Recent Arrivals from Clearwater Books

Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, London, 1951. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 219pp. Blue cloth lettered in silver at the spine. With a title page decoration and thirty-five illustrations as head and tail pieces, and in the text. The cloth very lightly marked in one or two places, and with a trace of bruising… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus and The Hogarth Press, London, 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) 8vo. 249pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Half a dozen small areas of spotting to the top edge, and a contemporary name and date inked to the head of the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in virtually… Read more about this item

Samson & Co. Ltd., Bristol, 2013. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 120pp. Glossy card wrappers (not issued in casebound format). With eleven colour reproductions, twenty further black and white photographs and reproductions, and several facsimile manuscript reproductions. A fine copy. Thirty-two letters from Wood to Winifred and Ben Nicholson, penned during the most… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, London, 1930. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing - not the subsequent Heinemann issue), published the same year as the US edition. 8vo. xx, 154pp. Yellow cloth lettered in blue at the spine and upper board. The cloth lightly soiled, and a little faded at the backstrip. Free endpapers very lightly toned, and… Read more about this item

John Lehmann Ltd., London, 1950. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page, with his printed name struck-through. Slim 8vo. 62pp. Yellow cloth, blocked in green and lettered in gold at the spine. Errata slip tipped between pp.12-13, as issued. The upper board lifting a… Read more about this item

Kyle Cathie Ltd., London, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xiii, 276pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with twenty-two black and white photographs. A tiny area of near-invisible soiling to the upper board, else a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

The Grolier Club, New York, 1948. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, limited to 500 copies designed by the artist and set in his own type, printed and bound by The George Grady Press, New York and signed by the artist. Slim 8vo. 36pp. Patterned card wrappers with French flaps featuring a design by… Read more about this item

Privately printed at the John Roberts Press, London, 1975. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. This copy inscribed by the author at the base of the half-title and dated the month of publication. Slim 8vo. A single gathering of six unpaginated leaves sewn into plain card wrappers with a brown paper dust wrapper and… Read more about this item

J.M.Dent, London, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 138pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A touch of very light spotting to the margins of the free endpapers, and a former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, with… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, London, 1975. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). The copy signed by the author on the title page ("Peace - Adrian Mitchell. Wells 1981"), and accompanied by an outline drawing of an elephant. 8vo. 94pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Former owner name inked to the head of… Read more about this item

Heinemann, London, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - the card wrapper issue. 8vo. 184pp. The wrappers lightly toned. A very good copy of this early Pullman novel, his fourth book for children, published some eight years before 'Northern Lights' superstardom. Laid-in is a photocopy of a two-page handwritten letter from the author to… Read more about this item

Privately printed at the John Roberts Press, London, 1973. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. This copy inscribed by the author on the fore edge margin of the title page: "Dear Spider - When all else fails - try Wales". Slim 8vo. Unpaginated. Eight leaves sewn into plain card wrappers with a blue paper dust… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, London, 1993. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the considerably more common US edition. 8vo. 398pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A short crease to the tip of a single text leaf, otherwise a fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A masterful analysis… Read more about this item

Andre Deutsch, London, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued the year after the US edition. 8vo. xii, 398pp. Pink boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Top- and fore edge fractionally spotted, and with a former owner gift inscription neatly inked to the head of the half-title. A very good copy… Read more about this item

Enitharmon Press, London, 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to just twenty-five numbered copies signed by both Hooker and Grandjean (this being #10). Slim 8vo. 79pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with an inset decorative paper plate to the upper board. Dual portrait photographic frontispiece.… Read more about this item

Penguin Books, London, 2014. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued the same year as the somewhat more common US edition. 8vo. viii, 192pp. Black cloth lettered in white at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The first printing of this early Kerouac novella, penned in 1944 and long believed lost, together… Read more about this item

Scribner, New York, 2001. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 124pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's twelfth novel..

Tinder Press / Headline Publishing, London, 2013. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 338pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Patterned endpapers. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a retailer's sticker to the front panel noting this as… Read more about this item

Longmans, London, 1962. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 120pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. A sliver of very light partial toning to the free endpapers, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly toned at the rear panel and with a touch of minor edge-wear to one… Read more about this item

Queen Anne Press [London], 2017. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first separate edition, limited to 60 numbered copies and signed by the publishers: Ian Fleming's nephews James Fleming and Fergus Fleming. This copy additionally inscribed by the author James Fergusson. Tall slim 8vo. 11pp. Cloth-covered wrappers with a lettered and ruled paper title label. A… Read more about this item