Search Results: Authors starting with H from Quair Books

London: Oxford University Press, 1944. Stiff card wrappers. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. Slim 8vo. Stiff card wrappers, with integral tan dust jacket, printed in black and brown and priced 3s. 6d. Pages printed on cream laid paper, watermarked "ADELPHIA". Toned and foxed, creasing and pushing to edges and extremities, pencil notes to rear panel. POI to inner front wrapper in black ink: "P. B. Hellings/ Jerusalem 1945," with bookseller pencil note on facing half-title: "Welsh poet", stab holes gaping at front hinge (as often seen), some foxing, spine cracked at first gathering, but binding firm. Very good. With an apt wartime association. The printed dedication reads: "To Bryher/ for Karnak 1923/ from London 1942". This copy belonged to the Swansea-born poet, Peter Bernard Hellings (1921-1994). Hellings joined the RAF in 1941 and served in Africa and the Middle East between 1942 and 1946, which corresponds with the PO inscription-location: "Jerusalem". Hellings, who went on to teach literature, was… Read More

University of Nebraska Press, 1993. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Black glossy paper boards. Sunning to spine, light bruising to head of spine. Else clean, bright and tight: a pleasing copy.

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1938. Good. Third edition (revised and enlarged). 8vo. With b/w frontis. Spine faded, crease to front board, edgewear. Dusty top edge. Foxing to rear pastedown, else clean and tight.

London: Virago Press Limited, 1990. Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. Edge- and joint-wear, scuff to front wrapper. Edges lightly tanned, else, clean and tight. Very good. VMC no. 76. Cover art shows Gluck's wonderful self-portrait, 'Medallion'.

Corgi Books, 1968. Good. The 1968 Corgi reprint. MMP. Rubbed, spine creased. Tanned edges and toned pages, as expected with age. POI to half title. Else, clean and tight. One of the many pulp reprints of Hall's novel that followed the Falcon Press reissue of 1949. Corgi went for the strap-line: 'The classic novel of Lesbian love'. N.B. Doesn't include the Havelock Ellis preface.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1932. Good. SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION, 84 of 172 only copies, 167 for sale. Large 8vo, pp. [2], 490, [2]. Quarter vellum, lettered and ruled in gilt, beige cloth. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed, a number uncut at leading edge. Marbled endpapers. Soiled, boards unevenly darkened, bottom corners bumped, 4.5cm fine crack with chip to top of front joint, binding firm. Scant foxing, most obvious at front. Signed and numbered by Hall in blue ink to limitation page, else, clean. A sturdy copy of an attractive edition. Good+ Published in the same year as the trade edition (see our copy ref. 2722). Hall was an early guest at a Foyles Literary Luncheon on 17 March 1932, held to mark the publication of The Master of the House; the first lunch had been held only two years earlier, with the monthly event at the Dorchester Hotel rapidly became a literary tradition. Despite, or perhaps because of, the banning and scandal circling Hall's previous novel, The Well of Loneliness (1928), 700… Read More

FIRST UK TRADE EDITION. 8vo. Publisher's original sand-coloured cloth, lettered in orange, bottom board blind-stamped with Cape's device. Bottom edge rough trimmed. A touch soiled and dust-darkened, pushing and wear to extremities. Edges toned, scatter of faint spots to leading edge. Uneven toning to pastedowns, occasional fox spots. Else, clean and bright. In the original red and black typographical dust jacket: price-clipped, grubby and splodged, spine-darkened, a number of losses, chips, creasing and closed tears.
Nevertheless, a rather pleasing copy of Hall's first literary appearance after the banning of The Well of Loneliness in 1928.
Hall was an early guest at a Foyles Literary Luncheon on 17 March 1932, held to mark the publication of The Master of the House; the first lunch had been held only two years earlier, with the monthly event at the Dorchester Hotel rapidly became a literary tradition. Despite, or perhaps because of, the banning and scandal circling Hall's previous novel, The Well of… Read More

Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1987. Very Good. Trade paperback. With b/w illustrations. Spine slightly cocked, else clean and tight.

Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1977. Good. First edition, first printing. 8vo, pp. 320 + b/w illustrations. Red paper boards with quarter mustard cloth to spine. Red top edge. Light shelf wear, head of spine and top edges faded. Scant spotting to fore-edge. Else, a clean, sturdy copy. An inside history of Life magazine by one of its long-serving employee.

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: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1910. FIFTH EDITION (first published 1909). 8vo, pp. vi, 284, [8 adverts]. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, black lettering and ruling to upper board. Bottom edge untrimmed. Slight lean to spine, bruising and wear to extremities, bump to front bottom corner. Edges and endpapers tanned, Rosamund Billington's feminist-cum-Libran ex libris to front pastedown, foxing to front. Else, clean and tidy. A brightly-bound copy of a later edition of Hamilton's critique of marriage, with a pleasing feminist provenance. Very good. Jisc LHD lists no holdings of this final full-price edition (preceding the 1912 'New and Cheaper' edition. Playwright, journalist and suffragist, Cicely Hamilton (born Cicely Hamill, 1872-1952) is perhaps best known for her A Pageant of Great Women (1910), co-conceived and directed by Edy Craig, while her short story, How the Vote was Won, was successfully dramatised by Craig's partner, Christopher St. John a year earlier. Like Corbett and Holme,… Read More

London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898. Reprint. The Wessex Novels, Volume XIV. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt stamped lettering to spine and edition device to upper board. TEG, others untrimmed. Spine and boards sunned, a little soiled, splitting to cloth at head and tail of spine, plus more extensively at joints, with some loss to rear bottom joint. Corners bumped. Endpapers tanned and spotted, else, pleasingly clean. Good-only. Comprises 17 short stories, an etching � 'The View in "Melchester"/ Drawn on the spot' � by H. Macbeth-Raeburn and a map of Wessex.

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2006. FIRST EDITION. Slim 4to. Illustrated wrappers. Two exhibition tickets laid in. Near fine. Published to accompany the exhibition Ron Mueck held at the Royal Scottish Academy Building, Edinburgh from 5 August to 1 October 2006..

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

Macmillan & Co., limited, 1903. Very Good. Third printing. Crown 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt (dusty). Edgewear. Endpapers foxed and browed, else clean and tight. Includes adverts for the series.

William Heinemann Ltd., 1954. Very Good. 8vo., pp. x, 214. Black and white frontispiece (of Kauffmann) + plates. Green cloth boards with a black and gilt title stamp to spine. Blindstamp of Heinemann's windmill insignia to lower board. Illustrated endpapers. Upper edge dusted. Dust jacket in a poor condition with large nick to tail of spine, plus further nicks and wear to edges. A bright, tight copy. A portrait of the celebrated Swiss neoclassical artist, Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), who was one of the founding members of the Royal Academy.

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2007. Fine. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Published to accompany the exhibition Andy Warhol: A Celebration of Life... and Death held at the National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh from 4 August - 7 October 2007.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1938. Hardback. Good. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Gentlest rubbing to extremities, sunning to bottom board, tanned edges, offsetting to feps and pp. 36-7, due to laid-in notepaper, spine cracked between a couple of signatures, but binding holding firm. Else, clean and tidy. The note (dated 3.7.92) regards the reproduction of 'On A Quartet of Bamboo Pipes/ for Margaret James and the Pipers' Guild Quartet' in the Piping Times Newsletter. Good+ With a printed dedication "To the memory of Lilian Bayis and to Tyrone Guthrie and the Old Vic Company Elsinore, June 1937"; its first section is entitled, Theatre Poems, and includes poems for John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. Phyllis Hartnoll (1906-1997) was a British poet, editor (for Macmillan) and theatre critic, who was a founder member of the Society for Theatre Research and edited the Oxford Companion to the Theatre (1951). She won the University of Oxford's… Read More

London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. Cloth. Fine. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of the 1987 Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture. 8vo, pp. 64, amply illustrated in b/w. Original rust cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt. White 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 rust cloth slip case, gilt stamped Thames and Hudson device to front: a few loose threads to cloth edge at rear. Still, a smart, square copy of the words and images of Haskell's 19th Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture, given annually on subjects reflecting the interests of the founder of Thames and Hudson. Fine/ Fine The Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures are given annually each spring on subjects reflecting the interests of the founder of Thames and Hudson.

Stein and Day, 1984. Good. 8vo, pp. 226 + b/w plates. First edition, second printing. Cream paper boards, quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine (some fading) and upper board. Light bruising to head and tail of spine, bumping to bottom corners. In illustrated dust jacket - rubbed and creased, with edge-wear and nicks. Still, a clean, tight copy of this rarity in the UK.