Search Results: Titles starting with U from Clearwater Books

The Nonesuch Press, London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 1,250 numbered copies (this being #888) printed on japon vellum, with a copperplate engraving by Stephen Gooden and signed by the author as the base of his dedication to Lady Cunard. 8vo. 286pp. Cream buckram lettered in gold at the spine. Fore- and bottom edge untrimmed. A small area of staining to the margins of the front and rear endpapers. A very good copy in the Marion V.Dorn-designed vellum dust wrapper, with several short tears and areas of edge loss..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's first book. 8vo. 276pp. Blue cloth with very partially defective cream lettering to the spine, and with the publisher's motif blind-stamped to the rear board. Top edge lightly dust soiled and a small bump to the tip of one corner. Free endpapers fractionally toned and spotted and with just a touch of occasional spotting and marking to occasional leaf margins. Former owner name inked to the front free endpaper. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Inspired by Lowry's late-teenage experiences as a deckhand on a tramp steamer: the voyage formed the basis for two short stories which were printed in the Cambridge periodical 'Experiment' (his first appearances in print), and which were later worked into this debut novel..

Impsat, Bogota, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited 7,000 copies each supplied with an original print. Landscape 4to. Unpaginated. Red cloth with embossed lettering to the spine and upper board. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, with a sliver of very light spotting to two margins of the front panel..

Victor Gollancz, London, 1939. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 286pp. Blue cloth lettered in blue at the spine. Backstrip faded and tips of two corners gently knocked. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown, alongside a small dealer plate, and five digits inkstamped to the corner of the front free endpaper (presumably a private library reference code). An extremely crisp copy. No dust wrapper. The author's second book, a collection of four novellas which received an extremely favourable reception and permitted him sufficient financial freedom to begin his seminal work, 'Native Son'. This UK edition is significantly more uncommon than the US edition which appeared a year earlier..

John Murray, London, 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the half-title in a somewhat shaky hand. Slim 8vo. 81pp. Grey boards lettered in gold at the spine. In fine state with non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little creased at the head of the spine panel and with just a hint of chafing to the tips of two corners. The publisher's red spine panel colouring fractionally faded. Twenty-nine poems, mostly gathered from the archives of Columbia University Library, and edited here by Betjeman with the assistance of John Sparrow, and augmented with an interesting fourteen-page foreword by JB's friend and biographer, Bevis Hillier. Peterson A50..

Faber and Profile Books, London, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of the first edition, one of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author and housed in a slipcase. Small 8vo. 124pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Patterned endpapers. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper and cloth-covered slipcase. A lengthy short story, which was first published in 'The London Review of Books' in 2006..

Seren, Bridgend, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 156pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge fractionally spotted. A virtually fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

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..

Argo, London [no date] Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Two 33 RPM records housed in a gatefold sleeve featuring a colour sleeve design by Olga Lehmann. (code: RG21 and RG22). Gatefold sleeve a little tanned and rubbed at the corner tips, with a small area of unprinted internal loss. Very good. A full recording of the original Douglas Cleverdon-produced BBC production, presented here with both LPs housed in a single gatefold sleeve..

Argo, London [no date] Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Two 33 RPM records (code: RG21 and RG22). With a colour sleeve design by Arthur Wragg, repeated over both volumes. A touch of spotting to the margins of the rear sleeves and the publisher's laminate lifting a fraction in places. Very good. A full recording of the original Douglas Cleverdon-produced BBC production..

Collins, 'The Crime Club' series, London, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 280pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. A touch of tanning to the paperstock, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a single minute closed tear to the upper edge. The tenth Dalziel and Pascoe crime novel..

Quercus, London, 2016. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 598pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Decorated endpapers. Boards lightly marked in places, the cloth lifting a fraction in one or two areas and with just a touch of wear to the spine ends. A very good copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's third novel, set during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Award..

PS Publishing, Hornsea, 2004. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies signed by Gentle and Stirling (this being #3). 8vo. viii, 76pp. Burnt-orange cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Silk place marker. A tiny area of very light staining to the fore edge, else a fine copy in fine double-spread pictorial dust wrapper. A novella set in the world of the author's four-part novel 'Ash: A Secret History' (2000). A total of 800 copies were printed, 500 issued in paperback format, and 300 bound in cloth..

Chatto & Windus, London, 1913. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first edition with these Henderson illustrations. Small 4to. 271pp. Green cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with a gilt-stamped decoration to the upper board. Top edge lightly spotted, fore- and bottom edge untrimmed. Free endpapers lightly spotted with some notable spotting to the first five or six leaves, and then a little more throughout, mostly confined to the margins. A good bright copy in toned and lightly rubbed dust wrapper, with a little loss from the spine panel ends and corner tips, a short tear to one natural fold and with a small area of internal taped reinforcement. Uncommon, and more so in the dust wrapper..

Penguin Books, 'Pocket Penguin' series, London, 2005. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition - a paperback original. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his stage manager, great friend and personal assistant Trish [Montemuro], and dated the year of publication. Small 8vo. 56pp + [publisher's advertisements]. The card wrappers lifting a fraction. A virtually fine copy. Seventeen new poems..

Martin Secker, London [1928]. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's first and only novel. 8vo. 123pp. Half-cloth with marbled paper sides, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. A narrow strip of light partial browning to two blank flyleaves, and a former owner name neatly inked to the front pastedown (obscured by the wrapper flap). Very good indeed in the most uncommon dust wrapper, which is a little toned and spotted, with an inch of loss from the base of the spine panel, a little more from the head, and with a four-inch tear to one natural fold..

Viking, New York, 2011. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First US Edition (first printing), issued a year after the UK edition. 8vo. 554pp. Paper-covered boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs. Remainder mark to the bottom edge and just a trace of wear to the backstrip ends, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a trace of corresponding rubbing to the spine panel ends. A vast collection of Chatwin's correspondence, the recipients including Patrick Leigh Fermor, Paul Theroux, Susan Sontag, James Ivory, Colin Thubron &c..

Routledge, London, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's second collection of verse. Slim 8vo. 44pp. Cloth-backed boards, slightly dusty. A crisp copy in rather chafed and dust-marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Forty-five poems..

Collins, London, 1944. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 192pp. Grey cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust soiled, and the head of the backstrip slightly nicked. A good copy in nicked, toned and dust soiled price-clipped dust wrapper with several small areas of edge-loss. The reminiscences of the associate editor of the 'Atlantic Monthly', and later the literary advisor and director of the Houghton Mifflin Company..

Picador, London, 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 827pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. The head of the binding slightly pulled and with a single tiny indentation to the head of the upper board. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed and creased at the upper edge. The author's humungous twelfth novel, nominated for the National Book Award, shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, and still probably his supreme achievement..