Search Results: Authors starting with K from Clearwater Books

The Shed, Auckland, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, a presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author on the half-title to fellow poet Roy Fuller and dated the year of publication. Slim 8vo. 40pp stapled into plain card wrappers. A touch of very light wear to the spine ends, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly faded at the natural fold. Eleven poems. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 342pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A virtually fine copy in very slightly rubbed and marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with the publisher's laminate lifting a fraction in one or two places. A Great War aviation novel, set in 1917 and detailing exploits by the Royal Flying Corps, the Imperial German Air Force and the French Air Service..

London Borough of Enfield, 1971. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Stapled card wrappers, the rear wrapper lightly dust soiled. Very good. A 207-item catalogue, alas with no reproductions. Uncommon. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Harrap, 'Essays of To-day & Yesterday' series, London, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 80pp. Textured brown boards, lettered in black at the spine and upper board. Tips of corners slightly bumped and chafed, and with a trace of very light occasional spotting. A very good copy in non-price-clipped patterned dust wrapper, a little rubbed at several extremities. A two-page introductory note accredited to F.H.P. precedes seven essays, the subjects including Pickwick Papers, Charles II, and Thomas Carlyle, plus a two-page bibliography. Sullivan 859..

Grant Richards, London, 1900. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii + 153pp. Vellum parchment backstrip with five raised bands and paper covered sides. Gilt lettering to the spine. All edges untrimmed. A touch of discolouration to the backstrip and just a hint of chafing to the board extremities and corner tips. Bookplate of noted bibliophile Simon Nowell-Smith to the head of the front pastedown. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper called-for. The author's second book, containing fifty-seven poems (the final one not appearing in the contents list). Sullivan 2..

W.Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London, 1919. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 243pp + [iv] publisher's catalogue dated autumn 1919. Green cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board and with black-stamped border. Cloth somewhat rubbed, marked and soiled. Contemporary former owner gift inscription all but erased from the front free endpaper, and a former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Free endpapers lightly toned and with just a trace of spotting to the half-title and title page. A good, bright copy. No dust wrapper. Nine essays. Sullivan 46..

Sheed & Ward, London, 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. vii, 238pp. Cloth-backed patterned paper boards, lettered and ruled in black at the spine. Copiously illustrated with colour and black and white drawings by the author. A six-page introduction by Maisie Ward precedes thirty-six hitherto unprinted Chesterton stories, including three juvenile efforts penned when he was just seventeen and eighteen years old. A very light scattering of spotting to the top- and for edge, and a little light partial browning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper reproducing another Chesterton colour drawing; the wrapper a little chafed and creased at the upper edge with two tiny fractions of loss. Neat former owner bookplate to the front free endpaper. Sullivan 105..

Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1982. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) 8vo. 336pp. Two-tone boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly dust soiled. In virtually fine state with dust wrapper, fractionally rubbed at one or two extremities and with a single tiny area of loss. Sixteen plays..

Hurst & Blackett, London, 1898. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - a sequel to the author's second book, published three years earlier. 8vo. 360pp + xvi publisher's catalogue at the rear. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and in black at the upper board. A knock to the tip of a single corner and just a hint of wear to the head and base of the backstrip. Some meagre spotting to the endpapers, and a small stain to the margins of two adjacent leaves. Front hinge just a little tender. Neat former owner name pencilled to a blank flyleaf. A nice, crisp copy..

Lincoln Williams, London, 1931. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). With the author's presentation inscription to the front free endpaper: "from Norah 22nd Oct. 1931". 8vo. 140pp. Paper-covered boards, lettered in blue at the spine and upper board. A touch of light wear to the backstrip ends and corner tips, and some partial browning and light spotting to the free endpapers. A nice bright copy in rubbed and toned dust wrapper, with a jagged tear to the base of the spine panel, some accompanying creasing but no significant loss. An uncommon mystery novel; the author, Norah Kathleen Napier (née Comyn), died in a drowning accident two years after publication..

Tom Doherty, New York, 2007. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 301pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. A tiny hint of wear to the head and base of the backstrip, else in fine state with non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a single tiny nick to the head of the spine panel. Written in 1952 when Dick was twenty-seven years old, this realist novel, one of his very earliest full-length attempts, remained unpublished until this Doherty issue fifty-five years later..

The Falcon Press, London, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK edition (first printing). 8vo. 216pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of dust marking to the top edge and the endpapers partially and very lightly browned. A lovely crisp copy in price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper featuring a striking design by Peter Rudland; the wrapper a little dust marked and chafed with a small area of loss from the tip of one corner and a short surface abrasion to the rear panel..

Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First English-language edition (first printing). 8vo. 186pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The tiniest hint of spotting to the top edge and free endpapers. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, very lightly dust soiled, and fractionally rubbed at one or two extremities..

Grant & Murray, Edinburgh, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 308pp + [iv] publisher's catalogue at rear. Russet cloth lettered in black at the spine. A little spotting to edges, very occasionally encroaching a fraction to text leaf margins. A very good copy in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, with a little chafing and a fraction of loss to spine ends and corner tips and a single small area of surface abrasion to the front panel. The uncommon debut novel from Nannie Katharin Wells, now perhaps best remembered for her erotic hymn to her homeland 'Scotland My Lover'..

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first UK edition - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page to an un-named recipient and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 249pp. Cloth-backed paper boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with a double-spread map. Front pastedown lifting in one small area, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An account of Keneally's travels from the Rocky Mountains to the Mexican border..

Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 2007. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author to poet and critic Jeremy [Hooker]. Slim 8vo. 68pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. A small bump to the base of the spine, else in fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

The Dial Press, New York, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 278pp. Black boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Spine ends rubbed and a little worn with a small area of creasing to the head of the lower board. Former owner bookplate to the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a thumbnail-sized area of loss from the head of the spine panel and just a touch of wear and chafing. The author's first book..

Macdonald, London, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) of the author's first book, issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 278pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. A trace of very light spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in rubbed and lightly soiled and stained non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Arthur H.Stockwell, London [c.1925]., 1925. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 31pp. Textured purple cloth with gilt lettering and a blind-stamped border to the upper board. The backstrip ends a little rubbed and worn, and the cloth there faded with a little further uneven fading to the margins of the boards. Some light spotting to the endpapers and title leaf, and the binding a little tender at one gathering. Quite a nice, bright copy of a most uncommon book, which comprises fifteen chronologically ordered poems spanning 1914-1919, split into three sections: 'Portents 1914', 'Home' and 'France and Flanders'. Rather than folk rhymes, I believe these to be original poems, but the work is not noted by Reilly and I can find only two references to either the author or the book: a note in a 7 August 1925 issue of 'The Argus', and a passing reference in an article in the December 1928 issue of 'The Musical Times'..

Watts, London, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. xii, 131pp. Orange cloth lettered and ruled in black at the spine and upper board. With a frontispiece and twelve illustrations. A very bright copy. No jacket. Book-ticket of former owner. A survey of London's antiquities..