Search Results: Authors starting with O from Clearwater Books

The Dropmore Press, London, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First trade edition of this facsimile reproduction of a fourteenth-century illustrated collection of biblical and apocryphal stories produced by an unidentified Dominican friar, originally held in Holkham Hall, Norfolk and now owned by the British Library. 4to. 191pp + xlii plates. Printed on mould-made vellum paper and bound in half niger morocco with a leather fore-edge, five raised bands and blind-decorated parchment sides. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. The facsimile plates printed by the Oxford University Press. A little wear to the tips of two upper corners, and a touch of light further chafing to one other extremity. Very good indeed..

John Murray, London, 1974. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers. A touch of light dust soiling to the rear wrapper, else in virtually fine state. This issue also includes John Hearne's eleven-page critical essay on Jean Rhys' 'Wide Sargasso Sea'. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

John Murray, London, 1974. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers, just fractionally tanned and dust marked. In virtually fine state. The first appearance in print of this fourteen-page O'Brian story, which was subsequently included in his short story collection 'The Chian Wine and Other Stories' (1974). Publisher's compliments slip laid-in. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Duckworth, London, 1999. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 191pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A single miniscule ink mark to fore edge, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a touch of chafing to the head of the spine panel. An edited selection of the author's 'Irish Times' column, contributed under his 'Myles na gCopaleen' pseudonym..

MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1961. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 157pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. One or two light finger marks to the boards and a near invisible trace of faint partial browning to the free endpapers. In virtually fine state with lightly rubbed and dust soiled dust wrapper, with a light but lengthy vertical crease to the spine panel and some internal discolouration. The wrapper is price-clipped and re-priced at 95p net (those were the days!). The author's fictional autobiography, with a printed dedication to Graham Greene "whose own forms of gloom I admire"..

Calder & Boyars Ltd., London, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the US edition. 8vo. 199pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. The backstrip lightly faded and with a touch more fading to the upper margin of the rear board. A light entirely superficial crease to the front free endpaper and half-title. Very good indeed in price clipped dust wrapper, with just a hint of chafing to the spine panel ends and a tiny hint of partial toning to the predominantly white rear panel. The author's debut, an autobiographical account of his 1969-70 Tour of Duty during the Vietnam War, widely regarded as the finest account of the conflict..

Art & Technics Ltd., London, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), of which 1,000 copies were printed. Tall 8vo. 95pp. Decorated paper-covered cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a colour frontispiece, twenty-two captioned wood-engraved colour plates, one further coloured engraving and twenty-one wood engraved header and tail pieces and vignettes. A touch of light spotting to the endpapers, half-title and one or two preliminary and concluding leaves, and a small area of light miscellaneous staining to the corner of one text leaf. Very good indeed in handsome pictorial colour dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but a little dust marked and soiled with a touch of light edgewear, one short repaired tear and some internal reinforcement. Contemporary (1951) former owner name and date inked to the head of the front free endpaper..

The Sceptre Press and The Menard Press, [no place], 1972. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, one of fifty numbered copies signed by all of the contributors (from a total edition of 350 copies). Slim landscape 8vo. 19pp stapled into wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. Frontispiece drawing by Charles Tomlinson. Wrappers lightly faded at the margins, with a just a little toning to the paperstock and a little occasional marginal spotting. A very good copy. Poems contributed by Charles Tomlinson, Elaine Feinstein, Omar S.Pound, Miles Burrows, Daniel Weissbort, John James, Anthony Rudolf and Richard Burns. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxxviii, 108pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine with a blind-stamped border to the upper and lower boards. Manuscript reproduction frontispiece. The backstrip cloth lightly faded, and with some browning to the free endpapers. A very good copy of this lengthy hitherto unprinted Ockham essay, originally penned between 134647 and here edited from the unique manuscript held by the British Museum. No dust wrapper..

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1996. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's third travelogue; an account of his trip across Congo-Brazzaville in search of a legendary Congo dinosaur. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author: "To David Stewart, a real traveller and scholar and bibliophile, with a big thank you. From Redmond, July 1997". 8vo. 472pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-eight monochrome photographs and three maps. Boards very lightly marked and with a minor slant to the binding. A very good copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Pushkin Press, London, 2019. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first printing of the first English-language edition, published three years after the original Dutch issue. 8vo. 349pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a tiny area of surface abrasion to the base of the front panel. A very good copy of the author's award winning novel about wartime collaboration in Nazi-occupied Antwerp..

Bloomsbury, London, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 78pp. A fine copy in fine price-clipped dust wrapper, with just a touch of chafing to head of the spine panel. Nineteen poems..

Bloomsbury, London, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page with his typically indecipherably scrawl. 8vo. 311pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. With red endpapers and a place-marker ribbon. A touch of light wear to spine ends, and the merest hint of tanning to leaf margins. Very good indeed in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's multi-award winning fourth novel..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. Blue cloth with a tanned and chafed paper spine label. Spine ends rubbed. The backstrip cloth very lightly faded and the cloth just a little dust soiled. A very nice, crisp copy. No dust wrapper. Former owner details inked to the front pastedown..

John Murray, London, 1900. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's first book. 8vo. 196pp. Original publisher's blue decorated cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board with a gilt top edge and with yapped fore-edges. Endpapers lightly spotted, and cloth rubbed and just a little frayed at the spine ends. Binding cracked and just a little tender at the title page. Embossed former owner stamp to the front pastedown, and a former owner to the front pastedown. A good bright copy. No dust wrapper called for..

University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 243pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A tiny strip of narrow browning to the endpapers, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. An authoritative account of the travels of numerous celebrated nineteenth century explorers, with chapters devoted to David Livingstone, Richard Burton, Lewis and Clark, Mungo Park, Jedediah Smith, John Charles Frémont and others, drawn primarily from contemporary sources..

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 84pp. Green cloth with silver lettering and rule to spine. A tiny scattering of spotting to top edge, and a shade of darkening the spotting to endpapers and pastedowns. A virtually fine copy in slightly chafed, nicked and creased non-price-clipped dust wrapper with two or three tiny slivers of loss. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front pastedown. The author's first book, his second play but the first to be performed (at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964, partially financed by Terrance Rattigan who was one of the plays loudest endorsers, ensuring its survival)..

Ashgate Publishing Company, Aldershot and Vermont, 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed to Patrick McGurk by Billy (i.e. William O'Sullivan), dated the year of publication and with a handwritten letter and two postcards from O'Sullivan to McGurk laid-in. 8vo. xiv, 303pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with seventeen plates and three maps. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. Fourteen essays celebrating the work of the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin..

Harvill Secker, London, 2015. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 548pp. Dark blue paper-covered boards lettered in silver at the spine. Very good indeed in fractionally edgeworn non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a single tiny tear to the base of the front flap. The fourth volume of the author's equally celebrated and controversial novelised six-volume memoir..