Search Results: Titles starting with U from Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

Boulder, Colorado: Cecil Palmer, 2011. Pp. [viii]+x+312, text illustrations, glossary, index; demy 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Paladin Press, Boulder, Colorado, 2011..

Paris: Histec Publications, 2013. Pp. 82(upper wrapper included in pagination), coloured and black & white illustrations, index; cr. 4to; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Histoire & Collections, Paris, 2013. *An excellent reference to the insignia of the US Forces in WWII.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1966. The complete story of the United States Championship of Golf. Pp. 224, 16 plates, appendix, selected bibliography, index; edges of boards a trifle rubbed, corners lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed and split; inked ownership inscription on upper free endpaper, the free endpapers faintly offset, a little light foxing;Dutton, New York, 1966. First edition. Donovan & Murdoch 51920.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1926. Pp. [iv]+286, one engraved plate, small headpiece decoration printed in red; tall demy 8vo; cream buckram over bevelled boards, the spine lettered in gilt, fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised, the spine slightly darkened; uncut; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the text block faintly browned, a couple of spots of foxing; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1926. Edition limited to 1,250 numbered copies on Japon vellum, signed by the author on the dedication page. McKitterick 31. *Lacking the dust wrapper. The first publication of this novel in England. The copperplate engraving is by Stephen Gooden.

N: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1978. Pp. 72(last blank); pictorial paper wrappers, a trifle soiled, top fore-corners creased; top edges of leaves faintly foxed, top fore-corners creased; Fiddlehead Poetry Books, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 1978. Fiddlehead Poetry Book No. 232.

London: Macmillan, 2003. SAS Contact Al Qaeda. Pp. xvi+304, 8 coloured plates, chapter notes, bibliography, index; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, a trifle canted, fore-corners lightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle worn; Macmillan, London, 2003. First edition. *An account of the SAS's biggest and most destructive mission in Afghanistan.

London: Macmillan, 2003. SAS contact Al Qaeda. Pp. xvi+304, 8 coloured plates, chapter notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Macmillan, London, 2003. Third impression. *An account of the SAS's biggest and most destructive mission in Afghanistan.

London: Treasure Press, 1991. Pp. 192, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, index; impl. 4to; foot of spine lightly rubbed; dust wrapper; Treasure Press, London, 1991.First edition.

London: I. B. Tauris, 1985. Pp. 304, appendices, notes, selected bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper; bookplate on upper pastedown, preliminaries and edges of leaves foxed; I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, London, 1985. First edition..

N: N, n.d.. Pp. 256, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, glossary, index; roy. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; dust wrapper; Treasure Press, 1993. First Australian edition?

London: Macmillan, 2003. SAS contact Al Qaeda. Pp. xvi+304, 8 coloured plates, chapter notes, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; pictorial stiff paper wrappers; Macmillan, London, 2003. First paperback edition. *Simultaneously published in hardback. An account of the SAS's biggest and most destructive mission in Afghanistan.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989. Pp. 496, text maps, appendices, notes, list of personalities, cover names, main events, glossary, bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in silver; dust wrapper, foxed; endpapers offset and foxed, leaves browned and edges quite foxed; Hamish Hamilton, London, 1989. First U.K. edition. *The David Levine copy, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown.

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. Pp. xvi+766, title page printed in blue & black, appendices; thick cr. 4to; full vellum, spine lettered in gilt, the boards featuring a Homeric bow device in gilt designed by Eric Gill, the top fore-corner of lower board a trifle bruised; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; within a later cream cloth slipcase; tiny split to bottom edge of preliminary blank; John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1936. First U.K. edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies; this being No. 86 of 100 copies on mould-made paper bound in calf vellum and signed by the author. Slocum & Cahoon 23; Gill 357. *The first edition of Ulysses to be printed in England, and the most deluxe format published in the author's lifetime. This edition is also the first to contain appendices relating to the legal case following publication of the book, as well as the first bibliography of Joyce. One of the most significant novels of the 20th century, Ulysses was first serialised in the American… Read More

Paris: Larousse, 1982. Inspire du tableau de Canaletto: "Piazza Santa Maria Formosa". [Text in French], illustrated in colour throughout; small cr. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, a trifle soiled, French price sticker on lower board near foot of spine; a little light foxing; Larousse, Paris, 1982. Imagique series. *Inscribed and signed (in French, to Melbourne bookseller Albert Ullin) by the author on the title page.

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989. Mountbatten and the Dieppe Raid. Pp. xiv+314, 8 plates, appendices, notes, index; med. 8vo; navy boards, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, leaves lightly browned, edges lightly foxed; Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1989. First edition. *From the library of Sydney bibliophile David Levine, with his Militaria book label on upper pastedown.

London: Hutchinson, 1973. Pp. 224; edges of boards slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed, the laminate lifting slightly around backstrip; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Hutchinson, London, 1973. First edition. *Author's first novel, and the first appearance of special investigator Simon Bognor.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1950. With a foreword by Lawrence Oakley Cheever. Pp. 72, 4 plates; black cloth backed patterned papered boards with printed paper title label on spine, fore-corners of boards a trifle bruised; fore and bottom edges uncut; patterned tissue wrapper, edges lightly chipped and split, backstrip browned; privately printed for the friends of May and Harry Foster at The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Christmas, 1950. First edition, limitation unspecified. *From the library of Australian bookseller and bibliophile Harry Muir, inscribed to him by Lawrence Oakley Cheever on the upper free endpaper: lquote For Harry Muir. The meat of this little volume is not in the foreword but I hope you will read it. L. O. (Oak) Cheever, Xmas lquote 50'. Thomas Henry Foster (1875-1951) was the President of John Morrell and Company, a meatpacking firm in Iowa. An avid book and autograph collector, his large library included numerous editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin. His essays here include… Read More

Melbourne: Michael Joseph, 2015. Pp. iv+372 (last blank); small med. 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers, edges a trifle rubbed; Michael Joseph/Penguin Books, Melbourne, 2015. First edition. *The second Will Harris novel, inscribed and signed by the author on the title page.

New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, 1896. Pp. viii+312, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 6 plates; brown cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in yellow & brown, corners a trifle rubbed, head of spine faintly bruised; text block slightly browned, edges of leaves a trifle soiled; R. F. Fenno & Company, New York, 1896. First American edition. Coustillas A2.9a, first impression, primary binding; Collie IIc [describing the later impression]. *Ex library copy, with bookplate on upper pastedown and remnant of a label or borrower's slip near top edge of upper free endpaper, but no other markings. Originally published in three volumes by Chapman & Hall, London, in 1884. The first one volume edition was published by Lawrence and Bullen in 1895.

New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, n.d.. Pp. [v]-viii+312, frontispiece, plus 5 plates; maroon cloth, lettered in white & blind and decorated in green, white & black, a trifle soiled, the white lettering almost rubbed away at a couple of points, the spine extremities slightly chipped and frayed, fore-corners of boards a trifle rubbed; upper hinge starting, tiny chip to top edge of last two text leaves, a little light foxing; R. F. Fenno & Company, New York, n.d. Later undated impression of the Fenno edition. Coustillas A2.10b, with no half-title page or final blank. *The copyright page retains the date of the first Fenno edition (1896), but the East Sixteenth Street address in the publisher's imprint suggests a publication date of 1898 or later. (Fenno & Company occupied those premises from mid 1897 until 1905).