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All Men are Islands. An Autobiography [and] How to Make Enemies. [A Second Volume of Autobiography]. (INSCRIBED)

RONALD DUNCAN. · 1964 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Rupert Hart-Davis, London 1964 and 1968., 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Editions (first printings). Individual volumes as follows: 'All Men are Islands. An Autobiography' (1964). First edition. This copy fondly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Fo…

Seven Gothic Tales. With a colour frontispiece by Rex Whistler.

ISAK DINESEN. Rex Whistler. · 1934 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Putnam, London, 1st Edition, Rex Whistler., The first UK edition (first printing). 8vo. 522pp. Burgundy cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge a little dust soiled, and with a touch of spotting to the fore edge, preliminary leaves and to occasional leaf margins. Some ligh…

Letters of James Boswell. Collected and edited by Chauncey Brewster Tinker. Complete in two volumes.

JAMES BOSWELL. · 1924 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxii, 550pp (over both volumes). Maroon cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spines, with a blind-stamped double border to all boards. Portrait frontispiece to the first volume. Top edges a lit…

Rupert Brooke and the Intellectual Imagination. A Lecture.

RUPERT BROOKE. Walter de la Mare. · 1919 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1st Edition, First edition, first state (with the spine and board lettering in black). 8vo. 41pp. Paper covered boards. A small bump to the head of the backstrip, a shade of toning to the board margins, and a contemporary former owner name and date in…

The Private Art. A Poetry Note-Book.

GEOFFREY GRIGSON. · 1982 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Allison & Busby Ltd., London & New York, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 231pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Some quite considerable toning to the lesser-quality paperstock, else a very good copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Notes and …

That Island Never Found. Essays and Poems for Terence Brown. Edited by Nicholas Allen and Eve Petten.

TERENCE BROWN. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Four Courts Press Ltd., Dublin, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 199pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. A tribute to the noted Irish literary critic with contributions by Paul Muldoon, Brendan Kennelly, Derek Mahon, S…

Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement in Ireland.

MAINIE JELLETT. Bruce Arnold. · 1991 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. viii, 216pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and over twenty full-page colour plates, plus scores and scores of further colour and m…

The Making of the Royal Pavilion Brighton. Designs and Drawings.

JOHN MORLEY. · 1984 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Sotheby Publications, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 280pp. Maroon cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With pictorial endpapers and over three hundred illustrations including over a hundred in colour. Top edge very lightly spotted. A virtually fine co…

The Leeds Pottery 1770-1881. To which is Appended an Illustrated Account of the Work of the Revivalists, J. & G. W. Senior and J. T. Morton 1880s to c.1950. Complete in two volumes.

JOHN D. GRIFFIN. · 2005 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

The Leeds Art Collections Fund / City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. xiv, 6396pp (over both volumes). Green boards lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Illustrated with hundreds and hundreds of colour illustrations. A fine set in …

The Yorkshire Potteries.

JOHN D. GRIFFIN. · 2012 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

The Leeds Arts Fund / City Art Gallery, Leeds, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 550 copies. 4to. xix, 440pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine and with a white-stamped decoration to the upper board. With map-illustrated endpapers and over one thousand colour illust…

The Tale of the Castle Mice. With colour illustrations by Emily Sutton.

MICHAEL BOND AND EMILY SUTTON. · 2016 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

The Bodley Head, London, 1st Edition, Emily Sutton, First Edition (first printing). 4to. [30pp]. Pictorial paper-covered boards, lettered in white at the spine. Lavishly illustrated throughout. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Fine, Fine

This is the Life. A novel.

JOSEPH O'NEILL · 1991 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 214pp. Blue cloth lettered in white at the spine. A trace of very light toning to the leaf margins, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's first book., Near Fine, Fine

James Joyce's Manuscripts & Letters at the University of Buffalo. A Catalogue. Compiled with an introduction by Peter Spielberg.

JAMES JOYCE. · 1962 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

University of Buffalo, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. xxii, 241pp. Brown cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Manuscript-illustrated endpapers. A very good copy in soiled and just a little rubbed price-clipped dust wrapper. A catalogue of circa 20,000 pages of Joyce's manuscri…

Bless This Day. A Book of Prayer for Children. Compiled by Elfrida Vipont and with illustrations by Harold Jones.

HAROLD JONES. · 1958 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Collins, London, 1st Edition, Harold Jones, First Edition (first printing), printed at the Curwen Press. Small 4to. 96pp. Pictorial boards. With decorated endpapers, a double-spread title page illustration, and superb Jones' illustrations to every leaf, with each alternate doubl…

Forwarded and Finished. An Amusement Concerning Bookbinders. Edited by Nick Howell and Graham Moss. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

NICK HOWELL & GRAHAM MOSS (edit). · 1995 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Incline Press, Oldham, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition, limited to numbered 300 copes, this being one of the first 100, hand-bound and signed by the co-editor and imprint founder Graham Moss (the other two hundred were made available as sets of sheets for home-bi…

Eeldrop and Appleplex.

T. S. ELIOT. · 1992 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

The Foundling Press, Tunbridge Wells, 1st Edition, The first separate edition, printed on Zerkell mould-made paper at the Rampant Lions Press and limited to 500 numbered copies (this being #14). Slim 8vo. 10pp + [i] notes. Plain card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. In vi…

Shade Those Laurels. A novel.

CYRIL CONNOLLY AND PETER LEVI. · 1990 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Bellew Publishing, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 174pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Waterstone & Co. inkstamp to the head of the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Connolly's unfinis…

The Chicago School of Architecture. A History of Commercial and Public Building in the Chicago Area, 1875-1925.

CARL W. CONDIT. · 1964 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). xviii, 238pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with nearly two hundred photographs. The edges spotted. A very good copy in quite lightly toned, soiled and spott…

Fleuron Anthology. Chosen and with a Retrospectus by Francis Meynell and Hervert Simon.

ANTHOLOGY. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Ernest Benn Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. xv, 359pp. First edition, printed at the Curwen Press. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With scores of illustrations, several in or partly in colour. The top edge lightly spotted, and with a tin…

Serge Chermayeff: Designed, Architect, Teacher.

SERGE CHERMAYEFF. Alan Powers. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

RIBA Publications, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 298pp. Card wrappers (not issued in casebound format). Illustrated with scores and scores of photographs and reproductions, including thirty-six in colour. In fine state., Fine