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The Art of the Book-Jacket.

CHARLES ROSNER. Hans Tisdall. · 1949 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Published for the Victoria & Albert Museum, by H. M. S. O., London, 1st Edition, Hans Tisdall., First edition. Slim 8vo. 12pp stapled into card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall, which is very slightly rubbed and dust soiled. A very good copy of thi…

Poets' Fare.

EDGELL RICKWORD. [Hart Crane interest]. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Privately printed for the author and Enitharmon Press by the Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, 1st Edition, First edition [of which 325 copies were printed]. Slim 8vo. [4pp] sewn into very slightly marked and soiled lettered card wrappers. A very good copy of this poignant two-page a…

Zero. Hans Schleger. A Life of Design. With a foreword by Paul Rand, and an introduction by Fiona MacCarthy. (PLUS EXHIBITION CATALOGUE).

HANS SCHLEGER. Pat Schleger. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Square 4to. 271pp. Black cloth lettered in white at the spine and with blind-stamped lettering to the upper board. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of colour and monochrome reproductions throughout. A fine…

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon.

SIEGFRIED SASSOON. · 1920 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

William Heinemann, London, 1st Edition, Second and final impression of the first edition, issued three months after the original impression (there were no subsequent impressions). Small 8vo. ix, 95pp. Red cloth with slightly tanned and chipped lettered paper labels to the spine …

Tiepolo's Hound. A poem. With twenty-six colour-plates reproducing the author's paintings.

DEREK WALCOTT. · 2000 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 164pp. White cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Fine, Fine

The Gentle Barbarian. The Life and Work of Turgenev.

V. S. PRITCHETT. · 1977 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 243pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with eight captioned black and white photographs. A virtually fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Very Good, Very Good

Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. Mixing Foreign Trees with the Natives.

FINOLA O'KANE. · 2004 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Cork University Press, Cork, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Landscape 4to. xi, 211pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers and scores and scores of colour and monochrome photographs and reproductions. A fine copy in fine dust wr…

Illustrated Glossary of Architecture 850-1830.

JOHN HARRIS AND JILL LEVER. · 1966 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. xi, 78pp + 224 plates. Reddy-brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Errata slip. A tiny enclosed nick to the cloth at one corner tip, else a fine copy in good price-clipped dust wrapper, nicked with several are…

Chiaroscuro. Renaissance Woodcuts from the Collections of George Baselitz and the Albertina, Vienna.

ACHIM GNANN, DAVID EKSERDJIAN AND MICHAEL FOSTER. · 2014 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1st Edition, The paperback issue of the first edition, published simultaneously with a casebound issue on the occasion of a March - June 2014 at The Royal Academy of Arts. 4to. 232pp. Card wrappers with French flaps. Illustrated with over 130 repro…

William Powell Frith. Painting the Victorian Age. Edited by Mark Bills and Vivien Knight.

WILLIAM POWELL FRITH. · 2006 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Yale University Press, New Haven and London in association with Guildhall Art Gallery, City of London and The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate Museums and Arts, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), issued on the occasion of a 2006 exhibition at the Guildhall Art Gallery, Ci…

A Bulter's Recipe Book 1719. Edited by Philip James. With wood engravings by Reynold Stone and an introduction by Ambrose Heath.

REYNOLDS STONE. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Cambridge University Press, London, 1st Edition, Reynolds Stone, First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. xii, 45pp. Cloth-backed pink paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine and in black at the upper board, the latter within a double-ruled circle. With a title pag…

The Cliffs (A Drama of the Time, in Five Parts).

CHARLES M. DOUGHTY. · 1909 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Duckworth & Co., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. [vi], 267pp. Vertically rubbed green cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt. The binding slightly cocked, and the cloth a little marked and soiled in places, and a little rubbed and …

Adam Cast Forth (Sacred Drama in Five Songs).

CHARLES M. DOUGHTY. · 1908 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Duckworth & Co., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. [vi], 124pp. Vertically rubbed green cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt; fore- and bottom-edges rough-trimmed, with some leaves uncut. A tiny crease to the head of the backstrip,…

The Newcomes. Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family. With an introduction by Angela Thirkell and sixty illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

EDWARD ARDIZZONE. William Makepeace Thackeray. · 1954 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

Printed for Members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, Cambridge, 1st Edition, Edward Ardizzone, Signed by Illustrator(s), First edition with these illustrations, complete in two volumes and limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by the artist (this being #122…

Angling in British Art Through Five Centuries: Prints, Pictures, Books. With a foreword by H. T. Sheringham, and two hundred illustrations, including thirty-nine in colour.

W. SHAW SPARROW. · 1923 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. xxii, 288pp + iv publisher's advertisements. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, with gilt rules and blind-stamped bordering, and blue top edge dye. The title page printed…

A Letter to Mrs. Virginia Woolf.

PETER QUENNELL. · 1932 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 'The Hogarth Letters' series, London, 1st Edition, John Banting, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 24pp sewn into card wrappers featuring a two-colour series design by John Banting. A trace of toning to the wrappers. A virtu…

A Letter to a Young Poet [i.e. John Lehmann].

VIRGINIA WOOLF. · 1932 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 'The Hogarth Letters' series, London, 1st Edition, John Banting, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 28pp sewn into card wrappers featuring a two-colour series design by John Banting. The wrappers a little toned and soiled, wi…

A Letter to W. B. Yeats.

L. A. G. STRONG. · 1932 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 'The Hogarth Letters' series, London, 1st Edition, John Banting, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 31pp sewn into card wrappers featuring a two-colour series design by John Banting. The wrappers a little toned and soiled. A …

A Letter on the French Pictures.

RAYMOND MORTIMER. · 1932 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 'The Hogarth Letters' series, London, 1st Edition, John Banting, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 31pp sewn into card wrappers featuring a two-colour series design by John Banting. The wrappers a little toned, creased and d…

A Letter to a Sister.

ROSAMOND LEHMANN. · 1931 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 'The Hogarth Letters' series, London, 1st Edition, John Banting, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 24pp sewn into card wrappers featuring a two-colour series design by John Banting. Just a touch of toning to the wrappers. A …