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The Croonian Lectures. Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, London in 1849. On Some Forms of Insanity. With a preface by C. R. Birnie.

JOHN CONOLLY. · 1960 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Printed by William Sessions Ltd., The Ebor Press, York [1960]., 1st Edition, The first separate edition of these three lectures, here amplified into six, which were originally printed in 'The Lancet' in October and November 1849. 8vo. [ix], 85pp. Lettered card wrappers. Portrait…

Words of Warning, in Verse and Prose. Addressed to "Societies for Organising Charitable relief and Suppressing Mendacity". With illustrations by W. J. Allen, engraved by J & G. P. Nicholls.

S. C. HALL. · 1877 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Hamilton, Adams & Co., London [c.1877]., 1st Edition, First edition. Slim 8vo. 43pp + [i] advertisement. Pebbled cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to the upper board, within a decorated black-stamped border. Some fading to the cloth, and the endpapers browned. The binding…

The Diary of David Garrick. Being a Record of His Memorable Trip to Paris in 1751. Now first printed from the original ms. and edited by Ryllis Clair Alexander. With illustrations and collotype facsimiles of the manuscript.

DAVID GARRICK. · 1928 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Oxford University Press, New York, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 575 numbered copies (this being #171). 8vo. x, 117pp. Vellum-backed boards with marbles paper sides, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With a captioned tissue-protec…

Ulysses Cinquante ans Après. Témoignages Franco-Anglais sur le Chef-duvre de James Joyce. / Ulysses Fifty Years Later. French and English Perspectives on James Joyce's Masterpiece. Compiled by Louis Bonnerot with the collaboration of J. Aubert and Cl. Jacquot.

JAMES JOYCE. · 1974 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Librairie Marcel Didier, 'Études Anglaise' series, Paris, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. xvii, 301pp. Card wrappers. A touch of light wear to the wrapper margins, and some discolouration to the base of the spine, and a single light readership crease. A good sound copy. The tex…

contributes a splendid original woodcut as cover art to R. M. Y. Gleadowe's essay 'British Art', issued as BBC Talks Pamphlet no. 730.

ERIC RAVILIOUS · 1934 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

British Broadcasting Corporation, London [1934]., 1st Edition, Eric Ravilious, First edition. Small 4to. iv, 32pp, iv. Stapled card wrappers. With thirty-two pages of monochrome plates. The staples rusted, with a little spotting to the rear wrapper and quite a bit more to the te…

Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck. Translated, edited and with an introduction and afterword by William Ashton Ellis.

RICHARD WAGNER. · 1905 · Clearwater Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

H. Grevel & Co., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. lxii, 386pp + [ii] advertisements. Two-tone cloth, gilt lettered and decorated at the spine, and with a large green and gilt decoration to the upper board. Top edge gilt. With a frontispiece portrait of M…

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

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

The Richards Press, London, 1st Edition, First edition, of which 1,000 numbered copies were printed (this being #179, and one of an unspecified number bound in buckram rather than cloth, and issued with a slipcase instead of a dust wrapper). Royal 4to. 24pp + x tipped-in plates …

Una Selva Oscura: Tom Phillip's Inferno.

TOM PHILLIPS. · 1997 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Special Collections, Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, 1st Edition, First edition of this catalogue of an exhibition from the Special Collection of Washington University, printed at Bremer Press, St. Louis and limited to 1000 copies. Slim 4to. 24pp stapled into decorat…

The Officina Bodoni. An Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-1977. Edited, translated and with a brief foreword by Hans Schmoller.

GIOVANNI MARDERSTEIG. · 1980 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Edizioni Valdenega, Verona, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 1500 copies (this being one of 1,375 'standard' examples), distributed in the UK by The Bodley Head. 4to. lix, 286pp. Grey buckram lettered and bordered in gold at the spine, and with a small gilt-stamped decorat…

The Myth of Egypt and its Hieroglyphs in European Traditions.

ERIK IVERSEN. · 1961 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Gec Gad Publishers, Copenhagen, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 178pp. Lettered card wrappers with French flaps. Illustrated with over fifty reproductions (over twenty-four plates). Top edge spotted. The front wrapper a little tender, and with some spotting and…

English Dolls' Houses of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

VIVIEN GREENE. · 1955 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

B. T. Batsford, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 224pp. Red cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant red top edge stain. Illustrated with nearly 150 monochrome reproductions, including many full-page examples. Free e…

Catalogue of the Loan Exhibition of Relics of Past and Present Wars, held at South Lodge, Horsham, August 7th, 1916 [in aid of the British Red Cross Society and of the Star and Garter Fund].

FRANCES MARGORIE GRAVES. · 1917 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

G. P. Putnam's Sons, London, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies printed on thick cartridge paper (this being an un-numbered out-of-series example). 4to. 62pp. Cloth-backed paper covered boards, with paper spine and title labels. With a frontispiece facsim…

Joseph Crawhall. The Man and the Artist. With a foreword by Sir Alfred Munnings.

JOSEPH CRAWHALL. Adrian Bury. · 1958 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Charles Skilton Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 1500 numbered copies (this being #270 from 975 examples bound in buckram). 4to. 251pp. Beige buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, with an in-set colour reproduction and the top edge gilt. With…

Housman 1897-1936. With an introduction by Mrs. E. W. Symons and Appendices by G. B. A. Fletcher, Sydney Cockerell, F. W. Oliver, Edmund Wilson, Miss Joan Thomson, Stanley Bayliss, and O. L. Richmond.

A. E. HOUSMAN. Grant Richards. · 1941 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Oxford University Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxii, 493pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece (from a drawing by William Rothenstein), eleven photographs and reproductions, and a multi-panel folding family t…

A. E. H. Some Poems, Some Letters and a Personal Memoir by his Brother.

A. E. HOUSMAN. Laurence Housman. · 1937 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 286pp. Blue buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board, and with the publisher's dark blue top edge stain. Illustrated with ten photographs. The buckram faded at the backstrip, and the boards lig…

A. E. Housman. A Sketch, Together with A List of His Writings and Indexes to His Classical Papers.

A. E. HOUSMAN. A. S. F. Gow. · 1936 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Cambridge University Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 137pp. Green buckram lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped border to the upper board. With a portrait frontispiece (from a drawing of the subject by Francis Dod…

Introductory Lecture Delivered Before the Faculties of Arts and Laws and of Science in University College London October 3, 1892. With an introductory note by A. S. F. Gow.

A. E. HOUSMAN. · 1937 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Cambridge University Press, London, 1st Edition, First trade edition. 8vo. 42pp. Paper-covered boards. A little toning to the board margins, some bruising to the spine ends, and a little light partial toning to the free endpapers. Nameplate of Christopher Gandy, British soldier,…

Steel & Roses. American Prints in the Hersh Cohen Collection & Botanical Books in the Fern Cohen Collection. Part 1: American Prints [and] Part 2: Botanical Books.

HERSH COHEN. · 2011 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The Grolier Club, New York, 1st Edition, First edition of this catalogue of a September-November 2011 exhibition at The Grolier Club. 4to. 59pp + 68pp (the two parts bound tête-bêche into a single volume). Illustrated stiff card wrappers with French flaps. With eighty-nine monoc…

Bulgarian Ceramics.

GEORGI BAKIRDJIEV. · 1955 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Bulgarski Hudozknik, Sofia, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 39pp + 159 plates, fifteen of which are in colour. Light grey cloth. Rippon place marker. The boards slightly marked, and the endpapers a little spotted. A nice bright copy in nicked, chipped and sligh…

Aubrey's Brief Lives. Edited from the original manuscript and with an introduction by Oliver Lawson Dick.

JOHN AUBREY. · 1949 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First edition thus. 8vo. cxiv, 408pp. Re-bound into maroon cloth with a gilt lettered and bordered leather spine label. With a portrait frontispiece and twenty-eight plates. Some spotting to the edges, a small area of staining to the top ed…