Clearwater Books

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small 4to. Card wrappers. A virtually fine copy. Includes six poems by Porter; plus memoirs, celebrations and critical analysis by George Szirtes, Anthony Thwaite, Dannie Abse, D.J.Enright, Gavin Ewart and Clive James. This issue also includes a four-page essay by Anne Ridler 'Working for T.S.Eliot: A Personal Reminiscence'. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small 4to. Card wrappers. A virtually fine copy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Quarto. 4pp. The prospectus and order form for Williamson's classic, here reprinted by the Henry Williamson Society to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of the original publication. Includes a description of the text, the history of the books realisation (completed in the 17th attempt), a glowing quotation from John Galsworthy taken from a letter to Williamson, an extract from the John Fortescue introduction, and the order form itself. In fine state. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, the card wrapper issue. Slim 8vo. 68pp. Just a hint of fox spotting. A very good copy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, designed and printed at the Curwen Press. Stapled card wrappers, with a little light surface abrasion to the edges and a trace of dust marking to the rear wrapper but in fine state internally. Illustrated with eight black and white plates. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, a paperback original. 8vo. 233pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Card wrappers (not issued in casebound format). A virtually fine copy. Eight stories, the author's fourth collection of short fiction.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed by the author to Jeremy Hooker and with a small note from him laid-in. 24pp stapled into glossy card wrappers featuring a drawing by the author. Jeremy Hooker's occasional neat pencilled marginalia. A very good copy. Twenty-three poems. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, limited to500 copies - this one inscribed by the author on the half-title to an un-named recipient and with three small inked corrections to the poem 'To Miriam'. Square 8vo. 24pp stapled into card wrappers featuring a design by Anne Hale. Wrappers very lightly tanned and dusty and a series of inked ticks alongside the titles of eleven of the poems. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, with the backs printed in blue (a reprint issue appeared in 1973, with the backs in black). Small landscape 8vo. Unpaginated. Stapled wrappers. Complete with fifty pasted-in colour tea cards, including one of T.E.Lawrence. Glue overspill has resulted in a little surface abrasion of a number of the cards (not the Lawrence example) where they have been accidently adhered together, yet still a nice bright copy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. 8vo. 47pp. Card wrappers. Includes an introduction by David Fraser Jenkins, an essay by Tim Green, and a nine-page background essay by the artist (written for the catalogue of his 1956 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition, but not included and appearing in print here for the first time). With two reproductions in colour and twenty-one in monochrome. In fine state.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers. A virtually fine copy. This issue also includes verse contributions by Dannie Abse, Alan Brownjohn, Gavin Ewart, George MacBeth, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, George Szirtes and Anthony Thwaite. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. 89pp. Yellow cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gold-stamped decoration to the upper board. Edges, endpapers and several preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little light toning to two margins of the front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing). Slim 4to. 32pp. Decorated paper-covered boards. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 138pp. Grey boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge fractionally spotted, and with some toning to the lesser-quality paperstock. A nice bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with just a touch of light uneven toning. Harris A(i)[26].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers. The staples rusted, else a very good copy. ("29 - John Betjeman as the imagination sees him, and as the camera does").

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 80pp. Laminated pictorial boards. Extensively illustrated with photographs, and with a splendid double-spread Paul Nash painting depicting dogfights over the Thames Estuary to the title page. A couple of minor marks to the half-title, otherwise in super state with very good dust wrapper with a single tiny closed tear to the rear panel.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a paperback original (never issued in casebound format). 8vo. 359pp. Glossy card wrappers. Illustrated with over fifty photographs and reproductions. A single very light readership crease to the spine. A very good copy of this biography of Harvey, issued on the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Great War, and the centenary of the poet's birth.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers, lightly summed and marked. A nice, crisp copy. This issue also includes William Trevor's radio play 'Going Home', and 'The Saint by Accident', a short story by Mohammed Mrabet, translated from the Moghrebi by Paul Bowles.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A single sheet measuring 42cm x 29cm, folded to make six double-sixed panel. Illustrated with twenty-five reproductions, all in colour where required. Very good. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 8vo. 65pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board and with an ornate decorative gilt border. Top edge gilt. Backstrip lightly faded and just a touch of very light spotting to endpapers. A lovely bright copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Card wrappers featuring a design by Edward Bawden, lightly dust marked and with a single superficial crease. A very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, printed at the Curwen Press. 32pp. Stapled card wrappers. With an eight-page introduction by Andrew Forge, a chronology and twenty monochrome plates. Staples rusting just a little, else a virtually fine copy. The catalogue of an exhibition of 114 paintings and watercolours. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 157pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with ten black and white photographs. A tiny bump to the tip of one corner, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers, lightly tanned at edges and chipped at a single corner. Very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 147pp. Card wrappers featuring a single colour reproduction. Covers a little marked and soiled but a nice crisp copy internally. Pencilled marginalia to several entries. An alphabetical catalogue of the oil painting holdings of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers, a little spotted, grubby and dust soiled, but a lovely crisp copy internally. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Slim 8vo. Stapled card wrappers, the staples rusted and the wrappers accordingly dis-bound. A good copy. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of Bates' "very personal gardening book". 8vo. 160pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. A single inked correction to a typo in the author's preface, else a fine copy in price-clipped and slightly chafed and dust marked dust wrapper. Former owner bookplate to the front pastedown. Eads A112.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Card wrappers, the rear wrapper lightly dust soiled. Very good. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Card wrappers, partially dis-bound where glue has failed. A good copy.