pp. Endpaper maps, notes, and black and white photos. The events recalled here affected more than the life of the diarist - they touched the lives of many other Jewish intellectuals who found themselves confronted by the dilemma of allegiances to their country and their Jewishness. (from the rear jacket panel) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Chicago: Evaporated Milk Association. Very Good; Covers toned.. 1950. Later Printing. Softcover. Printed stapled stiff wrappers. A promotional cookbook for "school cafeterias, school lunches, hospital menus, church and club suppers, camps, emergency canteens, restaurants and hotels, tea rooms." Surely diners will thrill at Prune Milk Drink, Grape Shake, Salmon Wiggle, and Lima Beans Baked in Milk. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages .

NY: Oxford University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly edgeworn.. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 0195005368 . Red cloth binding. Author photo on rear jacket flap. Poetry collection by the acclaimed American poet, among whose many accolades include the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Robert Frost medal. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 114 pages .

Pleasantville, NY: The Akadine Press. Very Good; Corners bumped, covers scuffed.. 2001. 1st Paperback printing. Softcover. 1585790249 . Glossary. Fraser is best known for his hilarious Flashman novels about the British Victorian soldier/scalawag, but this book is his memoir about his days as a soldier with the 17th Black Cat Division in the Burma campaign. xxii, 231 pages. Black and white map and glossary. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Society of California Pioneers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, 1 page detached.. N.D.. Hardcover. Bound volume of the first twelve issues of Quarterly of the Society of California Pioneers, a magazine of early California history and settlement. Navy cloth with gilt-stamped title on spine and owner name (Major Bowes, possibly the 1930s radio personality) stamped on front boards. Contains Volume 1, numbers 1-4 (1924) ; Volume 2, numbers 1-4 (1925) ; and Volume 3, numbers 1-4 (1926). Annual indexes. Photos and history articles include such subjects as gold mining, biographies of early settlers, the Wimmer nugget, Pony Express, diary of an 1849 trip to California, early journalism, and other topics. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

NY: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 145167192X . Black and white photo section, acknowledgements, notes, and index. The Quartermaster offers a vivid and eminently human portrait of Montgomery Meigs, the brilliant and principled general whose mastery of supply and logistics on a grand scale contributed decisively to Union victory in the Civil War from the rear jacket panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 304 pages .

Brimfield, MA: Brimfield 250th Anniversary Commission. Very Good; Covers lightly sunned.. 1981. Softcover. Peach illustrated softcover. Many photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 56 pages .

Montreal: Publishing Company. Good; Wraps soiled and worn, waterstain to lower corner of preliminaries.. 1904. First Edition. Softcover. Cloth-backed printed red stiff wraps. Index to illustrations and index to chapters. A lavishly illustrated and comprehensive exploration of Quebec Citys culture, history, geography, legends, and archaeology. Many maps, engravings, and photo reproductions. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 400 pages .

NY: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly rubbed.. 2000. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. 0689813724 . Illustrated retelling of the story of Queen Esther from the Old Testament. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

NY: Crown Publishers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Remainder spray on page bottoms.. 1979. Hardcover. 0517539365 . Profusely illustrated with many of her Majesty's accomplished drawings and watercolors of people and landscapes. Bibliography, references, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages .

Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. First Printing. Hardcover. 087975639X . Several pages of black and white photos. Housewife by day, New York's most sought-after striptease performer by night, this is the memoir of Yvette Paris. She dispels many myths about her profession and "shows that it really is possible to be an old-fashioned woman in an X-rated world". ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages .

NY: Samuel Gabriel Sons and Company. Good; Covers toned and lightly waterstained.. Softcover. Stapled color illustrated "linenette" covers. No. 474. Color illustrations on each page with a short nursery rhyme. Circa 1910s. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; [12] pages .