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Poetry & Drama
The Plays of John Galsworthy.
London: Duckworth, 1929. [Drama] FINE PRIZE BINDING, second printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 1149 [5]. Printed on india paper. Contemporary tree calf by BICKERS & SON of London for Sherborne School, with raised bands, gilt titles to maroon label, and further gilt decoration to spine. Gilt school medal and..... More
Plays: The Silver Box; Joy; Strife.
London: Duckworth and Co., 1909. [Drama] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE, second printing. Octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.[8] 89 [1]; 94; 110 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. An early iteration of Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown. Toning to edges. Spine heavily browned, with..... More
Poems 1937-1942.
London: P.L. Editions, 1943. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[6] 62. With six dichromatic lithographic plates by Sutherland, including a decorated title page. Publisher's orange quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and illustrated paper-covered boards, also by Sutherland. Black ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Rear hinge starting;..... More
The "Bab" Ballads. With which are included Songs of a Savoyard. With 350 Illustrations by the Author.
London: Macmillan and Co 1924. Crown octavo, pp.xii; 564. Contemporary 'school prize' binding of full tan calf, extra gilt, with marbled endpapers and top edge gilt. Gilt stamp to front cover, prize-giving details to first blank, minor wear only; a fine copy, attractively bound. More
Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Comprising The Vicar of Wakefield; Plays and Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. [Anthology] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 434 [2]. Contemporary tan full polished calf for Henry Sotheran, with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy label, and further gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Very light spotting to preliminaries. Lightly toned..... More
The Poetical Works of Gray and Collins.
London: Oxford University Press, 1917. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.324; [4] blank. Oxford binding of navy polished calf binding, raised bands and gilt titling to red label on spine, elaborate gilt decoration to spine and board edges, endpapers and all edges marbled, Frontispiece and two further plates..... More
Marigold Garden: Pictures and Rhymes.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.56. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards with black titles to grey cloth spine..... More
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.56. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards with green titles to cream cloth spine..... More
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.64. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with green cloth spine and green endpapers. Black..... More
The Complaisant Lover. A Play.
London: Heinemann. 1959. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.77. Publisher's blue cloth in pale green printed dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. A fine, unread copy in similar jacket with some accidental rubbing to the edges of the front panel. A bright example of this Graham Greene comedy, the third..... More
The Complaisant Lover. A Play.
London: Heinemann. 1959. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.77. Publisher's blue cloth in pale green printed dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. In a very good, lightly toned and spotted jacket. Near Fine. A bright example of this Graham Greene comedy, the third of eight plays from this most gifted..... More
Oxford Poetry 1924.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1924. First Edition. Octavo, pp. 52. Soft cover, bound in dark blue card. White paper title squares to spine and front. Housed in a custom made navy blue cloth chemise case. Spine slightly sunned, small nick to the foot of the spine, covers at the bottom folded..... More
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Simeia twn Kairon. [Signs of the Times].
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2018. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.50 [6]. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, with love' to half-title. Publisher's blue soft covers. The lightest of rubbing to spine. Near fine. More
Select Poems, on several occassions by the Right Hon. Earl of Harrington, to which are added, the Duke of Argyll's Levee, and some ballads, by the late Lord Binning.
London: Privately printed, 1824. Octavo. Original grey boards, respined with pale grey cloth, with a label to spine, all edges uncut. Paper boards are rubbed, with a small portion of the top corner of the front board missing. Includes an ownership label pasted in to free front end paper. Internally..... More
Death of a Naturalist.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.57; [1] blank. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, typographic dust-jacket. Contents and binding very lightly marked. Jacket with a little rubbing/soiling and a few marks to rear, slightly sunned to spine, price clipped. Better..... More
Poems of Felicia Hemans. A new edition. Chronologically arranged, with illustrative notes and a selection of contemporary criticisms.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1849. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; 652 [2]. Small print in two columns. With an engraved frontispiece of the author and a vignette title page. Contemporary green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and elaborate gilt decoration stamped all..... More
The Poetical Works.
London: Frederick Warne and co., [c. 1850s-1891]. Octavo. Bound by Parkins and Gotto in full blue morocco, blind ruling to boards, raised bands and titles in gilt to spine; all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, gilt decoration to board edges. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, and several steel engraved..... More
The Poetical Works of George Herbert.
London: George Bell and Sons, 1876. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[6]; clxxix; [1]; 403; [3]. Frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, gilt decoration to boards, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Black ink ownership inscription to verso of..... More
The Odyssey of Homer. To which is added The Battle of the Frogs and Mice.
London: Printed for J. Walker [et al.], 1811. [Classics] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo (13 x 7cm), pp.[6] 426 [2]. With an etched frontispiece and decorated title page after Thomas Uwins, by Anthony Cardon. Contemporary brown diced full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers. Small contemporary booksellers' label..... More
Humorous Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, the second impression thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxxii; 236. With frequent in-text illustrations by Brock, as well as a frontispiece. In contemporary green full calf by BUMPUS of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and further gilt decoration to spine. All..... More
The legend of Croquemitaine, and the Chivalric Times of Charlemagne. Freely translated from the French of L'Epine. Illustrated by Gustave Doré.
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1869. Second UK Edition. Folio, pp.viii, 259; [1], blank; [4], advertisments. Illustrated with 177 designs on wood by Dore. Bound in recent half red morocco with gilt titles and raised bands to spine, cloth boards, top edge gilt. Light foxing within, externally fine. A handsome..... More
The Phantom Host, and Other Verses.
London: Elkin Mathews, 1917. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Small octavo, 165mmx133mm, pp.47. Bound in publisher's blue paper wraps, with advertisements to inner flaps and rear of book. Titled in black ink with bookshop motif to upper. In excellent condition, with negligible spotting to the first and final leaves only. Wraps a...... More
Fine Clothes to the Jew.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927. [Folk Music/Lyrics/Verse] Third Printing INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.90; [4]. Publisher's purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper, illustrated dust-wrapper. With presentation note to flyleaf; "For Mrs Holmes- | these songs | and poems - | Sincerely..... More
Glyndebourne. A History of the Festival Opera Founded in 1934 by Audrey and John Christie.
London: Methuen, 1965. [Opera] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.307; [1]. Beautifully bound for Asprey and Company, likely by Bayntun or Sangorski, in red half morocco over cloth boards, raised bands, gilt titles and tooling to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated photographs in colour and..... More
Collected Animal Poems: The Iron Wolf; What is the Truth?; A March Calf; The Thought-Fox.
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [Poetry] FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED TO VOLUME I. Four volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 7cm) Publisher's black cloth, white dust-wrappers, publisher's white pictorial slipcase. Signed by Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, in Volume 1. Illustrated by Chris Riddell in volume 1 and by Lisa Flather..... More