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The Contenders. A novel.

JOHN WAIN. · 1958 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 279pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A sliver of discolouration to the board extremities, and a shade of offsetting from the dust wrapper design to the backstrip cloth. A tiny hint of spo…

De Quincey's Art of Autobiography.

THOMAS DE QUINCEY. Edmund Baxter. · 1990 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing) - the casebound issue. 8vo. 218pp. Purple cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. A scholarly analysis of De Quincey's prose writings., Fine, Fine

First Person Singular. Stories. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.

HARUKI MURAKAMI. · 2021 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Harvill Secker, London, 1st Edition, First English-language edition (first printing), issued a year after the original Japanese edition. 8vo. 245pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Black paper-covered boards lettered in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped monkey decorat…

Faces of Cyprus. Photographs. (SIGNED)

DOROS PARTASIDES. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

[published by the author], London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the photographer on the title page and lengthily inscribed in Greek, presenting this copy to a selection of Mansfield-based priests. 4to. 240pp. Glossy pictor…

2061: Odyssey Three.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE. · 1988 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Grafton Books, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US (Del Rey) edition. 8vo. 254pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with pale blue endpapers. Some toning to the paperstock, as is invariably the case with this slightly che…

A Strange Eventful History. The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families. (SIGNED)

MICHAEL HOLROYD. · 2008 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author at the head of the title page. 8vo. xviii + 620pp. Navy blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. With photographic endpapers and over sixty photographs a…

Collected Poems 1934-1953. Edited by Walford Davies and Ralph Maud.

DYLAN THOMAS. · 1996 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1st Edition, The revised issue of the so-called 'definitive edition' of 1988, based on a full study of the textual and bibliographical history of each poem with a number of alterations and corrections established from study of the manuscripts, and…

The Loved and the Unloved. A novel. Translated from the French of 'Galigaï' by Gerard Hopkins.

FRANÇOIS MAURIAC. · 1953 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the original French edition. 8vo. 142pp. Grey cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The title page printed in red and black. The top edge fractionally spotted, and with a trace of ton…

Devil's Charge. Volume 2 of 'The Civil War Chronicles'. (SIGNED AND LINED)

MICHAEL ARNOLD. · 2011 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed and lined by the author on the title page, and dated the day of publication. 8vo. 467pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with two maps. A very faint ri…

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell. Volume II: My Country Right or Left 1940-1943. Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus.

GEORGE ORWELL. · 1968 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Secker & Warburg Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xv, 477pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Two tiny traces of marking to the fore edge, and a hint of bruising to the base of the backstrip. A virtually…

São Bernardo. A novel. Translated from the Portuguese and with a foreword by R. L. Scott-Bucclewuch.

GRACILIANO RAMOS. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Peter Owen Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First English-language edition. 8vo. 156pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Free endpapers and pastedowns lightly toned. Very good indeed in very slightly chafed dust wrapper, with none of the customary fading to the publishers…

To Reynolds Stone on his 70th Birthday we Offer in Admiration this Testimony of our Gratitude for the Pleasure he has given us by his Friendship and his Work.

REYNOLDS STONE. · 1979 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

The Curwen Press [London, 1979], 1st Edition, First edition. Slim 4to. A single sheet of card, folded to form an A4 booklet, with text and an ornate green decorative border to the front leaf, and the names of over one hundred well-wishers printed within (these include Edward Ard…

An Englishman Upstate. An essay. With an introduction by R. L. Blackmore.

JOHN COWPER POWYS. · 1974 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Village Press, London, 1st Edition, The first UK edition, originally printed in the US in an issue of 'Philobiblon. The Journal of the Friends of the Colgate University Library'. Slim 8vo. 16pp. Stapled card wrappers. A tiny retail price sticker to the base of the rear wrapper, …

Our Holiday Summer 1962. A Picture Diary.

RENA GARDINER. · 2022 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Baguette Press, Portland, 1st Edition, First edition, printed on G. F. Smith Zen Pure paper using a lithographic press, hand-bound in linen (to resemble the artist's original sketchbook), and limited to 250 numbered copies (this being #16). Landscape 4to. [51pp]. With repeating …

A Weed Among the Flowers. An essay. With an afterword by Stephen Spender, and illustrations by Vance Gerry. (SIGNED)

GRAHAM GREENE. Stephen Spender. · 1990 · Clearwater Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.42 | ¥84,383)

Sylvester & Orphanos, [Los Angeles],, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition, designed by Suzanne Watson, printed on Arches Mouldmade paper and limited to 300 numbered copies signed (on separate leaves) by both the author and by Stephen Spender (this being #75). 47pp. G…

History of the Welsh Guards. With an introduction by Lieutenant-General Sir Francis Lloyd.

C. H. DUDLEY WARD. · 1920 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Large 8vo. x, 505pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the regimental insignia gilt-stamped to the upper board. With a portrait frontispiece of H. R. H. The Prince of Wales, twelve illustrations ove…

Howards End. A novel.

E. M. FORSTER. · 1910 · Clearwater Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.69 | ¥137,122)

Edward Arnold, London, 1st Edition, First edition, a variant issue, essentially corresponding to Kirkpatrick A4a but with a single point absent from the numbered advertisement leaves, and further compounded by that fact that the first four un-numbered advertisement leaves are bo…

Personal and Possessive. Poems. (SIGNED)

D. M. THOMAS. · 1964 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Outposts Publications, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the inner wrapper, above which is an inked presentation inscription that has been subsequently struck-through, but appears to read "Complimentary co…

The Pipers. Three Generations. A private viewing invitation to an October - November 1992 exhibition of works by John Piper, his son and daughter-in-law Edward and Prue Piper, and his grandchildren Luke and Henry Piper

JOHN PIPER. · 1992 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Beaux Arts, Bath [1992]., 1st Edition, First edition. Landscape 8vo. [12pp] stapled into card wrappers with French flaps. The first leaf a printed invitation, followed by five colour reproductions, one by each Piper (patriarch Piper's reproduction is the oil on canvas 'Tivetshal…

Songs of Our Grandfathers. Re-set in Guinness Time. With a cover design and numerous illustrations, all in colour, by Rex Whistler.

REX WHISTLER. · 1936 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Guinness Brewery, Dublin, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Tall slim 8vo. Twenty-four unpaginated leaves stapled into slightly marked and soiled card wrappers, a little rubbed at the yapped edges, and with a two-inch crease. The staples rusted and partially defective…