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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 (€89.81 | $99.48 | ¥15,897)

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-cove…

R. W. Ketton-Cremer. An Annotated Bibliography.

R.W. KETTON-CREMER. Stephen Clarke and John Gretton. · 1995 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.26 | ¥2,120)

Dereham Books, Norfolk, 1st Edition, First Edition first printing). 8vo. xii, 206pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Portrait frontispiece. Top edge lightly spotted, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Near Fine, Fine

The Phantom Duel. An essay.

R. W. KETTON-CREMER. · 1956 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.90 | ¥3,179)

Privately printed for private circulation in December 1956 by Rounce & Wortley, North Walsham and Holt., 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 20pp. stapled into lettered blue card wrappers. The staples rusted and the wrappers fractionally marked. Neat name plat…

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

JOHN WEBSTER. Henry Keen. · 1930 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.74 | $132.64 | ¥21,196)

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 decoration,…

ABC of Reading.

EZRA POUND. · 1934 · Clearwater Books

£225.00 (€269.42 | $298.45 | ¥47,690)

George Routledge & Sons Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition (first printing), preceding the US edition by four months. 8vo. xii, 197pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The fore edge, endpapers, and several preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted. Former o…

Imaginary Conversations. Selected and Introduced by R. H. Boothroyd. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. · 1936 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.81 | $99.48 | ¥15,897)

Printed by Hans Mardersteig at the Officina Bodini in Verona for the Limited Editions Club, Verona, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition thus, limited to 1,500 numbered copies signed by the printer (this being #1,202). Small 4to. xii, 303pp. Handsome patterned cloth w…

The Art of David Jones. Vision and Memory.

DAVID JONES. Ariane Bankes and Paul Hills. · 2015 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.87 | $66.32 | ¥10,598)

Lund Humphries, Farnham, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 176pp. Blue boards lettered in white at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper., Fine, Fine

The Memorial. Portrait of a Family.

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD. · 1932 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.74 | $132.64 | ¥21,196)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), in the first state binding of pink-tinted-beige weave cloth binding, lettered in blue at the spine. 8vo. 294pp. Cloth lightly tanned at the backstrip, and with just a trace of spo…

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

FRANCIS THOMPSON. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.79 | ¥6,359)

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 edit…

The Holly Queen. Poems.

SALLY PURCELL. · 1971 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.26 | ¥2,120)

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 tiny…

A Choice of Ballads. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

WILLIAM PLOMER. · 1960 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.90 | ¥3,179)

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 #1…

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? A novel.

HORACE MCCOY. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.86 | $72.95 | ¥11,658)

Arthur Barker Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the slightly more common US edition. 8vo. 233pp. Beige rough-weave cloth, lettered in red at the spine and both boards, with a double diagonal red-stamped rule, and the publisher'…

Millais and the Ruskins. (INSCRIBED)

MARY LUTYENS. · 1967 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.95 | $26.53 | ¥4,239)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Dr. H. C. Harley (who is thanked in the author's foreword) and dated the year of publication . 8vo. xiii, 296pp. Y…

The Cold Eye of Heaven. A novel.

CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY. · 2011 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.26 | ¥2,120)

Atlantic Books, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 215pp. Red boards lettered in silver at the spine. The fore edge lightly spotted, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lifting a fraction at the upper edge and with a little intern…

The Silence of Herondale. A novel.

JOAN AIKEN. · 1965 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.79 | ¥6,359)

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 185pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, and with a shade of very light partial toning to the free endpapers. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lig…

The Note-Books and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Edited with notes and a preface by Humphrey House.

GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS. · 1937 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.81 | $99.48 | ¥15,897)

Oxford University Press, London & New York, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxxvi, 474pp. Blue buckram, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and eleven plates of Hopkins' illustrations. Free endpapers and pastedowns very lightly spotted.…

The Generous Garden. A Second Anthology of Garden Writing. Edited by David Wheeler, and with a foreword by Ronald Blythe.

DAVID WHEELER (edits). · 1991 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.26 | ¥2,120)

Alan Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xv, 242pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. With illustrations and photographs. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A further selection from the garden journal 'Hortus', …

Armadillo. A novel.

WILLIAM BOYD. · 1998 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.26 | ¥2,120)

Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 310pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lifting a fraction at the upper edge., Very Good, Very Good

Cork. A story. With a frontispiece drawings and a repeated decoration in the text by Ian Beck. (SIGNED)

WILLIAM BOYD. Ian Beck. · 1994 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.75 | $126.01 | ¥20,136)

Ulysses, London, 1st Edition, Ian Beck, Signed by Illustrator(s), First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies printed Zerkell mould-made paper at the Libanus Press. The total edition was of 235 copies; this is one of 150 copies numbered between 61-210 where no signature is cal…

Silver Collar Boy. A novel. With illustrations by Rex Whistler.

CONSTANCE WRIGHT. Rex Whistler. · 1934 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.26 | ¥2,120)

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Rex Whistler., First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 150pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. With a frontispiece and four Whistler plates introducing each of the four parts. The tip of one corner gently bumped, ju…