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More Songs by the Fighting Men. Soldier Poets: Second Series.

ANTHOLOGY. · 1917 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.23 | ¥2,115)

Erskine Macdonald Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 144pp + [iv] publisher's advertisements. Pink cloth-covered stiff paper boards lettered in red at the spine, with red lettering and borders to the upper board. A little wear to the board extr…

Appeal of One Half the Human Race, Women, Against the Pretensions of the Other Half Men, To Retain Them in Political, and Thence in Civil and Domestic Slavery. With a new critical introduction by Joseph Lee.

WILLIAM THOMPSON. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.68 | ¥6,344)

C. P. Hyland, Cork, First edition thus, limited to 500 numbered copies (this example un-numbered). 8vo. xvi, 221pp + [i] advertisement. Orangey-brown cloth, lettered in gold at the spine. The upper board lifting a little. A very good copy. No dust wrapper, probably as issued., V…

The Cenci. A Tragedy in Five Acts. With an introduction by Alfred Gorman and H. Buxton Forman, a prologue by John Todhunter, and a frontispiece illustration etched by W. B. Scott, from a picture attributed to Guido.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. · 1886 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.86 | $66.14 | ¥10,573)

Published for The Shelley Society by Reeves & Turner, London, 1st Edition, First edition thus, issued as the third miscellany of the fourth series of The Shelley Society Publications. 8vo. xiv, 107pp. Bound into half-morocco leather with cloth covered sides, with marbled endpape…

Triad. A poem. (INSCRIBED)

LAURENCE WHISTLER. · 1990 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.84 | ¥3,172)

F.e.p. [Frank Ernest Pardoe, Birmingham],, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First edition, limited to 150 copies, hand-set and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. This copy inscribed by the author on the first leaf: "Myfanwy with love, always, from Laurie. Easter 1994" (the…

The Decorative Paintings in Christ's Hospital Chapel MCMXIII-MCMXXIII.

FRANK BRANGWYN. W. R. Macklin and H. A. Rigby. · 1925 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.68 | ¥6,344)

Printed by H. D. C. Pepler at St. Dominic's Press, Ditchling, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Landscape 8vo. [20pp]. Linen-backed paper-covered boards, lettered and decorated in black at the upper board. With black and white reproductions of five of Brangwyn's sixte…

The Revels History of Drama in English. Volume VI: 1750-1880

ROBERTSON DAVIES. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.23 | ¥2,115)

Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition - the casebound issue. 8vo. lxii, 304pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine, and in gilt and blind at the upper board. With map-illustrated endpapers and forty-eight half-tone plates. A little fading to the pu…

Regions of the Imagination. The Development of British Rural Fiction.

W. J. KEITH. · 1988 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.23 | ¥2,115)

University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. ix, 199pp. Brown cloth lettered in white at the spine. The tiniest trace of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, very slightly dust soiled at the rear panel a…

A History of British Gardening.

MILES HADFIELD. · 1979 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.84 | ¥3,172)

John Murray, London, 3rd Edition, First edition thus, the revised and expanded third edition of a work original published in 1960 as 'Gardening in Britain', and here with a new appendix by Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe covering the last forty years. 8vo. 509pp. Green cloth lettere…

Eric Ravilious. Masterpieces of Art.

ERIC RAVILIOUS. Susie Hodge. · 2015 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.23 | ¥2,115)

Flame Tree Publishing, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 128pp. Publisher-laminated pictorial boards. With eight-six full-page and two double-spread reproductions, all in colour where required, plus a further twenty-five reproductions in the text. A…

The Irish Face. Redefining the Irish Portrait. (SIGNED)

FINTAN CULLEN. · 2004 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.68 | ¥6,344)

National Portrait Gallery, 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. Small 4to. 240pp. Brown boards lettered in silver at the spine. With over 150 illustration…

Some Side-Lights upon Edward FitzGerald's Poem The 'Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayym'. Being the Substance of a Lecture Delivered at the Grosvenor Crescent club and Womens Institute on the 22nd March 1898.

EDWARD HERON-ALLEN. · 1898 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.73 | $125.66 | ¥20,089)

H. S. Nichols Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition. Slim 8vo. Card wrappers lettered in black and red at the upper wrapper, and with the title page lettering similarly coloured. The wrappers somewhat soiled, with a touch of wear and spotting, and a little chipping to the spi…

The Library of Golf 1743-1966. A Bibliography of Golf Books, Indexes Alphabetically, Chronologically, & by Subject Matter. Compiled and annotated by Joseph S. F. Murdoch.

JOSEPH S. F. MURDOCH. · 1968 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.73 | $125.66 | ¥20,089)

Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 314pp. Green cloth lettered in black and gold at the spine, and with a gilt-stamped decoration to the upper board. With pictorial endpapers, a number of plates, and further illustrations on d…

Countess Kate. A novel. With illustrations by Gwen Raverat.

CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. Gwen Raverat. · 1948 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.84 | ¥3,172)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, Gwen Raverat, The first edition with these Gwen Raverat illustrations, which comprise endpaper decorations, a title page decoration, one plate, one double-spread plate, and twenty-nine illustrations in the text. 8vo. 216pp. Lilac cloth lettered and ru…

A Practical Treatise on Planting and the Management of Woods and Coppices. With a foreword by Thomas Pakenham.

SAMUEL HAYES. · 2003 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.84 | ¥3,172)

New Island, Dublin, The first printing of this facsimile edition of Hayes' 1794 book on trees - the first such book on the trees of Ireland. 8vo. xix, 200pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. With pictorial endpapers, occasional decorations by the author, and one foldi…

Vernon Lee. Violet Paget, 1856-1935.

PETER GUNN. · 1964 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.68 | ¥6,344)

Oxford University Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xi, 244pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece and twelve photographs and reproductions over ten plates. The binding sprung. Some light p…

Michael Field. A study.

MICHAEL FIELD. Mary Sturgeon. · 1922 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.84 | ¥3,172)

George G. Harrap, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small. 8vo. 246pp. Dark blue cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine, with blind-stamped lettering and decoration to the upper board. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Katharine Bradley and Edith…

Printed English Pottery. History and Humour in the Reign of George III, 1760-1820.

DAVID DRAKARD. · 1992 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.94 | $26.46 | ¥4,229)

Jonathan Horne Publications, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. viii, 268pp. Brown cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With pictorial endpapers and over 750 reproductions, including seventeen in colour. Errata slip laid-in. A fine copy in virtua…

William Balston. Paper Maker 1759-1849.

WILLIAM BALSTON. Thomas Balston. · 1954 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.90 | $46.30 | ¥7,401)

Methuen & Co Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), printed by Brooke Crutchley at the University Press, Cambridge on mould-made J. Whatman paper manufactured by W. & R. Balston. 8vo. xii, 172pp. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine. With a p…

Sonnets. Edited by Josef Hofmiller and Robert Spindler.

ANTHOLOGY. Anna Simons. · 1931 · Clearwater Books

£300.00 (€359.16 | $396.83 | ¥63,440)

Bremer Press, Munich, 1st Edition, First edition, printed for the Association of Friends of the Bremer Press in an edition of 275 numbered copies (this being #238). 4to. 238pp. Cloth-backed paper covered boards with a slightly toned spine label. With title and initials designed …

edits, and contributes three poems plus his essay 'The Quality of Scots Internationalism' to the fifth and final issue of the miscellany 'Scottish Art and Letters' (a special P. E. N. Congress number).

HUGH MACDIARMID · 1950 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.68 | ¥6,344)

William Maclellan, Glasgow, 1st Edition, First edition. Slim 4to. 56pp. Card wrappers, lightly rubbed at the yapped edges. Former owner name inked to the head of the first leaf. A nice crisp copy. MacDiarmid's poems are 'Two Scottish Boys', 'My Songs Are Kandym in the Waste Land…