Search Results: Authors starting with V from Clearwater Books

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 127pp. Beige cloth lettered in green at the spine and with green-stamped decorations to the upper and lower boards. With a decoration title page, twelve header piece illustrations and two tiny vignettes. Binding a little tender at one gathering and with a touch of light soiling to the cloth. An inked date ('1937') to the front pastedown, partially obscured by the wrapper flap. A very good copy in slightly marked and tanned non-price-clipped dust wrapper, rubbed at the spine ends and with several tiny slivers of loss. Vita Sackville-West and Beverly Nichols both contribute four chapters (Vita's based on her 1933-34 BBC broadcasts), Marion Cran contributes three and Compton Mackenzie one. Uncommon. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme B16..

Privately printed, London, 1931. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 250 signed copies (this example un-numbered). Slim 8vo. 24pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and upper board. Some uneven fading to the board margins, and a touch of rubbing to head of the backstrip. A good, bright copy..

A Bell Book, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). The eleventh printing of the first edition. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Beneath the signature is inked "my mother", and a presentation inscription to the front free endpaper reads: "To Dear Charlie, With wonderful memories of your time at St. Andrews. All the best for the future love Mrs O'Neill" - possibly penned by one of the author's six children. 8vo. 204pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Some tape residue marking to the pastedowns and rear free endpaper. A very good copy in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed and marked at the spine panel. The author's most celebrated novel, a story for children which recounts the true story of how traditional windmills were used by the Dutch resistance for signalling under the noses of German occupiers..

Dutton, New York, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 272pp. Grey boards lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. Tip of one corner bumped, endpapers a little browned and the upper board lifting just a fraction. A very nice copy in slightly nicked and dusty non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Includes chapters on Washington Irving, Fenimore Cooper and Longfellow, Margaret Fuller, Nathanial Hawthorne, Henry James, Edith Wharton &c..

The London Magazine. Vol. 4, no. 7, October, 1964. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. 88pp. Card wrappers, lightly dust soiled and with a bookshop inkstamp to the rear wrapper. A very good copy. This issue also includes Derek Walcott's poems 'Postcard', 'Beach House' and 'From Mayaro', and Jocelyn Brooke's essay 'A Pyrrhic Victory?'.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), issued on the occasion of a 1996-97 Whitney Museum exhibition. 4to. 304pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. A series of scholarly essays by various contributors, lavishly illustrated with photographs and reproductions, including forty in colour. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, with just a tiny hint of dust soiling to the rear panel..

The Piazza Press, London, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, printed at The Curwen Press and issued to subscribers (this being #169). 8vo. xvi, 215pp. Original white parchment-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With a frontispiece, six plates, all bar one with a loose unprinted tissue protector, and four decorations in the text, all by Vera Willoughby. A touch of very light spotting to the free endpapers, and the tip of a single corner fractionally bumped. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper called for, but housed in the original stiff card slipcase, a little faded, rubbed at several extremities, and with two small areas of taped reinforcement..

De Klaproos Editions, Veurne, 1995. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The English-language issue of the first edition. 8vo. 63pp. Glossy card wrappers. Illustrated with photographs and a holograph manuscript reproduction of McCrae's celebrated poem. A fine copy. An account of the life of Canadian poet and physician John McCrae, with specific focus on the writing of 'In Flanders Fields' and the rise of the poppy as a symbol of peace. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Fourth Estate, London, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 307pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. In fine state with non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly chafed at top edge with the publisher's laminate peeling just a fraction. The author's second book..

Macmillan, New York, 1979. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 152pp. Quarter bound paper-covered cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Extensively illustrated with over three-hundred poster reproductions, seventy-five in colour. A little marking and discolouration to board extremities and with some spotting to the edges and preliminary leaves. A good, bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly marked in places, and rubbed and nicked at the head of spine panel and with a single tiny accompanying tear..

William Heinemann, London, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first printing of the first UK edition. 8vo. 353pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Cloth a little spotted, tip of a single corner very gently bumped and with just a tiny touch of chafing to boards at two or three extremities. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, nicked and repaired at spine ends and tips of corners and with some tape residue marks to the rear panel. Gore's noted bildungsroman, set in post-war Rome, Cairo and Paris..

Johan Grundt Tanum "Oslo Kommunes Kunstsamlinger", Oslo, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. Patterned boards, just a little rubbed at some extremities. Very good in tanned, chafed and dusty dust wrapper..

Secker & Warburg, London, 1957. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First English Edition (first printing). 8vo. 168pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. Tips of two corners slightly bumped. A bright copy in slightly rubbed and marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Inscribed by the translator to Mavis Eurich and with a typed and signed covering letter: "I thought you would find 'The Silken Ladder' interesting. I found it remarkable and some of it very original. There are many beautiful and true passages and, indeed, the book is strewn with them. it was frightfully difficult to translate"..