Search Results: Titles starting with S from Clearwater Books

Andre Deutsch, London, 1988. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). 8vo. 244pp. Purple boards lettered in gold at the spine. A touch of chafing to the backstrip ends, else a fine copy in dust wrapper, lightly rubbed, creased at the head of the spine panel and with the price printed to the base of the front flap inked out. The final volume of his 'The Scarlet Letter' trilogy, preceded by 'A Month of Sundays' (1975) and 'Roger's Version' (1986)..

Simon & Schuster, London, 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First English edition (first printing). 8vo. 337pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Leaf margins tanned, else a very nice copy in price-clipped dust wrapper..

G.P.Putnam, New York, 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 366pp. Cloth-backed boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Just a touch of very light marking to the boards and a dozen tiny pinpricks of spotting to the top edge. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in lightly tanned and creased price-clipped dust wrapper, with one inch-long tear to the upper edge of the front panel, a little accompanying creasing, and one further tiny edge-tear. The author's eighth novel, inspired by the seemingly mysterious death of ex-CIA officer John Paisley..

Anthony Blond Ltd., London, 1966. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 239pp. Russet-coloured boards lettered in white at the spine. British Red Cross library plate to the front pastedown, and the same institutional inkstamp to the front free endpaper and to the corner of four text leaves. These defects aside, a very crisp and bright copy in slightly edgeworn non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper designed by Oliver Elmes, with several areas of tape repair and a large area of chafing and moisture marking to the rear panel. An acceptable copy..

Bantam Press, London, 2003. 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 the year of publication. 8vo. ix + 320pp + [iii] reviews for earlier volumes in the series. Orange boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge spotted else in fine state with fine non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper. The fifth volume in the author's acclaimed Matthew Hervey series..

John Murray, London, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. xii + 184pp. Yellow cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a gold-stamped vignette to the upper board. With eight full-page colour plates, a title page decoration and many line drawings in the text. Upper board lifting just a fraction, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A companion to the Byzantine architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean..

Gambit, Boston, 1969. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The American issue of the first edition, printed from the English sheets. 4to. xii + 184pp. Yellow cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a gold-stamped vignette to the upper board. With eight full-page colour plates, a title page decoration and many line drawings in the text. Top edge spotted, and with just a trace of further spotting to the top edge of the upper and lower board. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, marred only by a hint of chafing to the upper edge. A companion to the Byzantine architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean..

Frederick Etchells & Hugh MacDonald, 'The Haslewood Books' series, London, 1926. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, of which 450 numbered copies were produced (this being #263). 4to. 79pp. Gilt lettered and decorated cloth. Printed at the Curwen Press on J.W.Zanders hand-made paper with the copper plates, subsequently destroyed. With a four-page introduction by Bernard Windeler, who also provides a short introduction to each plate and hand-coloured most of the engravings. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Some fading to the publisher's orange cloth at the upper and lower boards and with a short crease to the head of the backstrip. A tiny touch of non-invasive spotting to the pastedowns and to occasional leaves. A very good copy of a superb production. No dust wrapper, as issued, but lacking the slipcase..

Chatto & Windus, London, 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author at the head of the front free endpaper. 8vo. 163pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Patterned cloth with a paper spine label (and a spare tipped-in at the rear, as required). Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A sliver of discolouration to the backstrip ends and to the board edges. Free endpapers spotted with some further quite light spotting to a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves, and to occasional margins. A small bump to the base of the upper board. Very good in non-price-clipped dust wrapper which reproduces the Ray Garnett frontispiece, toned at the spine panel and with just a tiny trace of wear to the head and base of the spine panel. The author's fourth novel (the third published under his real name), set in Victorian Dorset (Garnett took the name of the book from the inn at Chaldon Herring, where he stayed whilst… Read More

Thomas B.Mosher, Portland, Maine, 1903. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. Second edition, once again limited to 425 copies printed on Japan vellum paper. Small 8vo. vii, 60pp. The title page printed in black and red. Stiff boards with an integral vellum paper dust wrapper. A virtually fine copy in original patterned card slipcase, with just a hint of wear to several extremities. Jefferies' story 'Saint Guido' was first printed in the 'English Illustrated News' in December 1884 and was subsequently collected in 'The Open Air' (1885). Miller & Matthews C5.3..

The Fleuron Ltd., London [1927]. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 310 numbered copies printed on Zanders' hand-made paper at the Curwen Press (this being #243). 4to. 65pp. Patterned paper-covered buckram featuring a handsome Nash design, and illustrated with five drawings, hand-coloured through stencils by the artist (a process he later called a "triumph of the hand over machine"). Spine ends and corner tips rubbed and with a little wear to the upper and lower gutters, and also to the hinges, yet the binding still perfectly sound. A lovely crisp copy, lacking the unprinted tissue protector but with a fresh sheet of acetate supplied. Three stories..

Constable, London, 1924. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 114pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements at the rear. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edges lightly spotted and fly-leaves a little browned. A very bright copy in chipped, chafed, dust-marked and slightly ragged dust wrapper in two parts (cleanly torn at the rear panel-spine panel joint)..

Macmillan, London, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 220pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly marked and rubbed, with a little light wear to the corner tips and a short jagged tear to the head of the front panel-spine panel fold..

A.R.Mowbray & Co. Ltd., London, 1956. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 108pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece, seven plates and various drawings in the text. Edges, endpapers, and several preliminary and concluding leaves spotted. A bright copy in slightly spotted, rubbed and nicked non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little loss from the head of the spine panel. A scholarly account of the associations between saints and flowers..

Saxon & Co., London, 1886. Book. Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English-language edition of Flaubert's celebrated historical novel. 8vo. 421pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Blue cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. With bevelled edges and patterned endpapers. Cloth marked in places, and with a little wear to the spine ends and corner tips. The front hinge tender, with a touch of light very occasional spotting, and with some damp marking to the lower inner margins of quite a number of leaves. Embossed W.H.Smith stamp to the tip of the front free endpaper. Quite a good bright copy of this first edition in English..

Faber, London, 1935. Book. Good. Hardcover. Third impression of the first edition, issued the same year as the first printing. 8vo. 319pp. Pinkey-salmon cloth, lettered and decorated in silver at the spine. Map-illustrated endpapers, unaccredited but almost certainly from a design by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Cloth lightly marked in places and discoloured at the head and base of the backstrip. Some spotting to the edges and, very lightly, to the flyleaf. Former owner details neatly inked to the flyleaf and a tiny partially erased former owner rubber stamp to the base of the front pastedown. A good bright copy in double-spread Tunnicliffe-designed colour dust wrapper, with some notable loss to the head of the spine panel and adjacent areas, and with a single short closed tear and a little resulting creasing..

Faber, London, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 319pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped vignette. Publisher's pink top edge stain considerably faded and also exhibiting a touch of fox-spotting, as does the fore edge. A very good copy - particularly crisp internally housed in a somewhat distressed price-clipped dust wrapper: nicked, chipped and torn with several areas of loss and a jagged tear to the head of the front panel. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of a blank flyleaf..

Faber, London, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 319pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine with a gilt-stamped vignette. With endpaper maps, a title page decoration and a single small vignette by C.F.Tunnicliffe. Top- and fore edge very lightly spotted, and with a touch of further light spotting to several blank preliminary leaves and to the final text leaf. Some fading to the publishers pink top edge stain. A very good copy in the delightful double-spread pictorial Tunnicliffe-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but rubbed and a little chipped and several extremities with some taped repair and a little chafing to the natural folds..

Faber, London, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 319pp. Brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gold at the spine. Map illustrated endpapers (in a style suggestive of C.F.Tunnicliffe) and with a small title-page decoration and a closing vignette, which are both by Tunnicliffe. Top- and fore edge spotted. Cloth lightly marked in places and with just a touch of wear to the backstrip ends. A touch of spotting to occasional leaf margins. A nice crisp copy. No dust wrapper..

Privately published by the author, Dymock, 1911. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 29pp sewn into lettered card wrappers. The wrappers splitting and tender at the natural fold, and a little rubbed and nicked at the yapped edges. Several preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted and with a contemporary date (1912) neatly inked to the head of the title leaf. A good, bright if slightly handled copy of the author's early one-act verse play, the second that he self-published [in an edition of circa 500 copies]. With a printed dedication "To Arthur Ransome. My Friend". The verse-play was subsequently included in the first volume of Edward Marsh's 'Georgian Poetry' anthology series (1912); and Abercrombie eventually expanded the play by a further five acts, the full six-act version being published in 1930. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..