Poetry & Drama
Akhnaton.
London: Collins, 1973. [Play] PROOF COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.157; [1]. Publisher's mottled red paper wraps, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Andrew Vargo priced at £1.80 net. A scarce proof copy sent out in advance of the first edition. Dust-jacket very slightly creased and rubbed to top and bottom edges..... More
And Then There Were None (under its original "Ten Little N..." title, 1944). A Play in Three Acts.
London: Samuel French, 1944. [Drama] FRENCH'S ACTING EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.82. With a monochrome plate of the set layout opp. p.5, 'furniture and property plot' illustration is on p.76. Printed blue card softcovers priced 5s. Some underlining/stage direction else clean within. Moderate toning and wear to extremities, spine..... More
The Mousetrap. A Play in Two Acts.
London: Samuel French Limited, [circa 1990]. [Drama] CENTENARY EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 70 [4]. Publisher's yellow paper covers, illustrated to upper, reproducing the original from 1954. With a photogravure plate showing the set. Internally bright and clean. Minor crease to upper. A fine copy. First performed in 1952..... More
Poems.
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1973. [Poetry] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.124; [4]. Publisher's burgundy cloth, white ruling and titles to upper and spine. Interior crisp and bright. A fine copy in pristine condition. Containing two separate volumes, the first originally published as 'The Road of..... More
L'Alleluja. Poesie di Ennio Contini e La Prima Decade dei Cantos di Ezra Pound.
Mazara: Societa Editrice Siciliana, 1952. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.131 [5]. All text in Italian. Publisher's soft covers titled in red and black, priced at L.1000. Publisher's promotional slip to preliminaries. Toned throughout, especially to edges. Vertical crease to front cover, with light spotting and moderate wear..... More
Collected Poems.
London: The Cresset Press, 1954. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS NAOMI MITCHISON. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.117 [3]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Illustrated bookplate of Naomi Mitchison to fly-leaf. Spine toned and gilt dulled. Jacket heavily toned to..... More
The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper. Including his Translation of Homer.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1875. [Poetry] FINELY-BOUND COPY. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxiv; 516; [2]. With eighteen steel engravings, including a frontispiece, after William Harvey. Red full morocco. Tooling in both blind and gilt to boards. Gilt titles, further gilt decoration, and raised bands to spine. Turn-ins gilt ruled. Bevelled..... More
The Poetical Works of William Cowper.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1854. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxx; 416 [2]; pp.[2] xxviii; 428 [2]. Reasonably-sized print on good paper. Very fine contemporary green full morocco by J. WRIGHT, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and very fine..... More
Poems by William Cowper, Of the Inner Temple, Esq.
London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1787. [Poetry] THIRD EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] 367 [1]; pp.[8] 359 [1]. Contemporary full tan calf, recently rebacked with the original spines laid over. Gilt titles to red labels on spines. Armorial bookplate of Michael Pepper to front pastedown of each..... More
50 Poems.
New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. [American Poetry] THIRD LARGE PRINTING. Octavo (21 x 14cm), unpaginated, with 50 numbered poems. Publisher's brown cloth with darker brown titles to spine and upper. With the matching typographic dust-jacket priced at $2.00. Internally crisp and clean. Cloth shows some light wear..... More
Wild Decembers: a Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1932. SIGNED PRODUCTION COPY. Octavo, pp.97. In publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Flyer for the Apollo Theatre production pasted to front paste-down. SIGNED by the author and nineteen members of the cast and crew from the May production of the following..... More
Terence Rattigan: The Man and His Work.
London: Quartet Books, 2010. [Literary Biography] INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, revised third edition. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[2] 534. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'For Edward | with best wishes | Michael Darlow | 1st August 2011. Publisher's soft covers priced at £22.50. Light wear..... More
The Guardsman and Cupid's Daughter. And Other Poems.
London: Humphrey Toulmin, 1930. LIMITED EDITION, this being number 289 of 500 copies SIGNED by the Author and Artist. Octavo. Frontispiece and further black and white illustrations by John Austen. Publisher's green cloth, gilt title to spine and pictorial title label laid to upper. Top edge gilt, all other edges..... More
Fleet Street Eclogues; A Second Series of Fleet Street Eclogues.
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and The Bodley Head, 1893-1896. [Poetry] VOLUME ONE IS A LIMITED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 12 cm), pp.[8] 104 [4]; pp.[8] 102 [16], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spines, gilt titles and decoration to upper of volume two..... More
St. George's Day: A Fleet Street Eclogue.
New York, NY: John Lane, 1895. [Scottish Verse] AMERICAN COPYRIGHT EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.16. Stapled twice. Some handling and a few small chips to covers. Very good. Part of the second series of Fleet Street Eclogues, expressing dismay at the homogenisation of British and American culture, and..... More
Songs of Joy and Others.
London: A. C. Fifield, 1911. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp. 94; [2], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to front board and spine, untrimmed edges, gilt to top edge of textblock. Some light spotting to pages, small pencil ticks next to some poem's titles, toning..... More
Farewell to Poesy, and Other Pieces.
London: A.C. Fifield, 1910. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.60 [4], advertisements. Grey typographic paper over boards. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Endpapers and edges lightly toned. Near fine. An early collection from the 'super-tramp' poet, composed after his adventures across America - one being the loss of..... More
Country Comets.
London: Martin Hopkinson & Company, 1928. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.x; 35 [1]. Publisher's light green paper-covered boards with a plain paper title label to upper. A nice clean copy internally. Spine and upper sunned and toned to grey, with some light handling. Near fine. The author's..... More
Stuff and Nonsense, and So On.
London: Constable & Co., 1927. [Comic Verse] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 110 [2]. With frequent vignette woodcut illustrations by Bold. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf, dated February 1934. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Label..... More
The Burning-Glass, and Other Poems.
London: Faber & Faber, 1945. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.106 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the plain typographic dust-jacket titled in black and red, priced at 7/6. A little bumping to boards. Jacket a little rubbed to..... More
The Burning-Glass, and Other Poems.
London: Faber & Faber, 1945. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.106 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the plain typographic dust-jacket titled in black and red, priced at 7/6. Black ink ownership to front pastedown. Some toning to edges..... More
Poems 1901-1918.
London: Constable and Company, 1920. [Poetry] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes uniformly bound. Octavos (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; ix; [1]; 251; [1]. pp.[2]; ix; [1]; 250; [2]. Publisher's grey cloth with embossed pattern to front boards lettered in gilt to upper boards and spine, typographic dust-jackets. (Vol. 1) Ex-libris stamp front..... More
Poems 1919 to 1934.
London: Constable and Company, 1935. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiv; [2]; 379; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth. Gilt titles, gilt pictorial design, and decoration in blind to upper. Gilt titles to spine. With the matching dust-jacket. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Interior lightly foxed, toning to..... More
Laolus and Other Poems.
Aligarh: At The Jamia Press, 1924. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[2] 145 [1]. A limited private press edition of 500 copies, this copy out-of-series. INSCRIBED by the author in black in to half-title: 'To | Margaret Shaw | For her ??? of Arcadia, | with all..... More
Enos Leptou Mazi [One Minute's Together].
Athens: Ikaros Publishing, January 1999. [Greek Poetry] THIRD PRINTING. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.66 [6]. All text in Greek. Heavily inscribed with notes in black ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's red soft covers. Light rubbing to covers; near fine. A collection of poetry first published in September 1998. More