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Luther. A Play.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.102 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white illustrated dust-jacket. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A few marks to jacket, small surface loss to upper panel, and one..... More
A Patriot for Me.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.128. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Dominic. Spotting to top edge. Price-clipped jacket rubbed to edges. Very good. A homosexual officer in the Austro-Hungarian army is blackmailed into spying for..... More
The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Moral Entertainment. Adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the plain typographic dust-jacket. Light handling to price-clipped jacket. Near fine. More
A Place Calling Itself Rome.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. [Drama] FIRST EDITIONS, both states. Two volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.78 [2]; 78 [2]. One volume in publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and the dust-jacket priced at £1.75, and the other in publisher's soft covers, priced at 85p. Light handling and..... More
The World of Paul Slickey.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21x13cm), pp.96. Publisher's brown cloth, in photographic dust-wrapper by Alec Murray. A lightly used copy with a little edgewear, dustiness and toning. Very good. John Osborne was an anti-Establishment writer, one of the 'angry young men' and leading playwright of England's post-war..... More
The World of Paul Slickey.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Alec Murray. Roughly price-clipped jacket toned to spine, with rubbing and bruising to edges and some soiling to rear cover. Very good. John Osborne..... More
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The Theological Works. The Age of Reason [and] Miscellaneous Poems.
London: R. Carlile, 1819-1826. [Collected Essays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, a mixed issue. Part one of The Age of Reason dated 1826; all other parts dated 1819. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 52; pp.96; pp.61 [1]; pp.71 [1]; pp.[4] 24; 25-28. Containing all four parts of The Age of Reason. Followed..... More
The Blind Beauty. A Play.
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1969. [Russian Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.128. With a black and white photograph of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill, priced at 25s. Light rubbing to..... More
Atomic Adam.
London: Fulham Gallery Ltd., 1967. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Folio (34 x 24cm), one sheet of green paper folded twice, in a grey card jacket, with titles to both. Printed in purple and silver. Folds out to broadly A2 size, with the poem printed again in a larger decorative format..... More
Mervyn Peake: Selected Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.46 [2]. Publisher's lilac cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Peake, priced at £1.35. Minor toning to jacket and slight wear to edges. Near fine. More
The Bernini Bust.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1992. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper. Price clipped, otherwise a clean, fine copy. The third of seven acclaimed mysteries for detective art historian Jonathan Argyll, from the award-winning novelist Iain Pears... More
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets; together with some few of Later Date. Reprinted entire from the Author's Last Edition.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1867. [English Ballads] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xcvi; 290 [2]; pp.viii; 318 [4]; pp.xxxvi; 340 [2]. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines and upper boards, and elaborate blind tooling all over. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
A Shropshire Garland: Being a Garland of Sonnets.
Lydbury North: Grail Press, no date [circa 2000]. [Poetry] LIMITED INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), 36 leaves, unpaginated. Wood engravings by Keay to every page. Number 46 of just 200 copies INSCRIBED by both author and illustrator to title page to 'Jo'. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles..... More
Marpessa.
London: John Lane, 1901. [Poetry]. EARLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (15 x 12cm), pp.47 [1]. With seven wood engravings by Philip Connard, including a frontispiece and a tailpiece. In publisher's green limp latticed morocco-covered card covers, with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Black ink ownership inscription..... More
Five Screenplays. The Servant; The Pumpkin Eater; The Quiller Memorandum; Accident; The Go-Between.
London: Methuen & Co., 1971. [Television Screenplays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 367 [3]. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket priced at £3.75. Very light handling. A fine copy. Four television dramas adapted by Pinter from novels by other authors..... More
The Ermine: Poems 1942-1952.
London: The Cresset Press, 1953. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[6] 62. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the grey dust-jacket illustrated by Joan Hassall, priced at 8/6. A lovely crisp fine copy, with a little light handling to jacket. A dark cycle of poems..... More
The Ermine: Poems 1942-1952.
London: The Cresset Press, 1953. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[6] 62. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the grey dust-jacket illustrated by Joan Hassall, priced at 8/6. Jacket with heavy tape burns to reverse edges and flaps, and some light rubbing to edge and..... More
Winter Trees.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.55; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles in typographic dust-wrapper price at £1.00. A lovely fine copy in dust-wrapper. These poems were all written in the nine months before Plath's untimely death in 1963... More
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Stesure e Frammenti dei Cantos CX-CXVII. [Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CVII].
Milan: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro [at the sign of the Goldfish], 1973. [Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.72. A dual-language edition with English and Italian on facing leaves. Number 308 of 2000 copies thus. Publisher's grey soft covers titled to spine and upper. Light handling, with one small..... More
Personae: Collected Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound.
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY DENIS GOACHER. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. Dramatically INSCRIBED by Goacher 'For my beloved Simone' in black ink to fly-leaf, quoting a line from p.211. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow dust-jacket, priced at..... More
The Dewpond.
Elkin Mathews and Marrot, London, 1928. Signed Limited Edition. Printed at the UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW. 8vo., pps. 30. Publisher's decorative paper-covered boards, uncut. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper, lightly browned to extremities. More
Legends and Lyrics. A Book of Verses. New Edition with Additional Poems.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1895. [Victorian Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 383 [3]. With 10 black and white illustrated plates by Lovering, including a frontispiece. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, with machine-marbled endpapers..... More
Variation on a Theme.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.127 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket titled in green, priced at 10/6. Rubbing and toning to jacket spine, with rubbing to edges and a few closed tears. Very good. More
The Winslow Boy.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.109 [3]. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine and upper. With the typographic dust-jacket titled in red. A nice clean copy internally, with some rubbing and chipping to jacket spine and edges. Very good. More
Twelve Poems.
St Andrews: Privately Printed by Michael Oliver at 29 North Street, 1949. [Poetry] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION WITH LETTER. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.[24]. Printed in Times New Roman on Tullis Russell 'Mellotex' paper. Number 26 of just 50 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page..... More