Search Results: Titles starting with V from Quair Books

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971. Very Good. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION, no. 310/ 500. 8vo, pp. 62, [2] + b/w frontis and erotic line drawings by Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimpt. Bright salmon pink linen, spine lettered in gilt, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, fox spots to edges. Signed in blue ink by Duffy to half-title, faint blotch to title page through first poem, a little musty. Else, tight and tidy. In the original tissue dust jacket, which simultaneously reveals and conceals the erotic image on the front board: spine and edges darkened, creasing to edges, extremities nicked. A very good copy of Duffy's second poetry collection. Very good/ very good Author and activist, Maureen Duffy (1933-) is perhaps best know for her third novel, The Microcosm (1966), set in and around the renowned lesbian nightclub, the Gateways club. Having come out in the early 1960s, she worked for the Homosexual Law Reform Society and wrote for The Minorities Research Group and Arena… Read More

London: Published by Harvill for SBC Warburg, 1996. Near Fine. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Large 8vo, amply illustrated, plus DVD � Violet Gordon Woodhouse: Great Virtuosi of the Harpsichord Volume III � and booklet in matching case. Grey cloth, decorated and lettered in silver, illustrated paper label, framed in blind, to upper board, pink marbled endpapers, purple ribbon marker. Both housed in grey cloth clamshell box with pink marbled paper innards. Shallow bruising to bottom edges of clamshell box, a scatter of pinprick stains. Douglas Home's signature in blue pen to fly-leaf. Else, clean, tight and bright: a splendid copy of an attractive edition. Near Fine. A celebrated pianist, Violet Gordon Woodhouse became the foremost clavichord player of her day and the first artist to record and broadcast harpsichord on the radio. She was also key to the revival of pre-Romantic music. Her private life was equally unorthodox: she lived in a "a surprisingly harmonious" m�nage � cinq � known, less… Read More

Virago, 1994. Good. Trade paperback (20cm), pp.446. Showing shelf wear, especially to edges and corners. Tanned edges, else clean and tight.

London & Glasgow: Collins Clear-Type Press, 1920. Very Good. n.d. [c. 1920s] 16mo, pp. viii, 890, [6 catalogue] + b/w preface and illustrations by Harold Piffard. Burgundy cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, blind ruling to boards. Plum endpapers. Gentle bruising and rubbing to extremities, top edge dusty. POI to recto of frontis, else clean and tidy. In original colour dust jacket (with advertisement to rear panel and List of Titles to reverse): spine sunned, lightly soiled and rubbed, chipping to spine ends and corners, a few short closed tears. Very good/ good+. Unusual in the original dust jacket. Collins' Illustrated Pocket Classics, no. 83.

New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/ Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Quarter blue cloth, lettered in gilt, marbled orange paper boards. Brown endpapers. Gentle wear to corners. Else, clean, tight and bright. In Harris Lewine's original dust jacket, featuring a blue, cloud-filled sky from the vantage of a plane window: rubbed and creased, closed tear to top edge of front panel. A lovely copy of Bryher's only foray into science fiction. Near fine/ very good The novel wasn't published in the UK. It was re-issed in 2004 by the Paris Press in paperback.

Odhams Press Limited, 1954. Near Fine. First edition. Large 8vo. Colour frontis and b/w plates. Red cloth, black title label with gilt lettering to spine. Red endpapers. Tanned edges, else, a sharp copy in a VG original DJ for its age - toned, sunned spine, wear to spine ends and corners. With publisher's presentation slip laid-in. A pleasing copy of Minney's compelling biography of the rise of the newspaperman and Labour Politician, Julius Salter Elias: 'a breathless story, brimful with excitement' (back flap).

London: Constable, 1970. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Foxing to leading edge, occasionally into margin. Inscribed by Tricket in black pen to ffep: "Margaret/ with love from Rachel/ June 1970". In Christopher Foss' original illustrated dust jacket in mustard, black and orange: spine sunned, light wear and creasing to edges, short closed tear to top of rear panel, foxed on reverse. Still, a lovely copy, unusual, inscribed. Very good/ very good A scholar and novelist, from 1973 to 1991 Rachel Trickett (1921-1999) was Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford. An expert in C18th poetry, her first novel, The Return Home (1952), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. A "novel of intelligence and interest", A Visit to Timon proved Trickett's final fictional outing. Michael Gearin-Tosh (1999) 'Rachel Trickett', The Independent;