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Sundials. An Illustrated History of Portable Dials.

HESTER HIGTON. · 2001 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Philip Wilson Publishers, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 4to. 136pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with scores and scores of colour and monochrome photographs, illustrations, and reproductions. A small area of discolouration to the …

The Girl from the Fiction Department. A Portrait of Sonia Orwell.

HILARY SPURLING. (George Orwell interest). · 2002 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xii, 194pp. Purple boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with black and white photographs and reproductions. A little bruising to the head of the backstrip. A very good copy in slightly rubbed…

Exit Music. An Inspector Rebus novel. (SIGNED)

IAN RANKIN. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Orion Books, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on a special publisher's plate pasted to the title page. 8vo. 380pp. Blue boards lettered in red at the spine and with orange endpapers. A trace of soiling to th…

Raymond L. Hogler ('Dylan Thomas: The Development of an Idiom') and G.'J.'Weinberger ('Dylan Thomas's Paradise and Calvary') contribute essays to an issue of the periodical 'The Anglo-Welsh Review'. Vol. 21, no. 47, summer 1972. Edited by Roland Mathias.

DYLAN THOMAS. · 1972 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

The Dock Leaves Press, Pembroke, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. 272pp. Card wrappers. A virtually fine copy. This issue of the twice-yearly periodical also includes contributions by Raymond Garlick (his poems 'Marwnad', 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', 'Oranges and Lemons', and 'Cis…

The Cut of the Light. Poems 1965-2005. (SIGNED)

JEREMY HOOKER. · 2006 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Enitharmon Press, 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, and additionally inscribed beneath. 8vo. 373pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine with blue…

Two Women. A Book of Words and Pictures. (SIGNED)

LAURIE LEE. · 1983 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Andre Deutsch, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title-page. 4to. Unpaginated [105pp]. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with patterned endpapers. Lavishly illustrated with nearly eighty phot…

Alembic. A novel. (SIGNED)

TIMOTHY D'ARCH SMITH. · 1992 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 226pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine and with red endpapers. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrappe…

The Seekers. (SIGNED)

H. E. BATES. · 1926 · Clearwater Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

John & Edward Bumpus, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the half-title. Slim 8vo. 32pp. Paper-covered boards, lettered and ornately bordered in gilt at the upper board. The tiniest hint of spotting to the …

Station Island. Poems.

SEAMUS HEANEY. · 1984 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), seemingly the second issue binding of black cloth (there was also a fugitive issue bound in grey cloth). 8vo. 123pp. Issued without a front free endpaper (the half-title serving as such). A slim strip of loss to the for…

Larkin at Sixty. Essays, Poems and Tributes. Edited with an introduction by Anthony Thwaite.

PHILIP LARKIN. · 1982 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 148pp. Light grey cloth lettered and ruled in red at the spine. Illustrated with photographs. A light crease to the tip of the front free endpaper, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, frac…

Unexpected Weather. Poems. (INSCRIBED)

ABI CURTIS. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Salt Publishing, Cambridge, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy fondly inscribed by the author on the title page. Slim 8vo. 65pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Thirty-fi…

The Nature Books of Henry Williamson. Complete in five volumes comprising 'Salar the Salmon', 'Tarka the Otter', 'The Peregrine's Saga', 'The Lone Swallows' and 'The Old Stag'.

HENRY WILLIAMSON. C. F. Tunnicliffe. · 1946 · Clearwater Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Putnam & Company Ltd, London, 1st Edition, C. F. Tunnicliffe., A deluxe uniform set of Williamson's five most esteemed nature books, printed on Adelphi laid antique paper and limited to 500 sets. 8vo. Green canvas boards lettered in gold at the spines and with the author's monog…

The Contenders. A novel.

JOHN WAIN. · 1958 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 279pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A sliver of discolouration to the board extremities, and a shade of offsetting from the dust wrapper design to the backstrip cloth. A tiny hint of spo…

De Quincey's Art of Autobiography.

THOMAS DE QUINCEY. Edmund Baxter. · 1990 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing) - the casebound issue. 8vo. 218pp. Purple cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. A scholarly analysis of De Quincey's prose writings., Fine, Fine

First Person Singular. Stories. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.

HARUKI MURAKAMI. · 2021 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Harvill Secker, London, 1st Edition, First English-language edition (first printing), issued a year after the original Japanese edition. 8vo. 245pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Black paper-covered boards lettered in gold at the spine and with a blind-stamped monkey decorat…

Faces of Cyprus. Photographs. (SIGNED)

DOROS PARTASIDES. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

[published by the author], London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the photographer on the title page and lengthily inscribed in Greek, presenting this copy to a selection of Mansfield-based priests. 4to. 240pp. Glossy pictor…

2061: Odyssey Three.

ARTHUR C. CLARKE. · 1988 · Clearwater Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Grafton Books, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US (Del Rey) edition. 8vo. 254pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with pale blue endpapers. Some toning to the paperstock, as is invariably the case with this slightly che…

A Strange Eventful History. The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families. (SIGNED)

MICHAEL HOLROYD. · 2008 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author at the head of the title page. 8vo. xviii + 620pp. Navy blue boards lettered in silver at the spine. With photographic endpapers and over sixty photographs a…

Collected Poems 1934-1953. Edited by Walford Davies and Ralph Maud.

DYLAN THOMAS. · 1996 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1st Edition, The revised issue of the so-called 'definitive edition' of 1988, based on a full study of the textual and bibliographical history of each poem with a number of alterations and corrections established from study of the manuscripts, and…

The Loved and the Unloved. A novel. Translated from the French of 'Galigaï' by Gerard Hopkins.

FRANÇOIS MAURIAC. · 1953 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1st Edition, First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the original French edition. 8vo. 142pp. Grey cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The title page printed in red and black. The top edge fractionally spotted, and with a trace of ton…