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— P.J. O'Rourke
Poetry & Drama
Rain-Charm for the Duchy, 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
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
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. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1909]. [Illustrated Metaphysical Poetry] FIRST DULAC TRADE EDITION. Quarto (33 x 24cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards, and brown border decoration. Publisher's white buckram, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Patterned endpapers..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, no date [circa 1920]. [Illustrated Metaphysical Poetry] DULAC ILLUSTRATED, a later printing. Quarto (33 x 24cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards, and green border decoration. Publisher's red buckram, with gilt titles and decoration to spine 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 1920]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's English translation. Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac and green border decoration, all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's gilt-stamped..... 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
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