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Art Nouveau Furniture.

ALASTAIR DUNCAN. · 1982 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Thames & Hudson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Square 4to. 192pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. With over two hundred illustrations, including nearly fifty in colour. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper., Very Good, Very Good

John Pendlebury in Crete. Comprising his 'Travelling Hints' and his 'First Trip to Eastern Crete' (1928) together with appreciations by Nicholas Hammond and T. J. Dunbabin and a prefatory note by S. C. Roberts.

JOHN PENDLEBURY. · 1948 · Clearwater Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Printed for private circulation at the University of Cambridge,, 1st Edition, First edition, of which 250 copies were printed. 8vo. xi, 68pp. Quarter cloth with paper-covered sides, lettered in gold at the spine. With a photographic portrait frontispiece, and one further photogr…

Dylan Thomas and the Bohemians. The Photographs of Nora Summers. With an essay by Jeff Towns.

NORA SUMMERS. Gabriel Summers and Leonie Summers. (Dylan Thomas interest). · 2014 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Parthian, Cardigan, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Landscape 8vo. 211pp. Red cloth lettered in silver at the spine. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and over 120 photographs, predominantly featuring Dylan Thomas and Caitlin Macnacara, including many full-p…

The Poems of William Habington. Edited with an introduction and commentary by Kenneth Allott.

WILLIAM HABINGTON. · 1948 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The University of Liverpool Press and Hodder & Stoughton, 'Liverpool English Texts & Studies' series, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. lxviii, 208pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a correspondence reproduction frontispiece and several i…

A Draft of Cantos XXXI-XLI.

EZRA POUND. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First English Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 62pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Free endpapers lightly spotted, and with the name of a former owner inked to the base of the front free endpaper. Very go…

The Narrow Place. Poems.

EDWIN MUIR. · 1943 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 49pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The cloth lifting a little in one small area of the upper board. Contemporary former owner details inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and a tiny deale…

Additional Materials. A novel

ROBIN BYNOE. · 2018 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

So, Yes Books, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. ix, 320pp. Red boards lettered in black at the spine. A fine copy in very slightly soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Fine, Very Good

English Furniture at a Glance. With several hundred illustrations by the author.

BARBARA JONES. · 1954 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

The Architectural Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 96pp. Yellow cloth lettered in purple at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine three-colour non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper. A description of English furniture from the late Middle Age…

Estella. Her Expectations. A novel. (INSCRIBED)

SUE ROE. · 1982 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Harvester Press Ltd., Brighton, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title to the noted bibliophile Eric [Quayle] and his wife, and dated 1988. With Quayle's neat bookplate to the front past…

The Lighter Side of Irish Life. With illustrations by Henry W. Kerr.

GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM. · 1912 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

T. N. Foulis, London & Edinburgh, A re-issue of the first edition, issued a year after the original. 8vo. vii, 271pp + [vi] publisher's advertisements. Brown buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others rough-trimmed. With a tissue-protector tippe…

Words Alone. Yeats and his Inheritances.

W. B. YEATS. R. F. Foster. · 2011 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xix, 236pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A scholarly study of Irish literature that influenced the young Yeat…

The Midnight Court and The Adventures of a Luckless Fellow. Two poems translated from the Galic by Percy Arland Ussher, with a preface by W. B. Yeats and woodcuts by Frank W. Peers.

W. B. YEATS. Percy Arland Ussher. · 1926 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 79pp. Orange cloth with a printer paper spine label. The top edge lightly dust soiled, and with some light partial toning to the free endpapers. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpape…

Runyon from First to Last.

DAMON RUNYON. · 1954 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Constable, London, 1st Edition, First edition thus. 8vo. 478pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in white at the spine. A single tiny blemish to the upper board, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A selection from material previously published including the fi…

Married Life. A novel.

CONAL O'RIORDAN. · 1924 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 308 + [iv] publisher's catalogue. Blue cloth lettered in red at the spine and upper board with a red-stamped double-border. The top edge lightly dust soiled, and with just a trace of spit…

The King's Threshold. A play.

W. B. YEATS. · 1911 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1st Edition, The first separate UK edition (originally issued in 1904 in the limited edition of 100 copies). Slim 8vo. 40pp bound into lettered card wrappers. The upper wrapper just a little tender at the natural fold, and with two mi…

Case Histories. A novel.

KATE ATKINSON. · 2004 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Doubleday, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 301pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine with a ribbon place-marker. A virtually fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly creased at the spine panel ends. The first instalment in …

The Letters of Bernard Shaw to The Times 1898-1950. Collected, annotated and with an introduction by Ronald Ford and with a foreword by Michel W. Pharand.

BERNARD SHAW. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 316pp. Black boards lettered in golf at the spine. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. The first full annotated collection of Shaw's extensive correspondence to 'The Times', comprising roughly 150…

Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). A biography.

SIEGFRIED SASSOON. John Stuart Roberts. · 1999 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Richard Cohen Books, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 354pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with forty-two photographs. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Fine, Near Fine

The Only Art of Jack B. Yeats. Essays & Letters. Edited by Decland J. Foley.

JACK B. YEATS. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The Lilliput Press, Dublin, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 204pp. Black boards lettered in white at the spine. A fine copy in very good dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the head of the spine panel. A tribute to Jack B. Yeats which includes previous unpubl…

W. B. Yeats and George Yeats. The Letters. Edited by Ann Saddlemyer.

W. B. YEATS. · 2011 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxii, 599pp. Navy blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-five photographs and reproductions. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. An extensive collection of the …