Search Results: Titles starting with I from Clearwater Books

Chatto & Windus, London, 2014. 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. 373pp. Blue boards with metallic blue lettering to the spine. With blue endpapers and the publisher's red stain to all edges. A tiny area of soiling to the base of the rear board, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The authors fifth novel..

David Bruce & Watson Ltd., London, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The fugitive first UK edition (first printing), issued four years after the American edition and even more uncommon than that rarity. 8vo. 122pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted. The tip of one corner bumped and with just a trace of bruising to the backstrip ends. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper designed by Bill Botten, lightly chafed and edgeworn. A very nice copy of the author's most celebrated novel; the basis for three cinema adaptations..

Warren House Press, Norfolk 1971 & 1972 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First editions. Slim 8vo. [12pp] & 12pp. Stapled stiff card wrappers. Both copies inscribed by the author on the front wrapper and one with tiny inked correction in his hand. In virtually fine state. John Courtney Trewin, OBE was a Cornish journalist and served as the drama critic of 'The Observer' for over sixty years. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Andre Deutsch, London, 1975. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Edna - Tom's sister - (lucky he is) with best wishes from Laurie lee, Chelsea 1977". 8vo. 232pp. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece of the author and handsome chapter page decorations by Susan Campbell. Some wear to the spine ends and corner tips and just a little give to the binding. Some creasing to the final four leaves. A good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with just an occasional trace of corresponding edge-wear. A collection of twenty-three short pieces, mostly travel, some hitherto unpublished outside the US. Oliver-Jones A15b..

Lindsay Drummond, London, 1941. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 128pp. Red cloth lettered in black at the upper board. Cloth faded at the backstrip and with a little more uneven fading and marking to the upper and lower boards. Free endpapers lightly browned and spotted, and printed on slightly substandard wartime economy paperstock. A good copy. No dust wrapper. Includes prose contributions by A.A.Milne, A.P.Herbert, E.M.Delafield, Anthony Armstrong, Beachcomber, Dogberry, Virginia Graham, Nathaniel Gubbins, Sagittarius and Timothy Shy; and drawings and cartoons by Osbert Lancaster, Bruce Bairnsfather, Nicolas Bentley, Fougasse, Kay Ambrose, Anton, Fenwick, Walter Goetz, Hynes, David Langdon, Low, George Morrow, Palmer, Pont, Strube, Feliks Topolski and Vicky..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy boldly inscribed by the artist on the half-title and dated the year of publication. Landscape 4to. Unpaginated. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in just fractionally dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Victor Gollancz, London, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of Sitwell's only novel. 8vo. 400pp. Black cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust marked and with a minor slant to the binding and some scuffing to the base of the boards. Quite a crisp and bright copy in a fairly poor example of the extremely uncommon dust wrapper: tanned, stained and with one short tear and two considerable areas of loss. Former owner name inked to the front pastedown alongside a tiny dealer plate. A fictionalised biography of the life of Jonathan Swift. 4,350 copies were printed. Fifoot EA30..

British Council, London, 2015. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition - issued on the occasion of Lucas' May-November 2015 exhibition at the British Pavilion for the 56th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia. 4to. 151pp. Stiff card wrappers with French flaps. This copy inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper, her text accompanied by a playful outline drawing of a pair of breasts, and with a handwritten letter to the same recipient laid-in (the recipient being "Tony" i.e. Anthony Astbury, founder of the Greville Press). With text by Sarah Lucas, photography and design by Julian Simmons, and over 150 colour and monochrome photographs detailing the creation and installation of her exhibits for the 2015 Venice Biennale. A fine copy of an uncommon catalogue, considerably enhanced by the artists' signature..

[Linden Press, Widdington] [c.1940]. Book. Near Fine. No Binding. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition of the fifth Linden Broadsheet poem, limited to 175 numbered copies, signed on the reverse by the author (this being #47). A single sheet measuring 29cm x 22cm, and featuring a handsome three-colour drawing by Honor Frost, into which Spender's twenty-five line poem has been set. In virtually fine state. In total six Linden Broadsheets were issued, between 1939-40, all of which are now extremely uncommon..

Knullar Publishing Ltd, London, 1969. Book. Good. Soft cover. An issue of the celebrated underground broadsheet. Some tanning to the paperstock, a little chafing and nicking to leaf edges, and a short jagged tear to the first page. A good copy, folded once. This issue is of particular note for its lengthy review of the Second Isle of Wight Music Festival (2931 August 1969), which included a much-hyped seventeen-track set from Bob Dylan and The Band (Dylan's first significant public appearance for three years following a period of semi-retirement following his near-fatal motorcycle accident). Also includes three photographs by Pete Sanders, including one of Dylan's IoW set..

Knullar Publishing Ltd, London, 1969. Book. Good. Soft cover. An issue of the celebrated underground broadsheet. Some tanning to the paperstock, a little chafing and nicking to leaf edges, and an inkblot to the front page, lightly impacting one subsequent page. A good copy, folded once. Includes a lengthy cover article detailing the April 1969 police raid on the I.T. offices (which in-part lead to the eventual decline of the paper), reviews by Barry Miles of The Who's 'Tommy' album, Frank Zappa's 'Uncle Meat' album, plus new releases by Bob Dylan and Free; an interview with Jimmy Page, a centrefold poster 'How to Enjoy Reality?' and Allen Ginsberg's poem 'Kral Majales'..

Allen, London [1952] Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. 268pp. Orange cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Covers triflingly rubbed at some extremities. A very good copy in rubbed and little dust marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Booth-Clibborn Editions, London, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of his first book. 4to. 334pp. Red textured cloth lettered in black at the spine, and in black and blind at the upper board. Lavishly illustrated throughout, with photographs, cartoons, pop-ups, multi-media presentations, printed acetate and with various inserts including a sheet of stickers and a folding colour poster. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper..

The Galley Press, London, 1961. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 209pp. Yellow cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and seven plates, plus a number of diagrams in the text. The edges, backstrip, endpapers, a dozen preliminary leaves and several concluding leaves spotted, and with a little occasional marginal spotting throughout. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A good copy in good non-price-clipped dust wrapper featuring a striking design by the author, somewhat rubbed and chafed at the edges and natural folds, and with a little marking and one short biro mark to the rear panel. The author's second book, recounting his Second World War experiences (Berlin originally registered as a conscientious objector, but later renounced that position, joining the Army and taking part in the D-Day landings as a Forward Observer in France, Holland and Belgium)..

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 304pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The free endpapers and pastedowns very lightly soiled, and printed on lesser-quality wartime paperstock which is now a little tanned. A very good copy in the fugitive dust wrapper, toned at the spine panel and with two further slivers of toning to the margins of the rear panel, and lightly rubbed, spotted and nicked. An uncommon pseudonymous memoir by Anna Cherkasova, a Russian-born engineer and the Soviet Union's long-distance motorcycle champion (in later life she became quite notorious for championing various questionable health fads)..

Collins, London, 1921. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. ix, 145pp + [iv] publisher's advertisements. Black cloth lettered and ruled in red at the spine and upper board. Cloth lifting from boards in places. Some browning to the endpapers. A good, sound copy. Neat name of former owner inked to the front free endpaper..

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1982. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 370pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of light spotting to the top- and fore edge, and a little bruising to the backstrip ends. Free endpapers lightly tarnished. A nice crisp copy in lightly spotted and internally toned non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Faber, London, 1984. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 62pp. Card wrappers (never issued in casebound format). In fine state. Forty poems, the author's first collection of verse (Gross' 2009 collection 'The Water Table' would go on to win the T.S.Eliot prize). [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Macmillan, London, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 240pp. Dark green boards, lettered in gold at the spine. Spine ends and corner tips rubbed and with a small splash of miscellaneous staining to one text leaf. A very good copy in very good faux-distressed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with just a little corresponding creasing to the spine ends. Winner of the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey award for best debut novel..

Harper and Brothers, New York, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 341pp. Quarter-bound paper-covered cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Cloth lightly rubbed at the spine ends and with a little light browning to endpapers. A very good copy in internally reinforced dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but quite rubbed at the spine panel ends, and with a little spotting to the rear panel..