Poetry & Drama
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
Fishermen With Ploughs. A Poem Cycle.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1971. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[12] 100. Publisher's light green cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Stanley Hickson, priced at 25s/£1.25 to front flap. Some toning and light edgewear to jacket. Near fine. From the imagination of..... More
Northern Lights. A Poet's Sources.
London: John Murray, 1999. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xii; [4]; 336. With eight full-page black and white illustrations by Charles Shearer, and two maps of Orkney and Shetland following editor's introduction. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket also designed by Shearer priced..... More
The Statue and the Bust.
London: John Lane, 1910. [POETRY] FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo (15 x 12cm), pp.46 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt tooling to front board and gilt lettering to spine. 6 illustrated plates including the frontispiece and 3 other in-text illustrations including a 'finis' illustration. All plates are present, some offsetting to flyleaves..... 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
Fifine at the Fair.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1872. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.[xii]; 171; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth over bevel edged boards, gilt titles to spine, black double ruling to boards, blue endpapers, untrimmed edges. Scholarly notes in black ink throughout. Endpapers toned, ownership inscription to half title..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. With Portraits.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1909. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND BY BICKERS. Two volumes in one. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 786. With two tissue-guarded frontispiece illustrations of Browning. Blue full morocco to boards, gilt titles and raised bands to spine. Gilt roll-tooled dentelle to turn-ins. Blue endpapers. All edges gilt..... More
The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. With Portraits [Two Fore-Edge Paintings].
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1897. [Poetry] FORE-EDGE PAINTING. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 748, pp.viii; 786. Two volumes bound as one. With an engraved portrait of the poet as frontispiece to each volume. Attractively bound in the 'West End' style, in full red crushed morocco, gilt dentelle to turn-ins..... More
John Clare and Picturesque Landscape.
Oxford: the Clarendon Press, 1983. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xii; 158 [2]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Light blue endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket titled in red and black. Light spotting to edges. Jacket a little bruised and rubbed, with a closed tear..... More
The Piper of Hamelin: A Fantastic Opera in Two Acts.
London: William Heinemann, 1893. [Illustrated Drama] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.64. With 12 wood engraved plates by Thomson, as well as a decorated title page. Publisher's light green cloth with darker green titles to spine and upper board. Top edge green, others untrimmed. Black ink ownership..... More
The works of robert burns. Illustrated by an Extensive Series of Portraits and Authentic Views. With a Complete Life of the Poet: An Essay on his Genius and Character, by Professor Wilson. Numerous Notes, Annotations, and Appendices.
London: Blackie and Son, 1866. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.cclxxvi; iv; 149; [1]; pp.xx; 412. With a total of 83 engraved plates by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title page to each volume, and a facsimile example of Burns' handwriting..... More
Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.
Newport, RI: John Brown, 1870. [Poetry] PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.240. A facsimile of the 1786 Kilmarnock edition. Handsomely bound by Bayntun-Riviere for Lauriat in tan half calf over buckram sides, gilt to spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents toned, some thumbmarks, neat repair to corner..... More
My One Leaf Head.
Brighton: Unicorn Books, 1969. [Poetry] LIMITED PRIVATE PRESS. Large octavo (25 x 19cm), pp.[16]. One of 500 copies thus, printed by Richard Moseley on Four Stones Mill laid paper. Publisher's orange card covers, stapled twice, with titles to a blue label, and blue fly-leaves. A black ink ownership to front..... 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
Marino Faliero. Doge of Venice, An Historical Tragedy. In Five Acts. With Notes.
Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1821. [Tragedy] FIRST PARIS EDITION. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[4]; 271; [1]. Brown half calf, Shell marbled paper over boards. Grey label with gilt titles, gilt bands, and blind-tooled designs to spine. Edges speckled black. Blue endpapers. Original bookmarking ribbon loosely inserted. Interior bright, though..... More
The Selected Poems of Roy Campbell.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] xxii; 131 [5]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the black photographic dust-jacket, priced at £7.50. A fine, as-new copy. More
Roy Campbell Selected Poems.
Johannesburg: AD. DONKER, 1981. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 X 13cm), 213; [1]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in white to spine, typographic dust-jacket. Some bumping to back board, rolling to spine, wearing to edges of jacket. Very good. According to the publisher's blurb, this edition of Roy Campbell's poems was..... More
The Wayzgoose a South African Satire.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 16cm), pp. 61 [1]. Publisher's mottled brown cloth lettered in blue to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 5s. Untrimmed edges. Heavy offsetting from a promotional 'Now & Then' card to pp.24-25. Light general wear, with toning and wear..... More
The Hunting of the Snark.
London: Harper and Brothers, 1903. [Children's Illustrated Literature] FIRST EDITION THUS, deluxe binding. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.[2]; xiii; [1]; 248. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in gilt to upper board and spine. Seventeen illustrations including the tissue-guarded frontispiece, decorative borders in green. Some small tears around name card holder to..... More
Tokiwa and Other Poems.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.viii; 357; [3]. Publisher's stippled pink cloth over boards with red pictorial decoration and titles to upper, small rose design to lower. Gilt titles to spine. Edges untrimmed. Interior toned with some foxing, mostly to preliminaries and endpapers..... More
Marching Soldier.
London: Michael Joseph, 1945. [War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.28. A single long poem. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to upper. With the plain dust-jacket, titled to both covers. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Jacket price-clipped, with a little light wear and chipping to edges. Near..... 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
And Then There Were None (under its original "Ten Little N..." title, 1944). A Play in Three Acts.
London: Samuel French, 1944. [Drama] FRENCH'S ACTING EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.82. With a monochrome plate of the set layout opp. p.5, 'furniture and property plot' illustration is on p.76. Printed blue card softcovers priced 5s. Some underlining/stage direction else clean within. Moderate toning and wear to extremities, spine..... More