Search Results: Authors starting with G from Quair Books

London: Michael Joseph, 1949. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Green cloth, spine lettered in silver. Pushing to spine ends, bumps to top edges. Uneven toning and light spotting to endpapers, partial PO stamp to ffep. Else, clean and tidy. In Eric Fraser's wonderful wraparound dust jacket: rubbed and creased, nicked and chipped, losses to spine ends, including lettering, but both front and rear panels show well. Very good/ fair. Set in Antebellum Mississippi, Double Muscadine has been described as a historical whodunit, whose trial is modelled in "considerable part on an actual case in the records of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in the 1850's" ([p.6]). It is the third and final novel in Gaither's plantation trilogy (1940-9), through which she sought to represent the realities of slavery in the South.

London: The Literary Press Ltd, 1930. n.d. [193?] Cheap edition. Small 8vo. Blue ribbed cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt. Slight warp to boards and text block, pushing to spine ends. Light spotting to edges, front and rear. In Philip Simmonds' splendidly gaudy dust jacket: a little shelf-soiled, creasing and nicking to top edges. Good+/ good+ Third volume of The Forsyte Saga.

London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Patterned endpapers. Pushing to head of spine, edges and margins toned. Pencil POI to half-title, else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: spine sunned. Near fine/ very good.

FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Large 8vo, incl. b/w sketches and plates. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine ends bruised, top edge toned. Inscribed by Garnett in blue biro to ffep: "Valerie, with love from, Henrietta Garnett", gently toned. Colour postcard addressed to Grosvenor Myers laid in. Clean, tight and bright. In the original illustrated dust jacket: light edgewear and creasing. Near fine/ near fine"Born with ink in her veins – her illustrious literary lineage stretched back several generations on both her paternal and maternal sides," here, Henrietta Garnett (1945-2019) "continued a distinguished tradition of family biography: Ritchie was the sister-in-law of Henrietta's great-grandfather Sir Leslie Stephen and the indomitable "Aunt Anny" immortalised by Virginia Woolf as Mrs Hilberry in her 1919 novel Night and Day". (Beechey, 2019).Garnett's inscribee, Valerie Grosvenor Myer (1935-2007) was a novelist and journalist, university teacher and editor (who had been… Read More

Dent/ Dutton (Everyman's Library), 1966. Good. Small 8vo., 19cm, pp.411, 8. 1966 reprint of original Everyman's Library edition of 1908 (itself from the first 1857 edition of Gaskell's biography). Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and bands to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Corners bumped, light shelf wear and soiling. Browning to upper edge, small stain to head of text block for first 70 pages. Else, a tight, bright copy. Everyman's Library, no.318. Introduction by May Sinclair (Mary Amelia St. Clair, 1863-1946), British popular novelist, modernist critic and suffragist.

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1898. Later reprint in six volumes. 8vos, pp. [ii], [xii], 432; [viii], 416; [viii], 416; [viii], 416; [viii], 416; [viii], 418 + b/w frontises and 10 plates each. Bevelled boards, bound attractively in illustrated olive and umber cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and black, olivine edges, brown endpapers. Pushing to spine ends, wear to extremities, a little dusty. Some foxing, else, tight and bright. A handsomely bound set intended to make English Literature accessible to 'the busy man'. n.b. This is a weighty set and will require additional international postage.

London: The Bodley Head, 1959. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. Slim 8vo, pp. 80, amply illustrated by Gill in the year of publication. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in red and black. Slight lean to spine, offsetting from dust jacket, fine bands of sunning at board edges. Edges and endpapers foxed, occasionally to text block. Inscribed by Gill in blue pen to b/w frontis, below her illustration of a rhinoceros with its hat: "Best wishes,/ Margery Gill/ 1959". In Gill's original illustrated dust jacket: price-clipped, light wear to extremities, spine darkened, toned and spotted, short closed tear to top edge of front panel. Still, the cover art remains pleasingly vivid. Very good/ very good. A lovely copy of Hewett's "jungle tales for young children," scarce signed by Gill. Very good/ very good Born in Scotland, Margery Gill (1925 � 2008) was a prolific illustrator of children's books, who had specialised in etching and engraving at the Royal College of Art. Gill… Read More

London: Virago Press Limited, 1989. Good. First Virago edition. Trade paperback. Creased wrappers. edgewear, nick to heel of spine. Tanned edges, remainder mark to bottom edge(?), else, clean and tight. VMC no. 317. A collection of nine short stories.

Century Hutchinson, 1987. Very Good. Large 8vo. With b/w illustrated endpapers and illustrations, plus colour plates. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Bruising to head and tail of spine, small stain to bottom edge of upper board. Else, clean and tight. In good original DJ - light soiling, edgewear.

Limmat, 1995. Very Good. In German. 8vo. Maroon cloth, black lettering. Orange endpapers, black ribbon marker (frayed at end). Top edge spotted, discrete POI to ffep, else, clean and tight. In VG original DJ - edgewear. A pleasing copy of the Swiss author's third novel, originally published in 1936.

Papermac, 1988. Good. Trade paperback, with b/w plates. Light wear to covers, sunning and creasing to spine. Else, clean and tight. Includes errata slip. 'Her life is black and white and crimson and purple and wild.' (back cover).

[Istanbul]: APA Ofset Basimevi, 1974. Good. n.d. [c.1974] Limited edition. Folio. Black buckram spine with paper title strip, illustrated paper boards. Scuffed and dented, significant wear to edges and extremities, small bald patch to upper board. Comprises 100 loose-leaf colour plates illustrating Turkish carpets: light toning to margins, light spotting to versos of plates, first 30 leaves already loose. Else, clean and bright. One-page typed AL (in English) laid in: from Erdogan Gönül to 'Your Excellency,' dated 11.3.1974; creased at bottom edge, with small loss. A robust copy with an interesting association. Good+ A Turkish businessman and classic car enthusiast, Erdo an Gönül (1933-2003) held leading roles in the Otosan and Koç groups. The letter thanks the addressee for their visit to Otosan and reminds them of their discussion about carpets. The book was commissioned by Sümerbank, the Turkish bank, which funded the development of the new republic's textile industry; it shows carpet… Read More

Waltham St. Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Good+. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION, no. 66 of 247 (250 in total). Folio, pp. 21, [3], incl. 13 wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton; printed in orange and black. Original quarter vellum, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, orange cloth boards. Gilt top edge, others untrimmed. Some soiling and scuffing, joint- and edgewear, corners bumped and worn. Bands of darkening to leading edges, very occasional fox spots, threads loose at front hinge, rear fep separated, else, clean; Hughes-Stanton's spectacular engravings remain vivid. A robust copy of the Golden Cockerel Press' hundreth book, featuring Eric Gill's Golden Cockerel font and illustrated throughout with Hughes-Stanton's sumptuous and skilful engravings. Good+ "The work of the engravers of Golden Cockerel books gives the Press its greatest distinction and made a whole period of woodcut revival [...] These books were a happy house for talent of the time, with work from David Jones, Dorothea Braby,… Read More

London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Gentle pushing to spine ends, top edge a little dusty, faint red stain to front edge. Else, clean, tight and bright. In Brian Robins' original dust jacket: light wear to top edge, a little creasing to spine ends. Very good/ near fine.

cape Town & Johannesburg: David Philip, 1991. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST SOUTH AFRICAN EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Large 8vo. Quarter black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, white paper boards. Corners bumped. Faint spots to edges. Signed by Gordimer in blue pen on half-title. Else, clean, tight and bright. In the original vibrant dust jacket: creasing and wear to edges and extremities, shelf-wear, original price sticker to rear panel (flapping), nevertheless, bright and bonnie. Very good/ very good. A pleasing copy of Gordimer's eighth short story collection, published in the year she won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Extremities bruised, bump to bottom edge of upper board, spotting to top edge. Else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: price-clipped, spine sunned, a little creasing to edges. Very good/ very good Gordimer's novel, which imagined a near-future for her homeland in which apartheid has been overturned through a civil war, was banned in South Africa upon publication.

Michael Joseph, 1955. Good. The eighth impression, September 1955. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering and white decoration to spine. Slight lean to spine, rubbing to tail. Edgewear. Vertical bands of tanning to endpapers, else clean. In fair original DJ - price-clipped, ragged edges, loss to bottom of spine.

Moscow, 1963. Fair. In Russian. 8vo, pp. (206), (2 adverts?) + b/w frontispiece of Gorky and illustrations. Quarter cream cloth with black lettering, illustrated paper boards. Rubbed, edgeworn, spine grubby. Edges browned, endpapers and text block tanned. Section removed from ffep (POI?), occasional pencil and pen annotation (in English). Spine cracked at pp. 34-5, but binding holding firm. Still, a good copy of an unusual, and striking, title.

Moscow, 1965. Good. In Russian. 8vo, pp. (382) + b/w plates. Red cloth with gilt lettering to upper board, white label to spine. Bruised extremities, lightly soiled, sunned spine. Browned edges. Discrete POI to ffep. Else, clean and tight.

Oxonii e typographeo Clarendoniano [Oxford University Press at the Clarendon Press], 1952. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. In Greek, with introduction and notes in Latin. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Lightly rubbed, tanned edges. Discrete POI to ffep, very occasional annotations. Else, clean and tight. A nice copy.