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The Life and Death of Conder.

JOHN ROTHENSTEIN. · 1938 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.94 | $26.46 | ¥4,229)

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xx, 300pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a colour frontispiece and twenty-five monochrome reproductions and photographs. The cloth lightly marked, with a touch of spotting…

The Album of Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. Edited by Violet Powell, with a preface by Anthony Powell and a lengthy introduction by John Bayley.

ANTHONY POWELL. · 1987 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.68 | ¥6,344)

Thames & Hudson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 152pp. Beige cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with over 200 reproductions. A fine copy in dust wrapper, marred only by a single tiny blemish to the base of the front panel. Publishers pric…

A Vision Recaptured. The Complete Etchings and the Paintings for Milton and for Virgil.

SAMUEL PALMER. · 1978 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.94 | $26.46 | ¥4,229)

Trianon Press Facsimiles for the William Blake Trust., 1st Edition, First edition, one of 2,000 un-numbered copies (from a total edition of 3826 copies), published on the occasion of the 1978 Samuel Palmer exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum. 4to. xiii, 88pp. Illustrated …

Picking Up the Linen Threads. A Study in Industrial Folklore.

BETTY MESSENGER. · 1980 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.94 | $26.46 | ¥4,229)

Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), originally issued two years previously by the University of Texas Press. 8vo. xxi, 265pp. Grey cloth lettered in black at the spine. Illustrated with thirty black and white photographs, including a number…

City of Laughter. Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London.

VIC GATRELL. · 2006 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.84 | ¥3,172)

Walker & Company, New York, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxiii, 696pp. Blue boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With hundreds of reproductions, principally in colour. A tiny hint of wear to the cloth at several extremities. A virtually fine copy …

The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Student's Cambridge Edition. Edited by F. N. Robinson.

GEOFFREY CHAUCER. · 1933 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.90 | $46.30 | ¥7,401)

Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 'The Cambridge Poets' series, London [1933]., 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. xl, 1133pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Portrait frontispiece. Some quite light uneven toning to the free endpapers. Very good indeed in vir…

Murray's Berkshire Architectural Guide. Edited by John Betjeman and John Piper. (SIGNED BY JOHN BETJEMAN)

JOHN BETJEMAN AND JOHN PIPER. · 1949 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.86 | $66.14 | ¥10,573)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by John Betjeman on the front free endpaper, seemingly using his non-dominant hand. 4to. 163pp. Decorated cloth. Illustrated with over 170 photographs including one colour pla…

Voices and Poetry of Ireland. A Collection of Ireland's Best-Loved Poetry with Recordings by Ireland's Best-Loved Figures. With a foreword by Brendan Kennelly.

ANTHOLOGY. · 2003 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.96 | $19.84 | ¥3,172)

HarperCollins, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Landscape 4to. xv, 140pp. Blue paper-covered boards lettered in electric blue at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The three original CDs included in plastic sleeves attach…

Siegfried Sassoon. The Making of a War Poet. A Biography 1886-1918 [and] Siegfried Sassoon. The Journey from the Trenches. A Biography 1918-1967.

SIEGFRIED SASSOON. Jean Moorcroft Wilson. · 1998 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.92 | $39.68 | ¥6,344)

Duckworth, London 1998 and 2003., 1st Edition, First Editions (first printings). Individual volumes as follows: 'Siegfried Sassoon. The Making of a War Poet. A Biography 1886-1918' (1998). First edition. 8vo. viii, 600pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated w…

English Illustration: The Nineties.

JAMES THORPE. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.93 | $33.07 | ¥5,287)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xx, 268pp. Purple cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt. With a frontispiece and over one-hundred and twenty plates reproducing the works of Charles Keene, Linley Sambourne, Harry Furniss, L.…

Handel's Messiah. Origins. Composition. Sources.

JENS PETER LARSEN. · 1957 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.94 | $26.46 | ¥4,229)

Adam & Charles Black, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 336pp. Red buckram lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with three plates, and an appendix of seventeen plates of facsimile scores. A virtually fine copy in very slightly dust soiled price-clip…

The Crown of Life.

GEORGE GISSING. · 1899 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.93 | $33.07 | ¥5,287)

Methuen & Co., London, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. 329pp + xl publisher's catalogue dated November 1899. Vertically rubbed red cloth, lettered and bordered in gilt at the spine and upper board. Institutional inkstamp almost entirely erased from the head of the front free en…

The Songlines.

BRUCE CHATWIN. · 1987 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.94 | $26.46 | ¥4,229)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 293pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Some toning to the paperstock, and a former owner gift inscription inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in very good price-clippe…

A Vicarious Trip to the Barbary Coast.

MARY BERENSON. · 1938 · Clearwater Books

£65.00 (€77.82 | $85.98 | ¥13,745)

Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 146pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece, one map, and twenty-three plates of photographs. Top edge lightly spotted and dust soiled, and with a trace of toning to th…

The Happy Hypocrite. With illustrations by George Sheringham.

MAX BEERBOHM. George Sheringham. · 1918 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.85 | $72.75 | ¥11,631)

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London [1918]., 1st Edition, George Sheringham, First edition with these Sheringham illustrations, comprising a title page design, decorated endpapers, twenty-five delightful colour plates, each with a tissue protector, and ten vignettes and decoratio…

The Animals of Saint Gregory. With a foreword by Dom Jean Leclerg, and wood engravings by Simon Brett.

BRIAN O'MALLEY. Simon Brett. · 1981 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.79 | $99.21 | ¥15,860)

Paulinus Press, Rhandirmwyn, 1st Edition, Simon Brett, First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 98pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. With fourteen splendid full-page Simon Brett wood-engravings. Top edge fractionally spotted, else a fine copy in virtually fine dus…

George Gissing. The Definitive Bibliography.

GEORGE GISSING. Pierre Coustillas. · 2005 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.86 | $66.14 | ¥10,573)

Rivendale Press, High Wycombe, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. xxxv, 604pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. With twenty-four plates of photographs and reproductions, many of them in colour. Top edge fractionally spotted, else a fine copy in fine…

A Passage to India. A novel.

E. M. FORSTER. · 1924 · Clearwater Books

£550.00 (€658.46 | $727.51 | ¥116,306)

Edward Arnold & Co., London, 1st Edition, Third impression of the first edition, issued the same year as the original impression, and with a 'Colonial Library' inkstamp to the reverse of the title page, and, appropriately, a tiny Australian dealer plate to the base of the front …

Penelope Fitzgerald. A Life. (INSCRIBED)

PENELOPE FITZGERALD. Hermione Lee. · 2013 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.94 | $26.46 | ¥4,229)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo. xix, 508pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. With manuscript-illustrated endpapers and sixty-three black and white ph…

Sonia Delaunay. The Life of an Artist.

SONIA DELAUNAY. Stanley Baron in collaboration with Jacques Damase. · 1995 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.90 | $46.30 | ¥7,401)

Thames & Hudson Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 208pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with over two hundred photographs and reproductions, over half of which are in colour. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. A lavishly illust…