Poetry & Drama
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
The Image of the Poet British Poets and their Portraits.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1982. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.xxii; 219 [3]. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the illustrated grey dust-jacket, priced at £17.50. A touch of light handling, and pencil ownership of William St Clair..... 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
Ariel. Poems by Sylvia Plath.
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, second printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.86; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 12s. 6d. Slightly dusty. Near fine in like jacket with a chip to the crown. Shows well. Ariel, written during the year of..... More
The Colossus. Poems by Sylvia Plath.
London: Faber and Faber, 1967. [Poetry] FIRST FABER EDITION, second printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.88. Publisher's orange cloth with silver titles, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 18s. 6d. Slightly dusty but essentially a clean, near fine copy. More
Force of Circumstance and Other Poems.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 54. Publisher's typographic light green paper over boards. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. An exceptionally crisp, bright copy, toned to jacket spine. Near fine. The poet's first published collection, which has never been included..... More
Paradise Lost. An Illustrated Edition with an introduction by Philip Pullman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS, first impression. 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..... More
The Pythoness. And Other Poems.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 56. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 6s to front flap. Rolling to spine, toning to dust-jacket spine and chipping to to crown, spotting to jacket. Very good. This is..... 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
The Phoenix and the Tortoise.
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1944. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] 100 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth, tan label with red titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at $2.50 to front flap. Top edge red. Internally clean and lightly toned. Some toning to jacket, mostly to backstrip..... 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 Running 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
New Songs of Innocence.
Edinburgh: Macniven and Wallace, 1889. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION WITH JACKET. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.viii; 109 [3]. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards. Top edge gilt, and blue endpapers. A really stunning, crisp example, with just a touch of spotting to cloth. The..... More
Collected Poems. With an Introductory Memoir by Dan Davin.
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxvi; 149 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £3.00. Some associated news clippings loose to preliminaries. A crisp, clean copy showing some light wear to jacket extremities..... More
Europa and the Bull. And Other Poems.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1952. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.94; [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to the title page: 'Inscribed for.. | by W.R. Rodgers 1952.' Publisher's yellow cloth, red label with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 10s..... More
The Pleasures of Memory, with Other Poems.
London: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND NEW EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8] 187 [1]. With numerous copperplate vignettes throughout, designed by Thomas Stothard. Contemporary brown full tree-calf, boards gilt-ruled. Brown label with blind titles and gilt-tooling to spine. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins..... 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
Christina Rossetti Poems.
London: Blackie and Sons Ltd., 1910. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST HARRISON ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.xxii; 369. Illustrated with 36 tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. No.149 of 350 copies signed by the illustrator. Publisher's full parchment, pictorially blocked in gilt to spine and..... More
Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George Harrap & Co., 1933. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION, printed by R. Clark of Edinburgh in 1933, not to be confused with the 1939 reissue, printed by Jarrold. A vellum-bound limited edition was released simultaneously with this edition. Slim octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.45; [3], blank. With 4..... More
Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1939. [Illustrated Poetry] REISSUE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.37 [3]. With a colour frontispiece and 19 black and white drawings by Rackham. Pictorial cream paper wrappers printed in yellow, brown and black depicting goblins and fruits, with yapp edges, and pictorial end-papers. Light wear..... 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
The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence. Variorum Edition with an Introduction and Notes.
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2007. [Poetry] CRITICAL EDITION, First Thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxii; 301 [3]. A scholarly edition containing a large introduction, extensive detailed notes, and appendices. Publisher's brown cloth with titles in gilt to spine, and a paper label to upper. A fine, as-new copy... More