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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
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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
Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
New York: The Century Co., 1913. FIRST US EDITION, with larger plates and format than the UK edition. Contains 13 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Publisher's dark blue cloth, colour illustration pasted down to upper, gilt titles to spine. A fine copy, in chipped but bright dustwrapper..... 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
Mr Mouth.
London: Ondt & Gracehoper, 2006. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[8] 122 [2]. SIGNED by the author in blue pencil to title page, dated 28/11/08. Publisher's plain black soft covers, with black and orange illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. A fine, as-new copy. A large collection of contemporary..... More
A Dream Observed, and Other Poems. PL Pamphlets No. 2.
London: Poetry, no date [1941]. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 21 [3]. Publisher's grey typographic soft covers, stapled twice. Light handling, with some toning to edges and spine. Very good. More
Green Fields and Runninng Brooks.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1893. [American-Irish Poetry Interest] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 224 [2]. With a SIGNED presentation slip tipped in to preliminaries, addressed to the notable Irish Nationalist MP Hon. T.P. O'Connor, and dated Christmas 1892. Publisher's brown cloth with a maroon strip to top..... More
These Are My Comrades. Poems.
London: Routledge, 1943. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.39 [1]. Publisher's red quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and turquoise paper over boards. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the plain pink dust-jacket, titled in red and priced at 5s. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Light..... More
Poems by Isaac Rosenberg.
London: William Heinemann, 1922. [Great War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 186 [2]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece of the author. Publisher's black cloth with plain printed title label to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. A nice clean copy with just a little toning..... More
The Beacon of Memory.
Crawley: Rigby and Lewis, 1991. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION WITH TYPESCRIPT POETRY. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[14]; 291; [7]. With a typescript of 'Random Rhymes' inscribed by the author in blue ink, dated 1979. 11 sheets, stapled, and folded in half. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cream..... More
Verses by Christina G. Rossetti.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1893. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.236 [4]. Printed on fine handmade paper, with red ruling to margins. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription to front fly-leaf, dated 1893..... More
Christina Rossetti Poems.
London: Blackie and Sons Ltd., 1910. [Illustrated Verse] FIRST HARRISON ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (30 x 22cm). Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's full parchment over boards pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Contents very clean, expected marking/browning to..... More
The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
London: Ellis and Elvey, 1891. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary brown full morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, and endpapers decorated with gilt. Gentle toning throughout, with spotting to frontispiece tissue guard. Moderate wear and bumping to..... More
Poems & Translations 1850-1870, Together with the Prose Story 'Hand and Soul.'
London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1926. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 482 [4]. With a frontispiece of the author's self-portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. Contemporary navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blue cloth..... More