Search Results: Authors starting with I from Clearwater Books

Oxford University Press, London, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 362pp. Full green buckram lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and seven plates. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. The buckram just a fraction faded at some extremities. A very bright copy in chipped and torn dust wrapper, the rear flap torn at the natural fold and really quite tender. Includes a lengthy section devoted to the life and writings of Sir John Vanbrugh, and a second lengthy section on Joseph Addison ("The First Victorian")..

Golgonooza Press, Ipswich, 2005. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title: "For Anne [Hopewell] with love from Brian, Christmas 2005". (Anne Hopewell was the daughter of Katherine Raine). Slim 8vo. 55pp. Card wrappers. In fine state. Forty poems. Keeble was the founder of the Golgonooza Press and, along with Kathleen Raine, one of the co-founders of the Temenos Academy. He and Raine were friends and collaborators for decades. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Quartet Books, London, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 184pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with ten photographs and reproductions. A touch of spotting to top edge, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at head of spine panel. An account of the mutually creative friendships between Edward Thomas and Robert Frost, P.B.Shelly and Lord Byron, and Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud..

Cassell, London, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 436pp. Purple boards lettered in gold at the spine. Spine ends a little rubbed. A very nice copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, faded at spine panel. A biography of the English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, perhaps best remembered as the muse of W.B.Yeats..

Elkin Mathews, London, 1907. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 75pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. A touch of wear to the spine ends, endpapers spotted, and with some further spotting to a dozen or so preliminary and concluding leaves. A nice crisp copy. The author's second collection of verse (following his 1905 self-funded collection 'The Soul's Destroyer'): thirty-six poems, with a printed dedication: 'To Helen and Edward Thomas'. (Davies met Edward Thomas, then the literary critic for the 'Daily Chronicle', in October 1905, and Thomas quickly became his champion and guardian, even renting him a small cottage two meadows from his own house at Elses Farm, Sevenoaks)..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (never reprinted). 8vo. 317pp. Green buckram lettered in gold at the spine. The buckram faded at the backstrip and board extremities as is so often the case. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, price-clipped, tanned at the spine panel, and with just a tiny hint of edgewear. A light-hearted narrative links six short stories (mostly hitherto unpublished in bookform), whilst a postscript laments the sudden death of T.E.Lawrence (who appears as "G.B.Everest") and reproduces the 'last telegram'..

The Stationary Office, Dublin [no date] Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo. 147pp. Card wrappers featuring a single colour reproduction. Covers a little marked and soiled but a nice crisp copy internally. Pencilled marginalia to several entries. An alphabetical catalogue of the oil painting holdings of the National Gallery of Ireland..

Salt Publishing, Cromer, 2012. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy warmly inscribed by the author on the title page. Slim 8vo. 63pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. In fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Thirty-three poems, the author's first full-length regularly published book..

Methuen, London, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first printing of the first UK edition (preceded by the US issue). 8vo. 160pp. Paper-covered boards lettered in red and gold at spine. A touch of very minor spotting to edges and a tiny area of soiling to the base of the upper board. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper fractionally rubbed at two or three extremities. The rear panel of the wrapper features a portrait of the author by his long-term partner, Don Bachardy..

Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 1978. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Slim 8vo. [20pp]. Stapled wrappers. With fifteen tipped-in colour and black and white photographs and reproductions. A little light fading to the wrappers, and a touch of creasing to the corner tips. A very good copy. Uncommon. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1967. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The correct first edition (preceding the UK edition). 8vo. 191pp. Blue cloth, lettered, ruled and decorated in gold at the spine and upper board. Publisher's green stain to the top edge, the fore- and bottom edge rough-trimmed. In fine state with triflingly rubbed non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly tanned at the spine panel and with a single short closed tear..

Faber, London, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 255pp. Red boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. The top- and fore edge very lightly spotted, and the backstrip cloth just fractionally faded. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the margins of the front and rear panels, and with a little further fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering. The author's first bookform appearance, this publication preceding his first novel by a year..

Chatto & Windus, London, 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 208pp. Green cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Boards just a fraction marked and with a slight slant to the binding. Very good. No dust wrapper. An unusual critical study written by the Professor of English at the University of Bombay. Unusual..