Search Results: Authors starting with P from Quair Books

Virago Press Ltd, 1987. Good. First edition. Reading crease to spine, rubbed, edgewear. Tanned edges, else clean and tight.

London: Penguin, 1993. Very Good. Trade paperback. Reading crease to spine. Top corner bumped, else, clean and tight.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1969. Second UK edition. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing and sunning to spine ends, slight lean to spine, top corners bumped. Top edge foxed, others toned. In the Michael Heawood-designed dust jacket: toned, gentle creasing and edgewear. Very good/ very good This was Paley's first book, with a number of the short stories later included in her Pulitzer-nominated 1984 Collected Stories. The first British edition was published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1960, with this second edition required as, over the next decade, "Miss Paley's 'underground' reputation built up" (front flap). Rear panel features advert for Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

London: Hutchison, 1959. Cloth. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 312 + b/w frontis portrait and plates. Original red cloth, spine and upper board lettered in mustard. Shabby: pushing to spine ends, faded and rubbed, mottling to boards. POI to ffep: "Henry Sharp/ 1959", copious pencil scoring to text block. A solid working copy. Good

London and New York: Pandora Press, 1987. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, numerous b/w images. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Spine ends bruised, corners bumped, else, clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket: toned, edgewear and creasing, paper label, partially removed, to rear panel. New fine/ very good. A pleasing copy of Parker and Pollock's important collection reflecting on the feminist art movement of the 1970s and 80s, reproducing essays by Rosalind Coward, Mary Kelly, Laura Mulvey and Sally Potter, amongst other significant critics and artists.

FIRST THUS. 8vo, pp. [192] + b/w plates. Green leatherette boards, spine and upper board lettered in gilt. Wear and bruising to extremities, top corners bumped. Neil Paterson's flamboyant ownership signature in green pen to ffep. In the original dust jacket: toned, spine sunned and lightly stained, nicked and chipped, a little loss to spine ends. Else, clean and tight. Originally published in 1948. Very good/ good+. An interesting association copy. "The best story-teller Scotland has produced since Stevenson," Neil Paterson (1915-1995) was an author, amateur footballer and screenwriter, who won the 1960 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Room at the Top. Paterson remained an influential figure in the British film landscape, sitting on various boards, including Film Scotland and Grampian Television, and both the Scottish Arts Council and the Arts Council for GB.Martin Quigley Jr. (1917-2011) was born into the business of writing about film: his father founded a number of trade publications,… Read More

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1943. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 198. Black cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Rubbed and soiled, extremities bruised. Occasional fox spots, else, pleasingly clean and tidy for the war economy paper. A good+ copy With a foreword by L.A.G. Strong. Payne was a clairvoyant and Bendit a psychiatrist, who were married. Their collaboration proved popular, and various reprints followed.

Manchester & London: Clarkson & Griffiths, Ltd; Gay & Bird, 1900. Good. n.d. [1900, Preface and from Copac.] FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [xii], [118], [2] + b/w frontis and plates. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board. Brown endpapers. Lean to spine, boards grubby and rubbed. James Digby Firth's attractive ex libris (by Frederick G. Hall) to front pastedown. POI, and trace of an earlier dedication, to ffep. Occasional foxing, spine cracked in a number of places, with a couple of signatures loose, but holding. A good copy with an interesting association to Yorkshire and the University of Leeds. By profession James Digby Firth, F.S.A (1877-1968) was a teacher (retiring from Leeds Modern School in 1938); he pioneered nature study at secondary level, leading to the nickname 'Bug Willie'. Firth's wide range of interests and expertise, however, led to him be 'president, vice-president and fellow of more learned societies than I can conveniently name: numismatics, conchology, philately,… Read More

Penguin Books in association with Methuen, 1960. Good. The 1960 Penguin reprint. MMP. With b/w plates. Reading crease to spine, rubbed edgewear. Tanned edges. Spotting to inner wrappers. Some dog-eared pages. Tanned prelims and margins, else clean. Penguin Books no. 1427.

Penguin Education, 1973. Good. Trade paperback. With b/w illustrations. Illustrated paper wrappers, laminated. Grubby marks to back wrapper. POI to half-title, else, clean and tight.

Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1982. Very Good. [1982] Facsimile reprint of first edition of 1670. Limited edition, 1 of 600. 26 x 18cm. With b/w frontis and illustrations. Quarter blue cloth, grey paper boards. Gilt lettering lightly rubbed. Clean and tidy. With good black slip case - lightly scuffed. A pleasing copy of the modern reprint of the standard C17th work on mining, which includes a Clavis (glossary) of mining terms.

Virago Press Limited, 1987. Very Good. Trade paperback. Edgewear, reading creases to spine. Some pencil scoring to text block. Else, tidy.

Faber & Faber, 1993. Very Good. Paperback preview edition, pp. xxi, 143. Light shelf and reading wear. A few dog-eared pages, else clean and tight.

London: Edward Arnold, 1900. Reprint of popular edition, WITH AUTHORIAL INSCRIPTION. 8vo, pp. [x], 358. Olive cloth, spine lettered in gilt, double blind ruling to boards. Shabby and mottled: worn, bumped, splits to joints and spine ends. Hinges and spine cracked, shaken, but text block holding, excepting Contents page loose and final gathering ('23', comprising 3 leaves) detached. Pigou's warm dedication in sepia ink to ffep: "John Stonehouse/ from/ a grateful Patient/ the Author/ Francis Pigou�/ Whitby. Dec. 1. 1900", endpapers foxed and browned. Two newspaper clippings featuring Queen Mary laid-in, offsetting to associated pages. Musty, but clean. A poor copy, nevertheless unusual with Pigou's dedication. By 1900, Francis Pigou (1832-1916) � who described himself as a "high-church evangelical" � was Dean of Bristol Cathedral, having served in Chichester, as well as chaplain-in-ordinary to the Queen (1871-89), and across Yorkshire, as Vicar of Doncaster (1869-1875) and Halifax (1875-1888),… Read More

1975. Very Good. 4to, pp. 143, (1) + b/w images. Bright orange cloth boards (to match DJ) with gilt lettering to spine. Small bump to heel of spine, lightly spotted top edge, occasional toning to text block. Else, clean and tight. In VG DJ (designed by Sally Muir) - wear to top edge. A pleasing copy of Pines' critical history of representations, and counter-representations, of black people in North American cinema, ending with a discussion of 'Blaxploitation'.

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. Cloth. Good-only. 8vo, incl colour frontis. Publisher's navy pictorial cloth, lettered in white. Rubbed, bruised and soiled. Toned and foxed, inscribed in black ink to recto of frontis: "To P. Robinson from Lady Abinger", spine cracked in a number of places, but binding firm. Else, clean. Good-only An intriguing copy of Pink's popular and popularising gardening book, inscribed by Lady Abinger, presumably, to an aspirant (but unidentified) gardener. Helen Scarlett, Lady Abinger (1840-1915) was mother to two extraordinary daughters, Ella Campbell Scarlett (1864-1937), the first woman doctor in Bloemfontein, South Africa and at the Royal Columbian Hospital, Canada, and Evangelina Haverfield (1867-1920), Suffragette, aid worker, and partner of Vera Jack Holme.

Faber Music Limited, 1971. Very Good. 8vo, pp. 40. Blue cardboard wrappers with purple and black lettering, stapled. Lightly rubbed, lightly sunned and lightly soiled. Else, clean and tight. 'Owen Wingrave' was first broadcast on BBC2 on 16 May 1971.

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, ltd, 1913. Good. [n.d. 1913?] The Eighth (Twentieth Century) Edition. Small 8vo. Olive cloth with gilt and black lettering to upper board. Spotting to edges and endpapers. Centenary sticker to ffep, ownership stamp to Preface: 'Thos Carruthers. Teacher of Shorthand, Typewriting etc'. Else, clean and tight.

London: The Cresset Press, 1934. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 75, (1). Terracotta cloth, black stamped title labels, lettered and framed in gilt, to spine and upper board. First and bottom edges untrimmed. A few stains to boards, faint offsetting to endpapers, a few fox spots to untrimmed edges, else, clean and tidy. In the original dust jacket: spine sunned, small loss to head of spine, toned, a few chips, creasing to top edges. Very good/ good+ A lovely copy of Pitter's fourth collection, which first brought her to public attention. The British poet and craftswoman "first attracted public attention with A Mad Lady's Garland (1934), a brilliantly crafted work reflecting her early exercises, encouraged by [A. R.] Orage, in the art of pastiche"; another contemporary, John Stewart Collis, recalled "[h]er remarkable range, and the subtlety of her oblique lyrical assault" (ODNB). The collection features poems voicing a coffin-worm ("The Worm unto his love"), earwig, 'the virtuous female… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1978. Near Fine. Second impression, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, bump to fore-edge of lower board. A few spots to endpapers, Pizzey's eerie yet affectionate dedication, in pink pen, to ffep: "For Midge & Tex [?],/ Malignant relationships/ form malignant cells. You are/ in my prayers./ Lots of love and God bless/ you/ Erinx". Else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: edgewear, spine sunned, closed tear to rear panel. Near fine/ near fine. Unusual with inscription. A contentious figure for British feminism, Erin Pizzey (1939-) founded Chiswick Women's Aid in 1971, which grew to become the national charity against domestic violence, Refuge. After she left Women's Aid, Pizzey continued to write and lecture about domestic abuse, winning the Nancy Astor Award for Journalism in 1983, as well as penning a clutch of bodice-rippers. The author now refers to herself as a men's rights advocate and is editor at large of the… Read More