"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Poetry & Drama
The Life and Remains of Henry Kirke White.
London: John Kendrick, 1855. [Poetical Works]. FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxxiv; 521 [3]. With eight steel engraved plates including a frontispiece portrait of the author, and an illustrated title page. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and elaborate gilt decoration..... More
The Complete Works of Walt Whitman. The Collector's Camden Edition.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND LIMITED EDITION. Ten volumes, octavo (24 x 17 x 40cm). With 40 lithographic illustrations. Number 10 of just 300 sets signed and numbered by the publisher. Recent blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines..... More
Two Rivulets.
Camden, NJ: Author's edition, 1876. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[4] 120 [6]. One of just 100 copies printed, with a blank leaf between 'As a Strong Bird' and 'Memoranda', as well as a leaf of adverts to rear, but lacking the portrait frontispiece of the author. In contemporary light tan half..... More
The Tent on the Beach and Other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.[i-vi]; [7]172; [6], blank. Bound in p[ublisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, coated brown endpapers. BAL21866, binding style 'C'. Some minor wear only, faint ownership to flyleaf, text a little toned and brittle; near fine. Verses by the renowned New England..... More
The Importance of Being Earnest.
London: Samuel French Ltd, 26 Southampton St., n.d. [c.1900]. French's Acting Edition, 'The Dramatic Works of Oscar Wilde' No.1. pp.52. Publisher's decorative pale green paper covers printed in black with 'Gothic' title in two lines (some show the title over three lines, priority unknown). Original price 1d,.6s. Some trivial handling..... More
Lady Windermere's Fan. A Play in Four Acts.
London: Samuel French, no date [circa 1893]. [Drama] EARLY IMPRESSION. Octavo pamphlet (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] 52 [2]. Sewn in green paper wrapper, lacking the back cover, with titles to front cover, including 'No. 2', denoting this as an early impression. Sewing a little loose, but holding. Back cover lost;..... More
The Sphinx.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1918. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Small square octavo (15 x 14cm), pp.46; [2], advertisements. Publisher's pale green paper covered boards titled and illustrated in dark green to spine and front, in pictorial dust-wrapper (both illustrations by Charles Ricketts). Ink name to flyleaf, minor wear..... More
27 Wagons Full of Cotton. And Other One-Act Plays.
London: John Lehman, 1949. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.192. In publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to black oblong on spine. With original blue and yellow pictorial dust-jacket designed by Val Biro. A near-fine copy. More
Baby Doll. The Script for the Film.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1957. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.140. Publisher's hardcover in original dust-wrapper. A little dusty to top edge; generally a bright, clean copy. Classic love-triangle story. More
The Glass Menagerie.
London: John Lehmann, 1948. [Modern theatre] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.95; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with titles to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by Val Biro. Bookseller's ticket to pastedown, ink ownership to flyleaf, some occasional spotting to the textblock. Jacket edge worn with a few short tears..... More
Garden District. Two plays: "Something Unspoken" and "Suddenly Last Summer"
London: Secker and Warburg, 1959. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (225mm x 145mm), pp.72. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles and publisher's imprint in silver to spine. Green and white dust-jacket with titles in white and black to front cover and spine, and publisher's advertisements for other plays by Williams to..... More
Bring on the Girls! The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove It.
New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1953. [Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[24] 278 [2]. With a section of black and white photographs preceding the main text. Inscribed "To Lawrence and Armina, | with fond greetings | from | Guy, | To which is added | a...... More
Bring on the Girls! The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy, with Pictures to Prove It.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1954. [Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.244. With sixteen pages of monochrome photographs. Publisher's cloth in photographic dust-wrapper. A very good copy in similar price-clipped wrapper with a few chips along top edge. More
The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1934. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp. vi; 617; [1]. In publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With original plain light brown dust-jacket, with titles to spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Front free endpaper cancelled. Light spotting to prelims. Jacket toned..... More
The Shadowy Waters.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1900. [Dramatic poetry] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.57; [3]. Publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt floral motif with dropped petal to upper board, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket and a discreet date inscription to pastedown. Some light spotting..... More
The Tower.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 110; [2], publisher's advertisements. Bound in mid-green cloth, handsomely blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, fore and tail edges untrimmed. Unusual bookplate of St.Trinnean's school (given as an elocution prize as noted on flyleaf)..... More
The Tower.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 110; [2] publisher's advertisements. Bound in mid-green cloth, handsomely blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, fore and tail edges untrimmed, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 6/- net. A fine copy of the book in an..... More
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Per Amica Silentia Lunae [Through the Friendly Silences of Moon]
London: Macmillan and Co., 1918. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vi; 95. Publisher's gilt-embossed blue cloth designed by T Sturge Moore, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 4/6 net. Book is fine, jacket browned to extremities, chipped to crown and foot. Very good. A poetic exposition of Yeat's visionary worldview..... More
Wheels and Butterflies. New Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[x]; 181; [1], imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. Book is fine, jacket lightly worn to crown and foot. Generally a crisp, fine copy. A collection of five plays, all..... More
Wheels and Butterflies. New Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 181; [1], imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. Page edges toned otherwise a fine copy of the book, in a very good wrapper, toned to spine..... More
The Collected Works of Yeats, in Verse and Prose. Being the Writings, Plays and Poems.
Stratford-on-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1908. 8 volumes; octavo. Portrait frontispiece (including a Sargent charcoal drawing that makes Yeats look like Dr. Nikola without his cat) to four volumes (alternate: vol.I, III, V, and VII), title-page printed in red and black. Publisher's pale green linen spines with titles in black over..... More
Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality. With Notes Critical and Illustrative, by the Rev. C. E. De Coetlogon, A. M., To which is Prefixed The Life of the Author. Embellished with Fifteen Elegant Engravings, Dedicated to the Marchioness of Salisbury.
London: Printed for Chapman and Co., n.d. [1793]. [Verse Spirituality]. FINELY BOUND AND ENGRAVED. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[8] xvi; 367 [15]. With 14 copper engraved plates including a frontispiece by various artists, and a vignette illustrated title page. Contemporary black horizontal grained full morocco with gilt titles and decoration..... More
Night Thoughts. With the Life of the Author, and Notes Critical and Explanatory.
London: Printed by C. Wittingham for T. Heptinstall, 1798. FINE CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Quarto, pp.364, with illustrations. Engraved portrait frontispiece, engraved title page with vignette, and illustrated with 8 copper engraved plates after Stothard. Elegantly bound in full blue straight-grained morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and fine extra gilt tooling..... More