Search Results: Authors starting with M from Quair Books

Cambridge University Press, 1952. Good. The 1952 reprint of the original 1887 edition. In Latin and English. 8vo, pp. xxiv, 151. Grey cloth with black lettering to spine and upper board. Boards grubby, extremities worn. Small ink blotches to fore-edge. POI to front pastedown, tape marks to feps. Scoring, underscoring and marginalia to text block. Else, clean.

London: Collins, 1950. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Bottom edge untrimmed. Pushing to spine ends, some foxing and uneven browning to edges. Rex Whistler's The Book Society Ex Libris, with illegible PO signature in blue ink, to front pastedown. occasional marginal foxing, else, clean and tight. In Barbara Jones' wonderful turquoise, mustard and pale pink illustrated dust jacket, featuring "wrecked and flowering wastes around St. Paul's": chips and nicks to extremities, gently toned, scatter of fox spots (and to reverse), pink stain to top corner of front panel. Nevertheless, the cover art retains its charm. Good+/good+

FIRST EDITIONS, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR-EDITOR. 8vos, incl. b/w plates. Original red, green and blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt. Extremities bruised and bumped, foxed and toned. Inscribed by Smith in blue ink to ffep of each volume: "Inscribed for Peter Carpenter by Constance Babington Smith, 1986". Else, clean and tight. In the original dust jackets by John Woodcock and M. Mohan: price-clipped, spines sunned, foxed and toned, some losses, nicking and staining. Good+/good+A terrific association quartet, comprising the three volumes of Macaulay's Letters and Smith's biography, all inscribed by the author's cousin, the WAAF photo intelligence officer, Constance Babington Smith.Published posthumously and edited by Smith, Letters to a Friend (1961) and Last Letters to a Friend (1962) comprise Macaulay's post-war correspondence with another "distant cousin", the Revd J. H. C. Johnson, which played a key role in the author re-entering the Church of England in 1950 "after a long estrangement" (ODNB). The… Read More

London & New York: Putnam, 1940. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Large 8vo, pp. ix, (i), 376, (3). Brown cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Slight lean to spine, gilt faded, extremities bruised and bumped, splits to head of spine, faint blotching to upper board, scoring to bottom board. Inscribed in blue pen on ffep: "Henrietta Leslie/ from/ Desmond MacCarthy/ June 1945.", toned and occasionally foxed. Else, internally clean, tight and tidy. Good+ Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1877-1952) was a literary reviewer, drama critic and magazine editor, and member of the Bloomsbury group (his wife, Molly, is thought to have coined the term). From 1928, when MacCarthy succeeded Edmund Gosse as the principal reviewer for the Sunday Times and began the literary monthly, Life and Letters, he was arguably the most influential literary journalist of the period (ODNB). (Gladys) Henrietta Sch�tze, who wrote as Henrietta Leslie (1884-1946), was, like Constance Smedley (see QB item ref: 2388), a… Read More

London: Collins/ The Crime Club, 1971. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Bruising to spine ends, reading crease to spine. Edges toned. Else, clean and tight. In the Roy Belcher dust jacket: rubbed and creased at edges, extremities and joint of front flap. Still, an appealing copy. Very good/ very good. The sixteen Lew Archer novel.

Canongate Books, 1991. Very Good. Trade paperback. Edgewear, light bruising to head of spine, light soiling. Tanned edges, else, clean and tight. Includes stories by Alastair Gray, Muriel Spark and Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Cannongate Classic 40. A substantial anthology.

Longman, 1980. Good. 8vo. pp.xviii 158. The Heritage of Literature Series - includes a commentary by D.M. Budge and a glossary. Covers and spine lightly creased from reading, slight soiling and minor wear to edges. A clean, soundly bound copy of this scarce edition.

George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1896. Very Good. Twenty-third edition, updated with new poems from Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Robert Browning, among others. 8vo. With b/w frontis and plates. Red cloth with gilt and blind stamped lettering and design. Gilt top edge (dusty). Light bruising to spine ends, light wear to extremities. Prize label to front pastedown, else a clean and tidy copy of a smart edition.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher/ Old World Series, 1903. LIMITED US EDITION, 1 of 925 on Van Gelder paper, in the original slip case. Narrow 8vo, pp. xi, [i], 102, incl. orange and black lettered title page, decorative head- and tailpieces. Cream paper spine, four raised bands, title label lettered in black, blue-grey paper boards with yapp leading edges. Edges untrimmed. Blue-grey ribbon marker laid in. Spine darkened, faintly toned, top edge dusty. Occasional fox-spots, else, well preserved: clean and tight. In the original grey slip case, matching title label to spine, Christmas gift label to front board, addressed to "Alida Van Slyke Lockhead": shabby, separated at top and bottom joints, others tender and cracked. Near fine/ poor. Unusual in the original slip case. Fiona Macleod's Celtic romances snagged the attention of late Victorian readers, becoming central to the Celtic revival. Sharp went to great lengths to keep his pseudonym intact, even embroiling his sister, Mary Beatrice Sharp, in… Read More

Riant Chateau, Territet, Switzerland: POOL, 1933. Good+. FIRST EDITION. Single volume of the (now) quarterly little magazine. Large 4to, pp. [2], 109-214, 215-224 (adverts), incl. numerous b/w film stills. Original orange wrappers, lettered in black, b/w film still pasted to front wrapper and ruled in black. Spine sunned, creased, soiled and rubbed, spine lifting at ends with small losses and closed tears to joints. Title page gently soiled, with 'Berlin Correspondent: A. Krasna-Kraus' struck through in black. Else, clean. A robust copy of a later, war-focused issue of POOL's pioneering and pan-European film magazine, which promoted film as art. Good+ Includes contributions from regulars Bryher (their final, polemical essay, 'What Shall you do in the War?'), Oswell Blakeston and Dorothy M. Richardson, plus Sergei Eisenstein's 'An American Tragedy' and 'H.A.M's 'Why War? Einstein and Freud, International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation'. Blakeston's own short-lived little magazine, Seed �… Read More

Riant Chateau, Territet, Switzerland: POOL, 1930. FIRST EDITION. Single volume of the monthly little magazine. Small 4to, pp. [4], 87-158, [14 adverts], [2] + 16 b/w plates of film stills. Original orange wrappers, lettered in black, b/w film still pasted to front wrapper. Creased and gently soiled, rubbed at leading edge to front wrapper. Gently wrinkled, first gathering slightly proud, red stain to hinge of title page and head of pp. 98, plus a number of plates, some dog-earring, occasional spots. Else, clean. A robust issue of POOL's pioneering and pan-European film magazine, which promoted film as art. Good+ Includes contributions from regulars Bryher, Oswell Blakeston and Robert Herring, plus an interview with Sergei Eisenstein, 'The Future of the Film'. The Close Up team included Trude Weiss as Vienna Correspondent, with an advert for her contemporary collaboration with Bryher, The Light-hearted Student, plus the latter's Film Problems of Soviet Russia and Blakeston's experimental novel set… Read More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Musty, else clean and tight. In the original pictorial dust jacket: edgewear, a few nicks, toned and a little cockled, tape repair to head of spine. Very good/ Good+

New York: Random House, 1997. Very Good. First edition, second impression. 8vo. Quarter burgundy cloth with burgundy paper boards, gilt lettering to spine,'NM' blind-stamped to upper board. Untrimmed fore-edge. Head of spine and top corners bruised. Else, clean and tight. In VG original DJ - wear to top edge, brown blotches to front cover. In his thirteenth novel Mailer tackles the life of Jesus.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1979. Hardback. Near Fine. First British edition. 8vo. Blue cloth, gilt lettering and ruling to spine. In Berthold Wolpe's typographic dust jacket: price-clipped, light wear to top edge. Smart, square, and bright: a near fine copy.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. Early reprint (lacks the Farrar, Straus and Young colophon). 8vo, pp. [iv], 250. Quarter white buckram, blue linen boards, spine lettered and decorated in blue. Bruising and a little wear to extremities, sunning to top and bottom board edges, edges tanned. Occasional creasing to bottom margins, else, clean and tight. In William Metzig's fabulous illustrated dust jacket: price clipped, creased, rubbed and grubby, extremities chipped, a few closed tears to spine ends, reinforced by PO to rear, pen pricing to inner flap. Still, a copy that retains a significant dose of charm. Good+/ good+ Unusual. Early English translation of the Belgian woman of letters Fran�oise Lilar's (1930-2016) scandalous mid-century lesbian novel, Le rempart des B�guines (1951), published under a nom-de-plume. Herma Briffault (1898-1981) was an American ghostwriter and translator of both French and Spanish literature, including Colette's The Pure and the Impure (1966).

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. FIRST US EDITION. Large 8vo. B/w plates. Quarter black cloth lettered in gilt, green boards with facsimile signature to upper board. Map endpapers. Spine ends bruised, else, pleasingly, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: light shelf wear, creasing to spine ends, gentle wear to corners. A nice, bright copy. Near fine/ very good.

London: Virago Press Limited, 1988. Paperback. Very Good. First VMC edition. Trade paperback. Spine sunned with some creasing. Rubbed, light edgewear, nick to spine. Tanned edges, faint spotting to top edge. Else, clean and tight. VMC no. 302. With a New Introduction by Isobel English.

London: Virago Press Limited, 1991. Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. Light edgewear, rubbed. Else, clean and tight. VMC no. 149 A pleasing copy. Very good

London: Virago Press Limited. Reprint. Trade paperback. A little creased and rubbed, fine band of sunning to inner edge of front wrapper, small bald patch to spine. Tanned edges and into bottom margin. Else, clean and tidy. VMC no. 148. Very good.

Detroit: Detroit River Press, 1980. Near Fine. [�1979] FIRST EDITION, WARMLY INSCRIBED. 4to, pp. 142 + b/w illustrations. Illustrated blue and white wrappers. '057' in black pen to title page, '4/7/80/ To Catherine/ "it's a simple matter"!/ Love [?]' in red pen to bottom corner of Preface. Light edgewear. A near fine copy of Detroit River Press' pre-eminent poetry collection, which features Jim Gustafson, Chris Tysh, John Sinclair, Gloria Dyc, Bill Harris and other Detroit-connected poets, with illustrations by Cay Bahnmiller, Nancy Pletos and others. Cover by Catherine Clifford. Only four listings in the US on WorldCat.