Clearwater Books

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT. The Journals of Louisa May Alcott. Edited by Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy and with an introduction by Madeleine B.Stern. Little Brown, Boston 1989. First edition. 356pp. Paper-covered boards. With thirty illustrations. Light crease to backstrip and a minute stain to front endpaper. In virtually fine state with very good dust wrapper, lightly chafed at top edge and with several creases to rear wrapper flap. £10

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. 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

ALAN BENNETT. Writing Home. Faber, London 1994. First edition – this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 417pp. Illustrated with over fifty photographs. Top edge lightly spotted. A very good copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, a little rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, and with the publisher’s laminate lifting a fraction in one or two places. Bennett’s 1980-1990 diaries, plus a selection of his writings and musings and including the full text of his story The Lady in the Van, which he subsequently adapted for stage and screen. £35

MARY BERENSON. A Self-Portrait from her Letters & Diaries. Edited by Barbara Strachey & Jayne Samuels. Norton, New York 1983. The first American edition. 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

JAMES BOSWELL. Letters of James Boswell Addressed to the Rev. W J Temple. With an introduction and notes. Richard Bentley, London 1857. First Edition – an ex-library copy. 8vo. 407pp. Original decorated boards, faded at extremities, with gilt lettering to spine. Corners slightly worn and rubbed at head and foot of spine. Hinges slightly tender. Small library sticker to spine and library book plate to front pastedown (with further signs of plate removal). Internally an extremely clean and bright copy. £20

MALCOLM BRADBURY. Unsent Letters. Deutsch, London 1988. First edition. 218pp. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £15

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

RUPERT BROOKE. Song of Love. The Letters of Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier. Edited by Pippa Harris. Bloomsbury, London 1991. First edition. 8vo. 302pp. Illustrated with thirty-four photographs. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. The transcript of over 130 letters and postcards between Brooke and "the love of his life" Olivier, published here for the first time and edited by Olivier's granddaughter. £15

RAYMOND CHANDLER. Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler. Edited by Frank MacShane. Jonathan Cape, London 1981. The first English edition. A bright copy in very slightly nicked and dusty dust wrapper, a little faded at spine panel and with a single enclosed nick. Neat inked inscription of former owner to front endpaper. £20

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. F 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

JOHN CLARE. The Letters of John Clare. Edited and with an introduction by J.W. and Anne Tibble. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1951. First edition. 8vo. 379pp. With a colour portrait frontispiece and one captioned photographic plate. Head of spine lightly rubbed. A bright of slightly dusty copy in rubbed and soiled dust wrapper, somewhat faded at spine panel. Nearly 250 letters from John Clare, the vast majority of them hitherto unprinted. £15

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). 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. 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

CHARLES DICKENS. Mr. & Mrs. Charles Dickens. His letters to Her. Edited with notes by Walter Dexter. With a foreword by their daughter, Kate Perugini. Constable, London 1935. First edition. Ex-Boots Circulating Library. A sound reading copy. No jacket. £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. 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

FORD MADOX FORD. Letters of Ford Madox Ford. Edited by Richard M.Ludwig. Princeton University Press 1965. First edition. 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

DAVID GASCOYNE. Paris Journal 1937-1939 [and] Journal 1936-1937. The Enitharmon Press, London 1978 & 1980. First editions. 8vo. 141pp & 144pp. Both in fine state with slightly marked and chafed dust wrappers designed by Julian Trevelyan. The first printing of Gascoyne’s long-lost journals, complete in two volumes. Paris Journal includes a brief preface by Lawrence Durrell, plus a reprint of Durrell’s Gascoyne-dedicated poem Journal. Journal 1936-1937, chronologically the first journal, but the second discovered and published, includes an account of a visit to Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, plus the first reprint of his short story Death of an Explorer and his essay on Russian philosopher Léon Chestov, reprinted from the periodical Horizon. £50

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 KEATS. The Letters of John Keats. Edited by Maurice Buxton Forman. Oxford University Press, London 1935. The revised second edition including additional letters. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Backstrip tanned with a little wear to the cloth at the base of the spine and a single tiny nick at the head. Binding tender but sound at half-title. Former owner pencilled notes to one blank preliminary. A nice, bright copy. Nearly 250 letters from Keats to various recipients including Fanny Brawne, Charles Brown, John Taylor (Keats’ publisher), Fanny Keats, Leigh Hunt, William Haslam, P.B.Shelley 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. 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. A bright copy in slightly nicked and dusty, price-clipped dust wrapper. £15

PHILIP LARKIN. Philip Larkin. Letters to Monica. Edited by Anthony Thwaite. Faber and The Bodleian Library, London and Oxford 2010. Third impression. Large 8vo. 475pp. In fine state with virtually fine dust wrapper, marred only by a tiny area of near-invisible stubborn marking. A hefty selection from the hitherto unpublished correspondence from Larkin to Monica Jones, the poet’s correspondent, lover and closest confidante for over forty years. £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

EDWIN MUIR. Selected Letters of Edwin Muir. Edited and with an introduction by P.H.Butter. The Hogarth Press, London 1974. First edition. 8vo. 221pp. Portrait frontispiece. Spine ends lightly rubbed and with a small area of staining to the fore edge. Very good in dust wrapper, a little nicked and dust soiled with several short tears and a sliver or two of loss. The first publication of any of Muir’s correspondence: 137 letters, the recipients including George Mackay Brown, T.S.Eliot, Van Wyck Brooks, Sydney Schiff, John Buchan, George Barker, Herbert Read, Kathleen Raine &c. £10

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. 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. 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. 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. The Diary of Anaïs Nin 1931-1934. Edited and with an eight-page introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann (Nin’s agent). The Swallow Press and Harcourt, Brace & World Inc., New York 1966. First edition – this copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “For Ann, who has insight and a warm human response. Affectionately Anaïs”. 8vo. 368pp. Quarter cloth. Illustrated with twenty photographs. Fifteen instances of inked underlining in the text or margins. A nice crisp copy in somewhat chafed and edge worn dust wrapper, lightly faded at spine panel with several lengthy tears and three or four tiny slivers of loss. Small dealer plate to the head of the front free endpaper,  and another to a blank preliminary leaf. The first volume of Nin’s diary, which eventually ran to seven volumes. £95

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

ANAÏS NIN. Nearer the Moon. From A Journal of Love. The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin 1937-1939. With a preface by Rupert Pole and biographical notes and annotations by Gunther Stuhlmann. Peter Owen, London 1996. First edition. 8vo. 396pp. Illustrated with photographs. In fine state with fine dust wrapper. The fourth volume of Nin’s unexpurgated diaries, corresponding to part of the published diaries but consisting primarily of material omitted by the publisher for legal reasons. £20

EZRA POUND. Pound / The Little Review. The Letters of Ezra Pound to Margaret Anderson: ‘The Little Review’ Correspondence. Edited by Thomas L.Scott, Melvin J.Friedman and Jackson R.Bryer. Faber, London 1989. First UK edition. 8vo. 368pp. A trace of discolouration to upper margin of boards, else in fine state with virtually fine dust wrapper. A hefty collection of letters from Pound to Margaret Anderson, publisher and editor of The Little Review, plus a few replies (the vast bulk of Anderson's half of the correspondence has not survived). £10

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

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

MARY WOOLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY. My Best Mary. The Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Edited and introduced by Muriel Spark & Derek Stanford. Wingate, London 1953. First edition. 8vo. 240pp. Frontispiece. Endpapers lightly spotted. A very crisp copy in lightly spotted and soiled dust wrapper. A preface and an eleven-page introduction by the editors (apparently writing alternate paragraphs) precede over 120 letters from Shelley to Leigh Hunt, Byron, Trelawny, Thomas Moore and others. £20

EDITH SITWELL. Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell. Edited by Richard Greene. Virago, London 1997. First edition. 484pp. Covers bumped at two corners. A very bright copy in dust wrapper. £15

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, house 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

GERTRUDE STEIN. Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B.Toklas. Edited with a memoir by Samuel M.Steward. Illustrated with photographs. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1977. First Edition. 260pp. Two tiny blemishes to cloth at spine and top edge lightly dust marked. In virtually fine state with dust wrapper, a little dust marked. Over 100 letters from Stein and Toklas, many hitherto unpublished. £15

JAMES STEPHENS. Letters of James Stephens. Edited by Richard J.Finneran, with a bibliographical checklist. Macmillan, London 1974. The first English edition. A near fine copy in slightly rubbed, price-clipped dust wrapper. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown. £20

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, London 1994. First edition. 669pp. A hint of dust marking to top edge, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £20

CARL VAN VECHTEN. Letters of Carl Van Vechten. Edited by Bruce Kellner. With illustrations. Yale University Press, New Haven & London 1987. First edition. 301pp. Covers fractionally marked and faded in places and just lifting a little. A very bright copy in very slightly rubbed dust wrapper. £15

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 an introduction by David Garnett. Putnam, New York 1965. First edition - never published in the UK. 250pp. Cloth lightly marked in places. A very bright copy in very slightly marked dust wrapper. £25