Search Results: Titles starting with F from Clearwater Books

The New Republic. Vol. 103, no. 27, December 30,, 1940. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Stapled wrappers, very lightly tanned, with a little edge-chafing, a short tear to the natural fold and one other short edge tear. A good bright copy. "There is not a great deal to say of this book except that is it very good"..

Alan Sutton, Gloucester, 1988. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, a paperback original (never issued in casebound format). 8vo. 359pp. Glossy card wrappers. Illustrated with over fifty photographs and reproductions. A single very light readership crease to the spine. A very good copy of this biography of Harvey, issued on the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Great War, and the centenary of the poet's birth..

John Murray, London, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 64pp. Yellow cloth lettered in red at the spine and with a red-stamped vignette to the upper board. The top- edge and free endpapers just fractionally spotted. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. Very good in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, creased and a little nicked and the upper and lower edges with some internal taped repair. A short preface by the author precedes an album of cartoons, many of them reproduced from the pages of the 'Daily Express', 'The Cornhill' and 'World Horizon'..

Faber, London, 2005. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition - a paperback original. 8vo. viii, 120pp. Wrappers lifting a fraction, and with a trace of marking and corner creasing. A very good copy. Interviews with, and extracts of plays by, Christopher Hampton, David Hare, Frank McGuinness, Tom Stoppard and Tony Harrison, issued to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Faber imprint and sold exclusively through the NT bookshop. This copy signed by Tony Harrison on the page introducing his section, and additionally inscribed: "To Trish [Montemuro] who was mercifully at my side in both adventures. With much love Tony 12/11/05". The inscription is in respect of his Delphi and NT productions of 'The Tracks of Oxyrhynchus' and also 'Square Rounds'; Montemuro performed her regular stage manager duties for all of these productions. Supplied together with Tim Severin's 'The Ulysses Voyage. Sea Search for Odyssey'.… Read More

Chatto & Windus, London, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first English edition, limited to 750 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #729). A review copy, with the publisher's review slip laid-in. Tall 8vo. 275pp. Full green buckram with bevelled edges and a gilt lettered and ruled leather spine label. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The buckram a little faded at the backstrip and with just a trace of tanning to the free endpapers. A very good copy, lacking the plain dust wrapper. Nineteen stories, all here making their first appearance in print (this UK edition was preceded by the US trade edition, which appeared a month earlier). Nineteen stories, Riley A17..

William Heinemann, London and Random House, New York, 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. The first edition of this Marsh translation, limited to 525 numbered copies (250 for the UK and Ireland, and 250 for the US, the remaining copies presumably for presentation), signed by both the artist and the translator (this being #505). Small 4to. lxxi + 235pp and xxii + 336pp. Printed by the Windmill Press on hand-made special toned wove paper and bound in full vellum, with gilt spine lettering. The top edges rough-trimmed and the bottom- and fore-edges untrimmed. Silk place marker to each volume. Title pages and all plates protected by an unprinted tissue protector. With a printed dedication to the memory of Rupert Brooke. Some mottling and discolouration to the vellum, as is invariably the case, and the protruding fore edges of some leaves a little nicked, else both volumes in fine state internally. A really super set of an extremely handsome production..

The Hogarth Press, London, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 245pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust marked. A very good copy in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel, a little chafed at several extremities and with a few light blemishes to the rear panel. The author's second full-length novel..

Silver Leaf Books, Johannesburg, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition (first printing) of the future Nobel Laureate's first book. 8vo. 164pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. Backstrip ends rubbed and with several tiny areas of chafing and slight discolouration to the cloth where the dust wrapper is defective. Endpapers browned and a little spotted, with just a trace of further spotting to the edges and to the title page. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, somewhat rubbed, creased and edgeworn with some internal repair, some loss to the spine panel ends, two small areas of enclosed loss and several further fractions of loss to the corner tips. A three-page unaccredited foreword precedes sixteen short stories..

Nelson, London, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 193pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, else in fine state with slightly dust soiled price-clipped dust wrapper, with two short closed tears to the top edge and several lengthy creases to the front wrapper flap. A collection of reminiscences of influential friends and acquaintances by the celebrated 'Sunday Times' columnist, including chapters on Henry Williamson ("my most distinguished friend, the only friend I have who is indisputably a genius") and Siegfried Sassoon..

Enitharmon Press, London, 1972. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 85 numbered copies on Canson Ingres paper. This example un-numbered and un-signed on the colophon, but inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Alison [Mary Barnard] from Kathleen." 8vo. 79pp. Paper-covered cloth. Top edge gilt. A fine copy. No dust wrapper called for, but housed in the original unprinted acetate protector. Fifteen memoirs and essays, penned in the early forties and due for publication in 1946 by Editions Poetry London until that imprint ceased to exist and the manuscript was lost. This first publication of those essays was produced from a typescript created from the original Editions Poetry London papier-mâché moulds which were unearthed a decade after the original planned publication date..

Heinemann, London, 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 175pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with sixteen captioned photographs. Top edge lightly spotted. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly chafed in one small area of the top edge, and with some fading to the publisher's spine panel colouring. An intimate informal portrait of the noted novelist, poet and critic..

Faber, London, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK and first casebound edition, published simultaneously with the Canadian edition, which was only issued in paperback format. This copy signed by the author on the title page and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 232pp. Black boards lettered in white at the spine. Some tanning to the lesser quality paperstock, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, fractionally rubbed at several extremities. Four stories - the author's first book (bar the fugitive limited edition 'Seven Stories', issued earlier the same year by an Ottawa bookshop)..

Canongate, Edinburgh, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The new, slightly revised edition of the author's first book. This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 239pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. A tiny crease to the tip of three or four text leaves, else in virtually fine state with virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a short crease to each flap. A new introduction by the author precedes four stories which were originally issued in 1993 and are here slightly revised ("the youthful urge to overstate reined in, the occasional clumsiness in the prose I hope ironed out")..

William Heinemann, London, 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, of which 1,000 copies were printed. 8vo. x, 84pp. Maroon cloth with slightly dulled gilt spine lettering. Cloth lightly faded at the backstrip, and with a little further fading to two margins of the rear board. Free endpapers browned. The top edge spotted and with some further quite light spotting throughout. Binding just a little tender as several gatherings. A nice crisp copy. No dust wrapper. The author's third book - forty-six poems with a printed dedication of The Royal Welch Fusiliers. A number of the poems celebrate Graves' great friendship with Siegfried Sassoon, who, following Graves' intervention with the military authorities, was hospitalised for shell shock at Craiglockhart the same year this collection was published. See Reilly p.146 / Higginson A3..

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..

Walter Scott, 'The Camelot Series', London, 1888. Book. Poor. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, first state of Yeats' second book. preceded only by The Dublin University Review offprint pamphlet 'Mosada' (1886). 8vo. 326pp + [vi] advertisements. The binding cocked, and the rear gutter splitting with two tears to the backstrip, and some chipping to the spine ends. Paper spine label tanned and chipped, and the corner tips rubbed. Some quite light spotting to the endpapers and a light crease to the first half-dozen leaves. Errata slip missing. Some spotting to the protruding edges of the fore- and bottom edges. An uncommon book but alas quite a poor copy, although really quite crisp and bright internally. No dust wrapper called for. Yeats contributes a ten-page introduction, nine introductory essays of varying length, a selection of notes, and his poems 'The Stolen Child' and 'The Priest of Coloony'. Wade 212 (binding 1)..

Peter Owen Ltd., London, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 104pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Pictorial endpapers. A virtually fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the spine ends and corner tips. The third of the noted Dutch author's book to appear in English..

Leo Cooper, London, 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the half-title, and dated the year after publication. Landscape 4to. 162pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Lavishly illustrated with monochrome photographs throughout. The binding slightly cocked, and with just a touch of rubbing to the spine ends. A very good copy in price-clipped photographic dust wrapper, a little rubbed at the head of the spine panel with two tiny areas of surface abrasion, and a little creasing in places to the publisher's laminate. Stamp's three-page introduction precedes a hefty selection of war cemetery photographs from Flanders, the Marne and the Aisne, Artois, Ypres, Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme, Italy and Macedonia..

Spellmount, Stroud, 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. The first printing of this new edition, updated and expanded from the original edition of 1990 and with a new final chapter. Small landscape 8vo. 168pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Lavishly illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs of cemeteries and memorials throughout the Western Front, Gallipoli, Italy, and Macedonia. In fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author at the head of the title page. 8vo. 152pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's fourth novel..