Search Results: Signed & Association Copies from Quair Books

Detroit: Detroit River Press, 1980. Near Fine. [�1979] FIRST EDITION, WARMLY INSCRIBED. 4to, pp. 142 + b/w illustrations. Illustrated blue and white wrappers. '057' in black pen to title page, '4/7/80/ To Catherine/ "it's a simple matter"!/ Love [?]' in red pen to bottom corner of Preface. Light edgewear. A near fine copy of Detroit River Press' pre-eminent poetry collection, which features Jim Gustafson, Chris Tysh, John Sinclair, Gloria Dyc, Bill Harris and other Detroit-connected poets, with illustrations by Cay Bahnmiller, Nancy Pletos and others. Cover by Catherine Clifford. Only four listings in the US on WorldCat.

London: Nicholas Brealey, 2019. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION, WITH AUTHORIAL INSCRIPTION. 8vo. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Bootle's fond inscription in black pen to title page: "To Doreen/ With Love and/ best wishes/ Roger". Else, clean, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: a little creased. Near fine/ near fine. Roger Bootle is a British economist, columnist for The Telegraph and Chairman of Capital Economics, a macro-economic research company. In 2012 a team from Capital Economics, led by Bootle, won the Wolfson Economics Prize for finding a practical way to break up the eurozone. The dedicatee is Doreen Newlyn, who was Social Studies Lecturer at the University of Leeds (1948 -52) and a member of its Staff Dramatic Society. With her husband, the economist and Africanist Walter Newlyn, she set up the Uganda Pilgrim Players in the late 1950s, the country's first multi-racial theatre group. Back in the UK, Newlyn was key to the foundation of the West Yorkshire… Read More

London: William Heinemann, 1912. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Substantial 8vo, pp. [viii], 640. Original green cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, upper board decorated and lettered in black. Bottom edge untrimmed. Slight lean to spine, gentle pushing to spine ends, bottom corners bruised, rubbed. Signed and dated by Grand in faded sepia ink to front pastedown in the year of publication: "Sarah Grand/ 1912.", below 'Dunecht' book-label. Offsetting and foxing to feps, else, clean and tight. Very good. A pleasing copy of Grand's penultimate novel, unusual signed and tantalising in its connection with the Pearsons of Dunecht. Sarah Grand, the pen name of Frances Elizabeth Bellenden McFall (née Clarke, 1854-1943), was an Irish author and suffragist, who laid claim to coining the term 'the new woman'. Alongside her weighty 'problem' novels, in the early decades of the twentieth century, Grand lectured throughout England and the United States, promoting women's suffrage, rational dress,… Read More

Second Impression, WITH AUTHORIAL INSCRIPTION. 8vo. Orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge orange. Bruising to extremities, bump to top of bottom board. Offsetting to illustrated endpapers, a few fox spots. Authorial inscription to half-title in blue pen: "To Mary Stewart with all good wishes from/ another Philhellene/ Dilys Powell". Else, clean, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: spine sunned, edgewear, a little chipping to spine ends, a few light marks to panels. Still, a pleasing dedication copy of Powell's Greek travelogue. Very good/ very good.Dilys Powell (1901-1995) served as film critic for The Sunday Times from 1939 to 1976, as well as reviewing for Punch; she was one of a tranche of female film critics to flourish around the post-war British film industry (see Bell, 2011). In typically frank style - and speaking to how little film was valued in the interwar period - she observed of her journalistic break at The Sunday Times that she got the job "simply because I was there… Read More

New York: The Poets Press, 1937. Near Fine. �1937 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [62], [2]. Blue cloth, spine lettered in silver. Gentle pushing to heel of spine, light stain towards leading edge of bottom board. Signed Christmas card laid-in (single sheet folded twice, 17.7 x 12.8cm, [pp. 4], typed poem 'Greetings 1938' by Sands-Roux/ "(Sally Tatham) [by hand]" to front page and: "To Hilda/ With love and/ Christmas greetings/ from/ Charles & Sally Tatham" to inner recto). Offsetting to endpapers, else, pleasingly clean, tight and bright. In the original Airforce blue dust jacket: a little edgewear, soiling to front panel. A lovely copy of an early title by The Poets Press. No copies listed on COPAC. Near fine/ very good. Sands-Roux was the pseudonym of Sarah "Sally" Theresa Roe Tatham (1872-1948), whose poetry appeared in Poetry of Today and via radio waves � WINS and WNYC � which she acknowledges, alongside Anita Browne, in this collection: "To the Radio, appreciation for being included in the great… Read More

Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 284 + b/w plates. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Inscribed in black biro to ffep: "To Matthew Kieran/ With best wishes June 94/ Tom Steele". Clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: creasing to edges. Near fine/ near fine From the academic library of Matthew Kieran (1968-), Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at the University of Leeds (2009-2021) and the ASA/BSA's Wollheim Lecturer for 2021.

London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1945. Cloth. Good+. Second impression. Slim 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Leading edge untrimmed. Shabby boards, lean to spine. Circular Canadian Auxiliary Services stamp in turquoise to front pastedown (associated offsetting to ffep), 'Gillian Lunn' in pencil to ffep. Two postcards of London belonging to Gillian Lunn laid in (perhaps relating to locations within the narrative, which opens on Westminster Bridge?). Pencil-scoring to chapter eight, some dog-earring, marginal loss to leading edges of final page and rear endpaper. Else, clean and tidy, especially for the war economy paper and for what appears to be Lunn's own working copy. In Berthold Wolpe's flaming typographcial dust jacket: over-large, edgewear, spine sunned, joints tender and rubbed, chips and closed tears to spine ends. A robust association copy of Williams' seventh and final 'spiritual shocker'. Good+/ good+ Charles Williams (1886-1945) was a British novelist and theological writer.… Read More

London: Robert Anscombe & Company, Ltd, 1937. Cloth. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, no. 215 of 750. 8vo, incl. b/w frontis portrait of Leftwich. Original blue cloth, paper title label to spine, lettered in blue (loss, incl. to printed letters). Leading and bottom edges untrimmed. Edgewear, bruising to extremities. PO pencil notes to ffep, marks to rear endpaper, beneath signed and numbered details on the limitation page, Leftwich has written in blue ink: "For Ruth Frankel/ April 4th. 1953." Very occasional underlining. Else, clean. Very good One of the founding 'Whitechapel Boys' (and its key chronicler), Joseph Leftwich (1892�1983; born Joseph Lefkowitz) was a Jewish critic, poet, translator and expert on Jewish and Yiddish literature. He translated works by Sholem Asch, Max Brod, I. L. Peretz, Zalman Schneour, Zalman Shazar and Stefan Zweig. In response to the rise of the Nazis Leftwich wrote What Will Happen to the Jews? (1936) and, in collaboration with A. K.… Read More

London: Allison & Busby Limited, 2019. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt (a little rubbed). Bruising to extremities, faint white marks and rubbing to bottom edge of upper board. Signed by Winspear in black pen to title page, a couple of creased pages. Else, clean and bright. In the original dust jacket: edgewear and a little creasing, faint mottling to front panel. Very good/ very good.

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Slim 8vo, pp. 96, incl. frontispiece portrait. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, blind-stamped series' device ("Representative Women" arching over a decorative hand mirror) to upper board. Leading edge untrimmed. Gentle bruising and wear to extremities, bump to tail, with echo in text block. Inscribed by Mitchison in black ink to ffep: "F. Stroud Read/ from Naomi Mitchison/ With much gratitude!" with the inscribee's name in sepia ink below with date and place: "Tirana, Albania/ 12.12.1928". Gently toned. Else, clean and tight. A pleasing association copy of Mitchinson's contribution to the Representative Women series. Mitchison closes her Bibliography with an acknowledgement to her inscribee: "I should particularly like to thank Mr Stroud Read for standing up for the Byzantines, lending me books, answering questions, and for the doubtful service of encouraging me to write this". Frederick Stroud Read (1892-1941) was a linguist and historian, who lived… Read More

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Large 8vo, incl. b/w sketches and plates. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine ends bruised, top edge toned. Inscribed by Garnett in blue biro to ffep: "Valerie, with love from, Henrietta Garnett", gently toned. Colour postcard addressed to Grosvenor Myers laid in. Clean, tight and bright. In the original illustrated dust jacket: light edgewear and creasing. Near fine/ near fine"Born with ink in her veins – her illustrious literary lineage stretched back several generations on both her paternal and maternal sides," here, Henrietta Garnett (1945-2019) "continued a distinguished tradition of family biography: Ritchie was the sister-in-law of Henrietta's great-grandfather Sir Leslie Stephen and the indomitable "Aunt Anny" immortalised by Virginia Woolf as Mrs Hilberry in her 1919 novel Night and Day". (Beechey, 2019).Garnett's inscribee, Valerie Grosvenor Myer (1935-2007) was a novelist and journalist, university teacher and editor (who had been… Read More

London: Andre Deutsch, 1987. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. White staining to spine and boards. Tony Chance's ex libris to front pastedown, signed by Vidal in black biro to title page, clipped reviews pasted to rear blanks and endpapers. A tight and tidy copy of Vidal's essays. Very good From the library of Tony M. Chance. A bibliophile and collector from Bromsgrove, Chance amassed a significant collection of signed modern literature, as well as history and arts books. He frequently extra-illustrated his books with related ephemera, often signed.

York: The Herald Printing Works, 1945. Good. Second impression, November 1945. 8vo, pp. [6], 182 + b/w frontis, plates and illustrations. Green cloth with black lettering to spine. Rubbed and faded, spine baggy. Edges tanned. POIs to ffep, including the author's own?: 'William Hamilton/ 18th March 1946'. Tender inner hinges. Some foxing to endpapers and prelims, occasionally to text block, which is toned (as usual with war-time paper production). Else, a clean copy, with bright plates. At the time of publication, Hamilton was Lecturer in Bee-Keeping at the University of Leeds, and based at its Agricultural Institute in Tadcaster.

London: Constable & Constable Ltd, 1921. Good. Third impression (January 1921). Slim 8vo, pp. [viii], [62]. Green cloth, lettered in gilt, blind-stamped thistle motif to upper board. Top and fore-edges untrimmed. Bruised. Mull showing slightly at front hinge, loss to top corner of dedication page, a few fox spots. Flat-signed in black pen to title page. In the original dust jacket: rubbed, extensive taping, small losses to extremities. Good/ fair. The doctor-poet and Scots folklorist David Rorie (1867-1946) is best known for 'The Lum Hat wantin' Croon'. He was a colliery surgeon and his rural locale of Aberdeenshire provided ample material for his popular poems and songs.

London: Duckworth, 1989. Hardback. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Gentlest bruising to extremities. Scatter of pinpoint marks to ffep. Signed, flamboyantly, by Bainbridge in black biro to title page. Else, clean, tight and tidy. In the original monochrome illustrated dust jacket: a little edgewear, gentle creasing to spine ends and top edge. A lovely copy. Near fine/ near fine With Brendan King's wonderful photographic portriat of Bainbridge to the rear panel. An Awfully Big Adventure was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990 (Bainbridge never did win it, despite being shortlisted a record five times) and adapted as a film in 1995. Its seventeen-year-old protagonist Stella Bradshaw, who, "in a typical Bainbridge self-portrait, appears to be stuck in an uncomfortable limbo between childhood and adulthood," was based on the author's time at the Liverpool Playhouse: "With hair shorn she appeared as a boy mathematical genius, and, in… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Substantial 8vo. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine rolled, gentle pushing to spine ends. Tanned. Signed, "A S Byatt," in black pen to title page. Folded Observer review by Kate Kellaway of Babel Tower laid in. Else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: spine sunned, creased, a little wear to extremities. A very good copy of the third novel in Byatt's Frederica Quartet. "The new novel by A. S. Byatt is as heavy as a brick; and a brick, in a way, is what it is � part of the Tower of Babel of which she has appointed herself assistant architect. [...] The tower that Byatt has built is elaborate, imposing and the view from the top vertiginous." (Kellaway, 1996).

London: Polytantric Press, 1975. Stiff card wrappers. Good+. FIRST UK EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 59, [1]. Original fawn card wrappers, lettered in black, laminated. Well-handled: laminate lifting and a bit grubby at edges, creased, mark to front wrapper. Top edge foxed. Inscribed enthusiastically by Landesman to half title in black felt-tip: 'For Elizabeth, I loved "By Grand Central Station". Yours, Fran,' with Landesman's London address written in blue biro to verso of front cover, toned. Else, clean. Good+ A fabulous association copy, uniting two significant mid-century North American poets, who lived unconventional and creative lives. The "godmother of hip," Fran Landesman (1927�2011) was an American lyricist, poet and performer, who played a pivotal role in bringing Beat music � and the first and only Beat musical � to wider audiences; 'Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most' and 'Ballad of the Sad Young Men', became jazz standards, recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan,… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1988. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in black. Slight lean to spine, gentle pushing and wear to spine ends. PO gift inscription in blue pen to ffep: "July 26 1988/ For your birthday./ My love, Doreen". Else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: a little creasing to edges. Very good/ very good. From the library of Doreen and Walter Newlyn. The British economist and educator, Walter Newlyn (1915-2002), was known for his work on monetary theory and with African nations. From 1967 (until his retirement in 1978) he was Professor of Developmental Economics at the University of Leeds and in 1964 founded its African Studies Unit, now LUCAS. Both Doreen and Walter were passionate about theatre; in the late 1950s they set up the Uganda Pilgrim Players, the country's first multi-racial theatre group. Back in the UK, Doreen was key to the foundation of the West Yorkshire (now Leeds) Playhouse in 1968.

London: Starhaven, 2005. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, WITH AUTHORIAL INSCRIPTION. Trade paperback. Illustrated wrappers. Gently rubbed at joints and edges, creasing and a few faint marks to fore-edges. Inscribed by Tucker in black pen to title page: "To Liz from Eva/ Christmas 2009". Else, clean and tight. Very good. Tucker's third novel, coming 40 years after Contact (1966) and Drowning (1969), draws on her early life and that of her maternal family, offering a vivid evocation of a German Jewish world destroyed through the rise of National Socialism. Tucker served for many years on the Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of English PEN and was especially vocal on behalf of the Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa.

London: Aurum Press, 2001. Hardback. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION, with AUTHOR's SIGNATURE. 8vo. Maroon cloth, spine lettered in silver. Pushing to spine ends, a few faint marks to boards. Mary and Richard Hoggart's personal Mortonsfield address slip pasted to front pastedown, inscribed by the author in black pen: "With best wishes to/ Tony Chance/ Richard Hoggart". Else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: edges and flaps creased. Near fine/ very good From the library of Tony M. Chance. A bibliophile and collector from Bromsgrove, Chance amassed a significant collection of signed modern literature, as well as history and arts books. He frequently extra-illustrated his books with related ephemera, often signed.