Poetry & Drama
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Academic Graffiti.
London: Faber and Faber, 1971. [Illustrated Clerihews] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), unpaginated. 60 poems with an illustration by Sanjust to each facing leaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Sanjust, priced at £2.00. Light handling; a fine copy. More
About the House.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, with the errata slip at p.7. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and pink dust-jacket, priced at 15s. South African bookseller's ticket to pastedown. The lightest of offsetting to endpapers. Spine..... More
Making, Knowing and Judging. An Inaugural Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 11 June 1956.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1956. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.33 [3]. Publisher's plain typographic paper covers, sewn. Sewing broken; covers detached. Quite heavy wear, and a crease, to covers. Good. More
Ubu Cocu. Restitué en son Intégrité tel Qu'il a Été Représenté par Les Marionnettes du Théatre des Phynances. Cinq Actes.
Genève: Éditions des Trois Collines, 1944. [Surrealist Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.96 [4]. One of just 100 copies thus, out of a total edition of 125 copies. With a black and white portrait of the author by Hermann Paul as a frontispiece. All text in French. Publisher's..... More
The Burning Perch.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.58 [2]. Publisher's Purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink dust-jacket titled in blue and red, priced at 12/6. Also with the scarce Poetry Book Society Bulletin announcing the book's publication, loose to preliminaries. A...... More
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
The Lemon Tree.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1937. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[18]; 29; [1]. Publisher's grey cloth with blue titles to spine, dust-jacket made by The Temple Press, with printed price of 2s 6d to flap. Light toning to board edges and spine, slight sunning to dust-jacket..... 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
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