Search Results: Titles starting with G from Clearwater Books

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1972. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 316pp. Patterned paper-covered boards lettered in black and red at the spine. A tiny trace of bruising to the spine ends, else in virtually fine state with non-price-clipped dust wrapper, the publisher's red spine panel colouring completely faded to white as is so often the case, and with a little light wear to the upper edge and so several extremities. The author's fourth novel, winner of both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and of course the fourth winner of the Booker Prize..

Duckworth, London, 1975. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint (originally published in 1904). 8vo. 75pp. With a frontispiece and thirty-one illustrations. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

London Borough of Enfield, 1971. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Stapled card wrappers, the rear wrapper lightly dust soiled. Very good. A 207-item catalogue, alas with no reproductions. Uncommon. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Macdonald, London, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, second state (the first state was recalled and pulped following a series of mishaps). 8vo. 368pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Contemporary former owner gift inscription inked to the head of the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at two or three extremities and with a touch of toning to the predominantly white rear panel..

The Dolmen Press, Dublin, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 175 hand-bound numbered copies (from a total edition of 200 copies). This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Jon Winterton from Ewart Milne, Oct 1957". Slim 8vo. Unpaginated. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in orange at the spine. With a title page decoration, one full-page drawing and four header decorations. Cloth lightly spotted at the backstrip, and with just a touch of further spotting to the endpapers and to very occasional leaf margins. A very good copy in the original unprinted glassine protector, which is a little creased and nicked, with the specific number of this example ("99") inked to the head of the front panel. The ninth book issued by the Dolmen Press..

Debrett's Peerage Ltd., London, 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 159pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Illustrated with over 150 photographs and reproductions, a number in colour. One corner very slightly knocked and a small area of moisture staining to the base of the rear board, impacting no leaves. A very good copy in price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, a little chipped at some extremities. Former owner inscription inked to the front free endpaper..

Chapman & Hall, London, 1931. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 213pp. Orange cloth lettered in black at the spine and with a black-stamped border to the upper board. With a frontispiece and endpaper drawings. Spine faded and covers rather damp-mottled. Some fox-spotting to half-title and several rear leaves. Small plate to base of front pastedown. Quite a bright copy, missing the uncommon dust wrapper. Six further tales about the Tillingfold Cricktters, the village cricket team first introduced in the author's seminal book 'The Cricket Match' (1924)..

Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 'The World's Classics' series, London, 1948. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first combined edition of these two early Jefferies titles, issued here as #516 of the OUP 'World's Classics' series. Small 8vo. xxii, 352pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine with blind-stamped borders, rules and motif. The publisher's blue top edge stain very slightly faded, else a fine copy in slightly toned, nicked and internally repaired non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little internal spotting. Miller & Matthews B8.37 (binding A)..

Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1887. Book. Good. Hardcover. 3rd Edition. Third edition, reset. 8vo. vi, 216pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine, with black and gold-stamped rules, borders and decorations to the spine and upper board. Brown surface endpapers. Backstrip ends gently rubbed. A tiny trace of spotting to the edges, and to four or five preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional margins. The tip of one text leaf absent (impacting no text). A nice bright copy. 1,000 copies were printed. A collection of twenty-four pieces gathered into nine chapters, all originally printed in 'The Pall Mall Gazette' at weekly intervals between January-April 1878, with the first bookform appearance one or two months afterwards. Miller & Matthews B8.11..

Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1892. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4th Edition. The second impression of the fourth edition. 221pp + vi publisher's catalogue at rear. Green diagonal ribbed cloth with a double blind border to upper and lower boards, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with a small gold-stamped illustration to the upper board. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece and forty-one captioned wood engraved illustrations by Charles Whymper (the frontispiece is a duplicate). Minor slant to binding, tips of corners bumped and cloth lightly chafed at spine extremities. A tiny blemish of spotting to half-title. A very nice, bright copy. 2000 copies were printed. A collection of twenty-four pieces gathered into nine chapters, all originally printed in The Pall Mall Gazette at weekly intervals between January and April 1878 and written in a far more "chatty" style than Jefferies' previous contributions. Jefferies' gamekeeper is usually said to be based on the character of… Read More

George Routledge & Sons Ltd., London, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 222pp. Green cloth lettered in blue at the spine (I believe there was also an issue bound in blue cloth). With a title page decoration, forty-one full-page pen and ink illustrations, and various vignettes and decorations in the text. Top edge spotted and with a touch of bruising and light wear to the backstrip ends and corner tips. The binding cracked at the final text leaf, but still perfectly sound. A nice bright copy. No dust wrapper. Evelyn Dunbar's second bookform appearance, consisting of the history, characteristics and cultivation advice of forty garden plants which she co-authored with her Royal College of Art tutor Cyril Mahoney (the two had previously collaborated on a 1933-36 commission to design and paint a series of murals at Brockley Country School for Boys, but by the time this book was published their relationship has broken down. It is now fairly… Read More

B.Crosby & Co. London, 1804. Book. Good. Hardcover. 5th or later Edition. Eighth edition, corrected and enlarged, with a new preface by the author plus a twelve-page 'Complete Description of the Implements of Gardening' which was not included in any prior edition. 8vo. [ii], 366pp. Bound in half-calf with marbled paper-covered sides, with raised bands and gilt lettering and rules. Some soiling and spotting to the edges, and the engraved frontispiece carefully secured with cloth tape. Some damp marking to the lower margins of the perhaps half of the text leaves. A nice bright copy..

The Roxburghe Club, London, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition thus, printed at the Southwark Press. 4to. 75pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and facsimiles and reproductions of various editions and fragments. A new edition of the noted propaganda poem, with scholarly notes by Howard Nixon, Librarian of Westminster Abbey, who passed away prior to its completion, the book now being dedicated and presented to members of The Roxburghe Club in his memory. In fine state. One of 220 copies issued for sale..

Peter Owen, London, 1989. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), preceding the US issue. 8vo. 152pp. Green boards lettered in silver at the spine. Pictorial endpapers. A small area of residue to the rear endpaper from a now absent price sticker, but this aside a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at the spine panel ends..

Art & Technics Ltd., London, 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, printed at The Shenval Press. 12mo. 63pp. Patterned paper-covered boards. Just a trace of light partial toning to the free endpapers, else a fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly toned at the spine panel. Illustrated with engravings, mostly reproduced from the pages of 'Punch'. A delightful little anthology showcasing the delights of eating and drinking. Includes extracts from works by Samuel Pepys, Horace Walpole, Charles Dickens, Thomas Love Peacock, Richard Jefferies, Herman Melville, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf &c..

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1962. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First English Edition (first printing). 8vo. 158pp. Blue pebbled boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. A scattering of light spotting to the top edge and a narrow strip of near-invisible toning to the rear free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper designed by Michael Hoare. Tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown (obscured by the wrapper flap). A circa 40,000-word novel of the Children's Crusade, written in just two sentences, the second of which is only five words long ("And they marched all nigh" - which is just four words in the original Polish). The author's third appearance in English: this novel published the same year as his most celebrated work, 'Ashes and Diamonds'. Uncommon, and much more so in the dust wrapper..

Trigram Press, London, 1971. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The card wrapper issue of the first edition, this copy inscribed by the author on a blank flyleaf and dated five years after publication. 8vo. 62pp. Card wrappers, just fractionally marked. Very good indeed with the original Poetry Book Society wraparound band, a little faded and with some internal taped repair. Thirty-nine poems and sonnets. Poetry Book Society ephemera laid-in..

Trigram Press, 1971. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First trade Edition, following a limited issue of 100 signed and numbered copies. 8vo. 62pp. Card wrappers, a little tanned. Forty poems..

The New Statesman and Nation. The Week-end Review. Vol. XLVI, no. 1186. 28 November 1953., 1953. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers. A lovely crisp copy. This issue also includes a brief letter from Mark Goulden, the editor of the 'Sunday Referee' where Thomas' poems were first published..

Faber, London, 1937. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) of the author's uncommon third book, a collection of thirty-nine short stories. 8vo. 316pp. Beige cloth lettered in black and gold at the spine. Some tanning to the backstrip and to the extremities of upper and lower boards, and a small stain to the top edge. Really quite a nice, bright copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, the spine panel quite tanned and with some discolouration to the front panel and some taped reinforcement..