
[ed. MONNIER, Adrienne and PREVOST, Jean]
Le Navire D'Argent
Paris: La Maison des Amis des Livres, 1925
8vo, pp. 127. Original printed stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to panels and spine. Uncut, partly unopened. French... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[JOYCE, James] ed. ROTH, Samuel
Two Worlds
New York: At the Sign of the Mocki-Grisball, 1925-6
Small 4tos, lettered in red and black to front panels and spines. Original black slipcases.
First US editions.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ATTENBOROUGH, David
Life on Earth
London: Readers Digest Association/William Collins/BBC, 1980
Oblong 4to, pp. 368. Original laminated photographic boards. Grey endpapers. Lacking the... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AYCKBOURN, Alan
Three Plays
London: Chatto & Windus, 1979
Small 8vo, pp. 216. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition and review copy of... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[SECOMBE, Harry] PEDRICK, Gale
The Laughtermakers No. 8: Harry Secombe
London: N.p. [BBC], 1956
23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. Title page bound in at rear, placed there during the show's production.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[pseud. CLEMENS, Samuel TWAIN, Mark]
Life On The Mississippi
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883
8vo, pp. 561, 32pp. publisher's advertisements bound in at rear. Original red cloth illustrated boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SPARK, Muriel
The Comforters
London: Macmillan, 1957
8vo, pp. 233. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated, later issue dustwrapper.
First edition of Spark's first novel,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WHEATLEY, Dennis
The Rape Of Venice
London: Hutchinson, 1959
8vo, pp. 446. Original dark blue boards, lettered in gilt and pale blue to spine, figurative design in gilt to front panel. Maps to endpapers.... [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]
WILLIAMS, Heathcote
Falling For A Dolphin
London: Cape, 1990
Large 8vo, pp. 112. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper. Small bookplate to front pastedown.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SHAFFER, Peter
Amadeus
London: Andre Deutsch, 1980
Small 8vo, pp. 124. Original red boards, lettered in silver to spine. Errata slip to p. 109. Photographic dustwrapper, portrait of the author to... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ELIOT, T. S.
Poetry And Drama
London: Faber, 1951
8vo, pp. 35. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First UK edition of this lecture, first delivered at Harvard... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
MORTIMER, John
Felix In The Underworld
London: Viking, 1997
8vo, pp. 247. Original pale blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First edition, WITH INSCRIBED CARD FROM THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. pseud. CRAIGIE, Dorothy [GLOVER, Dorothy]] GREENE, Graham
The Little Horse Bus
London: Max Parrish, 1952
Small 4to, pp. 35. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine, and gilt device to front panel.
First edition.
Greene and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
About The House
New York: Random House, 1965
8vo, pp. 84. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to black spine.
First edition. Poet and essayist Nathaniel Tarn's copy, with his ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
New Year Letter
London: Faber, 1941
8vo, pp. 188. Original grey boards, lettered in red to spine.
First UK edition. First published two months earlier in the US under the title... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
Nones
London: Faber, 1952
8vo, pp. 72. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First UK edition, preceded by the US edition which had appeared the previous... [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.
First edition.... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. SPENDER, Stephen and LEHMANN, John]
Poems For Spain
London: Hogarth Press, 1939
8vo, pp. 108. Original pink boards, lettered in yellow to front panel and spine. Leading and lower edges uncut. Dustwrapper.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BETJEMAN, John
A Wembley Lad / The Crem
London: Poem Of The Month Club, 1971
Broadside, single sheet, 11" X 15".
First edition, one of 1000 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, AND WITH A TWO-WORD CORRECTION IN HIS HAND. With the original Poem of the Month cover letter.
