Search Results: Titles starting with W from Clearwater Books

Oxford University Press, London, 1965. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First separate edition - this copy inscribed by the author on the front wrapper to poet and academic John Holloway: "J.H. with homage T.R.H.". Card wrappers, lightly handled and with two small stains. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1928. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. 319pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with publisher's motif blind-stamped to the rear board. Covers spotted and faded and a little creased at the backstrip ends. Inscription of former owner neatly inked to the front endpaper. No jacket..

The New Statesman and Nation. The Week-end Review. Vol. LII, no. 1337. 27 October 1956., 1956. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers. A lovely crisp copy. The first appearance in print of the W.S.Graham poem, which was not reprinted until the posthumous 'Uncollected Poems' (1990)..

Meijer Pers NV,, 1969. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, printed for private circulation as a New Years gift for the friends of the printer and publisher. Landscape 8vo. 40pp. Original publisher's cloth featuring a striking design. With four full-page duotones from the archives of the Institute for War Documentation, plus portraits of the three authors reproduced on thick translucent leaves. Text in Dutch. Three recollections of the German occupation of Holland during the Second World War. In fine state, no dust wrapper, as issued. Printer's compliments slip laid-in..

Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 2015. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 458pp. Paper-covered cloth lettered in silver at the spine and with the publisher's motif silver-stamped to the upper board. With sixty captioned black and white photographs. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a tiny crease to the base of the spine panel. A biography of the noted curator, collector and patron of the arts, best remembered as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe..

The Bodley Head, London, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) of Theroux's debut novel (which was preceded by the US edition). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 208pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny smattering of foxing to the top edge and a single tiny blemish to the front free endpaper. Near fine in Yvonne Skargon-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but fractionally marked and with a single lengthy closed tear to the front panel..

HarperCollins, London, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy bearing a signed presentation inscription from the author. Royal 8vo. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper..

Hutchinson, London, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. Slim 8vo. 47pp. Paper-covered boards lettered in gold at upper board. Some spotting to top edge, occasionally encroaching to extreme upper margin of text leaves, and with a little light tanning and soiling to boards. Two tiny enclosed holes to backstrip. Quite a nice, crisp copy in a fairly fatigued example of the dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but tanned, a little creased and quite chipped at upper edge with a number of portions of loss. Thirty-two poems, Abse's second collection of verse..

W.W.Norton & Co., New York, 1995. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First US Edition (first printing), issued a year after the English edition. 8vo. 198pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. Backstrip ends gently rubbed, with a little marking to the boards, and a faint trace of spotting to the edges and free endpapers. A nice crisp copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little corresponding creasing to the spine panel ends. Nine stories, interspersed with ten short 'stories-within-stories'. The author's fourth collection of shot fiction..

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 63pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge spotted, occasionally encroaching to extreme upper margin of some leaves. A very good copy in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, tanned at spine panel and extremities of front and rear panels. Forty-two poems, many, including the celebrated title poem, with a Second World War theme. Uncommon..

Thames & Hudson, London, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 92pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. With colour photographic endpapers and one hundred colour photographs, many full-page or double-spread, taken by the artist and Jerry L.Thompson. In fine state with dust wrapper, the publisher's laminate peeling a little in two or three areas, else fine..

Faber, London, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 447pp. Black cloth, gilt lettered at the spine. Top- and fore edge lightly speckled and with just a touch of soiling to the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with perhaps a shade of fading to the spine panel..

Collection Merlin, Paris, 1953. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition of the author's first book, which was limited to 600 copies (this being one of 300 ordinary copies). Royal 8vo. 62pp. Plain card wrappers with the original textured folding dust wrapper, lightly tanned and discoloured. Very good. Twenty-five poems, issued under the Merlin imprint of the Olympia Press. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Oliver & Boyd Ltd., Edinburgh & London, 1943. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 36pp Stapled into lettered card wrappers, very lightly marked and faded. A very good copy. Former owner name neatly inked to the title page (which serves at the first leaf). Comprises 'Peter Morrison; or The Wanderer', a poem in twelve cantos dedicated to Hugh MacDiarmid and Hector MacIver, plus seven further poems and a lengthy glossary. The second book by the Scottish poet and novelist. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Duckworth & Co., London, 1908. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition Thus (first printing), complete in two volumes. 8vo. xx, 309 and x, 297pp. Green cloth lettered in black at the spines. Top edges gilt. With a tissue-protected portrait frontispiece to the first volume, and a frontispiece drawing to the second. Backstrip ends gently bruised, and with a little toning to the free endpapers and spotting to several preliminary leaves. The binding a fraction tender at the first text leaf of volume one. Tiny dealer plates to the base of the front pastedowns. A very good set of this abridgement of Doughty's important 1888 travelogue, which recounts just under two years spent exploring Western and Central Arabia. 'Travels in Arabia Deserta' was rejected by four publishing houses and went largely unnoticed until the full text was reissued in 1921 accompanied by a glowing T.E.Lawrence introduction..

The Rota at the University of Exeter, 1977. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The first collected edition of Garfield's five (of, probably, six) self-published "anecdotes of roguery . and lascivious practices", reproduced from copies held in various institutions. Slim 8vo. [84]pp of printed text, sewn into card wrappers. Lightly faded at the spine, else a virtually fine copy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Hand and Flower Press, 'Poems in Pamphlet' series, Aldington, 1952. Book. Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page: "Enya & Arthur from Ursula. I haven't given this to you before have I? Loud thought - forgive me if I have!" Slim 8vo. Paginated 287-316pp (this being the tenth title in the series). Stapled card wrappers, a little spotted and with three blotches of staining, but very crisp internally. Seventeen poems, the author's fourth such collection. Laid-in is a photocopy of one further typewritten poem which does not feature in this collection. Ursula Wood (née Lock, and later Williams) was the second wife of Ralph Vaughan Williams (they married a year after this collection was published), as well as his literary advisor, personal assistant and later his biographer; she also wrote the libretto to two of his last choral works. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2008. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first American edition (preceded by the Australian edition, but preceding the UK edition by a year). 8vo. 256pp. Yellow boards lettered in black at the spine. A lengthy crease to eight consecutive leaves, the result of a production fault mis-cut, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, fine but of a hint of creasing to the head of the spine panel. The author's multi-award winning fifth novel..

Michael Joseph in association with The Imperial War Museum and The Tate Gallery, London, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 310pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Map-illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with over 170 reproductions including over fifty in colour. A little light wear to head and base of spine. A very good copy in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, a little faded at the spine panel. The first comprehensive account of the British official war art schemes from their beginnings in 1916 up until the Falklands War..

Michael Joseph in association with The Imperial War Museum and The Tate Gallery, London, 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 310pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Map-illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with over 170 reproductions including over fifty in colour. A fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, faded at the spine panel as is common and with just a tiny hint of creasing to the head of the spine panel. The first comprehensive account of the British official war art schemes from their beginnings in 1916 up until the Falklands War..