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contributes an uncredited full-colour cover design to the Fortnum & Mason Christmas 1935 Catalogue.

REX WHISTLER · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Fortnum & Mason, London, 1st Edition, First edition. Small slim 4to. 26pp stapled into card wrappers. The staples rusted, with a little wear and tenderness to the natural fold, a touch of light edgewear, and a single tiny fore edge nick. Lettered in red, black and occasionally b…

contributes a splendid two-colour cover decoration to The Best Books of the Season 1932-33. A Guide to the Choice of Books. Being a Catalogue of Some of the Best Books of the Season 1932-1933

REX WHISTLER · 1933 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Geoffrey Tyndale's Bookshop, Bath, 1st Edition, First edition, printed at The Shenval Press. Tall slim 8vo. 100pp. Card wrappers, lightly spotted and dust soiled, with a short surface tear to the base of the spine. A very good copy of a scarce survivor (and really quite an ambit…

Lanark. A Life in Four Books. A novel. With illustrations by the author. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

ALASDAIR GRAY. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

Canongate Books, Edinburgh, Signed by Author(s), A reissue of the author's celebrated 1981 debut novel, here separated into four separate volumes and limited to 2,000 numbered copies (this being #377), signed by the author. 8vo. 218pp, 354pp, 117pp and 572pp. Original publisher'…

Memoris of a Fox-Hunting Man [and] Memoris of an Infantry Officer [and] Sherston's Progress. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS)

SIEGFRIED SASSOON. · 1928 · Clearwater Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.96 | $1,981.59 | ¥316,435)

Faber & Gwyer Ltd., London 1928, and Faber, London 1930 & 1936., 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), A complete set of the signed limited edition of his celebrated semi-autobiographical memoirs. Individual volumes as follows. 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man' (1928). The deluxe issue…

Last Poems.

EDWARD THOMAS. · 1918 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Selwyn & Blount, London, 1st Edition, First edition, a variant issue not noted by Eckert that lacks the rear advertisement leaves, but is in all other respects identical. Slim 8vo. 95pp. Paper-covered boards with a lettered paper spine label. The backstrip toned, and with some u…

Some Letters from Abroad of James Elroy Flecker. With a Few Reminiscences by Hellé Flecker, and an introduction by J. C. Squire.

JAMES ELROY FLECKER. · 1930 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiv, 190pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a photographic portrait frontispiece and thirty-five photographs (including one featuring T. E. Lawrence). Top- and fore edge spotted. Tin…

First Russia Then Tibet.

ROBERT BYRON. · 1933 · Clearwater Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. xvi, 328pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a tissue-protected colour frontispiece and twenty-four plates of photographs and drawings, all bar two by the author. Edges, several p…

Poems. By 'Pinchbeck Lyre'.

SIEGFRIED SASSOON (writing as 'Pinchbeck Lyre'). · 1931 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Duckworth, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 22pp. Black paper-covered boards with green-stamped lettering and vignette to the upper board. Some spotting to the front free endpaper and half-title, and a little more lighter spotting throughout. Handso…

Alarms and Excursions in Arabia. With a preface by Sir Arnold T. Wilson.

BERTRAM THOMAS. · 1931 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

George Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Large 8vo. 296pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Maroon cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a photographic frontispiece, thirty-six photographs and several maps in the text. The backstrip cl…

Branch-Lines. Edward Thomas and Contemporary Poetry. Edited by Guy Cuthbertson and Lucy Newlyn and with a foreword by Andrew Motion and an afterword by Michael Longley. (INSCRIBED BY THE EDITORS)

EDWARD THOMAS. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

The Enitharmon Press, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the editors on the title page and dated 2012. 8vo. 264pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Includes essays and verse contributed by a host of cont…

The "Genius". A novel.

THEODORE DREISER. · 1915 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1st Edition, The UK issue of the first edition, with The Bodley Head imprint stamped to the base of the backstrip. The second state text, with page 497 un-numbered. 8vo. 736pp. Red cloth, lettered and ruled in black at the spine, and in blind …

The Defendant.

G. K. CHESTERTON. · 1901 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

R. Brimley Johnson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. [viii], 131pp + [i] publisher's advertisement. Buckram with bevelled edges, lettered in gold at the spine. Some discolouration to the buckram, and the corner tips gently rubbed. The free endpapers brow…

Remarks on Secular & Domestic Architecture, Present & Future.

GEORGE GILBERT SCOTT. · 1957 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 285 + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Original cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and blind stamped decorative borders to the upper and lower boards (bound by Edmonds & Remnants, with their tiny lab…

The Golden Arrow. A novel.

MARY WEBB. · 1916 · Clearwater Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Constable & Co., Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 339pp + [iv] publisher's catalogue. Brown cloth lettered in black and the spine and upper board, the latter within a yellow-stamped double border. The backstrip ends rubbed and a little chipped, wit…

contribute to issue 13 of 'Ark Magazine. The Journal of Design and Fine Art'. Edited by Anthony Atkinson.

LEN DEIGHTON AND JOHN MINTON · 1955 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

The Royal College of Art, London [1955]., 1st Edition, First edition. Landscape 8vo. 37pp, bookended with advertisements. Card wrappers, lightly creased, rubbed and dust soiled, with a small repair to the spine, and with a touch of spotting to the inner wrappers and to several p…

A Dublin Unicorn.

B. S. JOHNSON. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Byron Press, 'Byron Press Pamphlet Series', [University of Nottingham], [1973]., 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 250 copies. Slim 8vo. 15pp stapled into lettered card wrappers. A trace of toning to the wrapper margins. A very good copy. A sequence of three poems, issued a…

contributes her poems 'My Cat in Her First Spring' and 'Life-Affirming Poem About Small, Pregnant White Cat' to the seventh and final issue of the periodical 'Universities' Poetry'. Edited, with an introduction by Peter Redgrove.

ANGELA CARTER · 1965 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Managing Committee of Universities Poetry, London, 1st Edition, First edition. Slim 8vo. 48pp. Card wrappers featuring a design by John Holden. A tiny blemish to the fore edge of the first leaf. A very good copy. A very early Angela Carter appearance in print, published the year…

Brought to Book. Philip Larkin and his Bibliographer. Some Reminiscences. (SIGNED)

PHILIP LARKIN. B. C. Bloomfield. · 1995 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

The Friends of Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by Barry Bloomfield on the title page. Slim 8vo. 17pp stapled into card wrappers featuring a photograph of Larkin with the author. A virtually…

A Tribute to Winifred Nicholson. An Exhibition of Paintings by Winifred Nicholson and Her Circle.

WINIFRED NICHOLSON. · 1987 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Crane Kalman Gallery, London, 1st Edition, A single sheet of card, folded to form three panels, on which are colour reproductions of one painting by Nicholson, and others by Ben Nicholson, Paul Nash. Alfred Wallis, Ivon Hitchens, and Christopher Wood. Housed within is a separate…

An Ancient Illusion Presented as A Diversion in the Guise of William and Henry Lawes, Masters of Viol. Printed by Wiggins Teape and with engravings by Joan Hassall. (SIGNED)

JOAN HASSALL. · 1983 · Clearwater Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [c.1983]., 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition of this pamphlet, issued at Christmas as part of an appeal to raise funds for manuscript repair and conservation of The Fitzwilliam Museum, and limited to 1000 numbered hand-set copies (…