Ed Quentin Crisp (11 results)

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780002556491.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rosemary Brown, Quentin Crisp, Trever Evans, Mary Bethell-Jones, G. Ernest Lang, Little-Wood Moore, R.M. Turvey. W.A. Welch, Andrew Wilson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Cardboard boards with colour illustration on front, orange-brown cloth spine, and olive-brown back board. Corners worn to boards and edge wear to boards in spots. Spine ends soft, marks, discoloration and scratches on back board. Small stains on pages 118-120, 1.5" tear on side edge of page 97 near bottom, wrinkling to bottom of pages 69-84. Clear-taped tear side of page 71. Enid Blyton is among the storytellers included. Stunning illustrations, crafts are undone, and the book is divided into the 4 seasons. A real little gem of a book, not easy to find and very good for its age. None of my books are ex-library, remainders or bce unless specified.

paperback, very good condition, slight discolouration on edge of pages, slight nick top edge back wrap, 137pp. Carefully selected from his published and unpublished writing, his performances, critical commentaries and interviews here is the essense of Crisp, author of the naked Civil Servant. ISBN: 0099471507.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No jacket. Harper & Row, 1984. Paperback, 8vo, xv,140pp, illust. Covers curling and slightly creased. A fair copy. 0060911786/0.4us.

2nd Issue. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of the Council for the Care of Churches with its bookplate. Physical description; 138 pages. Subjects; Catholic Wayside Guides. The West Country (Great Britain) - Catholic sites. Wales - Catholic sites. 3 Kg.

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

2nd Issue. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the library of the Council for the Care of Churches with its bookplate. Physical description; 138 pages. Subjects; Catholic Wayside Guides. The West Country (Great Britain) - Catholic sites. Wales - Catholic sites. 1 Kg.

Magazine. 64p., 8.5x11 inches, articles, reviews, news, ads, cartoons, photos, very good glossy magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Mayor Koch tells what Gay America is really about. With this issue the dating of the magazine takes an odd turn. Copyright notices had been stating Copyright 1985 published [month] 1985. The publisher skipped July 1985 and started this issue as August 1986.

Newspaper. 28p., folded tabloid newspaper, illustrations, photos, news, reviews, book and media reviews supplement, opinion, resources, ads, evenly toned, else very good on newsprint. The major Canadian LGBTQ periodical from the 1970s and 1980s. Very political and under constant attack from the Right.

Original publisher's white paper-covered boards, blind-stamp title spine, pictorial dustjacket, folio: frontispiece, 208pp. hundreds of photographs, introductory essay, afterword, chronology, table of vontents. Volume: The Transformation Series.

8vo, pp. 126. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Publisher's sticker to rear panel, corners a little bumped, but a very well preserved, near fine copy. B7W illustrations throughout. First edition, one of 1000 copies. A Phantom Captain book. 'The Phantom Captain Company was founded by Neil Hornick in 1970. It is a collaboration of Vision Mongers, Environ Mentalists and Entertainers of Ideas, devoted to tuning up reality to the level of art. Their work includes stage shows, environments, dramatised lectures, street theatre, exhibition events, performance art, infiltrations (of social gatherings), encounter and video workshops, and printed publications, including broadsheets, pamphlets, and this, their first book.' (Publisher's blurb) This book of forewords has a stellar list of contributors, many of them at the beginning of their careers: Tom Stoppard, Quentin Crisp, Ivor Cutler, Hull Truck's Mike Bradwell, Terry Jones, Heathcote Williams, Adrian Mitchell and Genesis P-Orridge all contribute new forewords to sit alongside others drawn from earlier sources (Freud, Twain and Big Chief I-Spy among them).