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By: N/A
Price: £18.50
Publisher: Kensington, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald: 1926
Seller ID: 003282
Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, on Kentish Rag paper, in a limited edition of 500 copies, this one being numbered 65. Large 8vo, pp 8, (8), 117, uncut, original boards with cloth spine, a duplicate from a college reference library, with number on front endpaper and bookplate of Bernard Wallis, but no other internal markings; there is a neat stamp on top, bottom and fore-edges, and a shelf number on the spine. This is still a very good copy, with very little wear. (A reprint of a rare early poetry anthology. Authors identified were Nicholas Breton, Edward Dyer, Richard Edes, Goss, Robert... View more info
By: N/A
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Winchester College Printing Society: 1979
Seller ID: 005361
Limited edition of 900 copies (this being number 625). Small, tall quarto, pp (56), title-page printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations, hessian cloth with leather labels on spine and upper cover, small bookplate of John Sparrow on front endpaper. View more info
By: Apollinaire
Price: £11.50
Publisher: London, Marlborough Fine Art: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015362
Condition: Good
Quarto, illustrated with aquatint plates and drawings by Graham Sutherland, pp (84), clean internally, paperback, covers a bit marked. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Kensington, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald: 1929
Seller ID: 003283
Printed by the Chiswick Press on Kentish Rag paper, in a limted edition of 500 copies, this one being numbered 150. Frontispiece (by John Flaxman), viii, 179, (2), original grey boards, rather sunned and faded, a little worn, a spare spine label is loosely inserted at the end. Bookplate of Bernard Wallis, with his original invoice dated 7th October 1942 for 12/6 included. A duplicate from a college reference library with their number and bookplate on the front endpaper, a barcode on the rear endpaper, a shelf number on the spine, and stamp on top, bottom and fore-edges. View more info
By: Brown, Oliver & Whittaker, Jean
Price: £4.00
Publisher: Tobermory, Brown and Whittaker Publishing: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014400
ISBN: 0952842866
Condition: Very Good
Illustrated, 16mo (measures 109mm x 100mm), pp (60), ringbound, very slight wear but a good copy. SCARCE. {postage will be greatly reduced} View more info
By: Cann, Griselda
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Cast Iron Press: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 008190
ISBN: 1898761000
Condition: Very Good
Large slender 8vo, pp (16), paperback, covers showing the slightest signs of wear, otherwise a very good copy. With prospectus loosely inserted. SCARCE. (EDITION LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS A PROOF COPY] View more info
By: Cheviot, Andrew
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Paisley, Alexander Gardner: 1896
Seller ID: 014682
Condition: Good
[Not dated, the introduction is dated 1896.]. Octavo, pp xii, 434, slightly weak internally, front hinge cracking, rear hinge just starting to crack, cloth very slightly worn. View more info
By: Clark. Thomas A.
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Moschatel Press: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014328
Condition: Very Good
12 loose sheets, each with a proverb illustrated with a charming line drawing by Laurie Clark, in very good condition, in the original printed blue folder wich is very slightly age-toned and slightly worn. [Limited edition, signed by author and artist, number 106 of 300 copies]. {Thomas A Clark was born in Greenock, Scotland. His poetry has been consistently attentive to form and to the experience of walking in the landscape, returning again and again to the lonely terrain of the Highlands and Islands. In 1973, with the artist Laurie Clark, he started Moschatel Press. At first a vehicle for s... View more info
By: Costa, Elsa
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Private printing:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000073
Condition: Good
Octavo, pp (36), original buff sewn wrappers, a little chipped and browned. A book of (only slightly !) risque poems. Privately printed, presumably in Italy as the cover price is 100 lire. A note on the rear flap states "For broad-minded adults only. A limited edition of this remarkable book, which will be published shortly in New York and London". (n.d. c.1920?) View more info
By: Cowley, Abraham
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Edinburg (sic), The Apollo Press, by the Martins: 1777
Seller ID: 015873
Condition: Good
Volumes III & IV in one volume. Two extra engvd title pages, 16mo, (measures 130mm x 80mm), pp xxii, 23-251,(i); 271, (iii), an early small signature on the first title page, and initials on the front endpaper, a little age-toned and used throughout, contemporary full calf, a little worn rubbed and bumped. View more info
By: Donne, John
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Shaftesbury, The High House Press: 1929
Seller ID: 010000
Condition: Good
Large slim 8vo, pp 32, uncut and unpressed, a little age-browning to the edges, slightly uneven browning to the endpapers, otherwise very clean and sound internally, cloth backed marbled boards a bit rubbed, paper title label on spine slightly chipped. [Limited numbered edition of 170 copies]. View more info
By: Emanuel, Gladys (Mrs John Grossmann)
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co.: 1908
Edition: Second edition
Seller ID: 009726
Condition: Fair
Slim 12mo, pp v, 38, self wrappers, a little foxed and soiled throughout. EXTREMELY SCARCE. [The wife of John Grossmann, a jute broker, and the mother of the film director Val Guest who was born in India. He returned to England after his parents' divorce, having been told that his mother had died.] View more info
Price: £4.50
Publisher: London, Siegle, Hill & Co.:
Seller ID: 004519
Condition: Good
12mo, pp (4), 126, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, in a publisher's full soft suede binding, yapp edges, embossed decoration on upper cover, slightly worn. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Leigh on Sea, F. Lewis: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010689
Condition: Good
Illustrated with 12 mounted colour plates, large slim 8vo, pp 32, inscription on front endpaper, inner hinges cracking slightly but not weak, a little staining to the inner margins, otherwise very good. A slight mustiness pervades the book. SURPRISINGLY SCARCE. [Includes a plate by Maxwell Armfield, one by George Sheringham, two by Brangwyn, three by H. Davis Richter etc.] View more info
Price: £3.50
Publisher: Published by the author:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014877
Condition: Very Good
Not dated - c. 2011 ? Small slim octavo, pp 69, paperback, ringbound, a very good copy. Signed by author. Postage will be reduced. View more info
By: Guerard, Albert
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009703
Condition: Good
Large 8vo, pp xvi, 332, a little used but clean internally, an ex-public library copy, with bookplate on the front endpaper, two plates and a ticket holder on the rear endpapers, an inked number and withdrawn stamp on the verso of the title page, blue cloth a little worn, shelf number and cross on the spine. View more info
By: James, D.G.
Price: £6.50
Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1937
Seller ID: 006321
First edition. pp 275, a little light foxing, marginal mark to pages 148/149, otherwise very clean and tight, red cloth very slightly worn, the spine slightly faded and marked and a little bruised at the head. A good sound pleasing copy. [The imaginative use of language, imagination lyric and morality, visionary dreariness, Adam's dream, the failure of the ballad-makers, poetry dogma and the mystical.] View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Dunster House: 1926
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 000826
Condition: Very Good
First Edition, Octavvo, pp 67, black decorative cloth with blue title and design on front cover and spine, no dust wrapper, very slight wear and fade to cloth, very slight sunning to uncut edges. This being one of 750 copies only, the title page in blue and green was designed by W.A. Dwiggins. This copy belonged to the late Anthony Huxley and has his signature on the front endpaper. A good copy. [MacLeish, 1892 - 1982) was an American poet and writer who was associated with the modernist school of poetry.] View more info
By: Oakeley, Henry
Price: £2.99
Publisher: Beckenham, Henry Oakeley: 2016
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012645
ISBN: 0952146150
Condition: New
Illustrated, slim square octavo, pp 42, paperback. NEW. ["An A to Z of rhymes (witty) and wisdom (useful) on medicinal plants and people. Beautiful 16th & 17th century woodcuts (some rude). A perfect present."]. J is for juniper, it's used to flavour gin, an aid to disinhibition and faciliating sin. R is for ranunculus, it always causes smiles, for the knobbly rootstock, was used to cure one's piles. View more info
By: Pankaj, Shruti
Price: £3.75
Publisher: Mitcham, Kavi-Lok: 1981
Edition: First English edition
Seller ID: 014010
Condition: Very Good
Small octavo, pp 84, paperback, a very good copy. View more info
