Poetry & Drama
Edward Thomas: A Biography and a Bibliography.
London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1937. [Literary Biography / Bibliography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 328. With 10 black and white photographic plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to maroon backing on spine. Top edge green. A few spots, and a tear to..... More
Manila Envelope.
Quezon City: [James Fenton], 1989. [Small press poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Number 669 of 1000 copies. Octavo (28 x 22cm), pp.48. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the limitation page. Printed on grey speciality paper. Glossy pictorial softcovers, unpriced. Comes with a folded manila poster titled 'Manila Manifesto'..... More
Poetry and Metamorphosis.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. [Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xi; [1]; 97; [3]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Small 'B' in blind to lower. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at £9.95 to front flap. Interior and edges lightly toned, a few faint pencil annotations..... More
A Few Late Chrysanthemums.
London: John Murray, 1954. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.viii; 95 [1]. Publisher's purple cloth, with printed titles to a plain paper label pasted to upper. With the plain yellow typographic dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Spotting to jacket, with some toning also to..... More
The Key Keeper. A Masque for the Opening of Britain's Burse, April 19, 1609.
Tunbridge Wells: The Foundling Press, 2002. [Drama] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xii; 25; [3]. With illustrations by Gentleman. Number 40 of just 300 copies in this edition. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Gentleman. Light bruising and a couple of..... More
Scottish Art and Letters. Number One.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1944. [Literary and Art Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.52. With three double-sided illustrated plates, one image reproduced in colour, as well as occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, with gilt titles to spine and advertisements to endpapers. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
Northern Lights. A Poet's Sources.
London: John Murray, 1999. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; [4]; 336. With eight full-page black and white illustrations by Charles Shearer, and two maps of Orkney and Shetland following editor's introduction. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket also designed by Shearer priced..... More
Hauspostille. Mit Anleitungen, Gesangs-Noten Und Einem Anhange.
Berlin: Propyläen Verlag, 1927. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.XII; 156; [4]. With one black and white plate, illustrated by Caspar Neher. Ten leaves of sheet music and publisher's catalogue to rear. Shell marbled paper over boards, brown label with white titles to upper and spine. Top edge..... More
Tokiwa and Other Poems.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 357; [3]. Publisher's stippled pink cloth over boards with red pictorial decoration and titles to upper, small rose design to lower. Gilt titles to spine. Edges untrimmed. Interior toned with some foxing, mostly to preliminaries and endpapers..... More
The Magic Curtain. The Story of a Life in Two Fields, Theatre and Invention, by the Founder of the Theatre Guild.
London: George G. Harrap and co., 1952. [Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.x; [4]; 498. With numerous photographic illustrations, including a frontispiece portrait of the author. Purple cartographic endpapers. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 30/- to front flap. Top edge..... More
The Tower.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; vi; 110; [2]. Advertisements to rear. Publisher's green cloth to boards, gilt pictorial designs and titles to upper and spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Leaves and edges lightly toned with some offsetting to endpapers..... More
St. George's Day And Other Poems.
London: John Murray, 1918. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.48. Publisher's green cloth, white titles and ruling to upper. Gilt titles to spine. Light toning to leaves, some offsetting to endpapers. A few pencil annotations here and there. Two ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, one in black ink, one..... More
The Memory of War.
Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1982. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.93; [1], blank; [1], notes; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £6.95 printed to front flap. With added stanza loosely inserted. Toning to dust-jacket, very minor bumping..... More
Fifine at the Fair.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1872. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[xii]; 171; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth over bevel edged boards, gilt titles to spine, black double ruling to boards, blue endpapers, untrimmed edges. Scholarly notes in black ink throughout. Endpapers toned, ownership inscription to half title..... More
New Songs of Innocence.
Edinburgh: Macniven and Wallace, 1889. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION WITH JACKET. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.viii; 109 [3]. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards. Top edge gilt, and blue endpapers. A really stunning, crisp example, with just a touch of spotting to cloth. The..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Illustrated Metaphysical Poetry] DULAC ILLUSTRATED, a later printing. Quarto (33 x 24cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac, all with captioned tissue guards, and green border decoration. Publisher's red buckram, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper..... More
The Macropulos Secret. A Comedy.
London: Robert Holden and co., 1927. [Drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 211 [1]. Publisher's grey quarter cloth with pictorial orange paper over boards. Paper label with titles to spine. Infrequent foxing, mostly to preliminaries. Toning to endpapers. Foxing and toning to edges, especially top. Gentle wear..... More
History.
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.207; [1], blank. Publisher's grey cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-wrapper designed by Sidney Nolan with printed price of £2.95 to front flap and media responses to anthology on back flap. Scuffing to dustwrapper. Fine. Robert..... More
The Dolphin.
London: Faber and Faber 1973. [Poetry] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.78; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt, illustrative dust-wrapper by Sidney Nolan with printed price of £1.75 to front flap and publisher's advertisements to back cover. Bumping to spine, bumping to spine of dustwrapper. Near..... More
Actfive.
London: The Bodley Head, 1950. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.64. Publisher's cream cloth with black and red leaf patterning over front and back boards lettered in black to spine, white dust-wrapper with the same black and red leaf colouring as the binding with printed price of 7s..... More
Shadowed Victory.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1944. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.77; [3]. Publisher's green cloth lettered in red to spine. Typographic dust-jacket. Toning to edges of textblock, bumping to spine and edges, marking and wear to dust-jacket, price clipped. Very good. Arthur Stringer was a Canadian novelist..... More
Madoc. A Mystery.
London: Faber and Faber, 1990. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 261; [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's black cloth to boards, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by George Catlin priced at £14.99 to front flap..... More
The Astronomy of Love.
London: Oxford University Press, 1961. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 55; [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'Jon Stallworthy | Sligo, August 1968.' Publisher's navy cloth to boards, bronze titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket, price clipped to front flap. Interior..... More
Both Hands Screaming.
New York: The Elizabeth Press, 1975. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, one of 250 copies. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 70 [8]. Publisher's white softcovers. With the brown typographic dust-jacket adhered to textblock at spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Internally bright and clean. Some wear to dust-jacket extremities, light sunning to..... More
War Poems of Nordahl Grieg: All That Is Mine Demand.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, November 1944. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.68. Printed on clay paper. Publisher's light green cloth with black titles to spine. With the striking colour-illustrated dust-jacket by Joseph Brown, priced at 6s. Illustrated bookplate of Margaret E. Spicer to front pastedown..... More