Search Results: Titles starting with L from Quair Books

London: Faber & Faber/ Ariel Books on the Arts, 1946. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE THEATRE DESIGNER. 8vo. pp. 72, incl. colour frontis and b/w plates and line drawings by Hurry. Original beige cloth, spine and upper board lettered in brown. Inscribed by Hurry in blue-black biro to ffep: "To Robbie, with all my gratitude for his great help and enthusiasm, which has made these productions possible, Leslie Hurry, April 1947", circular stain to endpapers running through front matter, occasional marks, top thread snapped at title page. Else, clean and tidy. In the original orange, black and white illustrated dust jacket: grubby and creased, loss to head of spine, a number of closed tears. Very good/ good+ Unusual inscribed. An early presentation copy from the celebrated theatre designer to Robbie, "for his great help and enthusiasm which has made these productions possible": perhaps even, the great Australian ballet dancer and choreographer, Robert Helpmann, who provided Hurry's… Read More

Paris: �ditions de la Nouvelle Revue Fran�aise/ Galllimard, 1925. Very Good. Eighteenth La Nouvelle Revue Fran�aise (NRF) edition. 8vos, pp. 280, [2]; 287, [3]. In French. Hand-bound gilt patterned paper boards, red morocco spine labels, gilt stamped lettering. Blue stain to top edges (faded), others untrimmed, a number crudely opened. Uneven sunning to spines and boards, gentle pushing to spine ends, toned. Mitchison's charming ex libris to front pastedown of vol. I, occasional ink offsetting to vol. II, else, clean and tidy. An attractive pair of hand-bound reprints of the sixth volume of Proust's masterpiece from the library of Naomi Mitchison. The "Haldane polymath", Lady (though she never used the title) Naomi Mitchison (1897-1999, CBE), was a prolific Scottish author and activist, with links to Fabian, Labour and Scottish Nationalist movements. Hailing from a family of privilege and pre-eminent scientists, she is best known for The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1931), celebrated both as a… Read More

London: The Pilot Press Ltd, 1944. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in blue. Spine and edges sunned, extremities bumped, a few fox spots to edges. Toned, as usual, for war economy paper. In the original illustrated dust jacket: shabby, numerous losses, tidy tissue paper repairs, still, the cover art retains its charm and impact. Very good/ good- Unusual in the dust jacket. Following the wartime working lives of Lil and Gwen in munitions and "though based on first-hand experience, the story told in these pages, and all the characters in it, are imaginary, " allowing Hill to write with more liberty.

New York: William Faro, Inc., 1932. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 216. Black buckram, black-lettered paper title label to spine. Wear to extremities, title label toned and chipped. Toned and gently shaken, front hinge starting, a few nicks to edges and dog-eared pages, off-setting to pp. 90-1 from item now removed. Else, clean. A good copy of an early C20th erotic "sequel". Jisc LSD lists only two holdings in the UK: UoCambridge and UoNottingham (part of the George Lazarus bequest). Roberts and Poplawski Appendix I, A:VI William Faro, Inc. was the short-lived trade imprint of infamous American publisher Samuel Roth (1893-1974), who established the company in 1930 and issued books through 1934, with the firm going bankrupt in 1933. Alongside its Ardent Classics and Modern Amatory Classics reprint series, Faro published sequels to its successful pirated editions of Lady Chatterley's Lover. In their 'Appendix I, A: Parodies of and sequels to Lady Chatterley's Lover,' Roberts and Poplawski describe a… Read More

London: Collins, 1931. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, extremities bruised, sunned and soiled. Endpapers and half-title browned and spotted, inscribed in year of publication by Farjeon in sepia pen to ffep: "To dear Maggie/ with Eleanor's Love/ April, 1931" and below in a slighter hand, also in sepia ink: "Bertha Hagart./ July 1956", hinges cracked. Good+ It seems likely that Bertha Hagart (later Rose) was the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that Hagart and Farjeon met through the author's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years. Maggie, sadly, remains unidentified.

London: Vernor and Hood, 1806. Very Good. January to June 1806. 12mo (in 6s), pp. ii, 430 + five b/w engraved frontispieces (lacks April frontis: "An elegant Portrait" of Lady Ogilby) and a second b/w plate to January issue, plus six hand-coloured fashion plates. Polished tree calf, spine divided by gilt rules, red and black morocco labels, other compartments tooled centrally in gilt, gilt board-edge tooling. Front joint, edges and extremities rubbed, corners bruised. Binders ticket to front pastedown: "Bound by H Earnshaw/ Printer Bookseller/ & Book Binder./ Colne,/ Lancashire./ Copper plate printing neatly executed," two POIs in sepia ink to ffep: "Mary Wiglesworth./........Townhead...." and underneath, in a less prepossessing hand: "Walter[?] Wilson/ Slaidburn". Some browning, including title page, offsetting from colour plates, occasional marks and fox spots, lacks pp. 133-4 (leaf N1, the 'Cabinet of Fashion' text for February) and April frontispiece (see above). Nevertheless, a handsome copy of… Read More

London: Virago, 1983. Paperback. Good. FIRST VMC EDITION. Trade paperback. Joint- and edgewear, tanned edges. Else, clean and tight. Good+ With a New Introduction by Margaret Waley.

London: Fourth Estate, 1997. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. Pushing to spine ends, light bruising to corners, else, tight and bright. In the original dust jacket: wear to top edge. Overall, a near fine copy.

London: Macmillan and Co Ltd, 1970. First edition. Large 8vo, pp. vi, 346. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Crease to spine, nick to top edge of bottom board. POI to ffep, else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: wear to top edge, small nicks to top corners. A very good copy of the eleventh novel in the Strangers and Brothers sequence.

1896. 8vos. Manuscript Accounts Book (17.8 x 11.5 cm), ff. 224: 149 filled, 75 blank and Journal (19.3 x 12cm), ff. 124: 12 filled (rectos only), 3 blank, 51 filled (rectos only), 58 blank. Accounts Book: quarter green morocco spine, navy leather boards. All edges red. Ruled with columns. Rubbed, scored and nicked, edgewear. Approx. two-thirds of book filled with consecutive hand-written accounts in black and blue pen (and two different hands?), dated January 1896 to September 1903. Gently shaken, front hinge cracked, spine cracked in a couple of places, a number of leaves separating, but binding still firm. Two folded pieces of blotting paper and a few scraps of paper laid-in, mostly featuring (presumably) related calculations and notes, but also slips featuring names/ signatures: "Alexander M. Inglis/ Redhall", "Alexander Inglis/ Duddingston House, June 19th 1840[?]" and "Miranda Inglis/ Montpellier Lawn". Journal: half black morocco, marbled paper boards. Marbled edges and endpapers. Ruled. Rubbed,… Read More

�ditions Garnier Fr�res, 1961. Good. In French. Trade paperback. With b/w frontis and illustrations. Illustrated yellow wrappers. Spine faded, edgewear, top corner (and into text block) bumped. Else, clean and tight.

Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1929. Good. Second Edition, 1929 reprint. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Ex-library, with stamps. Slant to spine, boards worn and bruised. Pencil POI to front pastedown. Some pencil underscoring, else clean. A good reading copy.

Leeds: [Gryphon], 1949. Good. FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo, pp. 80 + b/w illustrations. Original illustrated orange paper boards, spine lettered in black, upper board features Henry Moore's 'Family Group' ("specially made for this anthology"). Rubbed, soiled and sunned, a few ink spots to lower board. Label "Now distributed by the Lotus Press" pasted on title-page, offsetting to feps, "Doreen and Walter Newlyn/ Leeds/ September 1955" in green pen to ffep, clipping of W.H.E.'s 1971 poem 'Lines on the Serpentine Way newly-paved with Tombstones (true and false) across St. George's Fields' pasted to recto of rear fep. Else, clean and tidy. 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 (UoL) and in 1964 founded its African Studies Unit, now LUCAS. Both Doreen and… Read More

Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1945. Good. 8vo., pp. xvi, 272 + illustrated endpapers, plus b/w frontispiece and plates. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Light rubbing to corners, slight sunning to spine. Black upper edge. Gift inscriptions to ffep. Pp.97-101 small tear to outer edges. Else, a clean, neat copy for its age. Fold-out 'Line of Descent' follows the Index. Volume 1: The Cruel Month.

London: Methuen Publishers , 1939. Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR?* Crown 8vo, pp. viii, 270, [2]. Tan cloth, spine lettered in red. Grubby, soiled, bruised and worn, especially at spine ends. Edges toned and foxed, and into prelims. Kemp's rather terse inscription in sepia pen to ffep: "To Alix/ from/ Harry". Four page folded leaflet, 'Methuen Books/ Spring, 1939,' laid in (creased and darkened at top edges). A well-used copy. Good-only A close friend of Laura Riding and Robert Graves, Harry Kemp (1911-1994) was a poet and mathematics teacher: "A lively raconteur with a roving and satirical eye, he was a small, ruddy-faced man, old-fashioned in his dress, credulous in his judgements. Always short of funds, he nevertheless remained hospitable and spent what he could save on publishing more than 10 books of his cool, well-shaped poems." (Seymour, 1994). Their introduction came when James Reeves sent a sheaf of Kemp's poems to Riding, who published them in the Spring 1937 issue of her… Read More

Stein and Day, 1984. Good. 8vo, pp. 226 + b/w plates. First edition, second printing. Cream paper boards, quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine (some fading) and upper board. Light bruising to head and tail of spine, bumping to bottom corners. In illustrated dust jacket - rubbed and creased, with edge-wear and nicks. Still, a clean, tight copy of this rarity in the UK.

London: Royal Collection Trust, 2016. FIRST EDITION. Slim 4to. Illustrated wrappers. Near fine.

London: Frederick Muller, 1963. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. [235] + b/w frontis and numerous plates. Grey green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Pushing to spine ends, top corners bruised. Author's inscription, in blue pen, to title page: 'With the compliments/ of the author./ (Your wood consumer.)/ M. E. Drew/ Electra Dory'. Faint foxing to title page, else, clean and tight. In the original dust jacket: edgewear and nicking, bald patch to front panel, spotting to reverse. Very Good/ Good+. Unusual signed. A British nurse, the strikingly-named Electra Dory ran the missionary hospital and Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) leper colony at Likwena, Nyasaland (from 1964 Malawi) in the 1930s. Dedicated to Oedipus.

Faber and Faber/ Ariel Books on the Arts, 1946. Good. First edition. 8vo, pp. 72 (including 50 b/w plates) + colour frontis. Drab beige cloth boards with grey lettering to spine and upper board. Slight bend and crease to upper board. Spine starting between plates 22 & 23, o/w binding robust. Ownership inscription to ffep, back pastedown creased. Else, clean and bright, in particular the plates of Hurry's designs. A visual treat.

London: Edinburgh House Press/ The United Council for Missionary Education, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Side-stapled pamphlet (18.3 x 12.3cm), pp. 56, incl. b/w line illustrations throughout. Original beige wrappers, lettered in red. Wrappers gently used, pushing to spine ends, corners creased and dog-eared, else, clean and tidy. A pleasing copy of a pamphlet that provides a glimpse into colonial missionary leisure activities and the construction of racial difference. Unusual both in the trade (despite it having been reprinted at least four times, and as late as 1964) and in British and Irish research libraries: Jisc LHD lists only six copies (BL, UoBirmingham, Bodleian, NLS, NLW/LGC & TCD). A theatrical guide aimed at Missionary Society members, advising on the correct way to wear and create "overseas costumes" for performances, with each Missionary Society, it tells us, having a Costumes department. Comprising, 'I: Dressing Up with Borrowed Costumes'; II. Improvisation of Costumes' and 'III. Make-Up', the… Read More