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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…

Poetry & Prose. Selected by W. M. Merchant.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. · 1955 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.90 | ¥3,179)

Rupert Hart-Davis, 'The Reynard Library' series, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 883pp. Brown buckram with bevelled edges, lettered and bordered in gold at the spine and upper board. Several extremities very slightly bumped. Somewhat plain Eric Gill-des…

Casanova's Chinese Restaurant. A novel. Volume five of 'A Dance to the Music of Time'.

ANTHONY POWELL. · 1960 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.26 | ¥2,120)

Heineman, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 229pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Free endpapers very slightly toned. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Lilley A13., Very Good, No Jacket

Portrait of a Rebel Father. [i.e. James Connolly].

NORA CONNOLLY O'BRIEN. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£175.00 (€209.55 | $232.12 | ¥37,092)

The Talbot Press Ltd., Dublin & Cork, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 327pp. Green cloth lettered in dark green at the spine. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Some light soiling to the cloth, and a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends. Two very light diag…

Kim. With an introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington, and colour illustrations by Robin Jacques. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

RUDYARD KIPLING. Robin Jacques. · 1962 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.87 | $66.32 | ¥10,598)

The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1st Edition, Robin Jacques, Signed by Author(s), The first edition with these illustrations, printed for Members of the Limited Edition Club and limited to 1500 numbered copies designed by Ruari McLean and signed by the artist (this being #11…

The Diary of a Successful Man. A story. With illustrations by R. B. Russell.

ERNEST DOWSON. · 1990 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.91 | $46.42 | ¥7,418)

Tartarus Press, Sheffield, The first edition with these illustrations, and also probably the first separate edition (it was originally included in his 1895 collection of short fiction 'Dilemmas'), limited to just 25 numbered copies (this being #23). Slim 8vo. [23pp], stapled int…

The Passing of the Irish Act of Union. A Study in Parliamentary Politics.

G. C. BOLTON. · 1966 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.79 | ¥6,359)

Oxford University Press, 'Oxford Historical Series', London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 239pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge very lightly dust soiled, and with a former owner name and date inked to the head of the front free endpa…

Story of Southwold. Edited by M. Janet Becker.

M. JANET BECKER. · 1948 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.90 | ¥3,179)

F. Jenkins, Southwold, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 155pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. With a map printed in red to the front free endpaper, and illustrated with fifty black and white photographs. The cloth lightly faded at the …

The Naked Truth. With an introduction by Herbert Hensley Henson.

HERBERT CROFT. · 1919 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.95 | $26.53 | ¥4,239)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, First edition thus, printed at the Pelican Press. 8vo. xxxi, 122pp. Brown cloth with a paper title label. With a tissue-protected portrait frontispiece (which had produced some offset toning to the adjacent title page). The spine label toned…

Gallipoli.

JOHN MASEFIELD. · 1916 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.95 | $26.53 | ¥4,239)

William Heinemann, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 183pp. Illustrated with eighteen full-page or double-spread photographs, two maps, and one further multi-panel folding map. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. The top edge d…

Robert Browning. Personalia.

EDMUND GOSSE. · 1890 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.26 | ¥2,120)

T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. 96pp. White vellum with bevelled edges, lettered and decorated in gold at the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Tissue-protected portrait frontispiece. The vellum somewhat spotted and soiled, with a trace of toning to…