London: William Yapp, 1855. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. 104pp. Poems with celestial aspirations. Publishers' hand-coloured vignette to title page, with another hand-coloured emblem heading the first poem, at p.11. Ruled borders to text. Preface 'to the reader' by 'C.S.'. Contents clean with minimal signs of handling. A very few minor..... More about The Jewel and Star
London: Addey & Co., 1853. First UK edition, and first illustrated edition. Hardcover. xxx, (ii), 144pp, with a frontis and several engraved headpieces. With the original red silk bookmark, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. 17x10.5cms, in contemporary diced red half calf with marbled boards, spine with five raised bands... More about The Poetical Works: with a Notice of his Life and Genius by James Hannay
London: for J. Fletcher and Co., 1764. First edition. Hardcover. viii, (9-) 203pp. Contents very fresh and clean; and, what is more, the wit still sparkles. Title page marked 'Edited by T. Warton' in an early hand, and pp i-iv have a small inner corner stains. Small 8vo, 6.5 x.... More about The Oxford Sausage: or, Select Poetical Pieces, Written by the Most Celebrated Wits of the...
London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 306pp. Text bright with occasional faint soiling or foxing. 1936 ownership name to front free endpaper, and faint crayon mark to corner of title page. In three-quarter blue morocco with patterned paper boards, browned spine with two raised bands... More about Poems
Manchester: Carcanet, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 628 pp. Contents clean and fresh and unmarked. Foxing flecks to closed fore-edge. In the original navy cloth-textured binding titled in gilt: clean, firm, and very bright, though has been bumped to the foot of the spine. In the protected unclipped patterned dust jacket... More about Collected Poems, 1943-1987
London: George G. Harrap, 1936. First Rackham edition. Hardcover. 256pp, with decorative endpapers, illustrations in the text, and the 12 colour plates with captioned guards. 1938 ownership name of Dorothy Forster to the first blank leaf. Contents entirely fresh (no foxing). Quarto, in the original binding of fine russet cloth... More about Peer Gynt: a dramatic poem
Simla: printed at the Station Press, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. [vi], ii, 116. Light verse from the Raj, including narratives of expat life, from the era which gave us Lewis Carroll and W.S.Gilbert. Text within ruled borders throughout. Many pages have some foxing or soiling. One or two lines amended... More about Waifs and Strays. (Poems
London: Thomas Tegg & Son; Griffin - Glasgow; Tegg, Wise - Dublin, 1835. First printing of this edition. Hardcover. [vi], 325; x, 341; x, 341; vi, 346; plus a frontis to each vol. Ownership name to front pastedown of each, that in Vol 1 partially crossed out. Contents clean with... More about The Works of Oliver Goldsmith. [spine title: Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works, with Life, Notes...
London: Duckworth, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 59pp. Pages clean, though slightly encroached upon by heavy fore-edge foxing. Slight spotting to first and last few pages, and tanning to front free endpaper, which bears an early gift inscription. In the original binding of blue cloth, spine titled in gilt: firm and... More about The Old Gods and other poems
Toronto: The Musson Book Company (London Chatto & Windus), n.d. [c.1905]. Presumed first edition thus. Hardcover. x, 205pp: nicely printed, with rubricated title page. Undated early Canadian ownership name to front free endpaper. 17x11cms, with top edge gilt, silk bookmark fraying but present, and pastel marbled endpapers, in a light..... More about Poems: including Underwoods, Ballads, Songs of Travel
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London: William Pickering, 1825. First edition thus. Hardcover. c.300pp per volume: each 3.5 x 2.1 ins / 9 x 5 cms. Previous owner's small green name label (5 x 20mm) on pastedown of each vol. Pages slightly cockled. Contents very clean with the rare odd minor brown spot. Top edges... More about The Plays of William Shakespeare, in Nine Volumes. [Miniature edition
London: E. Johnson, 1778. First edition. Hardcover. (ii), 90pp. Passages extracted from the works of Shakespeare and applied satirically to contemporary figures, identified minimally, by initials, etc. Title and final page slightly soiled, pages otherwise clean. Small 8vo, 6.5 x 4ins, in contemporary marbled boards with new quarter calf spine... More about The Modern Characters from Shakespear alphabetically arranged. [BOUND WITH: The Oxford Sausage:...
London: Faber and Faber, 1939. First edition (first printing). Hardcover. 45pp. Text clean and unmarked with some minimal unintrusive foxing to the uncut page edges, and a faint scattering to the front endpaper. Perhaps faint toning towards the page edges. Firm in the original yellow cloth illustrated and titled in... More about Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2012. First edition. Paperback. 96pp, richly illustrated in colour. The title sounds as though this could be an anthology, but the paintings and, after the introduction, the writings, are all by Newcomb. Quarto glossy paperback, 27x21cms, in fresh, unread condition. Brings together her art, her sly... More about The Adorable Plot. Paintings and writings about garden allotments. [Signed copy
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London: Faber and Faber, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 88pp. Little-read copy (pages don't fall open) with faint tanning to page edges. Contents clean and unmarked: signed 'Thom Gunn' to upper corner of title page. In the original grey cloth-textured binding, clean and firm, corners sharp. Head of spine slightly blunted... More about The Man with Night Sweats. [Signed copy
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Nordlingen: Franz Greno, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 99 + [4] + photographs at front and back. Signed by Sebald on the title page. Contents fine. The green cloth binding is fine, extremities sharp (the rear bottom corner and the head of the spine are nearly sharp). The protected dust jacket... More about Nach der Natur. [Signed copy
London: J. Sewell, 1787. First edition. Hardcover. iv, (5)- 464, [x], [2] adverts. With 17 of the 18 cuts and facsimiles called for (including the frontis, engraved title, and a foldout), lacking only the View of Albion Mill. This volume contains the issues from January to June. Contents clean and... More about The European Magazine, and London Review: Vol.XI. for 1787: containing the first published work...
