Search Results: Authors starting with A from Quercus Rare Books

New York: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1930. Pseudonym of George William Russell (1863-1919), a prominent member of the Irish Literary Revival, friend to Joyce and Yeats. "The National Being" is his major work on Irish nationalism, originally published just after the Easter Rising of 1916. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition. Blue cloth binding is clean and bright, as is the gilt lettering on the front panel. Text is clean and fresh. The dustjacket is complete and unclipped; chips at the head and foot of the spine. In a plastic protector. All in all, a nice copy of an important work, very scarce in the jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1933. Known by his pseudonym "AE," George William Russell (1867-1935) was both an Irish nationalist and a pacifist, an infrequent Irish combination. "The Avatars" is a later and rather uncommon work of his, a sort of mystical socialist fantasy set in a future Ireland. It is dedicated to W.B. Yeats, with whom he shared a fascination with spirituality. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Dark blue cloth binding, ruled on the front cover, with gilt titling on the cover and spine. Clean text; vii, 188 pages, with a list of Russell's works available in the rear. Bookplate on front paste-down; signature on the FFEP. A very fresh copy, lacking the dustwrapper. In an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Macmillan & Company, Ltd., 1926. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the Second Edition (with the additions from 1919). Dark blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 373 pages, with Note; two pages of publisher's advertisements in the rear. This copy has been SIGNED by A.E. on the Title Page. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Second Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.

Dublin and London: Maunsel & Company, Ltd., 1916. AE, the pseudonym of George William Russell (1863-1919), was a prominent member of the Irish Literary Revival. He was a poet and a friend to Joyce and Yeats. "The National Being" is his major work on Irish nationalism, published just after the Easter Uprising. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Not common. Blue cloth binding; titling and ruling in gilt. Clean text; 176 pages,very bright and clear. The endpapers are tanned and there is some foxing to the prelims. There is a contemporary (1916) signature on the FFEP. The spine has faded and the gilt is a bit dulled but remains completely readable. A scarce and important work. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915. A collection of twenty-four essays by the Irish poet, critic, editor, artist, mystic, and Irish nationalist. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition, with an interesting ASSOCIATIONS, inscribed and signed on the FFEP by John Quinn to Basante Kumar Roy and dated February 1916. A.E. dedicated this volume to Quinn (1870-1924), who was a noted American art collector and patron of the famous 1913 Armory Show. Basante Kumar Roy was an Indian nationalist who worked in America as a journalist; he had connections with Irish nationalists through the "Friends of Freedom for India." Blue cloth binding, ruled and titled in gilt on the front cover; titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; xi, 255 pages, rough-cut.. Light wear around the margins; spine very slightly faded. The front gutter has cracked, but is holding. Toning to the endpapers. In an archival plastic protector. . Signed/Inscribed. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No… Read More

London and Benares: Cosmopoli: For the Kama Shastra Society, 1885. Burton always had an interest in Eastern erotica; this is his translation from Sanskrit of a 15th Century work. In order to avoid Victorian charges of obscenity they were usually issued "for subscribers only." Here Burton and Arbuthnot disguised themselves by inverting their initials.[one wonders who might have been fooled]. After his death Burton's manuscript and notes were burned by Isabel. Only a tiny number, perhaps four or six, had been printed in 1873 with a different title. This is a Near Fine copy of the Third Issue of what is generally thought of as the First Edition; all three came out in 1885 [cf. Penzer 171-72 and Casada 73]. Rebound attractively in cloth with golden brown tips and spine. Titling in gilt within a green label on the spine. Clean text, 144 pages with marbled endpapers. Noted: a previous reader has written in pencil on the second free endpaper 'Kind of like the Kama Sutra only better."… Read More

London/Dublin/Edinburgh: T. Cadell, R. Milliken, and W. Blackwood, 1824. Mortimer O'Sullivan (1791?-1859), a converted cleric of the Church of Ireland, published this with a pseudonym as a rejoinder to Thomas Moore's "Memoirs of Captain Rock." Initially critical of Irish landlords, O'Sullivan became an anti-Catholic polemicist and member of the Orange Order. This is a Very Good copy of the text of the First Edition. Disbound. The covers are present but unattached and the spine is exposed. Clean text; 450 pages, toned at the edges. Quite clear and bright; pages stiff. The first free endpaper has two stamps: that of W.A. Hinch, Dublin bookseller, and of the St. Ignatius House of Writers. The half-title page has a contemporary ink signature and "by Mortimer O'Sullivan." Please note the condition issues. Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy, in need of repairs or restoration.. First Edition. Disbound. Poor/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1868. Published anonymously. But per COPAC this is the work of Sir Justin Sheil (1803-1871). An Irishman who served in the British army in India, he retired as a Major General, and was the brother of famed orator Richard Lalor Sheil. Held by major institutions in England and America, but scarce in the Trade. Green cloth binding, ruled on the covers with titling in gilt on the front. Clean text; 67 pages. The first 32 pages are the essay, followed by extensive Notes as the remainder; then follows a 32-page publisher's catalong dated July 1867. Light rubbing at the margins (tips and the spine; several pages have small tears due to hasty opening. Quite a solid copy of this rare treatis.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1901. The prolific (some 180 books!) American author Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was noted for his children's books, but he delved into popular history such as this. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of a reprinted edition issued as part of "The Makers of History" series. Tan decorative cloth binding with a sword and wreath motif on the front cover, filled in brown and black. Clean text; 328 pages, very fresh and bright. A bit of foxing to the fore-edge; the spine slightly darkened and some of the lettering rubbed; else close to a Fine copy Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Reprint.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket.

New York & London: The Macmillan Company & Collier-Macmillan Ltd., 1966. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First American Edition (stated First Printing). Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 408 pages, with Epilogue and Index. Illustrated with eleven photographs. Light sunfade along the top edge and a faint bump to the bottom front cover. The dustjacket has been clipped; shows some light edgewear and has a small closed tear on the rear panel. In an archival plastic protector.. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Nan Talese/Doubleday, 2005. First American Edition (stated) . A Near Fine copy that has been SIGNED by the author on a plate tipped-in to the half-title page. Has some bumping to two corners; unread condition. Unclipped DJ is in an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. An excellent biography of a great Native American hero, somewhat uncommon these days. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Red paper boards with an orange cloth spine. Very mildly bumped. Clean text; 446 pages, indexed. Spine is faded, but gilt lettering is still bright. Lacking the dustjacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1993. As the spokesman for Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams (b. 1948) has been the face of the Irish republican movement, and now is a "respectable" politician; this is his memoir of his imprisonment by the British in Long Kesh Internment Camp. This is a Fine copy of the First American Edition, rather scarce. Sage green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 146 pages, with a Glossary of Irish slang and a publisher's advert at the rear . This copy has been SIGNED by Adams in the year of publication on the Title Page. The dustjacket is unclipped; interestingly, the original sage green colour has "faded" to a brighter green on the spine. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First American Edition.. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. Considered by many one of the best American autobiographies to have been written. Originally privately published in 1907; it gained fame when reissued by the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1917. This is a Near Fine copy of a Later Printing (the 36th), with a new Introduction by Denis Brogan in addition to the Preface from 1917 by Henry Cabot Lodge. Bright red cloth binding with black titling on the spine. Clean text; xxiv, 517 pages, indexed. Tiny bookseller label on front paste-down and evidence of some erasures on the FFEP; else Fine. The dustjacket is in rough condition, however, with considerable rubbing, creasing and chipping. In an archival plastic protector.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1933. James Truslow Adams (1878-1949) was not related to the famous namesake political family he chronicled in two books. Although not an academic, he was well-regarded for his popular histories, and won a Pulitzer in 1929. A Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Dark brown cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean and bright text. Evidence of sticker removal on FFEP. No dustjacket. Size: 64mo - up to 3" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1912. Adams (1871-1958) was a muckraking journalist as well as a novelist (he also wrote more "risque" works under the pseudonym "Warner Fabian"). This mystery followed by a year his Queen's Quorum title, "Average Jones." A spectacular copy of the First Edition, as close to Fine as it may ever get. Green, almost umber, cloth binding, with architectural blinstamping on the front cover. Titling in gilt on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 340 pages. Frontis illustration and four others within by Frank E. Schoonover. Tiny ink notation on rear paste-down. Quercus has noted one turned-down page crease, else pristine. A treat for the fan of Early Mysteries. Lacking the dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Frank E. Schhonover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1911. Adams (1871-1958) was a muckraking journalist as well as a novelist; he also wrote more "risque" works under the pseudonym "Warner Fabian." This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition, a Queen's Quorum title (Hubin, p.3). Olive decorative cloth binding, titled and stamped with red and white; white titling on the spine. Clean text; 345 pages. Contemporary (1913) gift inscription on the FFEP. Mildly bumped; some stains/abrasion on the rear cover. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. Illus. by M. Leone Bracker. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: J. Tonson & J. Watts, 1721. Joseph Addison (1672-1719] is probably most known today for his collaborations with Richard Steele, but he was famed in his own time for his translations from of the Roman poets, as well as his own efforts in Latin. While a fellow at Oxford he published this anthology [1699] and made his reputation for eight of his poems within. This is a Very Good copy of an early reprint, issued two years after his demise. RARE - per COPAC, no copies held in the British Isles; none available in the Trade. This is a Very Good copy of the second volume only. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and tips. Five raised bands, gilt decorations, and two red labels for the title and the volume. The text is clean; 270 pages; lightly toned. [The last page is a publisher's advert - interestingly, in Latin - for some of their titles.] The Title Page is darker and is fragile, with separation starting. The front paste-down bears the armorial bookplate of Sir John Wolfe Barry,… Read More

London: W. Strahan, J.F. And C. Rivington, Et.al., 1777. First published by Tonson in 1726; this is a Very Good (Minus) copy of a later edition. Volume One only of the original three. Full leather calf binding, with gilt decorations on the spine. Clean text; xlvi, 285 pages; frontis portrait od Addison. Rubbed at the margins. Boards have split; the rear is holding, but the front is close to detached. Please note the condition issue. Quercus must offer this as a Binding Copy, in need of repair or restoration. The pages are very bright and clear. This would be a good candidate for a nice rebind.. Later Printing. Full-Leather. Very Good (Minus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1936. Goerge William Russell (b.1867) was a poet, editor, critic, artist, and Irish nationalist. He shared a taste for the theosophical and occult with his friend William Butler Yeats. AE had passed away in 1935; one might say that this is, in a way, a memorial to him. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition, which is LIMITED to 300 copies. Not common. Blue-gray paper-covered boards with a linen spine; paper title label on the spine. Clean text; 63 pages. Very slight bumping to the corners; else a Fine copy. The fragile glassine dustwrapper is present, with a bit of wrinkling and small chips at its margins. In an archival plastic protector.. Limited. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.