Poetry & Drama
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
North.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1975. [Poetry] FIRST PRINTING. Softcover version (issued simultaneously with the hardback). Slim octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.73; [5] blank. Publisher's typographic wrapper priced £1.25. With Poetry book Society newsletter (Summer 1975) tucked in, which includes an article written by Heaney. Some scholarly pencil annotations to..... More
Death of a Naturalist.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1969. [Poetry] FIRST PRINTING of this 'Faber Paper Covered Edition' (softback). Slim octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.57; [7] blank. Publisher's typographic wrapper priced 7s / £0.35. Neat ink name, two Heaney poems published in a contemporary newspaper tipped-in to rear blank, covers are near fine..... More
Poems.
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1973. [Poetry] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.124; [4]. Publisher's burgundy cloth, white ruling and titles to upper and spine. Interior crisp and bright. A fine copy in pristine condition. Containing two separate volumes, the first originally published as 'The Road of..... More
Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs.
London: Printed for Vernor and Hood, Longman and Rees, 1802. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.xii [2] 120. With 11 woodcuts and a frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary brown half calf, marbled paper over boards. Spine in six compartments with gilt embellishment, and green label with gilt..... More
The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden, and Several Other Eminent Hands. To Which is Prefix'd a Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of a Satyr.
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1726. [Latin poetry] EARLY EDITION, the fifth. Duodecimo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4] cxii; 296. With 23 copper plates, including two frontispieces and a dedication portrait of the Earl of Dorset. Later brown quarter calf, tan cloth to sides. Red label with gilt titles and raised..... More
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun.
London: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 377. With a photographic frontispiece. Publisher's brown paper over boards with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £18.99. A clean near fine copy showing a little toning to edges. This book is..... More
Fishermen With Ploughs. A Poem Cycle.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1971. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 100. Publisher's light green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Stanley Hickson, priced at 25s/£1.25 to front flap. Some toning and light edgewear to jacket. Near fine. From the imagination of..... More
Leaves of Grass.
A.S. Barnes and Co. [The Illustrated Modern Library], 1944. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND BY INMAN. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 410 [2], biographical note. With numerous colour halftone plates by Robinson, including the frontispiece. Green half calf, boards gilt ruled. Pictorial paper over sides. Gilt titles, gilt panels, and raised..... More
Collected Poems. With an Introductory Memoir by Dan Davin.
London: Oxford University Press, 1971. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxvi; 149 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £3.00. Some associated news clippings loose to preliminaries. A crisp, clean copy showing some light wear to jacket extremities..... More
The Works of Virgil. In English Verse. The Aeneid Translated by the Rev. Mr. Christopher Pitt, The Eclogues and Georgics, with Notes on the Whole, by the Rev. Mr. Joseph Warton. With several New Observations by Mr. Holdsworth, Mr. Spence, and Others. Also, A Dissertation on the Sixth Book of the Aeneid, by Mr. Warburton. On the Shield of Aeneas, by Mr. W. Whitehead. On the Character of Iapis, by the late Dr. Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester. And Three Essays on Pastoral, Didactic and Epic Poetry, by the Editor.
London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1758. [Classics in Translation] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Complete in four volumes. Duodecimo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8] xxiv; 335 [3]; pp.[8] 246 [4]; pp.[8] 352 [4]; pp.[8] 306 [32]. With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, a folding engraved plate showing..... More
The Works of Edmund Spenser. Edited from the Original Editions and Manuscripts by R. Morris, Member of the Council of the Philological Society, With a Memoir by John W. Hales.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1899. [Poetry] FINE PRIZE BINDING. Crown octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.lvi; 736. Tan full calf, Mill Hill School armorial device gilt-stamped to upper, boards gilt-ruled. Green label with gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands to spine. Blind dentelle to turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and edges. Bound..... More
Peer Gynt. A Dramatic Poem.
London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1892]. [Drama] Authorised Translation by William and Charles Archer. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xxiv; 288; [16], advertisements. Publisher's mid-blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind, top edge gilt. A clean, fine copy. A handsome nineteenth century English edition of Ibsen's classic work... More
The Rock. A Pageant Play written for performance at Sadler's Wells theatre 28 May—9 June 1934 on behalf of the forty-five churches fund of the diocese of London. Book of Words by T.S. Eliot.
London: Faber & Faber Ltd., 1934. [Drama] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.86 [2]. Publisher's grey paper over boards with blue titles to spine. With the grey typographic dust-jacket, priced at 2/6. Also issued in soft covers, the hardback being the first of the two bindings. 1000..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. With Portraits [Two Fore-Edge Paintings].
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1897. [Poetry] FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 748, pp.viii; 786. Two volumes bound as one. With an engraved portrait of the poet as frontispiece to each volume. Attractively bound in the 'West End' style, in full red crushed morocco, gilt dentelle to turn-ins..... More
The Best Poems of 1941.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1942. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp. 128. Small red illustrations on flyleaf and backs of boards, illustrative frontispiece. Publisher's yellow cloth with red illustrations to font board with white title sticker to spine, priced at 6s. to front flap. Loosely inserted is a letter..... More
Plays of Near and Far.
London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. [Drama] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[12]; 150; [4]. Publisher's caramel cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Machine-marbled endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Previous owner's inscription in black ink to flyleaf verso, toning to edges of textblock, toning to..... More
The Hunting of the Snark.
London: Harper and Brothers, 1903. [Children's Illustrated Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS, deluxe binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2]; xiii; [1]; 248. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in gilt to upper board and spine. Seventeen illustrations including the tissue-guarded frontispiece, decorative borders in green. Some small tears around name card holder to..... More
The Blue Guitar. Etchings by David Hockney, who was Inspired by Wallace Stevens, who was Inspired by Pablo Picasso.
London: Petersburg Press, 1977. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST THUS. Square octavo (22 x 22cm), pp.51; [1]. Twenty colour etchings by Hockney interleaved with Stevens' poetry. Publisher's grey paper-covered boards with paper title label to upper, brown endpapers, dust-jacket priced at £5.50. Crisp and clean, but for some spotting to top edge..... More
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll.
London: Angus and Robertson, 1957. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.128. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, with the typographic dust-jacket. Spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, previous owner's name stamped to front paste-down, jacket price-clipped, 2cm tear to jacket backstrip and two tears to front panel..... More
The Pythoness. And Other Poems.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 56. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 6s to front flap. Rolling to spine, toning to dust-jacket spine and chipping to to crown, spotting to jacket. Very good. This is..... More
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, [no date] c.1900. [Poetry] SCHOOL PRIZE BINDING, Cambridge Edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[iv]; xxi; [1]; 689; [4], blank. Bound in blue full calf with gilt tooling and gilt scholastic device to upper. Raised bands, gilt tooling and tan label to spine. All edges marbled..... More
The Rose Garden of Sa'di.
London: John Murray, 1943. [Poetry] FIFTH IMPRESSION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.64. Publisher's pictorial wraps, with the dust-jacket of matching design priced at 2/6. Interior lightly toned, the odd mark here and there. Wraps lightly toned and spotted to upper. Jacket also gently toned and marked. Some wear to extremities..... More
A Feast of Lanterns.
London: John Murray, 1936. [Poetry] THIRD IMPRESSION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.96. Publisher's blue cloth, titles and pictorial motif stamped in orange to upper and spine. With the dust-jacket of matching design priced at 3/6. Interior lightly toned and spotted, with larger patches extending until around pg.25. Light edgewear to..... More