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The Officina Bodoni. An Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-1977. Edited, translated and with a brief foreword by Hans Schmoller.

GIOVANNI MARDERSTEIG. · 1980 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Edizioni Valdenega, Verona, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 1500 copies (this being one of 1,375 'standard' examples), distributed in the UK by The Bodley Head. 4to. lix, 286pp. Grey buckram lettered and bordered in gold at the spine, and with a small gilt-stamped decorat…

The Myth of Egypt and its Hieroglyphs in European Traditions.

ERIK IVERSEN. · 1961 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Gec Gad Publishers, Copenhagen, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 178pp. Lettered card wrappers with French flaps. Illustrated with over fifty reproductions (over twenty-four plates). Top edge spotted. The front wrapper a little tender, and with some spotting and…

English Dolls' Houses of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

VIVIEN GREENE. · 1955 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

B. T. Batsford, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 224pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant red top edge stain. Illustrated with nearly 150 monochrome reproductions, including many full-page examples. Free e…

Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Relics of Past and Present Wars, held at South Lodge, Horsham, August 7th, 1916 [in aid of the British Red Cross Society and of the Star and Garter Fund].

FRANCES MARGORIE GRAVES. · 1917 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

G. P. Putnam's Sons, London, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies printed on thick cartridge paper (this being an un-numbered out-of-series example). 4to. 62pp. Cloth-backed paper covered boards, with paper spine and title labels. With a frontispiece facsim…

Joseph Crawhall. The Man and the Artist. With a foreword by Sir Alfred Munnings.

JOSEPH CRAWHALL. Adrian Bury. · 1958 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Charles Skilton Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 1500 numbered copies (this being #270 from 975 examples bound in buckram). 4to. 251pp. Beige buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, with an in-set colour reproduction and the top edge gilt. With…

Housman 1897-1936. With an introduction by Mrs. E. W. Symons and Appendices by G. B. A. Fletcher, Sydney Cockerell, F. W. Oliver, Edmund Wilson, Miss Joan Thomson, Stanley Bayliss, and O. L. Richmond.

A. E. HOUSMAN. Grant Richards. · 1941 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Oxford University Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxii, 493pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece (from a drawing by William Rothenstein), eleven photographs and reproductions, and a multi-panel folding family t…

A. E. H. Some Poems, Some Letters and a Personal Memoir by his Brother.

A. E. HOUSMAN. Laurence Housman. · 1937 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 286pp. Blue buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, and with the publisher's dark blue top edge stain. Illustrated with ten photographs. The buckram faded at the backstrip, and the boards lig…

A. E. Housman. A Sketch, Together with A List of His Writings and Indexes to His Classical Papers.

A. E. HOUSMAN. A. S. F. Gow. · 1936 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Cambridge University Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 137pp. Green buckram lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped border to the upper board. With a portrait frontispiece (from a drawing of the subject by Francis Dod…

Introductory Lecture Delivered Before the Faculties of Arts and Laws and of Science in University College London October 3, 1892. With an introductory note by A. S. F. Gow.

A. E. HOUSMAN. · 1937 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Cambridge University Press, London, 1st Edition, First trade edition. 8vo. 42pp. Paper-covered boards. A little toning to the board margins, some bruising to the spine ends, and a little light partial toning to the free endpapers. Nameplate of Christopher Gandy, British soldier,…

Leaves of Gold. An Account of the Ancient Craft of Goldbeating and its Development into a Modern Industry. Prepared in collaboration with Cecil Whiley by H. L. Hunter and with drawings by John Minton. (SIGNED)

JOHN MINTON. Cecil Whiley. · 1951 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

George M. Whiley Ltd., London, 1st Edition, John Minton, Signed by Author(s), First edition, printed at the Chiswick Press in an unspecified numbered limited edition (this being #110). This copy signed by Cecil Whiley at the base of his introduction. 4to. 71pp. Cream cloth lette…

Steel & Roses. American Prints in the Hersh Cohen Collection & Botanical Books in the Fern Cohen Collection. Part 1: American Prints [and] Part 2: Botanical Books.

HERSH COHEN. · 2011 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The Grolier Club, New York, 1st Edition, First edition of this catalogue of a September-November 2011 exhibition at The Grolier Club. 4to. 59pp + 68pp (the two parts bound tête-bêche into a single volume). Illustrated stiff card wrappers with French flaps. With eighty-nine monoc…

Bulgarian Ceramics.

GEORGI BAKIRDJIEV. · 1955 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Bulgarski Hudozknik, Sofia, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 39pp + 159 plates, fifteen of which are in colour. Light grey cloth. Rippon place marker. The boards slightly marked, and the endpapers a little spotted. A nice bright copy in nicked, chipped and sligh…

Aubrey's Brief Lives. Edited from the original manuscript and with an introduction by Oliver Lawson Dick.

JOHN AUBREY. · 1949 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First edition thus. 8vo. cxiv, 408pp. Re-bound into maroon cloth with a gilt lettered and bordered leather spine label. With a portrait frontispiece and twenty-eight plates. Some spotting to the edges, a small area of staining to the top ed…

The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam. Edited, with an introduction, from a newly discovered manuscript dated 658 (1259-60) in the possession of A. Chester Beatty Esq. by A. J. Arberry. With comparative English versions by Edward Fitzgerald, E. H. Whinfield, and the editor.

A. J. ARBERRY (edits). · 1949 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Emery Walker Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiv, 172pp + [vii] index of first lines. Brown buckram lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt. With one plate reproducing the colophon leaf of the Chester Beatty manuscript. This copy fr…

Louis Wain 1860-1939.

LOUIS WAIN. · 1989 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Chris Beetles Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition of this 1989 sale catalogue of sixty-nine of the artist's anthropomorphised cat paintings. Slim landscape 8vo. [24pp] stapled into card wrappers. With an introductory essay, 'Louis Wain. His Cats, His Life & Times 1860-1939'…

Surface Mail (or The Limitations of Magic) / Courrier par voie de surface (ou les limites de la magie). With an introduction by Richard Klein.

PETER LIVERSIDGE. · 2017 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Centre des Livres dartistes / Peter Foolen Editions, Eindhoven, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. 96pp. Stiff card wrappers. Lavishly illustrated in colour throughout. A fine copy. Text in English., Fine

Seven Poems.

JENNIFER MCMAHON. · 1985 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Privately printed by Friends' Press, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies (this being #61). Tall slim 8vo. 10pp sewn into plain card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. A small blemish of miscellaneous staining to the cont…

The Fire Gaze. A poem.

SEAMUS HEANEY. · 1989 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Printed for the Friends of The Cheltenham Festival of Literature, 1st Edition, Hellmuth Weissenborn, First edition of this broadsheet poem [printed at The Whittington Press]. A single sheet measuring 31.5 x 22cm. With Heaney's twelve line poem printed in black, above which is a …

Private Presses with Special Reference to Wales. With examples of woodcuts produced by the Gregynog Press.

GREGYNOG PRESS. William Williams. · 1938 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

The London School of Printing, London, 1st Edition, Agnes Miller Parker, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Robert Ashwin Maynard and Horace Walter Bray., First Edition (first printing). Slim 4to. Eighteen pages sewn into card wrappers with a type-written title plate. A ten-page essay by Wil…

Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall. With contributions by Elizabeth Hutchinson, Julia Meech, Jennifer Perry Thalheimer, Barbara Veith, and Richard Guy Wilson.

ALICE COONEY FRELINGHUYSEN. · 2006 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in association with Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), issued to accompany a 2006 exhibitions at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 4to. xiii, 262pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the …