Search Results: Authors starting with L from Quair Books

J.M. Dent & Sons ltd., 1937. Very Good. First edition. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, Ravilious blind stamp design to upper board. Top edge brown. Ravilious repeating endpapers. Faded spine, POI to front pastedown, else, a clean and tidy copy.

G�ttingen: Steidl, 2008. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. Four volumes in original grey slipcase. 8vos, burgeoning with b/w photographs of Kroenig; short essays to the rear of vols. II, III & IV. Navy blue cloth, spines lettered in silver, different b/w paper portrait labels pasted to upper boards. Grey endpapers. Blue ribbon markers. Small mark to upper board of vol. II; fraying to ribbon ends. Slipcase lettered and illustrated in black: a little soiled and scored. Near fine/ very good. A sharp set of Lagerfeld's longitudinal portrait series in celebration of "All American" model, Brad Kroenig. "In a way Lagerfeld's project is like the epic work of the 19th century photographers of the American West, people such as Carleton Watkins or Timothy O'Sullivan who set out to record the American landscape, before industrialization changed it forever" (Ingrid Sischy)

London: Allen Lane/ Penguin, 1978. Near Fine. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. 8vo, pp. 360 + Patrick Procktor's frontis and b/w plates. Attractively bound in flecked black and white linen, reflective pink lettering to spine. Pushing to spine ends, else, clean, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: edgewear, creasing to top edge, spine sunned. Near fine/ very good

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

1978. Good. 25cm, pp. [144] + b/w illustrations. Illustrated paper wraps. Creasing to spine, 1cm closed tear/flap to spine head. Tanned edges, toned pages, else, clean. Contributors include: William Trevor, Peter Porter, Gunter Grass, Hugh Thomas, Philip Toynbee, David Lodge, D.J. Enright, Tom Paulin, R.S. Thomas, and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Faber & Faber Limited, 1929. Good. Criterion Miscellany - No. 5. 8vo, pp. 32. Orange cloth with gilt stamped lettering to upper board. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Boards well-used - grubby and rubbed. Edges spotted, occasionally into top and bottom margins. Endpapers tanned, discrete POI to ffep. Blotching to bottom margin of pp. 9-15. Else, clean. A good reading copy of the rarer cloth first edition of Lawrence's riposte to censors and those who took offense at his fiction.

New York: William Faro, Inc., 1932. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 216. Black buckram, black-lettered paper title label to spine. Wear to extremities, title label toned and chipped. Toned and gently shaken, front hinge starting, a few nicks to edges and dog-eared pages, off-setting to pp. 90-1 from item now removed. Else, clean. A good copy of an early C20th erotic "sequel". Jisc LSD lists only two holdings in the UK: UoCambridge and UoNottingham (part of the George Lazarus bequest). Roberts and Poplawski Appendix I, A:VI William Faro, Inc. was the short-lived trade imprint of infamous American publisher Samuel Roth (1893-1974), who established the company in 1930 and issued books through 1934, with the firm going bankrupt in 1933. Alongside its Ardent Classics and Modern Amatory Classics reprint series, Faro published sequels to its successful pirated editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover. In their 'Appendix I, A: Parodies of and sequels to Lady Chatterley's Lover,' Roberts and Poplawski describe a… Read More

Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., Ltd, 1959. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Numerous b/w illustrations and plates. Maroon cloth, silver lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Extremities lightly bruised. Edges lightly foxed, a few spots to front and rear. Else, clean and tight. In the fabulous original dust jacket: shelf-soiled, rubbed and nicked, edges creased, uneven sunning to rear panel. Still, a pleasing, bright copy. Very good/ very good. Chapter 1: From Cuttlefish to Jet-Propulsion.

London: The Zodiac Press, 1969. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST THUS, INSCRIBED & INITIALLED BY Q. D. LEAVIS. 8vo. Attractive original mauve patterned boards, title panel blocked in blue to spine, lettered and decorated in gilt. Gentle pushing to spine ends. Inscribed in black biro by Leavis to ffep: "To Professor A. Rutherford/ With kindest regards from/ Q. D. L./ November 3, 1969." Else, clean, bright and tight. In Gordon Davey's striking illustrated dust jacket: gently toned, spine faintly sunned, creased at spine ends, small nick to head, mark to rear panel. Near fine/ very good A lovely copy of an attractive edition, uniting two eminent literary scholars at the heights of their careers; unusual inscribed. Queenie Dorothy Leavis (1906-1981) was an English literary scholar, best known for her Fiction and the Reading Public (1932) and her subsequent collaborations with her husband, F R Leavis, including co-editing and contributions to Scrutiny. A brilliant and acerbic critic, especially of the so-called… Read More

[Leeds]: [Leeds City Art Gallery & Temple Newsam], 1940. Paperback. Good+. Side-stapled pamphlet (21.5 cm), pp. 24. Original buff card wrappers, lettered in black and blue. Shelf-soiled, extensive stain to front wrapper. Some tanning and underscoring in pencil to Davis' 'An Introduction to Chinese Art'. Good+ Programme for Temple Newsam's Chinese Art Exhibition (28 March�11 May 1942).

London: Duckworth, 1999. Hardback. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, incl. b/w plates. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to bottom edge and corners, else, clean, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: a little edgewear. A lovely, fresh copy. Near fine/ near fine

London: Robson Books, 2001. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Black cloth, silver lettering to spine. POI to ffep, else, clean, tight and tidy. In the original dust jacket. A pleasing copy.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1990. Very Good. 8vo. (24cm), pp. xiv, 350 + b/w plates. Grey cloth boards with pink lettering to spine. In very good dust jacket. A pleasing copy.

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

Stocksfield and London: Oriel Press, 1978. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, amply and gloriously illustrated in colour and halftone. Original green and red mottled cloth, spine lettered in silver. Bruising to extremities, dint to upper board. In the original illustrated dust jacket: toned, light edgeware. Very good/ very good.

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1960. Very Good. 8vo. Green paper wrappers. Spine gently sunned, faintly soiled, PO name in pencil to rear wrapper. Edges foxed. Else, clean and tight. Very good.

London: Collins, 1953. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original pink cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Bottom edge untrimmed. Slight lean to spine, pushing to spine ends, light wear to extremities, edges toned. Faint offsetting to endpapers, else, clean and tight. In Gerald Wilkinson's charming original dust jacket: spine and rear panel toned with marks, rubbed at joints and edges, a little creased, chipping to spine ends. Very good/ very good A nice copy of Lehmann's sixth novel.

London: Virago Press Limited, 1985. Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. Edgewear and creasing, tanned. Else, internally clean and tidy. Good+. VMC no. 95

Virago, 1985. Good. The 1985 Virago reprint, revised and with a new epilogue by the author. Trade paperback. With b/w illustrations. Edgewear, rubbing to spine. Tanned edges. Else, clean and tight.

London: L.N. Fowler & Co. or Modern Astrology Office/ Women's Printing Society, Limited., 1909. Good. Second Edition. 8vo, pp. viii, [306], [4 adverts]. Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, spine a little sunned. Bump to top edge of bottom board. Edges and front foxed. POIs to ffep, half-title toned. Closed tear to margin of final page. Else, clean and tidy. A tight copy. Good+ In 1915, along with husband, Alan � "the first modern astrologer" � Bessie Leo (1858�1931) founded the Astrological Lodge of London. Like her husband, who was also a prominent Theosophist, she published widely on astrology and was key to its promotion in the West. Bessio Leo was President of the Astrological Institute, as well as the resurrected Astrological Society (see Kim Farnell). Based in Brick Street, Piccadily, The Women's Printing Society was founded by Emma Paterson and Emily Faithful; it was incorporated as a co-operative in 1878. The WPS was significant for the British suffrage… Read More