Poetry & Drama
The Old Glory.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. [Drama] FIRST ENGLISH AND EXPANDED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 194. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at £1.30 on a sticker to front flap. Light spotting to edges. Jacket shows some toning to spine and a...... More
Gold Coast Customs.
London: Duckworth, 1929. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[63 [1]. With a black and white portrait frontispiece of the author. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red to spine and upper. With the illustrated orange dust-jacket, priced at 5s to front flap. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise internally..... More
The Garden of Bright Waters. One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1920. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.108 [4]. Publisher's cream quarter cloth with black titles to spine and black paper over boards. Untrimmed edges. Wth the typographic green dust-jacket, priced at 6s. Some leaves unopened; very light spotting and toning throughout. Light wear and toning..... More
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
Newport, RI: John Brown, 1870. [Poetry] PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.240. A facsimile of the 1786 Kilmarnock edition. Handsomely bound by Bayntun-Riviere for Lauriat in tan half calf over buckram sides, gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents toned, some thumbmarks, neat repair to corner..... More
Present-Day Prose.
London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1928. [Prose anthology] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 244. Publisher's pink paper wraps, with red titles to spine and covers. Untrimmed edges. Includes prose from sixty-three authors. Heavy toning to spine, and some wear and marks to front cover. Very good. Including pieces by..... More
The Elder Statesman. A Play.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959. [Drama] FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] 134. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge tinted red, with the typographic dust-jacket priced at $3.75. Minor toning to top edge, else internally clean and crisp. Slight dulling to..... More
Stuff and Nonsense, and So On.
London: Constable & Co., 1927. [Comic Verse] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 110 [2]. With frequent vignette woodcut illustrations by Bold. SIGNED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf, dated February 1934. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Label..... More
Wichita Vortex Sutra.
London: Housmans, Publishers, June 1967. [Counterculture / Poetry] SECOND UK EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (20 x 17cm), pp.12. Publisher's grey paper covers, stapled twice, with title to front cover and advertisements to inside of rear cover. Black ink ownership to title page. Alan Jackson's poem, 'Knox (I)' is copied in blue..... More
Owls and Artificers Oxford Lectures on Poetry.
London: André Deutsch, December 1971. [Lectures on Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.136 [8]. Publisher's orange cloth lettered with silver to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket designed by John Andrews, priced at £1.80. Very slight toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, and bumping to corners of..... More
Reverie of Policeman. A Ballet in Three Acts.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1933. [Ballet] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.127 [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with printed titles to a blue paper label on spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket. A small round mark where a label has been removed to front pastedown. Heavy toning and spotting to edges..... More
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 Lord Byron. Collected and Arranged, with Notes and Illustrations.
London: John Murray, 1866. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16] 827 [3]. Finely bound by HAYDAY in full black morocco, gilt titles and decorations to spine, gilt panelled decoration to boards, raised bands, all edges gilt, gilt dentelle turn ins over plain endpapers. With an engraved frontispiece..... 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