Poetry & Drama
The Temple Shakespeare.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1894. [Drama] FIRST THUS. A near-complete set of 40 volumes, lacking only 'Songs'. Sexto-Decimo in half-sheets (14 x 11 x 55cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and decorated title page. Attractively printed on good paper in contrasting red and black ink. Publisher's stippled maroon..... More
Summoned By Bells. With Drawings by Michael Tree.
London: John Murray, 1960. [Verse Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[8] 111 [1]. With engraved head-pieces by Tree. Publisher's blind stamped green cloth with gilt titles to spine and decorative endpapers. With the typographic dust-jacket printed in red and black, priced at 16s. Near fine in like wrapper..... More
The Complete Works [includes the Poems and Sonnets].
Oxford: University Press (Humphrey Milford), 1913. [English literature] The 'Oxford Shakespeare'. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.1350; [2], Notes. Frontispiece portrait. Elegantly hand-bound in full blue calf with five raised bands, extra gilt to spine, red title label, gilt crest to upper, marbled edges and endpapers. Colston's Girls' School, Bristol prize..... More
Hamlet. The Letterpress Shakespeare.
London: The Folio Society, 2007. [Drama] LIMITED EDITION. Folio (37 x 27cm), pp.[2] 129 [5]. Number 1667 of 3750 copies thus, set 'monotype' Baskerville, printed by Hand and Eye Letterpress, London, on Zerkall mould-made paper. Hand-bound in red half morocco by G. Lachenmailer, Reutlingen, with gilt titles to spine and..... More
A Book of Bits or a Bit of A Book. By Spike Milligan.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1965. [Verse/Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.90. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Spike Milligan, including endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Fine in near fine, price-clipped jacket with gentle toning to spine and extremities. Typically zany poems and short..... More
Wit's Last Stake. A Farce. As it is performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The Second Edition.
London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1769. [Comic Play] SECOND EDITION. Octavo, disbound (20 x 12cm), pp.[4] 30 [2]. A disbound section from a book, still tightly sewn. Final blank loose. Title page quite heavily toned, with a label mark, and spotting to preliminaries. Otherwise clean. Good..... More
A Letter to a Young Poet. The Hogarth Letters No. 8.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. [Literary Essay] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 28. Publisher's card covers, sewn, with an illustration by John Banting. A clean copy showing a little spotting to preliminaries, and moderate toning to covers. Minimal wear. Near fine. First published earlier in the..... More
The Eiger Sanction.
London: Heinemann, 1973. [Suspense] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp229; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £2.10. Contents clean, no ink names. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper. The British first is rather scarce. A secret..... More
The Complete Poems and Fragments.
London: Chatto and Windus, The Hogarth Press, and Oxford University Press, 1983. [War Poetry] FIRST THUS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxvi; 194 [4]; pp.[2] x; 195-560 [6]. With frontispieces showing facsimiles original manuscripts. Publisher's grey and purple cloth with gilt titles to spines. With the publisher's..... More
The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats, Edited with an Introduction and Textual Notes by H. Buxton Forman.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1907. [Poetry] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST THUS, oxford edition. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.lxxvii; 491 [1]. With a frontispiece portrait and illustration of Keats' life-mask, as well as three facsimile title-pages. Contemporary green half-calf, borders gilt-ruled, green cloth over boards. Gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands..... More
Aeschyli Persae ad Fidem Manuscriptorum Emendavit Notas et Glossarium Adjecit Carolus Jacobus Blomfield.
Cantabrigiae [Cambridge]: Typis Academicis, Excudit Joannes Smith, 1818. [Ancient Greek Drama] SECOND EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xxxii; 228. Interspersed with a blank leaf for every leaf of text, intended for notes. The editor's preface in Latin, followed by the main text in Greek, with extensive footnotes in..... More
High Windows.
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.42. Publisher's light grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the distinctive dust-jacket, priced at £1.40. A large collection of associated newspaper clippings loose to preliminaries. A lovely crisp, clean copy internally, showing some wear..... More
The Whitsun Weddings.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.46 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the distinctive typographic dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. A large collection of associated newspaper clippings loose to preliminaries. A lovely crisp, clean copy, showing moderate toning..... More
The Waste Land.
London: Faber and Faber, 1940. [Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.79 [1]. Publisher's pale blue paper over boards, with red titles to spine and upper. With the bright pink dust-jacket, titled in blue and priced at 2/6. Bookplate of Jim Robson-Miller to front pastedown. A large blue ink..... More
Plays for England. 'The Blood of the Bambergs'; 'Under Plain Cover'.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.136. Publisher's red cloth, white titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. Small bookseller's label and ownership inscription in black ink to front pastedown. Jacket price clipped. Dustiness to top edge. Jacket lightly toned, with mild edgewear. Near..... More
I Have Five Daughters. A Morning-Room Comedy in Three Acts made from Jane Austen's Novel Pride and Prejudice.
London: Samuel French, No date [c.1930s]. [Script] SECOND EDITION. Booklet (22 x 14cm), pp.77 [3]. Publisher's typographic softcovers, priced at four shillings to front. Light internal toning. Glue marks to hinges with front starting. Covers toned and lightly creased, mild wear to joints and spine ends. Very good. A 'morning-room,'..... More
Songs and Sonnets.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. [Poetry] FINE LEATHER BINDING, reprint. Octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.[4] 253 [3]. Contemporary green half morocco, borders gilt-ruled, green cloth over sides. Gilt titles, gilt floral tooling, and two raised bands to spine. Decorative endpapers, top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded title-page with vignette illustration. Bound by..... More
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. With Introductions and Notes.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, No date [c.1910]. [Poetry] FINE VELLUM BINDING, oxford edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxxii; 986 [2]. With a halftone frontispiece of the author. Contemporary half vellum, red cloth over sides, gilt armorial device of Leamington College to upper. Red label lettered in gilt and..... More
Collected Poems.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1950. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.x; 181 [1]. Publisher's oatmeal quarter cloth, with grey paper over boards, and a printed paper title label to spine. A blue ink ownership to front pastedown, otherwise internally clean, with toning to edges. Bumping..... More
Aristophanes Against War. The Acharnians, The Peace - Lysistrata.
London: Oxford University Press, 1957. [Greek drama] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xviii; 158 [2]. INSCRIBED to the British historian Edward Crankshaw and his wife Clare in blue ink to flyleaf. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 18s to..... More
The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
London: Ellis, 1907. [Poetry] FINE VELLUM BINDING, pocket edition. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.16; 714. With a tissue-guarded, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary quarter vellum, green cloth over boards. Brown label lettered in gilt and gilt floral designs to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Light spotting to..... More
Waiting For Godot. A Tragicomedy in Two Acts.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1959. [Drama] FIRST SOFTCOVER EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.94 [2]. Publisher's orange wraps priced at 4s 6d to inner cover. Lightly annotated in pencil throughout. Some faint spotting/mottling to edges. Spine sunned, minor edgewear. Loose leaf of type inserted. Very good. Beckett's monumental drama..... More
No More Ghosts. Selected Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1940. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.80. Publisher's paper boards, blue titles to upper and spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 2/6 to front flap. Toned and lightly spotted throughout. Offsetting to endpapers. Small ownership inscription in blue ink to flyleaf. Light toning..... More
Eighty-Five Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1959. [Poetry] REVIEW COPY. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.128. Loosely inserted is the publisher's note to the reviewer. Publisher's purple cloth lettered in white to spine, typographic dust-jacket, printed price at 10s 6d to front flap. Toning to edges of textblock, 1.5cm and 3cm tears to..... More
A Poetry Recital.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1925. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] vi; 36 [4]. Publisher's brown paper over boards, with darker brown titles to spine and upper. All edges untrimmed. With the plain dust-jacket, titled in blue to spine and upper, and priced at 3/6. Internally crisp and..... More