Search Results: Authors starting with J from Clearwater Books

Minotaur Books, New York, 2019. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper. 8vo. 314pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Very good indeed in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. This is the exclusive Barnes & Novel edition, which includes a three-page essay by the author which does not appear in other edition (with a sticker to that effect on the front panel of the dust wrapper). The fifth volume in the author's series of Cody Hoyt / Cassie Dewell novels..

Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., London, 1953. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition (first printing) of the author's second book, and his first to be published in England, following 'Season Ticket' which appeared in Alexandria some five years previously. Slim 8vo. 86pp. Red boards lettered in black at spine. A fine copy in very good price-clipped dust wrapper with a tiny hint of chafing to the head of the spine panel and a single tiny biro mark to the front panel. Fifty-seven poems, including a small selection reprinted of the author's debut collection..

Poem-of-the-Month Club Ltd., London, 1971. Book. Very Good. No Binding. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Broadsheet. A fifty-one line poem signed by the author. Lightly creased in one or two places, yet very good..

Chatto & Windus and The Hogarth Press, 'The Phoenix Living Poets' series, London, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 64pp. Original publisher's boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, else in fine state. No dust wrapper. Thirty-four poems..

Secker & Warburg, London, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 95pp. Maroon cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Edges lightly spotted and with a narrow strip of partial browning to the free endpapers. A nice bright copy in slightly chafed, faded and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Sixty poems; the author's second collection of verse..

Privately printed for the author by the Board of Directors of Konan University, Kobe, Japan, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Limited to 400 numbered copies (this being #170), signed by the author at the base of the photographic portrait frontispiece, designed by Bunsho Jugaku and printed on specially made handmade paper. 4to. 41pp. Paper-covered boards with a paper spine label (and a spare tipped-in at the rear) and a small gilt-stamped vignette to the upper board. A little light uneven tanning to the boards and a small bump to the lower gutter. Very good indeed. Lacking the unprinted tissue protector but with a sheet of acetate supplied. Laid-in is a slip from the same paperstock, printed in Japanese and presumably a compliments slip. A one-page preface by the author precedes thirty poems, twelve of them hitherto uncollected and the remainder selected from his two previous collections..

Oxford University Press, London, 1976. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 441pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Illustrated with two maps, a family tree, and one further figure. A tiny scattering of spotting to the top edge. A virtually fine copy in fine price-clipped dust wrapper. A scholarly account of the origins of the Ancrene Wisse, with a printed dedication "In memoriam J.R.R.Tolkien"..

Chapman & Hall, London, 1875. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 291pp + [ii] + xxxiv publisher's catalogues. Original publisher's pictorial cloth. With a tissue-protected frontispiece and eleven tipped-in plates. Cloth rubbed and chafed at the spine ends and tips of corners. Front and rear hinges reinforced with cloth tape. A short tear to the fore edge of four leaves, including one of the plates. Quite a bright copy of the uncommon first edition..

The Hayloft Press, Birmingham, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies (this being #29), printed on Mohawk Superfine Text. Slim 8vo. Unpaginated [27pp]. Sewn card wrappers with a marbled paper dust wrapper designed by Allen and Beryl Freer. A presentation copy, inscribed by Beryl and Allen Freer on the colophon leaf and dated the year after publication. A hint of off-setting from the marbled flaps to the margins of the endpapers, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. Fifteen poems, printed here to mark the centenary of the birth of Harold John Masssingham. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Macmillan, London, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 224pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges lightly spotted and with a little tanning to the sub-standard paperstock. A very good copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The first of the author's Inspector Lestrade series..

The Tate Gallery, London, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Landscape 4to. 300pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With one hundred and thirty-five plates, in colour where required, and further colour and black and white reproductions throughout. A fine copy in lightly soiled and dust marked dust wrapper..

Chatto & Windus, London, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 222pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, fractionally dust marked, and reinforced with tape at the head and base of the spine panel. The author's first novel, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize..

Carcanet Press Ltd., Manchester, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author to an un-named recipient on the title page, and with a contemporary former owner name inked about. 8vo. 272pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top- and fore edge lightly spotted. Very good indeed in slightly rubbed non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some moisture marking to the lower edge ,(mostly only discernable internally). Fifty-five Patrick Kavanagh essays, reproduced from the pages of assorted periodicals and a few books, and including writings on Edward Thomas and Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas' 'In Pursuit of Spring', G.K.Chesterton, and 'A Glastonbury Romance'..

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 303pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. A bright copy in tanned, nicked and internally reinforced non-price-clipped dust wrapper with some darkening to the spine panel. A biography of the celebrated Master of Trinity "the stormy petrel of academic politics for nearly half a century"..

Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge, 1923. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first edition (first printing) of Ackerley's first book. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Covers tanned at edges and very slightly marked and rubbed. Spine bumped in places, with tiny nick to label. Neat inscription of former owner..

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 244pp. Cloth-backed paper covered boards lettered in black and mauve at the spine and with a facsimile of the author's signature to the upper board. A single tiny blemish to the backstrip and a small area of staining to the top edge. A very crisp and bright copy, lacking the dust wrapper. A selection of twenty-three articles (including five of his 'Cloudland Revisited' pieces) all bar one originally printed in 'The New Yorker'..

Orbit, London, 2018. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 328pp. Black boards lettered in red at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a tiny area of creasing to the upper edge. The author's second novel, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award..

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1916. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 76pp + [iii] publisher's advertisements at the rear. Brown cloth with a tanned and slightly chipped paper spine label. Backstrip ends and corner tips very gently bruised. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Twenty-six poems, the author's first collection of verse, including a number of Great War poems. Walter James Turner was born in Melbourne in 1884 and moved to England when he was twenty-three to pursue a career as a writer. He befriended Siegfried Sassoon, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and Lady Ottoline Morrell (a caricature of her in his book 'The Aesthetes' ended that friendship). He served as a Lieutenant in Royal Garrison Artillery, anti-aircraft section between 1916-18. Reilly p.319..

A.H.Bullen, London and Stratford-upon-Avon, 1915. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first edition of this selection, printed by A.H.Bullen at the Shakespeare Head Press. 8vo. 43pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards lettered in black at the upper board. A hint of toning to the board margins, some light browning and spotting to the endpapers with a hint of further spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy. Twenty-four poems plus twenty-three further brief 'Bookplate' verses. William Joseph Ibbett was a minor poet and amateur (by all accounts exceedingly poor) printer, who also published verse under the pseudonym Antaeus. He is perhaps most famous today for being a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders..

Jonathan Cape and Jackdaw Publications, London, 1967. Book. Very Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. The scarce J.F.K. assassination 'Jackdaw Special' issue of this series of 'primary source materials'. The original folding card document holder with the taped-and-stapled binding (a strip of the tape absent) containing the complete portfolio (thirteen items, one of which is duplicated, plus five broadsheets) of posters, photographs, broadsheets, transcripts and reproductions of various official documents (including various Warren Commission Exhibits), complete with the folding contents / notes enclosure. A very good copy of the most uncommon of the Jackdaw publications (and the one issue I did not have when I collected the series many, many years ago). Deighton wrote the broadsheets, the portfolio was art-directed by Michael Rand of the 'Sunday Times'. Howard Loxton was Mark Lane's researcher (Lane wrote the book 'Rush to Judgement', which inspired Deighton to get… Read More