London: printed for Faber and Faber at the Curwen Press, 1930. First printing: Signed Limited edition. Hardcover. 28pp. Copy #72 of the 200 copies signed by Eliot which were printed for Great Britain, a further 400 being printed for the Fountain Press in America. 20.5x15cms, in the original binding of..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, for the Early English Text Society, 1903. First thus. Hardcover. xxx, 148; with the original printed purple wraps bound in. Front wrap and title page bear the stamp of Bedford College. With an Introduction, Notes, Glossary and Index of Names, as well as..... More
London and Boston: The Medici Society, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Title pages and verse prologue, followed by a dozen openings, each with an illustration facing a verse satirising the progress of women's fashion from Ancient Egypt to the 1920s. Contents bright and clean. [The bookseller Peter Ellis says that..... More
![Item #18661020 The Fasti of Ovid. [Rose's translation, in English verse]. John Benson Rose](/pictures/thumb/18661020.jpg?v=1614974223)
London: Dorrell and Son, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. viii, 262pp, including 51 pages of notes, and a number of pertinent illustrations in the text. Original dark brown endpapers. Contents clean and unmarked except for the title, and its facing page, which bears a previous owner's address, both of which have..... More
London: Blackie & Son, 1888. First edition thus. Hardcover. c.250pp per volume, with many guarded plates. Contents bright and fresh, with a little toning to the margins of the plates; the original dark endpapers are intact, the boards firm. All edges gilt, bright. c.22.5x15.5cms, in the original bindings of red..... More
UK: Corbel Stone Press, 2012. Fourth edition. Paperback. 292pp. With bibliography and index. Anlaf'serg is a rendering of the Old Norse name for Anglezarke, a settlement in the Borough of Chorley, in Lancashire, depopulated when reservoirs were built in the 1850s. A very structured meditation on place, and the people..... More
London: Printed by Luke Hansard for T. Cadell and W. Davies, and T. Payne, 1803. First edition. Hardcover. lxxvii, [4], 507, with the sixteen engravings called for, including that of Johnson's ghost appearing to Boswell. The contents are in very good clean condition, with some foxing, and offsetting from the..... More
London: Elkin Mathews, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. 78, [i]. Poems. Contents clean, with foxing to the prelims and the final page, and an ownership name and the small stamp of a Bombay bookseller to the front pastedown. Some toning to endpapers, and the uncut closed edges of the text block..... More
Kuching, Sarawak: The Museum, December 1995. First edition. Paperback. xiv, 387; ix, (389-) 637. Author's 1997 gift inscription to title page of Part I. Parallel text Kejaman-English. Contents clean and fresh. Paperbacks, 24.5x17cms, in pictorial blue glossy covers. Fresh, clean and square, with a small knock to the upper front..... More
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
![Item #20129010 The Adorable Plot. Paintings and writings about garden allotments. [Signed copy]....](/pictures/thumb/20129010.jpg?v=1549307775)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
