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Private Passions.

MICHAEL BERKELEY. · 2005 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 386pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny bump to the head of the backstrip, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An "indispensable bible" of the first decade of th…

The Last Medici.

HAROLD ACTON. · 1980 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Scala / Becocci Editore, Canto dei Nelli, 1st Edition Illustrated Edition, The first illustrated edition, using the text of the 1958 revised edition, and issued to coincide with a major 1980 Medici exhibition in Florence. Small 4to. 327pp. Purple boards lettered in gold at the s…

A Mingled Measure. Diaries 1953-1972.

JAMES LEES-MILNE. · 1994 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

John Murray, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii, 325pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The fifth instalment of the author's extensive diary sequence., Fine, Near Fine

Queen Christina.

GEORGINA MASSON. · 1968 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Secker & Warburg, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 405pp. Purple cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with nineteen black and white reproductions. The tip of one corner bumped, and the tiniest trace of spotting to the top edge. A very good …

Isaac Rosenberg. The Making of a Great War Poet. A New Life.

ISAAC ROSENBERG. Jean Moorcroft Wilson. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. [vi], 468pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with forty-two monochrome photographs and colour reproductions. A tiny scattering of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy i…

Robert Lowell: The First Twenty Years.

ROBERT LOWELL. Hugh B. Staples. · 1962 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 137pp. Red cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine. Top edge fractionally dust soiled, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The first full-length study of the celebrated US poet, p…

Purely for Pleasure. (WITH ALS)

MARGARET LANE. · 1966 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Hamish Hamilton Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xi, 234pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant red top edge stain. A fine copy in fractionally mark and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A three-pag…

The Third Book of Criticism.

RANDALL JARRELL. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued six years after the original US edition. 8vo. xiii, 334pp. Orange cloth lettered in black at the spine. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A posthumously-published collection of nine…

The Strength of the Hills. An Autobiography. With illustrations and a dust wrapper design by David Gentleman.

GEORGE EWART EVANS. · 1983 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, David Gentleman, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 180pp. Olive-coloured boards lettered in gold at the spine. With a title page decoration, sixteen header illustrations and seven tail decorations by David Gentleman. A fine copy in fine non-price-c…

Let Dogs Delight and Other Stories. With a dust wrapper design by David Gentleman

GEORGE EWART EVANS. · 1975 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, David Gentleman, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 100pp. Green cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, and a newspaper review clipping tipped to the terminal leaf. Very good indeed in fine double-spread pictorial non-price…

The Pattern Under the Plough. Aspects of the Folk-Life of East Anglia. With illustrations and a dust wrapper design by David Gentleman.

GEORGE EWART EVANS. · 1956 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, David Gentleman, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 269pp. Mustard-coloured cloth, lettered and bordered in gold at the spine, and with the publishers green top edge stain. A virtually fine copy in fractionally marked and soiled price-clipped dust w…

The Hare with Amber Eyes. A Hidden Inheritance. (SIGNED)

EDMUND DE WAAL. · 2010 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page with his printed name struck-through. 8vo. 354pp. Original publisher's boards. The edges lightly spotted, and with some bruising to the bac…

Old Lamps for New. A novel.

HAROLD ACTON. · 1965 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 302pp. Brown cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's red top edge stain, which is very slightly faded in places. A small area of staining to the head of the front free en…

Crusoe's Daughter. A novel.

JANE GARDAM. · 1985 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 224pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. Some toning to the lesser-quality paperstock, yet still a very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's third adult novel, whi…

The Chip-Chip Gatherers. A novel.

SHIVA NAIPAUL. · 1973 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Andre Deutsch Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 320pp. Turquoise cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The edges somewhat spotted, but thereafter a lovely bright copy in very good non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper designed by John Jarvies. The…

Sons of the Generous Earth.

PHILIP OYLER. · 1963 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 190pp. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. With a photographic frontispiece and twenty captioned photographs taken by the author. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free e…

How Animals Move. The Royal Institution Christmas Lecture 1951. With illustrations by Edward Bawden.

EDWARD BAWDEN. James Gray. · 1953 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Cambridge University Press, London, 1st Edition, Edward Bawden, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 114pp. Pictorial cloth featuring a design almost certainly contributed by Bawden, who also contributes a series of line drawings in the text. Names of two former owners, one…

Death and the Dreamer. With drawings by Edward Bawden.

EDWARD BAWDEN. Denis Saurat. · 1946 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

John Westhouse (Publishers) Ltd., London, 1st Edition, Edward Bawden, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 150pp. Yellow cloth lettered in black at the spine with a black-stamped Bawden decoration to the upper board. Bawden contributes a frontispiece and ten full-page drawings. …

The Journey Home. A novel. (INSCRIBED)

DERMOT BOLGER. · 1990 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Viking, London, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 294pp. Black boards lettered in white at the spine. The top edge lightly spotted, and with a touch of light bruising to the head of the …

Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early Modern England.

JULIET FLEMING. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Reaktion Books Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 224pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-three black and white photographs and reproductions. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper., Fine, Fine