Poetry & Drama
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
A Subject of Scandal and Concern.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. [Television Play] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.48. Publisher's plain soft covers with the black and pink dust-jacket adhered to the spine, priced at 5s. A little light handling to covers. A crisp, near-fine copy. A television play based on the life of George..... 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
![Item #54426 The Theological Works. The Age of Reason [and] Miscellaneous Poems. Thomas PAINE](/pictures/thumb/54426.jpg?v=1584533260)
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
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[Press Photographs for 'Romeo and Juliet' at the New Theatre, London, 1935].
London: Bertram Park [and] Howard Coster, no date [1935]. [English Theatre] NINE ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS. Eight 26 x 19cm; one 26 x 20cm. Black and white photographs on glossy photographic paper, each with the photographer's studio stamp to reverse. Glue marks to reverse of each photograph. The eight photographs by..... More
![Item #60108 [Press Photographs for 'Hamlet' at the New Theatre, London, 1934]. Bertram PARK,...](/pictures/thumb/60108.jpg?v=1657037825)
[Press Photographs for 'Hamlet' at the New Theatre, London, 1934].
London: Bertram Park [and] Yvonne Gregory, no date [1934]. [English Theatre] ELEVEN ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS. Seven 22 x 17cm; four 19 x 26cm. Black and white photographs on glossy photographic paper, each with the photographer's studio stamp to reverse. Glue marks to reverse of each photograph. Seven by Gregory and..... 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
Poems.
London: Enitharmon Press, 1968. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, first edition. Slim octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[8]; 24; [6]. Errata slip loosely inserted. Publisher's red quarter morocco over black cloth boards, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt. Number 104 of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Slightly toned to..... 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
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
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
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
Paradise Lost. An Illustrated Edition with an introduction by Philip Pullman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 374 [4]. SIGNED by Pullman in blue ink to title page.Text printed in red and black. With facsimile plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. Publisher's black cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... 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