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Word Making Man

Brathwaite, Edward Kamau · 1979 · Black Rock Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Book Very Good 1st Edition Savacou Cooperative Mona 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall 3-page poem, in both English and Spanish, on 3 11x17 sheets, stapled, not paginated. Published for the first time in this form for Carifesta 79 in Havana, Cuba, was read by the author to Nicolas Guille…

Dream Haiti

Brathwaite, Kamau · 1995 · Black Rock Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Book Very Good 1st Edition Department of History, University of the West Indies 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall Savacou North Limited Editions. Wraps with plastic rivets along spine.

In Memoriam. With an introduction by John Sparrow.

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON. · 1933 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

The Nonesuch Press, London, 1st Edition, First edition thus, printed on Van Gelder paper at the Fanfare Press by Ernest Ingham to the design of Frances Maynell, and limited to 2000 numbered copies (this being #1680). Tall 8vo. xxii, 145pp. Patterned paper-covered boards with a s…

Henry Williamson. A Bibliography. (SIGNED)

HENRY WILLIAMSON. Hugoe Matthews. · 2004 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Halsgrove, Tiverton, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition (never reprinted). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 232pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Fine, Fine

The Mysterious Stranger. A Romance. With illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.

MARK TWAIN. · 1919 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York & London [1919]., N. C. Wyeth., A quite early reprint, the publisher's 'C-T' code establishing a publication date of March 1919 (the first printing was October 1916). Small 4to. 151pp. Black cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and…

A Commemoration of the Tercentenary of the Birth of Samuel Richardson, by The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON. · 1989 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Stationer's Hall, London, 1st Edition, First edition, [designed by Iain Bain]. Tall slim 8vo. [8pp] sewn into plain wrappers. With a tipped-in colour portrait of the subject by Joseph Highmore and two engravings. A fine copy in slightly dust soiled stiff card dust wrapper, with …

Greater Perfections. The Practice of Garden Theory.

JOHN DIXON HUNT. · 2000 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Thames & Hudson, London, 1st Edition, The first paperback edition, issued the same year as the casebound edition. Small 4to. xiii, 273pp. Glossy pictorial card wrappers. Illustrated throughout with scores and scores of photographs and reproductions. The wrappers lifting a fracti…

Max Ernst. A monograph.

MAX ERNST. Patrick Waldberg. · 1958 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Société des Éditions, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Paris, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small square 4to. 443pp + [ii]. Cream linen-covered boards, lettered in black and green at the spine, and in four different shades of green at the upper board. Illustrated with over t…

A History of Dentistry from the Most Ancient Times Until the End of the Eighteenth Century.

DR. VINCENZO GUERINI. · 1909 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Printed under the auspices of The National Dental Association of the United States of America by Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia and New York, 1st Edition, First edition. Small 4to. viii, 355pp. Green cloth with bevelled edges, lettered, ruled and decorated in gold at the spine, and…

Teeth, Their Natural History with the Physiology of the Human Mouth in regard to Artificial Teeth.

EPHRAIM MOSELY. · 1862 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Robert Hardwicke, London, 1st Edition, First edition. Small 8vo. vi, 56pp. Textured cloth with embossed decorative bordering and gilt lettering and decoration. The binding cracked and tender at one gathering, and with a tiny area of blemishing to the half-title. A nice bright co…

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio, in which are incorporated translations of the Principal Letters

CHARLES BURNEY. · 1796 · Clearwater Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, London, 1st Edition, First edition, complete in three volumes. 8vo. xv, 407pp + [xxx] contents + [i] errata; 420pp + [xxix] contents + [i] errata; 414pp + [xxiii] contents + [i] errata. Contemporary calf with gilt rules and bordering, and with …

Parables. With wood engravings by Joan Hassall.

ANDREW YOUNG. Joan Hassall. · 1985 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

The Keepsake Press, Richmond, 1st Edition, Joan Hassall, First edition, limited to 200 copies issued to celebrate the centenary of the author's birth. Slim 8vo. [19pp] sewn into lettered and decorated card wrappers, which are a little marked and soiled. Quite a nice crisp copy o…

The Croonian Lectures. Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London in 1849. On Some Forms of Insanity. With a preface by C. R. Birnie.

JOHN CONOLLY. · 1960 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Printed by William Sessions Ltd., The Ebor Press, York [1960]., 1st Edition, The first separate edition of these three lectures, here amplified into six, which were originally printed in 'The Lancet' in October and November 1849. 8vo. [ix], 85pp. Lettered card wrappers. Portrait…

Words of Warning, in Verse and Prose. Addressed to "Societies for Organising Charitable relief and Suppressing Mendacity". With illustrations by W. J. Allen, engraved by J & G. P. Nicholls.

S. C. HALL. · 1877 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Hamilton, Adams & Co., London [c.1877]., 1st Edition, First edition. Slim 8vo. 43pp + [i] advertisement. Pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to the upper board, within a decorated black-stamped border. Some fading to the cloth, and the endpapers browned. The binding…

The Diary of David Garrick. Being a Record of His Memorable Trip to Paris in 1751. Now first printed from the original ms. and edited by Ryllis Clair Alexander. With illustrations and collotype facsimiles of the manuscript.

DAVID GARRICK. · 1928 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford University Press, New York, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 575 numbered copies (this being #171). 8vo. x, 117pp. Vellum-backed boards with marbles paper sides, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With a captioned tissue-protec…

Ulysses Cinquante ans Après. Témoignages Franco-Anglais sur le Chef-duvre de James Joyce. / Ulysses Fifty Years Later. French and English Perspectives on James Joyce's Masterpiece. Compiled by Louis Bonnerot with the collaboration of J. Aubert and Cl. Jacquot.

JAMES JOYCE. · 1974 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Librairie Marcel Didier, 'Études Anglaise' series, Paris, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. xvii, 301pp. Card wrappers. A touch of light wear to the wrapper margins, and some discolouration to the base of the spine, and a single light readership crease. A good sound copy. The tex…

contributes a splendid original woodcut as cover art to R. M. Y. Gleadowe's essay 'British Art', issued as BBC Talks Pamphlet no. 730.

ERIC RAVILIOUS · 1934 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

British Broadcasting Corporation, London [1934]., 1st Edition, Eric Ravilious, First edition. Small 4to. iv, 32pp, iv. Stapled card wrappers. With thirty-two pages of monochrome plates. The staples rusted, with a little spotting to the rear wrapper and quite a bit more to the te…

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck. Translated, edited and with an introduction and afterword by William Ashton Ellis.

RICHARD WAGNER. · 1905 · Clearwater Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

H. Grevel & Co., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. lxii, 386pp + [ii] advertisements. Two-tone cloth, gilt lettered and decorated at the spine, and with a large green and gilt decoration to the upper board. Top edge gilt. With a frontispiece portrait of M…

The Königsmark Drawings. Reproduced in facsimile in sepia and colour. With an introduction, and the story in brief, derived from A. E. W. Mason's novel, by Laurence Whistler, and reproductions of several letters from Rex Whistler to Alfred Mason.

REX WHISTLER. · 1952 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

The Richards Press, London, 1st Edition, First edition, of which 1,000 numbered copies were printed (this being #179, and one of an unspecified number bound in buckram rather than cloth, and issued with a slipcase instead of a dust wrapper). Royal 4to. 24pp + x tipped-in plates …

Una Selva Oscura: Tom Phillip's Inferno.

TOM PHILLIPS. · 1997 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, 1st Edition, First edition of this catalogue of an exhibition from the Special Collection of Washington University, printed at Bremer Press, St. Louis and limited to 1000 copies. Slim 4to. 24pp stapled into decorat…