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Travellers' Verse. Poems. Chosen, edited, with an introduction by Mary Gwyneth Lloyd Thomas and illustrated with sixteen splendid full page colour lithographs by Edward Bawden. (INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR)

EDWARD BAWDEN. · 1946 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Frederick Muller, 'New Excursions into Poetry' series, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing), printed at the Curwen Press. A presentation copy, inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper: "H. H. see p. viii, 11, 3-5 & much more then.…

The Great War. Complete in three volumes.

WINSTON CHURCHILL. · 1933 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

George Newnes Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition thus, complete in three volumes. Royal 8vo. 1668pp (over all volumes). Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spines. Profusely illustrated throughout, predominantly with photographs, plus some maps and drawings. Top ed…

By Rail to Victory. The Story of the L. N. E. R. in Wartime. With a one-page foreword by Ronald W. Matthews.

NORMAN CRUMP. · 1947 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The London and North Eastern Railway, [no place],, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 196pp. Light grey boards lettered in blue at the spine and upper board. With a frontispiece, forty-three monochrome photographs over forty plates, several further reproducti…

Flower of Youth: Poems in War Time.

KATHARINE YTNAN. · 1915 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 80pp. Blue cloth with a printed paper spine label. A touch of wear to the cloth at the spine ends and corner tips, some very light spotting to the edges, and a hint of toning to the endpapers. A v…

Stoker Haslett. A Tale. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

JAMES HANLEY. · 1932 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Joiner & Steele Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition, printed at The Alcuin Press and limited to 350 copies (300 of which were for sale), numbered and signed by the author. Slim 8vo. 38pp. White buckram lettered in gold at the spine and with authors holo…

Hunting the Highbrow. An essay.

LEONARD WOOLF. · 1927 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 'The Hogarth Essays' series, London, 1st Edition, Vanessa Bell., First edition, of which 1,000 copies were printed. Small 8vo. 52pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Paper-covered boards featuring an uncredited series design by Van…

Books from the Library of John & Myfanwy Piper. Complete in three volumes.

JOHN PIPER. · 1997 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Maggs Bros Ltd, London and George Bayntum 1997-98., 1st Edition, First editions, complete in three volumes and detailing nearly 1,500 items over 347 pages, wonderfully detailed and described with numerous reproductions including two folding plates and several colour examples. 8v…

Work for the Winter and Other Poems.

JULIAN BELL. · 1936 · Clearwater Books

£300.00 (€359.59 | $396.32 | ¥63,287)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 'Hogarth Living Poets' series, London, 1st Edition, John Banting, First edition [of which 750 copies were printed]. 8vo. 68pp. Paper-covered boards featuring a series design by John Banting. The backstrip toned, and with a touch of …

Sixty-Three: Not Out. A Book of Recollections. With decorations by John Piper.

CHARLES A. PIPER. John Piper. · 1925 · Clearwater Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.80 | ¥158,218)

Privately printed at The Curwen Press, Plaistow, 1st Edition, John Piper., First Edition (first printing). 8vo. [iv], 128pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards with paper spine and title labels. A little wear to the corner tips, some darkening to the free endpapers, and a trace o…

Staghunting with the Devon and Somerset 1887-1901. An Account of the Chase of the Wild Red Deer on Exmoor. With illustrations by H. M. Lomas.

PHILIP EVERED. · 1902 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Chatto & Windus, London and James G. Commin, Exeter, 1st Edition, H. M. Lomas., First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. xv, 378pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, with a gilt-stamped stag head decoration. Top edge gilt, others rough-trimmed. With a fr…

The Gothic Revival. An Essay in the History of Taste.

KENNETH CLARK. [Roger Senhouse]. · 1928 · Clearwater Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.21 | ¥42,191)

Constable & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Royal 8vo. xvi, 308pp. Black smooth-weave cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With a tissue-protected frontispiece and seventeen plates, also with tissue-pr…

Precious Bane. A novel.

MARY WEBB. · 1924 · Clearwater Books

£300.00 (€359.59 | $396.32 | ¥63,287)

Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 320pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine with a treble-gilt rule, and a blind-stamped border to the upper board. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends, and the tip of one corner gently bump…

Why England Slept.

JOHN F. KENNEDY. · 1940 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Hutchinson & Co., London [1940]., 1st Edition, First UK edition, possibly a later issue, without the advertisements at the rear. 8vo. xxxiii, 256pp. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine and with the publisher's imprint black-stamped to a lower corner of the front board. Hand…

The Bayeux Tapestry. A Comprehensive Survey. With contributions by Sir Frank Stenton (who also edited), Simone Bertrand, George Wingfield Digby, Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, Sir James Mann, John L. Nevinson, and Francis Wormald.

SIR FRANK STENTON (edits). · 1957 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Phaidon Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 182pp. Grey cloth lettered in green at the spine and upper board. With one hundred and fifty illustrations, including a colour frontispiece and thirteen tipped-in colour plates. The top edge and free endpap…

Bakst. The Rothschild Panels of The Sleeping Beauty. With a foreword by Jacob Rothschild. (INSCRIBED BY LORD ROTHSCHILD)

LÉON BAKST. Diana Souhami. · 1992 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First edition, limited to 1500 numbered copies, this being copy #12 and additionally inscribed by Lord Rothschild on the front free endpaper: "To Jane Birt - Happy Birthday and we hope you will visit the pane…

Brighton. With a dust wrapper design by Rex Whistler.

OSBERT SITWELL AND MARAGRET BARTON. Rex Whistler. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, Rex Whistler., First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 374pp. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. The title page printed in black and blue. With a frontispiece and fifteen plates of reproductions (one o…

Russell W. Porter. Arctic Explorer. Artist. Telescope Maker. A biography. With a preface by David O. Woodbury.

BERTON C. WILLARD. · 1976 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

The Bond Wheelwright Company, Freeport, Maine, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 274pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece drawing and nearly one hundred monochrome photographs and reproductions. Top edge spotted, and with a tiny b…

The Heartless Land. Stories. (INSCRIBED)

JAMES STERN. · 1932 · Clearwater Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.21 | ¥42,191)

Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London [i.e. New York], 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), The American issue of the first edition, identical in all respects to the English edition but with the wrapper price-clipped and now with a dollar amount stamped on it. This copy lengthily inscri…

Three. Stories. With a dust wrapper design by John Minton.

WILLIAM SANSOM. John Minton. · 1946 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

The Hogarth Press, London, 1st Edition, John Minton, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 160pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The free endpapers partially toned and very lightly spotted, and with some toning to the lesser quality wartime economy paperstock, very stil…

Cambridge Poetry, 1929. Edited by Christopher Saltmarshe, John Davenport & Basil Wright.

ANTHOLOGY. · 1929 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 'Hogarth Living Poets' series, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 76pp. Paper-covered boards, lightly rubbed at several extremities, toned at the backstrip with some further lighter toning to the board margins…