"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Poetry & Drama
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
Behold the Jew. The Greenwood Prize Poem for 1943.
London: The Poetry Society, 1943. [Poetry] FIRST SEPARATE UK EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.20. Publisher's typographic yellow paper covers, stapled twice, and priced at 1s. Lightly toned throughout, with a browned chipped patch to top edge. Moderate wear and toning to covers, with a few small creases and..... 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
Gordon League Ballads for Working Men and Women.
London: Skeffington and Son, 1897. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xviii; 165 [3]. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark brown titles to spine and upper. Small green bookseller's label to front pastedown. Light spotting to endpapers, and a strong tobacco scent. Spine toned, with little light wear..... 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 Flute of Sardonyx.
Llandogo: The Old Stile Press, 1991. [Uranian Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.77 [3]. With eight double-sided pencil-sketch plates by Wilde. Number 95 of 260 copies thus, SIGNED by the illustrator in black ink to limitation page at rear. Publisher's illustrated purple paper over boards, with gilt..... More
Poems.
London: Constable, 1964. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 12cm), pp.53 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'for Keith and Claire | in friendship | Bryan | 1/2/1964.' Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Light general..... More
The Works of Samuel Johnson.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Coöperative Society, no date [circa 1900]. [Collected Works] THE NEW CAMBRIDGE EDITION. Complete in 16 volumes, bound as eight. Octavo (23 x 16cm). Each volume with a black and white frontispiece and two further illustrated plates. Number 150 of 500 sets thus, SIGNED by the New York..... More
The Poetical Works of John Keats.
London: Oxford University Press, 1973. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxix; [1];477; [1]. Bound by Bayntun in mid-blue full calf, gilt titles on red leather square and gilt tooling to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Internally fine, some quite heavy rubbing to the bottom corners. Very good..... More
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Metaphysical Poetry] FIRST BULL ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto, unpaginated. With 29 very fine tipped-in colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Rene Bull. Also blue border decorations and vignette illustrations to every page. Recently bound in brown half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and..... 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..... More
A Song Of The English.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Illustrated Poetry] ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.123 [1]. With 16 mounted colour plates by Heath Robinson, including a frontispiece with captioned tissue guard, as well as numerous in-text wood engravings. Publisher's dark blue cloth pictorially blocked in lime green..... More
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen and Co., 1903. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 215 [41]. Catalogue dated July 1903; with the misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on p.56. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Illustrated bookplate of Wilfred H. Osmond to front..... More
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen and Co., 1903. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 215 [41]. Catalogue dated July 1903; with the misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on p.56. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Armorial bookplate of Cyril Hamilton Aitken to front..... More
For All We Have and Are.
London: Methuen and Co., no date [1914]. [Poetry] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo bi-fold pamphlet (17 x 11cm), one leaf folded with the poem inside. Advertisements to rear; priced at 1d. Light toning and handling to edges. Near fine. A rare survival of an ephemeral item. RICHARDS, David Alan, 'Rudyard Kipling..... More
The Seven Seas.
London: Methuen and Co., 1896. [Poetry and Songs] FIRST COLONIAL EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 230. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Expansive blue ink gift inscription to half-title. A lovely bright copy with just a hint of offsetting to endpapers and a few..... More
Rosamund Grey. And Old Blind Margaret.
London: Frank Holllings, 1928. GOLDEN COCKERELL PRESS. Small octavo (18 x 12cm). Green boards and vellum spine. Printed on handmade pure Irish linen paper. Frontispeice portrait printed on Chine appliqué. Some rubbing and bumping; near fine. More
African Sonnets and Sketches.
London: Burns Oats & Washbourne, 1926. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.x; 45 [1]. With 10 engraved illustrations, including a tipped-in frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Some minor spotting to first and final leaves. Light wear..... More
Lyra Australis; Or, Attempts To Sing In A Strange Land.
London: Bickers and Bush, 1854. First Edition. Octavo. Bound by Bone and Son in publisher's green cloth, with embossed foliage in the outline of a lyre, with gilt titles and further embossed foliage to spine; pale yellow endpapers, uncut and unopened. Binding is rubbed and a little grubby, worn at..... More
The Bright Cloud.
Cambridge: the Rampant Lions Press, 1961. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[32]. One of just 250 copies. Publisher's plain soft covers, sewn. Blue ink ownership to first blank. Light handling, with some toning and spotting to covers. Very good. More
Poeimata: Sappho's Erotic Feet.
Athens: Graphopress, 2004. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.71 [7]. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf, dated 8th October 2005. Publisher's soft covers with a newspaper from March 1985 loose at rear. Very light handling. Near fine... More
Bag One.
Amsterdam: Galerie Taveerne p.96 and Galerie Podulke N.V., no date [1970]. [Exhibition Catalogue] FIRST THUS. Square octavo booklet (15 x 17cm), pp.[28]. Fourteen lithographic images, with selections from Lennon's verse alphabet facing the plates. Publisher's glossy card covers with a black and white photographic image to the front, stapled twice..... More
Fresh Water, Sea Water.
London: The Black Raven Press, 1966. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 40. Publisher's orange cloth wit gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket designed by David Jones, priced at 21s. Jacket a little rubbed to edges and toned to spine. Near fine. More
The Gravel Ponds. Poems.
London: Andre Deutsch, 1960. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.59 [1]. With the tan paper-covered boards, titles in black to spine and upper. With the matching dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Light handling, with a few marks and a touch of sunning to spine. Near fine. More