Search Results: Authors starting with F from Clearwater Books

Brooke Bond & Co. Ltd., London [1961 & 1962]. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First editions - each volume complete with Tunnicliffe's fifty colour tea cards. Landscape 8vo. Stapled card wrappers, just a little marked and chafed in places, with the wrappers of the first volume just a little tender at the natural fold. Nice bright copies of the ninth and eleventh Brooke Bond's tea card sets..

Excellent Press, London, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Large 4to. 79pp. Original publisher's brown cloth. With twenty-six full-page illustrations by Tunnicliffe, in colour where required, reproduced alongside the artists' diary entries, and dozens of monochrome engravings and vignettes in the text. Small bump to upper board, else in fine state with virtually fine dust wrapper. Edited extracts from 'Shorelands Summer Diary' and 'My Country Book', plus reproductions from Tunnicliffe's personal sketchbook..

Morgan Evans & Co. Ltd., Anglesey, 1985. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo. [16pp]. Stapled wrappers. A June 19 1985 sale catalogue detailing 152 lots from the estate of Mrs. Margaret Walker, Tunnicliffe's niece, and includes six black and white reproductions, plus four more on the upper wrapper, plus a photograph of the artist at work. Inked notations alongside most entries, indicating the prices each lot sold for. Some light creasing. A nice bright copy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Diploma Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1974. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, printed at the Curwen Press. Small 4to. 30pp + colour plates. Card wrappers. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, twelve colour reproductions, four full-page, and another reproduced on the front wrapper. Wrappers lightly dust soiled with a light but lengthy vertical crease to the rear wrapper. A good sound copy of this 206-item catalogue. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Studio, 'Treasures of Art' series, London [circa 1938]. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Folio. Stapled wrappers, lightly tanned and chafed at extremities and with a small tear to base of spine. An eight-page introduction followed by eight tipped-in colour plates reproducing the stained glass. Some light spotting throughout, not affecting the reproductions..

Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., London [1927]. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 288pp. Blue cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. The backstrip ends and corner tips gently rubbed, and with three or four tiny areas of light miscellaneous marking to the boards. A former owner inscription has been partially erased from the front free endpaper, resulting in a little surface damage to the paperstock and a single tiny area of enclosed loss. Crayoned 's' to the front and rear pastedowns. A good copy, really quite crisp internally. No dust wrapper. The third of the author's sequence of 'Mapp and Lucia' novels..

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1935. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 312pp. In a W.H.Smith library binding of green cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board and with the Smith's logo black-stamped to the base of the upper board. The cloth quite faded at the backstrip and with a thin sliver of further fading to one margin of the read board. A little bruising and wear to the spine ends and corner tips. A hint of tenderness to the titlepage and a little further tenderness to a single gathering of four text leaves. A fair copy. No dust wrapper. The fifth of the author's sequence of 'Mapp and Lucia' novels..

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1939. Book. Poor. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 288pp. Original publisher's blue cloth. The backstrip detached and laid-in, and with some wear and rubbing to the cloth at the upper band lower boards. Some partially erased notes to the half-title alongside three inked numerals. A poor copy. No dust wrapper. The sixth and final of the author's sequence of 'Mapp and Lucia' novels..

Hutchinson & Co., London [1922]. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 288pp + xl publisher's catalogue at the rear ("New books for Autumn 1922"). Blue cloth lettered and ruled in black at the spine. Some nicking and light wear to the backstrip ends, a trace of bruising to the corner tips, and a two-inch slit to the lower outer gutter. Free endpapers browned. The binding cracked but sound at several gatherings. Faint trace of erased former owner notations to the front free endpaper. A good copy, really quite crisp internally. No dust wrapper. The second of the author's sequence of 'Mapp and Lucia' novels..

Hutchinson & Co., London [1920]. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 304pp. Orange cloth lettered and ruled in black at the spine. The cloth faded at the backstrip and a single tiny area of toning, and with a little further fading to the margins of the upper and lower boards. Some bruising to the backstrip ends, and some knocking to the corner tips and one or two other extremities. The binding just a fraction tender at the half-title. Rear endpaper browned, and just a faint trace of erased former owner notation to the front free endpaper. A tiny nick and accompanying crease to the fore edge margin of four adjacent text leaves. A fair copy, really quite crisp internally. No dust wrapper. The first of the author's sequence of 'Mapp and Lucia' novels. Uncommon..

Martinis Nijhoff, The Hague, 1951. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 143pp. Oatmeal cloth lettered in brown at the spine and with a brown-stamped vignette to the upper board. With fifty-four plates, also notes and bibliography. A fine copy in the attractive dust wrapper, very slightly nicked and dusty. An uncommon title, professing to be the very first study in English of the genre..

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1956. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing) of the author's second volume of short fiction. 8vo. 191pp. Maroon cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny hint of very light spotting to the top- and fore edge, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a tiny hint of tanning to the spine panel and a single short tear to the head of the rear panel. Nine stories. This UK edition was issued the same year as the American edition, and yet remains considerably more elusive..

Besant & Co., London, 1935. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy warmly inscribed by the author and his wife and dated Christmas 1937. 60pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Some discolouration to the head of the upper and lower boards, and several small areas of bleed to the endpapers and pastedowns from the publisher's blue top-edge stain. A light scattering of spotting to the fore edge and to several preliminary leaves. Quite a nice crisp copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little spotted, tanned at spine panel and quite tender at natural folds and with a single small area of loss. Forty-two poems..

Blackie & Son Ltd., London & Glasgow, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 319pp. Orange cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board with a triple red-stamped border. With a frontispiece and five captioned black and white plates, one of which is just a little tender. A strip of very light partial browning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in non-price-clipped colour pictorial dust wrapper, with some dust soiling to the predominantly white rear panel, and with a little rubbing and nicking but no loss. An uncommon adventure novel for children, with a Spanish Civil War setting..

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A slip of paper inscribed by the author ("For Dolly in friendship. R.F.Delderfield") has been pasted to the front free endpaper, alongside a contemporary inked inscription by third party but to the same recipient. 8vo. 255pp. Two-tone boards lettered in gold at the spine. Very good indeed in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly toned at the margins of the rear panel. Twenty-nine autobiographical sketches by the noted novelist..

Chatto & Windus, London, 1946. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 227pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at spine with the publishers green top edge stain. Edges spotted, encroaching a fraction to occasional leaf margins, and with a touch more spotting to half a dozen preliminary leaves. A very good copy in lightly spotted, rubbed and dust marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Eleven short stories, eight previously printed in periodicals or a standalone (mostly) limited edition books, with three more appearing in print here for the first time. Riley A32..

Brynmill Press Ltd., Doncaster, 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. vi, 124pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges very lightly spotted, with some quite noticeable spotting to the free endpapers and just a hint more to several preliminary leaves. A very good copy in slightly tarnished price-clipped dust wrapper, laminated by the publisher. A one-hundred page novella, written in the early 1920s and hitherto unpublished. Folding one page 'Additional Note' and errata slip laid-in, as issued, also lightly spotted..

The Viking Press Inc., New York, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first American edition, printed from the sheets of the English edition and limited to 260 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #236). 4to. 100pp. Cream parchment lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and upper board, with a blind stamped design of twelve squares and rectangles to the upper and lower boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Parchment darkened at the backstrip and lightly soiled, faded and rubbed in places. A very good copy. Written in 1906 and originally privately printed in a limited edition of 100 copies a year later, Riley speculates that at least half of that print run was subsequently pulped. It was republished in 1929 by Chatto & Windus in a limited edition to 490 copies, with this noticeably smaller run produced for the US market. The English issue included a dust wrapper, but I am unaware of the existence of a jacket for this US edition, although there was… Read More

Chatto & Windus, London, 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. A new edition, issued here in crown 8vo format for the first time, and with one of George Charlton's drawings from the original 1927 limited edition reproduced on the dust wrapper. 316pp. Black cloth lettered in white at the spine. The top edge dust soiled, a very light scattering of spotting to the fore edge, and just a trace of very light partial toning to the free endpapers. The binding a fraction tender at several gatherings. A nice bright copy in lightly toned, dust soiled and edge-worn dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but re-priced by the publisher..

Chatto & Windus, London, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first English edition, limited to 750 numbered copies, signed by the author (this being #729). A review copy, with the publisher's review slip laid-in. Tall 8vo. 275pp. Full green buckram with bevelled edges and a gilt lettered and ruled leather spine label. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The buckram a little faded at the backstrip and with just a trace of tanning to the free endpapers. A very good copy, lacking the plain dust wrapper. Nineteen stories, all here making their first appearance in print (this UK edition was preceded by the US trade edition, which appeared a month earlier). Nineteen stories, Riley A17..