Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Blacks Bookshop

NY: Henry Holt, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. Very Good-Collectible/VeryGood. FIRST PRINTING 6.25"X9.25" w/385 numbered pgs. Khaki boards w/silver Q embossed on front. Gray cloth spine w/silver letters. Book design by Lucy Albanese. Author photo by John Earle. DJ by Thomas Tafuri. Spine straight, sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (price), & unmarked. Edge & shelf wear to DJ w/sticker ghost to ffep. Secure ship w/track #. Sue Grafton delivers an intensely gripping mystery based on an actual unsolved murder in this #1 New York Times bestseller featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone. She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed.… Read More

NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1947. Hardcover_boards. VeryGood. 5.5"x8.25" 339 pgs. BCE/BOMC Black boards w/gold letters on spine. Red faded painted top edge. POI inside front boards and ffep. Spine straight, binding tight, pages soft tone. Not x-library, no DJ. Moderate shelf and edge wear. In this family saga, generations mine the Vermont earth and come to rest in it. Lyman Converse is too young to fight in the Civil War, but he lives to see his own son enlist in World War I. Through all the years his closest friend is Easy, an escaped black slave who took refuge in his father's house. Everything Converse values most is gradually lost to time, including the family-owned soapstone quarry. The Quarry invites readers to escape into private lives worth caring about-and to feel the national history that they could not escape. Originally published in 1947 and considered one of Mildred Walker's richest novels, The Quarry is introduced by Ripley Hugo, Walker's daughter. Hugo edited, with James Welch,… Read More

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Collectible - VeryGood/VeryGood. 6.25"x9.25"x1". 192 pgs. 4th Printing. Malt cloth boards. Black title block on spine w/gilt letters. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Many illustrations. 11-point Linotype Times Roman is the type face. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. X-library w/graphics, unmarked, unclipped. Ghost stickers. PO book plate inside front cover. "There is a need as well as a reason for this book, says the author, since "there are no other books covering the history of the Quarter Horse. All that is available is an article here and a chapter there. If you know the past, you can understand today and anticipate tomorrow. For this reason the serious Quarter Horse breeder and enthusiast cannot use his horses wisely today, or mate them intelligently for tomorrow, without knowledge of his breed's origin, development, and principal bloodlines. The background of this great American breed is not only information… Read More

Witchita Falls: Quarter Horse Breeders Publishing Co, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover_cloth. Very Good-Collectible. 8.5"x11" 216 pgs. Brown cloth w/gilt letters on front and spine. Many B&W photos and illustrations. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/tone. Not x-library. No DJ; Gift Inscription. Faint rubs to corners. PO book plate inside front board. Secure ship w/track #. History of the AQH by Robert Denhardt; the Conformation; The Quarter Horse in Performance; Foot Canre and the Importance of Horseshoeing; Selecting Breeding Stock Confomration; Quarer Horse Foundation Families. Listing of Outstanding Quarter Horse Breeders.

NY: TOR, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. VeryGood/VeryGood. 5.5"x8.5" 416 pgs. Spine slightly slanted, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Light soil spots inside boards. X-library w/graphics, unclipped DJ. In Verity's world, nanotech plagues decimated the population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities. Verity has been raised, an orphan, in a tiny Shaker revival community where all are forbidden contact with the Enlivened Cities. Yet as she grows up on the isolated farm, she is often drawn to the City of Dayton, abandoned nearby, and to its self-contained and still-functioning library. Her happy life is suddenly destroyed when the Shakers, in spite of their precautions, contract a nanotech plague that possesses them. Blaze, the only young man in the community and Verity's best friend, is shot by a crazed elder. And so Verity, with her dog Cairo—and the body of Blaze wrapped in a nanotech cocoon—sets off on on a quest to the Enlivened City of Cincinnati. It is a… Read More

NY: Pegasus Books, 2022. 1st Edition. Hardcover_boards. New/New. FIRST PRINTING with DJ WRAPPED IN MYLAR. Physical Info: 1.73" H x 9.06" L x 6.06" W (1.7 lbs) 560 pages. Features: Price on Product , Illustrated , Bibliography , Table of Contents. Teal boards w/matching paste downs. Gilt letters to spine. Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober are the co-authors of ten books to date, including oral histories of the Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan presidencies; and oral biographies of His Holiness the Dalai Lama; the evangelist Billy Graham; and Rudolph Giuliani. In compiling these works, the Strobers managed to penetrate the inner worlds of more than 500 leading personalities, including U.S. political figures and officials, foreign leaders, members of the British royal family, and religious personalities. In 2009, their book on Bernard L. Madoff, the first one to be published on that major financial scandal, was a Washington Post's Business Book of the Month. Secure ship w/track #. There seems an… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 6.25"X9.25" 359 pages. First printing. Maroon boards and spine w/gold foil letters. Spine straight, binding sewn binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. X-library w/graphics, unclipped dj w/price. Date on ffep. Old mylar backing pasted to inside boards. Secure ship w/track #. Katherine Ashley, the clever, beguiling daughter of a poor country beekeeper, catches the attention of powerful, ambitious Thomas Cromwell—henchman for King Henry VIII. Cromwell secures for Kat a place in the royal court, but as a reluctant spy. Plunged into a treacherous game of shifting alliances, Kat is entrusted by Anne Boleyn to protect her daughter, Elizabeth. In the face of exile, assassination attempts, imprisonment, and a romantic flirtation that could cost the young princess dearly, Kat will risk everything—even her own secret love—for her bright, clever Elizabeth. Source: Publisher.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. 1st. Hardcover_boards. Collectible - Good/No Jacket. 5.63"x8.38"x1.75". 405 pages. Dk blue boards. Gold letters on spine. Contents; Prologue; Books One thru Four; Epilogue. Spine edges have severe rubs with cracks but not separated. No DJ. PON inside front cover with 1948 date in ink. No other markings seen. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Story about the Queen of Denmark.

New York: Center Street, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. Near Fine-Collectible/VeryGood. 6.25"x9.25'x1.5"; 458 pages; First printing. Jacket Design by Jody Waldrup; Jacket illustrations by Steven Noble; Jacket c 2013 Hachette Book Group, Inc. From the War-torn jungles of Ethiopia to the magical city of Rome. While the Ethiopian Civil War raages, a Catholic priest languishes in prison. Forty years have passed since he last saw daylight. His crime? Claiming to kow the true location of Christ's cup from the Last Supper. Then the miraculous happens - a mortar strikes the prison and he is free! Old, frail, and injured, he escapes to the jungle, where he encounters two Western jorunalists and a beautiful freelance photographer taking refuge from the carnage. As they tend to his woulds, he relates his incredible story.

New York: Center Street, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover_card stock spine. Near Fine-Collectible/Fine. 6.25"x9.25'x1.5"; 458 pages; First printing. Jacket Design by Jody Waldrup; Jacket illustrations by Steven Noble; Jacket c 2013 Hachette Book Group, Inc. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Minimal edge wear. GIFT QUALITY Secure shipping in box w/tracking #. From the War-torn jungles of Ethiopia to the magical city of Rome. While the Ethiopian Civil War raages, a Catholic priest languishes in prison. Forty years have passed since he last saw daylight. His crime? Claiming to kow the true location of Christ's cup from the Last Supper. Then the miraculous happens - a mortar strikes the prison and he is free! Old, frail, and injured, he escapes to the jungle, where he encounters two Western jorunalists and a beautiful freelance photographer taking refuge from the carnage. As they tend to his woulds, he relates his incredible story.

Book Patch LLC, 2019. Paperback. New. Gail Meyer. Dimensions: 6 x 0.35 x 9" Weight 6.2 oz; Pages: 123 Editor: Kelly Lockhard Cook, Ed. D. Description: Zane Rogers thought his life, or at least his social life, was over when he and his parents moved. But boy was he wrong! This will be one Fall Break he will never forget... From his adventures that live on through Beth's story; the results of Zane's quest leaves him as a totally different person.

New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 6.25"x9.5" 401 pages. First printing w/number line. DJ design by Allison J. Warner. Author photo by Sue Solie Patterson. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean & bright. X-library w/graphics. Dent to bottom edge of back board w/light soiling. Unclipped. When she sees her husband with another woman, Lauren Stillwell's heart nearly stops beating. Her marriage was perfect, she has a great job, she loves her life. But his betrayal turns her into someone she never imagined she could be--a woman lusting for revenge. Determined to even the score, Lauren seeks to have her own affair. It was supposed to be a quickie, but Lauren's night of passion takes a shocking turn when she witnesses an unexpected, unbelievable, and deadly crime. Now her horrifying secret threatens to tear her life apart, pitting her need to uncover the truth against her fear that the truth may be too horrible to bear. And whichever choice she… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008. Hardcover. Used - Near Fine/Fine. 5.75"x8.5"x1.25". 340 pgs. Black boards & spine w/gilt letters. Jacket design by Jerry Todd. Bood design by Dylan Roal Greif. Jacket illustration by Herman Estevez. Author photo by Nevois and Nicholas Cole - Photography. Light foxing on top edge. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-libray, unmarked, unclipped. "Emily Hudson is an archeologist who travels the world in search of priceless artifacts from war-torn countries and other hot spots. Her best friend and partner, Joel Levy, is always at her side—until one day, her entire crew is massacred and Joel and Emily are held captive. Victims of one of the most ruthless and evil human beings on earth. For two weeks they try to survive, until Emily is the unwitting instrument in Joel's demise. John Garrett has worked for the CIA, MI6, and whoever else needed his services. Now, the CIA comes calling with a desperate mission for him: save Emily Hudson. But… Read More

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977. First American Edition. Rebound hardback. VeryGood/good. 246 pgs. 5 5/8" x 8.5" Ex-library w/graphics. Orange boards with design. Gray panel paste downs. Jacket art by Vincent Topazio. Jacket #7708. Spine straight, binding tight. Red & green dot on top edge. Brown wrapper from cover pasted to inside of front and back covers. Alexander Quintain skulked through the corridors of Continental Investments, Inc., tormented by the distinct impression that he was being watched. During lucid moments, Quintain was able to suppress his fears, avowing that his terror was not founded on reality. But unlike most paranoiacs, Quintain was being systematically watched. It was a well-guarded secret, for example, that Continental's elusive corporated officers received investment advice - and exerted unorthodox pressures on the opposition - through a sprawling intelligence and assassination network which was based in Continental's own offices. Terrorized by his boss and afraid to ask… Read More