Search Results: Authors starting with C from Kelleher Rare Books

Peel, Isle of Man: Simpkin Marshall, 1931. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) Octavo, [vii] preface, 104 Pp. Very scarce collection of ghost stories in original green cloth, spine panel titles in black. A very good plus copy in original illustrated boards, clean pages which are lightly toned, tight binding. Cracking cover illustration..

London, United Kingdom: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1915. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo, pp. [vii] 1-272 [4 pp adverts] original brown cloth, red lettering to spine and front panel. A good copy with rubbing to the spine and boards, considerably dulled, gift inscription to front end page, pages are clean. In a very good jacket priced at 5/- net to the spine, some chipping to the top and corners, still bright. Uncommon in jacket. .

London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg, 1938. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) with number [First Published 1938] to the copyright page indicating a first printing. Some toning to the pages, light chipping and soiling to the jacket which is not priceclipped. Clean and tight copy. Uncommon..

London, United Kingdom: APOLLO, 2018. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. First hardcover edition published one year after the true first in Ireland, which was a paperback original. The hardcover was published in a first print run of 500 copies. Signed by June Caldwell to the title page..

Dublin, Ireland: New Island Books, 2017. Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition, First Print. True first, published as a paperback original published one year before the British hardcover edition. As with the British edition the Irish edition also had a small first print run. . Signed by June Caldwell to the title page. Unread with light signs of shelfware..

Cork: Joseph Barter & Sons, 1883. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Print. True first edition, First Impression in original green blind-stamped cloth, lettered title in gilt and with an Irish harp surrounded by shamrocks in gilt on the front panel. Tight with clean text no writing or tears, spine with slight slant. Uncommon in original un restored condition..

London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition THUS, First Print. First published in 1956 this is the revised edition by Martin Mclaughlin. A near fine to fine copy in a similar jacket which is not price clipped. Unread, tightly bound. .

London, United Kingdom: Secker and Warburg, 1981. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Print. A True first edition 8vo. pp, 260. A fine copy in a near fine to fine jacket which is not price clipped. Translated by William Weaver. Signed by Italo Calvino on the front end page. A excellent unread example of the authors celebrated novel and incredibly scarce signed..

London, United Kingdom: TOR, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition,First Print. A true first print with a numberline beginning with [1] to the copyright page therefore indicating a true first print in a fine jacket. SIGNED by Alan Campbell to the title page..

Glasgow, Scotland: James MacLehose, 1902. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Print. A True First, Octavo, Pp. 314, first edition, Original dark blue cloth with gilt title and author name to the spine. A first edition of this classic collection of material on "witchcraft, second sight, hobgoblins, and other kindred subjects', collected entirely from oral tradition. The accounts are divided under six main chapter or subject headings: Black Witchcraft, White Witchcraft, Death Warnings, Second Sight, Hobgoblins and The Celtic Year. A near fine unread copy, with off setting to the end pages, the exceedingly rare jacket is present and has some closed tears to the top and base of the spine else very good plus to near fine and complete. .

London, United Kingdom: Souvenir Press, 1973. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) with no statement of reprint to the copyright page therefore indication a true first print in a very good plus to near fine Dust Jacket, not price clipped, light wear to one top edge. Internally fine as new,.

Dublin, Ireland: Gormleys, 2008. Book. Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing. A good copy with curling to the corners and light creasing to the edges, clean pages, internally unmarked. Signed by Paddy Campbell and Simona Dolci to the last page..

Ballycastle, Northern Ireland: J. Scarlett & Son, 1952. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Print. First Printed "December 1951" , this is the second printing "February 1952". Octavo, pp. 128. Scarce with original jacket. . Clean pages and a tight binding. a very good plus, bright copy of the scarce book. Small name and date to front end page, else sine. .

London, United Kingdom: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) with 'first published in Great Britain 1953' to the copyright page to indicate a true first print in a very good plus Dust Jacket with darkening to the spine, very light wear to extremities, not price clipped. Tight binding, internally unmarked pages, small inscription to verso of front board, .

New York, USA: Random House, 2016. Book. New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Americasn Edition, First Printing. A true first edition, first printing. Powell's Indiespensable Limited Edition in original Blue Slipcase. Still on original shrink wrapping. Signed by the author. Also includes the booklet with an interview by the author..

London,UK: William Heinemann, 1972. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) with no reprint to the copyright page indicating a true first print in a very good plus jacket with light fade to the edges and spine, tightly bound, light spotting to pages, dusting to the top of the text block. .

London, United Kingdom: Macmillan & Co ltd, 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo, pp. 293. Original yellow boards, title in dark blue to spine and front panel. In original jacket which is price clipped, repriced to spine. Light chipping with loss to the crown of the spine and small tear to the jacket at the base of the spine. Tight binding. off setting to end pages, name and address in pencil to front end page. Far more uncommon than the American edition and especially in jacket..

London, United Kingdom: George Allen & Unwin LTD, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. Octavo, pp. 252. Original blue boards, title in red to spine and front panel. In original jacket which in not price clipped (7s. 6d. net), fraying with loss to the crown of the spine and base of the jacket, Tight binding, spotting to pages, name and address to front end page.. .

London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Copenhagen, New York, Toronto, Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Shanghai: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1923. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Uk Edition, First Print, small octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-69 [70-72: blank], original lavender wrappers printed in black. First edition in English. Also known as "The Insect Play" (a.k.a. "The World We Live In"). "Perhaps the most brilliant of his plays, and the only unquestionable fantasy drama among them . mocks human life and pretensions through a series of beast-fable episodes in which various insects perform vaudeville versions of human behavior at the edge of extinction." - Clute and Grant (ed), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 164. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Not in Reginald (1979). Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-75. Wear to the spine and uneven fade to the wrappers,internally clean. C.H. Norman's copy with his signature to the copyright page.

London, United Kingdom: The Olive Press, 1968. Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. 153 pp. In original jacket designed by Judy Gardiner, author picture to the rear by Ida Kar, rubbing and some wear to the jacket which is not price clipped, pages clean with slight off setting to end pages. Copyright page states, Of this edition 100 are signed and numbered by the author, this is not one of those copies. Exceptionally uncommon book. .