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Poetry & Drama
![The King of the Foxes [and] The Destroyers [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume VIII. Arthur Conan...](/pictures/thumb/49910.jpg?v=1512569739)
The King of the Foxes [and] The Destroyers [in] The Windsor Magazine. Volume VIII.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1898. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.vi; 3-716. With numerous in-text lithographic illustrations. In publisher's green cloth with red titles to spine and upper board. Brown floral endpapers. With a PSA Book Fund bookplate to front pastedown. Some gatherings a little loose;..... More
The Collected Poems of John Drinkwater. 1908-1922.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1923. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xiv; 234 [6]; pp.[2] xii; 240. Number 49 of 230 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to preface. Printed on fine handmade paper. Publisher's cream buckram with gilt titles to..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden. The Globe Edition: Edited with a Memoir, Revised Text, and Notes.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1873. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.lxxxviii; 662. Contemporary red half morocco by MUDIE, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Lightly browned throughout. Pencil ownership to first blank dated..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1855. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 314 [2]; pp.[2] xxiv; 344 [2]. Reasonably-sized print on good paper. Very fine contemporary red full morocco by J. WRIGHT, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and very fine..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden; containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations; with notes by the Rev. Joseph Warton, D.D.; the Rev. John Warton, M.A.; and Others.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1862. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[2] xii; lx; 445 [3]. With an engraved frontispiece and vignette title page. Very small print in two columns. Contemporary red full morocco by WISEMAN, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt crest of..... More
Bending the Bow.
New York, NY: New Directions, 1968. [American Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] x; 137 [5]. Publisher's yellow cloth with green titles to spine, and a paper label to upper stating 'Sold as a Paper Edition.' Mid green endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket. Toning and spotting to edges..... More
The Ikons, and Other Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp. 48. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the yellow and blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 13/6. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little rubbed to edges, and gently toned to spine. Near fine... More
![A Persian Lady [Broadside Poem]. Lawrence DURRELL, 1912–1990](/pictures/thumb/58973.jpg?v=1612373707)
A Persian Lady [Broadside Poem].
Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, no date [1963]. [Broadside Poem] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, a trial proof. A single sheet of Saunders paper (37 x 23cm), printed by Alan Anderson (1922-2016) by hand on his Crown Folio Arab Press. Apparently separate from the six copies officially printed, as per hand-written note to..... More
The Tree of Idleness, and other poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1955. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.48. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Some offsetting to endpapers. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some rubbing and a couple of small closed tears. Near..... More
Vega, and Other Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.54 [2]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at £1.40. Some light handling; a lovely fine copy. More
Grandmama's Nursery Stories.
Tunbridge Wells: Lewis Hepworth, n.d. RARE. PRINTED AND BOUND IN TUNBRIDGE WELLS. Octavo, pp.46. Bound in blue-green cloth, with title in bright gilt to centre of front board. Blank endpapers. In very good condition, with several light marks to front board, and a split in rear board. Nonetheless, the binding..... More
Nature-Poems. (And Others).
Tunbridge Wells: Lewis Hepworth and Morriss, 1893. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in russet cloth, with titles to front board, and decorative ruling to both front and rear boards. Decorative foliate endpapers. Binding shows minimal signs of wear. Internally clean, excepting some darkening to front and rear free endpapers from binder's..... More
Ved Vejs Ende. The Elder Statesman.
Herning: Poul Kristensen, 1965. [Drama in Translation] INSCRIBED FIRST DANISH EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.114 [6]. All text in Danish. INSCRIBED by the translator in black ink to the first blank, dated October 1965, with a longer message written onto the back of a business card. Publisher's grey soft..... More
The Confidential Clerk. A Play.
London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1954. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.136. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers titled in gilt, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. Corrected text on p.7, which is apparently more elusive. Some light spotting including board edges, trivial toning to jacket; overall a fresh, bright..... More
The Confidential Clerk. A Play.
London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1954. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.136. First issue of the text. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers titled in gilt, typographic dust-wrapper. Gift note to flyleaf, jacket a little toned to the spine, price clipped. An attractive copy. T.S. Eliot's penultimate verse play..... More
The Confidential Clerk. A Play.
London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1964. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.136. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers titled in gilt, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. Corrected text on p.7, which is apparently more elusive. Slightly toned to spine else a lovely fine copy. T.S. Eliot's penultimate verse play..... More
The Family Reuion. A Play.
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.136. Publisher's grey cloth with pink titles to spine. With the first issue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Very light general wear and some light toning. Near fine. More
Poetry and Drama. The Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard University, November 21, 1950.
London: Faber & Faber, 1951. [Literary Criticism] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.35 [5]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red and blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. A large selection of contemporary news cuttings and other articles folded and inserted loose to preliminaries..... More
The Art of H. Davis Richter.
Benfleet: F. Lewis. 1935; 1944. SIGNED FIRST EDITION subscribers' copy, number 94 of 200 copies, with associated signed first edition of 'Paintings and Poems'. Text by Fell; poems by Lady Sackville. pp. xx, 55, (44 plates in colour and monochrome); 35, (colour plates to each facing page). 'The Art' in..... More
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, as usual. Neat ownership to flyleaf, bookseller's labels to rear endpapers. Gilt a little rubbed..... More
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 145 [5]. Recently bound in green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, and..... More
Don Juan, A Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1926. LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiv, 160. With a frontispiece photograph of the author. Number 150 of 380 copies printed on hand made English paper. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine sunned; good overall. Flecker was inspired to write..... More
Complete Poems of Robert Frost.
New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, December 1960. [Poetry] INSCRIBED COPY, the eleventh impression thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xxii; 666 [4]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to flyleaf: 'Robert Frost | to | Edward Godfrey | Bread Loaf 1961.' Publisher's gren cloth with gilt titles..... More
Selected Poems by Robert Frost.
New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, February 1937. [Poetry] SIGNED COPY, third impression thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 247 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title: 'Robert Frost | Albany 1937.' Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt facsimile signature to..... More
Thor, With Angels.
Canterbury: H.J. Goulden, 1948. [Christian Drama] ACTING EDITION. Octavo booklet (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 47 [3]. Publisher's pale peach soft covers titled in red and stapled twice. A crisp copy, with just a little discolouration to covers. Near fine. A play written for the Festival of the Friends of Canterbury..... More