Search Results: Titles starting with J from Clearwater Books

The Twelve by Eight [Press], 1961. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, hand-set at the Orpheus Press and signed by John Mason at the base of the title page. Slim 8vo. Unpaginated. Linson wrappers with a spine label and superb colour designs by Rigby Graham to the front and rear wrappers. Title page printed in black and blue. With a portrait frontispiece drawing and eleven further splendid full-page black and white drawings. Endpapers and one or two preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted. A very good of a handsome production, housed in probably the original unprinted plastic protector. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..

Durham University Journal. Vol. LXXIV, no. 1, December, 1981. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. Small 4to. Card wrappers, very lightly marked. A very good copy. A twenty-page critical essay on Blake, illustrated with thirty-nine monochrome reproductions..

Crown Publishers, New York, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Large 4to. Buckram-backed boards, triflingly bumped and faded at some extremities. A bright copy in chipped non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Collins, 'The Crime Club' series, London, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 240pp. Red boards with gilt lettering to the spine. A tiny stain to the edge of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper, very lightly rubbed at head and base of spine panel. The twelfth Lovejoy novel..

John Hamilton Ltd., 'The Airman's Bookshelf' series, London [no date]. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing). 8vo. 126pp. Blue cloth lettered in black at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-seven photographs. Cloth lightly soiled and with just a touch of wear to the upper gutter. A touch of light marginal and endpaper spotting. A nice bright copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but somewhat torn and creased with several notable areas of loss. Accounts of aerial combat over Flanders in 1918, penned by Elisabeth Maria Kähnert and now deemed almost certainly a fictional rather than factual account (despite wrapper blurb to the contrary)..

Harvill Press Ltd., London, 1966. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to fellow anti-apartheid campaigner Robert Birley and family: "With very great appreciation to the Birleys - Albie Sachs 27/7/68. Canterbury". 8vo. 285pp. Two-tone boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Edges and endpapers quite lightly spotted. A very good copy in rubbed and dust soiled dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with some chafing and small areas of loss from the spine panel ends and corner tips. A superb presentation copy of Sachs' diary detailing his 168-day solitary confinement for anti-apartheid campaigning..

David & Charles, Newton Abbot and London, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK edition (originally published in Holland the previous year). Large 4to. 192pp. Grey cloth lettered in white at the spine and upper board. Facsimile inscriptions to endpapers from a selection of the subjects. A tiny indentation to the head of the upper board, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, very lightly worn at spine ends and tips of corners and with some offset indentations (only visible when the light catches). Over 120 wonderful portraits, many full page and in colour, depicting on stage a host of jazz and blues greats including Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, Herbie Hancock, Willia Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Memphis Slim, Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan. Oscar Peterson, B.B.King, Ray Charles, Jean Baptiste, Gerry Mulligan &c..

Geoffrey Bles, London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition, issued two years after the original American edition and printed from those US sheets. 8vo. [ii], 238pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards with a paper spine label. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Edges a little spotted, and the top edge dust soiled. Some light partial toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in the most uncommon dust wrapper, lightly dust soiled, with some quite noticeable toning to the spine panel, and a touch of wear to several extremities with a single miniscule area of loss to the base of the spine panel. The first full-length study of Joyce, published four years after 'Ulysses'..

Private Libraries Association, Middlesex, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, limited to 2,000 copies 750 of which were for sale. Tall 8vo. 134pp. Purple cloth, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with a gold vignette to the upper board. Cloth faded at the backstrip and with some more uneven fading to the rear board, but internally in fine state. An extensive bibliography of Lumsdens juvenilia, songs, natural history, education and chapbook publications including illustrations of many title pages. No dust wrapper..

Macmillan, London, 1975. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 140pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. A virtually fine copy in slightly marked and soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a single short closed tear to the rear panel..

Faber, London 2006-2014 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Editions (first printings) of his five 'Yashim the Eunuch' historical detective novels - a complete set, at the time of cataloguing. Individual volume descriptions as follows: 'The Janissary Tree' (2006). First edition. This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 332pp. Cream boards lettered in silver at the spine. The edges fractionally spotted and with a touch of very minor blemishing to the margins of several preliminary leaves. Very good indeed in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel. 'The Snake Stone' (2007). First edition. This copy signed and lined by the author on the title page and dated the year of publication. 8vo. 308pp. Red boards lettered in silver at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. 'The Bellini Card' (2008). First edition. 8vo. 306pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. The… Read More

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio [1961]. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 161pp. Brown cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and with gilt-stamped decoration to the upper and lower boards. Extensively illustrated, with several full colour plates and one fold-out plate. A little light spotting to the boards and a tiny hint more to the half-title. A very good copy in pictorial dust wrapper, quite rubbed and chafed at top edge with a small portion of loss and some to the publisher's laminate..

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1938. Book. Very Good. No Binding. 1st Edition. First edition. Folio. In excellent state. Folder quite spotted and a little torn, internally repaired..

Global Oriental Ltd, Folkestone, 2005. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper and dated the year of publication. 8vo. xv, 264pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with 26 black and white photographs and manuscript reproductions. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. A memoir by the noted Japanese studies scholar (he pioneered the field at Oxford University and later Sheffield University)..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 286pp. Buckram covers lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece and four plates. Top edge dust soiled. A virtually fine copy in slightly dust marked and spotted price-clipped dust wrapper. A biography of Shelley's biographer (his "Boswell") and oldest friend..

University of London Press, London, 1938. Book. Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, the subscribers issue, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by the author (this being #73). 4to. xvi, 66pp. Paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. With a colour frontispiece and seventy-four photographs and reproductions over thirty-four plates. Errata slip to p.10, as required. Boards marked, rubbed and a little soiled, spine ends and corner tips rubbed and with a short tear to the base of the rear gutter and a small area of the backstrip lifting as a result. A good copy, really very crisp internally. No dust wrapper, probably as issued. Lady Daresbury's copy, with her handsome bookplate to the front pastedown, her signature to the colophon and a signed typewritten letter to her from the author pasted to the front free endpaper. The first monograph on O'Neale, the leading British miniature- and porcelain-painter, and the principle fable, mythology and classical… Read More

The Dock Leaves Press, Pembroke, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. 315pp. Card wrappers, just fractionally marked and chafed. A virtually fine copy. Hooker's sixteen-page essay on Thomas' 'Sad Passion' (the first part of which presumably appeared in the preceding issue) is accompanied by other contributions by Meic Stephens (his poem 'The Lilting House'), A.G.Prys-Jones (his poem 'The Happy Boy'), Raymond Garlick (his poems 'A Touch of White', 'After Augustine', and 'Pew Rent'), William David Sherman (his essay 'The Case of Ezra Pound'), Leonard Clark (his poem 'Grass'), and Peter Finch (his essay 'Concrete Poetry: A Brief Outline')..

The Lyrebird Press, 'Editions Poetry London' series, London, 1972. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, a review copy with publisher's review slip, slightly creased and discoloured, laid-in. 8vo. 31pp + iv musical scores. Illustrated boards, faded and a little marked. With nine Piper drawings, two full-page and one reproduced and enlarged on the upper board. The board fading aside, a very bright copy, internally in virtually fine state. No dust wrapper, as issued. A dramatic poem, based upon a masque commissioned for performance in Dorchester Abbey, Oxford and illustrated by Piper who also provided designs for the Dorchester production. Levinson 143..

Hurst & Blackett Ltd., London, 1931. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First English Edition (first printing). 8vo. Attractive patterned cloth-covered boards lettered in red at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece and a number of illustrations and facsimiles. An extremely crisp and bright copy. No dust wrapper, were one called for..

Moed Ltd, Tel-Aviv [1958]. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Text in English and Hebrew. A very good copy of an uncommon item. David Gilboa was born in Romania in 1910. He studied at Bucharest's Academy of Fine Art and emigrated to Israel in 1933 becoming one of the founders of the Artist's Quarter, Safed. In additional to painting the landscape and people of Israel he provided illustrations for an edition of Stevenson's 'Treasure Island'. He died in 1976..