Poetry & Drama
Military Honours.
London: The Fortune Press, 1946. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.56. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s. Just a touch of spotting to endpapers. Jacket toned, with rubbing to joints and edges, some water marks to edges..... More
Storm-Wrack: A Night with the Brontes and Other Poems.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 103 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's green cloth with printed titles to a plain paper label on spine. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Some toning to edges and..... More
Heaven and Other Poems.
California, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1979. [Poetry] SECOND PRINTING. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 59 [3]. Frontispiece of Kerouac's comic strip drawn for the Cassady children. Publisher's silver paper wraps, black titles to spine and upper, printed price $3.00 to rear. Price label to half title, else internally bright and..... More
The Destroyer and A Cargo Of Nations.
London: Privately Printed by Messrs. Hatchard, 1909. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (17 x 14cm), pp.[4] 43 [1]. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt titles to upper, gilt ruling, brown silk ribbon, top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Toning to endpapers, else internally clean. Slight rubbing to spine, bumping to corners, minor..... More
Laolus and Other Poems.
Aligarh: At The Jamia Press, 1924. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[2] 145 [1]. A limited private press edition of 500 copies, this copy out-of-series. INSCRIBED by the author in black in to half-title: 'To | Margaret Shaw | For her ??? of Arcadia, | with all..... More
Dramatic Poets. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, Who Lived About The Time of Shakespeare. With Notes.
London: Edward Moxon, 1844. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes bound as one. Octavo (15 x 11cm), pp.[14] 304; pp.[6] 301 [3]. Purple half morocco, with gilt titles to spine. Toning to textblock edge, wear to board corners and spine edges. Some minor marking to rear board. A very good copy..... More
The Death of Oenone, Akbar's Dream, and Other Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1892. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8] 111 [1]. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine. Internally clean, some light bumping to boards corners and spine. Near fine. Poems from a Poet Laureate. More
The Poetical Works of James Thomson. Comprising all his Pastoral, Dramatic, Lyrical, and Didactic Poems, and a few of his Juvenile Productions. With a Life of the Author by the Rev. Patrick Murdoch, D.D., F.R.S. and Notes by Nichols.
London: William Tegg and Co, 1849. [Poetical works] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.[72] 676 [2]. Nine illustrations including portrait frontispiece. Dark green full calf, gilt titles on red label to spine, with gilt decorations to spine, raised bands, and wide decorative border in gilt and blind..... More
Air Raid. A Verse Play for Radio.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1939. [Radio Play] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 36 [4]. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine. With the yellow typographic dust-jacket priced at 3/6. A pair of blue ink ownerships to front endpapers. Some light toning and spotting to..... More
Dinner with the Family.
London: Methuen & Co., 1958. [French Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.98 [2]. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to cloth. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Harry More-Gordon, priced at 10/6. A lovely crisp copy, with some toning and chipping to jacket spine. Near fine. An..... More
Poems.
London: Privately printed for Eton College in The Riccardi Press Fount of The Medici Society, 1928. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, ex libris Sir Martin Gilliat. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[4] viii; 87 [9]. With two black and white plates from another book, showing Gray's Summer House and Stoke Poges..... More
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later printing thus. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 510 [2]. With a frontispiece etching of the author. Contemporary green full crushed morocco by SPOTTISWOODE & CO., with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. All edges, gilt-ruled turn-ins, and machine-marbled endpapers..... More
The Vampire.
New York: Alex Grosset & Company, [1898]. [Poetry] SEPARATE EDITION. 16mo (18 x 12cm), pp.[8], with clack and white frontispiece illustration. Text printed in red and green. Publishers's illustrated wraps, tied. Parted at spine, loose in covers. Good. With the front portion or the original mailing envelope. Uncommon. More
Collected Poems.
San Francisco, CA: [Pirate Edition], 1960. [Poetry] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (18 x 13cm), pp.28. Publisher's plain typographic paper covers, priced at 50c, and proudly emblazoned: 'originally published in Paris, pirated edition San Francisco, 1960'. Stapled twice. Light wear to covers, with some creasing to back cover and a little..... More
A Leader of Fashion. Poem contained within The Adelphi, vol.3. no.6, November 1925.
London: British Periodicals Ltd. [1925]. [Poetry] Publisher's yellow paper wraps. Contains a 7-verse poem by Hardy. Previous catalogue description loosely inserted. Nicked to spine ends, some dustiness, corners folded, small splash mark to the rear cover. Very good. Also includes a war poem by Edmund Blunden. Purdy, p.239... More
Freed From the Fret of Thinking. Poem contained within The Adelphi, vol. 2. no.12., May 1925.
London: British Periodicals Ltd. [1925]. [Poetry] Publisher's yellow paper wraps. Contains a 3-verse poem by Hardy. Previous catalogue description loosely inserted. Darkened to spine, spine nicked at bottom, owner's name on upper, one inked annotation on p.974. Very good. Also includes an article by Aldous Huxley entitled Our Contemporary Hocus-Pocus..... More
Escape From Anger: Poems in Pamphlet XI.
Aldington: The Hand and Flower Press, 1951. [Poetry] HAND-CORRECTED FIRST EDITIONS. Three copies. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 327-356. Publisher's blue soft covers, priced at 1s, stapled twice. All three copies hand-corrected (presumably by the author) in black ink, with slightly differing crossings-out, additions, and marginal notes. Covers toned and..... More
For the Union Dead.
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. [American Poetry] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 72. Publisher's grey / blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 15s. A little off-setting from a related newspaper clipping at rear. Light toning and rubbing to jacket. Near..... More
Public Speech.
London: Boriswood, 1936. [American Poetry] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[40]. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 3/6. Some toning to edges and endpapers. A little abrasion to spine titles. Jacket toned, with some rubbing and heavier toning to spine..... More
Mervyn Peake / Oscar Wilde. Extracts from the Poems of Oscar Wilde with Sixteen Illustrations by Mervyn Peake and a Foreword by Maeve Gilmore.
London: Gordon Spilstead, 1980. [Illustrated Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.47 [1]. With a black and white illustration by Peake facing every poem. Number 158 of 200 copies SIGNED by the illustrator's wife, Maeve Gilmore, in the publilsher's pink silk-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and..... More
[Press Photographs for 'Hamlet' at the New Theatre, London, 1934].
London: Bertram Park [and] Yvonne Gregory, no date [1934]. [English Theatre] ELEVEN ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS. Seven 22 x 17cm; four 19 x 26cm. Black and white photographs on glossy photographic paper, each with the photographer's studio stamp to reverse. Glue marks to reverse of each photograph. Seven by Gregory and..... More
[Press Photographs for 'Romeo and Juliet' at the New Theatre, London, 1935].
London: Bertram Park [and] Howard Coster, no date [1935]. [English Theatre] NINE ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS. Eight 26 x 19cm; one 26 x 20cm. Black and white photographs on glossy photographic paper, each with the photographer's studio stamp to reverse. Glue marks to reverse of each photograph. The eight photographs by..... More
Love and Fame.
London: Faber & Faber, 1972. [American Poetry] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.96. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at £1.40. Very slight toning to jacket spine, with some light rubbing and a few small closed tears to edges. Near fine..... More
The Book of Ballads.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, no date [circa 1870]. [Illustrated Ballads] REISSUE. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[6] 256. With illustrations in-text and to margins by various artists, as well as an engraved frontispiece and a title page decorated in red and gilt. Publisher's blind-decorated blue cloth, with gilt..... More
A Pagan Place. A Play.
London: Faber & Faber, 1973. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.64. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black and white photographic dust-jacket, clipped and repriced by the publisher to £2.50 with a sticker. Errata sticker to copyright page. A lovely crisp, clean copy, with..... More