
BARR, James [pseud. FUGATE, James]
Quatrefoil
New York: Greenberg, 1950
8vo, pp. 373. Original black boards, lettered and decorated in gilt on front panel and spine.
First edition of the author's first book, inscribed by Barr to Richard Yates on the front free... [more]
MOODY, Rick
Purple America
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1997
8vo, pp. 298. Original purple and black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition of the author's fourth novel,... [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]
JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems Two
London: Trigram Press, 1972
Small 8vo, pp. 61. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine. Green endpapers, illustrated dustwrapper.
First trade edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BETJEMAN, John
Poems In The Porch
London: SPCK, 1954
8vo, unpaginated. Original illustrated stiff paper wrapper, lettered in blue and red to front panel.
First edition, INSCRIBED ON HALF-TITLE BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
JAMES, Clive
Poem Of The Year
London: Cape, 1983
8vo, pp. 79. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'To Bob with thanks -- Clive James 1983'.... [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]
GALSWORTHY, John
Over The River
London: Heinemann, 1933
8vo, pp. 322. Original three-quarter green boards, lettered in gilt to vellum spine. Publisher's device in gilt to front panel. Top edge gilt, leading ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[McKERN, Leo] [HERRMANN, Edward] selected by WAVELL, A. P.
Other Men's Flowers
London: Cape, 1992
8vo, pp. 448. Original burgundy boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrappers lettered in red and black to front panel and spine.
Reprinted... [please click on the image or book title for more details]"If" -- the complete version will be sent! E.'.
This last refers to a referenced parody of Kipling's poem which begins: 'If you can keep your girl, when all around you, / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...'. In the film Hermann and McKern's characters discover that they have been in love with the same woman all their lives.
DOYLE, Roddy
Oh, Play That Thing
London: Jonathan Cape, 2004
8vo, pp.376. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on the spine.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
BETJEMAN, John
Ode On The Marriage Of HRH Prince Charles To The Lady Diana Spencer In St. Paul's Cathedral On 29th July 1981
London: Warren Editions, 1981
Broadside, single white sheet, 485mm x 215mm, with red and blue fleur de lys and encircling decoration.
First edition, one of 125... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BIMSON, Walter R.
O Caledonia:
N.p. 'Privately printed by Walter R. Bimson for a few of his hunting and fishing companions' February 1, 1965
20 pp. pamphlet, stiff paper wrappers.
First and only edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR: 'Taylor Smith /... [more]
SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Notions In Garrison
London: Methuen, 1941
Square 8vo, pp. 134. Original orange boards, lettered in black to spine. Leading and bottom edges uncut.
First edition, SIGNED BY EDITH... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
SPARK, Muriel
Not To Disturb
London: Observer Books, 1971
8vo, pp. 159. Original yellow three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to tan spine, illustration in gilt to front panel. Yellow endpapers, silk... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[COWARD, Noel] LESLEY, Cole; PAYN, Graham and MORLEY, Sheridan
Noel Coward And His Friends
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979
4to, pp. 216. Original white boards, lettered in silver on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON PUBLICATION DAY TO BOB HOLNESS: 'Dear Bob, with our thanks, Coley, Publication Day. Graham, + Sheridan'. ADDITIONALLY SIGNED IN FULL BY ALL THREE AUTHORS ON TITLE PAGE.<
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]
SOMERVILLE, E. OE, and ROSS, Martin [pseud. MARTIN, Violet]
Mount Music
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1919
8vo, pp. 309. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
LEONARD, Elmore
Maximum Bob
New York: Delacorte Press, 1991
8vo, pp. 295. Original grey and black boards with gilt lettering.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on title page.
[HANCOCK, Tony] [trans. AUDEN, W.H.] HAMMARSKJOLD, Dag
Markings
London: Faber, 1965
8vo, pp. 186. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, sixth impression, INSCRIBED IN 1968 TO TONY HANCOCK BY TED NOFFS, ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GROOM, Jon
Man And The Sea Shell
Munich: Edition X, 1994
Folio. Original brown boards, lettered in grey on spine. Double-thick pages, unopened but with blank inners.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
