Search Results: Titles starting with A from Clearwater Books

Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd., London, 1937. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. xvi, 88pp + [vi] advertisements. Rough-weave cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. With fifty-six reproductions of works by John Austen, Eric Fraser, Frederick Sandys, Arthur Boys Houghton, Alan Odle, Albert Rutherston and others. The cloth a little spotted, with a touch of wear to the corner tips. A good, bright copy. No dust wrapper..

Printed by Centurion Press Ltd., London, 1993. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 464pp. Glossy card wrappers (not issued in casebound format). Illustrated with drawings and photographs, including some in colour. A fine copy..

Ganglia Press, '5 Cent Mimeo' series, Toronto [1967]., 1967. Book. Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. A single sheet of blue paper, folded to form four leaves, measuring (once folded) 11cm x 9cm. Initialled by the author at the base of the front leaf. A fine copy of this brief three-word poem. The author's second separate publication (according to Ken Lopez, cataloguing a copy in 1997). Highly ephemeral. Ondaatja of course would go on to win the Booker Prize in 1992 for 'The English Patient'. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, first issue, retaining the four-page 'A Flood in the Office' sequence (pp.278-282) which was excited from all subsequent states following libel action. 8vo. viii, 351pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine, and with the publisher's blue top edge stain, which is lightly faded. A touch of light bruising to the backstrip ends, some light partial toning to the free endpapers, and just a trace of spotting to the fore edge and to several preliminary leaves. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly toned at the spine panel, rubbed with several tiny fractions of edge-loss, and a little light fox spotting. A very nice copy of this miscellany of circa eighty Forster articles, essays, reviews and poems collected from the pages of assorted periodicals..

The Philip Larkin Society, Hull, 2003. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. 34pp. Wrappers, lightly chafed. A very good copy. Various loose related inserts laid-in. Includes various essays, articles, reviews and other Larkinania. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Philip Larkin Society, Hull, 2001. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. 39pp. Wrappers. A very good copy. Much of this issue is devoted to Larkins lover and muse Monica Jones, who passed away several months earlier. Also included is an eleven-page Larkin prose fragment, hitherto unpublished and from the archive of the Brynmor Jones Library. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Philip Larkin Society, Hull, 2002. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. 42pp. Wrappers, lightly chafed. A very good copy. Various loose related inserts laid-in. Much of this issue is devoted to the schoolboy Larkin, and includes hitherto unprinted excerpts from his earliest writings, plus the transcript of a talk by Jean Hartley, 'Philip Larkin and Me, or You: The Democratic Appeal of his Poetry', originally delivered as a year 2000 talk to the Society. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Edward Arnold, London, 1952. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xix, 259pp. Brown cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece and over fifty illustrations. Top corner of each leaf lightly creased. Quite a crisp copy in lightly spotted and tanned non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The first full-length biography of "the father of biology" Abraham Trembley, the Swiss naturalist best known for being the first to study freshwater polyps and for being among the first to develop experimental zoology..

Gomer Press, Llandysul, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author: "For Jeremy [Hooker] / whose encouragement / and criticism I acknowledge / with deep gratitude / Roland / 14 August 1971". Slim 8vo. 50pp. Black boards lettered and ruled in gold at the upper board. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a small area of rubbing to top edge and some light internal spotting. Twenty-three poems; the author's fifth collection of verse and winner of the Welsh Arts Council prize for poetry. Harris A(i)[7]..

[no place, no date] Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Card wrappers, slightly creased. (Stark images of wounded soldiers and shattered corpses). [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2003. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author by way of a title-specific bookplate pasted to the title page. 8vo. 383pp. Red boards lettered in black at the spine. Ribbon place marker. Top edge lightly spotted, and with half a dozen further pinpricks of spotting to the fore edge. A light horizontal crease to the rear free endpaper. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some fading to the publisher's spine panel colouring. A very good copy of this standalone espionage novel..

Picador, London, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title-page and dated the year of publication. 8vo. ix, 462pp. Black cloth lettered in white at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The Ugandan novelist's first book, a Bildungsroman set during the 1970s and 1980s. It was originally published in his adopted Netherlands in 1998, before appearing in a slightly revised format in English in the US and UK in 2000..

Macmillan, London, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 344pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's ninth novel, shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger..

Windsor Press, San Francisco, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition - limited to 225 numbered and signed copies (this being #165). Small 4to. 23pp. Cloth-backed floral-patterned paper boards. With decorations by Julian Links. Pastedowns and free endpapers lightly spotted and with a former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Very good in the original unprinted tissue protector, slightly defective at spine panel, and rubbed, spotted and discoloured slipcase. This is the first and only separate edition of this Williamson story, which was originally printed in 'The London Mercury' in January 1927 and is here slightly revised..

Windsor Press, San Francisco, 1929. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 225 numbered copies, signed by the author, this copy un-numbered but signed by the author on a blank flyleaf, as required. Small 4to. 23pp. Cloth-backed floral-patterned paper boards. With decorations by Julian Links, printed in black and green. A touch of light toning to the board margins. A lovely bright copy. No dust wrapper called for but lacking the unprinted tissue protector [a fresh sheet of acetate is supplied] and card slipcase. This is the first and only separate edition of this Williamson story, which was originally printed in' The London Mercury' in January 1927 and is here slightly revised..

Faber, London, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 79pp. Red cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Some tanning to lesser-quality paperstock, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Forty-four poems, the author's second collection of verse, for which he was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize..

Sorus, Poznan, 2017. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English-language edition. 8vo. 392pp. Original publisher's glossy boards. Illustrated with maps, and with photographs by the author. A fine copy. No dust wrapper called for. Nowak's diaries covering his 40,000km solo bicycle tour of Africa from Libya to Cape Agulhas, South Africa and back to Algeria (the author died from pneumonia a year after his tour was complete, the illness a result of emaciation from travel, malaria, and leg surgery). His photographs of the trip were published in Poland 1962 but his full diary was not issued until 2000 with this English-language finally edition appearing 17 years later. Uncommon. "An utterly exceptional book. Its content and the personality of the writer account for its compelling nature. As such, it should command greater attention and wider recognition . I ardently hope that it will take place among the classics of Polish reportage" - Ryszard Kapuściński..

Priapus Press, 'Priapus Poets' series, Berkhamsted, 1980. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 180 hand-set copies (this being one of 150 un-signed and un-numbered examples). Small slim 8vo. Unpaginated [12pp] sewn into pink card wrappers illustrated with a Rigby Graham series design. In fine state. Five poems - the author's uncommon first book, preceding her first regularly published collection 'Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis' by six years. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Duckworth, London, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy boldly signed by the author at the head of the title page. Tall 8vo. 160pp. red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers, thirteen chapter-header drawings by the author, sixteen photographs, and seven black and white plates reproducing his paintings. A touch of very light wear to the backstrip ends and the off-set outline of a small now-absent sticker to the front free endpaper. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, nicked and a little torn at the spine panel ends and with a resulting crease to the head of the rear panel, and a little internal discolouration..

William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 315pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with blue endpapers. A little light spotting to three or four preliminary leaves, and some further spotting to a score of concluding leaves, in the main only impacting the margins. Some offset discolouration from the dust wrapper design to the backstrip, and with a sliver of fading to the spine ends where the wrapper is defective. Very good in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, chipped with just a little loss to the spine ends and corner tips, with a tiny sliver of further loss from the upper edge of the front panel, a small enclosed snag and just a touch of browning and spotting to the rear panel..