Poetry & Drama
A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. [Christmas stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xix; 320 [2]. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television by Ian McEwan. [Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration, and Solid Geometry].
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. [Television Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's oatmeal cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd, priced at £5.95. A minor bump and a light mark to jacket front cover. A fine copy. Not to be confused..... More
Per Amica Silentia Lunae [Through the Friendly Silences of Moon].
London: Macmillan and Co., 1918. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.vi; 95. Publisher's gilt-embossed blue cloth designed by T Sturge Moore, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 4/6 net. Book is fine, jacket browned to extremities, chipped to crown and foot. Very good. A poetic exposition of Yeat's visionary worldview..... More
Wheels and Butterflies. New Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.[x]; 181; [1], imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. Book is fine, jacket lightly worn to crown and foot. Generally a crisp, fine copy. A collection of five plays, all..... More
Landing Light.
London: faber and faber, 2003. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 84 [2]. Publisher's black paper over boards, with white titles to spine. Light yellow endpapers. With the black typographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99. A fine copy. More
Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean. Edited and revised by Robert W. Lowe. With Fifty Copper Plate Portraits and Eighty Wood Engravings.
The Strand, London: John C. Nimmo, Printed at the Ballantyne Press, 1888. [Theatre] FINELY BOUND. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15 x 13cm). Frontispiece and illustrated throughout. Handsomely bound in full blue morocco, richly gilt-decorated spines, boards panelled and triple ruled in gilt at edges, inner gilt dentelles gilt, all..... More
The Journey of a Lonely Man.
Singapore: Gabriel Fratini, 1989. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp. 47 [1]. Line-drawn illustrations by the author throughout. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To Hans | from G.F. | 30-5-90.' Black paper-covered boards showing illustrations by the author. Light wear to covers..... More
Resurrection Blues.
Minneapolis, MN: Guthrie Theater, 2002. [Drama] INSCRIBED PLAY-SCRIPT. Octavo (22 x16cm), pp.[6] 136. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front cover: 'To William | from Arthur | August.' Pictorial white pamphlet lettered with grey and black, bound with black paper to spine. Slight scuffing; small price label to..... More
More Poems.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.71 [1]. With an illustrated frontispiece by Francis Dodd. Publisher's navy cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper. A pair of ink ownerships to fly-leaf. Light toning to edges and endpapers. Light general wear to boards; toning to..... More
The Wayzgoose a South African Satire.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp. 61 [1]. Publisher's mottled brown cloth lettered in blue to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Untrimmed edges. Heavy offsetting from a promotional 'Now & Then' card to pp.24-25. Light general wear, with toning and wear..... More
Actfive and Other Poems.
New York, NY: Random House, 1948. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp. 63 [1]. Title page in two colours blue and black. Loosely inserted is an extract from 'The Explicator' published in May 1953 which critically analyses MacLeish's poem 'Hypocrite Auteur'. Publisher's blue quarter cloth lettered in gilt..... More
The Image of the Poet British Poets and their Portraits.
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1982. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.xxii; 219 [3]. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the illustrated grey dust-jacket, priced at £17.50. A touch of light handling, and pencil ownership of William St Clair..... More
Phaedra.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. [2] 90. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 15s. A crisp, clean copy, with some toning to jacket, especially spine, a closed tear to spine, and a touch..... More
Later Poems.
London: The Bodley Head, 1902. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[4] 37 [7]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine with gilt decoration to upper. Untrimmed edges. Toning to edges and endpapers, with a touch of general handling. Near fine. Alice Meynell was a British writer, editor..... More
The Old Glory.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Drama] FIRST ENGLISH AND EXPANDED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 194. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at £1.30 on a sticker to front flap. Light spotting to edges. Jacket shows some toning to spine and a...... More
Gold Coast Customs.
London: Duckworth, 1929. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[63 [1]. With a black and white portrait frontispiece of the author. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red to spine and upper. With the illustrated orange dust-jacket, priced at 5s to front flap. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise internally..... More
The Garden of Bright Waters. One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1920. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.108 [4]. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with black titles to spine and black paper over boards. Untrimmed edges. Wth the typographic green dust-jacket, priced at 6s. Some leaves unopened; very light spotting and toning throughout. Light wear and toning..... More
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
Newport, RI: John Brown, 1870. [Poetry] PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.240. A facsimile of the 1786 Kilmarnock edition. Handsomely bound by Bayntun-Riviere for Lauriat in tan half calf over buckram sides, gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents toned, some thumbmarks, neat repair to corner..... More
Present-Day Prose.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1928. [Prose anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 244. Publisher's pink paper wraps, with red titles to spine and covers. Untrimmed edges. Includes prose from sixty-three authors. Heavy toning to spine, and some wear and marks to front cover. Very good. Including pieces by..... More
The Elder Statesman. A Play.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959. [Drama] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 134. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge tinted red, with the typographic dust-jacket priced at $3.75. Minor toning to top edge, else internally clean and crisp. Slight dulling to..... More
Stuff and Nonsense, and So On.
London: Constable & Co., 1927. [Comic Verse] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 110 [2]. With frequent vignette woodcut illustrations by Bold. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf, dated February 1934. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Label..... More
Wichita Vortex Sutra.
London: Housmans, Publishers, June 1967. [Counterculture / Poetry] SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (20 x 17cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled twice, with title to front cover and advertisements to inside of rear cover. Black ink ownership to title page. Alan Jackson's poem, 'Knox (I)' is copied in blue..... More
Owls and Artificers Oxford Lectures on Poetry.
London: André Deutsch, December 1971. [Lectures on Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.136 [8]. Publisher's orange cloth lettered with silver to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket designed by John Andrews, priced at £1.80. Very slight toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, and bumping to corners of..... More
Reverie of Policeman. A Ballet in Three Acts.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. [Ballet] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.127 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with printed titles to a blue paper label on spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket. A small round mark where a label has been removed to front pastedown. Heavy toning and spotting to edges..... More