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Northern Lights [The Golden Compass]. His Dark Materials I. The Lantern Slides Edition.
London: Scholastic, 2007. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED COPY, third impression thus. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.[10] 403 [17]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'My greetings to | Karsten Bosicke.' Also SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to title page. Publisher's textured soft covers illustrated by..... 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
Sicilian Carousel.
London: Faber and Faber, 1977. [Sicilian Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.223 [1]. With four illustrated plates, including a frontispiece, and a sketch-map of the island. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket titled in red, priced at £5.25. Jacket spine a little toned..... More
Custom and Myth.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1884. [Essays on Mythology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 312 [4]. Occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Black-coated endpapers; all edges untrimmed. Bookseller's label from Lang's hometown of Selkirk to front pastedown. A lovely clean copy..... More
The Hawk In The Rain.
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 59 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles to spine. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Light adhesive marks to front pastedown. Light wear to binding, with a little toning to spine. Very good. Hughes' first published collection..... More
Shadowmancer.
Whitby: Mount Publishing, 2002. [Christian Children's Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.252. SIGNED and dated by the author in black ink to title page, October 2002. Publisher's blind stamp also to title page. With a bookmark promoting the 2003 Faber & Faber edition. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers..... More
Art or Anarchy? How the Extremists and Exploiters Have Reduced the Fine Arts to Chaos and Commercialism.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1964. [Art History and Criticism] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 204. With 20 double-sided black and white plates. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'To [?] Winchester - | next book on music! | Best regards - |..... More
Running and Cross-Country Running.
London: Health Promotion Ltd., no date [1908]. [Middle and Long Distance Running] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 85 [11]. With 32 black and white plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper, and a black and white image laid onto upper. Blue..... More
Queen Sheba's Ring.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1910. [Fantasy Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.319; [1]. Colour frontispiece by Cyrus Cuneo. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper; tail edge untrimmed. Heavy spotting to edges, preliminaries and final leaves; occasionally throughout. Fairly light wear and a little bumping to..... More
The Song of the Cold.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1945. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 116. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and purple decorated dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Toning to jacket spine, with losses to head and tail, and light rubbing and chipping to edges. Very..... More
The Tree of Idleness, and other poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1955. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Some offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some rubbing and a couple of small closed tears. Near..... More
Mervyn Peake: Selected Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.46 [2]. Publisher's lilac cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Peake, priced at £1.35. Minor toning to jacket and slight wear to edges. Near fine. More
The Happy Turning. A Dream of Life.
London: William Heinemann, 1945. [Dreams and Philosophy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.vi; 50. Publisher's navy quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and pink paper-covered boards, titled in blue. With the plain dust-jacket titled in orange, priced at 6s. Gently toned throughout. Jacket a little sunned to spine..... More
New Writing. New Series II, Spring 1939.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1939. [Literary Periodical] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 248. With seven black and white photographic plates relating to stage and film. Publisher's Publisher's light green cloth with navy titles to spine and upper; top edge tinted. With the blue and orange dust-jacket, priced at..... More
The Servant.
London: The Falcon Press, 1948. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.69 [3]. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by G.N. Fish, priced at 6s. Some offsetting to endpapers, and some light rubbing and chipping to jacket edges and spine. Near fine..... More
Mind at the End of its Tether.
London: William Heinemann, 1945. [Philosophy and Apocalypse] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 34. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the red dust-jacket, priced at 6s. A lovely clean copy with just a little rubbing to jacket. Near fine. A small selection of essays..... More
Ballades: French and English.
London: Allan Wingate, 1946. [Late Mediaeval French Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.96. With occasional reproductions of the original fifteenth-century woodcuts. A duel-language edition, showing the original French on one side, and English translations on the other. One of 5000 copies on ordinary paper. Publisher's red cloth with..... 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
Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings.
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. [Autobiography] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.207 [1]. Publisher's black quarter cloth with silver titles to spine, grey paper-covered boards, and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket. Light rubbing to binding. Jacket price-clipped and sunned to spine. Very good. More
Poems of Pleasure. Only Complete and Authorised Edition containing many new poems.
London; Gay and Bird, 1907. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[2] xii; 175 [3]. Contemporary half vellum for HARRISON & SONS, with fine Art-Nouveau gilt decoration to spine, gilt titles to red morocco label, and red cloth over boards. Top edge gilt; machine-marbled endpapers..... More
Wand and Quadrant.
Paris: Collection Merlin, 1953. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.62 [2]. Number 277 of 300 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page, and printed on hand-made paper. From a total print run of 600 copies. Publisher's plain card covers, with the textured grey..... More
Independence.
Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1981. [Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.29 [3]. One of just 600 cloth-bound copies, from a total print-run of 1800. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, and red and green patterned endpapers. With the tan dust-jacket featuring an illustration of the..... More
These Are My Comrades. Poems.
London: Routledge, 1943. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.39 [1]. Publisher's red quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and turquoise paper over boards. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the plain pink dust-jacket, titled in red and priced at 5s. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Light..... More
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Pour Qui Sonne Le Glas [For Whom the Bell Tolls].
London: Heinemann & Zsolnay, 1944. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION IN FRENCH. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 306. All text in French. Publisher's plain soft covers titled in red and blue. Gently toned throughout, with moderate rubbing and bumping to covers. Blue ink ownership to front cover; spine toned and more..... More
Oscar Wilde: A Study.
Oxford: The Holywell Press, 1905. [Literary Biography] LIMITED EDITION, EX LIBRIS H.G. WELLS. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[12] 110 [2]. From an edition of 500 copies, this being one of just 50 copies printed on hand-made paper. INSCRIBED by Science Fiction author H.G. Wells in black ink to fly-leaf: 'Ex..... More