Poetry & Drama
By the Old Walls of Kyoto. A Year's Cycle of Landscape Poems with Prose Commentaries.
New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1981. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxv; [1]; 463; [3]. With 24 colour reproductions of nihonga by various artists. Pictorial endpapers inspired by a wall at Daitoku-ji. Publisher's red cloth, with design in black to upper and black titles to spine. With the..... More
The Contractor.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.122 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor, priced at 25s / £1.25. Some rubbing to jacket. Near fine. First staged in 1969, starring Bill Owen and Martin Shaw..... More
Shadowed Victory.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1944. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.77; [3]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in red to spine. Typographic dust-jacket. Toning to edges of textblock, bumping to spine and edges, marking and wear to dust-jacket, price clipped. Very good. Arthur Stringer was a Canadian novelist..... More
Selected Poems.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. LIMITED EDITION. Small octavo, pp.32. Number 206 of just 350 copies, hand-numbered in black ink. In publisher's quarter blue cloth with orange paper-covered boards and gilt titles to spine. With original cream dust-jacket. Also with a blue Jonathan Cape postcard and a loose advertisement for 'The..... More
The Joy of Living. (Es Lebe Das Leben) A Play in Five Acts.
London: Duckworth & Co., 1903. [German Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, INSCRIBED BY MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 185 [3]. Publisher's cream vegetable parchment over boards, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and green decoration to upper. All edges untrimmed. With a hand-written invitation to..... More
Atalanta in Calydon. A Tragedy.
London: Edward Moxon and Co., 1865. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 18cm), pp.[2] xii; 111 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth over bevelled boards, with gilt titles to spine and gilt devices stamped to upper board, designed by D.G. Rossetti (1828-1882). One of just 100 copies thus. All edges untrimmed..... More
A Book of Twenty Songs.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo pamphlet (16 x 13cm), pp.34 [2]. Publisher's green paper covers, titled to upper. All edges untrimmed. Very light occasional spotting. Covers rubbed and browned to extremities; a couple of light creases. Very good. More
The Tinker's Wedding. A Comedy in Two Acts.
Dublin: Maunsel and Co., 1907. [Irish Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.viii; 50 [8]. Publisher's tan quarter cloth, with brown titles to spine and brown cloth over boards. All edges untrimmed. Faint traces of original ink ownership to washed fly-leaf, with small black ink monogram ownership dated 1924..... More
Homage to Cheval. Poems & a Drawing by George Szirtes.
Berkhampsted: the Priapus Press, 1980. [Poetry] PRIVATE PRESS. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 15cm), pp.[12]. Four poems and a frontispiece illustration by the author. One of just 150 copies edited, hand-set and printed by John Cotton at the Priapus Press. Publisher's pink card wraps, sewn. Very light handling. Near fine... More
Enoch Arden, etc.
London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1864. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 178; [2]. Bound in green full Morocco with raised bands, gilt tooling and lettering to spine, gilt tooling to boards, gilt dentelle to turn-ins. All edges gilt. Lacking advertisements, previous owner's name and date to flyleaf..... More
The Holy Grail. And Other Poems.
London: Strahan and Co., Publishers, 1870. [Arthurian Legend] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 222 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Brown endpapers. Pencil ownership to first blank. Rubbing to cloth, small split to top of lower joint. Very good. Begun in 1859, Tennyson's classic exploration..... More
The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1892. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 111 [1]. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean, some light bumping to boards corners and spine. Near fine. Poems from a Poet Laureate. More
Gareth and Lynette. etc.
London: Strahan and Co., 1872. [Arthurian Legend] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6] 136 [10]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Yellow-coated endpapers. A lovely clean copy, partially unopened, with some rubbing to spine. Near fine. Begun in 1859, Tennyson's classic exploration of the legend of King..... More
Gareth and Lynette. etc.
London: Strahan and Co., 1872. [Arthurian Legend] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6] 136 [10]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Yellow-coated endpapers. Contents clean, discreet ink name to endpaper, frayed at spine ends, extremities rubbed. Very good. Begun in 1859, Tennyson's classic exploration of the legend..... More
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After, etc.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1886. [Poetry and Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 201 [3]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Edges untrimmed. Bookseller's blind stamp to fly-leaf. Light toning throughout, and somewhat cocked. Spine toned, with light rubbing to cloth. Very good. Including the title..... More
Poems.
Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6] vi; 436 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 443 [5]. With a steel-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume. Contemporary green full straight-grained morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spines and gilt ruling to..... More
The Holy Grail. And Other Poems.
London: Strahan and Co., 1869. [Poetry] ADVANCE COPY. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 222; [2]. Publisher's green cloth with embossed patterning lettered in gilt to spine. Light spotting throughout, toning to edges of textblock, sunning to spine, wearing and bumping to spine and edges. Very good. Despite the book's publication..... More
Concert For George.
UK: Genesis Publications, 2004. [Rock photo-documentary] DELUXE EDITION, signed by Olivia Harrison. Folio, pp.306 STRICTLY LIMITED; No 21 of 350 numbered copies, not to be confused with the 'Collector' edition which was numbered up to 2500. Deluxe copies were bound in half-terracotta goatskin over padded cloth sides with rose gold..... More
18 Poems.
London: The Fortune Press, 1934 [1942]. [Poetry] FORTUNE PRESS EDITION, First Issue. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.32. 'Knole Park Press' imprint at rear, with 'nor' to p.12 and 'world' to p.23. Blue / grey cloth with gilt titles to rounded spine. With the yellow dust-jacket, priced at 6s. Hinges starting..... More
Collected Poems 1934-1952.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1952. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.178. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 12s 6d to front flap. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of the author. Top edge red. Loosely inserted are newspaper articles..... More
The Doctor and the Devils, and Other Scripts.
New York, NY: New Directions, no date [1961]. [Film and Radio Scripts] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 229 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at $5.00. Light wear to extremities. Near fine. More
The Collected Poetry of Francis Thompson.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. [Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. One of two thousand five hundred copies. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.xx; 413; [3]. Publisher's grey quarter cloth, stippled blue paper over boards. Paper labels to upper and spine, pictorial device printed to upper. Top edge gilt, the rest untrimmed. Housed inside..... More
Military Honours.
London: The Fortune Press, 1946. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s. Just a touch of spotting to endpapers. Jacket toned, with rubbing to joints and edges, some water marks to edges..... More
The Seasons, Odes, Songs, and Hymns.
London: Printed for John Bumpus, 1822. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 11cm), pp.[2] xxiv; 192 [4]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author, and an introductory biography by Aikin. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles to a black label, further gilt decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
The Poetical Works of James Thomson. Comprising all his Pastoral, Dramatic, Lyrical, and Didactic Poems, and a few of his Juvenile Productions. With a Life of the Author by the Rev. Patrick Murdoch, D.D., F.R.S. and Notes by Nichols.
London: William Tegg and Co, 1849. [Poetical works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[72] 676 [2]. Nine illustrations including portrait frontispiece. Dark green full calf, gilt titles on red label to spine, with gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, and wide decorative border in gilt and blind..... More