Poetry & Drama
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's English translation. Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac and green border decoration, all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's gilt-stamped..... More
Wit's Last Stake. A Farce. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The Second Edition.
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1769. [Comic Play] SECOND EDITION. Octavo, disbound (20 x 12cm), pp.[4] 30 [2]. A disbound section from a book, still tightly sewn. Final blank loose. Title page quite heavily toned, with a label mark, and spotting to preliminaries. Otherwise clean. Good..... More
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen and Co., 1903. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 215 [41]. Catalogue dated July 1903; with the misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on p.56. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Illustrated bookplate of Wilfred H. Osmond to front..... More
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen and Co., 1903. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 215 [41]. Catalogue dated July 1903; with the misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on p.56. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of Cyril Hamilton Aitken to front..... More
The Vampire.
New York: Alex Grosset & Company, [1898]. [Poetry] SEPARATE EDITION. 16mo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8], with clack and white frontispiece illustration. Text printed in red and green. Publishers's illustrated wraps, tied. Parted at spine, loose in covers. Good. With the front portion or the original mailing envelope. Uncommon. More
The Years Between.
London: Methuen and Co, 1919. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. xii; [2]; 29; [1]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, gilt top edge of textblock, untrimmed edges. Ex-libris stamp front-paste down, toning to edges of textblock, wearing of gilt along top edge of textblock, sunning..... More
Dramatic Poets. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Who Lived About The Time of Shakespeare. With Notes.
London: Edward Moxon, 1844. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (15 x 11cm), pp.[14] 304; pp.[6] 301 [3]. Purple half morocco, with gilt titles to spine. Toning to textblock edge, wear to board corners and spine edges. Some minor marking to rear board. A very good copy..... More
The Magic Curtain. The Story of a Life in Two Fields, Theatre and Invention, by the Founder of the Theatre Guild.
London: George G. Harrap and co., 1952. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; [4]; 498. With numerous photographic illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. Purple cartographic endpapers. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30/- to front flap. Top edge..... More
High Windows.
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.42. Publisher's light grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the distinctive dust-jacket, priced at £1.40. A large collection of associated newspaper clippings loose to preliminaries. A lovely crisp, clean copy internally, showing some wear..... More
The Whitsun Weddings.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.46 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the distinctive typographic dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. A large collection of associated newspaper clippings loose to preliminaries. A lovely crisp, clean copy, showing moderate toning..... More
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
London: Angus and Robertson, 1957. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.128. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, with the typographic dust-jacket. Spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, previous owner's name stamped to front paste-down, jacket price-clipped, 2cm tear to jacket backstrip and two tears to front panel..... More
African Sonnets and Sketches.
London: Burns Oats & Washbourne, 1926. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.x; 45 [1]. With 10 engraved illustrations, including a tipped-in frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Some minor spotting to first and final leaves. Light wear..... More
Lyra Australis; Or, Attempts To Sing In A Strange Land.
London: Bickers and Bush, 1854. First Edition. Octavo. Bound by Bone and Son in publisher's green cloth, with embossed foliage in the outline of a lyre, with gilt titles and further embossed foliage to spine; pale yellow endpapers, uncut and unopened. Binding is rubbed and a little grubby, worn at..... More
The Bright Cloud.
Cambridge: the Rampant Lions Press, 1961. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[32]. One of just 250 copies. Publisher's plain soft covers, sewn. Blue ink ownership to first blank. Light handling, with some toning and spotting to covers. Very good. More
Poeimata: Sappho's Erotic Feet.
Athens: Graphopress, 2004. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.71 [7]. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf, dated 8th October 2005. Publisher's soft covers with a newspaper from March 1985 loose at rear. Very light handling. Near fine... More
The Gravel Ponds. Poems.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1960. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.59 [1]. With the tan paper-covered boards, titles in black to spine and upper. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Light handling, with a few marks and a touch of sunning to spine. Near fine. More
Life is a Platform.
London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1971. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.52 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and pink endpapers. With the pink photographic dust-jacket, priced at £1.50. Jacket lightly toned and rubbed to edges, with heavier sunning to spine. A price sticker mark to..... More
Pancakes for the Queen of Babylon: Ten Poems for Nikos Gatsos.
Northwood: Anvil Press Poetry, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[24]. Publisher's brown soft covers with illustrations by David Cardiff and Jon Harris, priced inside at 5s / $1. Very slight bumping to corners. A fine copy of a delicate publication. More
Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets: Poems in Transit.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1945. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 75 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, titled in red and black. A nice crisp, clean..... More
A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. [Christmas stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xix; 320 [2]. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
A Dragon Laughed.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.110 [2]. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with gilt titles to red backing on spine, and highly unusual decorative red cloth over boards. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Some toning to cloth spine and edges. Jacket rubbed..... More
Mixed Rushes.
London: Printed for the author by the John Roberts Press, 1974. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.[16]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, and dated Christmas Day 1974. Publisher's plains soft covers, with the blue dust-jacket. Light wear to to jacket, with..... 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
Walt Whitman and the Springs of Courage.
Santa Fe, NM: Writers' Editions, 1938. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[12] 144 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and a small gilt stamp to upper. Grey endpapers. A nice clean copy with some toning to spine and a few small marks to boards..... 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