"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
Poetry & Drama
The World of Paul Slickey.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Alec Murray. Roughly price-clipped jacket toned to spine, with rubbing and bruising to edges and some soiling to rear cover. Very good. John Osborne..... More
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Ovid's Festivalls, or Roman Calendar [Fasti], Translated into English verse equinumerally, by John Gower Master of Arts, and sometimes of Jesus College in Cambridge.
Cambridge: Printed by Roger Daniel, printer to the University of Cambridge: and are to be sold by M[ichael]. S[parke]. junior, in the little Old-Baily in London, 1640. [Latin Literature] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Small octavo (15 x 10cm), pp.[44] 146 [4]. With supplied endpapers and fly-leaves - lacking the first..... More
![The Theological Works. The Age of Reason [and] Miscellaneous Poems. Thomas PAINE](/pictures/thumb/54426.jpg?v=1584533260)
The Theological Works. The Age of Reason [and] Miscellaneous Poems.
London: R. Carlile, 1819-1826. [Collected Essays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, a mixed issue. Part one of The Age of Reason dated 1826; all other parts dated 1819. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 52; pp.96; pp.61 [1]; pp.71 [1]; pp.[4] 24; 25-28. Containing all four parts of The Age of Reason. Followed..... More
The Bernini Bust.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1992. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper. Price clipped, otherwise a clean, fine copy. The third of seven acclaimed mysteries for detective art historian Jonathan Argyll, from the award-winning novelist Iain Pears... More
The Poetry of Sport. With a Chapter on Classical Allusions to Sport by Andrew Lang, and a Special Preface to the Badminton Library by A. E. T. Watson.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1896. LIMITED LARGE PAPER EDITION. Quarto, pp.xl, 484. With frequent engravings and lithographic plates by Thorburn,, Davis, Brock et al. Number 60 of just 250 copies printed on large paper. In publisher's navy half morocco with gilt title to spine and orange cloth boards. Top..... More
A Shropshire Garland: Being a Garland of Sonnets.
Lydbury North: Grail Press, no date [circa 2000]. [Poetry] LIMITED INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), 36 leaves, unpaginated. Wood engravings by Keay to every page. Number 46 of just 200 copies INSCRIBED by both author and illustrator to title page to 'Jo'. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles..... More
Marpessa.
London: John Lane, 1901. [Poetry]. EARLY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (15 x 12cm), pp.47 [1]. With seven wood engravings by Philip Connard, including a frontispiece and a tailpiece. In publisher's green limp latticed morocco-covered card covers, with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Black ink ownership inscription..... More
Five Screenplays. The Servant; The Pumpkin Eater; The Quiller Memorandum; Accident; The Go-Between.
London: Methuen & Co., 1971. [Television Screenplays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 367 [3]. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket priced at £3.75. Very light handling. A fine copy. Four television dramas adapted by Pinter from novels by other authors..... More
Mac.
UK: Emanuel Wax for Pendragon Press, 1968. FIRST EDITION, Limited to 2000 numbered copies. With printed signature below final sentence. Slim octavo. Cloth-backed linen boards, pale green endpapers. No jacket as issued. A fine copy. Harold Pinter, CH, CBE, Nobel Laureat, was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor, director, poet, author..... More
The Dewpond.
Elkin Mathews and Marrot, London, 1928. Signed Limited Edition. Printed at the UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW. 8vo., pps. 30. Publisher's decorative paper-covered boards, uncut. Fine in near fine dust-wrapper, lightly browned to extremities. More
Some British Ballads. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1909. LIMITED EDITION of 575 copies of which this is No 133, SIGNED by Rackham. Large octavo (29 x 23cm), pp.136. Illustrated with 16 mounted colour plates with captioned tissues plus numerous black and white line-drawings within the text. Bound in recent dark blue full..... More
Mother Goose. The Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
New York: The Century Co., 1913. FIRST US EDITION, with larger plates and format than the UK edition. Contains 13 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations. Publisher's dark blue cloth, colour illustration pasted down to upper, gilt titles to spine. A fine copy, in chipped but bright dustwrapper..... More
Rebus: Long Shadows.
London: Orion, 2018. [Drama] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 160. With black and white set design images at rear. SIGNED by Rankin in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with bronze title to spine, and black endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. A...... More
Green Fields and Runninng Brooks.
Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1893. [American-Irish Poetry Interest] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 224 [2]. With a SIGNED presentation slip tipped in to preliminaries, addressed to the notable Irish Nationalist MP Hon. T.P. O'Connor, and dated Christmas 1892. Publisher's brown cloth with a maroon strip to top..... More
The Beacon of Memory.
Crawley: Rigby and Lewis, 1991. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION WITH TYPESCRIPT POETRY. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[14]; 291; [7]. With a typescript of 'Random Rhymes' inscribed by the author in blue ink, dated 1979. 11 sheets, stapled, and folded in half. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cream..... More
Christina Rossetti Poems.
London: Blackie and Sons Ltd., 1910. [Illustrated Verse] FIRST HARRISON ILLUSTRATED EDITION, SIGNED LIMITED ISSUE. Quarto (30 x 22cm). Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's full parchment over boards pictorially blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Contents very clean, expected marking/browning to..... More
Satirical Poems.
London: William Heinemann, 1926. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.61 [3]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. Light rubbing to cloth. Spine sunned, with splash marks to boards. Very good. A collection of poems written over a period of..... More
William Tell.
Zurich: the Limited Editions Club, 1951. [Drama] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Large octavo (28 x 21cm), pp.[4] 157 [5]. With frequent lithographic illustrations by Hug. Number 204 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the illustrator in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's quarter brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and wood..... More
Poetical Works.
London: MacMillan and Co. 1897. Octavo, pp. xliii, 559. Full leather prize binding by Bickers of Leicester for the Sherborne School. Bound in brown tree calf with raised bands, gilt tooling and titles to spine, gilt borders and school crest on back board, gilt Royal crest on front board. Marbled..... More
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, With a Biographical Introduction by Henry Glassford Bell.
Glasgow, Edinburgh and London: William Collins, 1864. [Shakespeare's Plays] ONE-VOLUME EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 17cm), pp.li; [1]; 952; [2]. With 15 etched plates including a frontispiece, and a steel-engraved vignette title page. In contemporary black full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and extensive gilt decoration to..... More
The Tragedies of Shakespeare.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1912. [Shakespeare's plays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 1315; [1]. Oxford binding of quarter vellum over blue cloth boards, gilt decoration and titles to spine, top-edge gilt, housed in the original card slipcase. Frontispiece from a drawing by Sir George Scharf. Ownership..... More
The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, with notes, critical, historical, and explanatory, selected from the most eminent commentators: to which is prefixed a life of the author.
London: Saunders and Otley, 1825. Eight volumes. Octavo. Bound in contemporary brown calf, with gilt ruling and blind tooling to boards, rebacked to style, with original black labels, raised bands and gilt decoration; all edges marbled, original grey endpapers with bookplate. Bindings show well, boards show some rubbing, with occasional..... More
Works of Shakespeare. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by C. H. Herford.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901-1912. FINELY BOUND. In ten volumes. Crown octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxii, 389 [2]; pp.[2] vi, 572 [2]; pp.[2] vi, 500 [2]; pp.[2] vi, 494 [2]; pp.[2] viii, 542 [2]; pp.[2] iv, 515 [3]; pp.[2] vi, 521 [3]; pp.[2] vi, 417 [3]; pp.[2] vi, 398..... More
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[Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night, or, What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry VI, parts I, II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare, by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807. [Shakespeare] JOHN BELL EDITION, later printings, mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm). Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803, with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784..... More
The Plays of William Shakespeare. Edited by Thomas Keightley.
London: J.S. Virtue and Co., Limited, no date [1892-1894]. [Plays] ILLUSTRATED AND FINELY BOUND. Four volumes bound as two, large octavo (28 x 21 x 9cm). Contemporary dark green half calf over green cloth boards, gilt titles to a red morocco label to spine, blue/green endpapers, edges speckled red. Text..... More