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Poetry & Drama
The Crowning Privilege: The Clark Lectures 1954-1955. Also Various Essays on Poetry and Sixteen New Poems.
London: Cassell & Company, 1955. [Poetry and Literary Essays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 230. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket priced at 15s. Gently toned throughout; a little light wear to board. Jacket lightly toned all over; more heavily to..... More
The English Ballad. A Short Critical Survey.
London: Ernest Benn, 1927. [Poetry Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.139 [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with plain paper title label to spine. A nice clean copy internally, with light wear to boards, and heavy sunning and toning to spine. Very good. More
More Poems 1961.
London: Cassell, 1961. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[10] 45 [1]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Very slight sunning to jacket spine, otherwise a lovely fine copy. More
New Poems 1962.
London: Cassell, 1962. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[10] 42. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at 12/6. A little rubbing and a couple of nicks to jacket, otherwise a lovely fine copy. More
Poems 1926-1930.
London: William Heinemann, 1931. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 89 [3]. With the spare title label at rear. Publisher's maroon cloth with white lizard-skin pattern and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the remains of the matching dust-jacket..... More
Poems 1926-1930.
London: William Heinemann, 1931. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[12] 89 [3]. With the spare title label at rear. Publisher's maroon cloth with white lizard-skin pattern and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. A...... More
Poems 1965-1968.
London: Cassell, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 97 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 25s. Some light spotting to endpapers and cloth. Light handling to jacket only. Near fine. More
Poems 1968-1970.
London: Cassell, 1970. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.x; 90. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green and cream dust-jacket designed by Brian Roll, priced at £1.50. Light rubbing and a couple of small closed tears to jacket edges, and some light red marks..... More
Poems 1970-1972.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1973. [Poetry] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 83 [1]. Publisher's quarter orange cloth with brown titles to spine, and black cloth over boards. Orange endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at $5.95. Light handling and rubbing to jacket, with a few..... More
Poems 1970-1972.
London: Cassell, 1972. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.x; 85 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the Blue typographic dust-jacket. Blue ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Price-clipped jacket very slightly tone to spine, with one tiny closed tear and very light handling. Near fine..... More
Poems and Satires 1951.
London: Cassell & Company, 1951. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 40. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket titled in purple, priced at 7/6. A lovely clean copy with just a little toning and rubbing to jacket; more so to spine..... 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
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1854. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; c; 142 [4]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary tan full calf..... More
The Poetical Works of Thomas Gray, English and Latin. Illustrated.
Eton: E.P. Williams, 1847. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] x; lxvi; 142 [2]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary red full morocco..... 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
Amontarista Plana.
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2014. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.48. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, with love' to half-title. Publisher's orange soft covers. Light rubbing to spine. Near fine. The author's second poetry collection. More
![I Piso Pleura tou Kathrephti. [The Rear Side of the Mirror]. Roula GRIGORIADOU-CHATZIMINA, born 1946](/pictures/thumb/55975.jpg?v=1612373704)
I Piso Pleura tou Kathrephti. [The Rear Side of the Mirror].
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2012. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.56. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, from the heart' to half-title. Publisher's grey soft covers. Rubbing to spine and a couple of bumps. Very good. The author's first published..... More
![Simeia twn Kairon. [Signs of the Times]. Roula GRIGORIADOU-CHATZIMINA, born 1946](/pictures/thumb/55980.jpg?v=1591288264)
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
![Hug. Grotii Poemata Omnia. [Poetical Works]. Hugo GROTIUS, DE GROOT](/pictures/thumb/59485.jpg?v=1619714643)
Hug. Grotii Poemata Omnia. [Poetical Works]
Amsterdam: Joh. Ravesteynum, 1670. [Latin Verse and Drama] FIFTH EDITION. Duodecimo (14 x 8cm), pp.[16] 428 [12]. Including a decorated title page. All text in Latin. Contemporary full speckled and panelled morocco, untitled to binding, with all edges speckled red. An eighteenth-century library inscription to front pastedown. Bookplate of the..... More
In Massachusetts.
Menomonie, WI: Ox Head Press, 1967. [Poetry] PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (18 x 12cm), pp.[12]. Printed on handmade paper. Publisher's orange soft covers, sewn. A little light handling, and a touch of sunning to spine. Near fine. More