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Poetry & Drama
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
Last Songs.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1918. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.80. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Black ink ownership to flyleaf dated October 1918. Gently toned throughout. Some light wear to cloth with some toning to spine. A crisp, clean copy. Very good..... 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
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
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
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. 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 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
Imitations.
London: Faber and Faber, 1962. [Poetry] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 149. [1]. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to blue backing on spine. With the distinctive typographic dust-jacket, priced at 21s. A little spotting to endpapers. Some toning and spotting to jacket, with heavier browning to..... 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
Evening in Stepney, and Other Poems.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.23 [3]. Publisher's paper wraps, titles to upper and lower. Light toning and wear to extremities. Near fine. The author's fourth poetry collection. More
Collected Poems. New Edition.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1990. [Scottish Poetry] SIGNED NEW EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xiv; 456 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, and dated December 1990. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Blue ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Heavy..... More