Poetry & Drama
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1920]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.56. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated glossy paper-covered boards with green titles to cream cloth spine..... More
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.64. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with green cloth spine and green endpapers. Black..... 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
Poesia, en Prosa y Verso (1902-1932), escojida para los ninos por Zenobia Camprubi Aymar.
Madrid: Signo, 1932. [Spanish Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.133 [3]. All text in Spanish. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with red titles to plain grey pasteboards. Heavy browning to edges and margins. A small numbered sticker and stamp to front pastedown. Pencil ownerships to page facing title page..... 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
A Clyack-Sheaf.
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1969. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 57 [5]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge brown, typographic dust-jacket, priced at 18s. A lightly sunned strip to top edge on rear cover of jacket, and some spotting to edges. Near..... More
Poetry Like the Hawthorn. From 'In Memoriam James Joyce.'
Hemel Hempstead: Duncan Glen, 1962. [Poetry] LIMITED EDITION, the publisher's copy. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 14cm), pp.[2] 5 [5]. Number 26 of 150 copies thus, printed in 'Monotype' Bembo. Publisher's yellow card covers, sewn. Black ink ownership of the publisher, Duncan Glen, to fly-leaf. Light handling, with a hint of..... More
Carmen, an Opera in Four Acts. Taken from the story of Prosper Merimee, the original Libretto by H. Meilhac and L. Halevy. New English Version by John and Ada Galsworthy.
London: Elkin Matthews and Marrot, 1932. [Opera Libretto] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] x; 80 [2]. Number 97 of 650 copies, 600 thus, SIGNED by both John and Ada Galsworthy ink black ink to limitation page. Publisher's white quarter cloth, with black titles to spine, and silver..... 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
A Salute From the Fleet and Other Poems.
London: Methuen and Co., 1915. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 208; 32. Methuen advertisements to rear. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to upper and spine. Gilt ruling and embellishment to upper. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at 5/- to spine. Top edge gilt, the rest..... More
Rose and Crown.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1952. [Literary Autobiography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 307 [5]. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's light green cloth, with gilt titles to a red backing square on spine. With the green illustrated dust-jacket. Some toning to edges, and a little bumping..... 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
Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1939. [Illustrated Poetry] REISSUE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.37 [3]. With a colour frontispiece and 19 black and white drawings by Rackham. Pictorial cream paper wrappers printed in yellow, brown and black depicting goblins and fruits, with yapp edges, and pictorial end-papers. Light wear..... More
Poems & Translations 1850-1870, Together with the Prose Story 'Hand and Soul.'
London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1926. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later edition thus. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] xx; 482 [4]. With a frontispiece of the author's self-portrait in the National Portrait Gallery. Contemporary navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and blue cloth..... More
The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet. The Globe Edition, with a Biographical and Critical Memoir by Francis Turner Palgrave.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xliv; 559 [3]. Small print, mainly in two columns. Contemporary brown full morocco for Stonyhurst College, with raised bands, gilt titles and further gilt decoration to spine, as well as gilt school stamp to..... 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
Poor Young People.
London: The Fleuron, 1925. [Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.[10] 60 [2]. With illustrations, many coloured, by Rutherston, including a frontispiece. Number 284 of 375 copies thus, printed at the Curwen Press, Plaistow. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed..... More
Poems.
Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Two volumes. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6] vi; 436 [4]; pp.[4] iv; 443 [5]. With a steel-engraved frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume. Contemporary green full straight-grained morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spines and gilt ruling to..... More
The Holy Grail. And Other Poems.
London: Strahan and Co., 1869. [Poetry] ADVANCE COPY. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[6]; 222; [2]. Publisher's green cloth with embossed patterning lettered in gilt to spine. Light spotting throughout, toning to edges of textblock, sunning to spine, wearing and bumping to spine and edges. Very good. Despite the book's publication..... More
Love Lyrics from Five Centuries.
London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., printed at the University Press Oxford, 1932. [Illustrated Poetry Anthology] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.198 [2]. With five mounted colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Rosenkrantz. INSCRIBED by the editor in black ink to the half-title: 'To Charles &..... More
Writ in Barracks.
London: Methuen, 1900. [Poetry]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14 cm), pp.121; [3], blank; 48, catalogue dated October 1900 (second issue). Publisher's red cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt, rough-cut top edge, other edges trimmed. Some acceptable wear and marking, occasional foxing; very good. The author's second book, being..... More
On Baile's Strand.
London: A.H. Bullen, 1907. [Drama] ACTING EDITION. Small octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.35 [1]. Publisher's grey paper covers, titled to front covers. Sewing split; essentially disbound. Some spotting to edges and preliminaries. Covers split to spine, and re-attached with archival tape. Good. 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
The Guardsman and Cupid's Daughter. And Other Poems.
London: Humphrey Toulmin, 1930. LIMITED EDITION, this being number 289 of 500 copies SIGNED by the Author and Artist. Octavo. Frontispiece and further black and white illustrations by John Austen. Publisher's green cloth, gilt title to spine and pictorial title label laid to upper. Top edge gilt, all other edges..... More