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A Garland for the Laureate – Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday
- £65.00
- 22 poems, most of which were written for the occasion of Betjeman's 75th birthday. Contributors: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Leonard Clark, Charles Causley, Patric Dickinson, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Edward Lowbury, Norman Nicholson, Alan Ross, A. L. Rowse, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender,…
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A Stitch In Time, or Pride prevents a Fall
- £15.00
- Limited edition of the poem by James Laver, renowned historian and curatior (20 years at Victoria & Albert Museum)
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All for Love or The World Well Lost
- £150.00
- A beautifully produced edition of Dryden's reworking of the Antony & Cleopatra. Decorations at the beginning of each act by Eliot Hodgkin and the decoration for the preface by Edward le Bas. Title page notes "written in imitation of Shakespeare's stile." Epistle dedicatory to the Earl of Danby, preface, list…
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An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
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Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
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Catalogue of Oscar Wilde (Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, First Editions)
- £50.00
- Bibliographical catalogue of Wilde's writings (formerly in the possession of Robert Ross, C. S. Millard (Stuart Mason) and The Younger Son of Oscar Wilde). 2000 printed, with 105 special paper
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Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
- £40.00
- Collection of supernatural stories. First published in 1975, this Tartarus reprint contains a new introduction by Phil Baker and limited to only 350 copies.
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Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & signed edition)
- £400.00
- Limited and signed first edition of de la Mare's children's anthology of fairy poems, illustrated by the American artist Dorothy P. Lathrop (this was the second of six de la Mare books she would go on to illustrate during the following two decades). A numbered limited edition in vellum.
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George Bell, Publisher: a brief memoir
- £25.00
- Printed for Private Circulation at the Chiswick Press
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In Memoriam
- £30.00
- Nonesuch Press edition of Tennyson's famous verse cycle (produced on Van Gelder paper in the Blado type for sale in England. Designed by Francis Meynell.
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Le Cimitière Marin / The Graveyard by the Sea (parallel English & French)
- £150.00
- One of 500 numbered copies printed in at Officia Bodoni in Vicenza, Italy, on Magnani paper, French text with Day Lewis' parallel translation.
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Love’s Progress or The Education of Araminta
- £15.00
- Limited edition of the poem by James Laver, renowned historian and curatior (20 years at Victoria & Albert Museum)
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
- £600.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
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On Chesil Beach
- £100.00
- It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt…
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A Garland for the Laureate – Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday
- £65.00
- 22 poems, most of which were written for the occasion of Betjeman's 75th birthday. Contributors: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Leonard Clark, Charles Causley, Patric Dickinson, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Edward Lowbury, Norman Nicholson, Alan Ross, A. L. Rowse, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender,…
- Add to basket
-
A Stitch In Time, or Pride prevents a Fall
- £15.00
- Limited edition of the poem by James Laver, renowned historian and curatior (20 years at Victoria & Albert Museum)
- Add to basket
-
All for Love or The World Well Lost
- £150.00
- A beautifully produced edition of Dryden's reworking of the Antony & Cleopatra. Decorations at the beginning of each act by Eliot Hodgkin and the decoration for the preface by Edward le Bas. Title page notes "written in imitation of Shakespeare's stile." Epistle dedicatory to the Earl of Danby, preface, list…
- Add to basket
-
An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
- Add to basket
-
Anthony Powell: A Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers)
- £25.00
- A full descriptive bibliography covering books and periodicals, as well as a brief foreword by Powell himself.
- Add to basket
-
Catalogue of Oscar Wilde (Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, First Editions)
- £50.00
- Bibliographical catalogue of Wilde's writings (formerly in the possession of Robert Ross, C. S. Millard (Stuart Mason) and The Younger Son of Oscar Wilde). 2000 printed, with 105 special paper
- Add to basket
-
Cold Hand in Mine: Strange Stories
- £40.00
- Collection of supernatural stories. First published in 1975, this Tartarus reprint contains a new introduction by Phil Baker and limited to only 350 copies.
- Add to basket
-
Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & signed edition)
- £400.00
- Limited and signed first edition of de la Mare's children's anthology of fairy poems, illustrated by the American artist Dorothy P. Lathrop (this was the second of six de la Mare books she would go on to illustrate during the following two decades). A numbered limited edition in vellum.
- Add to basket
-
George Bell, Publisher: a brief memoir
- £25.00
- Printed for Private Circulation at the Chiswick Press
- Add to basket
-
In Memoriam
- £30.00
- Nonesuch Press edition of Tennyson's famous verse cycle (produced on Van Gelder paper in the Blado type for sale in England. Designed by Francis Meynell.
- Add to basket
-
Le Cimitière Marin / The Graveyard by the Sea (parallel English & French)
- £150.00
- One of 500 numbered copies printed in at Officia Bodoni in Vicenza, Italy, on Magnani paper, French text with Day Lewis' parallel translation.
- Add to basket
-
Love’s Progress or The Education of Araminta
- £15.00
- Limited edition of the poem by James Laver, renowned historian and curatior (20 years at Victoria & Albert Museum)
- Add to basket
-
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
- £600.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
- Add to basket
-
On Chesil Beach
- £100.00
- It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt…
- Add to basket
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