Item 399POPE THE LESLIE STEPHEN LECTURE FOR 1925.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1925. Teal blue wrappers, paper label. First edition. Light use at edges, else about fine, and absolutely hilarious.
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Item 398FIVE VARIATIONS ON A THEME.
London: Duckworth, 1933. Small octavo. Cloud-printed boards, title stamped in red. First edition, limited to 1000 copies on laid paper. Small poetry bookshop label on front free endsheet, else about as fine as could be desired in a near fine, unclipped, matching cloud-printed dust jacket. 38pp.FIFOOT EA26a.
Item 397FANFARE FOR ELIZABETH.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. Blue cloth, gilt spine. Frontispiece portrait, and three further black & white plates. Near fine in a slightly nicked, unclipped pictorial dust jacket.First edition, first printing, preceding the British edition. Elizabeth Tudor grew up in the Court of Henry VIII, he being her father.....
Item 396BOOKS AND CHARACTERS FRENCH & ENGLISH.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. Bright green loth, paper spine label. Frontis, five plates. With the bookplate of collector/bibliographer Richard Little Purdy. Label darkened, else a near fine copy, lacking the jacket. A must for Bloomsbury collectors.First edition. Dedicated to his friend John Maynard Keynes, Strachey presents his biographical portraits.....
Item 395THE PLAYER'S BOY.
New York: Pantheon, [1953]. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, preceding the British publication. Poet Ralph Hodgson's copy, with his ownership signature and date. Offset to endsheets from clipping, otherwise a nice copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
Item 394WHEELS A THIRD CYCLE.
Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, [1919]. Pictorial paper-covered boards with black cloth spine & paper spine label. Many leaves unopened, corners worn, edges of boards nicked in several places, a good or better copy.First edition. One of 1000 copies printed. War verse by Osbert Sitwell and Sherard Vines, short essays by.....
Item 393VIRGINIA WOOLF: A WRITER'S LIFE.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., [1984]. Gilt cloth and boards. Ten black and white plates. Notes, biographical sources, and an index. Fine, in a very good or better pictorial dust jacket.First US edition. A very sensitive work of biography that balances the influences of Woolf's life's experiences on.....
Item 392THE STRANGE NECESSITY ESSAYS.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928. Blue cloth. First U.S. edition. A few nicks at spine ends, upper edges of boards very lightly sunned, else a very good copy in a somewhat dust-smudged dust jacket with a few chips at the edges, price intact."'Our morals have gone, our.....
Item 391THIS JANUARY TALE.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1966]. Cloth and boards. Gilt green cloth. First edition, preceding the UK edition by almost two years. Near fine in very good, lightly rubbed and smudged pictorial dust jacket.Bryher (1894 – 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine.....
Item 390GATE TO THE SEA.
[New York]: Pantheon, [1958]. Cloth and boards. First edition (preceding the British printing). Photos by Islay de Courcy Lyon of the present day (1958) Paestum. With a gift inscription from novelist Francis Parkinson Keyes to a friend with whom she apparently spent a day in Paestum (Italy). Very good in.....
Item 389THE MAIDES TRAGEDY.
New York: Cheshire House, 1932. Quarto. Half calf and marbled boards. T.e.g., all others untrimmed. Wood engravings by Freda Bone. Introduction by Christopher Morley. No. 955 of twelve hundred numbered copies. Spine a shade sunned, bit of foxing to end sheets and edges, but a very good copy in a......
Item 388A KNAVISH LAD A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM GRAPHIC NOVEL.
Edinburgh: Joanna K. Robson, 2017. An Amazingly Intricate, Elaborate, & Lovely 16th/21st Century Leporello — A Midsummer Night's Dream Graphic-Novel Oblong 24mo (16.3 x 13.7 x 5cm (approx. 6.5 x 5.5 x 2”) [unopened] approx. 240 x 16.3 x 13.7 (94.5 x 6.5 x 5.5”) [fully opened]. [32].....
Item 387NYLMAH.
[Edinburgh]: Joanna K. Robson, 2014. Tall oblong. Height: 28 cm (11"); width 12 cm (4.75") closed, 60 cm (23.5") fully opened. This limited edition concertina book illustrates the downfall of the fictional jungle city of Nylmah. Silhouettes cut from black paper illustrate the panoramic story read from left to right.....
Item 386THE TEMPEST 1932: A VISUAL RE-TELLING OF THE FIRST PLAY PERFORMED AT THE FAMOUS OUTDOOR MINACK THEATRE CORNWALL ...
Shakespeare's Tempest — A Graphic Presentation in Leporello Format [SHAKESPEARE, William]: ROBSON, Joanna: [Edinburgh: 2011]. Oblong 24mo (12 x 17 cm; 4.75" x 6.625"). [9] ff., illus., color. Aquatint accomplished in gorgeous, rich shades of blue, the work when fully opened measures 140 x 12 cm (55.11" x 4.75").....
Item 385SUNSTONE / PIEDRA DEL SOL.
[New York]: New Directions:, [1991]. Small quarto. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in black and crimson, housed in matching original publisher's slipcase with small dust mark on bottom edge. 64 pp. Color plates. Fine, as issued.First separate edition of this translation into English by Eliot Weinberger. Dual Spanish / English text.....
Item 384THE RECTOR OF WYCK.
London: Hutchinson and Co., [1925]. Octavo. Blue cloth. First edition. Fine, in a very good dust jacket with light discoloration to spine panel and along one fold. Forty-eight pages of the publisher's adverts for 1925 of important books, new novels, and magazines (the latter with illustrations in text).
Item 383MURRAY'S BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE.
London: John Murray, [1948]. Small quarto. Pictorial red cloth. First edition. 166 black & white half-tone plates and photographs, most of which have been specially taken by Betjemand and Piper, a folding map, a Gazetteer to all the Parishes, and an index. Boards a trace bowed, otherwise very good copy.....
Item 382GOLD COAST CUSTOMS.
London: Duckworth, [1929]. Black cloth, lettered in red to upper panel and spine. 7.5" by 5". Frontispiece portrait of Sitwell by Pavel Tchelitchew. About fine, in lightly spotted pictorial dust jacket.First edition. Sitwell's long poem of 500-plus lines combines both dense and obscure language with a bleak picture of modern.....
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Item 381EPILOGUE A CRITICAL SUMMARY VOLUME I -- AUTUMN 1935 [with] EPILOGUE A CRITICAL SUMMARY VOLUME II -- SUMMER 1936.
Deya Majorca / London, The Seizin Press / Constable & Co. Ltd., 1935 & 1936. Two volumes. Octavos. Black pictorial print on paper-covered boards. Volume I has five black & white plates, scattered foxing, particularly on its endpapers, a bump on the lower fore-tip, and darkened spine. Volume II has.....
Item 380THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963. Pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first U.S. edition of Mitford's exposé of the American funeral industrial complex. Light use, but a very good, scarce copy.
Item 379THE OUTCASTS.
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1962. Green, mauve, purple and white decorated boards. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Boards and jacket design by Victor Reinganum. Erratum slip tipped in to page 26. If you have never read Dame Edith Sitwell you are in for a treat: "Once.....
Item 378LIVES OF THE SAINTS.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Black cloth and yellow boards, gilt spine. Watermark on top edge of the lower panel with a bit of bleeding from black cloth, else very good or better in an interesting pictorial dust jacket.First edition, first book by author Lemann. Set in New Orleans.....
Item 377THE POETRY BOOKSHOP 1912-1935 A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Revere, PA: Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd., 1988. Cloth. Frontis. xxxii,186pp. Contains over 50 b/w illustrations, seven color plates, and folding facsimiles. well illustrated and with detailed discussions of variants, artists, etc. Supplements treat the Rhyme Sheets, ephemera, periodicals, etc. As new in dust jacket and publisher's original shrinkwrap.First edition. Introduction by Penelope.....
Item 376A CHECKLIST OF THE HOGARTH PRESS 1917 - 1938 ... WITH A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PRESS BY MARY E. GAITHER.
Andes, NY: Woolmer/Brotherson Ltd., 1976. Purple cloth, spine gilt. Illustrated. Fine in faintly used dust jacket.First edition (of two) of this breakthrough in imprint bibliography/history. One of ca. 650 copies comprising the American issue, from a total of about 1000 copies. Addenda list with the number of copies printed and.....
Item 375VIRGINIA WOOLF HER ART AS A NOVELIST.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1945]. Small octavo. Cloth. First American edition. Fine in very good, or better, lightly edgeworn dust jacket.