
Poetry
HUGHES, Ted
Wodwo
London: Faber, 1967
8vo, pp. 184. Original grey three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt on red to spine. Printed, price-clipped dustwrapper.
First edition.
HEANEY, Seamus
Wintering Out
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 80. Original printed card wrappers.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This issue precedes the hardbound edition.
This,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WILLIAMS, Heathcote
Whale Nation
London: Cape, 1988
Large 8vo, pp. 191. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper. Bookplate to foot of front pastedown.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[trans. AUDEN, W.H. and TAYLOR, Paul B.]
Völuspá
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1968
8vo, unpaginated. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt and with publisher's device reminiscent of Thor's hammer stamped in blind to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HEGLEY, John
Uncut Confetti
London: Methuen, 2006
8vo, pp. 85. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers with fold-over flaps.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ALAN RICKMAN: .... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
Three Songs For St. Cecilia's Day
New York: Privately printed, 1942
Small 8vo, unpaginated. Original blue stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel. Stitched binding.
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LARKIN, Philip
The Whitsun Weddings
London: Faber, 1964
8vo, pp. 46. Original deep red cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrapper.
First edition. Published in February 1964 in an edition of ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
(BAUDELAIRE, Charles) (illus. NOLAN, Sidney) (trans. LOWELL, Robert)
The Voyage:
London: Faber, 1968
4to, pp. 60. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Two brochures for the Sidney Nolan Trust laid in.
First ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
TRYPANIS, C.A.
The Stones Of Troy
London: Faber, 1957
8vo, pp. 64. Original cream boards, lettered in cream on blue to spine. Printed dustwrapper with wraparaound band.
First edition of the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[trans. AUDEN, W.H.] GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang Von
The Sorrows Of Young Werther and Novella
New York: Random House, 1971
8vo, pp. 201. Original ecru boards, lettered in silver to front panel and gilt to spine. Top edge orange, leading and lower edges... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
The Shield Of Achilles
New York: Random House, 1955
8vo, pp. 84. Original three-quarter black boards, lettered in grey to spine.
First edition, preceding the first UK edition published... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
The Shield Of Achilles
London: Faber, 1955
8vo, pp. 80. Original maroon boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First UK edition, preceded by the first US edition published earlier the same... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ALVAREZ, Al
The Shaping Spirit
London: Chatto & Windus, 1958
8vo, pp. 191. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First edition of the author's first book.
A very nice copy.
AUDEN, W.H.
The Orators
New York: Random House, 1967
8vo, pp. 85. Original purple three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to off-white spine. Printed dustwrapper, lettered in purple and black. Top... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
FULLER, Roy
The Middle Of A War
London: Hogarth Press, 1942
Small 8vo, pp. 48. Original green boards, lettered in black to spine.
First edition. Volume VIII in the New Hogarth Library.
[trans. AUDEN, W.H., and KALLMAN, Chester]
The Magic Flute
New York: Random House, 1957
8vo, pp. 108. Original three-quarter pink and grey striped boards, lettered in mauve, blue, orange and silver to spine. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[AUDEN, W.H.]
The Living Thoughts of Kierkegaard
New York: David McKay, 1952
Small 8vo, pp. 225. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated endpapers. No dustwrapper, as issued.
First edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
LARKIN, Philip
The Less Deceived
Hessle: Marvell Press, 1955
8vo, pp. 45. 2pp. list of subscribers at rear. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper, bookseller's revised price... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
