Poetry & Drama
Some Later Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1898. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, with rare dust-jacket. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.118; [2]. Title-page lettered in red and black. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles and pictorial decoration to upper and spine. With the scarce typographic dust-jacket. Top edge gilt, fore edge untrimmed. Interior bright and clean..... More
William Shakespeare. The Complete Works. A new edition, edited with an introduction and glossary by Peter Alexander, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow.
London and Glasgow: Collins, 1954. [Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND BY BAYNTUN. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xxxii; 1376. Recently rebound in red morocco, edges gilt ruled. Gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelle to turn-ins. Machine-marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Interior bright and clean. Some faint scuffing to boards..... 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 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
The Vegetable. Or, From President to Postman.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. [Comedy Drama] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 145 [5]. Recently bound in green full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and a facsimile signature stamped in gilt to upper. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, and..... More
[Press Photographs for 'Hamlet' at the New Theatre, London, 1934].
London: Bertram Park [and] Yvonne Gregory, no date [1934]. [English Theatre] ELEVEN ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS. Seven 22 x 17cm; four 19 x 26cm. Black and white photographs on glossy photographic paper, each with the photographer's studio stamp to reverse. Glue marks to reverse of each photograph. Seven by Gregory and..... More
The Joy of Living. (Es Lebe Das Leben) A Play in Five Acts.
London: Duckworth & Co., 1903. [German Drama] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, INSCRIBED BY MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] viii; 185 [3]. Publisher's cream vegetable parchment over boards, with gilt titles to spine and upper, and green decoration to upper. All edges untrimmed. With a hand-written invitation to..... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Illustrations by Edmund Dulac.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [circa 1920]. [Metaphysical Poetry] EDMUND DULAC ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Text follows the second edition of Fitzgerald's English translation. Quarto (28 x 23cm), unpaginated. With 20 tipped in colour plates by Dulac and green border decoration, all with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's gilt-stamped..... More
[Press Photographs for 'Romeo and Juliet' at the New Theatre, London, 1935].
London: Bertram Park [and] Howard Coster, no date [1935]. [English Theatre] NINE ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS. Eight 26 x 19cm; one 26 x 20cm. Black and white photographs on glossy photographic paper, each with the photographer's studio stamp to reverse. Glue marks to reverse of each photograph. The eight photographs by..... 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
Twelve Poems.
St Andrews: Privately Printed by Michael Oliver at 29 North Street, 1949. [Poetry] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION WITH LETTER. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.[24]. Printed in Times New Roman on Tullis Russell 'Mellotex' paper. Number 26 of just 50 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page..... More
The Whitsun Weddings.
London: Faber and Faber, 1964. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.46 [2]. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the distinctive typographic dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. A large collection of associated newspaper clippings loose to preliminaries. A lovely crisp, clean copy, showing moderate toning..... More
Stony Limits and Other Poems.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1934. [Scottish Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.143 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | S.G. Whitehorn | from | C.M. Grieve | ("Hugh MacDiarmid"), | London | June 1934.' Publisher's cream cloth with titles to yellow paper label..... More
Twenty Poems.
Dublin: Privately Printed, 1934. [Irish Poetry] INSCRIBED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 14cm), pp.26 [2]. Number 103 of 300 copies thus. Separately INSCRIBED in blue ink to half-title: 'For John Slocum, | who has done so much | for Irish-American relations! | N. Sheridan.' Publisher's grey card covers, sewn..... More
Akhnaton.
London: Collins, 1973. [Play] PROOF COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.157; [1]. Publisher's mottled red paper wraps, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Andrew Vargo priced at £1.80 net. A scarce proof copy sent out in advance of the first edition. Dust-jacket very slightly creased and rubbed to top and bottom edges..... 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
A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. [Christmas stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xix; 320 [2]. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
First Hymn to Lenin and Other Poems.
London: The Unicorn Press, 1931. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp.[10] 44 [2]. Number 221 of 450 copies thus. With a portrait illustration of the author as a frontispiece. Publisher's black quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and to red cloth over boards. Top edge..... More
The Poetical Works of William Cowper.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1854. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxx; 416 [2]; pp.[2] xxviii; 428 [2]. Reasonably-sized print on good paper. Very fine contemporary green full morocco by J. WRIGHT, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and very fine..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, by the Rev. George Gilfillan.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1855. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND FIRST THUS. Two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxvi; 314 [2]; pp.[2] xxiv; 344 [2]. Reasonably-sized print on good paper. Very fine contemporary red full morocco by J. WRIGHT, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and very fine..... 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 Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... More
Two Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid: The Terrible Crystal | A Vision of Scotland.
Skelmorlie: The Drumalban Press, 1964. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (26 x 18cm), pp.[8]. An out-of-series copy from a numbered edition of just 55. Publisher's blue card covers, with black card fly-leaves, sewn. Light handling to covers, with a little toning to extremities. Near fine. A pair..... More
Resurrection Blues.
Minneapolis, MN: Guthrie Theater, 2002. [Drama] INSCRIBED PLAY-SCRIPT. Octavo (22 x16cm), pp.[6] 136. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to front cover: 'To William | from Arthur | August.' Pictorial white pamphlet lettered with grey and black, bound with black paper to spine. Slight scuffing; small price label to..... More