Poetry & Drama
Lyra Australis; Or, Attempts To Sing In A Strange Land.
London: Bickers and Bush, 1854. First Edition. Octavo. Bound by Bone and Son in publisher's green cloth, with embossed foliage in the outline of a lyre, with gilt titles and further embossed foliage to spine; pale yellow endpapers, uncut and unopened. Binding is rubbed and a little grubby, worn at..... More
Sangschaw.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1925. [Scots Poetry] FIRST EDITION, first issue binding. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xii; 58 [6]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the plain blue / grey dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Light toning and spotting to edges, with some toning to..... More
To Circumjack Cencrastus, or, the Curly Snake.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1930. [Scottish Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 206 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Harold Edwards | with ever regard | from | Hugh MacDiarmid. | London. | June 1934.' Publisher's blue cloth with navy..... More
Ariel. Poems by Sylvia Plath.
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, second printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.86; [2], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 12s. 6d. Slightly dusty. Near fine in like jacket with a chip to the crown. Shows well. Ariel, written during the year of..... More
Paradise Lost. An Illustrated Edition with an introduction by Philip Pullman.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. [Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION THUS, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 374 [4]. SIGNED by Pullman in blue ink to title page. Text printed in red and black. With facsimile plates of twelve engravings from the first illustrated edition. Publisher's black cloth, with gilt..... More
The Temple Shakespeare.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1894. [Drama] FIRST THUS. A near-complete set of 40 volumes, lacking only 'Songs'. Sexto-Decimo in half-sheets (14 x 11 x 55cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and decorated title page. Attractively printed on good paper in contrasting red and black ink. Publisher's stippled maroon..... More
Snowdon on Stage. With a Personal View of the British Theatre 1954-1996.
London: Pavilion, 1996. [Performing Arts] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (32 x 26cm), pp.157; [3]. Publisher's white paper covered boards, titles in black to spine, blind stamped to upper. Dust-jacket, with printed price of £35.00. Inscribed by the two contributors to the half title: "To Edward | with very best |..... More
A Child's Garden of Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST SOWERBY ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Large octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 125 [3]. With 12 colour plates including a frontispiece, as well as occasional vignette illustrations. Contemporary crushed blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. Top..... More
The Scotish Poets. Morison's Editions.
Perth: for R. Morison and Son, Booksellers; and Sold by G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1786; 1787; 1788. [Poetry] MORISON'S EDITION, LEATHER BINDING, LARGE PAPER EDITION. 3 Volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (20 x 12cm), pp. [xii]; iv; 121; [7], blank. pp. [vi]; lxi; 156; [4], blank. pp. [viii]; 100;..... 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
Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold.
London: Macmillan, 1913. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[xii]; 510. Riviere binding of contemporary brown half morocco over purple cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt title and extra gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Presentation note to "Miss D.M. Lapage", the commandant of the Kent 142..... More
Lady Chillingham's House-Party. Or Margery's Romance.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1901. [Drama] FINELY BOUND ILLUSTRATED COPY. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.[xii]; 150; [2]. INSCRIBED to half-title: 'Harriet Longman | with love and very good | wish from the author |... 1901.' Full green calf, gilt titles and decoration to spine, gilt ruling to boards, gilt..... 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
Poems by Thomas Hood. Again Illustrated by Birket Foster.
London: E. Moxton, Son, and Co., 1872. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.vii; 180 [4]. With 23 tissue-guarded engravings including a frontispiece by Foster. Publisher's purple cloth extravagantly decorated in black, blue and gilt to upper board. Titles in black and gilt to spine, blind-tooling to lower..... More
The Works of Samuel Johnson.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Coöperative Society, no date [circa 1900]. [Collected Works] THE NEW CAMBRIDGE EDITION. Complete in 16 volumes, bound as eight. Octavo (23 x 16cm). Each volume with a black and white frontispiece and two further illustrated plates. Number 150 of 500 sets thus, SIGNED by the New York..... More
In Memoriam James Joyce from a Vision of World Language.
Glasgow: William MacLellan, 1955. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.150. With occasional illustrations by Fergusson. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and a gilt decoration to upper. Top edge green. With the green dust-jacket titled in white, and priced at one Guinea. Spotting and..... More
Mungo's Mansion: A Play of Galway Life in Three Acts.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1946. [Irish Drama] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 104. Plain grey paper covers. Light rubbing and handling to covers and edges. Near fine. More
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs and Other Pieces of our Earlier Poets; together with some few of Later Date. Reprinted entire from the Author's Last Edition.
Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1867. [English Ballads] FINELY BOUND. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xcvi; 290 [2]; pp.viii; 318 [4]; pp.xxxvi; 340 [2]. Contemporary red full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spines and upper boards, and elaborate blind tooling all over. All edges gilt; dark brown..... More
Wheels and Butterflies. New Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 181; [1], imprint; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt-embossed green cloth, edges untrimmed, in original printed dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. Page edges toned otherwise a fine copy of the book, in a very good wrapper, toned to spine..... More
Wild Decembers: a Play in Three Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1932. SIGNED PRODUCTION COPY. Octavo, pp.97. In publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Flyer for the Apollo Theatre production pasted to front paste-down. SIGNED by the author and nineteen members of the cast and crew from the May production of the following..... More
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later edition. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[12]; 268. With frequent wood engraved vignettes by the Patons. Contemporary green full morocco by R. and A. SUTTABY of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
[Scrapbook].
[Privately produced]. 1892- circa 1903. LATE VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[16]; 1-2; 9-68. With three leaves removed near the beginning, and two from the back. Containing a great panoply of decorative monograms, crests and printed signatures and addresses belonging to the English gentry, cut from letters or..... 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 Pied Piper of Hamelin. A Child's Story by Robert Browning, set forth in a series of designs and decorative borders by Harry Quilter, M.A., Barrister-at-Law, and written in ornamental text by Mary, his wife.
London: Harry Quilter, 1898. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST QUILTER-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Quarto (33 x 27cm), pp.[60]. Every page sumptuously engraved with illustrations and wide decorative margins by Harry and Mary Quilter. Each leaf separated with a tissue guard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. A clean..... More
The Works of Lord Byron. Complete in One Volume.
London: John Murray, 1842. [Romantic Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] viii; 827 [5]. With an engrave frontispiece portrait of the author and a vignette title page, as well as two double-sided facsimile plates showing the author's handwriting at different ages. Very small print over two columns. Contemporary..... More