"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "
— Oscar Wilde
Poetry & Drama
Look Back In Anger.
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Julie Hamilton, priced at 10/6. Contents clean, endpapers toned, jacket with a couple of short tears. Near fine. The play that launched a flotilla..... More
Luther. A Play.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.102 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white illustrated dust-jacket. Black ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A few marks to jacket, small surface loss to upper panel, and one..... More
A Patriot for Me.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.128. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Dominic. Spotting to top edge. Price-clipped jacket rubbed to edges. Very good. A homosexual officer in the Austro-Hungarian army is blackmailed into spying for..... More
The Picture of Dorian Gray: A Moral Entertainment. Adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. With the plain typographic dust-jacket. Light handling to price-clipped jacket. Near fine. More
A Place Calling Itself Rome.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. [Drama] FIRST EDITIONS, both states. Two volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.78 [2]; 78 [2]. One volume in publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and the dust-jacket priced at £1.75, and the other in publisher's soft covers, priced at 85p. Light handling and..... More
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The Theological Works. The Age of Reason [and] Miscellaneous Poems.
London: R. Carlile, 1819-1826. [Collected Essays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, a mixed issue. Part one of The Age of Reason dated 1826; all other parts dated 1819. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 52; pp.96; pp.61 [1]; pp.71 [1]; pp.[4] 24; 25-28. Containing all four parts of The Age of Reason. Followed..... More
The Blind Beauty. A Play.
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1969. [Russian Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.128. With a black and white photograph of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill, priced at 25s. Light rubbing to..... More
Mervyn Peake: Selected Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1972. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.46 [2]. Publisher's lilac cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Peake, priced at £1.35. Minor toning to jacket and slight wear to edges. Near fine. More
The Bernini Bust.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1992. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper. Price clipped, otherwise a clean, fine copy. The third of seven acclaimed mysteries for detective art historian Jonathan Argyll, from the award-winning novelist Iain Pears... More
A Shropshire Garland: Being a Garland of Sonnets.
Lydbury North: Grail Press, no date [circa 2000]. [Poetry] LIMITED INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), 36 leaves, unpaginated. Wood engravings by Keay to every page. Number 46 of just 200 copies INSCRIBED by both author and illustrator to title page to 'Jo'. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles..... More
Marpessa.
London: John Lane, 1901. [Poetry]. EARLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (15 x 12cm), pp.47 [1]. With seven wood engravings by Philip Connard, including a frontispiece and a tailpiece. In publisher's green limp latticed morocco-covered card covers, with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Black ink ownership inscription..... More
Five Screenplays. The Servant; The Pumpkin Eater; The Quiller Memorandum; Accident; The Go-Between.
London: Methuen & Co., 1971. [Television Screenplays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 367 [3]. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket priced at £3.75. Very light handling. A fine copy. Four television dramas adapted by Pinter from novels by other authors..... More
The Ermine: Poems 1942-1952.
London: The Cresset Press, 1953. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[6] 62. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the grey dust-jacket illustrated by Joan Hassall, priced at 8/6. A lovely crisp fine copy, with a little light handling to jacket. A dark cycle of poems..... More
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Stesure e Frammenti dei Cantos CX-CXVII. [Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CVII].
Milan: All'Insegna del Pesce d'Oro [at the sign of the Goldfish], 1973. [Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.72. A dual-language edition with English and Italian on facing leaves. Number 308 of 2000 copies thus. Publisher's grey soft covers titled to spine and upper. Light handling, with one small..... More
Personae: Collected Shorter Poems of Ezra Pound.
London: Faber and Faber, 1952. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY DENIS GOACHER. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.287 [1]. Dramatically INSCRIBED by Goacher 'For my beloved Simone' in black ink to fly-leaf, quoting a line from p.211. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow dust-jacket, priced at..... More
The Dewpond.
Elkin Mathews and Marrot, London, 1928. Signed Limited Edition. Printed at the UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW. 8vo., pps. 30. Publisher's decorative paper-covered boards, uncut. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper, lightly browned to extremities. More
Some British Ballads. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1909. LIMITED EDITION of 575 copies of which this is No 133, SIGNED by Rackham. Large octavo (29 x 23cm), pp.136. Illustrated with 16 mounted colour plates with captioned tissues plus numerous black and white line-drawings within the text. Bound in recent dark blue full..... More
Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
New York: The Century Co., 1913. FIRST US EDITION, with larger plates and format than the UK edition. Contains 13 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Publisher's dark blue cloth, colour illustration pasted down to upper, gilt titles to spine. A fine copy, in chipped but bright dustwrapper..... More
Variation on a Theme.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.127 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket titled in green, priced at 10/6. Rubbing and toning to jacket spine, with rubbing to edges and a few closed tears. Very good. More
The Winslow Boy.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.109 [3]. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine and upper. With the typographic dust-jacket titled in red. A nice clean copy internally, with some rubbing and chipping to jacket spine and edges. Very good. More
Mr Mouth.
London: Ondt & Gracehoper, 2006. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[8] 122 [2]. SIGNED by the author in blue pencil to title page, dated 28/11/08. Publisher's plain black soft covers, with black and orange illustrated dust-jacket, not priced. A fine, as-new copy. A large collection of contemporary..... More
A Dream Observed, and Other Poems. PL Pamphlets No. 2.
London: Poetry, no date [1941]. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[8] 21 [3]. Publisher's grey typographic soft covers, stapled twice. Light handling, with some toning to edges and spine. Very good. More
Green Fields and Runninng Brooks.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1893. [American-Irish Poetry Interest] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 224 [2]. With a SIGNED presentation slip tipped in to preliminaries, addressed to the notable Irish Nationalist MP Hon. T.P. O'Connor, and dated Christmas 1892. Publisher's brown cloth with a maroon strip to top..... More
These Are My Comrades. Poems.
London: Routledge, 1943. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.39 [1]. Publisher's red quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and turquoise paper over boards. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the plain pink dust-jacket, titled in red and priced at 5s. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Light..... More
The Beacon of Memory.
Crawley: Rigby and Lewis, 1991. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION WITH TYPESCRIPT POETRY. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[14]; 291; [7]. With a typescript of 'Random Rhymes' inscribed by the author in blue ink, dated 1979. 11 sheets, stapled, and folded in half. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cream..... More