Poetry & Drama
The Savoy Operas. Being the Complete Text of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as Originally Produced in the Years 1875-1893.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. [Comic Opera] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 698 [2]. Contemporary red half calf by RAMAGE of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers. Some toning to edges, otherwise crisp..... More
Reality Sandwiches. 1953-60.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (16 x 13cm), pp.98 [2]. Typographic softcovers priced at $1.50 to rear. With four loose newspaper clippings reviewing the collection. Lightly toned to title page. Near fine. A major collection from Beat legend Allen Ginsberg, a few of the poems..... More
Wichita Vortex Sutra.
London: Housmans, Publishers, June 1967. [Counterculture / Poetry] SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (20 x 17cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled twice, with title to front cover and advertisements to inside of rear cover. Black ink ownership to title page. Alan Jackson's poem, 'Knox (I)' is copied in blue..... More
Hugh MacDiarmid: An Essay for 11th August 1977.
Preston: Akros Publications, 1977. [Literary Criticism] LIMITED SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto pamphlet (21 x 21cm), pp.12 [4]. Number 67 of 300 copies thus, SIGNED by the author and publisher in black ink to limitation page at rear. Publisher's red card covers, stapled, with black card fly-leaves. Light handling to..... More
The Crowning Privilege: The Clark Lectures 1954-1955. Also Various Essays on Poetry and Sixteen New Poems.
London: Cassell & Company, 1955. [Poetry and Literary Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 230. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket priced at 15s. Gently toned throughout; a little light wear to board. Jacket lightly toned all over; more heavily to..... More
More Poems 1961.
London: Cassell, 1961. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[10] 45 [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Very slight sunning to jacket spine, otherwise a lovely fine copy. More
New Poems 1962.
London: Cassell, 1962. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[10] 42. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at 12/6. A little rubbing and a couple of nicks to jacket, otherwise a lovely fine copy. More
No More Ghosts. Selected Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1940. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.80. Publisher's paper boards, blue titles to upper and spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 2/6 to front flap. Toned and lightly spotted throughout. Offsetting to endpapers. Small ownership inscription in blue ink to flyleaf. Light toning..... More
Poems 1926-1930.
London: William Heinemann, 1931. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 89 [3]. With the spare title label at rear. Publisher's maroon cloth with white lizard-skin pattern and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the remains of the matching dust-jacket..... More
Poems 1926-1930.
London: William Heinemann, 1931. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 89 [3]. With the spare title label at rear. Publisher's maroon cloth with white lizard-skin pattern and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. A...... More
Poems 1965-1968.
London: Cassell, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 97 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Some light spotting to endpapers and cloth. Light handling to jacket only. Near fine. More
Poems 1968-1970.
London: Cassell, 1970. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.x; 90. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and cream dust-jacket designed by Brian Roll, priced at £1.50. Light rubbing and a couple of small closed tears to jacket edges, and some light red marks..... More
Poems 1970-1972.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1973. [Poetry] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 83 [1]. Publisher's quarter orange cloth with brown titles to spine, and black cloth over boards. Orange endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at $5.95. Light handling and rubbing to jacket, with a few..... More
Poems 1970-1972.
London: Cassell, 1972. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.x; 85 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the Blue typographic dust-jacket. Blue ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Price-clipped jacket very slightly tone to spine, with one tiny closed tear and very light handling. Near fine..... More
Poems and Satires 1951.
London: Cassell & Company, 1951. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 40. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket titled in purple, priced at 7/6. A lovely clean copy with just a little toning and rubbing to jacket; more so to spine..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1854. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; c; 142 [4]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary tan full calf..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1847. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] x; lxvi; 142 [2]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary red full morocco..... More
Poems.
London: Privately printed for Eton College in The Riccardi Press Fount of The Medici Society, 1928. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, ex libris Sir Martin Gilliat. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[4] viii; 87 [9]. With two black and white plates from another book, showing Gray's Summer House and Stoke Poges..... More
Marigold Garden: Pictures and Rhymes.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.56. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards with black titles to grey cloth spine..... More
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.56. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards with green titles to cream cloth spine..... More
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.64. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with green cloth spine and green endpapers. Black..... More
The Complaisant Lover. A Play.
London: Heinemann. 1959. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.77. Publisher's blue cloth in pale green printed dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. A fine, unread copy in similar jacket with some accidental rubbing to the edges of the front panel. A bright example of this Graham Greene comedy, the third..... More
The Complaisant Lover. A Play.
London: Heinemann. 1959. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.77. Publisher's blue cloth in pale green printed dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. In a very good, lightly toned and spotted jacket. Near Fine. A bright example of this Graham Greene comedy, the third of eight plays from this most gifted..... More
War Poems of Nordahl Grieg: All That Is Mine Demand.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, November 1944. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.68. Printed on clay paper. Publisher's light green cloth with black titles to spine. With the striking colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Joseph Brown, priced at 6s. Illustrated bookplate of Margaret E. Spicer to front pastedown..... More
Amontarista Plana.
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2014. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.48. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, with love' to half-title. Publisher's orange soft covers. Light rubbing to spine. Near fine. The author's second poetry collection. More