Search Results: Authors starting with N from Quair Books

London: Andre Deutsch, 1980. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Fore-edge rough trimmed. Clean and tidy. In very good Pedro Lopez dust jacket: price-clipped, spine sunned, edgewear, nick to top fore-corner. Essays first published in The New York Review of Books, excepting 'The Killings in Trinidad,' which appeared first in the Sunday Times.

Halifax: Milner and Sowerby/ The Cottage Library, 1853. Small 8vo, pp x, 440 + engraved portrait frontis; according to page numbers appears to lack one leaf from front matter, perhaps blank or half-title? Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, decorated in blind. Yellow endpapers. Rubbed, corners bumped, splits to joints, longest to rear, but binding firm, dusty edges. Some foxing, grubby fingerprints and dog-earing, else, clean and tight. A robust copy of this Yorkshire-produced pocket edition of the Life of the French Emperor. Good+ First issued by Halifax publisher William Milner in 1840 with an Introductory Essay by Dr Channing, but, it appears, without the engraved frontispiece. Milner left his business to his two stepsons, when it was renamed Milner and Sowerby. The Cottage Library comprised the "cheapest books in Britain".

Second edition, fifth impression. Slim 8vo, pp. xii, 84, incl. b/w illustrations. Cream paper blind-stamped with reptile skin pattern, spine and upper board lettered in black. A little grubby, spine and board edges darkened, pushing and wear to spine ends and corners. Pencil POI to ffep: "W. T. Newlyn/ Nov. 44./ New Delhi", toned, a few creased corners.. Else, clean and tidy. A pleasing copy of an early edition of Nehru's popular epistolary natural and human history written for his ten-year-old daughter, Indira. Unusual, even as a reprint of the second edition. With printed dedication to his daughter, Indira (1917-1984; later Ghandi) who followed in her father's political footsteps and became India's third Prime Minister (1966-1977; 1980-1984).

Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1929. Good. Second Edition, 1929 reprint. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Ex-library, with stamps. Slant to spine, boards worn and bruised. Pencil POI to front pastedown. Some pencil underscoring, else clean. A good reading copy.

London: Samson Low, Marston, & Co., 1883. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. [vi], 228 + head- and tail-pieces. Red pebble-grained morocco, four gilt- and blind-framed raised bands, gilt stamped lettering to second spine compartment, single blind and gilt ruling to boards, central gilt-stamped harp, horn and laurel motif to upper board. All edges gilt. Dust-darkened, wear to edges and extremities, small losses to head of spine, front joint rubbed. Author's fond inscription in black pen and an attractive hand to half-title: "To Jacob Bright Esq.r, M.P./ With the sincere good wishes of/ T W[?] Newbigging". Else, clean and bright. An attractive copy of an unusual title, especially with authorial dedication. Jisc LHD lists 6 copies (UoAberdeen, Bishopsgate Library (Howell Collection), BL, UoCambridge, John Rylands & NLS). Thomas Newbigging (1833-1914) was a Scottish historian and engineer, who made his home in Lancashire – Rossendale and Manchester – hence the subject of this collection's… Read More

London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press/ Oxford Studies in African Affairs, 1954. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Faded maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Gentle pushing to spine ends, tanned edges. Offsetting to feps. Else, clean and tidy. A very good copy. From Newlyn's own library, though without any inscription indicating this. Uncommon in the trade, though well-represented in British and Irish research libraries. Professor Walter Tessier Newlyn (1915-2002) was a British economist and educator, known for his work on monetary theory and with African nations, especially Uganda. In 1945, Newlyn was accepted as a mature student to read economics at LSE and by 1948 he was an assistant lecturer at the University of Leeds (UoL), to which he remained affiliated throughout his career, despite working extensively in Africa. From 1967 (until his retirement in 1978) Newlyn was Professor of Developmental Economics and in 1964 had founded UoL's African Studies Unit, now LUCAS (Loxley, 2003).… Read More

London: Robert Hale Limited, 1954. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Original black cloth, spine lettered in lime green. Pushing to spine ends, corners bruised. Some toning, else, clean and tight. In C.W.'s original illustrated dust jacket: rubbed and creased, losses, especially to spine ends, but the startling front panel remains mostly intact. Very good/ good A typical Newman tale featuring the struggle for Russian succession and a man in England "possessed of unusual extra-sensory powers" who intervenes (front flap).

London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. With b/w illustrations. Purple cloth, silver lettering to spine. Top edge blue. A few marks and rubbing to upper board. In the original Jan Pienkowski dust jacket: spine sunned, rubbed, nicking to extremities, short closed tear to head of spine. Very good/ good+.

Edinburgh and London: T. N. Foulis, 1911. Cloth. Very Good. Third edition, no. 947 of 1500 copies. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 268, [16 catalogue, 'Other Nietzsche Literature']. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blind-stamped circular portrait of Nietzsche to upper board (reproduced in black on series title page). Spine sunned, edgewear, top corners bumped. Edges and endpapers toned, ownership signature of Gertrude H. Gibbon to title page, occasional foxing. Else, clean and tight. Very good Volume twelve in Levy's The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: "The first complete and authorised English translation".

London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. Cloth. Fine. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of the 26th Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture. 8vo, pp. 64, amply illustrated in b/w. Original red cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt. Red paper plate to front pastedown: "This presentation copy of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture is sent with the compliments of the Directors of Thames and Hudson". Clean, tight and bright. In the original matching red cloth slip case, gilt stamped Thames and Hudson device to front: a few loose threads, two cloth corners lifting. Still, a smart, square copy of the words and images of Nochlin's 26th Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture, given annually on subjects reflecting the interests of the founder of Thames and Hudson. Fine/ near fine Linda Nochlin (1931–2017) was an American art historian and feminist scholar. Nochlin's important intervention in art history, 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (ArtNews, 1971) launched a new era of feminist art history. The Walter Neurath… Read More

London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [viii], [52]. Grey paper boards, lettered in green. Tobacco-browning to spine and board edges. Light bruising and wear to extremities. Light offsetting to feps, POI to ffep: "R. Davis./ King's/ Cambridge." In the original dust jacket: spine tobacco-tanned, toned and rubbed, creasing and wear to edges, a few nicks. Very good/ good+. Kathleen Nott's third collection. A PEN member from the 1950s and elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1977, Nott was an outspoken humanist and rationalist, views most evident in her contentious 1953 book The Emporer's New Clothing: An attack on the dogmatic orthodoxy of T. S. Elliot, Graham Greene, Dorothy Sayers, C. S. Lewis, and others. According to an early reviewer, Nott "has a rich, harsh and rather masculine talent" (TLS).