London: Chapman and Hall, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 168pp. Contents clean and unmarked. Neat early ownership name to front free endpaper. Much elegant levity, in prose and verse, in Greek, Latin and English. In the original navy cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, firm and bright, corners sharp, and..... More

Ebrington, Gloucestershire, UK: Susan Hill: Long Barn Books, 1998-2002. Softcover. A5 booklets, around 100pp per issue, with pictorial cream card covers. All vols appear unread, and are internally fine. Front and back covers are bright, corners good, no creasing or tears. There is some loss of print to the spines..... More

London: Routledge, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. xiv, 139pp, +[6] adverts. Fresh unread copy. No marks, no blemishes. 'This book explores the idea of poetry in radio and sound as well as the concept of pure sound as poetry, both historically and within a contemporary perspective, examining examples of makers and..... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. x, 230pp. Contents very fresh, appears unread. In original binding of black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Small knock to base of spine, otherwise as new. In unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dustwrapper (reproducing a painting by Lucien Freud) as new but for..... More

London: Verso, 2001. Reprint. Hardcover. xx, 358pp. Inscribed to the title page 'For Liz, with love / Chris'. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked. In the original binding of quarter dark blue cloth titled in black, with lighter blue paper-covered boards. Fresh, bright, corners sharp, spine ends blunted. In the protected..... More

Longman, 1993. First edition. Paperback. xviii, 308pp. Contents very clean and unmarked, appears unread. Medium size paperback, 214x136mm, with black pictorial covers (reproducing a Stanley Spencer painting): firm, bright, clean and square, with minimal signs of handling. More

London: Routledge, 1990. First UK edition. Hardcover. xvi, 443. Contents clean and fresh. In the original binding of russet cloth with spine titled in silver, firm, bright and sharp: slight compression to foot of spine. In the protected grey-green 'wrapping paper' dust jacket: clean and unclipped, with creasing to top..... More

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1960. First English edition. Hardcover. 304pp. Contents clean. In the original green cloth-textured binding titled in gilt, clean, firm and bright, corners sharp. Small nick to head of spine, foot of spine slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped pictorial dust jacket, which has three neatly-repaired closed..... More

Oxford: Oxford University Press, [1931]. First 'World's Classics' printing. Hardcover. xiv, 317pp: with the silk bookmark. The previous owner was neat, but has neatly marked the text at pp 240 & 242, and I have found and have straightened about a dozen of his neatly dog-eared corners. There is also..... More

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1866. Reprint. Hardcover. 474, 500pp. First published in 1860. With the bookplates of George Grote, the radical and historian. Contents clean and in very good order, with foxing to prelims and final leaves. In contemporary bindings of half green-brown calf with red marbled boards: spine with..... More

London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, 1710. The Fifth Edition. Hardcover. [viii], 149, [iii]. The pages murmur with foxing throughout. An early owner has dallied with their pen on page 1 of the text and the facing blank. Small 8vo (7’’x 4.5”), in a recent binding of quarter calf with marbled..... More