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A History of Trinity College, Dublin 1591-1892. With a foreword by G. M. Tevelyan [and] A History of Trinity College, Dublin 1892-1945. With a foreword by Dr. E. H. Alton.

CONSTANTIA MAXWELL AND KENNETH C. BAILEY. · 1946 · Clearwater Books

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Dublin University Press, Dublin 1946 & 1947., 1st Edition, First Editions (first printings), complete in two volumes. Individual volumes as follows: 'A History of Trinity College, Dublin 1591-1892'. (1946). First edition. 8vo. xiii, 299pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lett…

contributes his hitherto unprinted poems 'Landscape' and 'A Small Hotel' to the inaugural an issue of the periodical 'Quarto. The Magazine of The Literary Society'. [vol. 1, no. 1, 1974].

MICHAEL LONGLEY · 1974 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

[University of Ulster at Coleraine], [1974]., 1st Edition, First edition. 4to. 36 mimeographed leaves stapled into slightly spotted grey card wrappers. A very good copy of the uncommon inaugural issue of the organ of the University of Ulster Literary Society, with the editor uns…

Midway on the Waves. [Diaries 1948-1949].

JAMES LEES-MILNE. · 1985 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 248pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Contemporary former owner gift inscription neatly inked to an unprinted preliminary leaf, otherwise a fine copy in very slightly dust soiled non-price-clipped dust …

Portobello Sonnets. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

HARRY CLIFTON. · 2014 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Tuskar Rock Press, Dublin, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), The deluxe issue of the first edition, printed by the Evergreen Press on Magnami paper and limited to 100 copies numbered copies (this being #19), signed by the author on the title page with his printed name struck-thr…

Ireland and the Picturesque. Design, Landscape Painting and Tourism 1700-1840.

FINOLA O'KANE. · 2013 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Yale University Press in association with The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven & London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. [vi], 229pp. Brown boards lettered in silver at the spine. Lavishly illustrated throughout with scores and scores of…

The Acceptance World. A novel. Volume 3 of 'A Dance to the Music of Time'.

ANTHONY POWELL. · 1955 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Farrar, Straus & Cudahy., New York 1955 [i.e. 1956]., 1st Edition, First American Edition (first printing). 8vo. 214pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in silver at the spine. Free endpapers very lightly toned. Very good indeed in very good non-price-clipped dust wra…

Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland.

PATRICIA MCCARTHY. · 2016 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Yale University Press in association with The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven & London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. x, 260pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Lavishly illustrated throughout with scores and scores of co…

Candidates for Fame. The Society of Artists of Great Britain 1760-1791. Yale

MATTHEW HARGRAVES. · 2005 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Yale University Press in association with The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven & London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. viii, 244pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and thirty black and white reproductions…

Writers' Block. A novel.

JUDITH FLANDERS. · 2014 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Allison & Busby Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 287pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The first of her Sam Clair series of satirical crime novels, this volume ins…

Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' Notebook. Edited, with an introduction by Pamela Dalziel and Michael Millgate.

THOMAS HARDY. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxv, 129pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with five facsimile reproductions. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. A scholarly examination of Hardy's 'Poetical Ma…

Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories.

WILLIAM TREVOR. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

The Bodley Head, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 252pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge fractionally spotted, and with a tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown (obscured by the wrapper flap). A virtually fine copy in vir…

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Complete in three volumes comprising 'Spenser's Minor Poems' and 'Spenser's Faerie Queene'.

EDMUND SPENSER. · 1961 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Oxford University Press, London 1961 and 1970., Individual volumes as follows: 'Spenser's Faerie Queene' (1961). Edited, with an introduction by J. C. Smith. A lithographical reprint from the sheets of the 1909 first edition, complete in two volumes ('Volume 1: Books I-III', 'Vo…

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer. With an introduction by David Daiches, and illustrations by Paul Hogarth. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

SIEGFRIED SASSOON. Paul Hogarth. · 1981 · Clearwater Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1st Edition, Paul Hogarth., Signed by Illustrator(s), The first edition with these Paul Hogarth illustrations, limited to 2000 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Tall 8vo. xvii, 224pp. Rough-weave beige cloth lettered in black at the spin…

John Marshall and 'The Infant's Library'. (INSCRIBED)

SYDNEY ROSCOE. · 1955 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

The Queen Anne Press, [London, 1955]., 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), The first separate edition of this essay, which was originally printed in a 1955 issue of the periodical 'The Book Collector'. This copy inscribed on the upper wrapper "with the author's compliments S.T.…

Susanna's Secret; or The Lost Mozart Letters.

LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL. · 1981 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Press of the Mesquite Harpsichord, Tucson, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 53pp. Patterned cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The title page printed in black and red with a green decoration, which is repeated as chapter header decorations. A quite narrow sliv…

Nine Essays. With a preface by A. E. Housman.

JOHN ARTHUR PLATT. A. E. Housman. · 1927 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xviii, 220pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Photographic portrait frontispiece. The top edge dust soiled, and the cloth a little faded at several margins, and at the backstrip. So…

Darwin. A Life in Poems. (SIGNED)

RUTH PADEL. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page with her printed name struck-through. 8vo. xviii, 141pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped …

Spanning the Thames. The River and Surroundings from The Barrier to Teddington Lock. With a commentary and stories by Michael Harrison.

MICHAEL HARRISON. · 2008 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Artists' Choice Editions, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Landscape 8vo. 83pp. Teal boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with many full-page or double-spread specially commissioned illustrations of the river and bridges, principally in colour, c…

Song and Words. A History of The Curwen Press.

HERBERT SIMON. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 261pp. Maroon cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With numerous plates and reproductions including a few in colour. Some light partial toning to the free endpapers. A virtually fine copy in…

Irish Impressions. Essays.

G. K. CHESTERTON. · 1919 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Collins, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 243pp + [iv] publisher's catalogue dated autumn 1919. Green cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board and with black-stamped border. Some bruising to the cloth at the backstrip ends, and a small area o…