Search Results: Spanish Civil War from Clearwater Books

Modern Age Books, New York, 1939. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First trade edition (issued alongside a deluxe edition of 440 casebound copies). 4to. 29pp + plates. Card wrappers, slightly rubbed at the margins and natural folds, and with a light but lengthy vertical crease to the front wrapper. Indications of careful bookplate removal from the inside of the front wrapper. The binding glue failing a little at the front and rear inner hinges. Discreet former owner inkstamped name and numerical references. A good copy. A five-page preface by Hemingway precedes text by Jay Allen followed by full-page reproductions of over sixty of the artists' Spanish Civil War drawings, completed between July - December 1937 "at various sectors along the line", accompanied by a commentary by Elliot Paul, plus four lithographs produced especially for this publication..

Neville Spearman, London, 1963. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English-language edition. 8vo. 223pp. Yellow cloth lettered in black at the spine. The merest hint of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in slightly dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper with several tiny closed tears and a small area of surface abrasion to the base of the spine panel, where a small sticker has been removed. Based on the author's own wartime experiences, a "violently anti-Franco" novel with a printed dedication "To the private soldier of the best infantry in the world". (Ortas joined Franco's Republican Air Force in 1936, subsequently spending some years in a French P.O.W. camp, and was later imprisoned in Spain for five years on political grounds)..

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing, with the Scribner 'A' on the copyright page). 8vo. 471pp. Original publishers beige cloth lettered and ruled in black at the spine with Hemingway's facsimile signature black-stamped to the upper board. The cloth somewhat spotted and discoloured, with some considerable fading to the top edge stain, and the original red spine panel blocking now completely faded. Free endpapers toned. About a good copy, very crisp internally, of his classic Spanish Civil war novel. No dust wrapper..

Constable, London, 1966. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xviii, 430pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with sixteen photographs and manuscript reproductions. Binding cocked with a ridge to the backstrip. Endpapers lightly toned and spotted with a little more spotting to two or three preliminary and concluding leaves. A good copy in somewhat chafed and edgeworn non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some nicking and unsightly accompanying creasing to the edges, and several tiny slivers of loss. A dual biography of Julian Bell (the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell) and John Cornford (the great-grandson of Charles Darwin), both of whom where killed while on active service in the Spanish Civil War..

Geoffrey Bles, The Century Press, London, 1938. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition, translated from the Spanish by Charles Hope Lumley. 8vo. viii, 277pp. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine. One corner knocked, the spine ends a little rubbed and with a single small area of discolouration to the cloth at the base of the upper board. Former owner name and date neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and a Gillis College Library inkstamp to the half-title verso, but no further indications of institutional ownership. A very bright copy in the uncommon and certainly striking dust wrapper which reproduces a Goya etching; the wrapper non-price-clipped but rubbed at the spine panel ends and at one corner tip, with some fading to the publisher's red spine panel colour, a single short tear and a narrow vertical strip of surface abrasion. A scholarly survey of Spanish politics from 1923 to 1936..

Thornton Butterworth, London, 1938. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 255pp. 8vo. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine. The tip of one corner a little bruised and with some spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves. A bright copy in the attractive Bib Pares-designed price-clipped dust wrapper, which is slightly frayed and dust marked. Neat former owner inscription to the head of the front free endpaper. An uncommon novel of the Spanish Civil War..

Blackie & Son Ltd., London & Glasgow, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 319pp. Orange cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board with a triple red-stamped border. With a frontispiece and five captioned black and white plates, one of which is just a little tender. A strip of very light partial browning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in non-price-clipped colour pictorial dust wrapper, with some dust soiling to the predominantly white rear panel, and with a little rubbing and nicking but no loss. An uncommon adventure novel for children, with a Spanish Civil War setting..

Harvill Press, London, 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. 384pp. Two-tone boards lettered in gold at the spine. Map-illustrated endpapers. A small mark to the front cover and a tiny closed tear to the cloth at the head of the spine. A bright copy in slightly frayed, chafed and dusty non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper..