Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Clearwater Books

Privately printed for the author by Maclehose, Jackson & Co., Glasgow, 1919. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvi, 251pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. With a photographic frontispiece, thirty-two captioned photographs, and five multi-panel folding colour maps. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Free endpapers lightly spotted, and with a tiny trace of very light further spotting to several preliminary leaves. Former owner gift inscription (dated 1961) neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A very good copy of this uncommon narrative of the author's Great War career as Captain with the Scottish Rifles (he was wounded in France and retuned home)..

Harrison Smith, New York, 1932. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Crown 8vo. 373pp. Reddy-brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. A tiny dealer plate to the head of the rear pastedown, else a virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at one or two extremities with just a touch of tanning to the spine panel with several tiny closed tears. A super copy of the author's second novel..

Arc Publications, Todmorden, 2011. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 63pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. Wells-next-the-Sea Poetry Festival founder Alan Byford's copy, with his name inked to the front pastedown. A lengthy and glowing review ("and I don't remember being so moved by a book of poems") has been inked to the front free endpaper by Poet Laureate-to-be Simon Armitage. A fine copy in virtually fine pictorial dust wrapper designed by the author. Thirty-one poems, his final collection..

Privately printed for the author by the Board of Directors of Konan University, Kobe, Japan, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Limited to 400 numbered copies (this being #170), signed by the author at the base of the photographic portrait frontispiece, designed by Bunsho Jugaku and printed on specially made handmade paper. 4to. 41pp. Paper-covered boards with a paper spine label (and a spare tipped-in at the rear) and a small gilt-stamped vignette to the upper board. A little light uneven tanning to the boards and a small bump to the lower gutter. Very good indeed. Lacking the unprinted tissue protector but with a sheet of acetate supplied. Laid-in is a slip from the same paperstock, printed in Japanese and presumably a compliments slip. A one-page preface by the author precedes thirty poems, twelve of them hitherto uncollected and the remainder selected from his two previous collections..

Maclean-Hunter Press, 'Yeats Studies Series', Canada, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 288pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. With a frontispiece and 18 plates. Slight crease to spine, else a virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel and a little rubbed at some extremities and with just a tiny hint of foxing..

Printed by The National Press Agency Ltd., and published by The National Reform Union as #234 of the 'National Reform Union Leaflet' series, Manchester [1904]., 1904. Book. Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. First edition. A single sheet measuring 27cm x 22cm. Folded once, with some tenderness to the fold, and the paperstock a little toned, marked, spotted and brittle. Some further soiling to the unprinted reverse. Above the title is a black and white cartoon of two ghostly British officers from the Boer War ("Ghosts of the British Dead"), alongside the skeleton of a third. One figure points at a line of Chinese labourers and is allocated the quotation "Look there, Bill, that's what you and I and twenty thousand others died for" (this in reference to a labour shortage at the gold mines on the Rand [a result of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 displacing large numbers of the indigenous population] which resulted in the importation of Chinese labour in 1904). The cartoon was… Read More

The Fortune Press, London, 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 48pp. Black buckram lettered in gold at the spine. Printed on laid paper. The tip of one corner gently knocked and with a short mark to the buckram at the upper board. Several tiny pinpricks of spotting to the upper margin of the title leaf. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded and rubbed with a tiny sliver of loss from the head of the spine panel. Fifty-one poems, including many with a Secord World War theme. The author's first book, published posthumously following his death in action in Italy in December 1943. Uncommon, and more so with the dust wrapper..

Roberts Bros., Boston and John Lane, London, 'The Keynote Series',, 1895. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The American issue of the first edition, printed by John Wilson & Sons at the University Press, Cambridge MA, and with the Roberts Bros. imprint foremost on the title page and gold-stamped to the base of the backstrip. 8vo. 226pp. Reddy-brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine, with a black-stamped design by Aubrey Beardsley to the upper board (repeated on the title page) and a small motif to the rear board. Unprinted tissue title page protector. A little darkening to the cloth at the backstrip. A very good copy of this uncommon collection of nine short stories by the Australian author (the title of the collection is derived from a story with the same name which details an Englishman's affair with the mixed-race wife of a wealthy Chinese merchant). No dust wrapper called-for. Number sixteen of The Keynote Series, for which Aubrey Beardsley designed handsome cloth and… Read More

Privately published by the Westvaco Corporation, Christmas, 1994. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited edition. 286pp. Orange cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped baseball design to the upper board. Decorated endpapers. With head and tail bands and a ribbon place marker. A fine copy in decorated stiff card slipcase, lightly marked and chafed at one or two extremities. A limited edition of Lardner's first book, produced in an unspecified quantity as a Christmas gift for customers of the Westvaco Corporation..

E.P.Dutton, New York, 1987. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), preceding the UK edition by a year. 8vo. 436pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. A scattering of very light spotting to the top edge and a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with just a trace of corresponding rubbing to the spine panel ends..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, first state (with no month mentioned on the copyright page, as required). 8vo. 256pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine with a series of Japanese characters gold-stamped to the upper board. Bamboo-effect endpapers. Top edge spotted with just a touch of further spotting to the fore edge. The spine ends a little bruised and with a strip of light partial browning to the front free endpaper. A very good copy in virtually fine price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only a touch of tanning to the spine panel and a tiny area of light creasing to the head of the spine panel. A super copy of the eleventh Bond novel (the twelfth book)..

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington Ltd., London, 1890. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition, printed from the US sheets. 8vo. 193pp + xxxii publisher's catalogue at rear. Red cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with a quite striking black- and gilt-stamped patterning to the backstrip and upper board. Captioned tissue-protected frontispiece. Patterned endpapers lightly browned, and with just a touch of fading to the backstrip and a hint of wear to the spine ends. A very good copy. One of two books Hearn produced during the two years (1987-89) he spent in Martinique at the behest of 'Harper's Magazine'. The following year he moved to Japan, and quickly became a naturalized citizen, assuming the name Koizumi Yakumo and eventually cementing his reputation..

Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., London, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy fondly inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 174pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. The tiniest hint of wear to one or two extremities. A virtually fine copy in lightly rubbed, chafed and internally marked price-clipped dust wrapper, the publisher's red spine panel lettering quite faded as is so often the case. The author's ninth novel, a fictional biography of the 23-year-old Adolf Hitler on a visit to Liverpool in 1912..

John Murray, London, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition - the dedication copy, inscribed by the author "To Oliver, one of the dedicatees, with much love from his uncle, the author, Bevis. Redhill, July 1988". 8vo. 479pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with over forty captioned photographs. A very good copy in dust wrapper. The first volume of Hillier's mammoth three-decker biography of Betjeman, the research and writing of which occupied twenty-five years. (Oliver is the youngest child of Hillier's sister, Mary Thompson). Peterson O98..

Macdonald, London, 1953. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 416pp. Red linson lettered in gold at the spine. Several tiny pinpricks of spotting to the top edge and a short crease to the tip of the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in very good James Broom Lynne-designed pictorial dust wrapper, price-clipped with new price inked to the base of the front flap, with just a touch of wear to the spine ends and corner tips..

Saqi Books, London, 2006. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 391pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A very light scattering of spotting to the top edge and a hint of tanning to the leaf margins. Very good indeed in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The fifth novel by the late Turkish author, who served as the vice-president of International PEN for nearly twenty years..

Lars Müller Publishers, Baden, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 527pp. Black cloth with blind-stamped lettering to the spine and upper board. Illustrated throughout with photographs, drawings, plans and reproductions. In fine state with fine dust wrapper..

No publisher / no date Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. A concertina binding within a folding stiff paper envelope. Inked date (1923). Very good. Also enclosed is an embroidered card sent "from somewhere in France" as a Christmas remembrance..

Allen Lane, London, 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First English Edition (first printing). 8vo. 320pp. Grey cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Top edge fractionally dust marked, otherwise a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly sunned at spine panel..