Search Results: Authors starting with G from Clearwater Books

Scholartis Press, London, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 560 numbered copies, this example un-numbered. Small 4to. xlviii, 150pp. Blue buckram covers with gilt lettering to the backstrip. With a manuscript reproduction frontispiece. Buckram a little finger-marked in places and with a touch of spotting. A bright, unopened copy. No dust wrapper. A thirty-one page introduction precedes ninety-two letters from Rossetti to F.S.Ellis..

Anthony Mott Ltd., London, 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper and dated the year of publication. 8vo. xix, 216pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With twenty-one plates, various maps and illustrations in the text, and a two-panel folding map at the rear, printed on both sides. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly creased at the head of the spine panel. A comprehensive account of the Monmouth Uprising and its aftermath..

Aurum Press, London, 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 491pp. Brown boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-three photographs and eight maps. A fine copy in fractionally dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1984. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 278pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with one map. Top edge lightly spotted, and the boards a little marked in places. Leaf margins lightly tanned as is invariably the case, and with some give to the binding. A good copy with the correct first state dust wrapper (with just two quotes on the rear panel, as called for), price-clipped and very lightly toned and edgeworn. A novel drawing on Ballard's boyhood experiences in Shanghai during the Second World War. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize..

Ambit. No. 75, 1978. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition. 95pp. Card wrappers, a little tanned and dust marked. A short crease to the contents page else very good. This issue also includes one of his 'The Invisible Years' apocalyptic texts written with Martin Bax to accompany drawings by Ronald Sandford. (This is the fourth of 'The Invisible Years' series, a total of fourteen appeared in 'Ambit' between 1976 and 1979)..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's third novel. 8vo. 223pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Publisher's top edge stain very slightly faded, else a fine copy in very good Bill Botten-designed pictorial dust wrapper, clipped and re-priced by the publisher, with a little chafing to several extremities, one tiny closed tear and a small area of surface abrasion to the edge of the front panel. Former owner name and accompanying bookplate to the front free endpaper. A super copy of an uncommon book..

Collins, 'The Crime Club' series, London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK Edition (first printing) - originally issued in the US a year earlier. 8vo. 192pp. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine. A sliver of discolouration to the spine ends, and with two tiny pin-pricks of spotting to the head of the half-title and title page. A very good copy - albeit printed on slightly substandard wartime economy paperstock - in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly dust soiled, with some edge creasing, and with a little loss to the spine panel ends, two corner tips and with a further half inch of loss form the head of the front panel. Quite uncommon in the first UK edition state..

Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1927. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 251pp + viii publisher's catalogue at the rear. Primary binding of blue vertical-weave cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. Spine ends gently bruised and with a bump to the tips to two corners. Edges lightly spotted and with some quite light browning to the endpapers and a touch of very occasional light spotting, primarily impacting only the margins. Binding just a fraction tender at several gatherings. Contemporary former owner details inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A nice crisp copy, lacking the most fugitive dust wrapper. Methuen's New Novels advertising slip lain-in, as called for. McIlvaine A37..

Herbert Jenkins, London, 1920. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing), originally published as 'Their Mutual Child' in the US a year earlier. 8vo. 251pp + [iv] publisher's catalogue at rear. Red cloth lettered and bordered in black at the spine and upper board. Top edge dust soiled. Cloth nicked with a little loss at the head of the backstrip and with some marking, soiling and discolouration to the boards. Some blemishing to occasional leaf margins. A fair copy. No dust wrapper. McIlvaine A23b..

Hamish Hamilton, London, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 414pp. Maroon boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper marred only by a trace of dust soiling to the rear panel. The author's celebrated final novel, published just prior to his death..

Lion and Unicorn Press, Royal College of Art, London, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 400 numbered copies (this being #211). 4to. 175pp. Quarter morocco, facsimile manuscript boards lettered in gold at the spine and with an embossed facsimile seal to the upper board. With frontispiece and twenty-six collotytpe plates. Top edge spotted and with some wear to the backstrip morocco, else a very crisp copy. No dust wrapper, as issued..

Farrar Straus, New York, 1999. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first American edition (first printing). 8vo. 275pp. Paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Hastings House, New York, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) - a presentation copy inscribed by the author and with a signed type-written letter laid-in. 4to. 256pp. Beige cloth lettered in brown at the spine. Over 280 sumptuous monochrome photographs of New York, accompanied by verse and text extracts. Top- and fore edge lightly spotted and a small scuff to the upper margin of one text leaf. A very good copy in slightly rubbed and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1971. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 170pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant red top edge stain. A fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly chafed at the spine ends and corner tips with several tiny fractions of surface-loss. Written between 1956-57 and first published in Columbia in 1961, this English-language translation was first used for the 1968 US edition (the first of the author's books to be translated into English), and also used for this UK edition (which was the second of his books to be published in the UK, following 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' a year earlier)..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 188pp. Green cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, fractionally rubbed at the upper edge. Twelve Márquez stories recounting the experiences that befall Latin Americans visiting Europe, all written in the seventies and eighties but not issued in bookform until 1992..

Grey Walls Press, London, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 70pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Endpapers fractionally browned and top edge dust stained. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, the rear panel a little marked and with some uneven tanning. Fifty-six poems from the long-term editor of 'Poetry Quarterly' and the founder of the Grey Walls Press..

Grey Walls Press, London, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author to an un-named recipient and dated three years after publication. 8vo. 70pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. A very good copy in very slightly dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Publisher's review slip laid-in. Fifty-six poems from the long-term editor of 'Poetry Quarterly' and the founder of the Grey Walls Press..

Leo Cooper, London, 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the half-title, and dated the year after publication. Landscape 4to. 162pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Lavishly illustrated with monochrome photographs throughout. The binding slightly cocked, and with just a touch of rubbing to the spine ends. A very good copy in price-clipped photographic dust wrapper, a little rubbed at the head of the spine panel with two tiny areas of surface abrasion, and a little creasing in places to the publisher's laminate. Stamp's three-page introduction precedes a hefty selection of war cemetery photographs from Flanders, the Marne and the Aisne, Artois, Ypres, Gallipoli, Verdun, the Somme, Italy and Macedonia..

Carcanet New Press, Cheshire, 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's first full-length collection of verse, this copy inscribed by the author to Jeremy [Hooker], dated 1982 and with a single inked textual correction in the author's hand. Slim 8vo. 48pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in slightly faded non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just a little chafed at the head of the spine panel. Thirty-one poems including one dedicated to Redmond O'Hanlon..

M.Macdonald, 'Lines Review', Edinburgh, 1955. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. 32pp. Stapled card wrappers, the staples rusted and the wrappers very lightly toned. A very good copy. This issue also includes contributions by James Barke (his essay 'Burns and the Ainslie Letter'), Tom Scott (his poem 'Ahab'), &c. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..