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Westminster Verses. With a memoir by Rev. Dr. James Gow.

JOHN SARGEAUNT. · 1922 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.98 | $9.92 | ¥1,586)

T. Fisher & Unwin Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition, printed at The Shakespeare Head Press and limited to 400 numbered copies (this being #163). Square 8vo. 84pp. Parchment-covered boards with bevelled edges, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Tissue-protector…

Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets. Poems in Transit. With a six-page foreword by Robert Graves.

ALUN LEWIS. Robert Graves. · 1945 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.23 | ¥2,115)

George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 75pp. Black cloth lettered in white at the spine. Portrait frontispiece. The spine a little rolled, as is common. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the front free endpaper. P…

Wit and Wisdom from the Waverley Novels. Compiled by E. MacKerchar.

SIR WALTER SCOTT. · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.94 | $26.46 | ¥4,229)

Privately printed by the author [no date]., 1st Edition, First edition. Slim 8vo. 32pp stapled into lettered card wrappers. Tipped-in colour portrait. The stapled rusted and the wrappers very slightly toned at the margins. A very good copy of this uncommon compendium of 366 quot…

Handbook of the Rubi of Great Britain and Ireland. With drawings by Ruth M. Ball and A. W. Darnell.

W. C. R. WATSON. · 1958 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.93 | $33.07 | ¥5,287)

Cambridge University Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xi, 274pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Lower corner tips gently bumped, and the edges and free endpapers fractionally spotted. Very good indeed in slightly spotted dust …

Edmund Spenser. A Life.

EDMUND SPENSER. Andrew Hadfield. · 2012 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.94 | $26.46 | ¥4,229)

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxi, 624pp. Black boards lettered in electric blue at the spine. Illustrated with forty-seven black and white photographs. Several small splashes on light staining to the fore edge.Very good in vi…

Lynton Lamb. Illustrator. A Selection of his Work. Arranged and introduced by George Mackie.

LYNTON LAMB. · 1978 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.97 | $13.23 | ¥2,115)

The Scolar Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 104pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with over one hundred and sixty reproductions, many of them presented full-page and with some in colour. A fine copy in virtually fine …

Peter Lanyon. Modernism and the Land.

PETER LANYON. Andrew Causey. · 2006 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.94 | $26.46 | ¥4,229)

Reaktion Books Ltd., 'Essays in Art and Culture' series, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 238pp. Glossy card wrappers (not issued in casebound format). With over one hundred reproductions, including fifty in colour. A trace of wear to the upper margin of…

Cambridge Between Two Wars. (INSCRIBED)

T. E. B. HOWARTH. · 1978 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.93 | $33.07 | ¥5,287)

Collins, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to the Master of Magdalene College, Walter [Hamilton] and his wife, and dated the year of publication (Dr. Hamilton's ass…

The Letters of Lytton Strachey. Edited with an introduction by Paul Levy with the assistance of Penelope Marcus.

LYTTON STRACHEY. · 2005 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.84 | ¥3,172)

Viking, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxii, 698pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. A trace of bruising to the backstrip ends, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a touch of corresponding wear to the spine panel…

Lytton Strachey. A Critical Biography. The Unknown Years (1880-1910) [and] The Years of Achievement (1910-1932).

LYTTON STRACHEY. Michael Holroyd. · 1967 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.93 | $33.07 | ¥5,287)

Heinemann, London 1967-68., 1st Edition, First Editions (first printings), complete in two volumes. Individual volumes as follows: 'Lytton Strachey. A Critical Biography. The Unknown Years 1880-1910' (1967). First edition. 8vo. xxii, 475pp + [ii] family tree. Brown cloth lettere…

Our Village. With wood engravings by Joan Hassall.

MARY RUSSELL MITFORD. Joan Hassall. · 1947 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.68 | ¥6,344)

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Joan Hassall., The first edition with this handsome Hassall wood engravings, which comprise a full title page decoration and twenty-five header and tail pieces and decorations in the text. 8vo. 228pp. In the publisher's deluxe qu…

Harvest of the Cold Months. The Social History of Ice and Ices. Edited by Jill Norman.

ELIZABETH DAVID. · 1994 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.94 | $26.46 | ¥4,229)

Michael Joseph, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 413pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. With decorated endpapers, eight plates of colour reproductions, and some occasional black and white illustrations in the text. A tiny insignificant…

Boswell's Life of Johnson. Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill, and revised and enlarged by L. F. Powell.

JAMES BOSWELL. · 1934 · Clearwater Books

£250.00 (€299.30 | $330.69 | ¥52,866)

Oxford University Press, London 1934 and 1950., First edition of Powell's newly revised and enlarged edition, printed on India paper and complete in six volumes, here bound into three (volumes 1-4 were first published in 1934, with the final two volumes appearing in 1950, the fi…

Wheels. An Anthology of Verse.

ANTHOLOGY. Nancy Cunard. · 1916 · Clearwater Books

£225.00 (€269.37 | $297.62 | ¥47,580)

B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 84pp. Cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards featuring an uncredited design by Phyllis Boyd, lettered in black at spine. The boards a little chafed and dust soiled, with some wear to the corner…

Art in Bourgeois Society, 1790-1850. Edited by Andrew Hemingway and William Vaughan.

ANDREW HEMINGWAY AND WILLIAM VAUGHAN (edit). · 1998 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.86 | $66.14 | ¥10,573)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. xiii, 372pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated throughout with scores and scores of monochrome reproductions. Elegant bookplate of author and bibliophile June Clin…

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 (€89.79 | $99.21 | ¥15,860)

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 | $13.23 | ¥2,115)

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 | $19.84 | ¥3,172)

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 (€119.72 | $132.28 | ¥21,147)

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 (€269.37 | $297.62 | ¥47,580)

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…