Search Results: Titles starting with L from Clearwater Books

Phaidon Press and Salford Art Gallery, Oxford, 1987. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition - the card wrapper issue. 142pp. With a frontispiece and fifty plates, many in colour, plus over 150 thumbnail reproductions and a comprehensive and hitherto unprinted catalogue of all Lowry's publically held works. In fine state..

T.Fisher Unwin Ltd., London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 252pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. Front hinge just a little tender. Top- and fore edge lightly spotted, with just a touch more spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves. Some light browning to the endpapers. No dust wrapper. Contemporary (1928) former owner name inked to the front pastedown. A lovely crisp copy of the author's second book, a crime novel later re-issued under the title 'Laurine'..

Georges Crès & Cie, Éditeure, Paris & Zurich, 1916. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition of his anonymous Great War story, probably his third book. This copy inscribed by the author at the head of the half-title and dated 1918 (the name of the recipient partially erased). Small 8vo. 108pp + [xvi] publisher's advertisements at the rear. Card wrappers, lettered in red and black at the upper wrapper and title page. With a frontispiece drawing by Jean Lefort. The first gathering a little tender and some tears to the fore edges where they have been inexpertly cut. Paperstock a little tanned. A nice bright example of a fragile production, handsomely enhanced by Géraldy's near-contemporary signature. Text in French..

Marco Tropea Editore, Milano, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The correct first edition of "Charlotte Gray". Boards bowed with a hint of spotting to fore edge. 8vo. A very crisp and bright copy in fine dust wrapper. The English-language edition was not published until September of 1998, several months after this Italian version..

Librairie Payot, Lausanne, 1915. Book. Fair. Soft cover. 8vo. 85pp. Pictorial card wrappers. Illustrated with eighty-nine plans and figures. The wrappers chipped and tape repaired at the spine, with a partially defective binding resulting in some considerable tenderness to several preliminary leaves. Some leaves lightly tanned. Text in French. A fair copy of the first part of Henriot's history of the Battle of the Marne..

Coracle Gallery, London [1985] Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Card wrappers. With four reproductions, several in colour, accompanied by an essay by Stephen Bann reproduced from 'Three Artists from France' (Trefoil Books, 1985). A virtually fine copy..

Silvana Editoriale d'Arte, Milan, 1955. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first Italian edition of 'The Little Horse Bus' (1952), with text in Italian and some reworking of the illustrations. Landscape 8vo. Pictorial boards. Covers a little tanned and rubbed. Quite a good copy. Probably no jacket called for..

Enitharmon Press, London, 1974. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies (this being #198). Slim 8vo. [iii], 11pp. Quarter cloth with paper-covered sides. A little discolouration to the upper margins of the boards and just a touch of wear to the spine ends and corner tips. Very good. No dust wrapper called-for. Two poems composed by Firbank for his mother in 1904, presented in the original French alongside English translations by Edgell Rickword and with two delightful Philippe Jullian illustrations..

Smith, Alder & Co., London, 1878. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 201pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Blue-green cloth with bevelled edges, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine with a triple black-stamped border to the upper board, repeated in blind to the rear board. Spine ends of little bruised. Binding a little tender at two gatherings and with some occasional pencilled marginal marks and brief notes, and the ghost of a partially erased pencilled note to the half-title verso. A very good copy..

Duckworth, London, 1930. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's fourth book. 8vo. 206pp. Blue smooth-weave cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece (drawn by the author), three pages of plates, a double-spread map and another map in the text. Cloth a little faded at the backstrip and at the margins of the rear board, and with a little marking and chafing to the upper board. Edges spotted and the endpapers browned, with a little more quite light spotting to preliminary and concluding leaves. Quite a crisp and bright copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but somewhat tanned, worn, chafed and nicked with some loss to the spine ends and the upper edge. Book Society Recommendation label affixed to the front panel, fitting in quite splendidly with the wrapper design. Davis, Doyle &c vi..

One Horse Press, London, 1997. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. The second edition, newly illustrated. This copy signed by the author. Small 8vo. 34pp. Card wrappers, triflingly chafed in one place, yet in very crisp state. A short story of a man obsessed with collecting cat-food labels. (The 1993 first edition was limited to 2000 signed copies). [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

One Horse Press, London, 1993. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 2,000 signed and numbered copies (this being #783). 12mo. 34pp. Pictorial card wrappers. A fine copy. A short story depicting an obsessive collector of catfood tin labels. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 122 hand-numbered copies signed by the author (this being #92). 8vo. 492pp. Vellum-backed cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with Williamson's owl logo gold-stamped to the upper board. With a tissue-protected frontispiece, and two-colour map-illustrated endpapers, designed by the author. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The vellum a little darkened as if often the case and with just a hint of spotting to the endpapers and pastedowns. Very good indeed albeit lacking the unprinted glassine protector..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 491pp. Green smooth-weave cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With two-colour map-illustrated endpapers (drawn by the author) and a photographic portrait frontispiece. Some light staining to cloth at upper board, and some spotting to top- and fore edge and to very occasional leaf margins. A nice bright copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. A collection of thirty essays and sketches recounting village life in the decade following the Great War. Both this book and its companion piece, 'The Village Book' (1930), were subsequently rearranged and revised by Williamson in 1945 to form 'Tales of a Devon Village' and 'Life in a Devon Village'..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1932. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 122 hand-numbered copies signed by the author (this being #102). 8vo. 492pp. Vellum-backed cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with Williamson's owl logo gold-stamped to the upper board. With a loose tissue-protected frontispiece, and two-colour map-illustrated endpapers, designed by the author. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A trace of spotting to the free endpapers and to one or two preliminary and concluding leaves, else a fine copy. Lacking the unprinted glassine protector but housed in a custom-made slipcase..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1932. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy is from the library of Douglas Jordan, who as a seventeen-year-old was employed by Williamson at Old Hall Farm and proved to be an exceptional cowman. Jordan was known affectionately as 'Lump' to the family and appeared in the 'Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight' novels as "Ackers". His signature is inked beneath the half-title followed by "'Ackers' of the Norfolk Farm". Williamson re-met Jordan in the early 1970s, some thirty years after originally hiring him, whilst filming scenes for David Cobham's film 'The Vanishing Hedgerows' and penned a brief but glowing diary entry about the reunion. 8vo. 491pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the author's owl logo gold-stamped to the upper board. With two-colour map-illustrated endpapers (drawn by the author) and a photographic portrait frontispiece. The backstrip faded and with a… Read More

Gallimard, Paris, 1953. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The first French edition, one of 2,500 numbered copies (from a total edition of 2,650). Small 8vo. 131pp. Patterned card wrappers with readership creases to the spine. A good, bright copy, very crisp internally. Former owner name and date inked to the head of the first leaf. An introduction ("warning") by the translator is followed by four stories. This edition precedes but should not be confused with the celebrated English translation of the same name which was issued nine years later, containing as is does just three of the stories and none of the essays or parables found in that text (albeit a fourth story here, 'La Quête dAverroës' / 'The Quest for Averroës' did not appear in the English edition)..

John Murray, London, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 191pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A nice bright copy in slightly rubbed and dusty, price-clipped Val Biro-designed dust wrapper. An account of two delightfully unorthodox Victorian lady journalists, Lady Florence Dixie and 'Lady Avonmore', both travelling and working in Natal and the Transvaal between the Zulu War of 1879 and the Transvaal War of 1880-81..

Heinemann, London, 1990. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy boldly signed by the author on the front free endpaper. 8vo. 500pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of bruising to the backstrip ends, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a touch of corresponding rubbing to the spine panel ends. The third volume of the author' 'Santangelo' series..

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1980. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small landscape 4to. Pictorial laminated boards. Illustrated title-page. Eighteen splendid Bawden watercolours, one on each recto accompanied by Hennell's text to the adjacent verso. In fine state with near fine non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper featuring another Bawden drawing, and marred only by a single tiny scuff to bottom edge. The outcome of a Consequences-like game played by Bawden, Eric Ravilious and their wives in the early 1930s. Bawden produced a series of watercolours to illustrate the adventures of the imaginary protagonists (the delightfully named Lady Filmy Fern, Mr. Virgin Cook and Welsh Polypod) and Hennell, upon seeing the illustrations, agreed to write the story down. Rejected by one publisher, the illustrations were pasted into Bawden's scrapbook and stored for safe keeping during the war in a well in his garden with much of his other work and all but forgotten about..