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Collected Longer Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.356. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket, repriced by Faber at £2.50 net with a sticker over the original printed price of 45s / £2.25 net. First and last leaves faintly creased at the..... More
The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays.
New York, NY: Random House, 1962. [Literary Criticism] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 528. Publisher's cyan cloth, with gilt titles to black backing on spine. Top edge black. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at $7.50. A little spotting to cloth at the head of the spine. Jacket..... More
Academic Graffiti.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. [Illustrated Clerihews] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), unpaginated. 60 poems with an illustration by Sanjust to each facing leaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Sanjust, priced at £2.00. Light handling; a fine copy. More
About the House.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, with the errata slip at p.7. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and pink dust-jacket, priced at 15s. South African bookseller's ticket to pastedown. The lightest of offsetting to endpapers. Spine..... More
Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.351 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket priced at 42s. Jacket rubbed to spine and edges, with creasing and some loss to head and tail of spine. Very good... More
Collected Shorter Poems 1930-1944.
London: Faber and Faber, 1950. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.303 [1]. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Armorial bookplate of Labour politician Woodrow Wyatt to front pastedown. Toning to edges, with a moderate tobacco scent. Jacket toned..... More
The Dance of Death.
London: Faber and Faber, 1933. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.38 [2]. Publisher's green paper-covered boards titled in black to spine and upper. A red ownership stamp to flyleaf, with a pencil note stating it refers to C.H. Waddington, and a blue ink note also to flyleaf..... More
Making, Knowing and Judging. An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 11 June 1956.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1956. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.33 [3]. Publisher's plain typographic paper covers, sewn. Sewing broken; covers detached. Quite heavy wear, and a crease, to covers. Good. More
Thank You, Fog: Last Poems by W.H. Auden.
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 57 [5]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and light blue paper over boards. With the black and grey dust-jacket, priced at £1.75. Jacket lightly toned to spine, with the lightest of handling to..... More
Tickety-Tock and the Robber Fox.
Tunbridge Wells: Courier Co., no date [circa 1932]. [Children's Illustrated] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.45 [3]. Illustrated through with silhouettes by Johnson. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'Aunt Agatha | October 1932 | with special greetings.' Publisher's blue paper over boards, with black..... More
The Works of Jane Austen, Georgian Edition. Including: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and The Watsons. In Five Volumes.
London: Eveleigh Nash and Grayson Limited, 1927. [English Literature]. THE GEORGIAN EDITION. Introduction by John Bailey. 5 volumes, octavo (20 x 13 x 21cm), title pages printed in two colours. Elegantly bound in half navy calf with twin red morocco title labels to spine, gilt decoration, raised bands, matching cloth..... More
Emma.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 438; [8], ads; [56], catalogue. With wood-engraved illustrations and frontispiece by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's burgundy blind-stamped foliate cloth, titled in gilt, edges untrimmed. Contents very clean, one neat, short tear to ads, contemporary (1900) news..... More
The Vox Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933-4. [Classic Literature] FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 21cm), 7 volumes. With colour plates and in-text black and white illustrations by Maximilien Vox. Prefatory letter, in French by Maximilien Vox and an introduction by Emile Legouis. Publisher's patterned grey cloth..... More
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The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen [set of works, comprises 5 volumes of the novels]: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Emma, and 2 volumes of Letters. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by W.R. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1923, 1932. First Oxford Edition. Large Paper. Limited to 1000 sets. Seven volumes. Coloured frontispieces. Beautifully bound in recent half blue oasis morocco with gilt titles and ornate gilt tooling to spines, blind rule to boards, cloth sides, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Internally clean..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen. The works include: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey with Persuasion, and Lady Susan with A Memoir of J. Austen and The Watsons.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1882. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. In six volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), with tissue-guarded frontispiece engraving by Pickering to each volume. Finely bound circa 1920s by Roger de Coverley in half mid-blue crushed morocco, gilt, over marbled sides with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Internally clean..... More
Persuasion & Love and Friendship.
London: Nicholas Vane, 1948. [Romantic Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS. Small octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.247 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and upper. Top edge black. With the black illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. A little toning to edges and jacket spine, with some rubbing and chipping..... More
War Storm.
London: Orion, 2018. [Young Adult Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 662 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary leaf. Publisher's navy cloth with metallic blue titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Sarah Nichole Kaufman, priced at £12.99. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later edition. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[12]; 268. With frequent wood engraved vignettes by the Patons. Contemporary green full morocco by R. and A. SUTTABY of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
The Wind in the Wood.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10]; 143; [1]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and wood engraved vignettes to chapter headings. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. net..... More
Head Kid.
London: HarperCollins Children's Books, 2018. [Children's Humour] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.[2] 384. SIGNED by the author in black ink to preliminary signature leaf. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blue patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Lenton, priced at £12.99. A fine..... More
Birds And Beasts In Africa, and The Angler In South Africa.
London: Macmillan and Co, and Johannesburg: Hortors Ltd, 1938 and 1923. Pair of Baden-Powell association copies, with a letter of authenticity from the scout association: 1) The Angler In South Africa. Inscribed "To The Chief Scout" by H.V. Marsh, the Assistant Commissioner of Natal during Baden-Powell's trip to South Africa..... More
A Jigsaw of Fire and Stars.
London: Zephyr, 2017. [Children's Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 309 [3]. With occasional marginal illustrations by Leo Nickolls. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black endpapers. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Nickolls, priced..... More
A Drug in the Market. Author of 'The Slip Coach', 'The Blue Poppy', 'The Down Train' and 'The Black Circle'.
London, Edward Arnold and Co. 1928. First Edition, 8vo. Publisher's light blue/grey cloth, titles in black to spine, in dark blue and white pictorial dust-jacket. Other publications listed to the back. A little bumping and scuffing to spine and corners with a slight lean. Light toning to pages, slightly darker..... More
Ancient Light.
London: Viking, 2012. [Modern Literature] DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 245 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, and signed also to tipped-in 'Exclusive Signed Edition' leaf. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and dark green endpapers. With the photographic..... More
Doctor Copernicus.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1976. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 242 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue just-jacket illustrated by Philip Mann. Spotting to edges. Jacket spine sunned with black New Fiction Society label to base. Very good. More