Search Results: Literary Biography from Clearwater Books

Bloomsbury, London, 2008. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 341pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with eighteen photographs. Head of spine very lightly rubbed and with a crease to the corner of a single text leaf. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a touch of corresponding rubbing to the head of the spine panel. "Alasdair Gray was not always the rapidly ageing, fat Glasgow pedestrian he likes to describe on the inside leaf of his books. There was once a time when he was young. A time when he was really rather thin"..

W.W.Norton, New York, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - not issued in the UK. 538pp. Grey paper-covered boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with forty-eight photographs. In virtually fine state with non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just fractionally creased at head of spine panel. The first full-length biography of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author..

The University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 364pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-one captioned photographs. A tiny bump to the tip of one corner, and a hint of spotting to the top edge. A very good copy in dust wrapper, faded at the spine panel and with a little creasing to the spine panel ends. The first full-length study of the work and life of the American poet..

Peter Owen, London, 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. 324pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. A hint of marking to the boards. A very good copy with lightly dust marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Neat former owner rubber name-stamp to the front free endpaper..

Profile Books, London, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 340pp. Red boards lettered in silver at the spine. Decorated endpapers. With a portrait frontispiece and twenty photographs. In fine state with very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, exhibiting a single tiny area of surface abrasion and some fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering. An account of the life of the Nobel Prize winning author, who was born and spent most of the first forty years of her life in China..

Secker & Warburg, London, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 212pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-nine photographs and reproductions. Top edge very slightly spotted, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A personal biography of Dylan Thomas, penned by his wife with the assistance of George Tremlett (who produced a further Thomas biography five years later)..

Collins, London, 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 240pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel. A critical biography of the noted English poet..

Collins, London, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 240pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny trace of bruising to the head of the backstrip, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly faded at the spine panel and with a hint of corresponding creasing. A critical biography of the noted English poet..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1997. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Peter & Fiona. Well done on 30 yrs - old Connolly never managed half as well - & best wishes for the next. Jeremy". 8vo. xvii, 653pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-nine photographs. A hint of spotting to the edges. Very good indeed in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the upper edge and with just a touch of fading to the spine panel..

Century, London, 2008. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 574pp. With forty-three captioned photographs. A touch of bruising to the spine ends. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little light corresponding chafing to the spine panel ends..

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xi, 434pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly dust marked, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Bloomsbury, London, 2021. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiv, 236pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A novelistic biography Dostoevsky "from the Siberian prison camp to the gambling hall of Europe; from the dank prison cells of the Tsar's fortress to the refined salons of St Petersburg"..

Pantheon Books, New York, 2014. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 213pp. White boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with nearly fifty black and white photographs and reproductions. A touch of minor bruising to the base of the backstrip, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Not published in the UK in casebound format..

Houghton Mifflin, Boston & New York, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 554pp. Cloth-backed boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with thirty photographs. A tiny sliver of discolouration to the board extremities, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, with a barcode sticker to the rear panel and a UK price sticker to the front flap, suggesting that that was one of an unspecified number of copies assigned to the British market..

Bloomsbury, London, 2015. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xv, 480pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers, one further map, a drawn portrait of Thomas by his brother Ernest, and 56 black and white photographs. A near-invisible speckling of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy dust wrapper, very slightly dust soiled and just a trace of creasing to one or two extremities..

Robert M.McBride & Company, New York, 1925. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - a presentation copy, inscribed by the author (Clark) to the English playwright and critic Allan Noble Monkhouse, and dated the month of publication. 8vo. 214pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Just a hint of fading to the publisher's top edge stain, else in virtually fine state with slightly tanned, spotted, chafed and rubbed non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Alan Sutton, Gloucester, 1988. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, a paperback original (never issued in casebound format). 8vo. 359pp. Glossy card wrappers. Illustrated with over fifty photographs and reproductions. A single very light readership crease to the spine. A very good copy of this biography of Harvey, issued on the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Great War, and the centenary of the poet's birth..

Duckworth, London, 1975. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint (originally published in 1904). 8vo. 75pp. With a frontispiece and thirty-one illustrations. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Michael Joseph, London, 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 246pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with nineteen photographs and reproductions. Top edge lightly spotted. A very crisp copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. The corrected second edition, issued the same year as the first edition. 8vo. xiv, 368pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece of Williamson by C.F.Tunnicliffe, and various photographs, maps and reproductions. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..