Poetry & Drama
Spring Tide and Neap Tide: Selected Poems 1932-72 | Reothairt is Contraigh Taghadh de Dhàin 1932-72.
Edinburgh: Canongate, 1977. [Gaelic Poetry] FIRST THUS, a dual-language edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.x; 181 [1]. Gaelic poetry to the recto of each leaf, with an English translation facing on each verso. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Ruari McLean..... More
The Old Man of the Mountains. A Play in Three Acts.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1946. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.76. Publisher's orange cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 6s to front flap. Light spotting to endpapers. Toning and spotting to edges. Some mottling to the top of upper board. Rubbing to..... More
Poems of Childhood.
London: Henry Frowde, Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1912]. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.[8]; 46; [2]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by Millicent Sowerby. In publisher's quarter cream cloth with textured cream red and green cloth over boards. Gilt titles to spine and..... More
Aeschyli Persae ad Fidem Manuscriptorum Emendavit Notas et Glossarium Adjecit Carolus Jacobus Blomfield.
Cantabrigiae [Cambridge]: Typis Academicis, Excudit Joannes Smith, 1818. [Ancient Greek Drama] SECOND EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xxxii; 228. Interspersed with a blank leaf for every leaf of text, intended for notes. The editor's preface in Latin, followed by the main text in Greek, with extensive footnotes in..... More
The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
London, New York, Toronto, and Melbourne: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1911. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 668. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Publisher's quarter vellum, red cloth over sides. Spine with gilt-lettered red label and floral designs in gilt and red. Top edge..... More
Keeping On Keeping On.
London: Faber and Faber, 2016. [Diaries] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 721 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles blocked to spine, and patterned endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £25. A fine, unread copy. More
Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse.
London: John Murray, 1937. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10] 45 [1]. With in-text illustrations by various artists. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to upper. All edges gilt. With the dust-jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, priced at 7/6. Light spotting to endpapers. Rubbing to cloth, with..... More
Songs of Innocence.
London: Ernest Benn, 1926. [Illustrated Poetry] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (26 x 19cm), unpaginated. Publisher's black cloth with gilt tooling and gilt lettering to spine. Coloured illustrations throughout. Toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, bumping to corners and especially to front board's upper right corner. Very good. Reproduced in..... More
Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the time of the Late Wars.
Edinburgh: Printed by Bell and Murray, 1779. [Satirical Poetry] FINELY BOUND, a later edition. Complete in two volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (18 x 11cm), pp.xxxii; 408; pp.419 [1]. With a preface and very extensive footnotes. Also with a folding copper engraved frontispiece to volume I. Original marbled boards showing vellum..... More
Poems.
New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1973. [Poetry] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.124; [4]. Publisher's burgundy cloth, white ruling and titles to upper and spine. Interior crisp and bright. A fine copy in pristine condition. Containing two separate volumes, the first originally published as 'The Road of..... More
The Poetical Works of John Dryden.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. [Poetry] FINE LEATHER BINDING. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xlii; 1054. With a tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Dryden and a title-page photographic illustration of Trinity College, Cambridge. Red full morocco over boards, gilt ruling and embellishment to upper and lower. Gilt titles, further..... More
Collected Poems.
London: Heinemann/Quixote Press, 1981. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xxiii; [1]; 360. Publisher's deep pink cloth lettered in gilt to spine, photographic dust-jacket with printed price of £10.00 to front flap. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half title page. Errata slip loosely inserted, photographic..... More
Marigold Garden: Pictures and Rhymes.
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 black titles to grey cloth spine..... More
The Complaisant Lover. A Play.
London: Heinemann. 1959. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.77. Publisher's blue cloth in pale green printed dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. In a very good, lightly toned and spotted jacket. Near Fine. A bright example of this Graham Greene comedy, the third of eight plays from this most gifted..... More
Collected Poems. The Collected Poems of Herbert Edward Palmer.
London: Ernest Benn, 1933. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2], blank; XIV; 237; [1], imprint; [2], blank. With Errata slip inserted opposite p.[8]. Title page is a cancel. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Includes an inscribed and hand written Christmas card..... More
Cave birds. An Alchemical Cave Drama.
London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1978. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Oblong octavo (23 x 29cm), pp.64. With line illustrations by Baskin to every other page. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Baskin. Internally bright and clean. Moderate edgewear to jacket. Very good. Hughes'..... More
The Pillars of Society, and Other Plays.
London: Walter Scott, 1888. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Crown Octavo, pp.xxxii, 315 [5]. In publisher's green cloth with cream paper title label to spine. All edges untrimmed. Black ink ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper. Blackwell's bookseller label to front pastedown. Cloth and label heavily soiled. Some loss to label; spine..... More
The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus. Translated into English Verse by Mr. Dryden, and Several Other Eminent Hands. To Which is Prefix'd a Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of a Satyr.
London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1726. [Latin poetry] EARLY EDITION, the fifth. Duodecimo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4] cxii; 296. With 23 copper plates, including two frontispieces and a dedication portrait of the Earl of Dorset. Later brown quarter calf, tan cloth to sides. Red label with gilt titles and raised..... More
The Five Nations.
London: Methuen and Co., 1903. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 215 [41]. Catalogue dated July 1903; with the misprint 'David' for 'Saul' on p.56. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Illustrated bookplate of Wilfred H. Osmond to front..... More
The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. [American Literature / Verse] FIRST EDITION, First Issue, with "treacherous" for "ruddy", l.3, p.124. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.215; [1], blank; 12, advertisements dated October 1858. Publisher's brown cloth decoratively blocked in blind, gilt-lettered to spine, brown endpapers. This copy with the additional inserted ad..... More
Early Lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid, recently discovered among letters to his schoolmaster and friend George Ogilvie. With an Appreciation of Ogilvie.
Preston: Akros Publications, 1968. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 16cm), pp.28. Number 93 of 350 copies thus. Publisher's green card covers, sewn, with green fly-leaves, and a green card prospectus / order form loose to preliminaries, marked as paid with thanks by the publisher Duncan Glenn..... More
Three Hymns to Lenin.
Edinburgh: Castle Wynd Printers, no date [1957]. [Political Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.31 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to flyleaf: 'To | Professor Knight | with the compliments | of the author | Hugh MacDiarmid. | 23/6/60'. Publisher's red cloth with gilt..... More
Whuchulls: A Poem by Hugh MacDiarmid.
Preston: Akros Publications, 1966. [Scottish Poetry] LIMITED FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 12cm), pp.[16]. On delicate paper, with three colour illustrations. Number 98 of 100 copies thus. Publisher's plain white card covers, stapled. Paper toned, with some light handling to covers. Near fine. A poem first published in..... More
Guy Faux [Fawkes]: Or, the Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Melo-Drama, in Three Acts, Printed from the Acting Copy with Remarks, Biographical and Critical, by D-G. To Which are Added, a Description of the Costume, Cast of the Characters, Entrances and Exits, Relative Positions of the Performers on the Stage, and the Whole of the Stage Business, as now Performed in the Metropolitan Minor Theatres.
London: John Cumberland, n.d. [c.1830]. [Theatre]. EARLY PRINTING. Small pamphlet in sixes (15 x 10), pp.50. With a wood engraved frontispiece and cover illustration after R. Cruikshank by Mr. Bonner. Publisher's grey paper covers with titles, illustration and a price of 6d, sewn. Cumberland's No. 36 Minor Theatre, being a...... More
The Burning Perch.
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.58 [2]. Publisher's Purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink dust-jacket titled in blue and red, priced at 12/6. Also with the scarce Poetry Book Society Bulletin announcing the book's publication, loose to preliminaries. A...... More