Poetry & Drama
The Changing Room.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. [Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2]; 90; [4]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Jacket price-clipped. Near Fine. This play takes place in a changing room before, during, and after a Rugby League game. The play..... More
Butterflies are Free.
New York, NY: Random House, 1969. [Drama] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[12]; 107; [9]. Black quarter cloth, pink paper over boards. Lettered in gilt to spine. House motif in blind stamped to upper. INSCRIBED by the author to Joyce Grenfell in blue ink to flyleaf. Toning and..... More
An Ideal Husband. By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan.
London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Small quarto (21 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 214; [2], blank. Publisher's pink cloth with nouveau decoration in gilt, edges untrimmed. Engraved bookplate of Ernest Thornton-Smith to paste-down. Edges toned, deckles are dusty, covers with some expected soiling/handling to light coloured cloth, spine..... More
The Theological Works. The Age of Reason [and] Miscellaneous Poems.
London: R. Carlile, 1819-1826. [Collected Essays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, a mixed issue. Part one of The Age of Reason dated 1826; all other parts dated 1819. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 52; pp.96; pp.61 [1]; pp.71 [1]; pp.[4] 24; 25-28. Containing all four parts of The Age of Reason. Followed..... More
The Tower.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; 110; [2] publisher's advertisements. Bound in mid-green cloth, handsomely blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, fore and tail edges untrimmed, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 6/- net. A fine copy of the book in an..... More
The Shadowy Waters.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1900. [Dramatic poetry] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Quarto (25 x 18cm), pp.57 [3]. Publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth, gilt titles to spine, gilt floral motif with dropped petal to upper board, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket and a discreet date inscription to pastedown. Some..... More
Poems & Translations 1850-1870. Together With the Prose Story 'Hand and Soul.'
London, Edinburgh etc.: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, 1919. [Poetry] OXFORD EDITION, with interesting provenance. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xvii [3] 482 [2]. With a halftone frontispiece portrait of the author. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt motif to upper board and gilt titles to spine. Boards blind-ruled. Contains a loose letter and..... More
The Works of Shakespeare. The Larger Temple Shakespeare.
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1910-1921. [Shakespeare] FINELY BOUND SET, later impressions thus. Complete in twelve volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 48cm). With a colour portrait frontispiece of the Bard to volume I, and occasional black and white plates and in-text wood engravings throughout by various artists. In contemporary..... More
A Poem for Every Day of the Year.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2017. [Poetry] INSCRIBED COPY, the seventh impression thus. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.xx; 555 [1]. With occasional vignette illustrations by Goldhawk. INSCRIBED by the editor, Allie Esiri, in black marker to flyleaf: 'Dear Jacquelyn | love | Allie Esiri'. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to..... More
A Poem for Every Night of the Year.
London: Macmillan Children's Books, 2016. [Poetry] INSCRIBED COPY, the 16th impression thus. Octavo (25 x 15cm), pp.xx; 523 [1]. With occasional vignette illustrations by Goldhawk. INSCRIBED by the actress Helena Bonham Carter, who read a selection from the anthology at 'Allie Esiri Presents Women Poets Through the Ages' at the..... 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
Goblin Market. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: George Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1939. [Illustrated Poetry] REISSUE. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.37 [3]. With a colour frontispiece and 19 black and white drawings by Rackham. Pictorial cream paper wrappers printed in yellow, brown and black depicting goblins and fruits, with yapp edges, and pictorial end-papers. Light wear..... More
Homage to John Dryden. Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. The Hogarth Essays IV.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1924. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.46 [2]. Publisher's illustrated card covers, titled to upper. Black ink ownership of Sylvia Norton, dated 1926, to front fly-leaf. Moderate spotting throughout. Quite heavy wear to spine, including some loss. Covers toned and lightly worn. Very..... More
Burnt Norton.
London: Faber and Faber, March 1941. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, Second Impression. Slim octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.15 [1]. Publisher's cyan card wraps, titled to upper and stapled twice. Internally crisp and clean. Wear to extremities; spine toned and starting to head and tail. Very good. The second poem in Eliot's..... More
Little Gidding.
London: Faber and Faber, 1942. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION, Second Issue with staples. Slim octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.16. In publisher's pink card wraps, titled to upper. A crisp, clean copy, with some sunning to spine and a little wear to extremities. Near fine. The fourth poem in Eliot's 'Four Quartets'..... 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
The Dead Sea Poems.
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. [Poetry] SIGNED UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8] 54 [2]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's blue card covers, titled to upper and priced at £6.99. Clean throughout. Covers lightly rubbed and soiled, with a Skoob Books label to..... More
Poems.
Fairwarp: Printed by Poets' and Painters' Press for Peter Russell, June 1959. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.29 [3]. Publisher's white soft covers with titles in black and red to upper. With the yellow matching dust-jacket, not priced. A crisp clean copy, showing some wear and toning..... More
In My Mind's Eye: Poems in the Japanese Style.
Harold Morland, 1971. [Poetry] SIGNED FIRST EDITION WITH LETTERS. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.42; [2], blank. Brown pamphlet lettered in black with Japanese characters on the front cover. SIGNED by the author with loosely inserted letters from Morland. Toning to spine, ink stain on front cover. Very good. This first..... 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
The Cultivation of Christmas Trees. An Ariel Poem.
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (22 x 14cm), pp.[4]. With a lightly coloured illustration by Jones. Publisher's blue typographic paper covers, sewn. A lovely crisp copy, with just a touch of toning to spine. Near fine. GALLUP, Donald, 'T.S. Eliot: A Bibliography' (London 1969), A66..... More
Continual Dew. A Little Book of Bourgeois Verse.
London: John Murray, 1937. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[10] 45 [1]. With in-text illustrations by various artists. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to upper. All edges gilt. With the dust-jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer, priced at 7/6. Light spotting to endpapers. Rubbing to cloth, with..... More
Authors' Ghosts: Seven Poems.
London: Rees & O'Neill Rare Books, 2004. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Quarto (29 x 19cm), pp.[20]. Number 29 of 30 copies thus, from a total limitation of 56, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page at rear. Printed by letterpress on Velin Arches paper. Publisher's yellow card..... More
Laus Veneris.
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. [Poetry] LIMITED EDITION, number 122 out of 750 produced. Octavo (26 x 17cm), pp.[4]; 27; [10]. Publisher's maroon cloth quarter bound with marbled boards, with original glassine jacket. In-text and full page engravings throughout. Some toning to spine, some tearing to glassim jacket. Fine..... 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