Search Results: Titles starting with Q from McBlain Books

Morningside Heights: King's Crown Press, 1947. Paperback. Very Good. [Inscribed by Author] Menges, Karl H. Qaraqalpaq Grammar: Part One: Phonology. Morningside Heights: King's Crown Press, 1947. folding linguistic map, xviii, 110p. Original gray wrapper, lettered in red. 22cm. INSCRIBED on endpaper by Menges to Professor Joshua Whatmough.

The Hague: Mouton, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. index, 277p. Original orange cloth. dj. 24cm. Jacket has minor wear.

n.p., 1964. Paperback. Good. 45p. [printed on one side]. Wrapper. Stapled in upper left corner. 28cm. Name on front. Rusty staple mark where old staple was removed (and then re-stapled). The AME Zion denomination supported missions in Bahamas, Guyana, Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria.

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1856. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. 281p. Rebound in contemporary 1/4 leather (green boards backed in green leather with tiny matching corners). 17 cm. Cover scuffing and wear (including two modest holes in leather backstrip). Moderate foxing (mostly on first and last portions of the book. French text. Nadar was a photographer, novelist, balloonist, etc. He appears to have taken the first aerial photographs (from a balloon in 1858).

Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. illustrations (by H. Morin), 189p. Cloth. Color illustration mounted on front. Top edge gilt. 23cm. Scattered foxing. No Jacket. French text. Children's book with some color illustrations.

New Haven: Published with the assistance of the Class Officers Bureau, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. illustration, 400p. Original blue cloth. 23cm. Backstrip slightly soiled. No Jacket.

Boston, 1937. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations, 33p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Bottom edge of front wrapper worn. Large corner crease on back cover.

New York: American Anti-Slacery Society, 1837. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound volume containing the first 8 quarterly issues published [which is all that was published under this title]. Old 1/4 leather, recently and neatly rebacked. The original front and back covers are heavily rubbed with loss of some of the original paper covering. Contents sound with mostly minimal foxing. "Georgia A. S. Society" written in ink a couple of times of front endpaper. A list of six names (A. Bliss, Jr., J. B. Sylvester, Hiram B. Ballard and three others which we were less able to decipher) is written inside the back cover. We know nothing about any Georgia Anti-Slavery Society. Membership is such an organization in the State of Georgia would have been extremely risky if not suicidal. Nonetheless, we were intrigued.

Calcutta: Printed at the Catholic Orphan Press, 1921. Paperback. Very Good. 2 folding graphs, [43]-102p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25cm. Vertical crease.

Paris: Illiffe & Son, 1896. Paperback. Very Good. (6 issues) illustrations, each issue about 90p. (Pagination in continuous). Softcover in original tied wrappers. 23 cm. Moderate cover soiling and wear. Cord tie split on the 1898 issue. The Aug./Sept., 1896 issue contains an image of a painting ("Resurrection of Lazarus") by Henry Ossawa Tanner. Contents sound with a short tear or two and scattered foxing. Corner chipped off back cover on earliest issue. French title and text.

Worcester: Commonwealth Press ["Privately Printed" on title-page], 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, facsimile, xiv, [2], 290p. Original cloth. 25cm. Moderate cover soiling. INSCRIBED on front free endpaper by "the Translator" (probably Thompson). Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole.

Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1884. 1st ed. Paperback. Good. 292p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Backstrip heavily chipped and completely reinforced with old cellophane tape. Contents sound. INSCRIBED on title-page by Tessier. French text.

n.p.: The Author, 1946. Paperback. Very Good. 7p. Wrapper. 14cm. INSCRIBED by Florit (signing as "F"). Spanish text. Probably sent as a holiday greeting.

New York: Exposition Press, 1960. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stina Nagel. illustrations (by Stina Nagel), 150p. Orange boards. dj. 21cm. Biblical novel.

New York: Doubleday, 2002. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 239p, Original cloth backed maroon backed boards. dj. 24 cm. INSCRIBED on Dedication page by Jackson ("For Yvette Thanks for your support Love & Light [and a scrawl which appears to be the author's signature]").

New York: Exposition Press, 1960. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Stina Nagel. illustrations (by Stina Nagel), 150p. Orange boards. dj. 21cm. Price crossed out on jacket flap with a black marker. Biblical novel.

Washington: Acropolis, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. photos and ills, map, index, 320p. dj. 23cm. At head of title: Cultural Patterns of Ethiopia. Based largely on "Cultural Patterns in Ethiopia" published 1963. Lord was American advisor to Ethiopia's Ministry of Education for several years during the 1950s.

Boston: W. V. Spencer, 1858. Paperback. Good. 80p. Disbound, lacking wrapper. 18 cm. [Spencer Boston Theatre, v. 23, no. 179]. Maryland-born author who had been the first city physician of San Francisco (1849-1850) and, in 1851, served as surgeon aboard an East India Company ship.

Dakar: Nouvelles Editions Africaines, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. 149p. Wrapper. 25cm. French text.

(Paris): n.d., 1925. Paperback. Very Good. 32 full page brown toned plates with brief descriptive text on facing page. Softcover in original wrapper. Oblong 27 x 21 cm. French text. Modest browning and wear. Lee appears to have been an American impressionist landscape painter.