Poetry & Drama
English Lyrics.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1883. [Poetry] FIRST THUS, interesting provenance. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.xix [1] 296 [4]. With an original poem lovingly INSCRIBED to a front blank by Scottish writer S.R. Crockett to his future wife Ruth Mary Milner, dated 1883. Contemporary white paper boards, red titles..... More
Active Anthology.
London: Faber and Faber, 1933. [Poetry Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with white titles to spine. Gently toned, otherwise a clean copy internally. Lightly rubbed and bumped to boards, with heavy rubbing and toning to spine. Lower joint split; upper starting. Good. A...... More
Vintage Verse. An Anthology of Poetry in English.
London: Hollis and Carter Ltd., 1945. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.vi; 338. Publisher's burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, top edge red, patterned endpapers, dust-jacket with repeating vine and grape motif, price clipped and repriced with an ink stamp at 10/6 net. Some light spotting..... More
A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000. Bilingual Edition.
River Vale, NJ: Cosmos Publishing Co., and The Hellenic Literature Society, 2004. [Modern Greek Poetry] FIRST THUS. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 993 [3]. With a frontispiece reprising the jacket illustration. Fair-sized print on very thin paper, with the original Greek and English translation on facing pages. Publisher's..... More
A Feast of Lanterns.
London: John Murray, 1936. [Poetry] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's blue cloth, titles and pictorial motif stamped in orange to upper and spine. With the dust-jacket of matching design priced at 3/6. Interior lightly toned and spotted, with larger patches extending until around pg.25. Light edgewear to..... More
A Poem for Every Night of the Year.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2016. [Poetry] INSCRIBED COPY, the 16th impression thus. Octavo (25 x 15cm), pp.xx; 523 [1]. With occasional vignette illustrations by Goldhawk. INSCRIBED by the actress Helena Bonham Carter, who read a selection from the anthology at 'Allie Esiri Presents Women Poets Through the Ages' at the..... More
A Poem for Every Day of the Year.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2017. [Poetry] INSCRIBED COPY, the seventh impression thus. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xx; 555 [1]. With occasional vignette illustrations by Goldhawk. INSCRIBED by the editor, Allie Esiri, in black marker to flyleaf: 'Dear Jacquelyn | love | Allie Esiri'. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to..... More
The Book of Ballads.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, no date [circa 1870]. [Illustrated Ballads] REISSUE. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[6] 256. With illustrations in-text and to margins by various artists, as well as an engraved frontispiece and a title page decorated in red and gilt. Publisher's blind-decorated blue cloth, with gilt..... More
Love Lyrics from Five Centuries.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., printed at the University Press Oxford, 1932. [Illustrated Poetry Anthology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.198 [2]. With five mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Rosenkrantz. INSCRIBED by the editor in black ink to the half-title: 'To Charles &..... More
Present-Day Prose.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1928. [Prose anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 244. Publisher's pink paper wraps, with red titles to spine and covers. Untrimmed edges. Includes prose from sixty-three authors. Heavy toning to spine, and some wear and marks to front cover. Very good. Including pieces by..... More
Six Modern One-Act Plays.
London: University of London Press, 1950. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, thus. Octavo, pp.160. Publisher's softcovers. SIGNED BY JOHN LENNON. An interesting school text-book borrowed by Lennon whilst a student at Quarry Bank School, Liverpool. Lennon has signed the lending stamp to the inside cover 'J[ohn] W[inston] Lennon, IVC', and dated this..... 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
The Scotish Poets. Morison's Editions.
Perth: for R. Morison and Son, Booksellers; and Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786; 1787; 1788. [Poetry] MORISON'S EDITION, LEATHER BINDING, LARGE PAPER EDITION. 3 Volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp. [xii]; iv; 121; [7], blank. pp. [vi]; lxi; 156; [4], blank. pp. [viii]; 100;..... More
The Masque [6 volumes]: The Old Vic King Lear; Designs for the Theatre by Rex Whistler Parts 1 and 2; Oscar Wilde and the Theatre; The Masque of Christmas; Notes on the Verse Drama.
London: The Curtain Press, 1946-1948. [Theatre notebooks] FIRST EDITIONS. Six volumes. Octavos (19 x 12cm), pp.16; pp.20; pp.24; pp.36; pp.40; pp.40. Many colour and halftone illustrations throughout each issue. All with the original paper covers, staple-bound, with ads imprinted to cover interiors. All six books are protected by the pink..... More
Seaweeds from the Shores of Nantucket.
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1853. [Poetry anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[10] 135 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with the floral decoration to boards in blind. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. Toning to leaves with light staining and spotting. Previous owner's pencilled inscriptions to contents page and..... More
Robert Frost: Lectures on the Centennial of his Birth. "In- and Outdoor Schooling" Robert Frost and the Classics; "Towards the Source" The Self-Realisation of Robert Frost, 1911-1912; Robert Frost's "Enigmatical Reserve" the Poet as Teacher and Preacher; "Inner Weather" Robert Frost as a Metaphysical Poet.
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1974. [Literary Lectures] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 74. Publisher's green soft covers, stapled twice. Blue ink ownership to front cover, and blue ink doodle and notes to p.46, p.50, and p.65. Moderate wear to covers, with some marks to rear. Good... 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
The Poetical Scrap Book. Consisting of an Original Selection of English Poetry: Containing Many Pieces Not Generally Known, and Including a Few Never Before Published.
Edinburgh: printed for John Fairbairn et al., 1824. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, LEATHER BINDING. Duodecimo (14 x 8cm), pp.[iv]; XX; 412; [4], blank. Tan calf with gold-tooling to boards and spine with gilt lettering to spine. Marbled endpapers, illustrated frontispiece of Robert Southey (poet laureate 1813). Frontispiece has a small pencil..... More
The Monthly Chapbook: Twenty-Three New Poems by Contemporary Poets. Number One, Volume One.
London: The Poetry Bookshop, July 1919. [Poetry Periodical] ORIGINAL PERIODICAL. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.iv; 32; v-viii. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, sewn, and priced at 1s. Original subscription form bound in at rear. Covers and contents page toned, with a crease to front cover, and some rubbing and chipping to..... More
Northern Numbers, being representative selections from certain living Scottish Poets. First Series.
Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1920. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 130 [4]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and brown titles to grey paper over boards. Top edge toned; others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1921 to flyleaf. Some weakness to binding..... More
Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of some of the best Social and Occasional Verse by Deceased English Authors. Revised and Enlarged Edition.
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891. [Verse Anthology] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto (23 x 19cm), pp.[2] xx; 425 [3]. Number 178 of 500 copies thus, SIGNED by Frederick Locker-Lampson in black ink to the limitation page. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the editor. Publisher's quarter vellum, with gilt..... More
Million — New Left Writing. First Collection.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, no date [1943]. [Socialist Literary Magazine] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.64. With two double-sided illustrated plates, one side being printed in colour. Publisher's paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 2s. The lightest of handling. A fine, almost as-new copy. A selection of Socialist..... More
Akros. Special Hugh MacDiarmid Issue. Volume 5, Number 13 (with No.14).
Preston: Akros Publications, April 1970. [Literary Magazine] COMPLETE DOUBLE-ISSUE. Two magazine, held together with an additional wrapper. Numerous black and white photographs to volume I, and volume II printed in variously coloured paper. Publisher's white card covers, sewn, with a type-written list of publications in print loose to preliminaries. Moderate..... More
Scottish Art and Letters. Number One.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1944. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With three double-sided illustrated plates, one image reproduced in colour, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and advertisements to endpapers. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
Poems for Roy Fuller on his seventieth birthday.
Oxford: the Sycamore Press, 1982. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 14cm), pp.[12]. Publisher's grey card covers with a red device to front cover, and sewn with red thread. Light toning to margins; light rubbing to covers. Near fine. More