Recent Acquisitions

For further details see our late February 2023 Miscellany

Selwyn Image’s title page illustration for Michael Field’s Stephania (1892)
Lyle Saxon’s presentation copy to Vera Brittain
Sibling Double Act: Sibyl Thorndike (1929) signed by author & subject
Una Taylor’s Guests & Memories (1924) with plates from photographs by Juliet Margaret Cameron
Inscribed with thanks by Naomi Mitchison “for standing up for the Byzantines”
Proust’s La Prisonnière from the Library of Naomi Mitchison
Presentation copy to Rhys Davies’ friend & Patron, the adopted daughter of Alice B. Toklas
“For /Girl Friday/
With the best of good/ wishes/ Dennis Wheatley”.
Pasted in to Mrs. Walter Tibbits’
travelogue-cum-theosophical treatise,
Cities Seen (1912)
Powys Biographer Kenneth Hopkins’ copy of T F Powys’ Mockery Gap (1925)
Signed by Terry
STW’s third novel, signed
Inscribed by Lady Ellen Askwith

The Lady’s
Monthly Museum (1806)
Signed copy of Mary Kessell and Osbert Sitwell’s Mrs Kimber (1937)

Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/artists, presses and histories.  We also hold a small general stock, with a focus on unusual, interesting and beautiful books, as well as significant titles in the history of ideas.  Like other collectors and bibliophiles, we are drawn to unique books and important pedigrees, but also appreciate the broad spectrum of collecting, having a particular fondness for politically pertinent series such as VMC, GMP and The Women’s Press.