Literature
The Works of Shakespeare. The Larger Temple Shakespeare.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1910-1921. [Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND SET, later impressions thus. Complete in twelve volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 48cm). With a colour portrait frontispiece of the Bard to volume I, and occasional black and white plates and in-text wood engravings throughout by various artists. In contemporary..... More
Mansfield Park.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1950. [Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13), pp.v; [1]; 414; [2]. 16 colour halftone plates including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Charles E. Brock. Light toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, jacket..... More
Roald Dahl's Mischievous Chocolate Factory Children and Roald Dahl's Miraculous Ever-Growing Tortoise.
London: Puffin, 2018. [Children's Literature] UNOPENED, HAPPY READERS EDITION. Two volumes. Duodecimo (14 x 11). Illustrated soft card covers in unopened original bags. Unopened. As new. These books are from the Happy Readers series that were distributed by McDonald's in their happy meals. These books feature the beloved characters that..... More
The Pied Piper of Hamelin. A Child's Story by Robert Browning, set forth in a series of designs and decorative borders by Harry Quilter, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, and written in ornamental text by Mary, his wife.
London: Harry Quilter, 1898. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST QUILTER-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (33 x 27cm), pp.[60]. Every page sumptuously engraved with illustrations and wide decorative margins by Harry and Mary Quilter. Each leaf separated with a tissue guard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. A clean..... More
Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1939. [Illustrated Poetry] REISSUE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.37 [3]. With a colour frontispiece and 19 black and white drawings by Rackham. Pictorial cream paper wrappers printed in yellow, brown and black depicting goblins and fruits, with yapp edges, and pictorial end-papers. Light wear..... More
Homage to John Dryden. Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. The Hogarth Essays IV.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1924. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.46 [2]. Publisher's illustrated card covers, titled to upper. Black ink ownership of Sylvia Norton, dated 1926, to front fly-leaf. Moderate spotting throughout. Quite heavy wear to spine, including some loss. Covers toned and lightly worn. Very..... More
Burnt Norton.
London: Faber and Faber, March 1941. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, Second Impression. Slim octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.15 [1]. Publisher's cyan card wraps, titled to upper and stapled twice. Internally crisp and clean. Wear to extremities; spine toned and starting to head and tail. Very good. The second poem in Eliot's..... More
Little Gidding.
London: Faber and Faber, 1942. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, Second Issue with staples. Slim octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.16. In publisher's pink card wraps, titled to upper. A crisp, clean copy, with some sunning to spine and a little wear to extremities. Near fine. The fourth poem in Eliot's 'Four Quartets'..... More
My One Leaf Head.
Brighton: Unicorn Books, 1969. [Poetry] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[16]. One of 500 copies thus, printed by Richard Moseley on Four Stones Mill laid paper. Publisher's orange card covers, stapled twice, with titles to a blue label, and blue fly-leaves. A black ink ownership to front..... More
The Dead Sea Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [Poetry] SIGNED UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 54 [2]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue card covers, titled to upper and priced at £6.99. Clean throughout. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled, with a Skoob Books label to..... More
Poems.
Fairwarp: Printed by Poets' and Painters' Press for Peter Russell, June 1959. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.29 [3]. Publisher's white soft covers with titles in black and red to upper. With the yellow matching dust-jacket, not priced. A crisp clean copy, showing some wear and toning..... More
The Background of Modern Poetry. An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on 10 May 1946 by C.M. Bowra, M.A., D.Litt., Professor of Poetry.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1946. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.20. Publisher's grey typographic paper covers, sewn. Small black ink ownership of Colin C. Moore to title page. Some light wear and toning to extremities. Very good. More
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees. An Ariel Poem.
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.[4]. With a lightly coloured illustration by Jones. Publisher's blue typographic paper covers, sewn. A lovely crisp copy, with just a touch of toning to spine. Near fine. GALLUP, Donald, 'T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography' (London 1969), A66..... More
Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse.
London: John Murray, 1937. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10] 45 [1]. With in-text illustrations by various artists. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to upper. All edges gilt. With the dust-jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, priced at 7/6. Light spotting to endpapers. Rubbing to cloth, with..... More
Authors' Ghosts: Seven Poems.
London: Rees & O'Neill Rare Books, 2004. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[20]. Number 29 of 30 copies thus, from a total limitation of 56, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear. Printed by letterpress on Velin Arches paper. Publisher's yellow card..... More
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur.
London: Colophon Press, 2001. [Short Story] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[2] 15 [7]. Number 92 of 125 copies thus, from a total limitation of 157, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear. Printed by letterpress on Velin Arches paper. Publisher's blue card..... More
A Short Answer To A Treatise Intitled Heaven Open To All Men.
London: printed for J. Oliver, 1753. [Theology] Duodecimo Pamphlet (15 x 9cm), pp.12. Bound in modern green paper covers, with hand-written titles in black ink to upper. A fine copy showing some light wear to covers. Perronet, vicar of Shoreham and chaplain to the Earl of Stanhope, wrote this pamphlet..... More
Introductions to Three Novels.
Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1962. [Literary Essays] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (20 x 12cm), pp.48 [4]. Publisher's soft covers, with titles printed in colour to spine and upper. Edges untrimmed. A near fine copy showing a little light wear and toning to covers. A curious item released by the..... More
Spinoza.
London, Boston, Melbourne, and Henley: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1985. [Philosophy] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 317 [3]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at £25 to front flap. Light toning internally. Includes a loose news clipping. Near fine. An analysis and..... More
Treatise on Nature and Grace. Translated With an Introduction and Notes by Patrick Riley.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. [Philosophy] FIRST THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 226 [12]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, unpriced. Some dustiness to top edge and faint white marks to cloth lower edges. Otherwise fine, as-new. Published first in 1680, this tract follows on..... More
50 Poems.
New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. [American Poetry] THIRD LARGE PRINTING. Octavo (21 x 14cm), unpaginated, with 50 numbered poems. Publisher's brown cloth with darker brown titles to spine and upper. With the matching typographic dust-jacket priced at $2.00. Internally crisp and clean. Cloth shows some light wear..... More
Songs of Innocence.
London: Ernest Benn, 1926. [Illustrated Poetry] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (26 x 19cm), unpaginated. Publisher's black cloth with gilt tooling and gilt lettering to spine. Coloured illustrations throughout. Toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, bumping to corners and especially to front board's upper right corner. Very good. Reproduced in..... More
Beyond Personality.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1944. [Lectures] FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (29 x 13cm), pp.64. Publisher's lemon coloured cloth with navy titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 2/6. A lovely fine copy with no wear whatsoever. Containing the addresses which C.S. Lewis delivered on the radio in the Spring of..... More
Kemlo and the Martian Ghosts. Illustrated by A. Bruce Cornwell.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1954. [Sci-fi] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 202. With six full-page illustrations by Cornwell and a colour halftone frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth, titles and pictorial motifs blocked in navy to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. Light spotting throughout interior and to..... More
Farewell to Poesy, and Other Pieces.
London: A.C. Fifield, 1910. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.60 [4], advertisements. Grey typographic paper over boards. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Endpapers and edges lightly toned. Near fine. An early collection from the 'super-tramp' poet, composed after his adventures across America - one being the loss of..... More