Poetry & Drama
The Seeker, and Other Poems; With In Parochiâ.
Adelaide: E.S. Wigg, Melbourne: S. Mullen, 1881. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 291 [1] 54 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the title-page. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Errata slip to pg.iii. Grey endpapers. Lightly toned and spotted internally, especially..... More
Selected Poems.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1971. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.126 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket. A crisp, clean copy showing some toning the spine of the price-clipped jacket. Near fine. More
Collected Poems 1934-1952.
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1952. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.178. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 12s 6d to front flap. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of the author. Top edge red. Loosely inserted are newspaper articles..... More
Paradise Lost. An Illustrated Edition with an introduction by Philip Pullman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 374 [4]. SIGNED by Pullman in blue ink to title page. Text printed in red and black. With facsimile plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. Publisher's black cloth, with gilt..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1911. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING, reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 626. Contemporary navy full calf, boards gilt-ruled, with gilt armorial device of Marlborough College to upper. Spine with brown label lettered in gilt, raised bands, and gilt tooling. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers..... More
Selected Poems.
London: The Folio Society, 2016. [Russian Poetry in translation] FIRST THUS. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxii; 161 [1]. With six black and white photographic plates, and an illustrated title page by Modigliani. Publisher's black cloth with blue and white titles and decoration to spine, and a photographic image of the..... More
East and West.
London: John Camden Hotten, 1871. [Poetry] FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.140 [22], advertisements. With a title-page vignette illustration. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Bevelled edges. Textblock edges untrimmed. Brown coated endpapers. Slightly shaken binding. Interior lightly toned, faint spotting to prelims. Both hinges starting. Cloth..... More
The Poetical Works of John Milton.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xiii [3] 554 [2]. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of John Milton and facsimile first edition title-pages. Publisher's quarter vellum, red cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered red label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top..... More
The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1910. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 667 [1]. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of the author, engraved by Emery Walker. Publisher's quarter vellum, green cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered blue label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top edge gilt..... More
Yoko Ono at Lisson. Half-A-Wind Show. Oct 11 -Nov. 14, 1967.
London: Lisson Gallery, 1967. [Exhibition programme/synopsis] FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Slim booklet comprising four text sheets (26 x 21cm), staples twice to left hand side. Illustrated cover/first sheet "Have You Seen A Horizon Lately?". Includes the two-page article 'Some Notes on the Lisson Gallery Show' penned by Yoko Ono. Lightly..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden; Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations.
London: Edward Moxon, 1851. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xii; lx; 445 [1]. With a steel-engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette. Navy full morocco, gilt-tooling to boards and spine. Raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Gilt dentelles to turn-ins. All edges gilt. Cream endpapers. Original bookmarking..... More
Poems Upon Several Occasions Written by Dr. Thomas Parnell, Late Archdeacon of Clogher: and Published by Mr. Pope. With 'The Life of Zoilus': and his Remarks on Homer's Battle of the Frogs and Mice. A New Edition with Additions. To Which is Prefixed, 'The Life of Dr. Parnell,' Written by Dr. Goldsmith.
London: Printed for T. Davies, J. Dodsley, and R. Baldwin, 1773. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND NEW EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[4] xxviii; ii; 180 [2]. With two copperplate illustrations, designed by Samuel Wale and engraved by Charles Grignion. Contemporary brown full tree-calf, spine gilt-ruled with red label lettered in gilt..... More
The Pleasures of Memory, with Other Poems.
London: For T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1801. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND NEW EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8] 187 [1]. With numerous copperplate vignettes throughout, designed by Thomas Stothard. Contemporary brown full tree-calf, boards gilt-ruled. Brown label with blind titles and gilt-tooling to spine. Dentelles in blind to turn-ins..... More
Spring-Board. Poems 1941-1944.
London: Faber and Faber, 1944. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.56. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s to front flap. Small pencilled ownership inscription to flyleaf. Light toning to top of cloth. Minor edgewear to jacket. Near fine. Irish poet..... More
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Parts One and Two. Special Rehearsal Edition Script.
London: Little, Brown, 2016. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[vi]; 343; [1]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device on front board. Gold illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Duncan Spilling, with printed price of £20. Some light edgewear, otherwise fine, as-new. A two-part..... More
The History Boys.
London: faber and faber, 2004. [Drama] SIGNED COPY, the second impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxxiv; 109 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's black paper-covered boards, with red endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99, and a National Theatre Bookshop bookmark. A...... More
The Cocktail Party. A Comedy.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1950. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Tall octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.71; [5], blank. Publisher's green cloth hardcovers titled in gilt, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. A little dusty with some spotting to preliminaries and edges, else near fine, in a very good wrapper, chipped at crown..... More
Cave birds. An Alchemical Cave Drama.
London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (23 x 29cm), pp.64. With line illustrations by Baskin to every other page. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Baskin. Internally bright and clean. Moderate edgewear to jacket. Very good. Hughes'..... More
The Complete Poems and Fragments.
London: Chatto and Windus, 2013. [Poetry] REVISED CHATTO AND WINDUS EDITION, first edition thus. Two volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxvi; 194; [4], blank. pp. ix; 572 (continuation of pagination); [12], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dust-jackets with printed price of £40.00 to..... More
Ariel. Poems by Sylvia Plath.
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, second printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.86; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 12s. 6d. Slightly dusty. Near fine in like jacket with a chip to the crown. Shows well. Ariel, written during the year of..... More
P. Virgilii Maronis Opera, ad Fidem Editionis Heynianae, plerumque exhibita [Complete Works].
London: J. Rodwell [et al.], 1815. [Classics] FINELY BOUND. Duodecimo in half-sheets (13 x 9cm), pp.[6] 370 [4]. Very small print; all text in Latin. Contemporary tan full calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blind roll-tooling to boards. Grey endpapers, all edges speckled red. A...... More
A View From The Bridge. Two One-Act Plays.
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.vii [1] 160. Red quarter cloth, patterned red paper over boards. Lettered in white to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Robert Hallock with printed price of $3 to front flap. Top edge of textblock red. Toning and..... More
Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the time of the Late Wars.
Edinburgh: Printed by Bell and Murray, 1779. [Satirical Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Complete in two volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (18 x 11cm), pp.xxxii; 408; pp.419 [1]. With a preface and very extensive footnotes. Also with a folding copper engraved frontispiece to volume I. Original marbled boards showing vellum..... More
The Colossus. Poems by Sylvia Plath.
London: Faber and Faber, 1967. [Poetry] FIRST FABER EDITION, second printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.88. Publisher's orange cloth with silver titles, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 18s. 6d. Slightly dusty but essentially a clean, near fine copy. More
The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
London: Castle Press, 1948. [Literature] CASTLE PRESS EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.63; [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with blue label and gilt lettering to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 8s. 6d. to front flap. Illustrated endpapers, black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Strong smell of damp, light toning..... More