Search Results: Titles starting with K from Clearwater Books

Gollancz, 'Left Book Club' series, London, 1948. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition (first printing). 8vo. 240. Boards, slightly bumped at some extremities. Paperstock quite tanned else quite a bright copy. Name of former owner inked to the front free endpaper. No dust wrapper..

Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, 1915. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 128pp. Brown cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board with a black-stamped silhouette decoration. A minor slant to the binding. The backstrip cloth lightly toned, the top edge dust soiled and with just a touch of spotting to the fore edge, preliminary and concluding leaves and to occasional margins. Some browning to the free endpapers, title page and to the final text leaf. Hand some armorial bookplate to the front free endpaper. A good copy of this collection of eleven Gallipoli stories..

Chapman & Hall, London, 1875. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 291pp + [ii] + xxxiv publisher's catalogues. Original publisher's pictorial cloth. With a tissue-protected frontispiece and eleven tipped-in plates. Cloth rubbed and chafed at the spine ends and tips of corners. Front and rear hinges reinforced with cloth tape. A short tear to the fore edge of four leaves, including one of the plates. Quite a bright copy of the uncommon first edition..

Constable, London, 1959. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 162pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedown, a trace of very light toning to the front free endpaper alongside a tiny sliver of tape residue marking. A virtually fine copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and at several margins of the front and rear panels. Eliot's six-page foreword precedes lengthy essays on George Gissing, Katherine Mansfield and 'The Novels of Henry Williamson'..

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 230pp. Paper-backed cloth lettered in green at the spine and with the author's facsimile signature gold-stamped to the upper board. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly chafed at one or two extremities and with a single tiny area of surface abrasion to the base of the rear panel. The author's seventh novel..

Secker & Warburg, London, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 230pp. Green boards lettered and ruled in black at the spine. Red endpapers. A hint of dust marking to the top edge, else in fine state with pictorial non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and with a trace of rubbing to the head of the spine..

Faber, London and Profile books, London, 2016. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's third collection of diary extracts, covering the period 2005-2015 and encompassing the release of the films 'The History Boys' and 'The Lady in the Van'. 8vo. 721pp. Blue boards lettered in white at the spine. With patterned endpapers and thirty photographs, mostly in colour. A small indentation to the head of the rear board and just a trace of wear to the spine ends. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with just a touch of light wear to the extremities..

Anvil Press Poetry Ltd., London, 1984. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, this being one of 250 examples signed by the author. Slim 8vo. Unpaginated [8 pages of printed text]. Stapled wrappers. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A six-page four-part poem. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Architectural Press, London, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English-language edition. Landscape 4to. 265pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with hundreds of plans and photographs, including a number in colour. In fine state with fractionally marked and chafed dust wrapper..

Hutchinson, London, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page, her signature accompanied by that of the late George Baker who played Inspector Wexford in the long-running ITV adaptations (although this is not one of the Wexford novels). 8vo. 310pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just lightly rubbed at the head of the spine panel..

Faber, London, 1999. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page and dated the year after publication. Slim 8vo. 52pp. Card wrappers (never issued in casebound format). A fine unopened copy of this lengthy 1,000-line poem..

Harvill Secker, London, 2018. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the original two-volume Japanese edition, and considerably more uncommon that the US edition which utilised the same translation. 8vo. 681pp. Original publisher's decorated paper boards, lettered in white at the spine. Decorated endpapers. The tiniest hint of wear to the corner tips, else a fine copy in in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a touch of corresponding edge wear and a single short crease. This is the more uncommon of the two dust wrapper designs, with the blue instead of black artwork..

Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To my dearest Ilsa, who goes on loving and supporting one beyond what any person could possibly deserve. Stanley. 27 May 04". 8vo. 184pp. Beige cloth lettered in green at the spine. The tip of one corner bumped, and a small indentation to the base of the upper board. A very good copy in slightly chafed, chipped and spotted non-price-clipped dust wrapper pictorial dust wrapper designed by Eric Von Schmidt. The sixth book by the long-time Thames & Hudson editor..

[not published] Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Landscape 8vo. Suede leather covers, quite marked. Top edge gilt. Decorated endpapers. King George V features in each of the photographs, either mounted and on foot, as he inspects the camp and the troops..

Andre Deutsch, London, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition (first printing) of the author's second major collection. 8vo. 70pp. Brown pebbled boards lettered in gold at the spine. Contemporary (1970) former owner name and date neatly inked to the front free endpaper, and a tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown (obscured by the wrapper flap). A strip of browning to the title page, presumably offset from a slip of paper one being stored there. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little faded at the spine panel and with a touch of further fading to the margins of the front and rear panels, several tiny slivers of loss from the spine ends, and a single tiny area of enclosed wear. Eighteen poems including a revised version of In Memory of Jane Fraser ("I dislike the poem very much and the publication of this amended version may be regarded as a necessary penitential exercise" - note), plus a short essay. Increasingly uncommon..

Constable, London, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 306pp + [vi] publisher's catalogue. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in green at the spine and upper board. Edges spotted, encroaching a fraction to occasional leaf margins. Free endpapers very lightly browned. A very good copy in lightly toned, spotted, rubbed and dusty price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's second novel. Uncommon..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English-language edition (first printing). 8vo. 244pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in very good dust wrapper, lightly creased at the head of the spine panel and with the printed price to the base of the front flap partially inked out..

Hutchinson, London, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 379pp. Brown boards lettered in silver at the spine. In fine state with very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just lightly faded at the spine panel..

Kipling Society. Vol. VII, No. 52, December 1939 Book. Fair. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 48pp. Stapled wrappers, somewhat marked and spotted and a little chafed at spine. Various contributions including 'Kipling and Charing Cross', 'On Re-Reading Youth Kipling', 'A Kipling Memory', 'Kipling's Sheer Poetry', 'H.M.S.Kipling' and half a dozen others. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Macmillan, London, 1975. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition (first printing). 8vo. 174pp. red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper..