"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis
Poetry & Drama
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A New Complete Edition, including Miles Standish and Other Poems.
London: Routledge, Warnes and Routledge, 1859. [American Poetry]. FINELY BOUND. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[2] viii; 669 [3]. With seven wood engravings after illustrations by John Gilbert, and a frontispiece portrait of the author after E. Evans, all engraved by the Dalziel brothers. Contemporary green full morocco with elaborate panelled..... More
The Song of Hiawatha. With Illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Decorations by E. Stetson Crawford.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1906. [American Literature] FIRST HARRISON FISHER ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (25 x 19cm), pp.189. Profusely illustrated including colour plates. Pictorial green cloth blocked in gilt and colours to spine and upper, decorative endpapers. Ownership to second blank, some shelfwear, light rubbing, bumped at crown. A very..... More
The Song of Hiawatha.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with textual points and November 1855 catalogue. Octavo pp. iv, 316, (12 ads.). Publisher's elaborately blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and pale yellow endpapers. A little rubbing to corners; head and tail of spine gently bumped. Occasional..... More
Longfellow's Poetical Works. New Edition Containing "Michael Angelo".
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891. Octavo, pp.viii; 763. Prize binding by Bickers in full brown calf with two-line gilt border adorning front and rear boards, attractive gilt detailing to board edges, blind tooling to leather turn-in, green title label to spine with extra gilt tooling in panels, five..... More
The Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca. The New Hogarth Library Vol. XI.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1943. [Spanish Poetry] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.56. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket printed in red, priced at 3/6. Blue ink ownership inscription to flyleaf; a little spotting. Gilt to spine oxidised. Jacket browned, especially to..... More
Stray Leaves from an Old Tree: Selections from the Scribblings of an Octogenarian, (Richard Lower of Chiddingly, Sussex).
Lewes: George P. Bacon, 1862. [Sussex Dialect / Poetry]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.viii; 185 [1]. Mid-twentieth century amateur re-bind: half blue cloth with cream cloth over boards. Hand-written titles to upper board; recent paper title label to spine; light blue endpapers. Lacking the dialect glossary at rear..... More
Playtime and Company: A Book for Little Children.
London: Methuen and Co., 1925. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 18cm), pp.95; [1]. With wood engravings by Shepard to every page. Publisher's pink quarter cloth with titles printed to paper label laid over spine. Glossy paper-covered boards with colour illustrations by Shepard. Yellow endpapers. Tiny ownership to flyleaf..... More
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Guy Faux [Fawkes]: Or, the Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Melo-Drama, in Three Acts, Printed from the Acting Copy with Remarks, Biographical and Critical, by D-G. To Which are Added, a Description of the Costume, Cast of the Characters, Entrances and Exits, Relative Positions of the Performers on the Stage, and the Whole of the Stage Business, as now Performed in the Metropolitan Minor Theatres.
London: John Cumberland, n.d. [c.1830]. [Theatre]. EARLY PRINTING. Small pamphlet in sixes (15 x 10), pp.50. With a wood engraved frontispiece and cover illustration after R. Cruikshank by Mr. Bonner. Publisher's grey paper covers with titles, illustration and a price of 6d, sewn. Cumberland's No. 36 Minor Theatre, being a...... More
Autumn Journal.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1939. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.96. Publisher's orange cloth titled in gilt to spine, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, typographic dust-jacket, with a printed price of 6s net. Internally clean, faint ownership inscription to flyleaf. Cloth lightly rubbed to board edges, spine..... More
The Burning Perch.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.58 ;[2]. Publisher's Purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink dust-jacket titled in blue and red, priced at 12/6. A bump to rear board. Jacket lightly toned to spine and edges; minor black ink spatter..... More
The Member of the Wedding.
New York, NY: James Laughlin, 1951. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. [6] 118. With a black and white frontispiece illustration. Inscribed by the author in black ink to front free end-paper: 'For Monique and Valentin with enduring love always, Carson.' In publisher's orange cloth with orange titles to spine. With..... More
Songs of the Sierras.
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871. TRUE FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.[2] xiv, 301 [3]. In publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to upper board. Light brown endpapers. All edges untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of Horatio Noble Pym to front pastedown. Reading lean; spine darkened..... More
The Little Pot Boiler.
London: Dobson Books Limited, 1963. FIRST EDITION. Spike Milligan's third book. Octavo, pp. 88. Bound in publisher's red cloth with title and author's name to spine in gilt, in cartoon-like typeface. In a dustjacket mimicking a final demand for income tax, addressed to Milligan. Cloth boards in excellent condition with..... More
Startling Verse for all the family.
London: Michael Joseph, 1987. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.[6]; 74. Publisher's black cloth, titles in silver to spine, dust-jacket. Inscribed by the author to flyleaf: "To Paul | Spike Milligan". Illustrated throughout. Textblock lightly toned, some offsetting to endpapers. Cloth and price clipped wrapper lightly handled..... More
When We Were Very Young.
London: Methuen and Co., July 1925. [Children's Illustrated] DELUXE EDITION, second thus, the tenth printing overall. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 100. With Shepard's illustrations to every page. Publisher's deluxe red limp full calf with gilt titles to spine and gilt decoration to spine and upper. All edges gilt; illustrated..... More
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The Poetical Works of John Milton [PARADISE LOST]. With Notes and a Life of the Author by John Mitford.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Co., 1852. BOSTON EDITION. Quarto, pp. cxxix; 371; 478; [6], advertisements. Two volumes bound in one. With a portait frontispsiece. In publisher's red cloth with decorative gilt titles as well as Milton's portrait and a muse playing lyre in gilt to spine; embossed boards. Text framed..... More
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Paradise Lost. A Poem, in Twelve Books [and] Paradise Regain'd. A Poem. In Four Books. To which is added Samson Agonistes. And Poems upon several Occasions. Compos'd at several Times.
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1707 and 1727. [Epic Poetry] FINELY BOUND EARLY EDITIONS, the thirteenth and fifth respectively. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xxxvi; 514 [34]; pp.[2] 457 [5]. Page 514 in 'Paradise Lost' misnumbered 524. With the copper engraved frontispiece by George Vertue to 'Paradise Lost.' Also..... More
A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton. Correctly printed from the Original Editions. With an Historical and Critical Account of the Life and Writings of the Author; containing several Original Papers of his, never before published.
London: Printed for A. Millar, 1738. 2 volumes; Folio. Large paper with wide margins. Sumptuous contemporary gilt and blind tooled panelled calf boards, elaborately gilt and blank tooled spines with gilt titles; blind and gilt dentelles with grey end papers; all edges gilt. Expert repair to joints. Fine. Engraved frontispiece..... More
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
London: John Baskerville, for J and R. Tonson, 1758. First Baskerville edition. 2 volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm). Full red English calf with full gilt backs, twin labels, elaborate gilt border to sides, Dutch marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Contents clean, bindings nicely aged, spines a little chipped..... More
The Poetical Works. With Notes of Various Authors.
London: C. and J. Rivington, J. Cuthell, J. Nunn, J. and W.T. Clarke, Longman and Co., T. Cadell, Jeffery and Son, J. Richardson, Carpenter and Son, J. Mawman, Baldwin and Co., J. Booker, J. Bohn, J. Duncan, Black and Co., G.B. Whittaker, J. Bain, W. [Poetry]. FINELY BOUND. Six volumes..... More
The Play's the Thing.
New York, NY: Brentano's, 1927. [Hungarian Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 139 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with titles blocked with designs in blue and green to spine and upper board. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the green dust-jacket titled in a darker green. Lightly browned throughout. Dust-jacket..... More
Strange Meetings.
London: The Poetry Bookshop, 1917. Second Thousand. Octavo. Flexible paper binding, edges uncut, with black titles to front cover and illustration in modernist style of emaciated figure rising out of crowd, in turn rising out of a fallen skeleton, in black. Edges are bumped, slight rubbing to front hinge, otherwise..... More
Philip Larkin: A Writer's Life.
London: Faber and Faber, 1993. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xx; 570 [2]. With 12 double-sided black and white photographic plates divided into three suites. Publisher's navy cloth with white titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £20.00. Light external rubbing. Jacket sunned to spine..... More
The Hights of Macchu Picchu.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Latin-American Poetry] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.47 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white dust-jacket. Blue ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1974. Some small chips and closed tears to jacket edges, and light..... More
Byron. The Last Journey, April 1823 - April 1824.
London: Constable and Co., 1924. [Biography] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xiv; 288. Incribed "Irene Cooper Willis | from H.N." to verso of the front free endpaper. Maps to endpapers. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. All edges untrimmed. Some spotting..... More