Search Results: Titles starting with O from Clearwater Books

Heinemann, London, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Narrow 8vo. 143pp. Burgundy cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted and with a single tiny indentation to the upper board. Very good indeed in very lightly dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Lilley A27..

Faber, London, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 80pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top- and fore edge spotted with some additional spotting to the endpapers and, lightly, also to the half title. Some light partial browning to the endpapers. 'Guido' Morris-designed former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. A very crisp and bright copy in lightly tanned and chafed price-clipped dust wrapper. Sixty-nine poems, many having first appeared in periodicals, but some appearing in print here for the first time..

Martin Brian & O'Keeffe Ltd., London, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author (this being #74 and additionally inscribed by Barker at the head of the title page, the inscription dated two years after publication). Slim 8vo. Unpaginated [8 pages of printed text]. Stapled card wrappers. A virtually fine copy. Uncommon. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Macmillan London, 1999. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 351pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Boards fractionally marked, some slight bruising to the backstrip ends, and with a light ridge. The rear hinge cracked but the binding still perfectly sound. An almost very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little creased and with a touch of corresponding wear to the spine panel ends. The fifteenth volume of the author's series of alphabetical Kinsey Millhome mysteries, this UK edition preceding the US edition and apparently limited to circa 750-800 copies and accordingly one of the more uncommon titles in the series..

The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 90 numbered copies, of which this is one of sixty-five copies bound in wrappers. Unpaginated. Tall 8vo. Card wrappers, very slightly creased. A very good copy. Nine poems, all bar one here making their first appearance in print. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Times Press, Isle of Man and Anthony Gibbs & Phillips, London [1965]. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper using only his Christian name. 8vo. 155pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A little partial toning to the endpapers, half-title and to one unprinted rear flyleaf. A very good copy in dust soiled and slightly nicked non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering. Autobiographical accounts by five Second World War conscientious objectors: Sydney Carter, Stuart Smith, D.S.Savage, Mark Holloway and the editor (the latter, having been granted exemption at a tribunal subsequently ceased being a 'conchy' and joined the Army, taking part in the Normandy landings and ending the war with the rank of captain)..

Alicat Book Shop, 'Outcast Chapbooks' series, New York, 1945. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 750 copies. 8vo. Card wrappers, tanned at the edges and slightly dusty. The paperstock somewhat acid. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Sceptre Press and The Menard Press, [no place], 1972. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, one of fifty numbered copies signed by all of the contributors (from a total edition of 350 copies). Slim landscape 8vo. 19pp stapled into wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. Frontispiece drawing by Charles Tomlinson. Wrappers lightly faded at the margins, with a just a little toning to the paperstock and a little occasional marginal spotting. A very good copy. Poems contributed by Charles Tomlinson, Elaine Feinstein, Omar S.Pound, Miles Burrows, Daniel Weissbort, John James, Anthony Rudolf and Richard Burns. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 224pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Former owner signature to the front pastedown, partially obscured by the wrapper flap. Printed on very slightly substandard paperstock, yet a remarkably crisp and bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed, tanned and dust soiled with one lengthy yet really quite discreet internally repaired tear. The author's eighth novel, and certainly his most famous - a Troubles yarn which was memorably filmed by Carol Reed two years later..

Village Press, London, 1975. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. A reprint of Powys' first collection of verse, originally published in 1896 and hitherto not reprinted. Slim 8vo. 44pp. Card wrappers. A very good copy. Twenty-nine poems, including odes to Thomas Hardy, W.B.Yeats, John Keats, Charles Lamb, A.C.Swinburne and William Cowper. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Hutchinson, London, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author by way of a title-specific bookplate pasted to the front free endpaper. 8vo. ix, 310pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine with a small silver-stamped vignette. Top- and fore edge lightly spotted. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little rubbed at the spine panel ends and at several corner tips, with a single tiny closed tear and a small area of creasing to the corner of the rear flap. The author's second novel..

Grant Richards, London, 1916. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The first edition with these illustrations. A slightly revised text. 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated card wrappers featuring a coloured reproduction of the frontispiece. Wrappers unevenly discoloured and tanned, chipped at the head and base of the spine, and creased at the yapped edges, but a nice crisp copy internally..

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 251pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and design to the spine. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Inked inscription of former owner to the half-title..

Michael Joseph, London, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 413pp. Blue boards lettered in white at the spine. A hint of wear to several corner tips, and a trace of light partial toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering, a touch of light corresponding wear to several corner tips, and a crease to the head of the spine panel. The author's third book..

Allan Wingate, London, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 217pp. Red cloth with very slightly defective gilt lettering to the spine. Just a touch of discolouration to the cloth at the spine ends where the dust wrapper is defective, some light partial browning to the free endpapers and some tanning to the margins of the lesser quality paperstock. A very good copy in handsome Stephen Russ-designed pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with a small sliver of loss from the head of the spine panel. A little more loss from the base and the red spine panel lettering all but absent. A respectable copy of an extremely elusive volume - the author's undisputed masterpiece..

Printed at the Mapletree Private Press for the King's School, Canterbury, 1979. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 450 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #94). Slim 8vo. Unpaginated [16pp]. Stapled card wrappers. A very good copy in slightly rubbed non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a sliver of fading to the natural fold. Six poems issued to mark Scannell's term as Poet-in-Residence at the King's School, Canterbury. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Faber, London, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 54pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. In fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Forty-five poems, the author's first collection of verse for twelve years and winner of the Costa Book Award..

Faber, London, 2010. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. Slim 8vo. 54pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. In fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Forty-five poems, the author's first collection of verse for twelve years and winner of the Costa Book Award..

The Cuala Press, Dublin, 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition thus, of which 300 copies were printed. Slim 8vo. 25pp. Linen backed boards, lettered in black at the upper board and with a printed paper spine label. Corner tips rubbed, and with some discolouration to the board margins. Leaf margins lightly toned. Former owner name neatly inked to a blank preliminary leaf, and purchase details inked to the corner of the adjacent leaf. Tiny Irish dealer plate to the base of the rear pastedown. A good copy. No dust wrapper called-for. Yeats' preface, penned especially for this new edition, precedes twenty-three Gogarty poems. This was the first book published by the Cuala Press following its move from Lower Churchtown Road to the house of William and Georges Yeats in Merrion Square, which was to remain the base until February 1925 when a long-term relocation to Baggott Street was completed. Wade 273..

His Majesty's Stationery Office, [London], 1946. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Slim 8vo. Unpaginated [16 pages of printed text, with further text of the inners of the front and rear wrappers]. Stapled wrappers. The wrappers very lightly soiled, and with a little toning to the paperstock. A very nicely preserved example. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..