Search Results: Titles starting with H from Quair Books

Macmillan London Limited, 1974. Good. 8vo, 23cm, pp.xxvi, 215 + b/w illustrations and plates. First British edition of the original 1974 Yale University Press edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top corners and head and tail of spine lightly bumped. Dust jacket, worn at edges with nicks and chips to head and tail of spine especially. Else, a clean and tight copy.

London: Hogarth Shakespeare/ Penguin Random House, 2016. Hardback. Near Fine. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Black, red and white patterned endpapers. Gentle pushing to spine ends, scatter of faint marks to upper board, else, sharp and tight. In the original dust jacket: gentlest edgewear. Near fine/ near fine. A lovely, bright copy

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd, 1908. Good. FIRST EDITION. Substantial 8vos (in 4s), pp. xiv, [398], [2]; pp. x, 396 + amply illustrated with plates and in-text illustrations. Title pages in red and black. Original brown ribbed cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt. Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Bruising and wear to extremities. Evidence of water damage – slight warp, cockling and rubbing – to bottom corners of both vols., but primarily to the bottom sixth of the lower board of vol. 1. Ex libris to front pastedown of both vols. Some foxing to edges and text blocks, but this doesn't detract from the dark charm of the set: an apt addition to any macabre library. Good+ Moll Cutpurse, the 'Roaring Girl', features, "by right of her intimate association with the highwaymen, rather than her own exploits." The mythic Mary Frith (c. 1584-1659) was born with clenched fists, a "sure sign of a wild and adventurous nature," and Harper notes that "her muscles and her spirit alike were mannish"; as a girl she… Read More

His Majesty's Stationaery Office/ Board og Education, 1928. Very Good. 8vo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering and insignia to upper board. Rubbed, scoring to lower board, bruised spine, else, pleasingly clean and tidy.

London: James Barrie, 1950. Good. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, with b/w plates (cockled). Faded blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, edgewear, bruising to extremities, a few nicks to headcap. Edges browned. Asquith's signature (dated 1950, year of publication) in blue pen to ffep, above pasted-in dust jacket blurb, original dust jacket panels glued to pastedowns, some spotting, staining to leading margins of pp. 72-8. Else, clean. Good. Despite asking, "Why after a long career of oyster-hood should I prise my own shells open?", here the "first lady of horror", serial anthologist and celebrated diarist Lady Cynthia Asquith (1887-1960) cracks open her memories for James Barrie (nephew of the playwright, in whose company Asquith invested with some of the inheritance bequeathed by his uncle), including a chapter on her 'Breadwinning' (ODNB).

Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1991. Very Good. First edition. Large 8vo, pp. 244, (1). Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Cocked spine. Wear to bottom edges. Tanned top edge. In very good dust jacket - light shelf wear. A neat copy.

London: Virago Press Limited, 1987. Paperback. Good. First VMC edition. Trade paperback. Slight lean to spine. Rubbed and creased, edgewear. Edges tanned, a few light spots to top and three light stains to fore. Foxing to p. 1, else, internally, clean. VMC no. 247.

London: W. Collins. Sons & Co. Ltd, 1927. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, short catalogue to rear. Original blue buckram, lettered and ruled in darker blue. Rubbed, extremities bruised, nicks to head of spine. Foxed. A good+ of a late Tynan novel. Unusual in the trade, JiscLHD lists six copies, held by the British and Irish legal deposit libraries only. Katharine Tynan (1859–1931) was a prolific Irish novelist and poet of the Irish renaissance. Following the publication of her first poetry collection in 1885, her "father furnished a literary salon for her at Clondalkin, to which flocked the Olympians of Ireland's literary renaissance, including John O'Leary, Douglas Hyde, W. B. Yeats, and George Russell (A. E.)" (ODNB). Following her marriage, however, "Katharine set out to 'boil the pot', producing in all a staggering output of ninety-four novels, twenty-seven poetry collections, twenty-three collections of stories, eight volumes of memoirs, three biographies, three edited collections, two in… Read More

London: Eyewear Publishing, 2016. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Slim trade paperback, with b/w frontis. Patterned wrappers, lettered in black. Front wrapper and text block creased. Inscribed by Power in black biro to half-title:"Dear Charles,/ with best/ wishes from/ Phoebe/ P R Power/ February 2019". With note on scrap paper, in purple felt-tip, laid in, thanking Charles for his interest and hoping he enjoys the poems. Else, clean and bright. A near fine copy of Power's short collection. In 2016 the York-based, British poet (1993-) recorded seven of her poems from Harp Duet with electronic music by Michael Hedges. In the original live performance, digital samplers and audio recordings accompanied both pre-recorded and live versions of the poems. Harp Duet can be listened to at: https://soundcloud.com/michaeljhedges/sets/harp-duet. Two year's later, Power's first full-length collection Shrines of Upper Austria won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection; it was also… Read More

London: The Bodley Head, 1959. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. Slim 8vo, pp. 80, amply illustrated by Gill in the year of publication. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in red and black. Slight lean to spine, offsetting from dust jacket, fine bands of sunning at board edges. Edges and endpapers foxed, occasionally to text block. Inscribed by Gill in blue pen to b/w frontis, below her illustration of a rhinoceros with its hat: "Best wishes,/ Margery Gill/ 1959". In Gill's original illustrated dust jacket: price-clipped, light wear to extremities, spine darkened, toned and spotted, short closed tear to top edge of front panel. Still, the cover art remains pleasingly vivid. Very good/ very good. A lovely copy of Hewett's "jungle tales for young children," scarce signed by Gill. Very good/ very good Born in Scotland, Margery Gill (1925 – 2008) was a prolific illustrator of children's books, who had specialised in etching and engraving at the Royal College of Art. Gill… Read More

London: Peter Lunn, 1946. FIRST THUS. Slim 8vo. Colour plates & numerous b/w illustrations by Jack Matthews. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Wear to heel of spine. POI in pencil to ffep, else, clean and bright. In original illustrated dust jacket in red and black: price-clipped, spine sunned, edges creased, wear and nicking to extremities, patch of rubbing to front panel. Very good/ good+. "Being the History of an Adventure to an Island in the Remote South Sea. Of a Wizard there. Of his Pirate Gang; His Treasure; His Combustible; His Skeleton Antic Lad. Of his Wisdom; Of his Poesy; His Barbarous Cruelty; His Might Power; Of a Volcano on the Island. And of the Ghostly Terror".

J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1931. Very Good. First edition thus. 8vo. With b/w frontis. Olive cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and blind stamped knight on horseback motif to upper board. Green top edge. Wear to spine ends. POI to ffep, browned half-title. Else, clean and tidy. In good original DJ - spine tanned, edgewear, loss to spine ends. Scarce, especially in DJ.

New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/ Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962. Cloth. Good+. FIRST US EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 316. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blind stamped floral circular motif to upper board. Top edge orange. Spine ends worn, bumped and sunned, corners bruised. Edges toned, a few marks to leading edges. Signed by Bryher in blue biro to ffep, "with best wishes" and dated in pencil: "17/7/62", with HB 'With the compliments of the author' card laid in. Occasional stains, else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: gently soiled, spine ends and corners chipped, worn and creased, joints tender, numerous closed tears, repairs to reverse. A robust copy of Bryher's historically- and socially-minded memoir(s), unusual signed. Good+/ goo+ With a printed dedication: "To the memory of my master, Stéphane Mallarmé"

Leyburn: Tartarus Press, 2005. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 1 of 500. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt stamped lettering to spine and upper board. Matching green endpapers. Red ribbon marker. Signed by author in black pen on title page. Postcard flier for Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights laid-in. In the original dust jacket: light edgewear, a little grubby, score to front panel, three patches of staining and scoring to rear panel. A near fine copy of this attractive edition in a bright dust jacket. Near fine/ very good.

5 Bloomsbury Square, London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1927. Cloth. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 386 of 500. 4to in 8s, pp. [viii], 221, [1]. Red buckram, gilt stamped lettering to spine. Edges deckled. Spine slightly cocked, pushing to spine ends. Signed and numbered by Jack Lindsay in sepia pen on limitation page. Edges, front and rear gently foxed, occasional grubby fingerprints. Else, clean and bright. In the original dust jacket, illustrated, in typical erotic-style, by Norman Lindsay: tanned, grubby and spotted, edgewear and creasing, head of spine frayed, a number of closed tears. Nevertheless, a grand copy, unusual in the dust jacket. Very good/ good+ Co-editor of Australia's first (anti-modernist) "little magazine" Vision (1923-4) by 1926 Jack Lindsay (1900-1990) was living in Bloomsbury attempting to "promote [his father, the artist] Norman Lindsay's notion of a sexually utopian Australian renaissance" to the British, and having re-established John Kirtley's hand-press, the… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Beige linen spine, paper title label lettered in black, blue paper boards, blind-stamped Houghton Mifflin device to upper board. Leading and bottom edges untrimmed. Tobacco-toned, gentle wear to extremities, stain to bottom board. Toned, PO black-stamped Chinese characters to ffep, else, clean and tight. Bound from British sheets and issued on 1 August 1924 in an edition of 520 copies at $1.50. Boughn A5a.ii

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Hardback. Near Fine. FIRST US EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. [xvi], 74, [6]. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, gilt-stamped 'MJS' to upper board. Gentle pushing to head of spine. Signed by Salter in faded black pen on half-title. Else, clean and tight. In the attractive original dust jacket: price-clipped, light edgewear, head of spine frayed, short closed tear to top edge of front panel, chips to bottom corners, a little shelf-soiled. Nevertheless, a lovely copy of Salter's first collection, unusual signed. Near fine/ very good Mary Jo Salter (1954-) is an American poet, editor and essayist. Having been taught by Elizabeth Bishop at Harvard, Salter was an important figure in the New Formalist movement of the 1970s and 1980s. She is a former editor of both the Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic, as well as a co-editor of the fourth and fifth editions of the Norton Anthology of Poetry. Fellow poet Carolyn Kizer described Salter's work as… Read More

London: Virago Press, 1984. FIRST VMC EDITION. Trade paperback. Heavy edgewear, creasing, short closed tear to bottom joint of front panel. Pen mark to top edge. Decorative 'C' stamp to biog. page, else, clean. Good.

London: Quartet Books, 1980. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, incl. b/w plates. Original maroon buckram, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, dusty top edge. Else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: spine gently sunned, toned and a little soiled, light edgewear. A pleasing copy of Wolff's second memoir. Very good/ very good Charlotte Wolff, M.D. (1897-1986) was a German Jewish psychologist and physician, lesbian and feminist, who worked on hand analysis – here, she recounts analysing Virginia Woolf's hands – and later sexology, publishing the pioneering Love Between Women (1971) and Bisexuality (1977).

London: Printed by Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh for the Freethought Publishing Company, 1885. Very Good. Third Edition, a later impression (suggested by catalogue). Three volumes in one, each with a separate title page, but continuous pagination. 8vo, pp. 286, viii index to rear, 28 catalogue (dated June 1886). Rust cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt ruling and Freethought's device to upper board (the letters A and C intertwined, over which a honey bee hovers, encircled by a belt). Yellow endpapers. Pushing and wear to spine ends, small chip to lower joint, a little light staining. Edges toned, first and last pages tanned, last few pages creased and a little dusty, else, clean and bright. A very good copy of Besant's successful lecture series, comprising 14 lectures. Jisc LHD lists 3 holdings for the third edition (UoLeicester, NLW/LGC and Senate House Library). Annie Besant (1847-1933) was a prominent British socialist, theosophist and campaigner for women's rights and Irish and… Read More