Search Results: Authors starting with L from Clearwater Books

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the dedication page and with a loosely inserted compliments slip. 8vo. 412pp. Maroon cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A very crisp and bright copy in rubbed and lightly nicked non-price-clipped dust wrapper, internally reinforced and with a portion of loss from the rear panel..

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1938. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 48pp. Wrappers with a slightly marked and chafed integral dust wrapper. A nice bright copy. 'Librarium Verulam' inked to the head of the front free endpaper. Includes 'The Greatest Drama Ever Staged' (which was originally printed in 'The Sunday Times', April 1938) and 'The Triumph of Easter' (which was first printed in 'The Sunday Times', April 1938). Gilbert A28..

Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1920. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. vi, 183pp + [i] press opinions. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. Pictorial endpapers. Some rubbing and wear to the corner tips. A nice bright copy. No dust wrapper. A quite early bookform Sayers contribution, which was never subsequently reprinted (she had previously contributed The 'Priest's Tale: The Journeyman' to the first volume of 'The New Decameron', published a year earlier). Also includes contributions by W.F.Harvey (his story 'The Tool'), Michael Sadleir (his story 'Based Upon the Waters'), Storm Jameson, Sherard Vines, and Basil Blackwell. Gilbert B6..

Platform, 'The Platform Poets' series, London [c.1954]. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition of the first and only issue of 'The Platform Poets' series, issued as a supplement to the short-lived Frederick Woods-edited poetry periodical 'Platform'. 8vo. 8pp stapled into lettered wrappers. The staples just a little rusted. A very good copy. A brief biographical note precedes eleven poems by the American poet and English professor. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 224pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Former owner signature to the front pastedown, partially obscured by the wrapper flap. Printed on very slightly substandard paperstock, yet a remarkably crisp and bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed, tanned and dust soiled with one lengthy yet really quite discreet internally repaired tear. The author's eighth novel, and certainly his most famous - a Troubles yarn which was memorably filmed by Carol Reed two years later..

Wishard & Co, 'Here and Now Pamphlets' series, 1932. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, issued as number eight of the 'Here & Now Pamphlet' series. 8vo. 33pp sewn into lettered card wrappers with French flaps. A touch of tanning to wrapper extremities and a small corner of rear wrapper missing. Very crisp internally. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Alfred A.Knopf, New York, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, of which 3,500 copies were printed. 8vo. 305pp. Black cloth with dulled gilt lettering and rule to the backstrip. Two-colour patterned endpapers. Cloth a little marked, and worn at edges and with some fading to the publisher's top edge stain, but a nice crisp copy internally. Former owner name inked to a blank preliminary leaf. No dust wrapper. Over sixty essays on assorted topics by the 'Sage of Baltimore' (a total of six series were published between 1919-1927)..

London Magazine Editions, London, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 124pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Two-colour pictorial endpapers. School prize plate to the half-title verso. A very good copy in lightly rubbed, toned and soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper designed by Humphrey Stone. The author's fourth novel, a comic fantasy written as an official history detailing how a village football club beat Rangers in the FA Cup final (based in-part of his own experiences playing for the 1930 season for South Milford White Rose)..

Viking, London, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 175pp. Blue cloth, silver lettered at the spine. A very light scattering of spotting to the top edge and just a hint of browning to the free endpapers. A virtually fine copy in very lightly marked dust wrapper with just a touch of faint spotting to the flaps. The author's sixth novel (but the first that he wrote; it was initially rejected for publication and when finally accepted Carr made extensive changes). Short-listed for the Booker Prize..

Published by the author at the Quince Tree Press, Kettering, 1988. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), of which 3,000 copies were printed. This copy signed by the author on the half-title (which also serves as the free endpaper). 8vo. 183pp. Card wrappers (not issued in casebound format). A tiny trace of wear and toning to the wrappers. Very good indeed. The author's seventh novel, and the first book issued by his own Quince Tree Press imprint..

Cornucopia Press, London, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. The second edition of Carr's classic, with a slightly revised text and a new foreword by the author. Issued in a limitation of 300 numbered copies signed by the author and by Ronald Blythe who provides an introduction (this being #282). Printed on mould-made paper by The September Press. Crown 4to. 105pp. Green cloth with paper spine and title labels. Top edge gilt. Former owner gift inscription to the half-title, else a fine copy in the original unprinted acetate protector, just a little nicked at the head of the spine panel..

Barrie & Rockliff (Barrie Books Ltd.), London, 1963. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 219pp. Maroon boards lettered in white at the spine. Corner tips and spine ends rubbed, and the binding pulled. Place-marker creases to the tips of two leaves, and some soiling to two adjacent text leaves. A fair copy, albeit really quite crisp internally, in poor non-price-clipped dust wrapper, which is soiled, rubbed, chipped, nicked, torn and heavily creased. The author's first book. Uncommon, although this is certainly not the prettiest copy..

Secker & Warburg, London, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 163pp. Mauve cloth, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge very lightly spotted, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a small area of scoring to the front panel. Laid-in is a printed slip noting that J.L.Carr will be giving a talk at the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Bishop Stopford School on 13th January 1976 - where presumably this copy was signed. The author's third novel, in-part inspired by his near-forty year teaching career (and accordingly a minor staff room classic)..

The Tern Press, Shropshire, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 140 numbered copies printed on Lana paper and signed by the publishers, Nicholas and Mary Parry (this being #122). Landscape 8vo. Unpaginated. Decorated boards. Illustrated with eight wood engravings by Nicholas Parry. In fine state. No dust wrapper, as issued. A delightful account of the first village cricket match of the 1936 season and the train journey to and from the game. Carr's story was first printed in the cricketing anthology 'Fine Glances', issued three years previously. Uncommon..

Alan Ross, London, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of Carr's scarce second novel. 8vo. 192pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Several miniscule blemishes to the top edge, else a virtually fine copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, fractionally chafed at the top edge and with a shade or two of fading to the spine panel. Carr's second novel, drawn from his own experiences as an intelligence officer stationed at RAF Bathurst in Gambia and featuring a wonderfully bizarre cricket match..

Edition Hnam In Kuenot, Kontum, Vietnam. English edition distributed by Jackson, Cambridge (printed in France)., 1975. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition, limited to 250 numbered copies (this one un-numbered). 4to. 170pp. Card wrappers. With eighty-six duotone photographs (several in colour) and a preface (in French) by Pierre-Jean Laspeyres. Wrappers lightly knocked at the base of the spine. A very crisp copy in very good dust wrapper..

Grey Walls Press, London, 1950. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 227pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. A bright copy in slightly nicked and dusty, price-clipped dust wrapper..

Servire,'Zilvermeeuw' series, Den Haag [c.1951]. Book. Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first Danish edition of 'Homes Sweet Homes'. This copy inscribed by the author to John Arlott. Small 8vo. 110pp. Publisher-laminated wrappers, nicked with a fraction of loss from the spine ends. A nice crisp copy. Folding flyer for other titles in the series laid-in. Text in Danish..

The Cornhill. No. 974, spring, 1948. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Slim 8vo. Card wrappers, somewhat toned, with a tiny chip to one corner. A nice bright copy. This issue also includes contributions from Peter Quennell ('Ruskin: The Middle Years'), Denton Welch ('The Trout Stream') and Osbert Sitwell (his four-part poem Four 'Sings of the Italian Earth'). [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 117pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with captioned photographs (including one folding plate) and line drawings in the text. Top edge spotted. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly dust soiled and edgeworn..