Clearwater Books

RICHARD ALDINGTON AND H.D. Richard Aldington and H.D. The Early Years in Letters. Edited with an introduction and commentary by Caroline Zilboorg. Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis 1992. First edition. 8vo. 237pp. Illustrated with twelve photographs and reproductions. In fine state with virtually fine dust wrapper, marred only by a several near-invisible small score marks on the rear panel. The full transcript of all ninety-three letters Aldington sent to Hilda Doolittle from the war front and immediately after his demobilisation covering a range of topics including H.D.’s relationship with Cecil Gray and her subsequent pregnancy, plus the early years of her relationship with Bryher; Aldington’s relationship with Dorothy Yorke and his wartime experiences. Alas H.D.’s letters to Aldington have not survived. £25

MARY BERENSON. A Self-Portrait from her Letters & Diaries. Edited by Barbara Strachey & Jayne Samuels. Norton, New York 1983. The first American edition. 8vo. 319pp. Some discolouration to boards, and some light marking to endpapers. A very crisp copy in fine dust wrapper. The letters and diaries of Mary Berenson, née Mary Smith, an art historian, now thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings of her second husband Bernard Berenson. £10

MALCOLM BRADBURY. Unsent Letters. Andre Deutsch, London 1988. First edition. 8vo. 218pp. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. A collection of eighteen humorous letters to a variety of recipients, which the author composed but never actually wrote or sent. £7.50

RUPERT BROOKE. Letters from America. With a preface by Henry James and a prefatory note by E[dward] M[arsh]. Sidgwick & Jackson, London 1916. First English edition (preceded, albeit only just, by the US edition). 8vo. 180pp. Original publisher’s buckram with tanned and a little chipped paper spine label (and a spare tipped-in at rear). Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece. Tips of corners a little rubbed and with some miscellaneous staining to buckram. Small indentation to backstrip. Endpapers and pastedowns lightly browned and with just a trace of spotting to half-title. Quite a crisp and bright copy, missing the scarce dust wrapper. A series of letters by Brooke during his year-long travels in the United States, the first thirteen of which were originally published in the Westminster Gazette and the final two in the New Statesman. 2,800 copies were printed. Keynes 42. £25

BRUCE CHATWIN. Under the Sun. The Letters of Bruce Chatwin. Selected and edited by Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare, who also provides a thirteen-page introduction. Viking, New York 2011. First American edition (issued a year earlier in the UK). 8vo. 554pp. Paper-covered boards. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs. Remainder mark to bottom edge and just a trace of wear to spine ends, else a fine copy in correspondingly chafed else fine dust wrapper. A vast collection of Chatwin’s correspondence to Patrick Leigh Fermor, Paul Theroux, Susan Sontag, James Ivory, Colin Thubron and many other recipients. £16

COLETTE. Letters from Colette. Selected and translated by Robert Phelps. Farrar Straus Girous, New York 1980. First English-language edition (originally published in France in five separate volumes between 1958-73). 8vo. 214pp. A little light spotting to top edge, else in fine state with dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at head and base of spine. Neat former owner gift inscription inked to front pastedown (and predominantly obscured by the wrapper flap). £10

JOSEPH CONRAD. Letters to William Blackwood and David S.Meldrum. Edited by William Blackburn. Duke University Press, Durham, NC 1958. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated endpapers. Just the faintest hint of fox spotting to front endpaper, else a very bright copy in fox-spotted and tanned dust wrapper with a single short ragged tear to front panel. Review slip lain-in. £15

NOËL COWARD. The Letters of Noël Coward. Edited with an introduction by Barry Day. Methuen Drama, London 2007. First edition. 8vo. xii + 780pp. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. Spine ends very lightly rubbed and just a trace of wear to the tip of a single corner. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, with just a touch of corresponding wear to the spine panel ends and a single tiny biro mark to the front panel. Neat former owner bookplate to the front pastedown (almost entirely obscured by the wrapper flap) alongside a neatly inked date. A vast chronologically-ordered collection Coward’s correspondence, almost all of it hitherto unpublished. £10

MALCOLM COWLEY. The Long Voyage. Selected Letters of Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1987. Edited by Hans Bak, with a foreword by Robert Cowley. Harvard University Press, Cambridge & London 2014. First edition. 8vo. 800pp. A few light marks to the bottom edge and several miniscule blemishes to the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in fractionally dust soiled dust wrapper. £15

R.W.EMERSON & A.H.CLOUGH. Emerson - Clough Letters. Edited by Howard Foster Lowry & Ralph Leslie Rusk. Rowfant Club, Cleveland 1934. First edition, limited to 165 numbered copies, printed in Chicago at the Lakeside Press. Marbled cloth boards, very slightly shelf-worn at bottom edges. An extremely bright copy in plain unprinted dust wrapper with a short open tear to foot of spine panel. £45

WILLIAM FAULKNER. Essays, Speeches & Public Letters. Edited and with a preface by James B.Meriwether. Chatto & Windus, London 1967. The first English edition. 8vo. 233pp. A hint of spotting to top edge and a touch of light partial browning to half title. A virtually fine copy with virtually fine dust wrapper, just very lightly dust marked at rear panel. Comprises twelve essays (including writings on Sherwood Anderson and Albert Camus); fourteen speeches (including his Nobel Prize acceptance speech); three introductions, three book reviews (including one for The Old Man and the Sea); and thirty-one public letters. £25

PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR. Dashing for the Post. The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor. Selected, edited and with an introduction by Adam Sisman. John Murray, London 2016. First edition. 8vo. 469pp. Illustrated with thirty captioned photographs. A fine unopened copy in fine dust wrapper. A hefty collection of Paddy Fermor’s correspondence, most of which is hitherto unpublished. £20

FORD MADOX FORD. Letters of Ford Madox Ford. Edited by Richard M.Ludwig. Princeton University Press 1965. First edition. 8vo. 335pp. A fine copy in slightly nicked and chafed dust wrapper. £35

THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH. The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough. Edited by Mary Woodall. With frontispiece and 26 collotytpe plates. Lion and Unicorn Press, Royal College of Art, London 1961. First edition, limited to 400 numbered copies. 4to. Quarter morocco, patterned boards with embossed facsimile seal. Spine quite badly worn, else a crisp, sound copy. No dust wrapper, as issued. £25

MARTHA GELLHORN. The Letters of Martha Gellhorn. Selected and edited by Caroline Moorehead. Chatto & Windus, London 2006. First edition. 8vo. 531pp. Illustrated with nineteen photographs. Spine ends and tips of several corners lightly worn, and with a two inch tear and some accompanying creasing to one of the plate leaves. A very bright copy in dust wrapper. A hefty selection of Gellhorn’s correspondence with Hemingway, Eleanor Roosevelt, H.G.Wells, Leonard Bernstein, Diana Cooper, Rosamond Lehmann, William Walter, Charles Scribner and others. £15

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES. Lydia and Maynard. The Letters of Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes. Edited by Polly Hill & Richard Keynes. Scribner, New York 1989. The first American edition. 8vo. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. Publisher's review slip laid-in. £20

CHARLES LAMB. The Letters of Charles Lamb. Edited with notes by George Woodcock. Grey Walls Press, London 1950. First edition. 8vo. A bright copy in slightly nicked and dusty, price-clipped dust wrapper. £15

C.S.LEWIS. They Stand Together. The Letters of C.S.Lewis to Arthur Greeves (1914-1963). Edited and with a lengthy introduction by Walter Hooper. Collins, London 1979. First edition. 8vo. 592pp. Spine ends lightly rubbed, else a virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, price-clipped, faded at spine panel, and a little chafed and edgeworn. The hefty correspondence between Lewis and his lifelong friend Arthur Greeves, edited by the author’s companion-secretary. £15

ELIZABETH MYERS. The Letters of Elizabeth Myers. Edited with notes and a biographical introduction by her husband, Littleton C.Powys. Chapman & Hall, London 1951. First edition. 8vo. 338pp. Portrait frontispiece. Covers faded at edges. A good, quite bright copy in chafed, faded and dusty dust wrapper. Neat inscription of former owner pencilled to front endpaper. £15

PETER NICHOLS. Diaries 1969-1977. Nick Hern, London 2000. First edition. 8vo. 440pp. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £12

HAROLD NICOLSON. Diaries and Letters 1930-1964. Edited and condensed by Stanley Olson, with an introduction by Nigel Nicolson. Atheneum, New York 1980. First American edition. 8vo. 436pp. A very good copy - just a little rubbed at head and foot of spine. In dust marked dust wrapper, rubbed and chipped at head of spine. £8.50

ANAÏS NIN. Journal of a Wife. The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin 1923-1927. With a preface by Joaquin Nin-Culmell. Peter Owen, London 1984. First edition. 8vo. 297pp. Illustrated with photographs. In fine state with virtually fine price-clipped dust wrapper. Issued posthumously, this selection of Nin’s diaries covers the period 1923-27, beginning with her marriage to Hugh Guiler and predating the series of diaries issued during her lifetime. £15

FREDERICK ROLFE [Baron Corvo].  'Without Prejudice'. One Hundred Letters to John Lane. Edited and introduced by Cecil Woolf. Privately Printed for Allen Lane, London 1963. First edition, limited to 600 copies, designed by Hans Schmoller. Boards, very slightly bumped at some extremities. A crisp copy. £85

D.G.ROSSETTI. The Letters of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to his Publisher, F.S.Ellis. Edited with notes by Oswald Doughty. Scholartis Press, London 1928. First edition, limited to 560 copies, this copy unnumbered. Small 4to. Blue buckram covers, finger-marked and slightly spotted in places. A bright, unopened copy. No jacket. £100

V.SACKVILLE-WEST AND VIOLET TREFUSIS. Violet to Vita. The Letters of Violet Trefusis and Vita Sackville-West, 1910-21. Edited by Mitchell A.Leaska and John Phillips. Metheun, London 1989. First edition. 8vo. xii, 303pp. Illustrated with twelve monochrome photographs and reproductions. A little light tanning to the leaf margins, else a fine copy in virtually fine dust wrapper with just a small area of creasing to the head of the spine panel. A fifty-two page introduction by Mitchell A.Leaska precedes the complete correspondence from Violet Trefusis to her friend and lover Vita Sackville-West (Vita’s half of the correspondence was destroyed by Violet’s husband, Denys Trefusis). £10

BERNARD SHAW. Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas. A Correspondence. Edited by Mary Hyde. John Murray, London 1982. The English issue of the first edition. 8vo. 237pp. Boards lifting a little, else a very bright copy in very good dust wrapper, fractionally faded at spine panel. £15

EDITH SITWELL. Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell. Edited by Richard Greene. Virago, London 1997. First edition. 8vo. 484pp. Covers bumped at two corners. A very bright copy in dust wrapper. £10

GARY SNYDER AND WENDELL BERRY. Distant Neighbors. The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder. Edited by Chad Wriglesworth. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2014. First edition (not published in the UK). 8vo. 288pp. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper (in fact, housed in two identical dust wrappers). A selection from a correspondence of nearly 250 letters. £10

GARY SNYDER AND ALLEN GINSBERG. The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder. Edited by Bill Morgan. Counterpoint, Berkeley 2009. First edition (not published in the UK). 8vo. 321pp. Quarter-bound paper boards. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. An extensive selection from the circa 850 letters exchanged by Ginsberg and Snyder. £15

JAMES STEPHENS. Letters of James Stephens. Edited by Richard J.Finneran, with a bibliographical checklist. Macmillan, London 1974. The first English edition. 8vo. A near fine copy in slightly rubbed, price-clipped dust wrapper. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown. £15

DYLAN THOMAS. Constantine Fitzgibbon. Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas. J.M.Dent, London 1966. First edition. 8vo. 420pp. A touch of very light bruising to the base of the backstrip, else a fine copy in lightly dust soiled dust wrapper, with a tiny hint of chafing to the spine ends and corner tips. A three-page introduction and chronology precedes hundreds of Thomas' letters, including his earliest surviving correspondence, the recipients including Graham Greene, Lawrence Durrell, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Edward Marsh, Stephen Spender, John Davenport, Henry Treece and others. Supplied together with an uncorrected proof copy of the first edition bound in the publisher’s original card wrappers. Top edge spotted. Very good in the original over-sized proof dust wrapper, rubbed and creased at the overlapping upper edge. £30

FRANCIS THOMPSON. The Letters of Francis Thompson. Edited by John Evangelist Walsh. Hawthorn Books, New York 1969. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece. Upper board lifting a little and a small stain to top edge. Quite a crisp and bright copy in slightly marked and dusty, price-clipped dust wrapper. £15

JAMES THURBER. Selected Letters of James Thurber. Edited by Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks. Little Brown, Boston 1981. First trade edition, following the limited Franklyn Library issue. Decorated paper-covered cloth. With a caricature self-portrait frontispiece and a number of Thurber cartoons in the text. In fine state with dust wrapper, faded at spine panel and lightly rubbed and chafed at top edge. A selection of over 100 of Thurber’s letters chosen by his widow and editor at The Atlantic and including correspondence to Harold Ross, John O’Hara, E.B.White, Kenneth Tynan and others. £15

ALICE B.TOKLAS. Staying On Alone. The Letters of Alice B Toklas. Edited by Edward Burns. With an introduction by Gilbert A.Harrison, Liveright, New York 1973. First edition. With thirty-six photographs and reproductions. Boards lifting a little, else a very good copy in slightly faded, price-clipped dust wrapper. £18

KENNETH TYNAN. Kenneth Tynan Letters. Edited by his widow, Kathleen Tynan. With illustrations. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1994. First edition. 8vo. 669pp. A hint of dust marking to top edge, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £10

KEITH VAUGHAN. Journals 1939-1977. With a nine-page introduction by Alan Ross. John Murray, London 1989. First edition. 8vo. 217pp. Illustrated with fifteen drawings by the author.  Top- and fore edge lightly spotted, and with a little more spotting to the free endpapers. A very good copy in virtually fine dust wrapper. Parts of Vaughan's journals were first printed in 1966, with further selections appearing in the periodical the London Magazine in 1983, but much of this material is hitherto unprinted. £35

DENTON WELCH. The Journals of Denton Welch. With illustrations by the author. Edited by Michael De-la-Noy. Allison & Busby, London 1984. The first edition of this complete unabridged edition of Welch’s journals. 8vo. 378pp. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. Welch’s complete 1942-1948 journals. £25

EDITH WHARTON. The Letters of Edith Wharton. Edited by R.W.B.Lewis & Nancy Lewis. Scribner, New York 1988. First edition. 8vo. 654pp. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with photographs. Edges lightly marked. A very good copy in dust wrapper, just a little nicked at the head of the spine panel with a tiny fraction of loss. £20

T.H.WHITE. America at Last. An American Journal. With a ten-page introduction by David Garnett. Putnam, New York 1965. First edition – never published in the UK. 8vo. 250pp. Cloth a little marked and lightly discoloured in places. A very good copy, particularly crisp internally, in lightly marked and edgeworn dust wrapper. The author’s last book, issued posthumously and recording his impressions and observations during a transcontinental US lecture tour. £25