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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. With an introduction by Richard Adams.

ANNIE DILLARD. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the somewhat more common US edition and here including Adams' six-page introduction which did not appear in that original American issue. 8vo. 271pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the s…

A Tree of Night and Other Stories.

TRUMAN CAPOTE. · 1950 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. 209pp. Green cloth lettered in red at the spine and upper board. The free endpapers and half-title a little toned, and the binding ve…

The Process. A novel.

BRION GYSIN. · 1970 · Clearwater Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.19 | ¥36,917)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 353pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly dust soiled. A virtually fine copy in the striking pictorial dust wrapper featuring reproductions of…

The Boys in the Band. A play.

MART CROWLEY. · 1969 · Clearwater Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,493)

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the somewhat more common US edition. 8vo. 182pp. Green boards lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. A fine copy in very slightly dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a …

The Honey Harlot. A novel.

CHRISTIANNA BRAND. · 1978 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

W. H. Allen, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 183pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with the price printed to the base of the front flap scribbled out. An uncommon mys…

2nd Poems.

W. S. GRAHAM. · 1945 · Clearwater Books

£350.00 (€419.52 | $462.37 | ¥73,835)

Nicholson & Watson / Editions Poetry London, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), printed at The Shenval Press. Slim 8vo. 36pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A miniscule tear to the fore edge of the front free endpaper, and the name of former owner in…

The Swimming-Pool Library. A novel. (SIGNED)

ALAN HOLLINGHURST. · 1988 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page and dated 1993. 8vo. 288pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt at the spine. Some quite light toning to the paperstock as is so often the case. A …

Photographer. An Autobiography. Edited by Helmut and Alison Gernsheim.

ALVIN LANGDON COBURN. · 1966 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1st Edition, First US Edition (first printing), printed in the UK and issued the same year that the Faber English edition. 4to. 144pp. Brown cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine. With sixty-four splendid full-page reproductions of his …

Car. A novel.

HARRY CREWS. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 152pp. Purple cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Two small areas of very light residue marking to the head of the front pastedown and endpaper. A very g…

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. A novel.

ANGELA CARTER. · 1972 · Clearwater Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 286pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. A touch of bruising to the base of the backstrip, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's sixth novel, a surrealist class…

Target. Poems. [Titled 'Target: Preliminary Poems' on the half-title]. (SIGNED)

JEREMY REED. · 1972 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Andium Press Ltd., Jersey, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition, limited to 350 copies printed at the Daedalus Press. This is one of just 100 copies signed by the author on the colophon, with his signature also on the half-title, and with his inked contemporary presen…

Requiem and Other Poems. Translated from the German, with a lengthy critical introduction by J. B. Leishman.

RAINER MARIA RILKE. · 1931 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 147pp. Brown-orange cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Photographic portrait frontispiece. Errata slip tipped to p.133, as called for. Top edge lightly dust soiled, and wit…

The Traveller's Companion A Travel Anthology. Compiled by Paul & Millicent Bloomfield, and with decorations and a dust wrapper design by Rex Whistler.

REX WHISTLER. · 1931 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

G. Bell & Sons, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xv, 308pp. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine with four blind-stamped rules, and the publishers vibrant red top edge stain. With one splendid Whitler colour plate bound between the half-…

The Mission Song. A novel. (SIGNED)

JOHN LE CARRÉ. · 2006 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 339pp + [i] map. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Ribbon place marker. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wra…

The Constant Gardener. A novel. (SIGNED)

JOHN LE CARRÉ. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 508pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Ribbon place marker. Board edges very lightly rubbed. Two tiny fox-spots to the …

The Königsmark Drawings. Reproduced in facsimile in sepia and colour. With an introduction, and the story in brief, derived from A. E. W. Mason's novel, by Laurence Whistler, and reproductions of several letters from Rex Whistler to Alfred Mason.

REX WHISTLER. · 1952 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.16 | ¥31,644)

The Richards Press, London, 1st Edition, First edition, of which 1,000 numbered copies were printed (this being #824). Royal 4to. 24pp + x tipped-in plates with captions to the adjacent versos. Also tipped-in is a facsimile reproduction of Whistler's illustrated holograph letter…

contributes his fourteen-page story 'Interlopers at the Knap' to the May 1884 issue of the periodical 'The English Illustrated Magazine 1883-1884'.

THOMAS HARDY · 1884 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Macmillan & Co., London, 1st Edition, A publisher-bound set of the first twelve issues of this important monthly magazine, which ran for a total of 359 issues between October 1883 and August 1913. 4to. viii, 784pp. Half-bound in pebbled blue cloth with gilt lettering, ornate rul…

The Red Army. Translated from the German by W. M. Porter.

ARTUR W. JUST. · 1936 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Figurehead, London, 1st Edition, First English-language edition (first printing). 8vo. 123pp + [iii] publisher's advertisements. Card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper, lettered in red at the spine, and with black and red lettering and decoration (by E. Charushin) to the fr…

Six Weeks in Russia in 1919.

ARTHUR RANSOME. · 1919 · Clearwater Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.21 | ¥42,191)

George Allen & Unwin, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 152pp. Lettered card wrappers with French flaps, a little spotted, marked and toned, with a little chipping to the backstrip ends. Some spotting to the edges, very occasionally encroaching to t…

Quality and Experiment. The Prints of John Piper. A Catalogue Raisonné 1923-91. With a preface by Myfanwy Piper.

JOHN PIPER. Orde Levinson. · 1996 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Lund Humphries Publishers, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 192pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Lavishly illustrated throughout, in colour where required. A tiny pinprick sized area of blemishing to the head of the upper board, else a fine c…