Search Results: Titles starting with V from Clearwater Books

Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1989. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 2nd Edition. The second edition, considerably expanded to include an essay from the founder of the publishing house, an essay from Richard Eyre who directed the 1987 film version of the poem, and 41 pages reproducing press articles covering the controversy surrounding that broadcast. This copy inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Trish [Montemuro] love Tony, NT 1990 xx" with the 'V' from the title here incorporated into the word 'Love'. Slim 8vo. 80pp. Publisher's glossy card wrappers, very lightly rubbed. A very good copy of the expanded second edition of Harrison's wonderful poem, here inscribed to his great friend and National Theatre colleague Trish Montemuro. Richard Eyre's film adaption of the poem was shown on Channel Four in November 1987. Prior to the broadcast the press were openly hostile, and a group of Conservative MPs entered an early day motion… Read More

Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1985. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) the card wrapper issue. This copy inscribed by the author on the half-title to: "Trish [Montemuro] love Tony Christmas 1985", with the 'V' from the title here incorporated into the word 'Love'. Slim 8vo. Unpaginated. Publisher's glossy card wrappers, slightly marked in places and with a little light creasing to one corner. Place marker crease to the corner of one text leaf, and some marginal pencil marking and underlining. A very good copy of Harrison's equally celebrated and divisive poem. Uncommon in this first edition state (although the simultaneously issued casebound example is more so), and here considerably enhanced by his contemporary inscription to his great friend and National Theatre colleague Trish Montemuro..

TNR Publications, London, 1978. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 15pp. Stapled card wrappers, lightly rubbed at one or two extremities and with several small areas of discolouration. A small area of soiling to one leaf margin. A nice bright copy. Five poems. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Chatto & Windus, London, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 239pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge spotted. Some toning to the free endpapers, and tanning to the lesser quality paperstock, yet still a very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a hint of corresponding toning to the flaps and a single tiny area of enclosed chafing. A very nice copy of the author's second novel, a sequel to her debut 'Every Day is Mother's Day' (1985)..

John Lehmann Ltd., London, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author to his friend the eccentric poet Audrey Beecham. Slim 8vo. 62pp. Yellow cloth, blocked in green and lettered in gold at the spine. Errata slip tipped between pp.12-13, as issued. Several small squares of tape residue marking to the free endpapers, off-set to the adjacent leaf. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper designed by Keith Vaughan, with just a trace of dust soiling to the rear panel and a tiny hint of wear to the spine ends and to several corner tips. Thirty poems..

Cassell, London, 1937. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xviii, 762pp. Red cloth with slightly defective silver blocking to the spine. Fore edge and several preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the front free endpaper. A nice bright copy. No dust wrapper. A seven-page introduction precedes extensive chronologically ordered extracts from Robert Graves, T.E.Lawrence, V.M.Yeates, Wilfred Owen, Ernst Junger, R.H.Mottram, C.E.Montague, Beverley Nichols, Herbert Read, Henry Williamson, John Buchan, &c., &c., &c..

University of London Press Ltd., London, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 255pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped vignette to the upper board. With decorated endpapers, a colour frontispiece and eight full-page black and white drawings. Publisher's red top edge stain very slightly faded. Former owner details neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very light crease to the upper corner of forty-odd text leaves, yet still a very good copy in non-price-clipped double-spread pictorial dust wrapper, with an inch of loss from the base of the spine panel, and some chafing, nicking, and unsightly creasing. The fourth of her eight books for children..

Secker & Warburg, London, 1991. 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. 311pp. Blue boards lettered in black at the spine. Backstrip ends gently bruised, tips of two corners lightly bumped, and a little toning to the leaf margins as is invariably the case. Very good in price-clipped dust wrapper, with a small area of fading to the spine panel and a little ear to the spine panel ends and corner tips. The third instalment in the author's Barrytown sequence..

George G.Harrap, London, 1936. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 260pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Decorated endpapers. Portrait frontispiece and black and white vignettes throughout. Boards lightly marked and endpapers browned. Spine panel sunned, otherwise a good, bright copy. No dust wrapper. Contains T.E.Lawrence's obituary..

Michael Joseph, London, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 189pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With endpaper decorations and various full-page drawings and further drawings in the text. A virtually fine copy in very good pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with some fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering, as is so often the case. The first of Bates' three volumes of memoirs..

Holt, New York, 1922. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first printing of the first American edition. 8vo. 84pp. Attractive ornate gilt-pictorial cloth. A very bright copy. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Fifty-three poems..

Secker & Warburg, London, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing), 8vo. 503pp. Red boards lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. Top edge spotted, and with a little further light spotting and partial toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in very lightly rubbed and toned dust wrapper. The author's second book and first novel (preceded by a collection of three novellas issued in a single volume)..

Collins, London, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 174pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with seventeen black and white photographs. Some light miscellaneous staining to the top edge, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and with a small area of internal moisture marking to the lower edge. Eleven essays which together comprise Lees-Milne's personal portrait of Venice..

Faber, London, 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Second impression of the first edition, issued the same year as the original impression. 8vo. 337pp. Maroon cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with a gilt-stamped decoration to the upper board. With map-illustrated endpapers, a frontispiece, 30 full-page or double-spread photographs, and several maps. Edges lightly spotted and with a strip of very slight partial discolouration to the free endpapers. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly toned at the spine panel, and with a little chafing and wear to the extremities and to several of the natural folds. The author's celebrated study of the history, culture and meaning of Venice; winner of the 1961 Heinemann Award..

Lion and Unicorn Press, London, 1965. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, one of a deluxe issue of 400 numbered copies (this being #183). 4to. 67pp. Black cloth with a Piper design embossed to the upper board. Piper contributes a double-spread title-page design and twenty-four illustrations including a number of full-page and double-spread presentations, many presented in two colours. Cloth at the backstrip fractionally faded, else a fine copy. No dust wrapper required. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Levinson 127..

The Cresset Press, London [1943] Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 64pp. Cream cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Cloth lightly spotted. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly edgeworn and with a small triangular area of loss to the base of the front panel. The author's second collection of verse - twenty-six poems, several of which are Second World War poems (Allott was a conscientious objector throughout the conflict. He was highly praised by Francis Scarfe in his influential 1942 critical study 'Auden and After')..

Bloomsbury, New York, 1997. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First US Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page and dated two years after publication. 8vo. 357pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Maroon endpapers and a ribbon place marker. In fine state with non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little marked internally, else fine. The author's first novel, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award..

Poem-of-the-Month Club Ltd., London, 1972. Book. Near Fine. No Binding. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Broadsheet. A twenty-one line poem, signed by the author. A single tiny blemish. Very good indeed..

Outposts Publication, 1977. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, number 71 of a signed and numbered edition of unspecified limitation. Slim 8vo. 51pp. Card wrappers, slightly spotted. A very good copy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition, issued a year after the US edition and here limited to 900 numbered copies (this being #202). 8vo. 143pp. Quarter cloth with patterned paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Just a hint of wear to the backstrip ends, and a little spotting to the endpapers and to one blank preliminary and concluding leaf. Former owner armorial bookplate to the front pastedown. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Powys' assessment of the American literary scene. Foss A4[b]..