Search Results: Authors starting with V from Quair Books

Penguin Books Ltd, 1978. Near Fine. First Penguin edition, ninth printing. Tanned edges, else clean and bright for its age: a pleasing copy.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1950. Hardback. Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Green cloth, spine lettered in red. Sunning and offsetting to spine, edges tanned and heavily foxed. Foxing to endpapers and prelims, POIs to front pastedown and ffep, else, clean, despite the poor paper stock. In the original dust jacket: price-clipped, spine darkened, spine ends frayed, chips to corners, toned and rubbed. Good+/ good+ Unusual. The track of the cat � at which the typographically punning dust jacket hints � is the tread of a cattle-killing panther in the snowscape of northern California, with the ranching brothers getting closer and closer as they try to hunt it in a blizzard..."You can take it as a symbolic, universal drama of man [sic] against an implacable Evil Principle, forever stalking him [sic]" (Saturday Review of Literature).

Sydney: Frank Johnson/ Magpie Series, 1945. Poor. n.d. [1945] MMP. Blue wrappers, stapled. Shabby - lacks spine, with large losses to back wrapper. Text block toned and creased, with losses and closed tear to final page: a reading copy. Magpie Series, no. 50. Scarce.

New York: The Viking Press, 1980. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. Amply illustrated. Green leatherette, decorated and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Marginal toning, else, clean, tight and tidy. In the original illustrated dust jacket: light edgewear. A smart, square copy of this literary spoof. "The tattered bundle of ancient, decaying papers arrived ten years ago from a colleague in Switzerland well acquainted with my enthusiasm for eighteenth-century German manuscripts." (Editor's Foreword)

London: Andre Deutsch, 1987. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. White staining to spine and boards. Tony Chance's ex libris to front pastedown, signed by Vidal in black biro to title page, clipped reviews pasted to rear blanks and endpapers. A tight and tidy copy of Vidal's essays. Very good From the library of Tony M. Chance. A bibliophile and collector from Bromsgrove, Chance amassed a significant collection of signed modern literature, as well as history and arts books. He frequently extra-illustrated his books with related ephemera, often signed.

San Francisco: Bound Together Collective, 1981. Stiff card wrappers. Good+. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Side-stapled booklet, pp. [44]. Buff card wrappers, printed in black. A little creasing, toned, soiled and some staining, signed flamboyantly in black marker pen to rare wrapper. Uneven toning to rear of text block, else, clean and tight. Good+ A good+ copy of the Berkeley-based street poet and Bubble Lady's 1981 chapbook.

London: Peter Lunn, 1946. FIRST THUS. Slim 8vo. Colour plates & numerous b/w illustrations by Jack Matthews. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Wear to heel of spine. POI in pencil to ffep, else, clean and bright. In original illustrated dust jacket in red and black: price-clipped, spine sunned, edges creased, wear and nicking to extremities, patch of rubbing to front panel. Very good/ good+. "Being the History of an Adventure to an Island in the Remote South Sea. Of a Wizard there. Of his Pirate Gang; His Treasure; His Combustible; His Skeleton Antic Lad. Of his Wisdom; Of his Poesy; His Barbarous Cruelty; His Might Power; Of a Volcano on the Island. And of the Ghostly Terror".