Poetry & Drama
The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. Oxford Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, first thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] xvi; 773 [7]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the crest of New College, Oxford, stamped in gilt to..... More
Last Poems.
London: Grant Richards, November 1922. [Poetry] SIGNED COPY, the sixth impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.79 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the plain dust-jacket priced at 5s. Spotting to edges with a little offsetting..... More
More Poems.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.71 [1]. With an illustrated frontispiece by Francis Dodd. Publisher's navy cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper. A pair of ink ownerships to fly-leaf. Light toning to edges and endpapers. Light general wear to boards; toning to..... More
The Family Honour. A Comedy of Four Acts and an Epilogue.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.128. With a promotional postcard for Cape's magazine 'Now and Then' loose to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket likely illustrated by Hans Tisdall (uncredited). Jacket price-clipped, with some rubbing and minor chipping..... More
Palestine Plays.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1942. [Theological Plays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.146; [2], blank. Red publisher's cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dustwrapper with printed price of 6s to front flap. Some spotting to endpapers and to inner boards, toning and spotting to edges of textblock, rolling of..... More
Cave birds. An Alchemical Cave Drama.
London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (23 x 29cm), pp.64. With line illustrations by Baskin to every other page. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Baskin. Internally bright and clean. Moderate edgewear to jacket. Very good. Hughes'..... More
Collected Animal Poems: The Iron Wolf; What is the Truth?; A March Calf; The Thought-Fox.
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [Poetry] FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED TO VOLUME I. Four volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 7cm) Publisher's black cloth, white dust-wrappers, publisher's white pictorial slipcase. Signed by Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, in Volume 1. Illustrated by Chris Riddell in volume 1 and by Lisa Flather..... More
Moortown.
London: Faber and Faber, 1979. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, trade paperback. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.170 [6]. With the errata slip, as well as a photograph and manuscript verse from a previous owner, loosely inserted. Publisher's green illustrated card covers priced at £1.95. Quite heavily toned, with spotting to edges and..... More
Rain-Charm for the Duchy, and Other Laureate Poems.
London: faber and faber, 1992. [Royal Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 64 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and gold monogrammed dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A touch of rubbing to jacket edges. Near fine. A collection of poems dedicated to members..... More
Sunstruck.
Knotting: The Sceptre Press, 1977. [Poetry]. LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto pamphlet (16 x 15cm), pp.[8]. Number 121 of just 300 copies printed by Christopher Skelton in 'Monotype' Baskerville on Glastonbury Laid paper. Publisher's tan card covers with red titles, stapled to spine. A fine copy. More
A Book of Bits or a Bit of A Book. By Spike Milligan.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1965. [Verse/Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.90. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Spike Milligan, including endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Fine in near fine, price-clipped jacket with gentle toning to spine and extremities. Typically zany poems and short..... More
The Eiger Sanction.
London: Heinemann, 1973. [Suspense] FIRST U.K. EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp229; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £2.10. Contents clean, no ink names. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper. The British first is rather scarce. A secret..... More
The Pillars of Society, and Other Plays.
London: Walter Scott, 1888. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Crown Octavo, pp.xxxii, 315 [5]. In publisher's green cloth with cream paper title label to spine. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper. Blackwell's bookseller label to front pastedown. Cloth and label heavily soiled. Some loss to label; spine..... More
Et Dukkehjem [A Doll's House].
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel and Søn), 1879. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18cm x 12cm), pp.[2]; 180; [2]. Publisher's green cloth decorated in black and gilt. Coated white endpapers, all edges gilt. Pencil name to half-title, light wear to hinges which are nearly always split, minor rubbing to..... More
Peer Gynt. A Dramatic Poem.
London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1892]. [Drama] Authorised Translation by William and Charles Archer. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xxiv; 288; [16], advertisements. Publisher's mid-blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind, top edge gilt. A clean, fine copy. A handsome nineteenth century English edition of Ibsen's classic work... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... More
Behold the Jew. The Greenwood Prize Poem for 1943.
London: The Poetry Society, 1943. [Poetry] FIRST SEPARATE UK EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.20. Publisher's typographic yellow paper covers, stapled twice, and priced at 1s. Lightly toned throughout, with a browned chipped patch to top edge. Moderate wear and toning to covers, with a few small creases and..... 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
Always Adam.
London: Faber and Faber, 1943. [Poetry] REVIEW COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. 64. Untrimmed edges, publisher's orange cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-wrapper with printed price of 6s to front flap and publisher's advertisements to back cover. Toning to edges of textblock, very small white mark to..... More
Gordon League Ballads for Working Men and Women.
London: Skeffington and Son, 1897. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xviii; 165 [3]. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark brown titles to spine and upper. Small green bookseller's label to front pastedown. Light spotting to endpapers, and a strong tobacco scent. Spine toned, with little light wear..... More
Poesia, en Prosa y Verso (1902-1932), escojida para los ninos por Zenobia Camprubi Aymar.
Madrid: Signo, 1932. [Spanish Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.133 [3]. All text in Spanish. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with red titles to plain grey pasteboards. Heavy browning to edges and margins. A small numbered sticker and stamp to front pastedown. Pencil ownerships to page facing title page..... More
Poems.
London: Constable, 1964. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 12cm), pp.53 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'for Keith and Claire | in friendship | Bryan | 1/2/1964.' Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Light general..... More
The Works of Samuel Johnson.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Coöperative Society, no date [circa 1900]. [Collected Works] THE NEW CAMBRIDGE EDITION. Complete in 16 volumes, bound as eight. Octavo (23 x 16cm). Each volume with a black and white frontispiece and two further illustrated plates. Number 150 of 500 sets thus, SIGNED by the New York..... More
The Key Keeper. A Masque for the Opening of Britain's Burse, April 19, 1609.
Tunbridge Wells: The Foundling Press, 2002. [Drama] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xii; 25; [3]. With illustrations by Gentleman. Number 40 of just 300 copies in this edition. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Gentleman. Light bruising and a couple of..... More