Search Results: Titles starting with W from Quair Books

London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 222. Original blue buckram, spine lettered in silver. Slight lean to spine, spine ends and top corners bumped and sunned, edges a little dusty, scatter of fox spots. Stationer's label to rear pastedown. Else, clean and tight. In Peter Rudland's compelling original dust jacket: chipping to spine ends, spine darkened, staining to heel (visible on reverse), some shelf-soiling, occasional fox spots. Very good/ very good Henriette Roosenburg (1916�1972) was a Dutch journalist and Nacht und Nebel political prisoner. In The Walls Came Tumbling Down she documents her tumultuous experience of travelling home to the Netherlands from Waldheim prison after liberation. She was later awarded the Bronze Lion of the Netherlands in recognition for helping the Allied war effort.

London: Oxford University Press, 1944. Stiff card wrappers. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. Slim 8vo. Stiff card wrappers, with integral tan dust jacket, printed in black and brown and priced 3s. 6d. Pages printed on cream laid paper, watermarked "ADELPHIA". Toned and foxed, creasing and pushing to edges and extremities, pencil notes to rear panel. POI to inner front wrapper in black ink: "P. B. Hellings/ Jerusalem 1945," with bookseller pencil note on facing half-title: "Welsh poet", stab holes gaping at front hinge (as often seen), some foxing, spine cracked at first gathering, but binding firm. Very good. With an apt wartime association. The printed dedication reads: "To Bryher/ for Karnak 1923/ from London 1942". This copy belonged to the Swansea-born poet, Peter Bernard Hellings (1921-1994). Hellings joined the RAF in 1941 and served in Africa and the Middle East between 1942 and 1946, which corresponds with the PO inscription-location: "Jerusalem". Hellings, who went on to teach literature, was… Read More

Rutherford: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981. Large 8vo. B/w illustrations. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Extremities bumped, else, clean and tidy. In original dust jacket: rubbed, creased and chipped. Still, a very good copy.

Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2007. Fine. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. Published to accompany the exhibition Andy Warhol: A Celebration of Life... and Death held at the National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh from 4 August - 7 October 2007.

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1945. Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. With frontis and photographic plates by Cecil Beaton. Blue cloth, lettered in dark blue to spine, top edge blue: all faded, spine cloth bleached of colour, uneven sunning to boards. Feps and final page lightly spotted, else, pleasingly clean and tidy. Good+ Stein's immersive account of her war in occupied France with Toklas and Basket.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1974. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, top corners bumped. Some foxing to edges. Else, clean and tight. In the original yellow, black and plum dust jacket: creasing to top edge and extremities. Very good/ very good. Gollancz Thriller Series.

Tarset: Bloodaxe Books, 2002. Paperback. Near Fine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Slim trade paperback. Glossy illustrated wrappers, front wrapper featuring a photograph of Hughes' sculpture Medusa. Gentlest edgewear. Inscribed in black pen to title page: "30th October 2003/ Dear Jeff/ With all good wishes, Frieda Hughes." Else, clean, tight and tidy. A splendid copy of Hughes' third collection. Unusual signed. Near fine. Hughes' Waxworks "are figures from mythology and fable, the Bible and the annals of crime. But they are her own reinventions, sharply contemporary stories of anger and greed, love and sorrow, betrayal and jealousy" (rear wrapper).

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: Virago Press, 1986. Very Good. FIRST PB EDITION. Trade paperback. Donald Macpherson-designed wrappers. Light edgewear, front wrapper creased, edges toned, top edge a little spotted, else, clean and tight. Very good. Includes stories by Ama Ata Aidoo, Carter herself, Colette, Vernon Lee, Katherine Mansfield and more.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1942. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 278 + portrait frontis and Reynold Stones' vignette to title page. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Wear and pushing to extremities, boards a little rubbed, a few marks. Dusty top edge, a few spots to fore-edge, front and rear. Gathering 'N' trimmed short at bottom edge. Else, given the wartime paper quality, pleasingly clean and tidy. Very good.

University of California Press, 1994. Good. 26cm, pp.806. Black boards with black faux-leather back (quarter bound) and white lettering to spine. Ex-library copy with shelf mark on spine (and DJ), stamp on pastedown and small stain on title page. DJ chipped at corners and showing shelf wear, but still a good, tight copy.

Corgi Books, 1968. Good. The 1968 Corgi reprint. MMP. Rubbed, spine creased. Tanned edges and toned pages, as expected with age. POI to half title. Else, clean and tight. One of the many pulp reprints of Hall's novel that followed the Falcon Press reissue of 1949. Corgi went for the strap-line: 'The classic novel of Lesbian love'. N.B. Doesn't include the Havelock Ellis preface.

London: Virago Press Limited, 1990. Very Good. Reprint. Trade paperback. Edge- and joint-wear, scuff to front wrapper. Edges lightly tanned, else, clean and tight. Very good. VMC no. 76. Cover art shows Gluck's wonderful self-portrait, 'Medallion'.

London: Macmillan, 1972. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original turquoise cloth, spine lettered in silver. Bands of fading to board edges, top edge spotted. Else, clean and tight. In Salim Patel's striking and surreal dust jacket: edgewear and creasing. Very good/ very good The third novel from the author of The Gooseberry Bush (1967).

London: Virago Press Limited, 1989. Good. First Virago edition. Trade paperback. Creased wrappers. edgewear, nick to heel of spine. Tanned edges, remainder mark to bottom edge(?), else, clean and tight. VMC no. 317. A collection of nine short stories.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1934. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original beige cloth, green paper label to title. Boards darkened and grubby, extremities rubbed. Top edge dusty, a scatter of spots to leading edge. Endpapers toned, a few marks, else, clean and tight. Good+ A solid copy of this important early experiment in contrast (rather than collaboration) by the two poets and lovers, which has been compared to Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads. With a printed dedication "To Robert Frost," who apparently "found their poems disturbing" (Russell & Lawrence). First published in the US in 1933 by Viking, with Chatto & Windus bringing in US sheets for its own edition of 622 copies. Comprising 109 untitled poems, 54 by Warner and 55 by Ackland, with the British edition featuring a key to the rear, identifying authorship, in an attempt to circumvent critical preoccupation with who wrote what. STW and VA observed that the collection is "both an experiment in the presentation of poetry and… Read More

Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1946. Very Good. The twenty-fourth edition. 8vo, pp. (42). Peach card with DJ attached at spine. Pleasingly clean and tight for its age. Original illustrated DJ with yapp edges - some tanning, edgewear, ragged top edge, chipped at head of spine. With an introduction by Sir Walter Layton.

London: Duckworth, 1973. Hardback. Very Good. CORRECTED, RE-SET & LIMITED EDITION, 1 of 1000 copies: out of sequence, unnumbered. Large 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 118. White leatherette boards, spine lettered in black, facsimile of Crowley's signature (with the phallic 'A') to upper board. Edges and endpapers black. Slight bend and horizontal creasing to boards, gently darkened towards edges, a few spots. Gently toned, occasional scant spotting. Else, clean and tidy. In the original illustrated monochrome dust jacket: spine darkened towards tail, nick to bottom of front joint, light wear to corners, laminate wrinkled at back panel. Nevertheless, a nice copy of Crowley's uncommon "light erotic verse" collection. Very good/ very good The first edition was privately and anonymously published by Leonard Smithers in 1898, Crowley's final year at Trinity College, Cambridge. Its subtitle ran: "The literary remains of George Archibald Bishop a neuropath of the second empire." The majority of the 100 copies were… Read More

London: Printed by R. Norton, for E. Pawlet, at the sign of the Bible in Chancery-Lane, near Fleetstreet, 1713. 12mo, pp. [26], 472, [2 index], [4, 'A Table of Contents...'], [2, advert]. + engraved frontis, plus an additional engraved title page, and a final advertisement leaf. Lacking the additional title page mentioned in ESCT T221014. Binding repaired: later sturdy calf spine and corner reinforcements, stitched (through the board), plus vertically to spine, over darker leather boards; crude but effective. Boards considerably worn, large bald patches. Numerous POIs and inscriptions ("My book" plus date) to feps and verso of title page, including the hands of Thomas and Robert Warehem/ Wareham and George Young, suggesting use until at least 1788. Prelims loose, front hinge cracked, creasing, some staining, some worming to top margins, headlines occasionally crossed. Good A superbly ugly and well-used copy of Richard Allestree's Protestant devotional, which prescribes various devotional exercises… Read More

New York: Playbill Inc., 1963. Paperback. Good+. Side-stapled pamphlet (22.8 x 15.4cm), pp. 28. Illustrated wrappers, with numerous colour and b/w adverts. Creased and rubbed, bald patch to rear wrapper, staples a little rusty. Else, clean. Good+ Programme for the matinee and evening performances of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Billy Rose Theatre (September 1963).