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From Mouths of Men.

GEORGE EWART EVANS. · 1976 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 202pp. Red cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty captioned black and white photographs, and with some line drawings in the text. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the…

Free Fall. A novel.

WILLIAM GOLDING. · 1959 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, Anthony Gross, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 253pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fractionally rubbed and dust soiled price-clipped dust wrapper designed by Anthony Gross. The author's fourth novel., Fine, Very Good

April in Spain. An Inspector Quirke novel.

JOHN BANVILLE. · 2021 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 355pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Orange boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The eighth volume in his Inspector Quirke series of crime novels (and the firs…

Bristol. An Architectural History.

ANDOR GOMME, MICHAEL JENNER AND BRYAN LITTLE. · 1979 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Lund Humphries, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 452pp. Red cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Lavishly illustrated throughout with hundreds of black and white photographs, plans, and reproductions. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, with a short…

Rena Gardiner. Artist and Printmaker. (SIGNED)

RENA GARDINER. Julian Francis and Martin Andrews. · 2015 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Little Toller Books in association with The Dovecote Press, Dorchester, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by co-author Julian Francis on the title page and dated the year of publication. 4to. 160pp. Pictorial card wrappers with Fr…

Interrogation of Silence. The Writings of George Mackay Brown.

GEORGE MACKAY BROWN. Rowena Murray and Brian Murray. · 2004 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 306pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece, two maps and five manuscript, typescript and letter reproductions in the text. In fine state with fine non-price-clippe…

Private Passions.

MICHAEL BERKELEY. · 2005 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 386pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny bump to the head of the backstrip, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An "indispensable bible" of the first decade of th…

The Last Medici.

HAROLD ACTON. · 1980 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Scala / Becocci Editore, Canto dei Nelli, 1st Edition Illustrated Edition, The first illustrated edition, using the text of the 1958 revised edition, and issued to coincide with a major 1980 Medici exhibition in Florence. Small 4to. 327pp. Purple boards lettered in gold at the s…

A Mingled Measure. Diaries 1953-1972.

JAMES LEES-MILNE. · 1994 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 325pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The fifth instalment of the author's extensive diary sequence., Fine, Near Fine

Queen Christina.

GEORGINA MASSON. · 1968 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 405pp. Purple cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with nineteen black and white reproductions. The tip of one corner bumped, and the tiniest trace of spotting to the top edge. A very good …

Isaac Rosenberg. The Making of a Great War Poet. A New Life.

ISAAC ROSENBERG. Jean Moorcroft Wilson. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. [vi], 468pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with forty-two monochrome photographs and colour reproductions. A tiny scattering of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy i…

Robert Lowell: The First Twenty Years.

ROBERT LOWELL. Hugh B. Staples. · 1962 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 137pp. Red cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine. Top edge fractionally dust soiled, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The first full-length study of the celebrated US poet, p…

Purely for Pleasure. (WITH ALS)

MARGARET LANE. · 1966 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xi, 234pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant red top edge stain. A fine copy in fractionally mark and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A three-pag…

The Third Book of Criticism.

RANDALL JARRELL. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued six years after the original US edition. 8vo. xiii, 334pp. Orange cloth lettered in black at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A posthumously-published collection of nine…

The Strength of the Hills. An Autobiography. With illustrations and a dust wrapper design by David Gentleman.

GEORGE EWART EVANS. · 1983 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, David Gentleman, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 180pp. Olive-coloured boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a title page decoration, sixteen header illustrations and seven tail decorations by David Gentleman. A fine copy in fine non-price-c…

Let Dogs Delight and Other Stories. With a dust wrapper design by David Gentleman

GEORGE EWART EVANS. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, David Gentleman, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 100pp. Green cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, and a newspaper review clipping tipped to the terminal leaf. Very good indeed in fine double-spread pictorial non-price…

The Pattern Under the Plough. Aspects of the Folk-Life of East Anglia. With illustrations and a dust wrapper design by David Gentleman.

GEORGE EWART EVANS. · 1956 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, David Gentleman, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 269pp. Mustard-coloured cloth, lettered and bordered in gold at the spine, and with the publishers green top edge stain. A virtually fine copy in fractionally marked and soiled price-clipped dust w…

The Hare with Amber Eyes. A Hidden Inheritance. (SIGNED)

EDMUND DE WAAL. · 2010 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page with his printed name struck-through. 8vo. 354pp. Original publisher's boards. The edges lightly spotted, and with some bruising to the bac…

Old Lamps for New. A novel.

HAROLD ACTON. · 1965 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 302pp. Brown cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's red top edge stain, which is very slightly faded in places. A small area of staining to the head of the front free en…

Crusoe's Daughter. A novel.

JANE GARDAM. · 1985 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 224pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Some toning to the lesser-quality paperstock, yet still a very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's third adult novel, whi…