Search Results: Titles starting with B from Clearwater Books

North Point Press, San Francisco, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English-language edition of Crevel's landmark of French surrealist fiction. 8vo. 169pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with nineteen original Ernst photograms, created to accompany the text. A tiny hint of marking to the cloth and specking to the top edge. A virtually fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with just a hint of wear to one or two extremities and a touch of fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering..

The Hogarth Press, London, 1946. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 208pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges and endpapers quite spotted and with a touch of discolouration to the backstrip. Printed on slightly substandard wartime economy paperstock which is now somewhat tanned. A good if slightly dusty copy. Lacking the handsome Vanessa Bell dust wrapper. The authors seventh novel..

Jonathan Cape, London, 2012. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. x, 704pp. White cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With orange endpapers and a ribbon place-marker. A tiny trace of spotting to the top edge, else in fine state with virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's fourth and final novel..

Cassell, 'Cassell Crime' series, London, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 169pp. Black boards lettered and ruled in white at the spine. A single tiny indentation to the head of the spine, else in fine state with lightly edge worn non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Remnants of a small partially removed sticker to the front panel. A Civil Rights thriller set in the American Deep South..

Supplement to "The Review" No.25, 1971. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo. 15pp stapled into lettered card wrappers, which are very slightly dusty. Fifteen poems. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Baskerville / John Murray, London, 2022. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 3340pp + [i] publisher's advertisement for other volumes in the series. Purple boards lettered in black at the spine. A tiny hint of wear to the backstrip ends, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The eighth full-length volume of Herron's splendid 'Slough House' series..

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..

Grafton Books, London, 1990. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 202pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with photographs. A fine copy in dust wrapper, the spine panel colouring considerably faded. Former owner bookplate, the recipient of the author's inscription, to the front free endpaper..

The Fabian Society and A.C.Fifield, London, 1908. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 12mo. 80pp. Card wrappers. A touch of fading to the wrapper extremities and the spine ends just a little chipped. Binding just a little tender at one gathering. Former owner name inked to the head of the front wrapper, and again to the head of the half-title, and a contemporary gift inscription to that same owner neatly inked to the blank title page verso. Some underlining and marginal annotations to nine entries. A nice bright copy of this collection of forty poems by the co-founder of The Fabian Society. Promotion advertising leaflet for other Fabian Society and Fifield titles laid-in..

Heinemann, London, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 263pp. Blue cloth, gilt lettered at the spine. Some fox-spotting to preliminary leaves. A very bright copy in dusty and slightly marked dust wrapper..

Utopian Compensation, 2003. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies (this being #36). Twenty-four unpaginated leaves stapled into card wrappers. A fine copy. Twelve poems and images. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Bodley Head, London, 1972. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 269pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Boards lightly discoloured at edges, and with some off-setting from the dust wrapper design to the upper board and the backstrip. A very good copy in non-price-clipped double-spread pictorial dust wrapper, with two strips of light fading to the front panel, a little chafing to one or two extremities and a single short internally repaired tear to the head of the spine panel. Twelve stories, Trevor's second collection of short fiction..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing), utilising the same translation as the US edition which appeared a year earlier. 8vo. 336pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of bruising to the backstrip ends, and some toning to the lesser-quality paperstock. A very good copy in slightly rubbed, scored and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. This was the Nobel Laureate's first book to be translated into English..

Chatto & Windus, London, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English-language edition, published a year after the original French issue. 8vo. 172pp. Red boards lettered in silver at the spine and with maroon endpapers. Leaf margins very lightly tanned, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's charming first book, based in part upon his own experiences of 're-education' during the Cultural Revolution..

Harper Press, London, 2007. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 479pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with forty-three photographs and three maps. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred by a tiny touch of chafing to spine panel ends. An account of the origins of The Royal Tank Regiment or 'Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps' as it was then known, covering the period 1916-18..

Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1994. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 168pp. Stiff card wrappers (not issued in casebound format). Illustrated with scores of colour and black and white photographs and reproductions. A fine copy..

Oxford University Press, London, 1959. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English-language edition. 8vo. 210pp. Grey cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a half-title decoration and twenty-seven illustrations in the text. The cloth lightly marked and spotted, and with further spotting to the edges, endpapers and occasional leaf margins. A nice bright copy in very good non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper..

G.P.Putnam, New York, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first American edition of Sitwell's 'Southern Baroque Revisited'. 4to. 306pp. Orange cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated throughout, with many plates in colour. A small dealer plate to the rear endpaper. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

The Ecco Press, New Jersey, 1984. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first paperback edition of Wolff's second novel - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 101pp. Glossy card wrappers. In fine state. Published the same year as the first edition, this paperback issue of Wolff's novel (more accurately a novella) is widely described at his first full-length work of fiction, a claim which overlooks his correct first novel, 'Ugly Rumours', issued in the UK in 1975 and never subsequently reprinted..

W.H.Allen, London, 1973. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 197pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Edges and endpapers spotted. A bright copy in lightly soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A novel of the British Raj, set in a military hill-station in the 1890s, to which John Betjeman has contributed five new sonnets. Peterson B122..