Search Results: Titles starting with B from Quair Books

The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1952. Very Good. 4to., 25cm, pp.65-128 + b/w illustrations to final two essays. Blue wrappers with navy lettering to front wrapper. Light soiling and wear to wrappers, spine sunned and creased. Sparse foxing to final two leaves. Else, a very good, clean copy for its age. 'A journal for those interested in the art and science of broadcasting'. Essays also by Royston Morley, Robert Henriques, W.A. Belson, Augustin Frigon, T.W. Bennington and L.J. Prechner, and S.D. Berry.

The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1954. Very Good. 4to., 25cm, pp.129-192 + b/w illustrations to final two essays. Blue wrappers with navy lettering to front wrapper. Light soiling and sunning to wrappers, spine sunned and creased. Else, a clean, bright copy for its age. 'A journal for those interested in the art and science of broadcasting'. Essays also by Michael Curtis, P.H. Newby, Dyneley Hussey, Godfrey Talbot, G.F. Newell and H.D. Ellis and J.C. Taylor. The final publication of the journal.

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.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Substantial 8vo. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine rolled, gentle pushing to spine ends. Tanned. Signed, "A S Byatt," in black pen to title page. Folded Observer review by Kate Kellaway of Babel Tower laid in. Else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: spine sunned, creased, a little wear to extremities. A very good copy of the third novel in Byatt's Frederica Quartet. "The new novel by A. S. Byatt is as heavy as a brick; and a brick, in a way, is what it is � part of the Tower of Babel of which she has appointed herself assistant architect. [...] The tower that Byatt has built is elaborate, imposing and the view from the top vertiginous." (Kellaway, 1996).

Teenage Pregnancy Unit, 2002. Near Fine. n.d. [2002?]. 4to, pp. 24, colour photographs. Illustrated wraps, stapled. Light rubbing to back wrapper, else, clean and bright. An early booklet by the award-winning photographer, Clark's images first appeared in the Independent on Sunday. They were also exhibited at Piccadilly Circus as part of London Transport's Platform for Art (2002) and the Wasps Studio Gallery, Glasgow (2005). A grand copy. 'A tribute to [the fathers'] warmth, sensitivity and commitment to their children.' "Booklet reference #30018".

London: Pandora Press, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Trade paperback. B/w plates. Reading crease to spine, tanned edges, faint stain to top of front edge. Else, clean and tight. Very good.

London: Virago Press Limited/ Virago New Fiction, 1987. Very Good. Trade paperback. Lightly shelf-soiled, tanned edges, 'D' in black marker to inner rear wrapper. Else, clean and tidy. Very good.

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.

Bailli�re, Tindall and Cox, 1943. Very Good. The tenth edition. With b/w illustrations. Blue cloth with faded brown lettering to spine and upper board. Lightly soiled and creased, else clean and tight: a tidy copy.

London: Leonard Smithers and Xo, 1899. Cloth. Very Good. Seventh edition (printing) and first to include Wilde's name on title page. Slim 8vo (in 4s), pp. [viii], 31 printed and numbered on recto, [2]. Original quarter cream cloth, spine lettered in gilt, fawn cloth boards. Edges untrimmed. Grubby and stained, extremities bruised and worn, white stains to leading edges. Edges and endpapers toned and scantly foxed. Emmeline Garnett's sober ex libris to ffep, plus inscription above in blue ink: "Emmeline Garnett/ July 1946/ St. Leonards". Else, clean and bright. A robust copy of the last authorised edition published by Smithers; one of 2000 copies. Very good Composed during Wilde's exile in Bernavel-le-Grand with Robbie Ross following his two-year incarceration for gross indecency under the Labouchere Amendment Act and first published under his prison cell number at Reading, 'C.3.3'. The popularity of Wilde's ballad afforded him a small income for the rest of his life, having been forced to admit… Read More

London: Polytantric Press, 1975. Stiff card wrappers. Good+. FIRST UK EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. 59, [1]. Original fawn card wrappers, lettered in black, laminated. Well-handled: laminate lifting and a bit grubby at edges, creased, mark to front wrapper. Top edge foxed. Inscribed enthusiastically by Landesman to half title in black felt-tip: 'For Elizabeth, I loved "By Grand Central Station". Yours, Fran,' with Landesman's London address written in blue biro to verso of front cover, toned. Else, clean. Good+ A fabulous association copy, uniting two significant mid-century North American poets, who lived unconventional and creative lives. The "godmother of hip," Fran Landesman (1927�2011) was an American lyricist, poet and performer, who played a pivotal role in bringing Beat music � and the first and only Beat musical � to wider audiences; 'Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most' and 'Ballad of the Sad Young Men', became jazz standards, recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan,… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Blue cloth, silver lettering to spine. Wear to extremities, gentle pushing to spine ends. In the original dust jacket: shelf-soiled, chipped and creased, a couple of closed tears, small loss to bottom corner of rear panel. Very good/ good+

London: Heinemann, 1988. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in black. Slight lean to spine, gentle pushing and wear to spine ends. PO gift inscription in blue pen to ffep: "July 26 1988/ For your birthday./ My love, Doreen". Else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: a little creasing to edges. Very good/ very good. From the library of Doreen and Walter Newlyn. The British economist and educator, Walter Newlyn (1915-2002), was known for his work on monetary theory and with African nations. From 1967 (until his retirement in 1978) he was Professor of Developmental Economics at the University of Leeds and in 1964 founded its African Studies Unit, now LUCAS. Both Doreen and Walter were passionate about theatre; in the late 1950s they set up the Uganda Pilgrim Players, the country's first multi-racial theatre group. Back in the UK, Doreen was key to the foundation of the West Yorkshire (now Leeds) Playhouse in 1968.

Dublin: Printed for the Company of Booksellers, 1783. Poor. FIRST IRISH EDITION (reissuing the second Kearsley/ London edition of 1783). 12mo, pp. [2], [xxiii], [1], 275 [i.e. 251], [1]. P.251 mis-numbered as 275. Includes Account of the life of William Shakespeare. Full contemporary calf, 5 raised bands, black morocco title label with gilt lettering and ruling. Blind stamped foliate borders to spine-sides. Engraved title page showing circular vignette portrait of Shakespeare, with an intense Garrett in profile lurking from the left. Poor: sadly, in two halves, fully separated at pp. 142-3, but complete. Both joints cracked, losses to spine ends and title label. Tanned edges. Free endpapers excised. Various POIs to front free leaf and title page: Anne Read, Margaret Carlisle, John M/Read(?), an illegible POI, plus pen and later pencil doodles of a pigeon's head, parrot and rat to front endpapers. Unevenly toned, occasional nicks to edges, a few stains, some pencil scoring. Else, pleasingly clean. A… Read More

London: The Amalgamated Press Ltd, 1936. n.d. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 192 + b/w plates. Red cloth spine, vibrant illustrated paper front board by 'E.M.' Edgewear, cloth splitting at top of rear joint, but, binding holding firm. Edges and endpapers lightly toned and spotted. Else, clean, tight and bright. A very good copy of the instructional manual for impending mothers. Jisc LHD lists only 2 copies (BL & LSE).

London: Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1935. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, with b/w frontis. Original buff cloth, decorated and lettered in red. Bruising to extremities. Doreen Cleaver's oval, chestnut gilt-stamped ex libris to front pastedown, pencil price to rear pastedown. Else, pleasingly clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket: price-clipped, creased and chipped, numerous losses, closed tears, joints tender, crude PO taping to reverse. Unusual in the trade, especially in the scarce original dust jacket. Very good/ fair Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), flamboyant English composer, memoirist and Suffragette, is perhaps best remembered for composing the Women's Social and Political Union's rousing anthem, 'The March of Women' (1911). While she was the first female composer to be awarded a Damehood, her loss of hearing in the early C20th, led her to invest her prodigious energies in writing (alongside golfing). Of Smyth's autobiographical works, Vita Sackville-West wrote: "she might have… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co., 1947. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Slight lean to spine, top edge spotted. Lengthy POI and scatter of spots to ffep, else clean and tight. In the original red, black and white typographical dust jacket by Jack Matthew: toned, spine sunned, extremities chipped, edgewear. A pleasing copy. Very good/ very good

Michael Joseph, 1973. Very Good. Black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine. With b/w plates. Crease to spine, light rubbing to top edges. Light spotting to edges, else clean and tight. In VG Brodart-protected DJ - two small rubbed sections to front cover, price highlighted on inner flap. An 'intimate and truthful' portrait of the controversial film and theatre director.

Paris: Mercure de France, 1948. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, 1 of 100: out of sequence, unnumbered. In French. 8vo, pp. 222. Buff wrappers, lettered in red and black. Edges untrimmed. Tanned, losses to spine ends, edges and text block tanned, pages friable, short closed tear to leading edge of first page with attendant dirty finger print. POI to ffep, occasional pen scoring to Monnier's preface and first page, front hinge tender, spine starting in a couple of places. A good+ copy of Bryher's wartime novel. Unusual. Jisc LHD lists three copies (BL, Bodleian and NLS). Although originally written in English, the French edition is the first edition. Indeed, Beowulf didn't appear in English until 1956, when it was published in North America by Pantheon Books (see our copy below). A paperback edition was issued in 2020 by Schaffner Press. This edition, like the French edition of Paris 1900 (see above), unites Bryher and Monnier, two significant, if often less visible, queer modernists, who were close… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1956. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. Original quarter black cloth, lettered in silver, patterned paper boards. Pushing to spine ends, top corners bruised. Scatter of spots to top edge, endpapers toned, Warren F. Johnson's studious ex libris to to front pastedown. Else, clean and tight. In Anne Marie Jauss' original pictorial dust jacket, featuring a grumpy statue of an English bulldog in charcoal: price-clipped, spine sunned, gentle wear to extremities. A lovely copy of Bryher's WWII novel. Very good/ very good With a printed dedication to Sylvia Beach "and the memory of Adrienne Monnier". Monnier had translated Beowulf into French and written the introduction for the first French edition, published in a limited edition of 100 copies by Mercure de Paris in 1948 (see our copy, ref. 2459). Monnier described Beowulf as "un petit classique". Set in London during the Blitz, it centres on the lives that intersect through the Warming Pan tearoom, run by Selina and… Read More