- Category = Classics,Modern First Editions,Performing Arts,Poetry,Pre First World War
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The Wild Orchard.
London: Herbert & Daniel, 1911. A book of Irish Catholic poetry. Bound in original green cloth boards, with gilt stamped title to front and spine. Minor shelf-wear with very slight darkening to spine. Internally in a clean condition with minor foxing only to endpapers. Very good condition. 120 pages. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2041More details Price: £40.00 -
Titus Groan
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. First edition in 2nd impression dust wrapper. Wrapper is clean but somewhat darkened. A little chipping to the spine. Owner's name stamp to the front end paper. Book itself is clean, but on wartime economy paper. 438 pages. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3168More details Price: £120.00 -
Titus Groan
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. First edition, in second impression dust jacket (as is often stated). Bound in red cloth, Wartime economy paper. 438 pp. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Condition: Original cloth boards are in a clean condition, with just some sun fading in places. Neat previous owner's details to FFEP. The dust jacket is not price clipped (shows 18 shillings), and is marked 'second impression'. The jacket is slightly marked in places, being a pale colour, and the spine is a little darkened. The edges have a few tiny chips. Overall, in a very good condition. Now held in removable protective archival sleeve.
Book ID: 2325More details Price: £150.00 -
To The Last Man
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. Reprint, in original illustrated dust jacket. 256 pp. 190 by 130 mm (7½ by 5 inches).
Condition: Dust jacket has 'coffee cup' stain to front, and toning to endpapers. Overall in a good condition.
Book ID: 2080More details Price: £10.00 -
Tooneel decoratief,
voorgesteld in op steen geteekende platen door F.J. Pfeiffer Jr., in leven tooneelschilder en decorateur van den Amsterdamschen Schouwburg; benevens zijn portret. Mitsgaders toepasselijke dichterlijke bijschriften van Mr. J. van Lennep, en eene levensschets, vervaardigd door G. van Enst Koning.
Book ID: 3421More details Price: £500.00
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Toute la Flandre. Les villes à pignons.
Book ID: 2695More details Price: £45.00
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Twelve Summer Poems of 1962.
A limited, signed copy
Edition: First Edition
London: Privately printed: 1962. A lovely copy of this privately printed collection of poems. Spotless yellow card wrappers (now protected in a translucent glassine wrapper). One of ten copies numbered and signed by Sitwell for friends. This is copy 1/10. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 1981More details Price: £48.00 -
Twin Sombreros.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. Reprint, in original illustrated dust jacket. Toning to endpapers, otherwise in a very good condition. 288 pp. 190 by 130 mm (7½ by 5 inches).
Book ID: 2079More details Price: £10.00 -
Two Poems of Coventry Patmore.
Deux Poemes extraits de "The Unknown Eros." Traduction de Paul Claudel. Bois graves par John Buckland Wright.
Book ID: 3728More details Price: £130.00
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Ulysse.
Traduction française intégrale de Auguste Morel, assisté par Stuart Gilbert entièrement revue par Valery Larbaud e l'Auteur.
Paris: Gallimard. Softback covers. Third edition printed in October 1930. 3,000 copies - unnumbered. Text in French. Covers and pages age toned, but all in a very good condition. Some pages uncut at top edge. 870 pages. 210 x 145 mm (8¼ x 5¾ inches). Couvertures souples. Troisième édition imprimée en octobre 1930. 3000 exemplaires - non numérotés. Texte en français. Couvertures et pages vieillies, mais le tout en très bon état. Certaines pages non coupées en haut. 870 pages. 210 x 145 mm
Book ID: 2644More details Price: £120.00 -
Un Client Sérieux.
Book ID: 3687More details Price: £150.00
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Usine. A penser des choses tristes
Lyon: Les Écrivains Réunis, 1957. A nice copy of this first edition / limited edition volume of poetry. One of 625 copies printed on feutré gris. Soft grey wraps - covered in clear glassine. No marks or damage to them. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 46 pages. 200 by 145mm (7¾ by 5¾ inches).
. Bel exemplaire de cette première édition / volume de poésie à tirage limité. Un des 625 exemplaires imprimés sur feutré gris. Couverture souple grise - recouverte d'un film transparent. Pas de marques ni de dommages. L'intérieur est propre et bien rangé. 46 pages. 200 x 145 mm.
Book ID: 4094More details Price: £30.00 -
Vathek Conte Arabe.
précédé de Beckford ou le Démon de Fables par G. Jean-Aubry
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1885More details Price: £580.00 -
Vier Winter-Vertellingen
Amsterdam: GA van Oorschot, 1963. First Thus (Oorschot). In the series 'De Witte Olifant'. Original title: 'The Acrobat and other stories'. 210 pp. White cloth binding and dust jacket. Wrapper is in good, unclipped condition, with a touch of darkening and edgewear only. Slight lean to the book. Internally in good clean condition. 210 by 140mm (8¼ by 5½ inches).
Book ID: 3678More details Price: £25.00 -
Vivien, illustrated by Gustave Doré.
London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1867. First edition. Original burgundy buckram with gilt titles and design to the front board. Gilt titles to the spine. Boards are in good strong state, with a little darkening and a touch of bumping only. Clean but with a little marking to the rear panel. Purple end papers. Half title, Frontis, title, 9 full page illustrations. The text is mainly clean and tidy, with some light foxing throughout. The tissue guard to the frontis has a little tearing. An attractive copy. [6], 49, [1]. pp. 430 x 310 mm (17 x 12¼ inches).
First published as four separate titles: Elaine, Guinevere, Vivien and Enid; they were then combined into two-title volumes and later combined as part of "Idylls of the King".
Book ID: 2827More details Price: £400.00 -
Voices From the Heart. Sacred Poems.
New and Enlarged Edition Revised the the Right Rev. Doctor Leahy.
Edition: Reprint
Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, 1881. Original blue cloth gilt, book-label of Syon Abbey (Monasterii S. Brigittae de Sion, Chudleigh). This is a presentation copy from W. F. Downing, Dublin 1884 to the Lady Abbess, with written presentation to the half title. Copac records a single copy of the first edition of 1879 at the British Library only; Preface states "The present volume contains a large number of poems that were not in the former edition, but have since been collected." xxviii, (17)-302, (ii) pp. Advertisements.
Book ID: 1013More details Price: £35.00 -
Vue intérieure du théâtre hollandais, a la représentation de la tragédie de Gysbert d'Amstel, Sujet national.
Amsterdam: Magazin des Arts au Dam No.1, 1815. Original sepia aquatint under cream passe-partout. Taken from the book: Nouvelle statistique historique d'Amsterdam, by E. Maaskamp, and published in 1815. In very good condition. 180 x 205 mm (7 x 8 inches). Aquatinte sépia originale sous passe-partout crème. Tiré du livre : Nouvelle statistique historique d'Amsterdam, par E. Maaskamp, et publié en 1815. En très bon état. 180 x 205 mm
Book ID: 3002More details Price: £50.00