Poetry & Drama
I Piso Pleura tou Kathrephti. [The Rear Side of the Mirror].
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2012. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.56. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, from the heart' to half-title. Publisher's grey soft covers. Rubbing to spine and a couple of bumps. Very good. The author's first published..... More
Simeia twn Kairon. [Signs of the Times].
Athens: Gravrielides Books, 2018. [Greek Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.50 [6]. All text in Greek. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink 'To Malina, with love' to half-title. Publisher's blue soft covers. The lightest of rubbing to spine. Near fine. More
In Massachusetts.
Menomonie, WI: Ox Head Press, 1967. [Poetry] PRIVATE PRESS EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (18 x 12cm), pp.[12]. Printed on handmade paper. Publisher's orange soft covers, sewn. A little light handling, and a touch of sunning to spine. Near fine. More
Freed From the Fret of Thinking. Poem contained within The Adelphi, vol. 2. no.12., May 1925.
London: British Periodicals Ltd. [1925]. [Poetry] Publisher's yellow paper wraps. Contains a 3-verse poem by Hardy. Previous catalogue description loosely inserted. Darkened to spine, spine nicked at bottom, owner's name on upper, one inked annotation on p.974. Very good. Also includes an article by Aldous Huxley entitled Our Contemporary Hocus-Pocus..... More
A Leader of Fashion. Poem contained within The Adelphi, vol.3. no.6, November 1925.
London: British Periodicals Ltd. [1925]. [Poetry] Publisher's yellow paper wraps. Contains a 7-verse poem by Hardy. Previous catalogue description loosely inserted. Nicked to spine ends, some dustiness, corners folded, small splash mark to the rear cover. Very good. Also includes a war poem by Edmund Blunden. Purdy, p.239... More
East and West.
London: John Camden Hotten, 1871. [Poetry] FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.140 [22], advertisements. With a title-page vignette illustration. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine. Bevelled edges. Textblock edges untrimmed. Brown coated endpapers. Slightly shaken binding. Interior lightly toned, faint spotting to prelims. Both hinges starting. Cloth..... More
Some Later Verses.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1898. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, with rare dust-jacket. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.118; [2]. Title-page lettered in red and black. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles and pictorial decoration to upper and spine. With the scarce typographic dust-jacket. Top edge gilt, fore edge untrimmed. Interior bright and clean..... More
Death of a Naturalist.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1969. [Poetry] FIRST PRINTING of this 'Faber Paper Covered Edition' (softback). Slim octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.57; [7] blank. Publisher's typographic wrapper priced 7s / £0.35. Neat ink name, two Heaney poems published in a contemporary newspaper tipped-in to rear blank, covers are near fine..... More
North.
London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1975. [Poetry] FIRST PRINTING. Softcover version (issued simultaneously with the hardback). Slim octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.73; [5] blank. Publisher's typographic wrapper priced £1.25. With Poetry book Society newsletter (Summer 1975) tucked in, which includes an article written by Heaney. Some scholarly pencil annotations to..... More
The Poetical Works.
London: Frederick Warne and co., [c. 1850s-1891]. Octavo. Bound by Parkins and Gotto in full blue morocco, blind ruling to boards, raised bands and titles in gilt to spine; all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles, gilt decoration to board edges. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, and several steel engraved..... More
Collected Poems.
San Francisco, CA: [Pirate Edition], 1960. [Poetry] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (18 x 13cm), pp.28. Publisher's plain typographic paper covers, priced at 50c, and proudly emblazoned: 'originally published in Paris, pirated edition San Francisco, 1960'. Stapled twice. Light wear to covers, with some creasing to back cover and a little..... 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
The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Cambridge Edition.
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895. [American Poetry] FINELY BOUND, first thus. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xxii; 352 [4]. With an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, and a vignette title page. Small print over two columns. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to contrasting brown and..... 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 Poetical Works of Thomas Hood. Oxford Edition.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1906. [Poetical Works] FINELY BOUND, first thus. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] xvi; 773 [7]. With a frontispiece portrait of the author. Contemporary tan full calf, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and the crest of New College, Oxford, stamped in gilt to..... More
Q. Horatius Flaccus Ex Recensione et cum Notis atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii.
Amsterdam: Rod. and Jacob. Wetstenios and Guil. Smith, 1728. [Classics] FINE PRIZE BINDING, THIRD EDITION THUS. Quarto (25 x 22cm), pp.[28] 717; [1] 239 [3]. All text in Latin. With a copper engraved frontispiece, and followed by 'Index in Q. Horatium Flaccum, olim quidem collectus a Thoma Tretero, deinde omnibus..... More
Last Poems.
London: Grant Richards, November 1922. [Poetry] SIGNED COPY, the sixth impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.79 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the plain dust-jacket priced at 5s. Spotting to edges with a little offsetting..... More
More Poems.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.71 [1]. With an illustrated frontispiece by Francis Dodd. Publisher's navy cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper. A pair of ink ownerships to fly-leaf. Light toning to edges and endpapers. Light general wear to boards; toning to..... More
The Family Honour. A Comedy of Four Acts and an Epilogue.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1950. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.128. With a promotional postcard for Cape's magazine 'Now and Then' loose to preliminaries. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket likely illustrated by Hans Tisdall (uncredited). Jacket price-clipped, with some rubbing and minor chipping..... More
Palestine Plays.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1942. [Theological Plays] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.146; [2], blank. Red publisher's cloth lettered in silver to spine, typographic dustwrapper with printed price of 6s to front flap. Some spotting to endpapers and to inner boards, toning and spotting to edges of textblock, rolling of..... More
New Woman Poets: An Anthology.
London: The Eighteen Nineties Society, 2001. [Poetry] FIRST LIMITED EDITION. Copy number 14 of 50. Octavo (24x 16cm), pp.[6]; 89; [1], blank. With four halftone plates. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Orange endpapers. As new. This anthology is divided into three sections: 'Desire and Sexuality', 'Social Interventions'..... 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
Collected Animal Poems: The Iron Wolf; What is the Truth?; A March Calf; The Thought-Fox.
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [Poetry] FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED TO VOLUME I. Four volumes, octavo (22 x 14 x 7cm) Publisher's black cloth, white dust-wrappers, publisher's white pictorial slipcase. Signed by Hughes, the late Poet Laureate, in Volume 1. Illustrated by Chris Riddell in volume 1 and by Lisa Flather..... More
Moortown.
London: Faber and Faber, 1979. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, trade paperback. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.170 [6]. With the errata slip, as well as a photograph and manuscript verse from a previous owner, loosely inserted. Publisher's green illustrated card covers priced at £1.95. Quite heavily toned, with spotting to edges and..... More