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Poetry & Drama
Prometheus Bound: Vatican Radio broadcast on the case of Ezra Pound.
Vatican City: Vatican Radio, 1954. [Radio Transcript] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled once. Light toning and handling. Near fine. An English transcript of a radio programme originally broadcast on 30th March 1954 on Vatican and Italian Radio. Portuguese poet Pina Martins..... More
The Gazelles and Other Poems.
London: Duckworth and Co., 1904. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet in soft covers (20 x 15cm), pp.32. Publisher's grey paper covers with title to upper, priced at 1s. Rubbing and a couple of small chips to edges. Black ink ownership to half-title. Very good. More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Reprinted from the Early Editions, with Explanatory Notes, etc. The Chandos Poets.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xii [2]; 653 [3]. With 12 engraved plates, and a frontispiece engraving of the author. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind ruling..... More
John Nobody.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. [Indian English Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.52 [4]. Publisher's grey cloth with titles in red and silver to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket titled in grey and orange. Price-clipped jacket rubbed and lightly chipped to edges, with toning and sunning to..... More
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904. [Pre-Raphaelite Poetry] FIRST KING-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 310. With 96 illustrations by King, including a frontispiece, decorated title page, and numerous in-text illustrations and full-page plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards. Top edge..... More
Independence.
Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1981. [Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.29 [3]. One of just 600 cloth-bound copies, from a total print-run of 1800. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and red and green patterned endpapers. With the tan dust-jacket featuring an illustration of the..... More
Twelve Poems.
Stoke Ferry: Daedalus Press, 1968. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[22]. Number 8 of 300 copies SIGNED by the author. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket titled in gilt to front cover. Bumped to corners, with some light handling. Near fine. More
Lamps in the Valley: A Book of Verse.
London: Elkin Matthews and Marrot, 1927. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's green quarter cloth with green paper over boards, and dark blue titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. With the original glassine jacket, as well as the wrap-around band stating 'A Book of Verses..... More
Blasts and Benedictions: Articles and Stories.
London: Macmillan, 1967. [Theatre Criticism and Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xx; 314 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the red typographic dust-jacket showing a black and white photograph of the author. A lovely bright, crisp copy. Jacket priced-clipped, with an abrasion mark to..... More
Nenagh Minstrelsy: A Volume of Original Poems, Songs, and Translations, Compiled, Revised, and Published by John O'Shea.
Nenagh: Printed at the Office of the Guardian, 1838-39. [Irish Poetry and Songs] ONLY EDITION. Sexto (18 x 12cm), pp.xii; 7-126 [2]; pp.64 [2]; pp.56 [2]; pp.11 [1]. Complete with the two separate title pages dated 1838. Contemporary green diced cloth with gilt titles to spine and yellow coated endpapers..... More
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Common Adventures: a Book of Prose and Verse [and] Nicolas Flamel: a Play in Four Acts, from the French of Gerard de Nerval.
Dublin: The Orwell Press, 1926. [Irish Short Stories and Drama] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[12] 53 [1]. Number 183 of just 200 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's plain card covers with grey endpapers. All edges untrimmed; partially unopened. Lightly..... More
The Poetry of Dylan Thomas.
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1954. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 164 [4]. Publisher's black cloth with remnants of titles to spine. Astrological illustrations to endpapers. With the red typographic dust-jacket. A contemporary London bus ticket loose to preliminaries. Titles to spine largely rubbed..... More
The Entertainer.
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. [Drama]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.89. Publisher's green cloth, in photographic dustwrapper (showing Olivier as Archie) by Anthony Armstrong Jones (Lord Snowdon). Some stage directions to acts 3-4, long gift inscription to pastedown, else fine, in a near fine wrapper, toned to spine..... More
Look Back In Anger.
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Julie Hamilton, priced at 10/6. Contents clean, endpapers toned, jacket with a couple of short tears. Near fine. The play that launched a flotilla..... More
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