Search Results: Authors starting with A from Quair Books

T. Nelson and Sons, 1887. Good. The 1887 reprint. 8vo, pp. 298, (6) adverts + b/w frontis and plates. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and blind/black embossed designs to spine and upper board. Rubbed and lightly soiled, extremities worn and bruised. Edges spotted. Patterned endpapers browned, prize inscription (1896) to ffep. Occasional spotting, else clean. Tucker was a prolific author of didactic tales, who later became a missionary in India.

London: Picador/ Pan Books, 1988. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. 227, [5], incl. Acker's own b/w line drawings. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Bruising to spine ends. Uneven tanning to edges, toned. Else, clean and tidy. In the original illustrated dust jacket: gentle creasing and wear to edges, gently toned on reverse. Very good/ very good Acker dedicated Empire of the Senseless to "my tattooist". Empire of the Senseless was the experimental writer and performance artist's fifth book from a major publisher and her first foray into science fiction. Despite its setting in the speculative near future, "it remains insolently rooted in the world in which we belong, anchored by Acker's stubborn commitment to rendering visible the sexist, racist, capitalistic, father-fucking societal ego of her time�and of our own. Kathy Acker is a muckraker in the original sense, one who dredges up the dirt and puts it on display to the delight and horror of the reading public." (Kleeman, 2018). Acker… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus/ The Hogarth Press, 1985. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends. Edges tanned, toned, else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket (featuring a very glum Ackland): spine and joints sunned, creasing to spine ends and top edge. A very good copy of Ackland's posthumously published confessional memoir.

London: J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1946. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 186 + map, and numerous b/w full-page photographic illustrations to rear. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edge blue (faded). Pushing to heel of spine, extremities a trifle rubbed, bands of sunning to board edges, especially bottom. Toned, POI to ffep, else, clean and tight. In the original photographic dust jacket: creased and rubbed, losses to spine ends, and top of rear panel, with amateur repairs to reverse. Very good/ good. Much-loved Scottish journalist, translator and mountaineer Janet Adam Smith's classic memoir of her pre-war climbs in the Highlands and the Alps. Already recognised as an authority on Robert Louis Stevenson, her editions of his poems and his correspondence with Henry James soon followed. Indeed, "[i]ntellectually Adam Smith was heir to the Scottish Enlightenment and Edinburgh reviewers" and did much to champion Scottish literature, with her 1965 biography of John Buchan deemed a "masterpiece" (ODNB). Adam… Read More

London: James Blackwood & Co., Paternoster Row., 1868. Fair. Second edition (following the similarly undated London: Houlston and Wright edition (c.1857))? 8vo, pp. xxvi, 322 + frontispiece and illustrated title page, and 60 engravings: lacks the fold-out map. Original red cloth, lettered, ruled and decorated in gilt to spine and upper board ("The Life of Dr Livingstone"), blind-ruling and decoration to bottom board. Bevelled edges. All edges gilt. Shabby: dust-soiled, rubbed, spine ends frayed, corners bumped and worn. Hinges cracked, boards only just attached, shaken. PO stamp to ffep, handling marks and grubbiness, occasional foxing. Fair. A reading copy of an early title about the Scottish explorer. Jisc LHD lists six holdings in the UK of the Blackwood edition (BL, Bodleian, UoCambridge, NLS, NLW/ LGC and SOAS). The New York Public Library's copy of the Blackwood edition (digitised by the HathiTrust trust) suggests a later publication date, with "[1879]" added to its title page; the UK… Read More

Oxford University Press/ Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1949. Very Good. The tenth impression. 12mo. Navy cloth with gilt lettering (almost invisible) to spine and blind stamped rules and crest to upper board. Blue top edge. Spine faded. POI to ffep, else, clean and tight. WC, no. 117. Includes The Suppliants; The Persians; Seven Against Thebes; Agamemnon; The Choephoroe, or Libation-Bearers; The Eumenides; and Prometheus Bound.

[London?]: Printed for private circulation by C. F. Hodgson & Son, Ltd, 1931. Booklet (20.7 x 16.8cm, in 8s), pp. 98, [2] + b/w frontis and plates, pages stapled. Cream illustrated paper wrappers, lettered and decorated in green. Foxed and toned, nick to had of spine, wrappers separating towards head, staples rusty at rear. Else, internally tight and tidy. Still, a very good copy of an unusual booklet. With a fascinating 'women at work' section (pp. 52-92), written by alumni with a broad range of careers, including 'She Writes for the Films!' and 'A Minion of the Law' (with strict copyright instructions "By order of Scotland Yard"). A number of contributions came from prominent ex-pupils, such as the garden designer Madeline Agar, the first female prison governor Dr Selina Fox, sculptor Helen Fraser Rock ("First woman to gain Royal Academy prize for Sculpture") and Scottish Unionist MP for Kinross and West Perthshire and anti-suffrage campaigner, the Duchess of Atholl.

Readers Union/ George G. Harrap & Company, 1947. Good. The 1947 Readers Union reprint (which conformed to wartime and post-war economy standards in publishing). 8vo, pp. 230 + b/w frontispiece (of Agate). Grey cloth boards with sunned red (now orange) lettering to spine. Head and tail of spine and corners lightly bruised. Else, a clean, tight copy.

Toronto: The Women's Press, 1987. Paperback. [1987] Trade paperback. Corners lightly bruised, light spotting to edges, else, clean and tidy.

New York: Playbill Inc., 1963. Paperback. Good+. Side-stapled pamphlet (22.8 x 15.4cm), pp. 28. Illustrated wrappers, with numerous colour and b/w adverts. Creased and rubbed, bald patch to rear wrapper, staples a little rusty. Else, clean. Good+ Programme for the matinee and evening performances of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Billy Rose Theatre (September 1963).

London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Very Good. ADVANCE COPY. 8vo, pp. 43, (1). Orange wrappers, spine and front wrapper lettered in black. Gently rubbed and soiled, nick to heel. Prelims foxed and into inner margins, "H. Graham Piercy" stamped in blue to ffep, musty. "Messrs. Chatto & Windus/ have pleasure in sending herewith for review/ an Advance Copy" slip, dated 22nd May 1930, laid in (toned). Else, clean. Very good.

London: Odhams Press Limited, 1955. Cloth. Good+. FIRST UK EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, with b/w frontispiece and plates. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, bruising and wear to extremities, edges toned, a few spots. Inscribed by Aldrich in blue biro to ffep: "To Joan Gilbert�/ My most attractive interviewer on TV or anywhere�/ With thanks and best regards�/ Dick Aldrich/ London April 1955", Tony Chance's ex libris and 'libr�ris' labels to ffep, Times obituary clipping, for Gilbert, pasted to rear fep and pastedown. Else, clean and tidy. In supplied dust jacket: creased and frayed, chipped at extremities, amateur tape repair to reverse, but the fabulous front panel illustration remains bright. A pleasing association copy of Aldrich's best-selling memoir. Good+/ good-only From Aldrich's inscription it seems that Gilbert interviewed him in London in 1955, perhaps during a tour promoting his book. Richard Stoddard Aldrich (1902�1986) was an American theatrical manager "of… Read More

Naples [but not]: A spese di Giambatista Pasquali, Libraro e Stampatore di Venezia., 1739. Near Fine. Third edition: "Novella Edizione emendata ed accresciuta" (new edition, amended and enlarged). 8vo, pp. [xxiv], 303, half-title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, attractive engraved head- and tailpieces and decorative initials. Three-quarters tree calf, re-backed with original spine, lettered, ruled and tooled in gilt, laid back down, single gilt ruling to board edges. All edges marbled, red ribbon marker. Hinges professionally reinforced, chipped and rubbed, edgewear, bottom corner of bottom board bumped and chipped, attendant creasing into text block. Inscribed in sepia ink to half-title: "For Miss Whitelocke/ from her friend & brother/ G.O.," (erroneous) pencil note about provenance to ffep, some off-setting from engravings, occasional fox spots, pencil scoring and grubby marks, small loss to rear fep. Else, clean and bright. A grand copy of this important popularisation of… Read More

s.l.: Privately printed for the author, 1949. Good. Second impression, SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. B/w frontis and plates. Red cloth, purple(?) lettering. Spine sunned and creased, light wear to ends. Tanned and spotted edges. Two POI to ffep, including the author's in black pen � "C. A. Alington/ July 24 49" � dated the same year he was granted freedom of the City of Durham. Endpapers toned and lightly spotted, some marginal spotting, mull showing at pp. 32-3, else, binding firm. A good copy. Cyril Argentine Alington (1872�1955) was a teacher, Anglican priest and prolific author, including of detective fiction. He served as the Dean of Durham and was headmaster of Eton (1917-1933).

London: Virago Press Limited, 1990. Reprint. Trade paperback (film tie-in cover). Light edge- and joint-wear. Tanned edges. Bald patch to biog page, else, clean and tight. Very good.

London: Virago Press Limited, 1982. Good. FIRST VMC EDITION. Trade paperback. Reading creases to spine, rubbed and scuffed, edgewear, especially to head of spine. A few spots to biog page, else, internally clean and bright. Good-only.

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1937. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 187, [1] + seven b/w wood engraved headpieces by Enid Marx. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bruising to extremities, some edges rubbed, stain to heel of spine. Scatter of fox spots to edges and endpapers, gently toned, else, pleasingly clean and tight. In the classic Enid Marx-designed dust jacket: toned, spine darkened and rubbed at joints, loss to head of spine, numerous closed tears, including a flap to spine and an arc to front panel, amateur taping to reverse. Still, a lovely, bright copy of Allinson's autobiographical novel, unusual, especially in the rare Enid Marx dust jacket. Very good/ good+ With a printed dedication to her partner Judith Wogan, am actor and owner of Grafton Theatre, London. One of only 1210 copies. Francesca Allinson (1902�1945) was a folk musician with roots in the labour and pacifist movements. A polymath and multi-stringed creative, she was… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1987. Good. Trade paperback, pp.xxi, 467 + b/w plates. Light shelf wear, tanned edges, else a clean, tight copy.

BFI Publishing, 1992. Very Good. Light shelf wear, else a clean, tight copy.

London: Macmillan, 1975. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original black buckram, spine lettered in white. Illustrated endpapers, the "design taken from a sketch of Moreton Bay held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney" (author's note). Bruising to head of spine. Toned, erratum slip (originally inserted at author's note), pasted directly, by PO, to p. 232, over incorrect lines. Else, clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket: edgewear and creasing. A solid copy of Anderson's own favourite novel (not the Regency Romance it appears). Very good/ very good Jessica Anderson (1926-2010) was a prize-winning Australian novelist, whose third, true crime, novel recounts the murder of Captain Patrick Logan, the notoriously brutal Commandant of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, 1826-30. The novelist's version uses Logan's young (fictionalised) sister-in-law to offer her own commentary on events. Anderson once drew parallels between the Moreton Bay social climate and Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford!