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Lytton Strachey. A Critical Biography. The Unknown Years (1880-1910) [and] The Years of Achievement (1910-1932).

LYTTON STRACHEY. Michael Holroyd. · 1967 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Heinemann, London 1967-68., 1st Edition, First Editions (first printings), complete in two volumes. Individual volumes as follows: 'Lytton Strachey. A Critical Biography. The Unknown Years 1880-1910' (1967). First edition. 8vo. xxii, 475pp + [ii] family tree. Brown cloth lettere…

Our Village. With wood engravings by Joan Hassall.

MARY RUSSELL MITFORD. Joan Hassall. · 1947 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Joan Hassall., The first edition with this handsome Hassall wood engravings, which comprise a full title page decoration and twenty-five header and tail pieces and decorations in the text. 8vo. 228pp. In the publisher's deluxe qu…

Harvest of the Cold Months. The Social History of Ice and Ices. Edited by Jill Norman.

ELIZABETH DAVID. · 1994 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Michael Joseph, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xvii, 413pp. Blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. With decorated endpapers, eight plates of colour reproductions, and some occasional black and white illustrations in the text. A tiny insignificant…

Boswell's Life of Johnson. Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. Edited by George Birkbeck Hill, and revised and enlarged by L. F. Powell.

JAMES BOSWELL. · 1934 · Clearwater Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Oxford University Press, London 1934 and 1950., First edition of Powell's newly revised and enlarged edition, printed on India paper and complete in six volumes, here bound into three (volumes 1-4 were first published in 1934, with the final two volumes appearing in 1950, the fi…

Wheels. An Anthology of Verse.

ANTHOLOGY. Nancy Cunard. · 1916 · Clearwater Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 84pp. Cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards featuring an uncredited design by Phyllis Boyd, lettered in black at spine. The boards a little chafed and dust soiled, with some wear to the corner…

Art in Bourgeois Society, 1790-1850. Edited by Andrew Hemingway and William Vaughan.

ANDREW HEMINGWAY AND WILLIAM VAUGHAN (edit). · 1998 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. xiii, 372pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated throughout with scores and scores of monochrome reproductions. Elegant bookplate of author and bibliophile June Clin…

Tumult and Order. Poems. With a frontispiece portrait of the author by Pablo Picasso. (INSCRIBED)

A. C. LANDSBERG. Pablo Picasso. · 1923 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Elkin Mathews Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author in pencil to the front free endpaper: "To Christopher Sands [?] affectionately Bertie Landsberg". Slim 8vo. 63pp. Cloth-backed paper-cove…

R. W. Ketton-Cremer. An Annotated Bibliography.

R.W. KETTON-CREMER. Stephen Clarke and John Gretton. · 1995 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Dereham Books, Norfolk, 1st Edition, First Edition first printing). 8vo. xii, 206pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Portrait frontispiece. Top edge lightly spotted, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Near Fine, Fine

The Phantom Duel. An essay.

R. W. KETTON-CREMER. · 1956 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Privately printed for private circulation in December 1956 by Rounce & Wortley, North Walsham and Holt., 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 20pp. stapled into lettered blue card wrappers. The staples rusted and the wrappers fractionally marked. Neat name plat…

The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil. Two Plays. With illustrations by Henry Keen.

JOHN WEBSTER. Henry Keen. · 1930 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1st Edition, Henry Keen, First edition thus. Tall 8vo. 255pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering, bordering and decoration to the spine and upper board. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. With striking pictorial endpapers, a title page decoration,…

ABC of Reading.

EZRA POUND. · 1934 · Clearwater Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

George Routledge & Sons Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition (first printing), preceding the US edition by four months. 8vo. xii, 197pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The fore edge, endpapers, and several preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted. Former o…

Imaginary Conversations. Selected and Introduced by R. H. Boothroyd. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. · 1936 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Printed by Hans Mardersteig at the Officina Bodini in Verona for the Limited Editions Club, Verona, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition thus, limited to 1,500 numbered copies signed by the printer (this being #1,202). Small 4to. xii, 303pp. Handsome patterned cloth w…

The Art of David Jones. Vision and Memory.

DAVID JONES. Ariane Bankes and Paul Hills. · 2015 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Lund Humphries, Farnham, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 176pp. Blue boards lettered in white at the spine. Copiously illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper., Fine, Fine

The Memorial. Portrait of a Family.

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD. · 1932 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), in the first state binding of pink-tinted-beige weave cloth binding, lettered in blue at the spine. 8vo. 294pp. Cloth lightly tanned at the backstrip, and with just a trace of spo…

The Poems of Francis Thompson. Edited with an introduction by Brigid M. Broadman.

FRANCIS THOMPSON. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

John J. Burns Library, Boston College, MA, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxxviii, 513pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a portrait frontispiece drawing and one manuscript reproduction. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. The first complete edit…

The Holly Queen. Poems.

SALLY PURCELL. · 1971 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Anvil Press Poetry, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing) - the casebound issue. Slim 8vo. 47pp. Grey boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the upper edge and with a single tiny…

A Choice of Ballads. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

WILLIAM PLOMER. · 1960 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Printed for private distribution at Christmas by Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition of this selection from Plomer's 'Collected Poems', produced as a Christmas gift from the publisher and limited to 350 numbered and signed copies (this being #1…

They Shoot Horses, Don't They? A novel.

HORACE MCCOY. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Arthur Barker Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the slightly more common US edition. 8vo. 233pp. Beige rough-weave cloth, lettered in red at the spine and both boards, with a double diagonal red-stamped rule, and the publisher'…

Millais and the Ruskins. (INSCRIBED)

MARY LUTYENS. · 1967 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Dr. H. C. Harley (who is thanked in the author's foreword) and dated the year of publication . 8vo. xiii, 296pp. Y…

The Cold Eye of Heaven. A novel.

CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY. · 2011 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Atlantic Books, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 215pp. Red boards lettered in silver at the spine. The fore edge lightly spotted, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lifting a fraction at the upper edge and with a little intern…