"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway
Poetry & Drama
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
Twelve Poems.
Belfast: Festival Publications, 1965. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, an early reprint. Octavo pamphlet (20 x 13cm), pp.[16]. Publisher's green card covers, showing advertisements for the first and second series of poetry pamphlets, including reprints, to back cover priced at 3s. Light wear to corners. Almost as-new. Mahon's very first publication... More
Land Workers.
London: William Heinemann, 1942. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 12. Publisher's plain paper covers, priced at 1s. Toned to covers and throughout, with some light handling. Near fine. More
Right Royal.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Horse Racing Poetry] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE, the second printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 120. Publisher's green paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine and upper. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate, and a bookseller's label, to front pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers and toning to edges..... More
The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television by Ian McEwan. [Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration, and Solid Geometry].
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. [Television Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's oatmeal cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd, priced at £5.95. A minor bump and a light mark to jacket front cover. A fine copy. Not to be confused..... More
Three Plays. Two Slatterns and a King; Aria Da Capo; The Lamp and the Bell.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1927. [American Drama] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.128. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine; top edge orange. With the dust-jacket illustrated with a woodcut, priced at 5s. Also with a contemporary postcard promoting Cape's 'Now & Then' magazine, loose to preliminaries. A touch..... More
The Crucible.
London: The Cresset Press, 1956. [Modern theatre] First UK edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 143; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red and blue dust-jacket priced at 12s.6d. Slightly dusty/toned, small area of browning to rear panel, one short tear at foot. Very..... More
Incident at Vichy.
London: Secker and Warburg, 1966. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 89 [1]. Publisher's purple cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Bill Botten. Associated newspaper clipping loose to preliminaries, with attendant offsetting to endpapers. Price-clipped jacket very slightly sunned to spine and..... More
Just Wild about Harry. A Melo-Melo in Seven Scenes.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.106 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and purple typographic dust-jacket, priced at 16s. The lightest of handling. A lovely crisp fine copy. More
The Little Pot Boiler.
London: Dobson Books Limited, 1963. FIRST EDITION. Spike Milligan's third book. Octavo, pp. 88. Bound in publisher's red cloth with title and author's name to spine in gilt, in cartoon-like typeface. In a dustjacket mimicking a final demand for income tax, addressed to Milligan. Cloth boards in excellent condition with..... More
Streams.
Lindfield: Lemon Publications, 1975. [Poetry] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.145; [1]; unpaginated blanks to rear. Publisher's printed wrappers. Signed and inscribed on the title page: "To Guy | Have a jolly jubilee | mate | Peter | The Bend | Lindfield. 77." With a foreword by Spike..... More
Now We Are Six. With decorations by Ernest Shepard.
London: Methuen and Co., 1927. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, deluxe issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 103 [1]. With Shepard's illustrations to every page. Publisher's deluxe blue limp leather, with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; pink illustrated endpapers. A nice clean..... More
The Play's the Thing.
New York, NY: Brentano's, 1927. [Hungarian Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 139 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with titles blocked with designs in blue and green to spine and upper board. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the green dust-jacket titled in a darker green. Lightly browned throughout. Dust-jacket..... More
Strange Meetings.
London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1917. Second Thousand. Octavo. Flexible paper binding, edges uncut, with black titles to front cover and illustration in modernist style of emaciated figure rising out of crowd, in turn rising out of a fallen skeleton, in black. Edges are bumped, slight rubbing to front hinge, otherwise..... More
Prometheus Bound: Vatican Radio broadcast on the case of Ezra Pound.
Vatican City: Vatican Radio, 1954. [Radio Transcript] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled once. Light toning and handling. Near fine. An English transcript of a radio programme originally broadcast on 30th March 1954 on Vatican and Italian Radio. Portuguese poet Pina Martins..... More
The Gazelles and Other Poems.
London: Duckworth and Co., 1904. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet in soft covers (20 x 15cm), pp.32. Publisher's grey paper covers with title to upper, priced at 1s. Rubbing and a couple of small chips to edges. Black ink ownership to half-title. Very good. More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Reprinted from the Early Editions, with Explanatory Notes, etc. The Chandos Poets.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xii [2]; 653 [3]. With 12 engraved plates, and a frontispiece engraving of the author. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind ruling..... More
John Nobody.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. [Indian English Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.52 [4]. Publisher's grey cloth with titles in red and silver to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket titled in grey and orange. Price-clipped jacket rubbed and lightly chipped to edges, with toning and sunning to..... More
The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904. [Pre-Raphaelite Poetry] FIRST KING-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 310. With 96 illustrations by King, including a frontispiece, decorated title page, and numerous in-text illustrations and full-page plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards. Top edge..... 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
Twelve Poems.
Stoke Ferry: Daedalus Press, 1968. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[22]. Number 8 of 300 copies SIGNED by the author. Publisher's plain soft covers, with the grey dust-jacket titled in gilt to front cover. Bumped to corners, with some light handling. Near fine. More
Lamps in the Valley: A Book of Verse.
London: Elkin Matthews and Marrot, 1927. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's green quarter cloth with green paper over boards, and dark blue titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. With the original glassine jacket, as well as the wrap-around band stating 'A Book of Verses..... More
Rock Face.
London: Faber and Faber, 1948. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.64. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the light yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6, and re-priced by the publisher to 70p with a sticker to flap. Some offsetting to endpapers from a folded newpaper..... More
Nenagh Minstrelsy: A Volume of Original Poems, Songs, and Translations, Compiled, Revised, and Published by John O'Shea.
Nenagh: Printed at the Office of the Guardian, 1838-39. [Irish Poetry and Songs] ONLY EDITION. Sexto (18 x 12cm), pp.xii; 7-126 [2]; pp.64 [2]; pp.56 [2]; pp.11 [1]. Complete with the two separate title pages dated 1838. Contemporary green diced cloth with gilt titles to spine and yellow coated endpapers..... More
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Common Adventures: a Book of Prose and Verse [and] Nicolas Flamel: a Play in Four Acts, from the French of Gerard de Nerval.
Dublin: The Orwell Press, 1926. [Irish Short Stories and Drama] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[12] 53 [1]. Number 183 of just 200 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's plain card covers with grey endpapers. All edges untrimmed; partially unopened. Lightly..... More