Search Results: Titles starting with U from Keel Row Books

London; The Admiralty, 1942., 1942. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp 16. Plate section to rear with 41 images mainly from monochrome photographs. Original royal blue quarter cloth with printed light blue paper-covered boards with Admiralty crest above titles to upper board. 4 printed sheets loosely inserted referring to American built ships. Covers toned with bruised edge and corners; small surface loss to paper at corners. Ownership inscription to upper board above titles, repeated to ffep. Endpapers and edge a little toned & soiled; minor paper-clip mark to ffep; upper corners litghtly creased to margin only. Overall a Very Good copy. Report on the shipbuilding production methods in use in Canada and USA during the Second World War, intended to show which if any would be of use in British Merchant Shipbuilding in order to increase production. Scarce. Copac locates just 3 copies in the UK, two at the National Maritime Museum and one at the Imperial War Museum.

London; Blackie & Son Ltd., 1899., 1899. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. 383 pp. Twelve illustrations (including frontis) by Walter Paget; 32pp advertisements to rear. Book Condition: Very Good. Original decorative blue cloth with bevelled edges & gilt titles; illustrations to front & to spine ( a Rifleman and the Duke of Wellington respectively). No dust-jacket (as issued) ; surface rubbing with minor wear to edges. Minor fingermarking & light foxing to textblock edge, endpapers & title page; handwritten name & date to ffep. A handsome copy.

Rotterdam; Editions Bel-Rose, 1970., 1970. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. Limited edition - No. 8 of 500 signed numbered copies. Quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 7 explicit humorous lithographs (themes of domination, sado-masochism and acupuncture!). Book Condition: Very Good. Original brown cloth gilt with gilt-stamped rose motif to upper board. French text.

London; Methuen & Company, 1947., 1947. Hardcover. Twentieth Edition. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Original light brown cloth with black titles in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A few nicks & creases to jacket with light wear to head of spine and a little fingermarking to white background. Gift inscription handwritten to ffep. Very light foxing & toning to endpapers otherwise a very clean copy.

London; Alison Green Books, 2017., 2017. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION with full number line. Portrait quarto, pp. [32], unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. Hardback in publishers' laminated pictorial boards, with illustrated flamingo pink endpapers, in the original unclipped matching pictorial dust-jacket, now protected in a removable mylar sleeve. Fine in a Fine dustjacket Signed boldly to the title page by the former UK Children's Laureate and internationally acclaimed author, Julia Donaldson, and world renowned children's illustrator, Axel Scheffler. With an original sketch of Lappet-Faced Vulture by Scheffler, dated "Edinburgh 2017". Rollicking feel good friendship fable by the creators of The Gruffalo. This long-running collaborative partnership has produced many modern classics loved by adults and children alike.

London; William Heinemann, 1929., 1929. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [10], 345. Publishers' black cloth with titles and ruling in gilt to spine, and titles and foliate decoration inside ruled compartments, all in blind, to upper board. Original cream dust-jacket with green titles and triple border. Corners lightly bruised and spine tips a little creased; cover cloth bright. Very light foxing, mainly to prelims, otherwise contents clean; no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket toned & stained to spine and lightly surface soiled, with a few small nicks & creases, and very minor loss head of spine. A Near Fine copy in Good jacket. Concluding volume in the trilogy of Australian life with colonial development, tragedy and adventure by Ethel Florence Lindesay under her nom-de-plume if Henry Handel Richardson. Winner of the 1929 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Scarce.

London; Collins, 1972., 1972. Hard Cover. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 223, [1]. Publishers' grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, in unclipped dust-jacket designed by Richard Inglis. Clean and bright with affectionate gift inscription from the Author to ffep dated in year of publication. Jacket a little rubbed to edge with a few minor nicks and creases. Near Fine book in Very Good jacket. Mystery novel of a legal case following a suicide pact in Paris, by the American writer, film producer and executive Bachmann. Bachmann ran MGM British for several years and supervised the Miss Marple films which starred Margaret Rutherford in the central role.

London; MacGibbon & Kee, 1968., 1968. Hard Cover. LIMITED SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [2], 176. Publisher's navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine housed in an unclipped jacket. Jacket shows light shelf wear with some small areas of surface loss and several small (5 mm approx. max) nicks; spine very lightly sunned. A Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. SIGNED by the author in blue ink and numbered 32/40 copies with limitation slip tipped in. Selection of short stories, essays and criticism from 1920s onwards, by the acclaimed poet. Edited with an introduction by Kenneth Buthlay.

London; Folio Society, 2015., 2015. Hard Cover. Second printing. Large octavo, pp. xxi, [1], 392, [2]. With macabre illustrations throughout by Charles W. Stewart. Bound in moss green cloth blocked in gilt depicting ivy covered borders and central memento mori design by Stewart. Housed in a matching moss green slipcase. Small bumps to slipcase edge and corner. Fine book in Near Fine slipcase. Le Fanu's masterpiece of the Victorian Gothic. It was first published in 1864, six years prior to his sapphic vampire novella Carmilla. Uncle Silas shows a strong interest in the occult and Swedenborgian mysticism. The novella is an early example of the locked-room mystery genre.

London; J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1954., 1954. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. ix, [1], 101, [1]. Pp. 93-101 musical notation. Publishers' tan cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped green dust-jacket. Cover cloth lightly toned to spine with rubbed spine tips and corners; contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket a little toned to white panels, with a few nicks & creases to edge and small scuff with colour loss to spine; very slight foxing visible to reverse. A Very Good copy in like jacket. Thomas' classic radio drama, commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for stage; the play won the Prix Italia for radio drama in 1954, and was broadcast in January of that year, just two months after Thomas' early death. The work features the thoughts and dreams of the inhabitants of a fictional Welsh village called Llareggub, and the first broadcast famously starred a distinguished all-Welsh cast including Richard Burton as First Voice. Thomas' lifelong friend, the Welsh composer… Read More

London; Country Life Ltd., 1938., 1938. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. viii, 135. Monochrome frontispiece, 5 plates and further chapter heading illustrations throughout by Clifford Webb. Publisher's bright green cloth with chestnut titles to spine and upper board in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Boards are lightly soiled to spine with minor foxing to eps; dated gift inscription in black ink to ffep. Five of the illustrations have been sympathetically hand coloured. Jacket has several tears, up 5 cm (approx.) mostly without significant loss; small area of loss (1 cm by 2 cm approx.) to lower front panel. Very Good book in like jacket. This charming children's book about the countryside is scarce in it's dust-jacket.

Boston; D. Lothrop and Company, 1881., 1881. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, pp. 234. Frontispiece with verse plus 63 illustrations, of which 18 full-page to plates and remainder within text. Publishers' pictorial paper-covered boards in colour, with black titles to gilt panels to spine and upper board. Minor wear to edges, corners and spine tips, with small loss at head of spine and upper corners. Contents clean and tight, with gift inscription dated Christmas 1886 to ffep. A Very Good copy. A sequel to "Overhead" (an introduction to astronomy) and an introduction to science for young children featuring brave and intrepid Harry and his more retiring companion Nelly, in particularly attractive and colourful illustrated boards. A good example of colour printed boards. Scarce.

New York; Simon & Schuster, 1971., 1971. Mass Market Paperback. Softcover, pp. 206. Publisher's pictorial card wraps. Previous owner's name to pp. 1, hinge is starting and spine is lightly sunned. A clean copy with no annotations; Very Good condition. A snapshot of slang and drug terms with "new meanings placed on old words by so-called "hippies" and "dropouts" as well as the "in" sayings... of the younger generation." Dictionary format including such gems as crash pad, goofed up and watermelon head.

Durham; Department of Geography, University of Durham, 1984., 1984. Mass Market Paperback. Softcover. Quarto, pp vi, 242. Pictorial card wraps. Spine creased with bump at head and associated small split at upper front joint; corner crease to upper cover and early leaves and toning to rear cover. No annotation or inscriptions. Good Condition. A study of the quantifiable costs of coal mining decline including unemployment and indirect job losses, and the non-quantifiable costs to the community, with reference to the residents of the Easington district in County Durham. Appendices include copies of letters sent during research on the subject and of the questionnaires put to the community. Written in the year of the Miners' Strike. Scarce.

Leyburn; Tartarus Press, 2002., 2002. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. [6], 239, [1]. Publishers' blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, and silver ruled border to upper board, in cream pictorial dust-jacket. Grey silk placemarker. Very minor creasing at spine tips. Signed by the Author to title page. Tidy ownership inscription to ffep dated in year of publication; no annotation. Jacket slightly surface soiled and a little creased to edge. A Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. First collection by Charlton, of 14 short stories from traditional horror to weird tales with themes of paganism and biological aberrations.

Seattle; Fantagraphics Books, 2010., 2010. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto, pp. 239. Colour cartoon-strip illustrations throughout. Publisher's pictorial boards with silver titles to spine and upper board; purple endpapers. An extremely clean & neat copy which appears unread; Fine condition. Second volume of Steve Ditko's archives with an Introduction by Blake Bell, and including stories from Outer Space, Strange Suspense Stories & Tales of the Mysterious Traveller. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas postage.

[South Tyneside]; Grassby, Jack, 1999., 1999. Mass Market Paperback. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 343, [3]. Illustrated throughout. Soft-cover pictorial wrappers. Spine is extremely lightly sunned; Near Fine copy. Informed and vivid account of trade union and political action in South Tyneside in the 1960s and 1970s by an activist at the centre of the action. Copiously illustrated throughout with contemporary newspaper articles and rare grass roots pamphlets.

London; Grab-Joint Productions, 1990., 1990. Softcover. Quarto. 30 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Pictorial stapled card wraps. Minor surface soiling to covers and original price sticker to front. A little scuffing to spine; very clean internally with no annotation or inscriptions. Issue 2 of the run of 4 periodicals celebrating pulp fiction, sleaze and counter culture. Scarce.

London; Grab-Joint Productions, 1990., 1990. Softcover. Quarto. 30 pp. Book Condition: Very Good. Pictorial stapled card wraps. Minor surface soiling to covers and original price sticker to front. Very clean internally with no annotation or inscriptions. Issue 3 of the run of 4 periodicals celebrating pulp fiction, sleaze and counter culture. Scarce.

New York; Timescape Books, 1983., 1983. Hard Cover. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Half cerise cloth and black paper over boards with gilt spine titles. In the ivory pictorial publishers' dust-jacket A bright, tight, square, clean copy. Dust-jacket very lightly soiled with minimal wear to corners. Overall Near Fine in like jacket. Retrospective collection of the innovatice short stories of Hugo Award winning author Roger Zelazny. Signed to the titlepage by the author. With full numberline.