Search Results: Titles starting with E from Clearwater Books

Pantheon Books, New York, 2014. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 213pp. White boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with nearly fifty black and white photographs and reproductions. A touch of minor bruising to the base of the backstrip, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Not published in the UK in casebound format..

Prestel-Verlag, Munchen, 1961. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 160pp. Large 4to. Pictorial cloth. Spine slightly fox-spotted and boards quite bowed. A bright copy in dusty dust wrapper with several tiny closed tears. Spine panel lightly tanned. Text in German..

The University of Chicago press, Chicago & London, 1994. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The paperback issue of the first edition, published simultaneously with the casebound edition. 8vo. 63pp. Card wrappers. A small bump to one corner, impacting the first score of so of leaves. A very good copy. A sequence of untitled sequential poems, the author's fourth collection of verse. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

The Cuala Press, Dundrum, 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 500 copies. 8vo. 99pp. Linen-backed paper-covered boards lettered in black at the upper board with a tanned and very slightly chipped paper spine label. A trace of light wear and rubbing to several extremities. A touch of spotting and light uneven discolouration to the boards. Endpapers lightly browned and with a hint of toning and occasional very light spotting to the leaf margins. Former owner name and date inked in red to the front free endpaper. A nice bright copy. No dust wrapper called for. Wade 272..

Faber, London, 2005. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 382pp. Black boards lettered and ruled in cream at the spine. A tiny crease to the lower tip of a single text leaf, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a single miniscule closed tear to the upper edge. Over 250 poems, some of which appeared in 'Collected Poems' (1988) and the Larkin Society publication 'About Larkin', but most of which are hitherto unprinted..

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvi, 204pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Edges and endpapers very lightly spotted, and a small area of surface abrasion of the boards where the wrapper has become very slightly adhered to the cloth. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, faded at the spine panel and just a little marked with some rubbing to the upper edge. Stories, excerpts from an unfinished novel and a film script, plus various critical writings and nineteen reviews..

Alfred A.Knopf, London, 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First English edition. 8vo. 175pp. Quarter cloth with marbled paper sides, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's dark top edge stain. With a small title page decoration in red, six full-page woodcuts and one chapter header decoration, all by Hester Sainsbury. Several text leaves uncut. Free endpapers lightly and partially browned and with just a hint of wear to the corner tips. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. With ten instances of light pencilled marginalia, and two more in ink. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, nicked at the upper edge with several tiny fractions of loss and with some careful internal repair. Both wrapper flaps have been neatly severed from the main body of the wrapper, and each reattached with a single tiny piece of tape. A series of travel essays from the noted Modernist and Imagist (and later Nazi collaborator), originally… Read More

Hippopotamus Press, Frome, 1991. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 72pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of spotting to the top edge, else in fine state with non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel. Fifty-four poems..

Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, Cardiff, 2000. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author on the inner wrapper. 8vo. 100pp. Card wrappers with a wire spiral binding. A virtually fine copy. Just over one hundred poems by the noted science fiction author..

Faber, London, 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 46pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted and with former owner details neatly inked to the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly tanned and rubbed with two or three tiny fractions of loss. Twenty-three poems. 3,000 copies were printed. Sagar & Tabor A7..

Faber, London, 1977. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 245pp. Green boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Half a dozen tiny pinpricks of spotting to the fore edge, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's second novel..

Northern House Pamphlet Poets, Leeds, 1964. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition of the author's first book, hand-set at the School of English, University of Leeds onto fifteen pages and sewn into paper wrappers, the upper wrapper printed in red and black. Slim 8vo. A slight crease to the lower edge. A very good copy. Nine poems. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Jardine Press, Suffolk, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition - the deluxe issue, limited to just 100 numbered copies on handmade paper, signed by both poet and artist, this being the very first number (and proceeding the trade edition, which appeared only in paperback format, by a year). Slim 4to. Full leather. With title-page and colophon decorations and twelve superb woodcuts, one colour-tinted, plus another on the rear endpapers. A hint of occasional chafing to the leather else in fine state with the original rexine slipcase. No dust wrapper called-for. Small former owner name label to the front pastedown. Sixteen poems, the fifth book published by Dodds' Jardine Press. Really quite scarce..

Jardine Press, Stoke-by-Nayland, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition - the deluxe issue, limited to just 100 numbered copies on handmade paper, signed by both poet and artist; this being #73 and additionally inscribed by Crossley-Holland: "For Alan and Di [Byford] who 'walk clean into the possible' - with love, January 1999" (Alan Byford and Crossley-Holland were the co-founders of the Wells-next-the-Sea Poetry Festival). Slim 4to. Unpaginated. Full leather, lettered and decorated in gold at the upper board. With title-page and colophon decorations and twelve superb woodcuts, one colour-tinted, plus another on the rear endpapers, all contributed by James Dodds. The leather fractionally rubbed in one or two places, else in fine state. No dust wrapper called for, but housed in the original rexine slipcase. Sixteen poems. The fifth book published by Dodds' Jardine Press. Scarce, and quite desirable with these attributes..

London and North Eastern Railway [1930] Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing), printed at the Curwen Press. Slim 8vo. 63pp. Stapled card wrappers, a little marked, handled and with some light corner creasing. With a magnificent colour title-page design by Edward Bawden, plus eight colour headpiece drawings, several colour headpiece decorations and numerous black and white decorations (headpieces and tailpieces) also by Bawden. The staples rusted. A short crease impacts the tips of the upper right corners of about half the leaves and with a small area of staining to the base of a single text leaf. A nice bright copy of an extremely uncommon item - a collection of essays on various aspects of the East Coast, published to attract tourists to the area, and beautifully illustrated by Bawden..

Putnam & Co., London, 1939. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), utilising the same English-translation as the American edition which appeared the same year. 8vo. viii, 470pp. Dark red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A minor slant to the binding and a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends. Some quite minor blemishing and soiling to very occasional leaf margins. A good copy in poor dust wrapper, which is nicked, creased, torn, chipped, darkened and excessively price clipped (impacting a little of the front flap blurb)..

Grant Richards, London, 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition, late issue, in red clot and issued without a frotn free endpaper. 8vo. 229pp. Covers slightly stained at the backstrip and a little chafed at some extremities. A reasonably good, crisp copy in worn and much reinforced dust wrapper. Some fox-spotting. Foss B1[b]..

Secker & Warburg, London, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page and dated May 1999. Slim 8vo. 53pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge very lightly dust soiled, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, the upper edge lifting a fraction of the rear panel. Former owner name inked to the head of the front pastedown (and obscured by the wrapper flap). A printed dedication in verse to Michael Allen and Paul Muldoon precedes thirty-five poems..

Jarrolds Ltd., London [1944]., 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 168pp. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine. A touch of wear to the corner tips, and a single tiny indentation to the head of the upper board. A very good copy in slightly rubbed and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author [Hilda] Van Siller's first crime novel. This UK edition being especially uncommon..

The Dodman Press, Hitchin, 1982. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition, hand-printed and limited to 200 copies. Slim 8vo. [16pp] stapled into lightly faded card wrappers with some off-set soiling. Tipped-in portrait frontispiece (with a trace of off-setting from the paste to the adjacent title page). A nice crisp copy. Three hitherto unprinted letters from brothers George and Wally Martin, both privates in "G" Company 4th Seaforth Highlanders, penned in January, February and May 2015 (George Martin was killed at the Battle of Aubers Ridge on May 9th 1915). [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..