Search Results: Authors starting with D from Clearwater Books

Longmans Green, London, 1938. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author at the head of a blank flyleaf. 8vo. 308pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Map-illustrated endpapers. With a frontispiece and fifteen photographic plates. Binding cocked. Covers slightly grubby and bumped at one corner. Former owner bookplate (designed by Robert Gibbings) to the half-title. No dust wrapper..

Fisher Unwin, London, 1884. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. Covers marked and somewhat rubbed at some extremities. Endpaper hinges cracked and stitching of one or two signatures loosening..

Purdue University, Indiana, 1966. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Slim 8vo. Paginated 300-392pp. Card wrappers, lightly dust soiled and discoloured. A little neat underlining to the first article. Very good. Includes contributions by John Russell, Bernice & Sandford Goldstein, John Antico, Fidelian Burke, John V.Hagopian, Hubert I.Cohen, John M.Howell and Maurice & Jennifer Sperry. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Cambridge University Press, 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 140pp. Dark green cloth with silver lettering to the spine and a silver-stamped decoration to the upper board. With a frontispiece and eighteen photographs. Some light partial browning to the free endpapers. A very slightly dusty copy in chipped and fox-spotted price-clipped dust wrapper..

Faber, London, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 296pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of very light spotting to the top edge, a little soiling to the fore edge and just a hint of light partial browning to the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, rubbed and chafed at the spine ends and at one or two other extremities, and with just a touch of dust soiling to the rear panel. The fourth Adam Dalgliesh mystery..

Faber, London, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 271pp. Grey boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny sliver of discolouration to head of spine, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, somewhat chafed at top edge with several short internally repaired tears and some accompanying creasing. A signed photograph of the author laid-in, folded once. The author's fifth novel, and the fifth appearance of her detective Adam Dalgliesh..

Faber, London, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 265pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper with several tiny areas of chafing and just a little fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering. Former owner initials and date inked to the head of the front free endpaper. The sixth Adam Dalgliesh mystery..

Faber, London, 2011. 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. ix, 310pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine and with red endpapers. A small bump to the base of the lower board, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a tiny corresponding tear to the base of the front panel. A murder-mystery sequel to 'Pride and Prejudice'..

Dodd Mead, New York, 1895. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), preceding the UK edition which was issued a year later under the title 'Tales from the Telling-House'). 8vo. Pictorial cloth, very slightly rubbed at some extremities. Front endpaper hinge tender. Fly-leaves browned. Some fox-spotting. No wrapper, as issued..

Constable, London, 1989. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) of Wingfield's first book - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 284pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. The merest trace of tanning to the leaf margins and a short crease to one corner of the rear free endpaper. In virtually fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The first of the author's Inspector Frost mysteries, originally written in 1972 at the prompting of Macmillan (and spurred on by a non-refundable advance of £50), the manuscript was promptly rejected, before eventually being published in Canada in 1984. This UK edition followed some five years later and the Yorkshire Television adoptions staring David Jason appeared soon after..

Constable, London, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 348pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Boards lightly marked in places, and the edges lightly spotted. Several small indentations to the head of the front free endpaper, probably the impression from a now absent paperclip. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at the spine panel ends. The fourth volume of the author's Detective Inspector Frost series..

Ronald Whiting & Wheaton, London, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition of the author's first book, and also the first casebound issue (originally published in the US in 1965, but only as a paperback). 8vo. 192pp. Red and black patterned boards lettered in silver at the spine. A touch of light staining to the top edge and some very light partial browning to the free endpapers, accompanied by a sliver of near-invisible spotting. Some further very light spotting to the upper margins of occasional text leaves and just the tiniest slant to the binding. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, with just a hint of toning to the predominantly white rear panel and several tiny areas of internal discolouration. "Majestic indeed . as credible a menace as I ever came on" - Brian W.Aldiss..

The University of Michigan Press, 'Under Discussion' series, Ann Arbor, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 315pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Light brown cloth lettered in black at the spine. A fine copy in very good dust wrapper, light faded at the spine panel and with a light but lengthy vertical crease to the front flap. A selection of over forty reviews and critical essays about the work of the Pulitzer Prize winning US poet. Includes contributions from Philip Booth, Donald Davie, Clive James, Gavin Ewart, William Dickey, Louis Simpson, John Hollander &c, plus a bibliography of Snodgrass's works..

Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1915. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xli, 150pp. Navy blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Covers chafed and bumped at some extremities, and very lightly marked in places, but an extremely crisp and bright copy internally. No dust wrapper, were one called for. A lengthy introduction by the editor precedes over sixty poems and sonnets..

Henry Holt & Co., New York, 2016. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's first book. 8vo. 206pp. Blue paper-covered boards lettered in silver at the spine. The merest trace of wear to the spine ends, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Thirteen short stories from the US author, much heralded by George Saunders..

Michael Joseph, London, 1989. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 161pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. With four full-page illustrations and thirty-six line drawings in the text. Some quite light tanning to paperstock, else in fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper featuring colour variants of two of the Lawrence illustrations to the front and rear panels. A three-page preface by the author precedes seven short stories..

Putnam, London, 1933. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. 293pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A small area of wear to the lower gutter. Quite a good, bright copy in heavily strengthened, somewhat chipped, chafed and dusty non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Dent, 'The Lovers' Library' series, London, 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. The deluxe issue of this new edition, limited to 100 numbered copies on large paper (this being #9). 8vo. 200pp. Illustrated title page and tissue guard. Pages untrimmed. Buckram covers with gilt lettering and decoration, quite tanned and a little handled and spotted in places. Tips of corners slightly chafed. Internally a fresh, crisp and unopened copy. Fly-leaves a little browned. No wrapper, as issued..

The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. First edition thus, published by The Limited Editions Club in an issue of 1500 numbered sets signed by the illustrator who provides numerous black and white line drawings (this being #285). Complete in two volumes. 12mo. 263pp (across both volumes). Cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards, lettered, decorated and ornately ruled in gold at the spines. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Some fox spotting throughout. Former owner bookplate and small personal library reference plate and stamp to the upper front pastedowns, and a different bookplate to both front free endpapers. A nice bright example of a handsomely produced set, housed in the original stiff card slipcase, chafed and dust soiled, with the title label lettering somewhat indistinct. The ninth publication by the Limited Editions Club, which was founded by George Macy, later Managing Director of The Nonesuch Press, in 1929..

W.W.Norton & Co., New York, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. xvii, 409pp. Cloth-backed boards lettered in gold at the spine. Map-illustrated endpapers. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The first printing of Thoreau's final manuscript. "This work may be considered Thoreau's last will and testament, in which he protests our desecration of the landscape, reflects on the importance of preserving wild species 'for instruction and recreation', and envisions a new American scripture" - from the introduction..