Search Results: Authors starting with R from Quair Books

London: Chappell & Co. Ltd, 1911. Very Good. Score. 4to, pp. [iv], 15, [1]. Original grey wrappers, lettered and decorated in black and silver. Rubbed at spine and extremities, pushing to heel of spine, a little soiled, POI in black pen to top of front wrapper: "G. A. F. Reddis 20.ix.17". "Robert Coningsby Clarke" stamped in purple to bottom corner of title page, gentle creasing, some spotting, very occasional pencil annotations, thread loose, with gatherings slightly dropped. Else, clean and tidy. A pleasing copy of the first sheaf of Radclyffe Hall's poems set to music by Robert Coningsby Clarke; another two would follow. Unusual. Very good Radclyffe Hall first found notice and popularity as a poet, publishing five collections, before turning their hand to novels (when they also dropped 'Marguerite'. This First Sheaf comprises: 'Hands and Lips,' 'Our Little Love is Newly Born,' 'You're Just as Pretty as the Day,' 'Butterfly,' 'Gentle Dame Priscilla,' and 'You, Dear, and I', reprinted from… Read More

Macmillan & Co., limited, 1907. Good. Second printing. Crown 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt (dusty). Reading crease to spine, edgewear. Grubby front-edge, lightly spotted. Light foxing to endpapers, else clean. Includes catalogue of the series.

London: British-Continental Press/ The Artists of the Dance, 1930. Hardback. Good+. FIRST EDITION, with TLS & SIGNED POSTCARD by RAMBERT laid-in. 8vo, pp. 44, [6 catalogue] + 7 b/w plates. Quarter red cloth, buff paper boards, lettered in black. Top and fore-edged untrimmed. Tanned, edgewear, corners bruised, patch of rubbing to bottom board. Front hinge starting, Brian Hill's attractive monochrome ex libris, featuring a windmill and designed by "SLR," to front pastedown. One-page TLS from Rambert on blue Mercury Theatre/ The Rambert Ballet-headed paper (04.09.1950) addressed to Mr. Hill, plus a later Ballet Rambert sepia postcard, featuring "Marie Rambert, Warsaw, 1897" and signed in blue ink on reverse by Rambert, laid-in. Else, clean. Good+. A pleasing copy of Haskell's tribute to Rambert & her dancers, unusual with signed ephemera laid in. The Polish-born ballet dancer and teacher Marie Rambert (1888�1982, DBE) studied in Paris and London, before creating her own company, Ballet Club, in 1926.… Read More

2000. Boxed postcard selection of British and American celebrity portraits shot by Rankin in colour and b/w. In original glossy illustrated cardboard presentation box (16.3 x 12.3cm) featuring Debbie Harry to front: bumped and rubbed. Comprises 32 postcards. Good-only/ fine. Scarce. Promotional postcards produced to complement Rankin's 2000 book of photographic portraits CeleBritation. Featuring Forest Whitaker, Tori Amos, Quentin Crisp, David Bowie, Richard E Grant in drag, Nenah Cherry, Minnie Driver and Macy Gray, amongst others.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1979. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. With b/w plates. Blue cloth, silver lettering to spine. Pushing to heel of spine, endpapers lightly toned. Signed in blue biro to title page: 'Best wishes,/ Jane Ratcliffe.' In the original dust jacket: price-clipped, bald patch on front flap, light creasing to edges. A smart, square copy. Near Fine/ Very Good. With a Foreword by Virginia McKenna. The Yorkshire-born wildlife campaigner and naturalist's second book. Ratcliffe's care and tenacity led to the 1973 Badgers Act.

Macmillan London Limited, 1974. Good. 8vo, 23cm, pp.xxvi, 215 + b/w illustrations and plates. First British edition of the original 1974 Yale University Press edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top corners and head and tail of spine lightly bumped. Dust jacket, worn at edges with nicks and chips to head and tail of spine especially. Else, a clean and tight copy.

The Women's Press Ltd, 1986. Good. Trade paperback, pp. 275 (1). Light wear and blemishing to wrappers, light spotting to edges and prelims. Else, clean.

London: Gray Walls Press, 1945. Poor. 8vo.. FIRST THUS, SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half title: 'Herbert Read/ 21. iii. 52'. 8vo, pp. [138] + colour plates: sadly, defective � a previous owner has excised four plates, including the frontis. Grey cloth with gilt lettering interspersed with green circles to spine. Spine slightly cocked, wear to heel, bruising to top corners. POI to ffep, contents lightly shaken. Else, clean and bright. Though defective, scarce with Read's signature. New edition of Read's only novel, originally published in 1935 by Heinemann, and here fittingly paired with Felix Kelly's gently surreal illustrations. Written when he lived in Hampstead amidst the 'nest of gentle artists' (including Henry Moore) and in the same year as his extended 'Appreciation' of the sculptor appeared, the novel testifies to the critic's broad set of theoretical influences, particularly the psychoanalytic mysticism of Carl Jung. As well as designing dust jackets for authors such as Naomi Jacob and… Read More

London: George Allen, 1899. Very Good. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo, pp. [lii], [298] + numerous b/w vignettes and full-page illustrations by Thomson (title without tissue guard). Green cloth lettered and ornately (and theatrically) decorated in gilt to spine and upper board. All edges gilt. Dark green endpapers. Slight lean and sunning to spine, bruising and gentle wear to extremities, a little scuffed, bump to bottom board. Front and rear foxed, pencil POI to half-title, else, clean, tight and bright. A very good copy of the attractive Thomson-illustrated edition of Reade's popular novel. During her short life, Margaret Woffington (1720-1760) dominated the Georgian Dublin and London stages in comic and cross-dressed roles, with her breeches part as Sir Henry Wilder causing a storm at the Theatre Royal, Dury Lane. Known professionally as Peg, the Irish actor (initially apprenticed to Madame Sovre, a tightrope artist) was professionally, socially and financially canny. She successfully… Read More

[Cardiff]: University of Wales Press on behalf of the Welsh Arts Council/ Writers of Wales, 1975. Paperback. Good. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION, No. 23 OF 1000, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. (24.7 x 12.5cm), pp. [iv], 74 + b/w portrait frontis. Yellow, white and green front wrapper, lettered in black. Toned and soiled, numerous splodges, 3cm closed tear to heel of spine, reading creases. Inscribed in black biro to first page: "Jeff Towns [proprietor of Dylan's Bookshop, Swansea]/ Best wishes/ David Rees/ 29 iv 1997", frontis and title page faintly foxed, pencil score to p.57. Brief 1-page TLS laid in from David Rees to Jeff Towns referring to two enclosed books, presumably for sale. Else, clean. A nice association copy of the first monograph about Rhys Davies, inscribed by his friend and early champion. Good. Unusual. Dubbed 'the Welsh Chekhov', Rhys Davies (1901-1978; OBE) was a prolific and prize-winning author, who chronicled working class life, especially of industrial Wales and who was known predominantly… Read More

London: Longmans, 1966. Good+. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original cream cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A little grubby, extremities bumped, top and leading edges spotted. POIs to ffep, else clean. In A. E. Barbosa's illustrated dust jacket: price-clipped, spine gently sunned, edgewear and chipping. Good+/ good+

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc./ The Crime Club, 1976. Very Good. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. White paper boards, black lettering to spine. Tanned, spine ends and bottom rear corners bumped. Tanned edges, e lse, clean. In the fabulous surreal dust jacket: toned edgewear, spine creased and rubbed. Very good/ very good.

M�nchen: Georg M�ller, 1922. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. In German. 8vo, with b/w plates. Contemporary art binding: three quarters parchment, spine lettered in gilt, wonderful purple and black block-printed paper boards. Top edge gilt. New endpapers. Parchment darkened, extremities bumped. Some foxing. Else, tight and tidy. Very good. An attractive copy of Renner's important work. Paul Renner (1878�1956) was a German typeface designer, author, and founder of the Master School for Germany's Printers in Munich. Five years after publishing this title, he designed his hugely successful Futura typeface.

Oxford University Press, 1943. Good. Third impression. With b/w plates, illustrations (by Baden-Powell) and map to rear endpapers. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and green labels. Green top edge. Flexible boards lightly soiled and rubbed, corners bumped. Light toning to pages, else clean and tight.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1976. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Spring green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Gentlest pushing to spine ends, bands of sunning to board edges. Top edge dusty and spotted. Toned, POI "Ruth Sanger" to ffep (not, alas, the hand of the Anglo-Australian serologist). Else, clean. In Rosemary Honeybourne's striking pictorial dust jacket: spine sunned, light edgewear, rear panel gently toned. Very good/ very good Rhys' final collection of short stories, published ten years after Wide Sargasso Sea.

London: Virago Limited, 1980. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITIONS. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Extremities bruised, faint spotting to top edge. In the original grey, red and blue dust jacket: edgewear and creasing. [With:] Trade paperback. Original grey, red and blue card covers. Edgewear and creasing. Toned. Else, clean and tight. Both very good. A pleasing pair of the first two British editions of Rich's important lesbian feminist collection, including 'When We Dead Awaken: Writing as re-vision' (1971), 'Toward a Woman-Centred University' (1973-74) and "It is the Lesbian in Us..." (1976), as well as essays on Jane Eyre and Emily Dickinson. The Virago paperback cased editions were published simultaneously and preceded by the US edition, published a year earlier by W. W. Norton & Company.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1925. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, upper board blocked in black. Bottom edge untrimmed. Lean to spine, spine ends and bottom corners gently bruised, edges toned, a few spots to leading edge. Scatter of fox spots to prelims, offsetting to half-title, else, clean and tight. A very good copy of the second novel in Richardson's important trilogy of modern Australia. Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946) was the pen name of the Australian author, Ethel Richardson, who, by 1925, had settled in London with her Scottish husband, John George Robertson. Olga Roncoroni, who was Richardson's companion until her death at 76, had joined the household in 1921. The Way Home was preceded by Australia Felix (1917) and followed by Ultima Thule (1929).

London: Duckworth & Co., 1919. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered and ruled in black. Spine and board edges faded, head of spine frayed and bumped, dints to top edge. Edges darkened and endpapers a little grubby, toned, "File" scored, decisively, in black pencil across title page, as was Duckworth's practice, else, tight and tidy. Good+ A grand association copy of the fifth "chapter" of Richardson's pioneering modernist project. From Duckworth's archive and the library of Alice Thomas Ellis (1932-2005, born Anna Lindholm), novelist, columnist & who, as Anna Haycraft, was Duckworth's highly respected fiction editor from 1968, when her husband, Colin Haycraft, bought the publishing house. Haycraft's most celebrated client was Beryl Bainbridge, and Thomas Ellis' most well known novels were the Booker-nominated The 27th Kingdom (1982) and Unexplained Laughter (1985). Her novels were "spare, beautifully written, and often with a supernatural or macabre… Read More

I. B. Tauris, 2015. Near Fine. Large 8vo. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Bruising to head of spine and top corners, else, clean, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: light wear and creasing to top edge. Near fine/ near fine.

Virago Press Limited, 1985. Good. Reprint of original 1981 VMC edition. Trade paperback. Spine and edges rubbed, light reading wear. Bald patch to back cover (where sticker poorly removed). Else, clean and bright. VMC. no. 48