Search Results: Authors starting with T from Clearwater Books

Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1918. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 96pp. Stiff card wrappers with a printed paper label to the upper wrapper, lettered in black and ruled in red. A tiny hint of wear to one or two extremities, and a little light spotting to the endpapers and to two or three preliminary leaves. Very good. The author's quite uncommon first and only book, containing fifty-five poems including a number with a Great War theme. Foxcroft, who was aged 45 at the outbreak of the war, served as a captain in the Somerset Light Infantry before being elected MP for Bath in 1918 following the death of the sitting MP, Lord Alexander Thynne who was himself killed in action in September 1918 whilst commanding 6th (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Bn. Wiltshire Regiment. Reilly p.130..

John Murray, London, 1917. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 174pp. Blue cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with gold motif to the upper board. With a portrait frontispiece and protective tissue guard and seven additional tissue guarded plates. Top edge dust marked, cloth marked and faded with a little wear to the head and base of spine, and a short tear to the upper gutter. Internally a extremely crisp and bright copy. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. An appreciation of the politician and man-of-letters, including the text of numerous letters from and to Wyndham, plus a postscript detailing the death of his son Percy during the Great War..

The Menard Press, London, 1975. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 24pp stapled into plain card wrappers. A fine copy in dust wrapper, faded at the spine and with a touch of light further fading to the head of the front and rear panels, and a trace of edgewear. A five-part poem followed by three pages of notes. Handwritten complement's slip from the publisher laid-in. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

T.Fisher Unwin, London, 1889. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 273pp + xxiv publisher's advertisements. Green cloth lettered in gilt and browned at the spine, and in brown at the upper board. Cloth rubbed, chafed, stained and scored. With some internal mostly marginal damp staining and soiling. Some pencilled and inked marginalia. Binding cracked and somewhat tender at one gathering. A good copy. Six lengthy essays including 'Chopin, the Greatest Genius of the Pianoforte', 'How Composers Work', 'Schumann, as Mirrored in the Letters', and 'German Opera in New York'..

Constable, London, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 222pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Leaf margins a little tanned, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a single small crease to the head of the rear panel. The fourth instalment of Sylvia Haymon's acclaimed series of East Anglian crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Ben Jurnet..

Cape Goliard, London, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition, one of a limited issue of 50 signed and numbered copies (this being #33). Slim 8vo. Thirty leaves of unpaginated text. Paper-covered boards lettered in silver at the spine. With an illustrated double-spread title page, one drawing and two overlays. Tip of one corner bumped. Very good indeed in price-clipped and fractionally edge worn dust wrapper. The author's second collection of verse..

Thames & Hudson New York, 1995. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 424pp. Half-cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. A hint of speckling to the top edge, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, with just a touch of light edgewear..

Wesleyan University Press, Connecticut, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 283pp. Original publisher's cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with nearly one hundred monochrome reproductions. Just a hint of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in lightly chafed and edgeworn price-clipped dust wrapper..

The Cornhill. No. 1008. Summer, 1956. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Card wrappers, a little dust soiled and faded and with just a tiny trace of edge-creasing. A nice, crisp copy. This issue also includes Bernard Shaw's lengthy and hitherto uncollected letters to his friend Benedictine Abbess of Stanbrook, collected under the title 'The Nun and the Dramatist'. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

London Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 1. April/May, 1973. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. 168pp. Card wrappers. A minor crease to the corner of front wrapper. A very good copy. The first appearance in print of this Taylor story, which was not published in bookform during her lifetime..

A.R.Mowbray & Co. Ltd., London, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 108pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece, seven plates and various drawings in the text. Edges, endpapers, and several preliminary and concluding leaves spotted. A bright copy in slightly spotted, rubbed and nicked non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little loss from the head of the spine panel. A scholarly account of the associations between saints and flowers..

Chatto & Windus, London, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (fist printing). 8vo. 323pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A hint of spotting to the top- and fore edge. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, the top edge just lifting a fraction. Eleven stories and three one-act plays, the US authors final collection of short fiction, published a year before his death..

Chatto & Windus, London, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. 204pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust soiled, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Eight stories, the author's sixth collection of short fiction..

Taxvs Press, Durham, 1984. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author to fellow poet Jeremy [Hooker] and dated 1991. Slim 8vo. 40pp. Card wrappers. A fine copy. Thirty-four poems. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Booth-Clibborn Editions, London, 2001. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. Card wrappers. 141 unpaginated leaves of stills and photographs plus seven thin translucent leaves. Wrappers lightly chafed at extremities. Very good..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 176pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Paperstock quite tanned, else a very good copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Sceptre / Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1994. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 186pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Pictorial endpapers. The head of the backstrip lightly bruised, else in fine state with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Papermac, London, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). Paperback reprint - this copy inscribed by the author to an un-named recipient. 8vo. 195pp. card wrappers. A virtually fine copy..

Prestel-Verlag, Munich, 1989. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First English-language edition, the card wrapper issue. 4to. 288pp. Illustrated with over 120 colour reproductions. A lovely crisp copy..

Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1923. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The first English edition. Slim 8vo. 69pp. Lettered card wrappers, very lightly faded at several edges and with a tiny trace of chipping to the spine ends. A very good of the first English translation of the most famous of the four Capek Brothers stage plays. It premiered in 1922 at the National Theatre in Brno, Czechoslovakia entitled 'Pictures from the Insects' Life' and was followed by successful American (1922) and British (1923) productions. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..