Search Results: Authors starting with R from Clearwater Books

Astolat Press, London, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, one of 350 numbered copies (this being #201). Printed at The Curwen Press. 4to. 268pp. White parchment boards with a handsome patterned paper sides. Top edge gilt. Backstrip lightly darkened and a small area of damp marking to the tail, and a sliver of damp marking to the extreme upper margins of the first three leaves. A very good copy of a delightful production..

Dennis Dobson, London, 1979. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK and first casebound edition. 8vo. 124pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. A hint of spotting to top edge. A very good copy in slightly tanned non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a single short closed tear to the top edge. Expended from a 1968 short story of the same name (the author's fourth published work), this novel was originally published as a paperback in the US in 1972, with this UK edition - the first to appear bound between hard covers - finally appearing seven years later..

Dark Harvest, Illinois, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first US trade casebound edition of this horror novel, which was originally published as a paperback under the pseudonym 'Leigh Nichols' in 1987 (but the UK edition published by Collins the same year did appear in hardcover format). 8vo. 380pp. Black textured boards lettered in silver at the spine. A signed sheet of the authors letterhead laid-in. In fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 74pp + [viii] publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's buckram, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Some browning to the endpapers and a little light spotting to four or five preliminary leaves. Very good indeed in the uncommon dust wrapper, a little dusty, quite tanned at the spine panel and with two or three tiny fractions of edge loss. A tiny dealer plate to the base of the rear pastedown. A two-page foreword by A.E. precedes forty-seven poems. The second collection of verse by the noted Irish poet and theatre director..

James R.Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., London, 1891. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first casebound and first illustrated edition, preceding the American issue but apparently itself preceded by a wrappered edition issued six-months previously under the title 'The Cosmic Bean; or The Great Show in Kobol-Land' (a production what was probably only issued for copyright purposes). 8vo. 90pp. Cloth-backed decorated boards. Illustrated with numerous black and white illustrations, some of them full-page, by Dan Beard. Binding cracked at one gathering and tender at several others. Top edge dust marked, spine ends and corner tips lightly rubbed and the boards a little dust soiled. Some fox spotting to half a dozen preliminary leaves. A good copy of this uncommon five chapter fantasy by the noted American children's author and humorist..

Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Farnham, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. xii, 265pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with eight colour plates and over forty monochrome photographs. A fine copy in fractionally dust soiled dust wrapper..

Victor Gollancz, London, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first UK edition - a paperback original (never issued in the UK in casebound format outside of a specially bound signed limited edition of 100 copies). This a presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title. 8vo. 273pp. Card wrappers with just a hint of chafing to extremities, else in fine state. The folded flyer for the signing event laid-in. The third of the author's superb Hap and Leonard crime thrillers, this UK edition published a year after its American counterpart..

The Mysterious Press, New York, 1997. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first trade edition (which was preceded by a limited issue of 500 signed copies). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 291pp. Black boards lettered in red at the spine. A small bump to the tip of one corner, and just a little wear to spine ends. Very good indeed in virtually fine if correspondingly bumped non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a lengthy yet superficial vertical crease to the front flap. The fourth of the author's superb Hap and Leonard crime thrillers..

Victor Gollancz, London, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first UK edition - this copy boldly inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 308pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a hint of wear to the spine ends and a small area at the rear panel where the publisher's laminate is lifting. A folded flyer for the signing event laid-in. The second of the author's superb Hap and Leonard crime thrillers, this UK edition published a year after the American issue..

Mark V.Ziesing, California, 1989. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first trade edition of the author's first collection of short fiction - this copy boldly inscribed by the author on the half-title and with a signed type written letter from the author laid-in. 8vo. 246pp. Black cloth lettered in red at the spine. With decorated endpapers, a title page design and nine plates. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at the head of the spine panel. Sixteen stories, mostly reproduced from the pages of assorted pulp anthologies and magazines, with two hitherto unprinted and one appearing in its entirety here for the first time..

Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, New York, 1929. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition (first printing) of the author's first crime novel, and the basis for the 1931 film of the same name, one of the first fully-fledged gangster films and the vehicle which shot a then-unknown Edward G.Robinson to stardom. 8vo. 308pp. Blue cloth lettered in yellow at the spine and upper board and with a small blind-stamped decoration. Boards rubbed and chafed, and the cloth sunned at the backstrip and gently fraying at the spine ends. Hinges just a little tender. Some quite light staining to one text leaf. Quite a good bight copy. No dust wrapper. Inpart inspired by the characters Burnett encountered whilst working as a night clerk in a seedy Chicago hotel, the author was nevertheless incensed by the screenwriter's decision to depict the title character as a closeted homosexual, which is a shame as that now stands as one of the more interesting aspects of the movie..

The Salamander Press, Edinburgh, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), one of 200 casebound copies (from a total edition of 1,000 copies). This copy signed by the author on the title page. Crown 8vo. 29pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly tanned at the spine panel and margins, and with a small area of very light soiling. Six poems, the author's third collection of verse..

Workshop Press, London, 1977. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Slim 8vo. 48pp stapled into very slightly dust soiled card wrappers, with a hint of wear to several extremities. A very good copy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Horizon. Vol. 7, No. 38, February, 1943. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers. Former owner name inked to the head of the front wrapper, else a virtually fine copy. This issue also includes contributions by C.E.M.Joad ('On Leaving Mind Out'), Cecil Beaton (part two of his 'Libyan Diary' extracts), Eudora Welty (her story 'The Wide Net'), Henry Miller (his story 'Soirée in Hollywood'), and reproductions of four drawings by Henry Moore, one of them reproduced full-page and in colour..

Forum. Stories and Poems. Vol. 1, no. 1. Summer, 1949. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Slim 8vo. 24pp. Stapled card wrappers featuring a small decoration by Dorothy Colles and Heather Child. The staples slightly rusted, and the wrappers very slightly toned, spotted and dust soiled. A very good copy. Other contributors include Denys Val Baker, John Waller, Roy Campbell (translating Lorca), Derek Stanford, Wrey Gardiner and Hugo Manning. The first of just two issues of this literary review, produced in the aftermath of Spark's controversial departure from The Poetry Society (as editor of 'Poetry Review'). Both issues are uncommon..

Enitharmon Press and Hamish Hamilton, London, 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 67pp. Original publisher's boards lettered in gold at the spine. A hint of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, faded at the spine panel and just fractionally chafed at one or two extremities. Sixty-four poems..

The Dock Leaves Press, Pembroke, 1964. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Stapled card wrappers, a little soiled and spotted at the margins. A nice crisp copy. This issue also includes Anthony Powell's three-page letter responding to several questions posed by the editor concerning his potential Welsh roots and how that impacts his 'A Dance to the Music of Time' sequence..

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1965. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 70pp. Purple boards lettered in silver at the spine. A little light occasional spotting, mostly confined to the leaf margins. A nice bright copy in soiled and very lightly rubbed non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some fading to spine panel. Relevant Poetry Book Society Bulletin laid-in. Forty-six poems, the author's fifth collection of verse..

Poetry Folios. Published for the editors at Havengore, Herts, 1943. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Slim 8vo. [12pp] of printed text, stapled into lettered card wrappers. The staples rusted, and the wrappers lightly toned at the margins. A nice crisp copy. An early Raine contribution, appearing here a year before the publication of her first book. Also includes contributions by Henry Treece, Nicholas Moore, Fred Marnau, James Kirkup, Keidrych Rhys and others. This uncommon periodical of "outstanding verse, selected as far as possible without literary prejudice" ran for a total of just ten issues between 1942-1946, with a second series in 1951 which comprised just a single issue. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Chapman Magazine. Summer, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. 96pp. Stapled card wrappers featuring a design by Alasdair Gray, very lightly dust soiled. A very good copy. Raine poems are: 'Nameless Rose', 'Nataraja', 'Mimosa-Spray', 'First Communion', 'No Communion', and five untitled poems. Other contributors to this issue, which is in-pat devoted to Edwin Muir in celebration of his centenary, include Fred Urquhart, Robert Calder, James D.Young, and Morley Jamieson. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..