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Poetry & Drama
Five Screenplays. The Servant; The Pumpkin Eater; The Quiller Memorandum; Accident; The Go-Between.
London: Methuen & Co., 1971. [Television Screenplays] FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[6] 367 [3]. Publisher's dark green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the orange dust-jacket priced at £3.75. Very light handling. A fine copy. Four television dramas adapted by Pinter from novels by other authors..... More
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[Bell's Shakespeare]. [Romeo and Juliet; All's Well that Ends Well; The Winter's Tale; Love's Labour's Lost; Tempest; Titus Andronicus; As You Like It; Measure for Measure; Antony and Cleopatra; Midsummer-Night's Dream; King Lear; Othello; Cymbeline; Much Ado about Nothing; Julius Caesar; Comedy of Errors; Timon of Athens; King John; Merry Wives of Windsor; Richard II; Richard III; King Henry VIII; Hamlet; Taming of the Shrew; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Twelfth-Night, or, What You Will; Troilus and Cressida; Macbeth; Coriolanus; Henry V; Henry IV, parts I and II; Henry VI, parts I, II and III; Names of the Original Actors in the Plays of Shakspeare, by Will. Shakspeare: Printed complete from the Text of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens, and revised from the last Editions.
London: John Bell [and] John Cawthorn, 1784-1807. [Shakespeare] JOHN BELL EDITION, later printings, mixed issue. 36 of 38 volumes. Duodecimo in half-sheets (16 x 10cm). Most volumes dated 1788 or 1803, with just a few intersectional exceptions. All volumes with two engraved title pages of varying dates ranging from 1784..... More
Moral Emblems. with Aphorisms, Adages, and Proverbs, of all Ages and Nations. With Illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works, by John Leighton, F.S.A., the whole Translated and Edited, with Additions, by Richard Pigot, Member of the Leyden Society of Netherlands Literature.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862. [Illustrated Aphorisms] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Small quarto (28 x 21cm), pp.[2] xvi; 242 [2]. Heavily illustrated with engravings by Leighton, and other artists, including a frontispiece. Fine contemporary red full morocco by RIVIERE, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine..... More
The Flowers I Love. A Series of Twenty-Four Drawings in Colour by Katherine Cameron with an Anthology of Flower Poems Selected by Edward Thomas.
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, no date [1916]. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST THUS. Large octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.[2] xii; 82 [4]. With 24 very fine colour plates, including a frontispiece, by Cameron. Publisher's brown paper-covered boards with gilt titles and decoration to upper, recently re-backed with oatmeal cloth and a...... More
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
New York, NY: Richard R. Smith, 1930. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST US EDITION, second overall. Large octavo (26 x 19cm), with 41 leaves, including 38 tipped-in illustrated plates (some in colour), with vignette illustrations to facing text, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's colour-decorated paper over boards, recently re-backed with..... More
The Imitation Game: Three Plays for Television by Ian McEwan. [Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration, and Solid Geometry].
London: Jonathan Cape, 1981. [Television Drama] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's oatmeal cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Craig Dodd, priced at £5.95. A minor bump and a light mark to jacket front cover. A fine copy. Not to be confused..... More
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[Scrapbook].
[Privately produced]. 1892- circa 1903. LATE VICTORIAN SCRAPBOOK. Small quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[16]; 1-2; 9-68. With three leaves removed near the beginning, and two from the back. Containing a great panoply of decorative monograms, crests and printed signatures and addresses belonging to the English gentry, cut from letters or..... More
Last Poems, Last Plays.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1940. [Drama and verse] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 126; [2], blank. Publisher's gilt and blind-embossed green cloth in original illustrated pale blue dust-wrapper, priced at 6/- net. A lovely fine copy of the book in a slightly used, very good jacket, toned to..... More
Right Royal.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. [Horse Racing Poetry] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE, the second printing. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 120. Publisher's green paper over boards, with gilt titles to spine and upper. Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate, and a bookseller's label, to front pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers and toning to edges..... More
The Poems and Dramas of Lord Byron. With Biographical Memoir, Explanatory Notes, etc.
New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Poetical Works] VINTAGE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 855 [3]. With a half-tone frontispiece portrait of the author. Rebound in 1929 in brown full morocco with gilt titles to spine and brown endpapers. All edges gilt. Black..... More
Plays: The Silver Box; Joy; Strife.
London: Duckworth and Co., 1909. [Drama] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE, second printing. Octavo (18 x 14cm), pp.[8] 89 [1]; 94; 110 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. An early iteration of Attlee's distinctive monogram bookplate to front pastedown. Toning to edges. Spine heavily browned, with..... More
The Lays of Ancient Rome, With Ivry and the Armada.
New York, NY: White and Allen, 1887. [Poetry] LIMITED EDITION, EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxxviii; 167 [3]. Number 67 of of 400 copies (250 for America, 150 for the UK), finely printed by the Chiswick Press, London, on handmade paper. With an autotype medal of the..... More
King Cole. With Drawings in Black and White by Judith Masefield.
London: William Heinemann, 1921. [Poetry] SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.53 [3]. Number 128 of 780 copies SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. With several wood engravings by the author's daughter. In recent quarter vegetable parchment, with a paper title label to spine..... More
Under the Window: Pictures and Rhymes for Children.
London: Frederick Warne and Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Children's Illustrated] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Large octavo (25 x 20cm), pp.64. With fine colour illustrations by the author, printed from the original wood blocks by Edmund Evans, to every page. Publisher's illustrated paper-covered boards with green cloth spine and green endpapers. Black..... More
The Salamindrine; or, Love and Immortality.
London: How and Parsons, 1842. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[4] vi; 145 [3]. Contemporary full calf, with faded gilt titles to spine. All edges speckled brown; brown endpapers. Lightly toned throughout, with some marks to preliminaries. Heavy rubbing and bumping to binding; head-cap pulled and gilt largely..... More
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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
The Plays of John Galsworthy.
London: Duckworth, 1929. [Drama] FINE PRIZE BINDING, second printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 1149 [5]. Printed on india paper. Contemporary tree calf by BICKERS & SON of London for Sherborne School, with raised bands, gilt titles to maroon label, and further gilt decoration to spine. Gilt school medal and..... More
Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Comprising The Vicar of Wakefield; Plays and Poems.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1901. [Anthology] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xii; 434 [2]. Contemporary tan full polished calf for Henry Sotheran, with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy label, and further gilt decoration to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Very light spotting to preliminaries. Lightly toned..... More
Longfellow's Poetical Works. Author's Complete Copyright Edition.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1883. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 680; [2]. With 14 engraved plates. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands and gilt titles to spine. Elaborate gilt decoration to spine and boards. Gilt textured endpapers; all edges gilt. Spotting to preliminaries and..... More
Shakespeares Sonnets. Never before Imprinted.
London: Noel Douglas Replicas, 1926. [Poetry] FACSIMILE EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[102]. Publisher's vegetable parchment with brown titles to spine. All edges untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Spotting throughout - quite heavily to preliminaries. Binding heavily browned and rubbed, especially to spine. Good. A facsimile of the..... More
White Magic and English Renaissance Drama.
Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.148 [4]. Publisher's cream cloth with red titles to spine. With the plain dust-jacket titled in red. Jacket price-clipped, and toned and marked in places. Very good. A detailed treatment of white magic in sixteenth..... More
Rebus: Long Shadows.
London: Orion, 2018. [Drama] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 14cm), pp.xvi; 160. With black and white set design images at rear. SIGNED by Rankin in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with bronze title to spine, and black endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. A...... More
The Complete Poetical works of robert burns: with Explanatory and Glossarial Notes; and a Life of the Author, by James Currie, M.D. The only complete American Edition.
New York, NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1854. [Scottish Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (17 x 12cm), pp.xxxiv; 60; 575 [3]. With five steel engraved plates, including a frontispiece. In a later binding of full brown morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine and upper, and elaborate blind..... More
The Poetical Works of William Cowper.
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1864. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.xxviii; 483 [1]. With 10 engraved plates by Cameron, including a frontispiece portrait of the author and a decorated title page. Contemporary red full morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, heavy blind decoration all..... More
Poor Young People.
London: The Fleuron, 1925. [Poetry] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Large octavo (26 x 20cm), pp.[10] 60 [2]. With illustrations, many coloured, by Rutherston, including a frontispiece. Number 284 of 375 copies thus, printed at the Curwen Press, Plaistow. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Fore and lower edges untrimmed..... More