Search Results: Titles starting with D from Clearwater Books

Seltzer, New York, 1924. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The first edition (first printing) of this first ever critical work on Lawrence. 8vo. 77pp. Card wrappers, slightly dusty, tanned and rubbed. A very good copy. Roberts F1..

University of Nottingham Art Gallery, 1960. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. 55pp. Card wrappers. Illustrated with nine photographs and manuscript reproductions. Wrappers chipped at the head of the spine, lightly chafed at one or two extremities, and with a hint of dust soiling. A nice crisp copy. Roberts F84..

Faber, London, 1977. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 148pp. Red boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Gollancz, London, 2007. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 322pp + [i] advertisement. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A touch of very light marking to the board and a single tiny area of staining to the top edge. A virtually fine copy in lightly creased and marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper. CD affixed to the rear pastedown, as called for..

Hutchinson, London [1950]. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's second crime novel. 8vo. 192pp. Brown cloth lettered in black at the spine. Top- and fore edge quite spotted, and with a touch of additional spotting and browning to several preliminary leaves. Quite a crisp copy in publisher clipped and re-priced dust wrapper, a somewhat handled example with several short closed tears and accompanying creases and four or five area of loss to spine ends and tips of several corners. Fleming published five children's books before her first crime novel, 'Two Lovers too Many', in 1949. Her second, 'A Daisy-Chain for Satan', was published the following year followed by over thirty further crime novels, two of which won her the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award: 'When I Grow Rich' (1962) and 'Young Man I Think You're Dying' (1970)..

Watts & Co., London, 1935. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xi, 116pp. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. Portrait frontispiece. Rear board very lightly marked and with some spotting to a dozen preliminary leaves and a few concluding leaves too. A good copy. No dust wrapper. Fifteen essays. Never reprinted. Foss B6..

Watts & Co., London, 1935. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "May from Lulu 1935", the recipient probably his friend and semi-regular correspondent the West Country poet May Chesshire (a selection of her letters to Powys was published in a limited edition in 1937). 8vo. xi, 116pp. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. Portrait frontispiece. The backstrip ends lightly chipped and with a small area of discolouration where the dust wrapper is defective. The binding a little tender at the half-title and at one other gathering. Free endpapers very lightly toned. A nice bright copy in poor dust wrapper: somewhat dusty, creased, soiled and torn, and chipped with several areas of edge-loss. Fifteen essays. Uncommon thus. Foss B6..

HarperCollins, London, 1996. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 214pp. 8vo. Maroon cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with two colour maps, forty-six photographs by the author, many hitherto unpublished, and with several of the author's sketch maps in the text. A touch of tanning to paperstock and a tiny hint of spotting to the top edge. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly toned at the spine panel..

Heinemann, London 1955-1975 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first three volumes reprints (fourth impression, second impression, and second impression respectively), the remainder first printings. Nine of the first ten volumes are signed by the author on the title pages, and the first ten volumes are also inscribed by him on the front free endpapers, his inscriptions dated in the spring of 1971, prior to the publication of the final two volumes, which accordingly do not bear his penmanship. A very nice set in mostly very good dust wrappers, one of which is price-clipped, and two others clipped and re-priced by the publisher. The wrappers of the first three volumes are a little nicked, chipped and torn. A very nice set of Powell's twelve-volume masterpiece, here considerably enhanced by his signatures to the first ten volumes..

Harvill Secker, London, 2015. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 548pp. Dark blue paper-covered boards lettered in silver at the spine. Very good indeed in fractionally edgeworn non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a single tiny tear to the base of the front flap. The fourth volume of the author's equally celebrated and controversial novelised six-volume memoir..

Art Data, [no place], 2001. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. 183pp. Paper-covered boards lettered in black and yellow at the spine and upper board. Illustrated with over one hundred colour photographs, including a number of full-page and double-spread presentations. A single miniscule bump to the base of the upper board, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper..

Faber, London, 1930. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. The second edition, heavily revised and here published by Faber eight years after the original Collins edition. 8vo. 313pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge dust marked and with a light trace of browning and spotting to the endpapers. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly spotted and tanned and with some more extensive tanning to the spine panel with also exhibits several lengthy tears and some loss to the head and base (the top portion has been retained and loosely held in place). An introductory note from the author, in the form of a letter to his agent Andrew Dakers, notes that "only seventeen sentences remain of the original published version". 2,500 copies were printed..

Collins, London, 1922. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition - never reprinted in this original form. 8vo. 299pp + [vi] publisher's advertisements bound in at the rear. Blue cloth, orange-stamped at the spine and upper board with a double rule. Spine ends nicked, cloth a little rubbed at the tips of the corners, top edge dust marked and publisher's orange spine panel lettering a little faded. Endpapers lightly browned and with the occasional finger smudge and minor fox blemish to leaf margins. Binding a little tender in places. Quite a crisp copy of the author's third book, and the second volume of his 'Flax of Dream' sequence. Former owner name inked to the front pastedown. Missing the highly fugitive dust wrapper. 600 copies were printed..

Michael Joseph, London, 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 272pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Just a touch of light bruising to the spine ends. A very good copy in fractionally dust marked non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a touch of corresponding creasing to the head of the spine panel. The author's twenty-second horses-for-courses thriller..

Century, London, 2008. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 574pp. With forty-three captioned photographs. A touch of bruising to the spine ends. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little light corresponding chafing to the spine panel ends..

The Salamander Press, Edinburgh, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 110pp. Cream cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Handsome former owner bookplate to the front pastedown alongside neatly inked former owner details, but these aside a fine copy with fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Thirty poems, a selection from Motion's first three collections plus seven hitherto unprinted in book-form. An additional poem clipped from the pages of the 'Times Literary Supplement' has been pasted to a rear flyleaf..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 704pp. Brown boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Ridge to backstrip and some very light tanning to paperstock. A very good copy in lightly chafed and edge worn dust wrapper with a little internal tanning. Fowles' fourth novel..

Macdonald, London, 1981. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The most uncommon first UK edition. 8vo. 400pp. Card wrappers. Edges spotted and a touch of wear and light chafing to the wrapper extremities. Numeral inkstamp to the base of the first leaf and a small area of residue to the inner front wrapper where a slip of paper was once pasted, yet this does not appear to be an ex-institutional copy. A good sound copy of the author's first work of non-fiction; a study of horror fiction in print, television, radio and cinema, and its influences upon his own output, in part written to that King could avoid repetitive interview questions on the topic. Issued simultaneously in paperback and hardback, this UK edition is considerably more uncommon than the US issue of the same year, a result of a very small print run after the publisher erroneously assumed there would be little interest in non-fiction work by this author..

MacGibbon & Kee, London, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 85pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top- and fore edge lightly spotted. A very good copy in chafed and edgeworn non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpaper. Thirty-three poems, the Irish author's third collection of verse (which includes his poem 'Reading the Unpublished Manuscripts of Louis MacNeice at Kinsale Harbour')..

Vertigo, 'Vertigo Crime' series, London, 2009. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition of Rankin's first graphic novel, which utilises the CD Comics character 'John Constantine' as the protagonist. This copy signed by Ian Rankin on the title page. 8vo. 214pp + [ii] advertisements. Decorated boards. A small bump to the base of the spine, else a fine copy. No dust wrapper called for..