
GROTOWSKI, Jerzy
Towards A Poor Theatre
Holstebro, Denmark: Odin Teatrets Forlag, 1968
8vo, pp. 262. Original printed stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, SIGNED BY GROTOWSKI ON TITLE PAGE. With a... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BETJEMAN, John
St. Mary-Le-Strand
London: Privately printed, N.d. [1977?]
Single sheet broadside, 11.5" x 8" approx., printed on one side only.
First edition.
This scarce broadside was privately published from Betjeman's London home (the address of which appears at top right), and appears to have been issued as part of the fundraising campaign for the church which was launched in 1977.
Betjeman's frail and shaky signature at the foot of the poem is a facsimile - all copies we have seen are identical. The limitation is unknown but, given its very low survival rate, is presumed to be small.
O'BRIAN, Patrick
The Thirteen Gun Salute
London: Collins, 1989
8vo, pp. 319. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
Instalment no. 13 in what became O'Brian's 20-volume ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GREENE, Graham
May We Borrow Your Husband?
London: Bodley Head, 1967
8vo, pp. 188. Original green and grey patterned boards, lettered in gilt to green spine.
First edition, No. 170 of 500 COPIES SIGNED BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CAREY, Peter
Oscar And Lucinda
London: Faber, 1988
8vo, pp. 512. Original blue boards, lettered in white on spine.
First UK edition. Winner of the Booker Prize, and filmed by Gillian Armstrong... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[intro. SITWELL, Sacheverell] BEAUMONT, Cyril W.
The History Of Harlequin
London: C. W. Beaumont, 1926
Large 8vo, pp. 156. Original illustrated boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt. Pages uncut.
First edition, no. 25 of 325 copies published by the author. With a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell to whom, with his brother Osbert, the book is dedicated.,
Cyril Beaumont was one of the pre-em
HEATH, Edward
Music: A Joy For Life
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1976
4to, pp. 204, index. Original mauve boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'For Bob Holness /... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
CATHER, Willa
Sapphira And The Slave Girl
New York: Knopf, 1940
8vo, pp. 295. Original green boards, title labels printed in black and tan to front panel and spine. Top edge stained red, leading edge... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[TERRY-THOMAS]
Top Of The Town
London: N.p. [BBC], 1951
21 mimeographed pp. of 36, [pp. 2-7, 14-21, 31-36], secured with split pin to top left. Rewrite to p. 21 secured by pins top and bottom. Pencilled... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MILLER, Henry
Plexus
Paris: Olympia Press 1953
2 vols. 8vos, pp. 342 and 348. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First English-language edition, preceded only by the French translation published by Corrêa a year before in an edition of just ... [more]
[MILLIGAN, Spike] HARRISON, Frederic
John Ruskin
London: MacMillan, 1903
8vo, pp. 216, 4pp. advertisements bound in at rear. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge gilt.
First edition, fourth... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. PRESTON, Chloë] BYRON, May
The Chunkies At The Seaside
London: Humphrey Milford/Oxford University Press, N.d. [1917]
Square 8vo, unpaginated. Original pictorial boards, lettered in white to front panel and in black to spine.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[Erotica] [ANON.]
The Way Of A Man With A Maid
London-New York [Paris]: The Erotica Biblion Society, N.d. [c.1928]
Small 8vo, pp. 276. Original cream stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel and spine. Edges ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[WODEHOUSE, P.G.] [GODFREY, Arthur E.] LEHMANN, Liza
Selection From Sergeant Brue
London: Hopwood & Crew, 1904
4to, pp. 16. Original paper wrappers, printed in black.
First edition. PRODUCER FRANK CURZON'S COPY, WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE TO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[MILLER, Henry] [VILLAGE PRESS]
Henry Miller in Paris: Five Essays (A Complete Set)
London: Village Press, 1973
Five items, two of 24pp, one of 16pp, two of 8pp. Stiff paper wrappers, printed in black.
First editions thus.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HUGHES, Ted
The Burning Of The Brothel
London: Turret Books. 1966
4to, unpaginated. White card covers in dark blue wrappers, lettered in black to front panel.
First edition. No. 52 of 75 copies SIGNED... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[DENCH, Judi] [McKERN, Leo]
Handwritten Card from Judi Dench to Leo McKern
London: N.p., N.d. [1989]
Greetings card.
CARD FROM JUDI DENCH TO LEO McKERN ON THE OPENING OF THE CHERRY ORCHARD AT THE ALDWYCH THEATRE ON 24 OCTOBER 1989.
Dench played Ranyevskaya in this Michael Frayn translation, and was joined in the production by Leo's daughter Abigail as Yepihodova:
'...[A]t last, I get to work with Abigail -- who is a wonder. What a divine girl and how good she is. It's just the most lovely company and we all love doing the show. ... Mike and Finty join me in sending great love to you, Judi.'
MORTIMER, John
The Summer Of A Dormouse
London: Viking, 2000
8vo, pp. 213. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, later impression (incomplete number... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher
The Dog Beneath The Skin
London: Faber, 1935
8vo, pp. 180. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Lower edge uncut. Dustwrapper.
First edition. One of 2000 copies. ORIGINAL FLYER ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MORTIMER, John
Paradise Postponed
London: Viking, 1985
8vo, pp. 374. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO ACTOR LEO... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
