Poetry & Drama
The Entertainer.
London: Faber and Faber, 1957. [Drama]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.89. Publisher's green cloth, in photographic dustwrapper (showing Olivier as Archie) by Anthony Armstrong Jones (Lord Snowdon). Some stage directions to acts 3-4, long gift inscription to pastedown, else fine, in a near fine wrapper, toned to spine..... More
Atomic Adam.
London: Fulham Gallery Ltd., 1967. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Folio (34 x 24cm), one sheet of green paper folded twice, in a grey card jacket, with titles to both. Printed in purple and silver. Folds out to broadly A2 size, with the poem printed again in a larger decorative format..... More
The Winslow Boy.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1946. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.109 [3]. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine and upper. With the typographic dust-jacket titled in red. A nice clean copy internally, with some rubbing and chipping to jacket spine and edges. Very good. More
The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
London: Ellis, 1907. [Poetry] FINE VELLUM BINDING, pocket edition. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.16; 714. With a tissue-guarded, engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary quarter vellum, green cloth over boards. Brown label lettered in gilt and gilt floral designs to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Light spotting to..... More
The Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
London: Ellis and Elvey, 1891. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary brown full morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine, all edges gilt, and endpapers decorated with gilt. Gentle toning throughout, with spotting to frontispiece tissue guard. Moderate wear and bumping to..... More
A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000. Bilingual Edition.
River Vale, NJ: Cosmos Publishing Co., and The Hellenic Literature Society, 2004. [Modern Greek Poetry] FIRST THUS. Large octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] xxviii; 993 [3]. With a frontispiece reprising the jacket illustration. Fair-sized print on very thin paper, with the original Greek and English translation on facing pages. Publisher's..... More
Poets of Ohio, Selections Representing the Poetical Work of Ohio Authors from the Pioneer Period to the Present Day, With Biographical Sketches and Notes.
Cincinnati: Stewart and Kidd, 1912. [Poetry] PUBLISHER'S LEATHER BINDING, third impression. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.356. With a tissue-guarded halftone frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy full morocco, boards gilt-ruled. Gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands to spine. Gilt dentelles to turn-ins. Marbled fabric endpapers, tissue-guard to rear flyleaf. All edges gilt. With..... More
The Tent on the Beach and Other Poems.
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. FIRST EDITION. Crown octavo, pp.[i-vi]; [7]172; [6], blank. Bound in p[ublisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, coated brown endpapers. BAL21866, binding style 'C'. Some minor wear only, faint ownership to flyleaf, text a little toned and brittle; near fine. Verses by the renowned New England..... More
The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
London: Castle Press, 1948. [Literature] CASTLE PRESS EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.63; [1]. Publisher's cream cloth with blue label and gilt lettering to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 8s. 6d. to front flap. Illustrated endpapers, black and white in-text illustrations throughout. Strong smell of damp, light toning..... More
Mervyn Peake / Oscar Wilde. Extracts from the Poems of Oscar Wilde with Sixteen Illustrations by Mervyn Peake and a Foreword by Maeve Gilmore.
London: Gordon Spilstead, 1980. [Illustrated Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.47 [1]. With a black and white illustration by Peake facing every poem. Number 158 of 200 copies SIGNED by the illustrator's wife, Maeve Gilmore, in the publilsher's pink silk-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and..... More
Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley.
London: Oxford University Press, 1940. [Literary Letters] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii; 216. With a black and white photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge blue. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise internally clean. Jacket..... More
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
London: George Routledge and Sons, [no date] c.1900. [Poetry] SCHOOL PRIZE BINDING, Cambridge Edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[iv]; xxi; [1]; 689; [4], blank. Bound in blue full calf with gilt tooling and gilt scholastic device to upper. Raised bands, gilt tooling and tan label to spine. All edges marbled..... More
Selected Poems.
London: The Folio Society, 2016. [Russian Poetry in translation] FIRST THUS. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xxii; 161 [1]. With six black and white photographic plates, and an illustrated title page by Modigliani. Publisher's black cloth with blue and white titles and decoration to spine, and a photographic image of the..... 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 Lady with a Lamp.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.136. Publisher's black cloth with red paper title label to spine. With the plain dust-jacket, priced at 3/6 for paper, or 5s for cloth. A small blue ink gift inscription to fly-leaf. Quite heavy spotting and offsetting to endpapers..... More
Poems in the Porch.
London: S.P.C.K., 1955. [Poetry] SIGNED ILLUSTRATED EDITION, a later printing. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[28]. With in-text illustrations by Piper. Publisher's soft covers titled in blue and red, stapled twice and priced at 2s to back cover. Author's signature to half-title page in black ink. Spotting throughout, sunning to covers..... More
The Testament of Beauty. A Poem in Four Books.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1930. [Poetry] SECOND EDITION, the final revision of the text. Octavo (23 x 18cm), pp.[8] 175 [1]. Publisher's quarter vellum with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards. With the 'Publisher's Note on the Text' tipped in at rear. Black ink gift inscription..... More
Collected Poems.
London: The Cresset Press, 1954. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS NAOMI MITCHISON. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.117 [3]. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. Illustrated bookplate of Naomi Mitchison to fly-leaf. Spine toned and gilt dulled. Jacket heavily toned to..... More
50 Poems.
New York, NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. [American Poetry] THIRD LARGE PRINTING. Octavo (21 x 14cm), unpaginated, with 50 numbered poems. Publisher's brown cloth with darker brown titles to spine and upper. With the matching typographic dust-jacket priced at $2.00. Internally crisp and clean. Cloth shows some light wear..... More
Fleet Street Eclogues; A Second Series of Fleet Street Eclogues.
London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, and The Bodley Head, 1893-1896. [Poetry] VOLUME ONE IS A LIMITED EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 12 cm), pp.[8] 104 [4]; pp.[8] 102 [16], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spines, gilt titles and decoration to upper of volume two..... More
The Burning-Glass, and Other Poems.
London: Faber & Faber, 1945. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.106 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed. With the plain typographic dust-jacket titled in black and red, priced at 7/6. A little bumping to boards. Jacket a little rubbed to..... More
Poems 1901-1918.
London: Constable and Company, 1920. [Poetry] FIRST EDITIONS. Two volumes uniformly bound. Octavos (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; ix; [1]; 251; [1]. pp.[2]; ix; [1]; 250; [2]. Publisher's grey cloth with embossed pattern to front boards lettered in gilt to upper boards and spine, typographic dust-jackets. (Vol. 1) Ex-libris stamp front..... More
The Family Reuion. A Play.
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.136. Publisher's grey cloth with pink titles to spine. With the first issue typographic dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Very light general wear and some light toning. Near fine. More
The Journey of a Lonely Man.
Singapore: Gabriel Fratini, 1989. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp. 47 [1]. Line-drawn illustrations by the author throughout. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'To Hans | from G.F. | 30-5-90.' Black paper-covered boards showing illustrations by the author. Light wear to covers..... More
The Savoy Operas. Being the Complete Text of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas as Originally Produced in the Years 1875-1893.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. [Comic Opera] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 698 [2]. Contemporary red half calf by RAMAGE of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers. Some toning to edges, otherwise crisp..... More