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Portrait of a Rebel Father. [i.e. James Connolly].

NORA CONNOLLY O'BRIEN. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

The Talbot Press Ltd., Dublin & Cork, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 327pp. Green cloth lettered in dark green at the spine. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Some light soiling to the cloth, and a touch of bruising to the backstrip ends. Two very light diag…

Kim. With an introduction by Charles Edmund Carrington, and colour illustrations by Robin Jacques. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

RUDYARD KIPLING. Robin Jacques. · 1962 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1st Edition, Robin Jacques, Signed by Author(s), The first edition with these illustrations, printed for Members of the Limited Edition Club and limited to 1500 numbered copies designed by Ruari McLean and signed by the artist (this being #11…

The Diary of a Successful Man. A story. With illustrations by R. B. Russell.

ERNEST DOWSON. · 1990 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Tartarus Press, Sheffield, The first edition with these illustrations, and also probably the first separate edition (it was originally included in his 1895 collection of short fiction 'Dilemmas'), limited to just 25 numbered copies (this being #23). Slim 8vo. [23pp], stapled int…

The Passing of the Irish Act of Union. A Study in Parliamentary Politics.

G. C. BOLTON. · 1966 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford University Press, 'Oxford Historical Series', London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 239pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge very lightly dust soiled, and with a former owner name and date inked to the head of the front free endpa…

Story of Southwold. Edited by M. Janet Becker.

M. JANET BECKER. · 1948 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

F. Jenkins, Southwold, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 155pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. With a map printed in red to the front free endpaper, and illustrated with fifty black and white photographs. The cloth lightly faded at the …

The Naked Truth. With an introduction by Herbert Hensley Henson.

HERBERT CROFT. · 1919 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, First edition thus, printed at the Pelican Press. 8vo. xxxi, 122pp. Brown cloth with a paper title label. With a tissue-protected portrait frontispiece (which had produced some offset toning to the adjacent title page). The spine label toned…

Gallipoli.

JOHN MASEFIELD. · 1916 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

William Heinemann, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 183pp. Illustrated with eighteen full-page or double-spread photographs, two maps, and one further multi-panel folding map. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. The top edge d…

Robert Browning. Personalia.

EDMUND GOSSE. · 1890 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. 96pp. White vellum with bevelled edges, lettered and decorated in gold at the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Tissue-protected portrait frontispiece. The vellum somewhat spotted and soiled, with a trace of toning to…

Ioläus. An Anthology of Friendship. Edited by Edward Carpenter.

EDWARD CARPENTER. · 1902 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Swan Sonnenschein & Co Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. vi, 191pp. Brown cloth lettered in gilt and dark brown at the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The title page printed in black and red, and with red illuminated initials throughout. A to…

Poems.

EDWARD DOWDEN. · 1876 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Henry S. King & Co., London, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. viii, 212pp. Green cloth with bevelled edges, lettered and multi-ruled in gold at the spine, and with gilt lettering and decoration to the upper board, alongside a circular decorative design. A touch of wear to the ba…

Stanley Spencer. Heaven in a Hell of War. Edited by Amanda Bradley and Howard Watson.

STANLEY SPENCER. · 2013 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). issued on the occasion of a 2013-14 touring exhibition. 4to. 111pp. Card wrappers (not issued in casebound format). With essays by Paul Gough, Amanda Bradley, David Taylor, Katy Norris, Simon Martin,…

Pushkin. A Biography.

ALEXANDER PUSHKIN. T. J. Binyon. · 2003 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1st Edition, First American Edition (first printing), issued a year after the English edition. 8vo. xxix, 727pp. Paper-covered boards lettered in silver at the spine. With sixteen pages of photographs, seventy-six illustrations in the text, and one map…

Old Cottages, Farm-Houses and Other Half-Timber Buildings in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire. Illustrated on One Hundred Plates Reproduced from Collotype from a Special Series of Photographs taken by James Parkinson, Architectural Woodworker. With Introductory and Descriptive Notes and Numerous Sketches by E. A. Ould.

JAMES PARKINSON AND E. S. OULD. · 1904 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

B. T. Batsford, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), in the more deluxe of the two binding states. Small 4to. xii, 39pp + c plates + xxiv publisher's catalogue. Gilt lettered and decorated blue cloth. Top edge gilt. Errata slip tipped after the contents leaf. A t…

Country Girl. A Memoir.

EDNA O'BRIEN. · 2012 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 339pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly creased at the spine panel ends., Fine, Very Good

Stanley Jones and the Curwen Studio.

STANLEY JONES. · 2010 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Herbert Press / A & C Black Publishers Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 154pp + vi publisher's catalogue. Reddy-pink cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated throughout with colour and monochrome photographs and reproductions. A fine copy i…

A Painter's Pilgrimage through Fifty Years.

A. S. HARTRICK. · 1939 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Cambridge University Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 252pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a colour frontispiece (Hartrick's portrait of Van Gogh), and various monochrome plate and reproductions in the text. Contemporary for…

The Collegians. A novel. With an introduction by John Kelly.

GERALD GRIFFIN. · 1997 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Woodstock Books, 'Hibernia' series, Washington DC,, 1st Edition, First edition thus, a facsimile reprint with a new seventeen-page introduction by John Kelly, the series editor. Tall 8vo. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fractionally dust soiled dust wra…

The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Tramp. Translated from the French of 'L'odyssée d'un Transport Torpillé' by an unknown hand.

MAURICE LARROUY (writing as 'Y'). · 1918 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First English Edition (first printing), issued a year after the original French edition. 8vo. 284pp. Orange textured cloth with black-stamped lettering to the spine, and lettering and decoration to the upper board. Lacking the front fre…

Mr. Gillray. The Caricaturist. A Biography.

JAMES GILLRAY. Draper Hill. [Edgell Rickword]. · 1965 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

The Phaidon Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 266pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. The title page printed in black and red. Illustrated with nearly 150 reproductions. This copy from the library of poet and critic Edg…

English Female Artists. Complete in two volumes.

ELLEN C. CLAYTON. · 1876 · Clearwater Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.21 | ¥42,191)

Tinsley Brothers, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 427pp + [iv] publisher's catalogue and 438pp + [ii] publisher's catalogue. Green cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spines, and with an ornate black-stamped border to all boards. Contempor…