Narrativa e romanzi

No End to Snowdrops. A Biography of Kathleen Raine.

KATHLEEN RAINE. Philippa Bernard. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xi, 196pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece and twenty-four colour and monochrome photographs. A small area of damp marking to the base of two ...

Queen of the Wits. A Life of Lactitia Pilkington.

LAETITIA PILKINGTON. Norma Clarke. · 2008 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xix, 364pp. Black paper-covered boards lettered in electric blue at the spine. Illustrated with fourteen colour and monochrome reproductions. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper...

Edmund Spenser. A Life.

EDMUND SPENSER. Andrew Hadfield. · 2012 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxi, 624pp. Black boards lettered in electric blue at the spine. Illustrated with forty-seven black and white photographs. Several small splashes on light staining to the fore edge.Very good in ...

Lytton Strachey. A Critical Biography. The Unknown Years (1880-1910) [and] The Years of Achievement (1910-1932).

LYTTON STRACHEY. Michael Holroyd. · 1967 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Heinemann, London 1967-68., 1st Edition, First Editions (first printings), complete in two volumes. Individual volumes as follows: 'Lytton Strachey. A Critical Biography. The Unknown Years 1880-1910' (1967). First edition. 8vo. xxii, 475pp + [ii] family tree. Brown cloth lette...

Pushkin. A Biography.

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN. T. J. Binyon. · 2003 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1st Edition, First American Edition (first printing), issued a year after the English edition. 8vo. xxix, 727pp. Paper-covered boards lettered in silver at the spine. With sixteen pages of photographs, seventy-six illustrations in the text, and one m...

Siegfried Sassoon. The Making of a War Poet. A Biography 1886-1918 [and] Siegfried Sassoon. The Journey from the Trenches. A Biography 1918-1967.

SIEGFRIED SASSOON. Jean Moorcroft Wilson. · 1998 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Duckworth, London 1998 and 2003., 1st Edition, First Editions (first printings). Individual volumes as follows: 'Siegfried Sassoon. The Making of a War Poet. A Biography 1886-1918' (1998). First edition. 8vo. viii, 600pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated...

Case Histories. A novel.

KATE ATKINSON. · 2004 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Doubleday, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 301pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine with a ribbon place-marker. A virtually fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly creased at the spine panel ends. The first instalment i...

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). A biography.

SIEGFRIED SASSOON. John Stuart Roberts. · 1999 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Richard Cohen Books, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 354pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with forty-two photographs. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Fine, Near Fine

Writers' Block. A novel.

JUDITH FLANDERS. · 2014 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Allison & Busby Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 287pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The first of her Sam Clair series of satirical crime novels, this volume i...

Stephen Spender. The Authorized Biography.

STEPHEN SPENDER. John Sutherland. · 2004 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Viking, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 627pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-six photographs over sixteen plates. Three page references inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in non-price-c...

Gwen Raverat. Friends, Family and Affections. A biography.

FRANCES SPALDING. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The Harvill Press, London 2001, 1st Edition, Second impression of the first edition. Large 8vo. ix, 438pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With thirteen plates of colour and monochrome reproductions and numerous illustrations in the text. A fine copy in virtually fi...

A Study in Scarlet. With illustrations by George Hutchinson and 'A Note on Sherlock Holmes' by Dr. Joseph Bell.

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. · 1893 · Clearwater Books

£300.00 (€359.60 | $396.34 | ¥63,291)

Ward, Lock & Bowden Ltd., London, 1st Edition, George Hutchinson, First edition thus, essentially a reissue of the second English edition of 1891, replicating the George Hutchinson illustrations, but the first edition to include Dr. Joseph Bell's eight-page introductory essay ...

The Black-Eyed Blonde. A Philip Marlowe Novel. (SIGNED)

JOHN BANVILLE (writing as 'Benjamin Black'). · 2014 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Mantle, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page using the established pseudonym. 8vo. 291pp. Black boards lettered in white at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wra...

April in Spain. An Inspector Quirke novel.

JOHN BANVILLE. · 2021 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 355pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Orange boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The eighth volume in his Inspector Quirke series of crime novels (and the fi...

Isaac Rosenberg. The Making of a Great War Poet. A New Life.

ISAAC ROSENBERG. Jean Moorcroft Wilson. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. [vi], 468pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with forty-two monochrome photographs and colour reproductions. A tiny scattering of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy...

The Girl from the Fiction Department. A Portrait of Sonia Orwell.

HILARY SPURLING. (George Orwell interest). · 2002 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 194pp. Purple boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with black and white photographs and reproductions. A little bruising to the head of the backstrip. A very good copy in slightly rubb...

Exit Music. An Inspector Rebus novel. (SIGNED)

IAN RANKIN. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Orion Books, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on a special publisher's plate pasted to the title page. 8vo. 380pp. Blue boards lettered in red at the spine and with orange endpapers. A trace of soiling to ...

Alembic. A novel. (SIGNED)

TIMOTHY D'ARCH SMITH. · 1992 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 226pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine and with red endpapers. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrap...

The Nature Books of Henry Williamson. Complete in five volumes comprising 'Salar the Salmon', 'Tarka the Otter', 'The Peregrine's Saga', 'The Lone Swallows' and 'The Old Stag'.

HENRY WILLIAMSON. C. F. Tunnicliffe. · 1946 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Putnam & Company Ltd, London, 1st Edition, C. F. Tunnicliffe., A deluxe uniform set of Williamson's five most esteemed nature books, printed on Adelphi laid antique paper and limited to 500 sets. 8vo. Green canvas boards lettered in gold at the spines and with the author's mon...

2061: Odyssey Three.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE. · 1988 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Grafton Books, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US (Del Rey) edition. 8vo. 254pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with pale blue endpapers. Some toning to the paperstock, as is invariably the case with this slightly c...