Poetry & Drama
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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 Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. [American Literature / Verse] FIRST EDITION, First Issue, with "treacherous" for "ruddy", l.3, p.124. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.215; [1], blank; 12, advertisements dated October 1858. Publisher's brown cloth decoratively blocked in blind, gilt-lettered to spine, brown endpapers. This copy with the additional inserted ad..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a new edition. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[2] iv; 556 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers after illustrations by Gilbert, and a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full panelled calf with..... More
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, [no date] c.1900. [Poetry] SCHOOL PRIZE BINDING, Cambridge Edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[iv]; xxi; [1]; 689; [4], blank. Bound in blue full calf with gilt tooling and gilt scholastic device to upper. Raised bands, gilt tooling and tan label to spine. All edges marbled..... More
The Poetical Works. Complete Copyright Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1901. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 878. Beautifully bound by in contemporary brown full morocco, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of the author. Printed in double columns. Internally nice and clean..... More
Just Wild about Harry. A Melo-Melo in Seven Scenes.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.106 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and purple typographic dust-jacket, priced at 16s. The lightest of handling. A lovely crisp fine copy. More
St. George's Day And Other Poems.
London: John Murray, 1918. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.48. Publisher's green cloth, white titles and ruling to upper. Gilt titles to spine. Light toning to leaves, some offsetting to endpapers. A few pencil annotations here and there. Two ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, one in black ink, one..... More
Dylan Thomas: 'Dog Among the Fairies.'
London: Lindsay Drummond, 1949. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.159 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. With the typographic red dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Gilt lightly dulled. Jacket toned to spine, with rubbing and light chipping to edges and..... More
The Haunted Garden.
London: Faber & Faber, 1947. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.94. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. Some offsetting to endpapers. Price-clipped jacket gently toned, more-so to spine, with a little light wear to edges. Near fine. More
Irish Minstrelsy. Being a Selection of Irish Songs, Lyrics, and Ballads; Original and Translated. Edited, With Notes and Introduction, by H. Halliday Sparling.
London: Walter Scott, 1887. [Songbook] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (15 x 12cm), pp.xviii; [2]; 368; [8]. Advertisements to rear. Red borders around text. Publisher's dark green cloth to boards, paper label with black titles to spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Toning throughout leaves, especially fore margins. Light offsetting to endpapers..... More
Air Force Poetry.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1944. [Second World War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.90 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the blue and white dust-jacket designed by Foss, priced at 7/6. Cloth spine faded, with toning to jacket spine. Rubbing..... More
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