Powys, John Cowper

A Selection of His Poems. Edited with an introduction by Kenneth Hopkins. (INSCRIBED BY PHYLLIS PLAYTER)

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1964 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Macdonald, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by Phyllis Playter, the author's companion for over forty years: "For Yvonne [indecipherable] to whom they should belong. From Phyllis Playter". 8vo. 224pp. G...

Wood and Stone. A Romance.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1915 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

G. Arnold Shaw, New York,, 1st Edition, First edition, in Thomas' 'A' state binding. 8vo. xiv + 722pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and upper board (although the spine lettering a little dulled). The top edge lightly marked and dust soiled, and with just ...

War and Culture. A Reply to Professor Münsterberg.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1914 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

G. Arnold Shaw, New York, 1st Edition, First edition (first printing), preceding the English edition. 8vo. 103pp. Red cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the upper board. Top edge lightly dust soiled and the cloth and free endpapers fractionally marked in places. A very goo...

The Art of Happiness.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1st Edition, The first UK edition (first printing), issued five months after the US edition but essentially identical bar the omission of a summary of chapters. 8vo. 226pp + [vi] publisher's catalogue. Maroon cloth lettered in silver at the ...

John Cowper Powys. A Record of Achievement.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. Derek Langridge. · 1966 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

The Library Association, London, 1st Edition, First edition, second issue with one plate position corrected. 8vo. xvi, 256pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. Edges lightly spotted. A very good copy in slightly rubbed,...

John Cowper Powys. Novelist. (INSCRIBED)

JOHN COWPER POWYS. Glen Cavaliero. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the author to John [Batten] and his wife, long-term Secretary of The Powys Society. 8vo. 195pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Edge...

Horned Poppies. New Poems.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1986 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Warren House Press, Norfolk, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 250 copies. Slim 8vo. vi, 48pp. Plain card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper, which is somewhat spotted, soiled and rubbed with an area of insect nibbling to the rear panel-rear flap fold. A good bright c...

Letters to Nicholas Ross. Selected by Nicholas and Adelaide Ross and edited by Arthur Uphill.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1974 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Village Press, London, 2nd Edition, A reprint of the original Bertram Rota edition of 1971. 8vo. xv, 176pp. Card wrappers. Edges very lightly spotted and with a single faint readership crease to the spine. Very good. A hefty selection of correspondence from Powys to writer and...

Odes and Other Poems.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Village Press, London, 2nd Edition, A reprint of Powys' first collection of verse, originally published in 1896 and hitherto not reprinted. Slim 8vo. 44pp. Card wrappers. A very good copy. Twenty-nine poems, including odes to Thomas Hardy, W.B.Yeats, John Keats, Charles Lamb, ...

Letters to Clifford Tolchard from John Cowper Powys. With a Memoir by Clifford Tolchard.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Village Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 49pp. Card wrappers. With four black and white photographs. A very good copy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]., Very Good

Letters from John Cowper Powys to C.Benson Roberts.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Village Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 112pp. Card wrappers. With four black and white photographs. A touch of light spotting. Very good., Very Good

Jobber Skald. A novel.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1st Edition, The first English edition of 'Weymouth Sands', here re-titled and considerably bowdlerised from the US text of a year earlier. 8vo. 594pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's orange cloth, faded at the backstr...

An Englishman Up-State. With an introduction by R. L. Blackmore.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1974 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Village Press, London, 1st Edition, The first separate edition of this twelve-page Powys essay, which originally appeared in a special John Cowper Powys issue of 'The Journal of the Friends of the Colgate University Library' (1966). 8vo. 16pp. Stapled card wrappers with just a...

Letters from John Cowper Powys to Glyn Hughes. Edited with a foreword by Bernard Jones.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1971 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Ore Publications, Stevenage, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. 23pp. Stapled card wrappers. With a tipped-in portrait frontispiece. Very good. A four-page foreword precedes ten letters from J.C.P. to Glyn Hughes, a staunch champion of Powys' work and his occasional book-scout. ...

Rodmoor. A Romance. (INSCRIBED)

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1916 · Clearwater Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

G. Arnold Shaw, New York, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing), not issued in the UK for a further fifty-five years. This copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To my friend Sam Kramer from John Cowper Powys, April 1920". 8vo. ...

Essays on De Maupassant, Anatole France, William Blake.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1923 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Girard 'Little Blue Books' series, Kansas, 1st Edition, The first separate edition of these three essays, which originally appeared in Powys' 'Suspended Judgement' (1916). 12mo. 64pp. Stapled card wrappers, split into two parts at the natural fold, just a little tanned and mar...

Paddock calls: a play

POWYS, John Cowper · 1984 · Cotswold Internet Books

£16.50 (€19.78 | $21.80 | ¥3,481)

Greymitre Books, 1984. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket 1st Edition. With an introduction by Charles Lock. Tiny dent in back board & dust jacket over, otherwise a bright, tidy copy Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_110821_jpg.jpg. ISBN: 09...

Lucifer

Powys, John Cowper · 1956 · Clarendon Books P.B.F.A.

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Macdonald Blue cloth covers, gilt, quarter blue leather spine in bright condition with the original acetate dust jacket which has yellowed slightly and split with age, contents clean, number 28 from a limited edition of 560, signed by the author Signed By The Author Good Londo...

Enjoyment of Literature

Powys, John Cowper · 1938 · Brookline Village Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

New York, Simon and Schuster, 1938. 1st Am. ed. Hardcover. 522 p. Very good condition/worn.

A Bibliography of the First Editions of John Cowper Powys

Powys, John Cowper (introduction). Siberell, Lloyd Emerson · 1934 · Mare Booksellers

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Cincinnati, The Ailanthus Press, 1934. Hard Cover. Number 17 of 350 copies printed. Paper covered boards with brown cloth spine. 53 pp. Don't know that we could add much to what the title says, other than this bibliography of the first editions of Powys' works has an introduct...