Poetry & Drama
Oak Leaves And Lavender, or, A Warld on Wallpaper.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1946. [Irish Wartime Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 163 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 6s. Gently toned throughout to low quality wartime paper, otherwise crisp and clean. Jacket a little toned to..... More
Rose and Crown.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1952. [Literary Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 307 [5]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles to a red backing square on spine. With the green illustrated dust-jacket. Some toning to edges, and a little bumping..... 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
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
The Poetry of Dylan Thomas.
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1954. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 164 [4]. Publisher's black cloth with remnants of titles to spine. Astrological illustrations to endpapers. With the red typographic dust-jacket. A contemporary London bus ticket loose to preliminaries. Titles to spine largely rubbed..... More
Yoko Ono at Lisson. Half-A-Wind Show. Oct 11 -Nov. 14, 1967.
London: Lisson Gallery, 1967. [Exhibition programme/synopsis] FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Slim booklet comprising four text sheets (26 x 21cm), staples twice to left hand side. Illustrated cover/first sheet "Have You Seen A Horizon Lately?". Includes the two-page article 'Some Notes on the Lisson Gallery Show' penned by Yoko Ono. Lightly..... More
A Bond Honoured.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Play] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13m), pp.62; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered with gilt to spine, typographic dustwrapper with printed price 10s 6d, publisher's advertisements to back cover and flap. Very good. Toning to edges of textblock, bumping to corners of boards, scuffing..... More
The Entertainer.
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. [Drama]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.89. Publisher's green cloth, in photographic dustwrapper (showing Olivier as Archie) by Anthony Armstrong Jones (Lord Snowdon). Some stage directions to acts 3-4, long gift inscription to pastedown, else fine, in a near fine wrapper, toned to spine..... More
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
Luther. A Play.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.102; [2]. Publisher's purple cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with a printed price of 10s 6d to front flap. Internally bright and clean. Previous ownership inscription in green ink to flyleaf. Some dust damage to..... 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
Plays for England. 'The Blood of the Bambergs'; 'Under Plain Cover'.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.136. Publisher's red cloth, white titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. Small bookseller's label and ownership inscription in black ink to front pastedown. Jacket price clipped. Dustiness to top edge. Jacket lightly toned, with mild edgewear. Near..... More
A Sense of Detachment.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.60. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with the photograph taken by Donald Cooper. Light scuffing and bumping to spine, price clipped, scuffing to dust-jacket. Near fine. John Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter..... More
The World of Paul Slickey.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21x13cm), pp.96. Publisher's brown cloth, in photographic dust-wrapper by Alec Murray. A lightly used copy with a little edgewear, dustiness and toning. Very good. John Osborne was an anti-Establishment writer, one of the 'angry young men' and leading playwright of England's post-war..... More
The Complete Poems and Fragments.
London: Chatto and Windus, The Hogarth Press, and Oxford University Press, 1983. [War Poetry] FIRST THUS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxvi; 194 [4]; pp.[2] x; 195-560 [6]. With frontispieces showing facsimiles original manuscripts. Publisher's grey and purple cloth with gilt titles to spines. With the publisher's..... More
The Complete Poems and Fragments.
London: Chatto and Windus, 2013. [Poetry] REVISED CHATTO AND WINDUS EDITION, first edition thus. Two volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxvi; 194; [4], blank. pp. ix; 572 (continuation of pagination); [12], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dust-jackets with printed price of £40.00 to..... More
[Press Photographs for 'Romeo and Juliet' at the New Theatre, London, 1935].
London: Bertram Park [and] Howard Coster, no date [1935]. [English Theatre] NINE ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS. Eight 26 x 19cm; one 26 x 20cm. Black and white photographs on glossy photographic paper, each with the photographer's studio stamp to reverse. Glue marks to reverse of each photograph. The eight photographs by..... More
[Press Photographs for 'Hamlet' at the New Theatre, London, 1934].
London: Bertram Park [and] Yvonne Gregory, no date [1934]. [English Theatre] ELEVEN ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS. Seven 22 x 17cm; four 19 x 26cm. Black and white photographs on glossy photographic paper, each with the photographer's studio stamp to reverse. Glue marks to reverse of each photograph. Seven by Gregory and..... More
Poems Upon Several Occasions Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Archdeacon of Clogher: and Published by Mr. Pope. With 'The Life of Zoilus': and his Remarks on Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice. A New Edition with Additions. To Which is Prefixed, 'The Life of Dr. Parnell,' Written by Dr. Goldsmith.
London: Printed for T. Davies, J. Dodsley, and R. Baldwin, 1773. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND NEW EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[4] xxviii; ii; 180 [2]. With two copperplate illustrations, designed by Samuel Wale and engraved by Charles Grignion. Contemporary brown full tree-calf, spine gilt-ruled with red label lettered in gilt..... 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
Landing Light.
London: faber and faber, 2003. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 84 [2]. Publisher's black paper over boards, with white titles to spine. Light yellow endpapers. With the black typographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99. A fine copy. More
Atomic Adam.
London: Fulham Gallery Ltd., 1967. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Folio (34 x 24cm), one sheet of green paper folded twice, in a grey card jacket, with titles to both. Printed in purple and silver. Folds out to broadly A2 size, with the poem printed again in a larger decorative format..... More