Search Results: Authors starting with S from Clearwater Books

Transatlantic Review No. 45. Spring, 1975. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers, lightly summed and marked. A nice, crisp copy. This issue also includes William Trevor's radio play 'Going Home', and 'The Saint by Accident', a short story by Mohammed Mrabet, translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles..

John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1933. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 290pp + [vi] publisher's advertisements at the rear. Purple cloth lettered in orange at the spine and upper board and with the publisher's quite vibrate orange top edge stain. Map-illustrated endpapers. The backstrip cloth lightly faded and with a narrow vertical strip of further light fading to the upper board. Place-marker creases to half-a-dozen leaf corners, one of which also exhibits a little further creasing. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown alongside the neatly inked signature of the same owner and his contemporary date. A very good copy. Laid-in is the front panel (only) of the highly fugitive dust wrapper..

Michael Joseph, London, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition, preceded by the US edition which was published a year earlier. 8vo. 320pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. Spine ends very lightly bruised and with a strip of very light partial browning to the free endpapers. Former owner name pencilled to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in B.S.Biro-designed pictorial dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but lightly chafed at the spine ends and corner tips with a touch of light dust soiling and several short closed tears. A novel with a Great War setting..

Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition (first printing) of the author's first book. 8vo. 220pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine, with a blind border and blind-stamped decoration to the upper board. Cloth at the backstrip very slightly faded, with a little bruising to the spine ends, just a touch of wear to the corner tips and to the rear gutter. Cloth very lightly marked in one or two places. Front hinge cracked and just a little tender. A hint of very light spotting and browning to the free endpapers and to the final text leaf. Place marker creases to the corner tips of a number of text leaves. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the rear pastedown. Armorial bookplate of American journalist and theatre scholar Otis L.Gurnsey to the front free endpaper. A very crisp copy; lacking the most uncommon dust wrapper..

Michael Joseph Ltd., London, 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 287pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Edges very lightly spotted, the tip of one corner knocked, and with a narrow strip of toning to the half-title and to one unprinted concluding leaf. A very good copy in non-price-clipped double-spread pictorial dust wrapper, lightly rubbed and chafed at several extremities. The tenth instalment of the author's series of Napoleonic War-era Horatio Hornblower novels..

John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1932. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition - the colonial issue, with that text neatly inkstamped to the copyright page. 8vo. 308pp + [iv] publisher's advertisements. Orange cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. Illustrated with one map. Top edge dust soiled and with some fading to the cloth at the backstrip and upper board. Spine ends gently rubbed and with a minor slant to the binding. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Very good. No dust wrapper. The first edition of this book - colonial edition or otherwise - is now extremely uncommon..

Collins, London, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 206pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with manuscript reproductions, and drawings by C.S.Lewis. A small indentation to the upper board. A virtually fine copy in fractionally dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with two short creases to the front flap. A thirteen-page introduction precedes a selection of Lewis' juvenile 'Boxen' stories..

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1971. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 191pp. Blue boards lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. A hint of near-invisible edge spotting, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, faded at the spine panel, with a touch of edgewear and a short jagged tear to the base of the spine panel but with virtually no loss. Original essays on Sir Walter Scott, all originally presented as speeches at the Annual Dinner of The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club by its various Presidents including C.S.Lewis, Eric Linklater, Hesketh Pearson, G.M.Trevelyan, James Bridie, Alexander Gray and seven others..

Polaris Company, Washington, D.C., 1923. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Small 8vo. 63pp. Pictorial card wrappers, a little rubbed and splitting, and repaired with tape at the base of the spine. Inscription of former owner to the head of the title-page. A simple guide to astronomy, written by a layman for young Americans..

Thames & Hudson, London, 2008. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), issued on the occasion of a 2008 exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Square 4to. 223pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With colour pictorial endpapers and over one hundred and fifty reproductions, almost all in colour where required, of works by C.R.W.Nevinson, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, David Bomberg, Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power and Lill Tschudi. In fine state with fine dust wrapper..

Robert Hale, London, 1937. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK and first casebound edition of the author's first book, a space opera novel originally issued in the US as a paperback in 1969. Small 8vo. 160pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A near-invisible trace of spotting to the top edge, else in fine state with Laurence Cutting-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but lightly dust marked and chafed..

The Harvill Press Ltd., and Editions Poetry London, 1948. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Biddy Crozier with respect and affection from George Fraser, December, 1948". Slim 8vo. 96pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A hint of toning to the endpapers. In virtually fine state with tanned and dust soiled dust wrapper with a short open tear to the head of the spine panel and a tiny area of loss. Forty-seven poems. Margaret 'Biddy' Crozier was an actress and the wife of the producer and dramatist Eric Crozier. She was friendly with W.S.Graham, David Gascoyne and Tambimuttu amongst others, often very generous during hard times and regularly put them up in her book-crammed Hampstead home (Tambi apparently required some "fending off" measures on these occasions)..

Poetry (London), 'PL Pamphlets' series [no date, c.1941] Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's first book, issued here as the third volume of the PL Pamphlet series. Slim 8vo. Eighteen pages stapled into lettered card wrappers with French flaps. A touch of toning to the wrapper margins and a small area of miscellaneous staining to the rear wrapper. A single tiny biro mark to the upper wrapper. A very good copy. Twelve poems, mostly written whilst Fraser was serving in the British Army in Cairo and Eritrea. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Phaidon Press and Salford Art Gallery, Oxford, 1987. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition - the card wrapper issue. 142pp. With a frontispiece and fifty plates, many in colour, plus over 150 thumbnail reproductions and a comprehensive and hitherto unprinted catalogue of all Lowry's publically held works. In fine state..

London Magazine. New Series. Vol. 6, No. 9. December, 1966. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers. A lovely crisp copy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

B.T.Batsford Ltd., London, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 242pp. Green smooth-weave cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's blue top edge stain. With a colour frontispiece and scores and scores of photographic plates and illustrations in the text. Fore edge lightly spotted. Very good indeed in the double-spread colour dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with an internally repaired tear to the base of the rear panel..

Agenda Editions, London, 1972. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Glastonbury Antique paper, signed by the author (for a total edition of 500 copies). This example un-numbered, but with a fond presentation inscription from the translator to his cousin, dated the year of publication. Slim 8vo. Unpaginated. Sixteen pages of printed text, stapled into lettered and decorated card wrappers, very lightly rubbed at several corner tips. A very good copy of this English translation of Obeyd-i-Zakasni's political verse-satire. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Robert Hale, London, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 192pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with twenty photographs and a map. A lovely crisp copy in very lightly chafed, stained and edge worn non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just a little spotted at the rear panel and internally. The author's second book, an account of the year and a half he spent as political officer amongst the Bedouin in Arabia's 'Empty Quarter'..

New Statesman. No. 2079. 22 January 1971., 1971. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers, with a hint of toning and moisture marking. A good copy..

The Listener. Vol. lviii, no. 1497, 5 December, 1957. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers. A very good copy. Probably the first appearance in print of this 10-line R.S.Thomas poem, which was not subsequently included in any of his full-length collections..