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The Collected Poems of Richard Spender.

RICHARD SPENDER. · 1944 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii,77pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Photographic portrait frontispiece. The cloth lightly marked and rubbed in places, and a contemporary former owner name and date inked to the...

A Northern Spring. Poems. (SIGNED)

FRANK ORMSBY. · 1986 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Secker & Warburg, London and The Gallery Press, Dublin, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), The paperback issue of the first edition, this being the Irish (Gallery Press) issue. This copy signed by the author on the title page with his printed name struck-through, and dated the ...

Portobello Sonnets. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

HARRY CLIFTON. · 2014 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Tuskar Rock Press, Dublin, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), The deluxe issue of the first edition, printed by the Evergreen Press on Magnami paper and limited to 100 copies numbered copies (this being #19), signed by the author on the title page with his printed name struck-t...

Writers' Block. A novel.

JUDITH FLANDERS. · 2014 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

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...

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Complete in three volumes comprising 'Spenser's Minor Poems' and 'Spenser's Faerie Queene'.

EDMUND SPENSER. · 1961 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Oxford University Press, London 1961 and 1970., Individual volumes as follows: 'Spenser's Faerie Queene' (1961). Edited, with an introduction by J. C. Smith. A lithographical reprint from the sheets of the 1909 first edition, complete in two volumes ('Volume 1: Books I-III', '...

Darwin. A Life in Poems. (SIGNED)

RUTH PADEL. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page with her printed name struck-through. 8vo. xviii, 141pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clippe...

The Book of Juniper. New poems by Tom Paulin, accompanied by ten full-page drawings by Noel Conner.

TOM PAULIN AND NOEL CONNOR. · 1981 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Landscape 8vo. [24pp] stapled into glossy lettered and decorated wrappers (not issued in casebound format). In fine state. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]., Fine

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 (€359.59 | $396.32 | ¥63,287)

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 Loosening and Other Poems. (INSCRIBED TO EDITH SITWELL)

RONALD BOTTRALL. [Edith Sitwell]. · 1931 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Gordon Fraser, The Minority Press, Cambridge, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Edith Sitwell ("in appreciation") and dated several years after publication. Slim 8vo. ...

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...

The New British Poets. An Anthology. Edited, with a lengthy introduction by Kenneth Rexroth.

ANTHOLOGY. · 1949 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New Directions, New York [1949]., 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxxviii, 312pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. A very good copy in somewhat toned non-price-clipped dust wrapper, chipped at the spine ends with some internal...

Water Over Stone. Poems. (LIMITED EDITION)

FRANCES HOROVITZ. · 1980 · Clearwater Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Enitharmon Press, London, 1st Edition, The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 40 numbered copies printed on Glastonbury Antique and specially bound (this being #29). Slim 8vo. 48pp. Cloth-backed boards with marbled paper sides, gilt lettered and ruled. A virtually f...

Sea Asters. Poems. With drawings by Sarah Longley. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

MICHAEL LONGLEY. · 2015 · Clearwater Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Andrew J. Moorhouse, Rochdale, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition, designed and printed at the Evergreen Press on Zerkall paper and limited to 75 numbered copies signed by the author and artist (this being #21). Tall slim 8vo. Unpaginated [30pp]. Quarter-leather w...

The Stairwell. Poems.

MICHAEL LONGLEY. · 2014 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Cape Poetry, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 69pp. Card wrappers with French flaps (not issued in casebound format bar a signed limited edition). The rear wrapper lightly dust soiled, else a fine copy., Near Fine

Out of the Cold. Drawings and Poems for Christmas. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

MICHAEL LONGLEY AND SARAH LONGLEY. · 1999 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Abbey Press, County Down, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition, one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author and artist (from a total edition of 2000 copies). Slim 8vo. 63pp. Unlettered black cloth. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Fourteen poe...

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 | ¥3,164)

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...