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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…

The Chip-Chip Gatherers. A novel.

SHIVA NAIPAUL. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Andre Deutsch Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 320pp. Turquoise cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The edges somewhat spotted, but thereafter a lovely bright copy in very good non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper designed by John Jarvies. The…

Sons of the Generous Earth.

PHILIP OYLER. · 1963 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 190pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a photographic frontispiece and twenty captioned photographs taken by the author. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free e…

How Animals Move. The Royal Institution Christmas Lecture 1951. With illustrations by Edward Bawden.

EDWARD BAWDEN. James Gray. · 1953 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Cambridge University Press, London, 1st Edition, Edward Bawden, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 114pp. Pictorial cloth featuring a design almost certainly contributed by Bawden, who also contributes a series of line drawings in the text. Names of two former owners, one…

Death and the Dreamer. With drawings by Edward Bawden.

EDWARD BAWDEN. Denis Saurat. · 1946 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

John Westhouse (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Edward Bawden, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 150pp. Yellow cloth lettered in black at the spine with a black-stamped Bawden decoration to the upper board. Bawden contributes a frontispiece and ten full-page drawings. …

The Journey Home. A novel. (INSCRIBED)

DERMOT BOLGER. · 1990 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Viking, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 294pp. Black boards lettered in white at the spine. The top edge lightly spotted, and with a touch of light bruising to the head of the …

Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England.

JULIET FLEMING. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Reaktion Books Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 224pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-three black and white photographs and reproductions. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Fine, Fine

Sundials. An Illustrated History of Portable Dials.

HESTER HIGTON. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 136pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with scores and scores of colour and monochrome photographs, illustrations, and reproductions. A small area of discolouration to the …

The Girl from the Fiction Department. A Portrait of Sonia Orwell.

HILARY SPURLING. (George Orwell interest). · 2002 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 194pp. Purple boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with black and white photographs and reproductions. A little bruising to the head of the backstrip. A very good copy in slightly rubbed…

Exit Music. An Inspector Rebus novel. (SIGNED)

IAN RANKIN. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Orion Books, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on a special publisher's plate pasted to the title page. 8vo. 380pp. Blue boards lettered in red at the spine and with orange endpapers. A trace of soiling to th…

Raymond L. Hogler ('Dylan Thomas: The Development of an Idiom') and G.'J.'Weinberger ('Dylan Thomas's Paradise and Calvary') contribute essays to an issue of the periodical 'The Anglo-Welsh Review'. Vol. 21, no. 47, summer 1972. Edited by Roland Mathias.

DYLAN THOMAS. · 1972 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

The Dock Leaves Press, Pembroke, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. 272pp. Card wrappers. A virtually fine copy. This issue of the twice-yearly periodical also includes contributions by Raymond Garlick (his poems 'Marwnad', 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', 'Oranges and Lemons', and 'Cis…

The Cut of the Light. Poems 1965-2005. (SIGNED)

JEREMY HOOKER. · 2006 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Enitharmon Press, 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, and additionally inscribed beneath. 8vo. 373pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine with blue…

Two Women. A Book of Words and Pictures. (SIGNED)

LAURIE LEE. · 1983 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Andre Deutsch, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title-page. 4to. Unpaginated [105pp]. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with patterned endpapers. Lavishly illustrated with nearly eighty phot…

Alembic. A novel. (SIGNED)

TIMOTHY D'ARCH SMITH. · 1992 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 226pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine and with red endpapers. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrappe…

The Seekers. (SIGNED)

H. E. BATES. · 1926 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

John & Edward Bumpus, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the half-title. Slim 8vo. 32pp. Paper-covered boards, lettered and ornately bordered in gilt at the upper board. The tiniest hint of spotting to the …

Station Island. Poems.

SEAMUS HEANEY. · 1984 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), seemingly the second issue binding of black cloth (there was also a fugitive issue bound in grey cloth). 8vo. 123pp. Issued without a front free endpaper (the half-title serving as such). A slim strip of loss to the for…

Larkin at Sixty. Essays, Poems and Tributes. Edited with an introduction by Anthony Thwaite.

PHILIP LARKIN. · 1982 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 148pp. Light grey cloth lettered and ruled in red at the spine. Illustrated with photographs. A light crease to the tip of the front free endpaper, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, frac…

Unexpected Weather. Poems. (INSCRIBED)

ABI CURTIS. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy fondly inscribed by the author on the title page. Slim 8vo. 65pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Thirty-fi…

The Nature Books of Henry Williamson. Complete in five volumes comprising 'Salar the Salmon', 'Tarka the Otter', 'The Peregrine's Saga', 'The Lone Swallows' and 'The Old Stag'.

HENRY WILLIAMSON. C. F. Tunnicliffe. · 1946 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Putnam & Company Ltd, London, 1st Edition, C. F. Tunnicliffe., A deluxe uniform set of Williamson's five most esteemed nature books, printed on Adelphi laid antique paper and limited to 500 sets. 8vo. Green canvas boards lettered in gold at the spines and with the author's monog…