Poetry & Drama
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
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
[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
Poems.
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1853. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp. VIII; 191; [1]. Publisher's green cloth embossed with a flower/vine pattern with printed price of 5s to spine. Spotting throughout, spotting and toning to textblock, bumping to spine and edges, toning to spine, white mark to front..... 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
Both Hands Screaming.
New York: The Elizabeth Press, 1975. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 70 [8]. Publisher's white softcovers. With the brown typographic dust-jacket adhered to textblock at spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Internally bright and clean. Some wear to dust-jacket extremities, light sunning to..... More
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets; together with some few of Later Date. Reprinted entire from the Author's Last Edition.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1867. [English Ballads] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xcvi; 290 [2]; pp.viii; 318 [4]; pp.xxxvi; 340 [2]. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines and upper boards, and elaborate blind tooling all over. All edges gilt; dark brown..... 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