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Poetry & Drama
Life is a Platform.
London: Anvil Press Poetry, 1971. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.52 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and pink endpapers. With the pink photographic dust-jacket, priced at £1.50. Jacket lightly toned and rubbed to edges, with heavier sunning to spine. A price sticker mark to..... More
Pancakes for the Queen of Babylon: Ten Poems for Nikos Gatsos.
Northwood: Anvil Press Poetry, 1968. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[24]. Publisher's brown soft covers with illustrations by David Cardiff and Jon Harris, priced inside at 5s / $1. Very slight bumping to corners. A fine copy of a delicate publication. More
Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets: Poems in Transit.
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1945. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 75 [1]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's black cloth with white titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, titled in red and black. A nice crisp, clean..... More
A Dragon Laughed.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.110 [2]. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with gilt titles to red backing on spine, and highly unusual decorative red cloth over boards. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Some toning to cloth spine and edges. Jacket rubbed..... More
Mixed Rushes.
London: Printed for the author by the John Roberts Press, 1974. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.[16]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, and dated Christmas Day 1974. Publisher's plains soft covers, with the blue dust-jacket. Light wear to to jacket, with..... More
Wand and Quadrant.
Paris: Collection Merlin, 1953. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.62 [2]. Number 277 of 300 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page, and printed on hand-made paper. From a total print run of 600 copies. Publisher's plain card covers, with the textured grey..... More
Walt Whitman and the Springs of Courage.
Santa Fe, NM: Writers' Editions, 1938. [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[12] 144 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, and a small gilt stamp to upper. Grey endpapers. A nice clean copy with some toning to spine and a few small marks to boards..... More
The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. [American Literature / Verse] FIRST EDITION, First Issue, with "treacherous" for "ruddy", l.3, p.124. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.215; [1], blank; 12, advertisements dated October 1858. Publisher's brown cloth decoratively blocked in blind, gilt-lettered to spine, brown endpapers. This copy with the additional inserted ad..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a new edition. Small quarto (22 x 18cm), pp.[2] iv; 556 [2]. With frequent in-text wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers after illustrations by Gilbert, and a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full panelled calf with..... More
Longfellow's Poetical Works. Author's Complete Copyright Edition.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 680; [2]. With 14 engraved plates. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine and boards. Gilt textured endpapers; all edges gilt. Spotting to preliminaries and..... More
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (Reprinted from the Revised American Edition) with Explanatory Notes. The "Albion" Edition.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 630 [2]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary navy full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label, and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges and endpapers..... More
The Poetical Works of Longfellow. Oxford Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetical Works] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 886 [2]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Text printed in two columns on thin paper. Contemporary full tree calf for London County Council, with gilt titles to red label and..... More
The Poetical Works. Complete Copyright Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press Warehouse, 1901. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 878. Beautifully bound by in contemporary brown full morocco, raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of the author. Printed in double columns. Internally nice and clean..... 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 Poetical Works.
London, George Routledge and Co. 1856. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. First UK collection to contain 'The Song of Hiawatha', published seperately the previous year. Small octavo. With eight illustrations by John Gilbert, two of which have tissue guards, including frontispiece. Contemporary red half morocco with gilt titles to spine, red cloth..... More
Longfellow's Poetical Works. New Edition Containing "Michael Angelo".
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891. [Poetry] PRIZE BINDING. Octavo (20 x 15cm), 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..... More
Poet in New York. Complete Spanish Text with a New Translation by Ben Belitt.
London: Thames & Hudson, 1955. [Spanish Poetry] FIRST DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xlvi; 192 [2]. Spanish and English on facing pages, with extensive preliminary material and Appendices. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt publisher's device stamped to upper. With the red and black dust-jacket..... More
III Tragedies of Federico Garcia Lorca: Blood Wedding; Yerma; Bernarda Alba.
New York, NY: New Directions, 1947. [Spanish Drama] FIRST THUS. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 378. Publisher's cyan cloth with red titles to spine. With the black and white photo-montage dust-jacket, priced at $3.75. Toning to edges and spotting to endpapers. Purple ownership stamp to front pastedown. Jacket rubbed and..... 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
Ariadne.
Cambridge: at the University Press, 1932. [Epic Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 144. An out of series copy from a edition of just 500 copies, including a loose compliments slip of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, London. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles..... More
Early Lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid, recently discovered among letters to his schoolmaster and friend George Ogilvie. With an Appreciation of Ogilvie.
Preston: Akros Publications, 1968. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.28. Number 93 of 350 copies thus. Publisher's green card covers, sewn, with green fly-leaves, and a green card prospectus / order form loose to preliminaries, marked as paid with thanks by the publisher Duncan Glenn..... More
In Memoriam James Joyce from a Vision of World Language.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1955. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.150. With occasional illustrations by Fergusson. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration to upper. Top edge green. With the green dust-jacket titled in white, and priced at one Guinea. Spotting and..... More
Complete Poems 1920-1976.
London: Martin Brian and O'Keeffe, 1978. [Scottish Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] xxii; 734; pp.[4] viii; 735-1485 [5]. Printed on india paper, with an associated poetry reading flyer loose to preliminaries. Contemporary green full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to..... More
Cornish Heroic Song for Valda Trevlyn, and Once in a Cornish Garden.
Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1977. [Poetry] DOUBLE SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[5] 22 [1]. SIGNED by both MacDiarmid and his wife Valda, one in blue, the other in black ink to flyleaf. With three illustrations by Lorgan, including a frontispiece, and a photograph of Christopher and Valda..... More
First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems.
London: The Unicorn Press, 1931. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[10] 44 [2]. Number 221 of 450 copies thus. With a portrait illustration of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's black quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and to red cloth over boards. Top edge..... More