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40 Sonnets (SIGNED Faber Members Ed)
- £75.00
- Winner: 2015 COSTA POETRY AWARD: 40 Sonnets is the new collection by Don Paterson, a rich and accomplished work from one of the foremost poets writing in English today. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets.…
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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 Perfect Spy (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
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Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
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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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Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People
- £90.00
- A gorgeous portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis and illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis, maps and reproductions in color of historic paintings and vintage drawings. As the authors comment, this is a "straightforward view of rural Antigua, of village yards and tilled…
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Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
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Asparagus (SIGNED by Mim Hain)
- £100.00
- This special edition of one of TS Eliot's Cats (Gus the Cat at the Theatre Door) book was never offered for general sale. A limited edition of 200 privately printed for The Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables.
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Breakfast in Périgord (SIGNED)
- £285.00
- Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods with Favourite QuotationsÉ 60 illustrations and devices by the author, Limited Edition of 525
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Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers
- £40.00
- Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers, reprsent Paris, sur le thatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin le 28 decembre 1897, 10 Hors-texte en couleurs de A. Galland, broch, non coup. / Since its premier in 1897, Edmond RostandÕs Cyrano de Bergerac has remained a classic of the…
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Devotion (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A glorious love story' Ð Sarah Winman, author of Still Life. Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. A stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love, with a breathtaking twist, from the bestselling author of Burial Rites, Hannah Kent. Hanne and TheaÕs friendship is…
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Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & SIGNED)
- £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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End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
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Engleby (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Mike Engleby has a secret... This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy in the seventies who wins a place at an esteemed English university. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his…
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Eton v Harrow at Lords
- £60.00
- With an introduction by the then Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, this limited edition compilation of accounts of the famous annual cricket match at Lord's between the two famous public schools. The story of the matches by Bernard Darwin. 'Reminiscences of every match since 1861 by an actual player in each…
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Faade: an Entertainment (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- Faade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Faade Ð An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the Faade poems in…
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From the Republic of Conscience
- £35.00
- From the Republic of Conscience... was written in response to an invitation from Amnesty International and produced by Peter Fallon for Amnesty International Ireland.
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History: The Home Movie (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- One of England's foremost poets, Craig Raine offers a "bold, ambitious chronicle of life" (New York Times Review) told through the stories of two families, the Pasternaks and the Raines, who touch each other and are touched by history in different ways. Like a home movie, this novel in verse…
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I, Brother Stephen (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The 2nd of St Beuno's Hand-printed limited editions (only 150 made) of verse from Irish poet Robert Greacen. His 1994 anthology won the 1995 Irish Times Award for Literature.
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John (SIGNED & Limited)
- £210.00
- Cynthia and John Lennon's relationship spanned ten crucial years of the Beatles phenomenon. But as well as new insight into the Beatles years, Cynthia has a compelling personal story of marriage, motherhood and the man who was to become the most idolised and admired of all the Beatles. Cynthia is…
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John Masefield, O.M.: a Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Tribute to the Poet Laureate John Masefield with a bibliography for his 81st Birthday in 1960. A limited signed edition of 999 copies.
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Landscape (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £150.00
- Harold Pinter's two-hander radio play, which was first broadcast on BBC radio on 25th August 1968 starring Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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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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LX (SIGNED, Limited)
- £35.00
- In a signed, limited edition, to mark Poet Laureate Simon ArmitageÕs birthday, LX collects fifteen sonnets in sixty stanzas. These verses find the poet in a conversational tussle with his argumentative and occasionally insolent soul. Mischievous and sometimes melancholy, the pieces reflect a long querulous relationship explored through ingenious workings…
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Lysistrata (Aubrey Beardsley engravings)
- £500.00
- Aristophanes most scurrilous play was first performed in Athens around 411 BC. The plot is simple. Lysistrata, frustrated by the many wars Greece wages, gathers her friends, the feisty Kalonika and the very-married Mirrinie to help organise a National Sex Strike. No more sex till we have peace! They camp…
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Mac (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £200.00
- A prose memoir of the actor-manager Andrew McMaster. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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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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Mustard in the Mouth
- £35.00
- The text of a speech given by Sanderson to the Toronto Arts & Letters Club on 25 September 1975. The Chair was taken by the Club's President, Elmer S. Phillips. This edition is limited to 110 numbered copies designed and hand-printed by Alan Anderson at the Tregara Press, Edinburgh. Printed…
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Old God’s Time (SIGNED & LIMITED)
- £125.00
- Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea. His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case. A case that Tom never quite came to terms…
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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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Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- The first published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Poems (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £180.00
- All poems written between 1949 and 1958, except 'The table', written in 1963. Privately published in libimited, numbered edition (printed by Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk). Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Queenhood (Signed, limited edition)
- £50.00
- Poet Laureate Simon Armitage commemorates the QueenÕs Platinum Jubilee in this special signed limited edition pamphlet.
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Selections from A. C. Swinburne
- £100.00
- A poetical anthology of lyrical work by English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne. Featuring a Prelude and Epilogue both written in verse. Includes Hymn to a Proserpine, Love at Sea, A Ballad of Bath, A Child's Future, and Trafalgar Day.
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Sherston’s Progress
- £850.00
- 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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South and East
- £15.00
- Masefield's long narrative poem illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates by Jacynth Parsons. Limited to 2750 copies.
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The Ballad of the Outer Dark
- £40.00
- A selection of unpublished and uncollectd poems by Vernon Watkins' widow, Gwen, drawn from the large number left at his death. Kathleen Raine's introduction notes, 'Wales gave Vernon Watkins muyth and landscape; but he is also one of the last poets to write the English language of the educated and…
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The Battle of Britain and other poems (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Sir Thomas White (1866-1955) was a Canadian politician and this collection of his poems was privately published in Canada immediately after the war.
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The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
- £25.00
- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
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The Esther Scroll (Facsimile of 1746)
- £900.00
- A true discovery: The Esther Scroll of 1746. The use of scrolls dates back to ancient times, and one of the best known examples in history is the Esther scroll, or Hebrew megillah, which is devoted solely to the story of Queen Esther and is read on the feast of…
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The Far Off and the Near (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sequel to Browne-Wilkinson's book Pepperell Posterity, this tells the story of 3 English families in the mid-nineteenth century connected by friendship and marriage. Several members spent years in New Zealand, and all were regarded as 'the men you can rely on for the uniform discharge of simple rural duties'.
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The Fothergill Omnibus (limited & SIGNED)
- £450.00
- The Fothergill Omnibus 'for which Seventeen Eminent Authors have written short stories upon one and the same plot: A man gets into a correspondence with a woman whom he doesn't know and he finds romance in it. Then he sees a girl, falls in love with her in the ordinary…
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The Heart’s Journey (SIGNED)
- £320.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
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The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF)
- £60.00
- Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they -- the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits and celebrity chefs -- are gathered…
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The Manuscripts of A Passage to India (The Abinger Edition 6a)
- £200.00
- To accompany The Abinger Edition of A Passage to India, this volume relates page by page, line by line, to the novel in such. Way that the reader can follow the successive revisions - whether of a single word, sentence, paragraph or lenghty passage - that culminated in the published…
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The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- £40.00
- A limited edition of one chapter drawn from the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Lynton Lamb's beautiful woodcuts.
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The Russia House (SIGNED)
- £450.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Waste Land, a facsimile and transcript of the original draft
- £250.00
- Eliot's masterpiece as it was originally edited and annotated by Ezra Pound before it waas published in 1922. Produced in this limited facsimile edition by Eliot's widow, Valerie, using the manuscript held in the New York Public Library.
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The Waste Land, a facsimile and transcript of the original draft
- £250.00
- Eliot's masterpiece as it was originally edited and annotated by Ezra Pound before it waas published in 1922. Produced in this limited facsimile edition by Eliot's widow, Valerie, using the manuscript held in the New York Public Library.
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The Work of Ambrose McEvoy (born August 12th, 1878)
- £150.00
- Arthur Ambrose McEvoy ARA (12 August 1877 Ð 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly of women and often in watercolour. This compilation was…
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Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the…
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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V-U2: an immersive concert film at Sphere Las Vegas
- £100.00
- Official record of the film made of the Sphere Las Vegas's first residency of U2.
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Volpone: or The Foxe (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley)
- £350.00
- One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or…
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Walt Whitman: A Study
- £100.00
- John Addington Symonds 5 October 1840 Ð 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of homosexuality. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers…
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What art does: an unfinished theory (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring…
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Wine in Peace and War
- £190.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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Wine in Peace and War
- £200.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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40 Sonnets (SIGNED Faber Members Ed)
- £75.00
- Winner: 2015 COSTA POETRY AWARD: 40 Sonnets is the new collection by Don Paterson, a rich and accomplished work from one of the foremost poets writing in English today. This new collection from Don Paterson, his first since the Forward prize-winning Rain in 2009, is a series of forty sonnets.…
- Add to basket
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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
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A Perfect Spy (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- The best English novel since the war' Philip Roth Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the…
- Add to basket
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Aesop’s Fables. (Arthur Rackham SIGNED)
- £1,200.00
- "The peculiar secret of Rackham's success in seizing upon the essence of the human and portraying it in animal form, which is after all the basic device of the morality, is unwittingly touched upon in Chesterton's delightful introduction to the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables: 'There can be no good…
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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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Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People
- £90.00
- A gorgeous portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis and illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis, maps and reproductions in color of historic paintings and vintage drawings. As the authors comment, this is a "straightforward view of rural Antigua, of village yards and tilled…
- Add to basket
-
Apeirogon, a novel (SIGNED)
- £125.00
- A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and…
- Add to basket
-
Asparagus (SIGNED by Mim Hain)
- £100.00
- This special edition of one of TS Eliot's Cats (Gus the Cat at the Theatre Door) book was never offered for general sale. A limited edition of 200 privately printed for The Friends of the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables.
- Add to basket
-
Breakfast in Périgord (SIGNED)
- £285.00
- Essays on Various Occasions and in Diverse Moods with Favourite QuotationsÉ 60 illustrations and devices by the author, Limited Edition of 525
- Add to basket
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Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers
- £40.00
- Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers, reprsent Paris, sur le thatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin le 28 decembre 1897, 10 Hors-texte en couleurs de A. Galland, broch, non coup. / Since its premier in 1897, Edmond RostandÕs Cyrano de Bergerac has remained a classic of the…
- Add to basket
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Devotion (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A glorious love story' Ð Sarah Winman, author of Still Life. Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. A stunning story about the impossible lengths we go to for the ones we love, with a breathtaking twist, from the bestselling author of Burial Rites, Hannah Kent. Hanne and TheaÕs friendship is…
- Add to basket
-
Down-Adown-Derry: a book of Fairy Poems (limited & SIGNED)
- £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
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End and Beginning
- £20.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
- Add to basket
-
End and Beginning (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- A lesser-known short play by the Poet Laureate John Masefield, concerning Mary, Queen of Scots and set in Fotheringay Castle during her imprisonment.
- Add to basket
-
Engleby (SIGNED)
- £60.00
- Mike Engleby has a secret... This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy in the seventies who wins a place at an esteemed English university. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarmingly frank account of English education. Yet beneath the disturbing surface of his…
- Add to basket
-
Eton v Harrow at Lords
- £60.00
- With an introduction by the then Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, this limited edition compilation of accounts of the famous annual cricket match at Lord's between the two famous public schools. The story of the matches by Bernard Darwin. 'Reminiscences of every match since 1861 by an actual player in each…
- Add to basket
-
Faade: an Entertainment (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- Faade is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of Faade Ð An Entertainment in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the Faade poems in…
- Add to basket
-
From the Republic of Conscience
- £35.00
- From the Republic of Conscience... was written in response to an invitation from Amnesty International and produced by Peter Fallon for Amnesty International Ireland.
- Add to basket
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History: The Home Movie (SIGNED)
- £75.00
- One of England's foremost poets, Craig Raine offers a "bold, ambitious chronicle of life" (New York Times Review) told through the stories of two families, the Pasternaks and the Raines, who touch each other and are touched by history in different ways. Like a home movie, this novel in verse…
- Add to basket
-
I, Brother Stephen (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- The 2nd of St Beuno's Hand-printed limited editions (only 150 made) of verse from Irish poet Robert Greacen. His 1994 anthology won the 1995 Irish Times Award for Literature.
- Add to basket
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John (SIGNED & Limited)
- £210.00
- Cynthia and John Lennon's relationship spanned ten crucial years of the Beatles phenomenon. But as well as new insight into the Beatles years, Cynthia has a compelling personal story of marriage, motherhood and the man who was to become the most idolised and admired of all the Beatles. Cynthia is…
- Add to basket
-
John Masefield, O.M.: a Bibliography and Eighty-First Birthday Tribute (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- A Tribute to the Poet Laureate John Masefield with a bibliography for his 81st Birthday in 1960. A limited signed edition of 999 copies.
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Landscape (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £150.00
- Harold Pinter's two-hander radio play, which was first broadcast on BBC radio on 25th August 1968 starring Peggy Ashcroft and Eric Porter. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
- 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
-
LX (SIGNED, Limited)
- £35.00
- In a signed, limited edition, to mark Poet Laureate Simon ArmitageÕs birthday, LX collects fifteen sonnets in sixty stanzas. These verses find the poet in a conversational tussle with his argumentative and occasionally insolent soul. Mischievous and sometimes melancholy, the pieces reflect a long querulous relationship explored through ingenious workings…
- Add to basket
-
Lysistrata (Aubrey Beardsley engravings)
- £500.00
- Aristophanes most scurrilous play was first performed in Athens around 411 BC. The plot is simple. Lysistrata, frustrated by the many wars Greece wages, gathers her friends, the feisty Kalonika and the very-married Mirrinie to help organise a National Sex Strike. No more sex till we have peace! They camp…
- Add to basket
-
Mac (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £200.00
- A prose memoir of the actor-manager Andrew McMaster. Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
- 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
-
Mustard in the Mouth
- £35.00
- The text of a speech given by Sanderson to the Toronto Arts & Letters Club on 25 September 1975. The Chair was taken by the Club's President, Elmer S. Phillips. This edition is limited to 110 numbered copies designed and hand-printed by Alan Anderson at the Tregara Press, Edinburgh. Printed…
- Add to basket
-
Old God’s Time (SIGNED & LIMITED)
- £125.00
- Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea. His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case. A case that Tom never quite came to terms…
- Add to basket
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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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Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- The first published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Poems (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £180.00
- All poems written between 1949 and 1958, except 'The table', written in 1963. Privately published in libimited, numbered edition (printed by Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk). Pinter (1930-2008) was a renowned playwrite, screenwriter, director and won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Queenhood (Signed, limited edition)
- £50.00
- Poet Laureate Simon Armitage commemorates the QueenÕs Platinum Jubilee in this special signed limited edition pamphlet.
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Selections from A. C. Swinburne
- £100.00
- A poetical anthology of lyrical work by English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic Algernon Charles Swinburne. Featuring a Prelude and Epilogue both written in verse. Includes Hymn to a Proserpine, Love at Sea, A Ballad of Bath, A Child's Future, and Trafalgar Day.
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Sherston’s Progress
- £850.00
- 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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South and East
- £15.00
- Masefield's long narrative poem illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates by Jacynth Parsons. Limited to 2750 copies.
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The Ballad of the Outer Dark
- £40.00
- A selection of unpublished and uncollectd poems by Vernon Watkins' widow, Gwen, drawn from the large number left at his death. Kathleen Raine's introduction notes, 'Wales gave Vernon Watkins muyth and landscape; but he is also one of the last poets to write the English language of the educated and…
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The Battle of Britain and other poems (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Sir Thomas White (1866-1955) was a Canadian politician and this collection of his poems was privately published in Canada immediately after the war.
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The Christmas Stories (Complete Short Stories vol. I of V)
- £25.00
- Undated hardback reprint for the Trollope Society with a foreword by Joanna Trollope. Nine short stories
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The Esther Scroll (Facsimile of 1746)
- £900.00
- A true discovery: The Esther Scroll of 1746. The use of scrolls dates back to ancient times, and one of the best known examples in history is the Esther scroll, or Hebrew megillah, which is devoted solely to the story of Queen Esther and is read on the feast of…
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The Far Off and the Near (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- The sequel to Browne-Wilkinson's book Pepperell Posterity, this tells the story of 3 English families in the mid-nineteenth century connected by friendship and marriage. Several members spent years in New Zealand, and all were regarded as 'the men you can rely on for the uniform discharge of simple rural duties'.
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The Fothergill Omnibus (limited & SIGNED)
- £450.00
- The Fothergill Omnibus 'for which Seventeen Eminent Authors have written short stories upon one and the same plot: A man gets into a correspondence with a woman whom he doesn't know and he finds romance in it. Then he sees a girl, falls in love with her in the ordinary…
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The Heart’s Journey (SIGNED)
- £320.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
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The Laying on of Hands (SIGNED, PROOF)
- £60.00
- Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they -- the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits and celebrity chefs -- are gathered…
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The Manuscripts of A Passage to India (The Abinger Edition 6a)
- £200.00
- To accompany The Abinger Edition of A Passage to India, this volume relates page by page, line by line, to the novel in such. Way that the reader can follow the successive revisions - whether of a single word, sentence, paragraph or lenghty passage - that culminated in the published…
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The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- £40.00
- A limited edition of one chapter drawn from the famous translation by Nevil Coghill (one of the Inklings with Lewis and Tolkien), with Lynton Lamb's beautiful woodcuts.
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The Russia House (SIGNED)
- £450.00
- Barley Blair is not a Service man: he is a small-time publisher, a self-destructive soul whose only loves are whisky and jazz. But it was Barley who, one drunken night at a dacha in Peredelkino during the Moscow Book Fair, was befriended by a high-ranking Soviet scientist who could be…
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The Waste Land, a facsimile and transcript of the original draft
- £250.00
- Eliot's masterpiece as it was originally edited and annotated by Ezra Pound before it waas published in 1922. Produced in this limited facsimile edition by Eliot's widow, Valerie, using the manuscript held in the New York Public Library.
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The Waste Land, a facsimile and transcript of the original draft
- £250.00
- Eliot's masterpiece as it was originally edited and annotated by Ezra Pound before it waas published in 1922. Produced in this limited facsimile edition by Eliot's widow, Valerie, using the manuscript held in the New York Public Library.
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The Work of Ambrose McEvoy (born August 12th, 1878)
- £150.00
- Arthur Ambrose McEvoy ARA (12 August 1877 Ð 4 January 1927) was an English artist. His early works are landscapes and interiors with figures, in a style influenced by James McNeill Whistler. Later he gained success as a portrait painter, mainly of women and often in watercolour. This compilation was…
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Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the…
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Unleashed (SIGNED, LIMITED)
- £350.00
- ÔABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVEÕ ED BALLS. Boris Johnson has always been larger than life. Controversial, untrammelled by the normal rules of politics, his route to becoming BritainÕs prime minister included a landmark career as a journalist, two terms as LondonÕs mayor, leading the Vote Leave Brexit campaign and acting as…
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V-U2: an immersive concert film at Sphere Las Vegas
- £100.00
- Official record of the film made of the Sphere Las Vegas's first residency of U2.
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Volpone: or The Foxe (illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley)
- £350.00
- One of 1000 copies on Art Paper, this copy un-numbered. Frontispiece, five initial letters, and cover design by Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley designs on upper and lower covers. Beardsley had intended to provide 24 illustrations for the book, but died (at only 26) before he could complete the commission. Volpone: Or…
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Walt Whitman: A Study
- £100.00
- John Addington Symonds 5 October 1840 Ð 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. Although he married and had a family, he was an early advocate of homosexuality. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies about writers…
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What art does: an unfinished theory (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- What Art Does is an invitation to explore this vital question. It is a chance to understand how art is made by all of us. How it creates communities, opens our worlds, and can transform us. Curious and playful, richly illustrated, full of ideas and life, it is an inspiring…
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Wine in Peace and War
- £190.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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Wine in Peace and War
- £200.00
- Waugh's privately printed account of wine on Sackville St in London, commissioned by his personal vintners, Saccone & Speed. They apparently paid him in kind, and issued this book to their regular customers.
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