Search Results: Titles starting with Q from Quair Books

London: Macdonald and Jane's, 1977. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, with b/w plates. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver. Bruising to extremities, else, clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket: edgewear, especially to corners. Very good/ good+

London: Scorpion Press, 1962. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST TRADE EDITION. Slim 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Bump to head of spine. A few fox spots to rear fep, else, clean, bright and tight. In Lotte Reiniger's silhouette dust jacket: toned and foxed, extremities chipped, nick to top edge of front panel, dark stains to rear panel. Unusual Near fine/ good+ A typical Blakeston outing, whose dust jacket blurb begins by citing off-kilter quotes from correspondence from Dylan Thomas, who fondly referred to Blakeston as a "friend of all boozy poets (and me too)" and speculated: "I think you'll be able to write a naughty book and call it slime and punishment�." Riffing off the quotes, the blurb goes on to ask: "Is this, then, a book to read while travelling under the seat?" and continues: "It is certainly a naughty and deliberate study in decadence, a story of invert relations, a day-lit dream of psychoanalytic symbols". Blakeston and Reiniger likely met through Bryher, who certainly… Read More

Adam and Charles Black, 1945. Very Good. Reprint of second edition in English. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Spine ends and corners lightly bruised. Light spotting to edges. POI to ffep, else, clean and tidy. Translated by W. Montgomery; Preface by F. C. Burkitt.