Literature
The Quest of Glory.
London: Methuen and Co., 1912. First Edition. Octavo, pp. vi, 311 [31]. In publisher's cyan cloth, with gilt titles and tooling to spine and upper board. Monogrammed bookplate to front paste down. Spine sunned, and spotting to edges and prelims. Even light browning throughout. Very good overall. An historical novel..... More
William by the Grace of God.
London: Methuen and Co., 1916. First Edition. Octavo, pp. vi, 312 [31]. In publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles and tooling to spine, and blind to upper board. Bookplate to front paste down. Even light browning throughout. Spotting to edges, and heavily to prelims. Slight spattering to upper board, otherwise..... More
The Heritage of the Sioux.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1916. [Old West Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 313. With a black and white frontispiece illustrated by Monte Crews. Publisher's brown cloth with black and tan titles and decoration to spine. Water staining to margins. Lacking rear endpaper, hinge starting. Moderate..... More
The Background of Modern Poetry. An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on 10 May 1946 by C.M. Bowra, M.A., D.Litt., Professor of Poetry.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1946. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.20. Publisher's grey typographic paper covers, sewn. Small black ink ownership of Colin C. Moore to title page. Some light wear and toning to extremities. Very good. More
An Ice Cream War.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1982. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[12] 370 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Webb. Extensive black ink gift inscription to flyleaf, otherwise a crisp, clean copy with some spotting to top edge. Price-clipped jacket..... More
On The Borderland
London: Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1884. [Fiction] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 416; [4], blank. Brown half calf over marbled boards lettered in gilt to spine, gilt decorated raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, marbled edges. Spotting to first and last few pages otherwise internally clean and bright..... More
Varied Verse.
London and Tunbridge Wells: The Reliance Press, no date [1925]. [Kent and Sussex Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.63 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Major Heron, with the author's | kindred regards & in remembrance | of many a hearty..... More
Fahrenheit 451.
London: Folio Society, 2011. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS, Folio Society. Octavo (25 x 15cm), pp. xix; [2]; 152. Illustrative grey cloth depicting Guy Montag with red and black lettering to spine, Folio Society black box. Red flyleaf, illustrative frontispiece, five illustrative plates throughout the text. Some light wearing to..... More
Life at the Top.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1962. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles and red blocking to spine, in monochrome pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 18s. Some faint offset toning to endpapers otherwise a lovely clean, near fine copy. Gritty, Northern working-class drama, bring..... 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
Faerie Wars.
London: Bloomsbury, 2003. [Children's Fantasy] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.368. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's paper-covered boards illustrated by Carol Lawson and Ian Butterworth, with the matching dust-jacket priced at £12.99. A fine, as-new copy. The first of five volumes in the..... More
Saraband & Satyricon: Poems and Verses, Orthodox and Heterodox.
Kineton: The Roundwood Press, 1970. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 235 [1]. Number 190 of 250 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's white cloth with gilt titles to spine and green endpapers. With the light green typographic dust-jacket. A few..... More
The Cinque Ports and Romney Marsh.
London: John Gifford, 1972. [English History] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; 266 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to the title page. With numerous in-text maps and halftone illustrations, folding map to rear. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket. With..... More
A Knight of St. John. A Tale of the Siege of Malta.
London: Blackie and Son, 1906. [Children's Historical Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.384 [16]. With eight black and white plates by Rainey, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and colour decoration to spine and upper. All edges green; grey endpapers. Blue ink gift inscription to..... More
Rough Riders of the Pampas. A Tale of Ranch Life in South America.
London: Blackie and Son, 1909. [Children's adventure] ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.[2] 366 [17]. With six halftone plates, including a frontispiece, by Stanley L. Wood. Catalogue at rear. Grey endpapers. Publisher's green cloth to boards, gilt titles and pictorial designs to cover and spine. All edges green..... More
Flagrant Délit: Rimbaud Devant La Conjuration de L'Imposture at du Truquage.
Paris: Thésée, 1949. [Literary Essay] FIRST EDITION, trade issue. Small quarto (24 x 19cm), pp.66 [6]. With the errata slip at rear. Publisher's orange illustrated paper covers. All edges untrimmed. Gently toned throughout, otherwise clean. Spine a little toned; edges rubbed, with a chip to tail of spine. Very good..... More
Poetry. The First of the Broadcast National Lectures delivered on 28 February 1929.
London: The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1929. [Poetry Lecture] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.27 [1]. Publisher's green card covers, priced at 1s. A nice clean copy. Some toning and rubbing to spine and cover edges, with a few small marks. Near fine. More
The Testament of Beauty.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1929. [Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 23cm), pp.[8] 154 [2]. Number 100 of just 250 copies on fine hand-made paper. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the 'Publisher's Note on the Text' loose to preliminaries. Light handling, with a hint..... 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
The T.C. Bridges Adventure Book. Three Complete Stories: The Mystery Message; The Sky Riders; Martin Crusoe.
London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1933. [Children's Science Fiction] FIRST THUS, first impression. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 254; 250; 256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. Top edge red. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 3/6. Printed prize bookplate for St Giles' Men's Bible..... More
The Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Shirley, Villette, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Professor, and Poems. With illustrations by H.S. Greig and ornaments by F.C. Tilney.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1893. [Classic Literature] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Complete in 12 volumes. Small octavo (19 x 12 x 32cm). Each volume with a decorated title page and frontispiece, and two further black and white illustrated plates by Greig and Tilney (three to volume I). Recently re-bound in navy..... More
The Novels of the Sisters Brontë: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, Shirley, Villette, The Professor. The Thornton Edition.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905. [Prose Works] LEATHER BOUND THORNTON EDITION, first printings thus. 12 volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm). With a frontispiece illustration to each volume, and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Bronte country. Elegantly bound in navy blue half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles on twin..... More
Jane Eyre.
London: Collins, by arrangement with The Heritage Press, New York, 1955. [Classic Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.xx; 429 [3]. With numerous colour lithographs by Freedman. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, illustrated paper over boards, top edge black, and illustrated endpapers and fly-leaves. With..... More
Jane Eyre.
London: John Murray, 1929. [Literature] FINELY BOUND, The Haworth Edition, eighth printing. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xlvi; 555 [5]. With a frontispiece by G. Richmond, facsimile page of the first edition, black and white water-colour drawing by Frederick Walker, and eight photographic plates taken by Mr. W.R. Bland and Mr..... More
Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey.
London: John Murray, 1929. [Literature] FINELY BOUND, The Haworth Edition, eighth printing. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4]; lxii; 557 [5]. With a frontispiece, facsimile pages of the first editions of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, an illustrated plate of Charlotte Bronte's dog (Grasper) by Emily Bronte, and seven photographic plates..... More