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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 ...

The Cut of the Light. Poems 1965-2005. (SIGNED)

JEREMY HOOKER. · 2006 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Enitharmon Press, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page with his printed name struck-through, and additionally inscribed beneath. 8vo. 373pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine with bl...

Alembic. A novel. (SIGNED)

TIMOTHY D'ARCH SMITH. · 1992 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

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...

Station Island. Poems.

SEAMUS HEANEY. · 1984 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), seemingly the second issue binding of black cloth (there was also a fugitive issue bound in grey cloth). 8vo. 123pp. Issued without a front free endpaper (the half-title serving as such). A slim strip of loss to the f...

Unexpected Weather. Poems. (INSCRIBED)

ABI CURTIS. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy fondly inscribed by the author on the title page. Slim 8vo. 65pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Thirty-...

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 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

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...

Collected Poems 1934-1953. Edited by Walford Davies and Ralph Maud.

DYLAN THOMAS. · 1996 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1st Edition, The revised issue of the so-called 'definitive edition' of 1988, based on a full study of the textual and bibliographical history of each poem with a number of alterations and corrections established from study of the manuscripts, a...

Personal and Possessive. Poems. (SIGNED)

D. M. THOMAS. · 1964 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Outposts Publications, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the inner wrapper, above which is an inked presentation inscription that has been subsequently struck-through, but appears to read "Complimentary ...

Last Poems.

EDWARD THOMAS. · 1918 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Selwyn & Blount, London, 1st Edition, First edition, a variant issue not noted by Eckert that lacks the rear advertisement leaves, but is in all other respects identical. Slim 8vo. 95pp. Paper-covered boards with a lettered paper spine label. The backstrip toned, and with some...

Poems. By 'Pinchbeck Lyre'.

SIEGFRIED SASSOON (writing as 'Pinchbeck Lyre'). · 1931 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Duckworth, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 22pp. Black paper-covered boards with green-stamped lettering and vignette to the upper board. Some spotting to the front free endpaper and half-title, and a little more lighter spotting throughout. Hand...

Branch-Lines. Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry. Edited by Guy Cuthbertson and Lucy Newlyn and with a foreword by Andrew Motion and an afterword by Michael Longley. (INSCRIBED BY THE EDITORS)

EDWARD THOMAS. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

The Enitharmon Press, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the editors on the title page and dated 2012. 8vo. 264pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Includes essays and verse contributed by a host of co...

A Dublin Unicorn.

B. S. JOHNSON. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Byron Press, 'Byron Press Pamphlet Series', [University of Nottingham], [1973]., 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 250 copies. Slim 8vo. 15pp stapled into lettered card wrappers. A trace of toning to the wrapper margins. A very good copy. A sequence of three poems, issued...

Flower of Youth: Poems in War Time.

KATHARINE YTNAN. · 1915 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 80pp. Blue cloth with a printed paper spine label. A touch of wear to the cloth at the spine ends and corner tips, some very light spotting to the edges, and a hint of toning to the endpapers. A...

Work for the Winter and Other Poems.

JULIAN BELL. · 1936 · Clearwater Books

£300.00 (€359.59 | $396.32 | ¥63,287)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 'Hogarth Living Poets' series, London, 1st Edition, John Banting, First edition [of which 750 copies were printed]. 8vo. 68pp. Paper-covered boards featuring a series design by John Banting. The backstrip toned, and with a touch o...

The Boys in the Band. A play.

MART CROWLEY. · 1969 · Clearwater Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the somewhat more common US edition. 8vo. 182pp. Green boards lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. A fine copy in very slightly dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with ...

2nd Poems.

W. S. GRAHAM. · 1945 · Clearwater Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

Nicholson & Watson / Editions Poetry London, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), printed at The Shenval Press. Slim 8vo. 36pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A miniscule tear to the fore edge of the front free endpaper, and the name of former owner ...

Target. Poems. [Titled 'Target: Preliminary Poems' on the half-title]. (SIGNED)

JEREMY REED. · 1972 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Andium Press Ltd., Jersey, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition, limited to 350 copies printed at the Daedalus Press. This is one of just 100 copies signed by the author on the colophon, with his signature also on the half-title, and with his inked contemporary pres...

A Song for Simeon. A poem. With a drawing by Edward McKnight Kauffer.

T. S. ELIOT AND EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER. · 1928 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 'The Ariel Poems' series, London [1928]., 1st Edition, First edition, of which 3,500 copies were printed at The Curwen Press. Slim 8vo. Unpaginated [4pp]. Unprinted sewn card wrappers. With a full-page colour drawing by McKnight Kauffer, followed by Eliot's...

2nd Poems.

W. S. GRAHAM. · 1945 · Clearwater Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

Nicholson & Watson / Editions Poetry London, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), printed at The Shenval Press. Slim 8vo. 36pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The backstrip rolled as is invariably the case, the fore edge very slightly spotted, and wi...