SPRING 2010 SPRING 2010 CLEARWATER BOOKS 213b Devonshire Road Forest Hill London SE23 3NJ United Kingdom Telephone: 07968 864791 Email: [email protected] Website: www.clearwaterbooks.co.uk Unless otherwise indicated, all the items in this catalogue are first English editions, published in Greater London. Dust wrappers are mentioned when present (post-1925). Any item found to be unsatisfactory may be returned, but within ten days of receipt, please. Shipping charges are additional. Personal Note Last autumns catalogue was a great experience. Writing it was an enjoyable challenge and then, perhaps imprudently, issuing it amidst the postal strike added an element of tension as I waited a whole twenty-four hours for the telephone to ring, wondering if it could really be so bad as to not generate a single enquiry. Eventually however the calls began, and so did the real fun. Customers I had not spoken to in years, and as often as not never personally dealt with at all, called with the most delightful reminiscences about dad. And the occasional order, of course. Here is the follow-up, my spring 2010 issue (I wonder at what point it stops being presumptive to number them?) The catalogue is divided between literature and a little poetry towards the front; and art and illustrated at the rear, and I do hope it will be an enjoyable read. Clearwater will be exhibiting at the Hand & Flower Hotel book fair in June, now in its third year. If you have the opportunity do come along to peruse the books and say hello Best Wishes Bevis Clarke 1. RICHARD ALDINGTON. Fifty Romance Lyric Poems. Collected & translated by Richard Aldington. Crosby Gaige. New York 1928. First edition, deluxe issue (one of 900 copies signed by Aldington and designer Bruce Rogers). Covers very slightly faded and marked. No dust wrapper. £40 2. RICHARD ALDINGTON. Paul Nash. Death of a Hero. Chatto & Windus 1929. First English Edition (preceded by several weeks by the American edition). 440pp. Head of spine just a little rubbed and with a small ridge running half the length of the spine. Endpapers fractionally browned, else an extremely clean and bright copy in price-clipped dust wrapper featuring a magnificent original lithograph by Paul Nash. The wrapper is a little chipped at head of spine panel and tanned, with an inch of loss to rear panel (not affecting any text). Signs of the removal of two small stickers from rear panel. £125 The US and English editions were edited by the publishers as “certain words, phrases, sentences, and even passages, are at present taboo in England” The un-expunged edition Aldington meant for publication did not appear until the following year, issued in two volumes in France. 3. RICHARD ALDINGTON. Paul Nash. Roads to Glory. Chatto & Windus 1930. First Edition. 278pp. Binding just fractionally tender and endpapers very lightly browned, but a super, bright copy. Tiny dealer sticker to rear pastedown. In very good dust wrapper featuring a striking original lithograph by Paul Nash on the front panel, repeated on the rear. Head of spine rubbed and with a tiny short tear. Two small stickers to flaps with a small amount of resulting off- setting to front and rear endpapers. £200 4. RICHARD ALDINGTON. A.E.Housman & W.B.Yeats. Two lectures. Peacocks Press, Hurst 1955. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Blue buckram covers with gilt lettering to spine. A very nice copy. No jacket called for. £22 5. RICHARD ALDINGTON. The Dearest Friend. A Selection from the Letters of Aldington to John Cournos. With an introduction by R.T.Risk. Typographeum Press, Francestown, NH 1978. First edition, limited to 110 numbered copies. Tall 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. A near fine copy. £35 6. MARTIN AMIS. Other People. A Mystery Story. Cape 1981. First Edition. 223pp. A fine copy in dust wrapper of Amis' fourth novel. £60 7. ANONYMOUS. If I Goes West. By A Tommy. George G Harrap 1918. First Edition. 46pp. Paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and illustration of seated solider to upper board. A little worn at corners and ends of spine and with an almost undetectable hint of foxing to preliminary leaves. An extremely scarce volume of nineteen Great War poems. £125 8. ANTHOLOGY. Poems from the Desert. Verses by Members of the 8th Army. With a foreword by General Sir Bernard Montgomery. Harrap 1944. Reprint. Cloth lightly marked in a few places and with a hint of foxing to preliminary leaves. Three leaves affected by a minor production fault. 27 poems. £8 9. RICCARDO BACCHELLI. The Mill on the Po. Translated from the Italian [Il Mulino del Po] by Frances Frenaye. Hutchinson 1952. First English Edition. 590pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt decoration to upper board. Map-illustrated endpapers. One small area of upper board a little discoloured else a good, bright copy of Bacchelli classic account of life in rural Italy in the XIX century. In attractive pictorial dust wrapper, a little nicked and dusty with a single short closed tear. For some curious reason the publishers of this volume chose to include only the first two volumes of Bacchelli's exhaustively researched trilogy. £12 10. PAT BARKER. The Regeneration Trilogy. Complete in three volumes. Viking 1991, 1993 and 1995. First Editions. The three volumes of Pat Barker's masterful award-winning trilogy, all fine or virtually fine in likewise dust wrappers. Regeneration. Viking 1991. First Edition. 251pp. A fine copy in very good dust wrapper, just fractionally rubbed at top edge. The Eye in the Door. Viking, 1993. First Edition. 280pp. Fractionally rubbed at head of spine, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at top edge. The Ghost Road, Viking 1995. First Edition. 277pp. A fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper, just fractionally rubbed at top edge. A very desirable set. £250 11. J.M.BARRIE AND ARTHUR RACKHAM. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Hodder & Stoughton, London 1906. First Trade Edition Thus. 126pp + 50 colour plates. Skilfully re-backed retaining the publisher’s original russet cloth boards and spine, lettered in gilt, with a handsome gilt Rackham illustration. Original endpapers with the Kensignton Gardens map. With a frontispiece, forty-nine tipped-in colour plates at rear, each with a lettered protective tissue guard, a title page illustration and two line drawings in the text. A very good copy, top edge dust marked and boards marked in one or two places. Front and rear hinges reinforced. The frontispiece page is a little creased (although the plate remains unaffected), with perhaps just the faintest hint of browning to half title and title page, else in super state internally, with no foxing, inscriptions or other detractions. £600 Peter Pan first appeared in Barrie’s 1902 novel The Little White Bird. Following the successful debut of the 1904 play about Peter Pan, Barrie's publishers extracted chapters 13–18 of previous book and republished them as this volume alongside the celebrated Rackham illustrations. 12. J.M.BARRIE. Sir J.M.Barrie. His First Editions Points and Values. A checklist compiled by Andrew Block. W & G Foyle 1933. First edition (One of 500 numbered copies). 48pp. Endpapers lightly browned. A very bright copy in nicked and tanned wrapper. Pencilled notes to rear flyleaf. £18 13. H.E.BATES. The Hessian Prisoner. With a line drawing by John Austen and a foreword by Edward Garnett. William Jackson, ‘The Furnival Books’ 1930. One of a limited edition of 550 copies, each signed by the author and printed at the Chiswick Press. 42pp. Maroon buckram gilt lettered to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine faded and the faintest hint of foxing to front endpaper, else an extremely clean and bright copy. £85 14. H.E.BATES AND JOHN MINTON. The Country Heart. Michael Joseph 1949. First Edition Thus. 239pp. Beige cloth, green lettered and Minton illustrated. Minton also contributes a delightful frontispiece, title page illustration, 42 headers and vignettes and two full-page illustrations. Endpapers lightly browned, else a exceptionally clean and bright copy in double-spread Minton dust wrapper, with a couple of short closed tears, some light chafing to extremities and with just a little loss to head and foot of spine panel. £85 15. H.E.BATES. Edward Garnett. Parrish 1950. First edition. 87pp. With eight photogravure plates. A virtually fine copy in rubbed and a little marked dust wrapper with a single shot closed tear to front panel. £25 16. MAX BEERBOHM. Mainly on the Air. Heinemann 1946. First Edition. 132pp. A virtually fine copy, front endpaper just fractionally browned from laid-in clipping. In dust wrapper, fractionally marked at rear panel and with a tiny closed tear to upper front panel. A collection of 12 of Beerbohm's celebrated broadcasts and essays spanning 1920-1945. £10 17. MAX BEERBOHM. And Even Now. Essays. Heinemann 1920. First edition. Covers a little knocked at some extremities and a little faded at spine. A bright copy in the scarce dust-jacket, which is tanned, marked, dusty and rubbed. Fly- leaves slightly browned. Neat name of former owner. £38 18. LORD BERNERS. Count Omega. Constable 1941. First Edition. 208pp. With a frontispiece illustration by the author. One corner very lightly knocked and head of spine bumped, else extremely clean and bright. Front endpaper a little scuffed. In marked and soiled dust wrapper, chafed at a few extremities and internally reinforced. £50 19. LORD BERNERS. A Distant Prospect. Further autobiography. With a frontispiece by the author. Constable 1945. First edition. A fine copy in slightly dust-marked dust wrapper.