Poetry & Drama
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
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
The Hawk In The Rain.
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] 59 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with yellow titles to spine. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Light adhesive marks to front pastedown. Light wear to binding, with a little toning to spine. Very good. Hughes' first published collection..... More
Moortown Diary.
London: Faber and Faber. 1989. Uncorrected Advance Proof. Octavo, pp. 68. Soft cover in red card covers with mesmeric 'ff' repeated motif. Some pen notations and corrections throughout as to be expected, otherwise a fine copy. More
Rain-Charm for the Dutchy, and Other Laureate Poems.
London: faber and faber, 1992. [Royal Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 64 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and gold monogrammed dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A touch of rubbing to jacket edges. Near fine. A collection of poems dedicated to members..... More
Sunstruck.
Knotting: The Sceptre Press, 1977. [Poetry]. LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto pamphlet (16 x 15cm), pp.[8]. Number 121 of just 300 copies printed by Christopher Skelton in 'Monotype' Baskerville on Glastonbury Laid paper. Publisher's tan card covers with red titles, stapled to spine. A fine copy. More
The Pillars of Society, and Other Plays.
London: Walter Scott, 1888. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Crown Octavo, pp.xxxii, 315 [5]. In publisher's green cloth with cream paper title label to spine. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper. Blackwell's bookseller label to front pastedown. Cloth and label heavily soiled. Some loss to label; spine..... More
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Et Dukkehjem [A Doll's House].
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel and Søn), 1879. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18cm x 12cm), pp.[2]; 180; [2]. Publisher's green cloth decorated in black and gilt. Coated white endpapers, all edges gilt. Pencil name to half-title, light wear to hinges which are nearly always split, minor rubbing to..... More
Hedda Gabler.
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1890. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[4]; 236. In a contemporary binding of red half morocco over black textured boards, gilt titles and tooling to spine. Internally nice and clean with only very slight paper toning, binding slight rubbed to boards and extremities, a very good copy in..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends. Or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1858. [Strange Tales and Humour] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.xii; 530 [2]. With a decorated title page. Contemporary green half calf by PROUDFOOT of London, with gilt titles to burgundy label and further gilt tooling to bands. Marbled paper over boards, with light brown endpapers..... More
The Ingoldsby Legends. Or Mirth & Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1867. [Strange Tales and Humour] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 468; [2], blank. Red half morocco over marbled boards, raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, marbled endpapers and edges. Title page in printed in red and black, pictorial frontispiece, 4 in-text illustrations. Light spotting..... More
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... More
Ubu Cocu. Restitué en son Intégrité tel Qu'il a Été Représenté par Les Marionnettes du Théatre des Phynances. Cinq Actes.
Genève: Éditions des Trois Collines, 1944. [Surrealist Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.96 [4]. One of just 100 copies thus, out of a total edition of 125 copies. With a black and white portrait of the author by Hermann Paul as a frontispiece. All text in French. Publisher's..... More
Poesia, en Prosa y Verso (1902-1932), escojida para los ninos por Zenobia Camprubi Aymar.
Madrid: Signo, 1932. [Spanish Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.133 [3]. All text in Spanish. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with red titles to plain grey pasteboards. Heavy browning to edges and margins. A small numbered sticker and stamp to front pastedown. Pencil ownerships to page facing title page..... More
The Kensington Mass.
London: Agenda Editions, 1975. [Unfinished Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.20. With black and white facsimile plates illustrating the final MS. draft of the poem. Publisher's plain soft covers titled in red and black, with purple endpapers. A fine, as-new copy. More
The Tribune's Visitation.
London: Fulcrum Press, 1969. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), unpaginated. Publisher's glossy soft covers, with Latin typography by the author. Toning and rubbing to spine, with light handling to covers. Very good. A mixture of verse and prose in the author's distinctive narrative style, concerning the Roman army..... More
The Voice of Shem. Passages from Finnegans Wake, freely adapted for the theatre by Mary Manning.
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 75 [5]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket. Offsetting to endpapers. Price-clipped jacket a little rubbed to edges. A lovely bright copy. Near fine. Originally performed at the Poet's..... More
Simples. A Setting of James Joyce's Poem by Arthur Bliss.
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. [Music] LIMITED EDITION, FIRST THUS. Folio booklet (36 x 26cm), pp.[4] 5 [3]. With the half-tone portrait of Arthur Bliss by Lewis as a frontispiece. Words set to musical notation. One of just 500 copies thus. Publisher's dark grey soft covers, priced at 80p. Some..... More
Seven Poems by James Joyce set to music by E.J. Moeran.
London: Oxford University Press, 1930. [Music] FIRST THUS. A4 booklet (31 x 23cm), pp.20. Words set to musical notation. Publisher's decorative purple soft covers, stapled twice, and priced at 10/6. Very light rubbing to edges. Near fine. Featuring 'Strings in the Earth and Air;' 'The Merry Green Wood;' 'Bright Cap;'..... More
The Poetical Works of John Keats. The "Edina" Edition.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, no date [circa 1900]. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xl; 632 [2]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author. Contemporary red full crushed morocco, with gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; red paste paper endpapers. Light..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1910]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards; quatrains with green border decoration instead of the usual brown. Navy half morocco with raised..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1910]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's English translation.Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth, illustrated dust-jacket. Book is fine with..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. A new translation with critical commentaries.
London: Cassell, 1967. [Persian Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[6] 86 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and tan endpapers. With the tan typographic dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Blackwell's packing slip loose to preliminaries. Heavy browning to half-title, bleeding through two subsequent leaves. Browning also..... More
Departmental Ditties. And other verses.
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1890. [Poetry] FOURTH EDITION WITH NEW ADDITIONS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 121; [24] publisher's catalogue. Publisher's burgundy cloth titled in gilt to spine, gilt illustration to upper board, black monogram to lower board, floral patterned endpapers. Ownership inscription to half title, toning to edges..... More