Poetry & Drama
Homage to John Dryden. Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. The Hogarth Essays IV.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1924. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.46 [2]. Publisher's illustrated card covers, titled to upper. Black ink ownership of Sylvia Norton, dated 1926, to front fly-leaf. Moderate spotting throughout. Quite heavy wear to spine, including some loss. Covers toned and lightly worn. Very..... More
Little Gidding.
London: Faber and Faber, 1942. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, Second Issue with staples. Slim octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.16. In publisher's pink card wraps, titled to upper. A crisp, clean copy, with some sunning to spine and a little wear to extremities. Near fine. The fourth poem in Eliot's 'Four Quartets'..... More
Poetry and Drama. The Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard University, November 21, 1950.
London: Faber & Faber, 1951. [Literary Criticism] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.35 [5]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the red and blue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. A large selection of contemporary news cuttings and other articles folded and inserted loose to preliminaries..... More
The Rock. A Pageant Play written for performance at Sadler's Wells theatre 28 May—9 June 1934 on behalf of the forty-five churches fund of the diocese of London. Book of Words by T.S. Eliot.
London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1934. [Drama] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.86 [2]. Publisher's grey paper over boards with blue titles to spine. With the grey typographic dust-jacket, priced at 2/6. Also issued in soft covers, the hardback being the first of the two bindings. 1000..... More
Sweeney Agonistes, Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1932. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31; [1]. Publisher's light blue paper to boards, red titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 3s 6d to lower. Interior bright and clean with the faintest bit of spotting to margins and edges. Spine..... More
The Waste Land.
London: Faber and Faber, 1940. [Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.79 [1]. Publisher's pale blue paper over boards, with red titles to spine and upper. With the bright pink dust-jacket, titled in blue and priced at 2/6. Bookplate of Jim Robson-Miller to front pastedown. A large blue ink..... More
Lady Chillingham's House-Party. Or Margery's Romance.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1901. [Drama] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 150; [2]. INSCRIBED to half-title: 'Harriet Longman | with love and very good | wish from the author |... 1901.' Full green calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt ruling to boards, gilt..... More
New and Collected Poems.
London: Enitharmon, 2010. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.508; [4]. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £25.00 to front flap. Previous owner's small red stamp to title page, light scuffing to textblock edges, rolling and to spine, wearing to..... More
The Art of H. Davis Richter.
Benfleet: F. Lewis. 1935; 1944. SIGNED FIRST EDITION subscribers' copy, number 94 of 200 copies, with associated signed first edition of 'Paintings and Poems'. Text by Fell; poems by Lady Sackville. pp. xx, 55, (44 plates in colour and monochrome); 35, (colour plates to each facing page). 'The Art' in..... More
Manila Envelope.
Quezon City: [James Fenton], 1989. [Small press poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Number 669 of 1000 copies. Octavo (28 x 22cm), pp.48. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the limitation page. Printed on grey speciality paper. Glossy pictorial softcovers, unpriced. Comes with a folded manila poster titled 'Manila Manifesto'..... More
The Memory of War.
Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1982. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.93; [1], blank; [1], notes; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £6.95 printed to front flap. With added stanza loosely inserted. Toning to dust-jacket, very minor bumping..... More
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: George G. Harrop and Co., C. 1940 [no date]. [Poetry] FINE COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[iv]; LXXV with 16 illustrated plates. Publisher's green cloth lettered and illustrated in black to upper board and spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 10/6 to front flap. 16 plates and numerous..... More
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 145 [7]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, as usual. Neat ownership to flyleaf, bookseller's labels to rear endpapers. Gilt a little rubbed..... More
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 145 [5]. Recently bound in green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, and..... More
Don Juan, A Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1926. LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.xiv, 160. With a frontispiece photograph of the author. Number 150 of 380 copies printed on hand made English paper. In publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Spine sunned; good overall. Flecker was inspired to write..... More
Poems and Translations.
London: Constable, 1931. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.xii; 176. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, untrimmed edges. Illustrative frontispiece. Toning to edges of textblock, spotting to endpapers, bumping to edges and spine. News-clippings loose at rear. Very good. Flower was an English poet and scholar..... More
The Journey of a Lonely Man.
Singapore: Gabriel Fratini, 1989. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp. 47 [1]. Line-drawn illustrations by the author throughout. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To Hans | from G.F. | 30-5-90.' Black paper-covered boards showing illustrations by the author. Light wear to covers..... More
A Lost Season.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1944. [Second World War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.60. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain dust-jacket titled in blue. A lovely crisp copy on wartime economy standard paper. Price to jacket flap carefully removed (not clipped), with some..... More
New Poems.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.61 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the purple typographic dust-jacket designed by Patricia Davey, priced at 15s. Just a hint of toning to jacket spine, otherwise a lovely crisp copy. Near fine. More
Off Course.
London: Turret Books, 1969. SIGNED Limited Edition (First). Small Octavo, pp. 16 [1]. No. 47 of 250 copies signed by the author. In publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. As new. 15 short poems. More
Owls and Artificers Oxford Lectures on Poetry.
London: André Deutsch, December 1971. [Lectures on Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.136 [8]. Publisher's orange cloth lettered with silver to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket designed by John Andrews, priced at £1.80. Very slight toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, and bumping to corners of..... More
Poems 1937-1942.
London: P.L. Editions, 1943. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp. [x]; 62. Five illustrated plates by Graham Sutherland, loosely inserted are newspaper reviews of the book. Publisher's red quarter cloth lettered in gilt to spine, with illustrated boards, illustrative dust-jacket designed by Graham Sutherland, printed price of 8s..... More
Poems of Milosz.
London: Enitharmon Pamphlets, 1993. [Poetry] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (21 x 16cm), pp.[24]. Number 58 of 200 copies thus. Completely plain paper covers, sewn, with the blue dust-jacket titled to upper, and priced at £3.50 to rear. Light rubbing to spine. Near fine. More
Collected Poems.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1950. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.x; 181 [1]. Publisher's oatmeal quarter cloth, with grey paper over boards, and a printed paper title label to spine. A blue ink ownership to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean, with toning to edges. Bumping..... More
Oscar Wilde: A Study.
Oxford: The Holywell Press, 1905. [Literary Biography] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp.[12] 110 [2]. From an edition of 500 copies. With five illustrated plates, including a frontispiece caricature of Wilde. Publisher's slate blue paper-covered boards with red and black titles to paper labels on spine and upper. All..... More