Search Results: Authors starting with B from Clearwater Books

The Roxburghe Club, London, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition thus, printed at the Southwark Press. 4to. 75pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and facsimiles and reproductions of various editions and fragments. A new edition of the noted propaganda poem, with scholarly notes by Howard Nixon, Librarian of Westminster Abbey, who passed away prior to its completion, the book now being dedicated and presented to members of The Roxburghe Club in his memory. In fine state. One of 220 copies issued for sale..

Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge, 1922. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's third book. 8vo. 236pp. Rough cloth-backed boards with a paper spine label. Top- and fore edge untrimmed. Corner tips lightly rubbed. A very good copy in fairly poor dust wrapper, tanned and chipped with some notable loss from the spine panel ends, and a sliver or so more from one or two other extremities. Thirty essays, some reprinted from periodicals including a number contributed to the 'Yorkshire Observer' under the pseudonym 'Peter of Pomfret')..

Heinemann, London, 1975. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 192pp. red boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with one short jagged tear to the upper margin of the front panel and just a touch of discolouration to the spine panel..

The Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 79pp. Paper-covered boards lettered in gold at the spine. Small bump to head of spine. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, tanned and a little rubbed and marked. A review copy, with the UK publisher's review slip laid-in..

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1929. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 300pp + [viii] publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in blue at the spine and upper board. Top edge dust soiled, the cloth a little marked and soiled, and with a minor slant to the binding. Free endpapers lightly toned, and with some pencilled marginal notes and highlights. A good copy, slightly dusty. No dust wrapper. A fairly uncommon novel set during the last months of the Great War, based on the author's experiences with the 111th Infantry, 28th Division, American Expeditionary Force..

The Fine Art Society and Adam & Charles Black, London, 1904. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Royal 8vo. xv, 218pp + iv publisher's catalogue. Blue cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board with a gilt- and red-stamped decorative design. Top edge gilt. With a tissue-protected colour frontispiece, 59 colour plates with captioned tissue protectors, one black and white plate, and one folding four-panel address. A little wear to the backstrip ends and the cloth at the spine fractionally darkened. Fore- and bottom edge lightly spotted and the free endpapers lightly browned and spotted. A minor slant to the binding. A very good copy..

Hammond, Hammond & Co., Ltd., 'Cloak & Dagger' series, London, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 192pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine and with a small series motif blind-stamped to the upper board. A trace of very light toning and spotting to the free endpapers. A very good copy in slightly nicked, chafed and toned non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's uncommon third novel; a Munich-based P.I. noir thriller..

Walter Scott, 'The Camelot Series', London, 1888. Book. Poor. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, first state of Yeats' second book. preceded only by The Dublin University Review offprint pamphlet 'Mosada' (1886). 8vo. 326pp + [vi] advertisements. The binding cocked, and the rear gutter splitting with two tears to the backstrip, and some chipping to the spine ends. Paper spine label tanned and chipped, and the corner tips rubbed. Some quite light spotting to the endpapers and a light crease to the first half-dozen leaves. Errata slip missing. Some spotting to the protruding edges of the fore- and bottom edges. An uncommon book but alas quite a poor copy, although really quite crisp and bright internally. No dust wrapper called for. Yeats contributes a ten-page introduction, nine introductory essays of varying length, a selection of notes, and his poems 'The Stolen Child' and 'The Priest of Coloony'. Wade 212 (binding 1)..

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..

A Review of English Literature. Vol. IV No. 3. July, 1963. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. 113pp. Card wrappers. Very good. Includes a selection of newly discovered letters from Yeats to Lady Gregory; and a study of drafts of the poems 'Long-Legged Fly' and 'The Statues' by Jon Stallworthy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Cuala Pres, Dublin, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (this being #433). 8vo. 62pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards lettered in black at the upper board and with a paper spine label. Tips of two corners lightly knocked, else fine in original unprinted tissue protector, just a little chipped. The first book issued by the newly re-started Cuala Press following a thirty-four-year hiatus..

A Review of English Literature. Vol. IV, no. 3, July, 1963. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Edited by A.Norman Jeffares. 8vo. Card wrappers, lightly tanned else very good. Includes critical essays and appreciations of Yeats by Donald T.Torchiana and Glenn O'Malley ('Some New Letters from W.B.Yeats to Lady Gregory'), W.B.Stanford, S.B.Bushrui and Jon Stallworthy (who also contributes the poem 'From W.B.Yeats to his friend Maud Gonne'). This issue also includes an essay on Liam O'Flaherty by George Brandon Saul. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Dawson, London / [University of Illinois], 1978. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Large 8vo. 801pp. Green cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. A little bowing to boards, else very good. No dust wrapper, as issued. Includes nearly 8000 entries, plus 350 additions to Wade..

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 69pp. Green cloth, gilt lettered at the spine. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. A touch of quite light uneven discolouration to the cloth, and the spine ends lightly rubbed. A very crisp and bright copy - particularly crisp internally. No dust wrapper. Two plays ('A Full Moon in March' and 'The King of the Great Clock Tower') and a selection of verse. 2,000 copies were printed. Wade 182..

Little, Brown, London, 2011. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 197pp. Cream boards lettered in black at the spine. A hint of bruising to the spine ends and corner tips, else in fine state with correspondingly chafed non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's final novel, issued posthumously the year after her death and prepared from the working manuscript by her long-time editor Brendan King. A signed card from the publisher's Publicity Director laid-in..

Duckworth, London, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 158pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Some light uneven browning to the pastedowns. Printed on two different types of paperstock, one a somewhat lesser quality resulting in some notable browning to sixteen text leaves. A very good copy in virtually fine price-clipped dust wrapper, marred by a touch of internal browning. The author's eighth novel, winner of the 1977 Whitbread Book of the Year Award..

Hutchinson, London, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's second book. 8vo. 288pp. Grey cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Just a trace of extremely light browning to endpapers. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, the lettering fractionally faded at spine panel and a tiny hint of rubbing to one or two extremities..

Éditions d'art Aurora, Léningrad, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 246pp. Purple cloth lettered in silver at the spine and upper board. A twenty-four page unaccredited essay (the text in French) precedes nearly two hundred reproductions, many of them in colour, of works by the celebrated Belarusian painter and scene-and-costume designer, followed by a chronology, bibliography and list of exhibitions. In fine state with virtually fine dust wrapper..

Viking Press, "A Ballet Society Book", New York, 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 154pp. Rough-weave oat-meal cloth with a gilt-lettered paper spine label. A fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Twentieth Century Verse. No. 4. June-July, 1937. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Stapled card wrappers, the staples rusted and the wrappers a little marked, rubbed and stained. Includes nine ballads, plus A.Desmond Hawkins reviewing George Barker and Rayner Heppenstall, Roy Fuller reviewing Rex Warner's 'Poems', and Philip O'Connor reviewing Charles Madge's 'Disappearing Castles'. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..