Search Results: Authors starting with I from Quair Books

London: T. Fisher Unwin/ Cameo Series, 1894. FIRST CAMEO EDITION. 12mo, pp. 328, [4] + illustrated frontis (loose) with tissue guard. Quarter parchment, green boards, black lettering to spine, series' emblem to upper board and publisher's device to bottom, overlapping fore-edges (separating). Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Errata slip tipped-in. Lean to spine, toned, split to heel. Corners and edges bumped and worn. Endpapers and prelims foxed, POI in black pen to front pastedown. Else, clean and tidy. A good+ copy of an attractively produced book. Contemporaneous with its Mermaid series of Restoration and Jacobean plays and the Story of Nations series, T. Fisher Unwin's Cameo Series of poetry ran from 1890 to 1902 and featured titles by Amy Levy, Richard Garnett, A. Mary F. Robinson, William Watson and W. B. Yeats.

Borthwick Institute, University of York, 1972. Good. 4to. With b/w plates. Purple card wrappers with black lettering and image to front, stapled. Browning to front wrapper, light soiling to back. Nick to head of spine. Else, clean and tight.

1896. 8vos. Manuscript Accounts Book (17.8 x 11.5 cm), ff. 224: 149 filled, 75 blank and Journal (19.3 x 12cm), ff. 124: 12 filled (rectos only), 3 blank, 51 filled (rectos only), 58 blank. Accounts Book: quarter green morocco spine, navy leather boards. All edges red. Ruled with columns. Rubbed, scored and nicked, edgewear. Approx. two-thirds of book filled with consecutive hand-written accounts in black and blue pen (and two different hands?), dated January 1896 to September 1903. Gently shaken, front hinge cracked, spine cracked in a couple of places, a number of leaves separating, but binding still firm. Two folded pieces of blotting paper and a few scraps of paper laid-in, mostly featuring (presumably) related calculations and notes, but also slips featuring names/ signatures: "Alexander M. Inglis/ Redhall", "Alexander Inglis/ Duddingston House, June 19th 1840[?]" and "Miranda Inglis/ Montpellier Lawn". Journal: half black morocco, marbled paper boards. Marbled edges and endpapers. Ruled. Rubbed,… Read More

Meliden, Denbighshire, 1926. Small, slim side-stitched photograph album, measuring 16 x 12cm, pp. [12]. Textured grey card, stitched with grey cord, gilt-stamped landscape motif to front wrapper. Wavy edges. Pushing to wrapper corners, gentle shelf-wear and soiling, cord ends frayed. Two black-edges photo-windows per page, with annotations (plus ample exclamation marks!!!) in pen, describing the majority of the sepia-toned photographs, which mostly measure 6.5 x 4.2cm. Featuring 34 photographs, plus one duplicate and a 35th laid in; one misfit between annotation and photograph. A few photographs with light edgewear, a few lost corners and a little scoring. Else, clean, bright and tidy. A charming, gentle example of a 1920's holiday album. Very good. The album documents a holiday in 1926, featuring Don, Paddy, Edith, and 'myself', in Meliden, near Prestatyn, Denbighshire. It seems the group stayed at 'Roundwood,' a large house (perhaps giving its name to a present day residential area) in Meliden,… Read More

Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1934. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, incl. silhouette frontis and tail-pieces, plus full-page illustrations, by Kathleen Verschoyle, two coloured by an amateur hand. Original publisher's blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered and ruled in navy. Extremities bruised. Edges foxed. POIs to ffep, some fox spots and marks to margins, two illustrations coloured by a PO. In the original faun and black silhouette dust jacket: creased, rubbed and soiled, chipped at spine ends, mark to front panel, amateur taping to reverse of spine. Very good/ good+ A well-loved copy of Lett's charming gentle mountaineering novel for children: "I have put an imaginary household and imaginary children on the slopes of Slieve Gullion, that lovely, hero-haunted mountain which has known Finn and Saint Patrick, faery women and great warriors." (Foreword). The prolific and popular Salford-born playwright, poet and novelist, Winifred Letts (1882�1972) was, early on, embedded in the Irish Literary… Read More

Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981. Large 8vo. B/w illustrations. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Extremities bumped, else, clean and tidy. In original dust jacket: rubbed, creased and chipped. Still, a very good copy.

John Baker, 1970. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. With b/w frontis and plates. Orange cloth with silver lettering to spine. Mustard endpapers. Slight bruising and light rubbing to spine ends, else, clean and tight. In good original DJ - rubbed, head of spine ragged.