Search Results: Titles starting with D from Quair Books

London: Chatto & Windus, 1930. Very Good. ADVANCE COPY. 8vo, pp. 43, (1). Orange wrappers, spine and front wrapper lettered in black. Gently rubbed and soiled, nick to heel. Prelims foxed and into inner margins, "H. Graham Piercy" stamped in blue to ffep, musty. "Messrs. Chatto & Windus/ have pleasure in sending herewith for review/ an Advance Copy" slip, dated 22nd May 1930, laid in (toned). Else, clean. Very good.

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: Virago Crime, 1998. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. Trade paperback. Light edgewear, else, clean and tight. Near fine. The seventh outing of Nell Bray, Linscott's suffragette sleuth.

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.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1947. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Faint mottling, spotting to leading edge. Else, clean and tight. In A. E. Barlow's black dust jacket, lettered in pink: gently rubbed and soiled, chipping to spine ends and top corner of front panel. Still, a pleasing copy of the novel Davies deemed his best, a reworking of Shakespeare's King Lear. Very good/ good+

London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. Eleventh impression. 8vo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in red. Pushing to spine ends, bend to front board, faint staining to bottom board, commensurate with patches of foxing on rear DJ panel. Very occasional spotting, else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: sunned, soiled and heavily foxed to rear panel, edgewear and chipping to extremities. Very good/ good

Virago, 1987. Good. The sixth printing. Trade paperback. Edgewear, light creasing to wrappers. Closed tear to bottom edge of half title, else clean and tight. With an afterword by Rosalind Delmar.

London: Sceptre, 2012. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. Large 8vo. Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to heel of spine, a few light stains to top and bottom edges, else, clean, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: light edgewear, fore-edge of front flap rubbed. A pleasing copy of Keneally's novel about two Australian sisters nursing on the Western front.

George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1956. Good. 8vo (22cm), pp.252, (4) adverts + b/w plates. Black cloth boards with red lettering to spine. Hinge of upper board starting (1.5cm), but still holding tight. Top edge red - faded. Light foxing to fore and bottom edges; occasionally, to text block. Vertical tanned band to feps. A serviceable copy of this first edition. With a Foreword by Margery Fry and a Postscript discussing Ruth Ellis.

S. W. Patridge & Co., 1892. Fair. [1892?] 8vo, pp. 96, 16 adverts + b/w frontis and illustrations. Blue pictorial boards with gilt band to spine and lettering to upper board. Spine cocked, boards rubbed and soiled. Front hinge starting, o/w binding robust. Back fep browned, occasional foxing and grubby fingermarks to text block. Else, internally well-preserved. With decorative head- and tail-pieces. A scarce religious tract.

Paris: Bibliot�que des Curieux/ Le Coffret du Bibliophile, 1921. n.d. ['1921' to spine, but COPAC lists 1912: a misprint?]. Limited edition, no. 2679 (one of 500 printed on 'papier d'Arches', states the limitation page, however, according to COPAC: 'The limitation notice on the half-title verso appears to exist in at least three forms, two of which must be incorrect'). 12mo, pp. [4], 180 [of 194]. Text in Latin with the French translation to recto. Paper wrappers with integral parchment jacket, lettered in red and black, with device. Edges rough trimmed. Title page in red and black, reproducing the front cover. Decorative head and tail pieces. Defective: lacks final gathering. Spine cocked, ends nicked. Integral jacket browned and spotted, some light cockling. A very few spots and stains, else, internally clean and tidy, indeed, pleasingly so. In additional protective jacket: browned. Unfortunately, a defective copy of this reissue of De Sodomia, extracted from Father Sinistrari's De delictis et… Read More

Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, 1899. Good. [1899/1901?] The undated third edition? Suggested by Bettany's preface and subtitle: 'With a Preface by the Late G. T. Bettany, M.A.' Adverts, however, suggest a date of 1901 - a case of the third edition text block with a later binding and adverts? 8vo, pp. 218, (4) adverts + b/w frontis. Buff cloth with red lettering and blue decoration to spine and upper board. A tatty copy externally: rubbed, faded and soiled with bumps to upper board. Browned edges. Endpapers tanned, occasional grubby finger marks. Else, a clean copy with attractive decorative head- and tail-pieces. An uncommon title by the copy editor of Wilde's 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891).

London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. Very Good. Second impression (June 1942). 8vo, pp. 157, (3). Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Uneven sunning and splodges, light wear to extremities. POI to ffep, nick to front gutter, flecking due to poor paper stock, musty. Else, clean and tight. Very good. A robust copy of the first essay collection to appear after Woolf's death in 1941. Featuring 'Street Haunting: A London adventure,' 'Middlebrow' and 'Professions for Women'.

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1926. Good. 8vo, pp. viii, (2), 185, (1) + b/w frontis: 'Ivan the Terrible (As impersonated by the Russian singer Chaliapin).' Blue cloth with paper label to spine. Rubbed, bumped and worn corners, title label faded and yellowed. Tanned edges. Inner front hinge starting, but binding holding secure. POI to ffep and label to front pastedown, feps browned. Else, clean and bright.

J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd/ Everyman's Library, 1942. Good. Volume I: 1946 reprint of original 1930 Dent edition; 18cm, pp. xxi, 293, (1). Volume II: 1942 reprint of original 1930 Dent edition; 18cm, pp. xii, 350. Both bound in light blue cloth (indicative of the Everyman's 'Romance' section) with gilt lettering to spines and the Ravilious-designed blind stamp to upper boards. Spine and board edges browned in both vols., edges browned. Spines cocked (slightly in vol. I). Else, clean. In fair orange DJs with Brodarts - browned, edgewear, loss to heads and heels of spines. Closed tears to vol. II; large chip to centre of vol I's spine. Everyman's Library no. 845 & 846.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1988. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Toned, a few pencil scores, BBC compliments slip laid in, featuring the invitation "to arrive at Radio Oxford just before 10.45am on Tuesday 30th August" plus notes, perhaps for a radio review, to the reverse, else, clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket: spine sunned, toned and rubbed, edgewear. Very good/ very good

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

London: Virago Press Limited, 1988. FIRST VMC EDITION. Trade paperback. Reading creases to spine, wear to spine ends and leading edge of front panel. Tanned edges, top-edge spotted, a few fox spots to biog. page. Else, clean and tidy. VMC no. 301. Very good.

Clarendon Press, 1986. Very Good. 8vo, pp. 276 + b/w plates. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bruising to head and tail of spine, light spotting to top edge. Else, clean and tight. In VG DJ - edgewear, crease to spine.

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.