Search Results: Authors starting with H from Clearwater Books

Gotham Book Mart, New York, 1932. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 500 copies - this copy inscribed by the author. 8vo. 16pp. Card wrappers, a little dust marked and rubbed at several extremities. A very good copy. "I don't think there is much in the way of verbal blasphemy and indecency that could shock or surprise me, and I am as used to foul language as the average man of my age James Joyce and D.H.Lawrence have nearly caught up to the times, for they have not only written but printed in cold type the words that are familiar to most of us - outside of books and the theatre. But the playwrights lag far behind. Nevertheless our theatre in America has begun to echo with words that would not have been publicly tolerated in 1900." So continues Clark's somewhat prissy pamphlet, published here following rejection "by nearly fifty newspapers and magazines". Imagine! [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Blue Moon Press, 'Blue Moon Booklets' series, London, 1937. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First separated edition, revised and expended from the author's original address of 1917. 8vo. 66pp stapled into red card wrappers, the staples rusted and the wrappers just a little rubbed at yapped edges. Edges and title page lightly spotted. A nice bright if slightly dusty copy of the eighteenth Blue Moon Booklet. Two essays by Clarence Henry Norman, a political activist and noted conscientious objector, who was detained in Dartmoor and subsequently imprisoned for the remainder of the Great War after being found guilty of organising a strike amongst the other inmates. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 239pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge spotted, encroaching a fraction to the upper margins of occasional leaves, and with just a hint more spotting to the fore- and bottom edge. A very good copy in very lightly toned and marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's quite uncommon second and final novel, "designed as a novel to end novels - a purpose which, the author confesses, it is unlikely to achieve" - blurb..

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..

Andre Deutsch, London, 1969. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 144pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An interesting account of the UK's obscenity laws from the author of 'The Trial of Lady Chatterley' and with an introduction by Mortimer who prior to his Rumpole days successfully appealed the banning of Hubert Selby Jr.'s 'Last Exit to Brooklyn', marking a major turning point in British censorship laws..

Gaberbocchus Press, London, 1953. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first edition (first printing) of his first novel. 8vo. 142pp. Black cloth lettered in blue at the spine. Covers spotted and a little marked and slightly nicked at both fore-edges. No jacket..

Duckworth & Co., London, 1914. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), in Roberts' primary binding state. 8vo. 310pp + [ii] + xx publisher's catalogue at the rear. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board with blind- and gilt-stamped rules and borders. Top edge lightly dust soiled, and with just a little spotting to the edges, preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional margins. A touch of light bruising to the backstrip ends. Former owner name inked to the front pastedown (with a little offsetting to the adjacent free endpaper), below which is a small embossed plate displaying just the letter 'A'). A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Twelve stories, the author's first collection of short fiction. Roberts A6(1)..

The Art Press, [Dulverton], 1975. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Tall 8vo. 32pp stapled into card wrappers. Very good indeed. Not noted by Roberts..

Duckworth & Co., London, 1914. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, first state. 8vo. 310pp + [ii] + xx publisher's catalogue at the rear. Navy blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board and with a double-blind rule. The binding cocked and just a little tender. Some light wear to the head of the upper gutter, and a touch of light miscellaneous soiling to the cloth. Some spotting to preliminary and concluding leaves. A good copy, lacking the fugutive dust wrapper. Twelve stories, the author's first collection of short fiction. Roberts A6(1)..

University of Nottingham Art Gallery, 1960. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. 55pp. Card wrappers. Illustrated with nine photographs and manuscript reproductions. Wrappers chipped at the head of the spine, lightly chafed at one or two extremities, and with a hint of dust soiling. A nice crisp copy. Roberts F84..

Frederick Muller Ltd., London, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies 500 of which were for sale (this copy unnumbered). Slim 8vo. 48pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards with a paper title label. The boards a little rubbed and lightly soiled, with some discolouration to the cloth at the backstrip. A touch of spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves. Quite a nice, crisp copy. Probably the first UK publication of this Socratic dialogue attributed (almost certainly spuriously) to Plato..

Sphere Books Ltd., London, 1978. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. The second edition, and first paperback edition, issued a year after the original casebound edition. 8vo. ixx, 232pp + [ii] advertisements. Card wrappers. With over thirty captioned black and white photographic plates, and further illustrations in the text. A little tanning to the paperstock. A very good copy. Tricky to determine whether this is a hoax, or just penned by a lunatic; I'd like to think the former but opening it at random seems to confirm the latter ("My thanks to the one-time NASA scientist whom I call Dr. Samuel Wittcomb. The book would still have been written without him, but not only did he make it a better book - he helped me feel cocksure while I wrote it"). "An excavating machine as big as a city - on the surface of the moon! And that's just one of George H.Leonard's sensational, shocking revelations" - blurb..

Trustees of The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, by arrangement with the London Survey Committee, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. 124pp + lxxxvii plates. Handsomely bound in quarter morocco with marbled paper sides, with five raised bands and a gilt-lettered leather spine label. Tipped-in colour frontispiece. Corner tips gently rubbed, and with a little spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 412pp. Beige cloth lettered in blue at the spine and upper board. A good, bright copy in dusty and slightly rubbed, neatly repaired non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A novel set in India during the reign of Akbar the Great (often deemed a continuation of the author's celebrated 'Root and the Flower' trilogy)..

Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1940. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First American Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the UK edition. 8vo. 412pp. Beige cloth with a black and red paper spine label. Top edge lightly soiled and with a little uneven darkening to the front endpapers. A very good copy in slightly edgeworn non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with just a touch of fading to the publisher's red spine panel. A novel set in India during the reign of Akbar the Great (often deemed a continuation of his celebrated 'Root and the Flower' trilogy)..

Cicero, Stuttgart, 1974. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small landscape 4to. Yellow cloth, onlaid with heavy decorated steel panel. Cloth dust-marked and panel slightly scratched. No dust wrapper, as issued. Text in German..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's second novel. 8vo. 255pp. Brown weave cloth lettered in green at the spine and upper board. Top edge lightly dust marked. A very good copy in dusty price-clipped dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel and a little rubbed and chafed at extremities. Contemporary former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the front pastedown, obscured by wrapper flap..

Hutchinson, London, 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 200pp. Black boards, lettered in white at the spine. Top edge and endpapers lightly spotted. A very good, bright copy in slightly rubbed and dust marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper, fractionally faded at the spine panel. A curious quasi-fantastical novel involving the author's distant cousin Henry Crabb Robinson, who was probably the first War Correspondent of 'The Times'..

Chatto & Windus, London, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 67pp. Black buckram lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge fractionally dust soiled, with a bump to the tip of one corner and just a fraction of browning to the free endpapers. Very good indeed in handsome patterned dust wrapper, lightly tanned at the spine panel with several tiny fractions of loss to the spine ends and corner tips, a little chafing to the natural folds and some internal repair and reinforcement. The front flap price label has been removed, resulting in a small rectangle of surface abrasion. Handsome former owner armorial bookplate to the front pastedown, almost entirely obscured by the wrapper flap. The author's first book, published a year after he graduated from Cambridge and comprising forty-one poems followed by five pages of notes..

Bertram Rota, London, 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), limited to 500 numbered copies (this being #155). Tall 8vo. xiii, 73pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. In fine state with very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at several extremities and natural folds. A five-page introduction precedes sixty poems, some hitherto unpublished and others appearing here for the first time in bookform..