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Poetry & Drama
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 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 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
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
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
Drama in Gloucestershire (the Cotswold County): Some account of its development from the earliest times till to-day.
Gloucester: Minchin and Gibbs, 1928. [History of Theatre] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 240 [2]. With eight black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Contemporary full tree calf for Cheltenham College, with gilt titles to black label and further gilt tooling to spine, as well..... 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
Collected Poems.
San Francisco, CA: [Pirate Edition], 1960. [Poetry] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (18 x 13cm), pp.28. Publisher's plain typographic paper covers, priced at 50c, and proudly emblazoned: 'originally published in Paris, pirated edition San Francisco, 1960. Stapled twice. A fine, as-new copy. Hemingway's poetry 1922-1929. 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
The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. Oxford Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, first thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] xvi; 773 [7]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the crest of New College, Oxford, stamped in gilt to..... 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
The Family Honour. A Comedy of Four Acts and an Epilogue.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.128. With a promotional postcard for Cape's magazine 'Now and Then' loose to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket likely illustrated by Hans Tisdall (uncredited). Jacket price-clipped, with some rubbing and minor chipping..... More