Poetry & Drama
Eighty-Five Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. [Poetry] REVIEW COPY. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.128. Loosely inserted is the publisher's note to the reviewer. Publisher's purple cloth lettered in white to spine, typographic dust-jacket, printed price at 10s 6d to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, 1.5cm and 3cm tears to..... More
The Mad Islands and The Administrator. Two Radio Plays.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964. [Radio Plays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.112. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the cream and orange typographic dust-jacket, priced at 18s. Jacket lightly handled, and gently toned. Near fine. More
Spring-Board. Poems 1941-1944.
London: Faber and Faber, 1944. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.56. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s to front flap. Small pencilled ownership inscription to flyleaf. Light toning to top of cloth. Minor edgewear to jacket. Near fine. Irish poet..... More
Ten Burnt Offerings.
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.96. Publisher's pink cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the grey typographic dust-jacket. Lightly toned throughout; tobacco scented. Jacket toned and rubbed to spine and edges with some light chipping also, and a small ink stain to..... More
Escape From Anger: Poems in Pamphlet XI.
Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1951. [Poetry] HAND-CORRECTED FIRST EDITIONS. Three copies. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 327-356. Publisher's blue soft covers, priced at 1s, stapled twice. All three copies hand-corrected (presumably by the author) in black ink, with slightly differing crossings-out, additions, and marginal notes. Covers toned and..... More
Land Workers.
London: William Heinemann, 1942. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 12. Publisher's plain paper covers, priced at 1s. Toned to covers and throughout, with some light handling. Near fine. More
Minnie Maylow's Story, and Other Tales & Scenes.
London: William Heinemann, 1931. [Verse] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[14] 256 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the blue-striped dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Jacket heavily toned to spine, with rubbing to joints and chipping to head and tail of spine and corners..... More
Right Royal.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Horse Racing Poetry] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE, the second printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 120. Publisher's green paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine and upper. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate, and a bookseller's label, to front pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers and toning to edges..... More
Lee: A Dramatic Poem.
New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1926. [American Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[12] 139 [3]. Number 149 of 250 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to the limitation page. Printed on fine, handmade paper. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and..... More
The Garden of Bright Waters. One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1920. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.108 [4]. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with black titles to spine and black paper over boards. Untrimmed edges. Wth the typographic green dust-jacket, priced at 6s. Some leaves unopened; very light spotting and toning throughout. Light wear and toning..... More
The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television by Ian McEwan. [Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration, and Solid Geometry].
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. [Television Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's oatmeal cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd, priced at £5.95. A minor bump and a light mark to jacket front cover. A fine copy. Not to be confused..... More
Carmen, an Opera in Four Acts. Taken from the story of Prosper Merimee, the original Libretto by H. Meilhac and L. Halevy. New English Version by John and Ada Galsworthy.
London: Elkin Matthews and Marrot, 1932. [Opera Libretto] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 80 [2]. Number 97 of 650 copies, 600 thus, SIGNED by both John and Ada Galsworthy ink black ink to limitation page. Publisher's white quarter cloth, with black titles to spine, and silver..... More
Later Poems.
London: The Bodley Head, 1902. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[4] 37 [7]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine with gilt decoration to upper. Untrimmed edges. Toning to edges and endpapers, with a touch of general handling. Near fine. Alice Meynell was a British writer, editor..... More
The Crucible.
London: Penguin, 1996. [Drama] FILM TIE-IN EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. XXVII; [1], blank; [3]; 32; [6], photographs of 'The Crucible' being performed; 33-96. Black publisher's cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dustwrapper picturing Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder. Very slight bumping to spine, 1.5cm tear to dustwrapper..... More
Resurrection Blues.
Minneapolis, MN: Guthrie Theater, 2002. [Drama] INSCRIBED PLAY-SCRIPT. Octavo (22 x16cm), pp.[6] 136. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front cover: 'To William | from Arthur | August.' Pictorial white pamphlet lettered with grey and black, bound with black paper to spine. Slight scuffing; small price label to..... More
A View From The Bridge. Two One-Act Plays.
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.vii [1] 160. Red quarter cloth, patterned red paper over boards. Lettered in white to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Robert Hallock with printed price of $3 to front flap. Top edge of textblock red. Toning and..... More
Just Wild about Harry. A Melo-Melo in Seven Scenes.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.106 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and purple typographic dust-jacket, priced at 16s. The lightest of handling. A lovely crisp fine copy. More
Streams.
Lindfield: Lemon Publications, 1975. [Poetry] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.145; [1]; unpaginated blanks to rear. Publisher's printed wrappers. Signed and inscribed on the title page: "To Guy | Have a jolly jubilee | mate | Peter | The Bend | Lindfield. 77." With a foreword by Spike..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 626. Contemporary navy full calf, boards gilt-ruled, with gilt armorial device of Marlborough College to upper. Spine with brown label lettered in gilt, raised bands, and gilt tooling. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1903. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 607 [3]. Contemporary navy full calf for The Leys School, Cambridge, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the school coat of arms stamped in gilt to upper. All edges..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiii [3] 554 [2]. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of John Milton and facsimile first edition title-pages. Publisher's quarter vellum, red cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered red label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top..... More
Adrian Mitchell: Poems.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.61; [3]. Zebra patterned boards quarter-bound with black card lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor with printed price of 12s 6d to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock and pages, bumping to spine..... More
The Play's the Thing.
New York, NY: Brentano's, 1927. [Hungarian Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 139 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with titles blocked with designs in blue and green to spine and upper board. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the green dust-jacket titled in a darker green. Lightly browned throughout. Dust-jacket..... More
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
Like a Bulwark.
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. [Poetry] REVIEW COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. 41; [3]. Blue publisher's cloth lettered with gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket, publisher's information on the back of dust-jacket, printed price of 10s 6d to front flap. Loosely inserted is a publisher's invitation for a review copy..... More