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Cries of an Irish Caveman. Poems.

PAUL DURCAN. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

The Harvill Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 160pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Seventy-three poems., Fine, Fine

Westminster Verses. With a memoir by Rev. Dr. James Gow.

JOHN SARGEAUNT. · 1922 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

T. Fisher & Unwin Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition, printed at The Shakespeare Head Press and limited to 400 numbered copies (this being #163). Square 8vo. 84pp. Parchment-covered boards with bevelled edges, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Tissue-protect...

Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets. Poems in Transit. With a six-page foreword by Robert Graves.

ALUN LEWIS. Robert Graves. · 1945 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 75pp. Black cloth lettered in white at the spine. Portrait frontispiece. The spine a little rolled, as is common. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the front free endpaper....

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...

Wheels. An Anthology of Verse.

ANTHOLOGY. Nancy Cunard. · 1916 · Clearwater Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 84pp. Cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards featuring an uncredited design by Phyllis Boyd, lettered in black at spine. The boards a little chafed and dust soiled, with some wear to the corn...

Tumult and Order. Poems. With a frontispiece portrait of the author by Pablo Picasso. (INSCRIBED)

A. C. LANDSBERG. Pablo Picasso. · 1923 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Elkin Mathews Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author in pencil to the front free endpaper: "To Christopher Sands [?] affectionately Bertie Landsberg". Slim 8vo. 63pp. Cloth-backed paper-co...

The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil. Two Plays. With illustrations by Henry Keen.

JOHN WEBSTER. Henry Keen. · 1930 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1st Edition, Henry Keen, First edition thus. Tall 8vo. 255pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering, bordering and decoration to the spine and upper board. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. With striking pictorial endpapers, a title page decoratio...

The Poems of Francis Thompson. Edited with an introduction by Brigid M. Broadman.

FRANCIS THOMPSON. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

John J. Burns Library, Boston College, MA, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxxviii, 513pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece drawing and one manuscript reproduction. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. The first complete ed...

The Holly Queen. Poems.

SALLY PURCELL. · 1971 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Anvil Press Poetry, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing) - the casebound issue. Slim 8vo. 47pp. Grey boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the upper edge and with a single ti...

A Choice of Ballads. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

WILLIAM PLOMER. · 1960 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Printed for private distribution at Christmas by Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition of this selection from Plomer's 'Collected Poems', produced as a Christmas gift from the publisher and limited to 350 numbered and signed copies (this being ...

Poems.

EDWARD DOWDEN. · 1876 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Henry S. King & Co., London, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. viii, 212pp. Green cloth with bevelled edges, lettered and multi-ruled in gold at the spine, and with gilt lettering and decoration to the upper board, alongside a circular decorative design. A touch of wear to the ...

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...

The Poems of William Habington. Edited with an introduction and commentary by Kenneth Allott.

WILLIAM HABINGTON. · 1948 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The University of Liverpool Press and Hodder & Stoughton, 'Liverpool English Texts & Studies' series, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. lxviii, 208pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a correspondence reproduction frontispiece and several...

A Draft of Cantos XXXI-XLI.

EZRA POUND. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First English Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 62pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Free endpapers lightly spotted, and with the name of a former owner inked to the base of the front free endpaper. Very ...

The Narrow Place. Poems.

EDWIN MUIR. · 1943 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 49pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The cloth lifting a little in one small area of the upper board. Contemporary former owner details inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and a tiny dea...

The King's Threshold. A play.

W. B. YEATS. · 1911 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1st Edition, The first separate UK edition (originally issued in 1904 in the limited edition of 100 copies). Slim 8vo. 40pp bound into lettered card wrappers. The upper wrapper just a little tender at the natural fold, and with two ...

Case Histories. A novel.

KATE ATKINSON. · 2004 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

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