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The Country Girls Trilogy. Complete in three volumes comprising 'The Country Girls' [and] 'The Lonely Girl' [and] 'Girls in Their Married Bliss'.

EDNA O'BRIEN. · 1960 · Clearwater Books

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

Hutchinson, London 1960, and Jonathan Cape, London 1962 & 1964., 1st Edition, First Editions (first printings). Individual volumes as follows: 'The Country Girls'. A novel (Hutchinson, 1960). First edition. 8vo. 224pp. Black cloth blocked in light blue and lettered in gold at th…

The Barrytown Quadrilogy complete in four volumes comprising The Commitments [and] The Snapper [and] The Van [and] The Guts. (TWO VOLUMES SIGNED)

RODDY DOYLE. · 1987 · Clearwater Books

£600.00 (€719.18 | $792.64 | ¥126,574)

King Farouk Publishing, Dublin 1987, Secker & Warburg 1990 & 1991, and Jonathan Cape 2013, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Editions (first printings). Individual volumes as follows: 'The Commitments' (1987). The correct first edition, this Irish edition issued a year bef…

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

REX WHISTLER. · 1931 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

G. Bell & Sons, London, 1st Edition, Rex Whistler, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xv, 308pp. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gold at the spine with four blind-stamped rules, and the publisher's quite vibrant red top edge stain. With one splendid Whistler colour plate b…

Rossetti. His Life and Works.

EVELYN WAUGH. · 1928 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Duckworth, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 232pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and seven plates of reproductions. Some unsightly staining to the rear board, and a small bump to the upper edge of the front and rear boar…

A Song for Simeon. A poem. With a drawing by Edward McKnight Kauffer.

T. S. ELIOT AND EDWARD MCKNIGHT KAUFFER. · 1928 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Faber & Gwyer Ltd., 'The Ariel Poems' series, London [1928]., 1st Edition, First edition, of which 3,500 copies were printed at The Curwen Press. Slim 8vo. Unpaginated [4pp]. Unprinted sewn card wrappers. With a full-page colour drawing by McKnight Kauffer, followed by Eliot's t…

2nd Poems.

W. S. GRAHAM. · 1945 · Clearwater Books

£225.00 (€269.69 | $297.24 | ¥47,465)

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. The backstrip rolled as is invariably the case, the fore edge very slightly spotted, and with…

See How They Fly.

DENIS CONSTANDUROS. · 1939 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Shell-Mex, London [1939]., 1st Edition, First edition. Slim narrow 8vo. 15pp stapled into card wrappers featuring a three-colour design by Denis Constanduros. A fine copy of this ephemeral item, issued for an exhibition designed by James Gardner and Barnett Freedman to document …

Monarch of the Skies. A novel.

JOHN CREASEY. · 1939 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., London [1939]., 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Red cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. With a black and white frontispiece drawing, and one further captioned plate. Edges and four or five preliminary and concludin…

Ring. A novel. Translated from the Japanese of 'Ringu' by Robert O. Rohmer and Glynne Walley. (SIGNED)

KOJI SUZUKI. · 2003 · Clearwater Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

Vertical , Inc., New York, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), The first American Edition (first printing), and first English-language edition, preceding the UK issue by a year. This copy signed by the author on a special plate pasted to the front free endpaper. 8vo. 286pp. Origin…

The Eiger Sanction. A novel.

TREVANIAN. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,548)

Heinemann, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the somewhat more common US edition, and two years before the release of the Clint Eastwood-staring cinema adaptation. 8vo. 229pp. Red boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge …

Four Men Called John. A novel.

JACK VANCE (writing as 'Ellery Queen') · 1976 · Clearwater Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.21 | ¥42,191)

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1st Edition, The first UK and first casebound edition (originally issued in the US as a paperback under the title 'The Four Johns'). 8vo. 158pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. A thin sliver of discolouration to the cloth at the extreme ba…

Tales the Muses Told. Greek Myths. Chosen and told by Roger Lancelyn Green. With drawings and a dust wrapper design by Shirley Hughes.

ROGER LANCELYN GREEN. · 1965 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

The Bodley Head, London, 1st Edition, Shirley Hughes., First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 127pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A quite light horizontal crease to the upper board, else a lovely crisp copy in fine non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper. A uncommon…

Lawrence of Arabia and Dorset.

T. E. LAWRENCE. Harry Broughton. · 1966 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Pictorial Museum, Wareham [1966]., 1st Edition, A revised and enlarged edition of the author's 'Lawrence of Arabia and Wareham' (1964). Slim 8vo. Eighteen unpaginated leaves stapled into card wrappers. Illustrated with six photographs. Pasted correction slip. Wrappers lightly ma…

Fen Country. Twenty-Six Stories. With a foreword by Philip Larkin.

EDMUND CRISPIN. Philip Larkin. · 1979 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 160pp. Red boards lettered in gold at spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's posthumously published final book, and his second collection of short fiction. Twenty-six…

To the Memory of Edward Thomas.

EDWARD THOMAS. James Guthrie. · 1937 · Clearwater Books

£1,000.00 (€1,198.64 | $1,321.06 | ¥210,957)

The Pear Tree Press, Flansham, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies (this being #42). 4to. 32pp. Plum-coloured cloth lettered in gold at the upper board alongside a gilt-stamped decoration. With a superb linocut frontispiece portrait of the subject by Robin…

Henry. An Appreciation of Henry Williamson.

HENRY WILLIAMSON. Daniel Farson. · 1982 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Michael Joseph, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 244pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. With decorated endpapers and nineteen black and white photographs and reproductions. The top edge lightly spotted, and with a touch of wear to the head…

A Calendar for 1991.

JASPER JOHNS. · 1990 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Anthony d'Offay, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. Cloth. A fine, unopened copy in fine dust wrapper. Illustrated with twelve full page Jasper Johns watercolours, and probably produced as a complementary New Year's gift, with a printed note from the…

A Persian Quarter Century.

ANTHONY SMITH. · 1979 · Clearwater Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 192pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers and thirty-seven photographs. Top edge dust soiled and with a minor scuff to the upper board. A very good copy in ver…

Mountain Prospect.

SCOTT RUSSELL. · 1946 · Clearwater Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 247pp. Blue buckram with gold lettering and border to the spine. With a frontispiece, forty-seven photographs and seven sketch maps. The faintest hint of foxing to the endpapers, half-title and fore edge.…

From Sea to Shining Sea. A Present-Day Journey into America's Past. With illustrations by Jack McCarthy.

GAVIN YOUNG. · 1995 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Hutchinson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 297pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. With map-illustrated endpapers and various maps and jack McCarthy illustrations in the text. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wr…