Search Results: Titles starting with I from Quair Books

Penguin Books, 1966. Very Good. First Penguin edition. MMP. Spine faded, edgewear. Edges tanned, as expected with age. Else, clean and tight. PB no. 2505.

London: Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1968. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Slim trade paperback, pp. 48. Wrappers scuffed, bruising to top corners, else, clean and tight. Very good. Johnny Speight (1920�1998) was an English TV scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms, including Till Death Do Us Part. His work frequently used satire to critique racism and sexism. "The Methuen Playscripts series exists to publish scripts of plays which have not yet become widely known but which have already earned themselves a place in the acting repertoire of the modern theatre." (p.1)

Naples [but not]: A spese di Giambatista Pasquali, Libraro e Stampatore di Venezia., 1739. Near Fine. Third edition: "Novella Edizione emendata ed accresciuta" (new edition, amended and enlarged). 8vo, pp. [xxiv], 303, half-title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, attractive engraved head- and tailpieces and decorative initials. Three-quarters tree calf, re-backed with original spine, lettered, ruled and tooled in gilt, laid back down, single gilt ruling to board edges. All edges marbled, red ribbon marker. Hinges professionally reinforced, chipped and rubbed, edgewear, bottom corner of bottom board bumped and chipped, attendant creasing into text block. Inscribed in sepia ink to half-title: "For Miss Whitelocke/ from her friend & brother/ G.O.," (erroneous) pencil note about provenance to ffep, some off-setting from engravings, occasional fox spots, pencil scoring and grubby marks, small loss to rear fep. Else, clean and bright. A grand copy of this important popularisation of… Read More

New York: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. Early reprint (lacks the Farrar, Straus and Young colophon). 8vo, pp. [iv], 250. Quarter white buckram, blue linen boards, spine lettered and decorated in blue. Bruising and a little wear to extremities, sunning to top and bottom board edges, edges tanned. Occasional creasing to bottom margins, else, clean and tight. In William Metzig's fabulous illustrated dust jacket: price clipped, creased, rubbed and grubby, extremities chipped, a few closed tears to spine ends, reinforced by PO to rear, pen pricing to inner flap. Still, a copy that retains a significant dose of charm. Good+/ good+ Unusual. Early English translation of the Belgian woman of letters Fran�oise Lilar's (1930-2016) scandalous mid-century lesbian novel, Le rempart des B�guines (1951), published under a nom-de-plume. Herma Briffault (1898-1981) was an American ghostwriter and translator of both French and Spanish literature, including Colette's The Pure and the Impure (1966).

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED. 8vo, with map and b/w plates. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Signed by Bell in blue pen to title page. Marginal notes and occasional scoring in blue and black pen by Matthew Kieran to first half, creasing and small losses to rear fep. Creased bookmark, advertising Award Winning Writers at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, laid-in. Else, bright and tight. In the original dust jacket: edge and shelf-wear. An interesting association copy. Very good/ very good. From the academic library of Matthew Kieran (1968-), Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at the University of Leeds (2009-2021) and the ASA/BSA's Wollheim Lecturer for 2021. The former BBC war correspondent and MP's chapter, 'A Journalism of Attachment', was included in Kieran's 1998 Routledge edited collection, Media Ethics.

The Women's Press, 1985. Good. Pp. 138. Light shelf wear. P.3 dog-eared, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1967. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, incl. b/w frontis and plates + adverts to rear. Original green cloth, black-stamped title panel to spine, lettered in gilt. Top edge green (faded). Bruising to head of spine. Book Society postcard laid-in. Else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: edge- and joint-wear, creasing to head of spine, rear panel gently soiled. Still, a pleasing copy of the criminologist's autobiography Barbara Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger (1897�1988) was an eminent British economist and social scientist. Early in her career, Wootton worked for the research department of the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress and was made principal of Morley College, London from 1926. She took up a readership at Bedford College in 1944 and was promoted to Professor in 1948. She was an expert in criminology, penology, and social work and her 1959 Social Science and Social Pathology (with Vera G. Seal and Rosalind Chambers) "remains a classic in the… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, 2018. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Blue paper boards, silver lettering to spine. Bruising to spine ends. Pencil marginalia (definitions) and scoring, else, tight and tidy. In the original dust jacket: gentle creasing to top edge. Very good/ very good Comprising diary entries written by Morris over 2017 and early 2018, a number of which appeared in the FT and O'r Pedwar Gwynt.

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

London: Duckworth, 1977. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, bruising to extremities, dint to leading edge of bottom board. Edges and text block unevenly browned, a little shaken. Inscribed by Bainbridge in black pen to title page: "To Jeff/ with best wishes/ Beryl Bainbridge". Else, clean. In the original monochrome illustrated dust jacket, lettered in yellow: a little edgewear, gentle creasing to spine ends and top edge, nick to leading edge of bottom board. Good+/ very good

London: George Newnes, 1904. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original blue and mustard pictorial cloth, lettered in green (faded). 8vo, pp. xii, 357, [1] + b/w plates and illustrations. All edges gilt. Rubbed, faint staining to front board, extremities bumped. Endpapers and adjacent pages toned, evidence of handling use (including, rather charmingly, one PO's 'little pig' finger-play cut-out laid-in), creasing and short closed tears to heels of hinges of numerous gatherings. Else, clean and tidy. A robust copy of an unusual title by the Beard sisters. The Beard sisters, Adelia Belle (1857-1920) and Lina, co-founded the first American girls' scouting group, The Girl Scout Society, known subsequently as The Girl Pioneers, and finally as The Camp Fire Girls. The sisters co-authored numerous books, including The American Girls Handy Book (1887) and Mother Nature's Toy Shop, all of which Adelia illustrated (their father was the artist James Henry Beard). N.B. This is a weighty book and will… Read More

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, amply illustrated with b/w plates. Black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Vibrant red and white patterned endpapers. Pushing to spine ends and bottom corners, edges a little dusty. POI and small ex libris "George Dunton" to half-title, else, clean and bright. In the original dust jacket: spine sunned, edgewear, closed tear to front panel. A pleasing copy of an attractive edition. Very good/ very good

[n.d. c1915]. 12 division. Folios. With mounted photochemical prints with titled paper guards; title page in Division 1. Original blue wrappers, black lettering and design to front panels. Parchment edges. All divisions: creasing to edges and nicking; Divs. 2 & 7: plate missing from each (plates 14 & 64), leaves loose; Divs. 1 & 12: leaves separated from wrappers; five divisions: closed tears and/or losses, a few shaken; Div 1: tape repair to front panel, soiled. Otherwise, internally clean and bright. Very good-good. Unusual in original wrappers. JISC lists Aberystwyth, BL, Cambridge, Cardiff, NLW, & Sheffield Hallam UL, with Aberystwyth only appearing to hold a set in original wrappers. 'Issued for subscribers. After P. de Champaigne, J. Constable, L. Alma-Tadema, Sassoferrato, A. van Dyck and many others.' Includes index of artists. Alfred Yockney ('A. Y.') (1878-1963) was an art critic and curator, associated with West End galleries and art publishers. Editor of The Art Journal, he served as a… Read More

His Majesty's Stationery Office/ Science Museum, 1937. Good. Large 8vo., pp. 207, (1) + b/w frontispiece and plates throughout. Blue paper boards, quarter blue buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Soiling to boards, rubbed edges. Ex-library copy - stamp to front pastedown: 'The Property of Cheadle Hulme School M.W. & C.O.S.'. Light foxing to endpapers and text block. A good, solid copy of this rarity.

Philip Allan & Co. Ltd, 1929. Good. First edition. Association copy. Large 8vo, pp. xix, (1), 308. Green cloth with gilt lettering and bands to spine; blind-ruled single border to upper board. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Lightly rubbed and soiled, spine ends and corners bruised. Tanned edges. POI to ffep: 'F. Seymour Cocks/ 1929'. Spine starting at rear hinge, but binding holding firm. Scant foxing to beginning and end, occasional pencil scoring, else, clean. Empty, torn envelope addressed to 'F.S. Cocks Esq, M.P./ House of Commons,' with 2 1/2p stamp and 3 Jan 1946 postage mark laid in. This copy belonged to Frederick Seymour Cocks (1882 1953), Independent Labour Party MP for Broxtowe from 1929 until his death. Cocks also authored tracts for the anti-war Union of Democratic Control, as well as a biography of E.D. Morel (1920), his fellow Labour Party MP and campaigner against the exploitation of the Congolese peoples in the Belgian rubber trade.

Harlequin Press co ltd, 1948. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. With b/w plates, illustrations and adverts. Red cloth cloth with gilt and blind lettering. Bumped extremities, small patches of wear to lower board. Prize sticker to front pastedown. Else, pleasingly clean and tidy. Scarce.

Penguin Books Ltd, 1973. Very Good. The 1984 Pelican reprint. Trade paperback, pp. 557 (1), (2) adverts. Wrappers covered in permanent clear protector. Sunned spine, tanned edges, as expected with age. Section clipped from biog page (previous owner's name?), ticks to Contents. Else, clean and tight: a very good copy.

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1918. Thirteenth edition. 8vo, pp. [432], [32 catalogue]. Red cloth, black lettering to spine and upper board (faded). Bottom edge untrimmed. Wear and short splits to spine ends, 3cm split to head of rear joint. Spotting to front edge. POI to ffep, pencil and occasional pen scoring, a few marginal spots. A little shaken, but still sound. A clean, good+ copy.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1949. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. 2471, (1). Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Sunned at spine and in patches (corresponding to DJ losses), extremities bruised, bump to bottom corner of bottom board, edges tanned with a few spots. Offsetting and spotting to feps, occasional spots to text block, else, clean and bright. Arch one-page Punch review, 'Faulknerian Coils' (05.10.1049, p. 370) by Richard Mallett laid in (folded, toned, creased at bottom edge). In Sydney Greenwood's pictorial dust jacket with deep strains of the Southern Gothic: spine and rear panel browned, joints tender, various losses, with largest, sadly, to front panel, with top half of 'Int' in Intruder lacking. Very good/ good-only

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. First printing. 8vo. B/w illustrations. Black cloth, silver lettering to spine. Release letter, incl. short Movie Trivia Quiz, laid-in. Tight and bright. In original dust jacket: spine sunned, edgewear. Sarah Kozloff is Professor of Film on the William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair at Vassar. Invisible Storytellers was her first book, and the first theoretical and historical examination of cinematic voice-over narration. Kozloff's epic fantasy, The Nine Realms is due for release in 2020. The impetus for writing the four novels came during a seminar on American Women Directors when 'she realized that neither the books nor films of Lord of the Rings could pass the Bechdel Test. That summer, she grabbed her laptop and started imagining a world that awaited the return of the queen.'