Search Results: Authors starting with P from Clearwater Books

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 311pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at spine. A touch of wear to the backstrip ends, and a former owner details inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in fair dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with several inches of loss from the base of the spine panel, a small area rom the head, and a little toning, dust soling, creasing, and edge-loss. The fifth published volume of Snow's celebrated 'Strangers and Brothers' sequence (the sixth title terms of the internal series chronology)..

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A reprint of the first volume of his celebrated 'Strangers and Brothers' sequence. 8vo. 320pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown (obscured by the wrapper flap). A very good copy in lightly toned, rubbed and soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Originally published by Faber in 1940, this is a reprint of the first Macmillan edition (Faber originally published the first three volumes, and Macmillan issued the subsequent eight titles as well as re-issuing the earlier volumes). 'Strangers and Brothers' is the first published volume of Snow's eponymous sequence, but in terms on the internal chronology it is the second volume..

The University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 340pp. Russet cloth lettered in black at the spine. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. Just a hint of spotting to the top edge. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly sunned at the spine panel, and at the extreme upper margins of the front and rear panels..

Faber, London, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. the first trade casebound edition of Taylor's debut novel, containing an additional hitherto unprinted chapter. 8vo. 308pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. With one full-page illustration, a map and chapter header decorations. In fine state with fractionally dust marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Graham Taylor's debut novel was originally self-published (by Mount Publishing Ltd.) in 2002 and made available at his local bookshop in Whitby. The book proved a huge success and was subsequently issued by Faber the following year, with this special extended edition, the first issue in hardback (bar a specially bound deluxe edition limited to just ten copies), published the same year..

Faber, London, 2007. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author in his distinctive hand. 8vo. 369pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. In virtually fine state with virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's fifth novel, and the first volume of his Mariah Mundi trilogy..

Faber, London, 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 320pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a double-spread map and chapter header illustrations by John Freeman. In fine state with virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Taylor's third book - and the second sequel to his breakthrough novel Shadowmancer..

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1961. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - a paperback original. 8vo. 94pp. Card wrappers, slightly dusty, and with some tanning to the paperstock. A four-act play, first produced at the Pembroke Theatre, Croydon, with a cast of four actors. An early Donleavy publication: in 1973 he would publish a novel with the same title based upon this play..

Williams & Norgate, London, 1913. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 360pp + lvi publisher's catalogue at rear. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. A touch of wear to the spine ends and corner tips, and some browning and spotting to the endpapers. A minor slant to the binding and just a hint of fading to the backstrip cloth. A nice crisp copy. No dust wrapper. Six quite lengthy stories, three of them reprinted from periodicals, and here a little revised, with the remainder hitherto unprinted..

The London Magazine. New series. Vol. 1, No. 2. May, 1961. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers, a little spotted, grubby and dust soiled, but a lovely crisp copy internally. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

G.P.Putnam's Sons, London, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 220pp. Green textured cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. The backstrip cloth lightly faded, with some toning to the free endpapers, and some fox spotting throughout, which is at times quite heavy. Very good. No dust wrapper. The author's most uncommon first book, a collection of seventeen supernatural stories, a number of which were subsequently reprinted in 'The Travelling Grave' (1948). It was a relative failure, earning him no money, but the following year Putnam published his debut novel, 'Simonetta Perkins', from which Hartley is alleged to have made a mighty £12..

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 178pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted and dust soiled, and with a short crease to the lower tip of the final two leaves. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, faded at the spine panel and with just a touch of dust soiling to the rear panel..

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 313pp. Grey boards lettered in gold at the spine, with the publisher's blue top edge stain. Edges and free endpapers very lightly spotted. Very good indeed in lightly dust soiled price-clipped dust wrapper, with a small area of sticker residue to the rear panel. The sequel to his novel 'The Brickfield' (1964)..

Gordon Fraser, Minority Press 'Minority Pamphlets' series, Cambridge, 1930. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The first edition (first printing) of the author's first regularly published book. Slim 8vo. 15pp sewn into lettered card wrappers featuring a series design by Raymond McGrath. The wrapper slightly tanned and dust soiled, and just fractionally rubbed at one or two extremities. A nice crisp copy of this nine-page story, issued as the fifth volume of the 'Minority Pamphlets' series. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

An offprint from the periodical 'The Hound and Horn' [Vol I Nos 3 & 4. Cambridge, MA], 1928. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The first separate edition of this scarce early book. Slim 8vo. [56]pp. Card wrappers, frayed at overlapping edges and with some creasing to the top corners of the leaves. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Daily Telegraph, London, 1914. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The second issue of this weekly Great War magazine. 4to. Stapled wrappers, the staples rusted and the wrappers lightly spotted and tanned to the margins. Illustrated with photographs and with prose contributions from T.M.Kettle, W.Douglas Newton and Archibald Hurd. A good bright copy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

C.P.S., London [1920]. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition. A series of first-hand merchant seamen narratives from the First World War, collected and edited by Thomas Power O'Connor. M.P., and produced to raise funds for The Merchant Seamen's War Memorial Society. Small 8vo. 22pp. Stapled wrappers, the staple rusting and with just a touch of occasional fox spotting. A very good copy of a scarce ephemeral item. Includes personal accounts of the torpedoing of the SS Kariba, the SS Apapa and the Innisfallen. Uncommon..

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. 208pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top- and fore edge lightly spotted. Very good indeed in very good John Lawrence-designed pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with just a touch of browning to the flaps. The author's final book, the incomplete manuscript discovered after his death and issued posthumously without editorial alteration..

Faber, London, 1997. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK Edition (first printing), utilizing the same translation as the US edition and yet considerably more uncommon. 8vo. 296pp. Blue boards lettered in cream at the spine. Spine ends a little rubbed with two or three tiny touches of spotting to the top edge and a light entirely superficial crease to the half-title. Printed on very slightly substandard paperstock which is now just a fraction tanned, yet still a very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a little corresponding wear to the spine panel ends, a touch of wear to one or two corner tips, two tiny tears, and two creases to the front flap. The Nobel Laureate's fifth novel (the third to be translated into English), reportedly the fastest selling book in Turkish history at the time of publication..

Faber, London, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first printing of the first UK edition, following a US issue the previous year. 8vo. 199pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. In fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1934. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 205pp. Quarter cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Boards somewhat marked and dusty, but a nice crisp copy internally, marred by a strip of light partial browning to the half-title and another to one blank concluding leaf. Former owner name to the front free endpaper. Quite a bright copy in poor dust wrapper - nicked, chipped, tanned and internally repaired. Eleven stories, the author's second such collection (which was also preceded by three volumes of verse)..