Poetry & Drama
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
Rain-Charm for the Duchy, and Other Laureate Poems.
London: faber and faber, 1992. [Royal Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 64 [4]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and gold monogrammed dust-jacket, priced at £12.99. A touch of rubbing to jacket edges. Near fine. A collection of poems dedicated to members..... More
Sunstruck.
Knotting: The Sceptre Press, 1977. [Poetry]. LIMITED EDITION. Small quarto pamphlet (16 x 15cm), pp.[8]. Number 121 of just 300 copies printed by Christopher Skelton in 'Monotype' Baskerville on Glastonbury Laid paper. Publisher's tan card covers with red titles, stapled to spine. A fine copy. More
A Book of Bits or a Bit of A Book. By Spike Milligan.
London: Dennis Dobson, 1965. [Verse/Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.90. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by Spike Milligan, including endpapers. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Fine in near fine, price-clipped jacket with gentle toning to spine and extremities. Typically zany poems and short..... More
The Eiger Sanction.
London: Heinemann, 1973. [Suspense] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp229; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers with gilt titles to the spine, photographic dust-jacket priced at £2.10. Contents clean, no ink names. A fine copy in a near fine wrapper. The British first is rather scarce. A secret..... 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
Et Dukkehjem [A Doll's House].
Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag (F. Hegel and Søn), 1879. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (18cm x 12cm), pp.[2]; 180; [2]. Publisher's green cloth decorated in black and gilt. Coated white endpapers, all edges gilt. Pencil name to half-title, light wear to hinges which are nearly always split, minor rubbing to..... More
Peer Gynt. A Dramatic Poem.
London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., no date [1892]. [Drama] Authorised Translation by William and Charles Archer. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xxiv; 288; [16], advertisements. Publisher's mid-blue cloth decorated in gilt and blind, top edge gilt. A clean, fine copy. A handsome nineteenth century English edition of Ibsen's classic work... More
The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels.
London: Richard Bentley, 1842-1847. [Strange Tales and Humour] FIRST AND EARLY EDITIONS, volume I a third edition, volumes II and III first editions. Complete in three volumes. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xii; 339 [1]; pp.x; 288; pp.viii; 364. With a total of 18 engraved plates, including a frontispiece to volume..... More
A Child's Book of Hours.
London: Humphrey Milford, n.d. [1921]. FIRST EDITION. Folio (37 x 25cm), unpaginated, printed on 16 thick card leaves with 12 fine chromolithographic plates. In publisher's quarter tan cloth with tan paper-covered boards. Titles and clock illustration printed in colour to upper board. With rare original dust-jacket, mirroring upper board. Very..... More
Behold the Jew. The Greenwood Prize Poem for 1943.
London: The Poetry Society, 1943. [Poetry] FIRST SEPARATE UK EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.20. Publisher's typographic yellow paper covers, stapled twice, and priced at 1s. Lightly toned throughout, with a browned chipped patch to top edge. Moderate wear and toning to covers, with a few small creases and..... More
Ubu Cocu. Restitué en son Intégrité tel Qu'il a Été Représenté par Les Marionnettes du Théatre des Phynances. Cinq Actes.
Genève: Éditions des Trois Collines, 1944. [Surrealist Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.96 [4]. One of just 100 copies thus, out of a total edition of 125 copies. With a black and white portrait of the author by Hermann Paul as a frontispiece. All text in French. Publisher's..... More
Always Adam.
London: Faber and Faber, 1943. [Poetry] REVIEW COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. 64. Untrimmed edges, publisher's orange cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-wrapper with printed price of 6s to front flap and publisher's advertisements to back cover. Toning to edges of textblock, very small white mark to..... More
Gordon League Ballads for Working Men and Women.
London: Skeffington and Son, 1897. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xviii; 165 [3]. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark brown titles to spine and upper. Small green bookseller's label to front pastedown. Light spotting to endpapers, and a strong tobacco scent. Spine toned, with little light wear..... More
Poesia, en Prosa y Verso (1902-1932), escojida para los ninos por Zenobia Camprubi Aymar.
Madrid: Signo, 1932. [Spanish Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.133 [3]. All text in Spanish. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with red titles to plain grey pasteboards. Heavy browning to edges and margins. A small numbered sticker and stamp to front pastedown. Pencil ownerships to page facing title page..... More
Poems.
London: Constable, 1964. [Poetry] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 12cm), pp.53 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to fly-leaf: 'for Keith and Claire | in friendship | Bryan | 1/2/1964.' Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Light general..... More
The Works of Samuel Johnson.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Coöperative Society, no date [circa 1900]. [Collected Works] THE NEW CAMBRIDGE EDITION. Complete in 16 volumes, bound as eight. Octavo (23 x 16cm). Each volume with a black and white frontispiece and two further illustrated plates. Number 150 of 500 sets thus, SIGNED by the New York..... More
The Key Keeper. A Masque for the Opening of Britain's Burse, April 19, 1609.
Tunbridge Wells: The Foundling Press, 2002. [Drama] LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xii; 25; [3]. With illustrations by Gentleman. Number 40 of just 300 copies in this edition. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket also illustrated by Gentleman. Light bruising and a couple of..... More
Pomes Penyeach.
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. [Poetry] FIRST TRADE EDITION. Vigesimo-quarto (12 x 10cm), pp.[20]. With the errata slip at rear. Publisher's light green paper over boards, titled in dark green to upper, and priced at 1s to lower. Crisp and clean internally, with some wear and toning to spine. Covers..... 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 Cloud-Messenger. An Indian Love Lyric.
London: John Murray, 1930. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.61 [3]. Publisher's pictorial softcovers, with the dust-jacket of matching design priced at 2/6 to backstrip. Advertisements to rear. Interior toned with light, infrequent spotting. Toning and faint marking to wraps and dust-jacket. Gentle edgewear to jacket. Very good..... More
The Complete Poetical Works of John Keats, Edited with an Introduction and Textual Notes by H. Buxton Forman.
London: Henry Frowde/Oxford University Press, 1907. [Poetry] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST THUS, oxford edition. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.lxxvii; 491 [1]. With a frontispiece portrait and illustration of Keats' life-mask, as well as three facsimile title-pages. Contemporary green half-calf, borders gilt-ruled, green cloth over boards. Gilt titles, gilt tooling, and raised bands..... More
The Poetical Works of John Keats.
London: Oxford University Press, 1973. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xxix; [1];477; [1]. Bound by Bayntun in mid-blue full calf, gilt titles on red leather square and gilt tooling to spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Internally fine, some quite heavy rubbing to the bottom corners. Very good..... More
Heaven and Other Poems.
California, CA: Grey Fox Press, 1979. [Poetry] SECOND PRINTING. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 59 [3]. Frontispiece of Kerouac's comic strip drawn for the Cassady children. Publisher's silver paper wraps, black titles to spine and upper, printed price $3.00 to rear. Price label to half title, else internally bright and..... More
The Destroyer and A Cargo Of Nations.
London: Privately Printed by Messrs. Hatchard, 1909. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Slim octavo (17 x 14cm), pp.[4] 43 [1]. Publisher's dark green cloth, gilt titles to upper, gilt ruling, brown silk ribbon, top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Toning to endpapers, else internally clean. Slight rubbing to spine, bumping to corners, minor..... More