
HEANEY, Seamus
Land
London: Poem of the Month Club, 1970
Single sheet broadside, 11" x 15".
One of 1000 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Founded in 1970 by Jack H. Clark and Winston Fletcher, the Poem of the Month Club sought to publish new work by leading poets, work which was to be signed by the authors and presented on high-quality materials suitable for display. Roy Fuller and C. Day-Lewis acted as recruiting sergeants for the enterprise (and were also part of the roster themselves), and the print run for each poem was 1000 copies.
A lovely example.
[ed. ANDERSON, Margaret and HEAP, Jane]
The Little Review
New York: 1929
Small 4to, pp. 110. Original stiff paper wrappers, printed in orange and black.
First edition.
Founded in 1914 by Margaret Anderson, ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
The Little Warrior
New York: George H. Doran, 1920
8vo, pp. 384. Original tan boards, lettered in green and tan-on-green to front panel and spine. Lacking the dustwrapper.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
FONTAINE, Joan
No Bed of Roses
London: W.H.Allen, 1978
8vo, pp. 319. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrappers. Photographic dustwrapper, portrait of the author to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SHAW, Robert
The Sun Doctor
London: Chatto & Windus, 1961
8vo, pp. 275. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition. C. DAY LEWIS' COPY, WITH HIS ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Indiscretions of Archie
New York: Doran, 1921
8vo, pp. 303. Original light brown boards, lettered in green and brown-on-green to front panel and spine.
First US edition, first issue, with ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
O'BRIAN, Patrick
Desolation Island
London: Collins, 1978
8vo, pp. 276. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
The fifth instalment in O'Brian's 20-volume Jack... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[Erotica] [Various]
A Collection Of Typed Erotica:
N.p.: N.p., N.d. [c. 1950s]
Four 8vo exercise books, pp. 133, 76, 109 and 61, three in boards, the other in stiff paper wrappers.
A collection of typed erotica,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[MILLIGAN, Spike] GUILD, Robin
The Complete Victorian House Book
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989
4to, pp. 320. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED TO SPIKE MILLIGAN BY HIS WIFE: ' Spike Darling -- This is more a present for 'us' to enjoy. Love Shelagh xx P.S. See page 22. Xmas 1989.' (p. 22 carries a picture of Holly Lodge in Highgate, at which Shelagh has written 'Lynsey [de Paul]'s house x').
Spike Milligan was married to Shelagh, his third wife, for the last nineteen years of his life until his death in 2002. Shelagh died in 2011.
ATKINSON, Kate
Behind The Scenes At The Museum
London: Doubleday: 1995
8vo, pp. 333. Original blue boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Winner of the Whitbread... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
LEARY, Timothy
Multilevel Measurement Of Interpersonal Behaviour
Berkeley: Psychological Consultation Service, 1956
Large 8vo, pp. 110.
First edition, with the Interpersonal Check List laid in.
Leary's first book, published ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GRAY, Spalding
2 pp. ALS TO DAVID GOTHARD, CO-FOUNDER OF THE RIVERSIDE STUDIOS, LONDON
7 June 1985.
2 pp. ALS, 280 x 215 mm, in the original envelope, written on the stationery of the Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis.
Wooster Group co-founder and monologist Spalding Gray had met David Gothard at the... [more]
CARROLL, Jock
Bottoms Up
Paris: Olympia Press, 1961
Small 8vo, pp. 210. Original green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front and rear panels and spine. New price printed faintly to rear panel.
First edition. CANADIAN PUBLISHER STUART.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
TREASE, Geoffrey
Red Comet
Moscow: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1936
Small 8vo, pp. 211. Original cream boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Maps to endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition.
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BURTON, Richard
Meeting Mrs. Jenkins
New York: William Morrow & Co., 1966
8vo, pp. 24. Original tan three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to spine and with device in gilt to front panel. Photographic... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Naboth's Vineyard
London: Richard Edward King, N.d.
Small 8vo, pp. 280, 20pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original green illustrated boards, lettered in black to front panel... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HAMILTON, Patrick
Souvenir of Rope
London: Constable, 1929
Small 8vo, pp. 90, 4pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Pale green stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CARR, J.L.
A Month In The Country
London: Cornucopia Press, 1990
Large 8vo, pp. 106. Original olive green boards, title labels to front panel and spine, with original unprinted acetate wrapper. Pink... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
Spain
London: Faber, 1937
8vo, pp. 12. Original red stiff paper wrappers with foldover flaps. Partly unopened.
First edition. English literary scholar Nevill Coghill's... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HILL, Susan
The Woman In Black
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983
8vo, pp. 160. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition of what has now become better known in its second incarnation. The stage adaptation of The Woman In Black is a West End phenomenon, and has been running in London since 1989. Like the book, it is genuinely creepy.
Scarce, and getting scarcer.
