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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…

The Book of the Cottage Garden.

CHARLES THONGER. · 1909 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

John Lane, The Bodley Head, 'Handbooks of Practical Gardening' series, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 91pp + [x] publisher's advertisements. Pictorial green cloth, lettered in dark green at the spine. The title page printed in green and red, and with a…

Portraits of the Artist in Exile. Recollections of James Joyce by Europeans. Edited, with an introduction by Willard Potts.

JAMES JOYCE. · 1979 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Wolfhound Press, Co. Dublin, in association with the University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvi, 304pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Some quite light spotting to the edges and free endpapers. With nine portraits …

The Harp of Aeolus and Other Essays on Art, Literature & Nature.

GEOFFREY GRIGSON. [Roger Senhouse]. · 1947 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

George Routledge & Sons Ltd., London 1947 [i.e. 1948]., 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Ownership signature of publisher and peripheral Bloomsbury Group member Roger Senhouse to the head of the front free endpaper. 8vo. xi, 160p + xx plates. Green cloth lettered in …

Richard Eurich (1903-1992). Visionary Artist.

RICHARD EURICH. Edward Chaney and Christine Clearkin. · 2003 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Paul Holberton, London in association with Southampton Institute, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), issued on the occasion of a touring exhibition to mark the centenary of Eurich's birth. 4to. 96pp. Pictorial card wrappers. With essays by Alan Powers and Caroline Topp…

Ipomadon. Edited, with a lengthy introduction by Rhiannon Purdie.

HUE DE ROTELANDE. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Published for The Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. lxxxix, 366pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Manuscript frontispiece. Publisher's review slip laid-in. A virtually fine…

The Old Road. With illustrations by William Hyde.

HILAIRE BELLOC. · 1904 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, William Hyde, First Edition (first printing). 4to. x, 272pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, with a gilt illustration inset to the upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With a captioned tissu…

William Beckford. First Prime Minister of the London Empire.

WILLIAM BECKFORD. Perry Gauci. · 2013 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xi, 290pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. With twenty illustrations and a 1770 map of Jamaica. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, marred only by a short crease to t…

The Works of a Lollard Preacher. The Sermon 'Omnis plantacio'. The Tract 'Fundamentum aliud nemo potest ponere' and The Tract 'De oblacione iugis sacrificii'. Edited, with a lengthy introduction by Anne Hudson.

ANONYMOUS · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

ublished for The Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. lxxiv, 397pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. With a manuscript frontispiece and four further plates of manuscript reprodu…

Gender and the London Theatre 1881-1920.

MARGARET D. STETZ. · 2004 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Rivendale Press, High Wycombe, in association with Bryn Mawr College Library, Pennsylvania, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 141pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. With over fifty photographs and reproductions, including several colour plates. …

The Poetical Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield.

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE. · 1778 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Elkin Mathews & Marrot Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First separate edition, limited to 250 hand-printed numbered copies (this being #159), and utilising the text of the third volume of Chesterfield's 'Miscellaneous Works 1778', with the addition of several poems from other sources…

The Life and Death of Conder.

JOHN ROTHENSTEIN. · 1938 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

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 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

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 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

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 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

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 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

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 …