LOGAN, Anne M.

Richmond: Media General 1972

Large 8vo, pp. 328. Original red boards, lettered in gilt on front panel and spine.

First edition.

[HOWERD, Frankie] COLIN, Sid

London: Ned Sherrin Productions/Anglo-EMI, 1970

Large 8vo, 140 pp., bound in brown stiff paper wrappers, text block secured with two split pins.

First edition. FREELANCE COMEDY WRITER DICK VOSBURGH'S COPY, WITH HIS NOTES TO TITLE PAGE AND OCCASIONAL NOTES AND MARKINGS THROUGHOUT THE TEXT.

Script for the film version of Up Pompeii!, which cast Michael Hordern as Ludicrus, Julie Ege as Voluptua, and Madeleine Smith as Erotica. (The feature film dispensed with the TV show's exclamation mark).

Although his work is uncredited, writer Dick Vosburgh worked on both the TV and film incarnations of Up Pompeii!, a hugely successful show which was worked up by a number of writers from an original idea by Talbot Rothwell.

[pseud. MATTHEWS, Ronald] COUSINS, Sheila

Paris: Obelisk Press, 1938

8vo, pp. 270. Original yellow stiff paper wrappers, lettered in red and black on front and rear panels and spine. Edges uncut.

Second edition, first Obelisk edition. The publisher's note on [vi] states: 'An attack against the book, in the London press, of unprecedented ferocity and vindictiveness caused its withdrawal before publication [by Routledge]. This, the Obelisk edition, published in May 1938, is therefore the first effective edition.' Despite being withdrawn before publication, a few copies of the Routledge edition have survived.

It is sometimes claimed, usually by bookdealers, that this book was written by Graham Greene. It wasn't. Although Greene helped his friend by chipping in with a telling phrase here and there -- phrases he would later quote approvingly when he contrived to review the book -- To Beg I Am Ashamed is almost entirely the work of Ronald Matthews.

A very nice copy of a fragile, cheaply made book.

[illus. FOREMAN, Michael] JONES, Terry

London: Pavilion Books/Michael Joseph, 1983

Large 8vo, pp. 144. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

First edition.
An early Jones/Foreman... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[illus. PIPER, John; STONE, Reynolds] THOMAS, R.S.

New York: Chilmark Press, 1968

4to, pp. 42. Original three-quarter blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt to black morocco spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Original... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

London: N.p. [BBC], 1955

23 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.

First edition. Series Six, Number Twelve, first broadcast on 6 December 1955.

BARKER, Pat

London: Viking, 1993

8vo, pp. 280. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.

First edition.

The second volume in Barker's... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

AUDEN, W.H.

London: Faber, 1963

8vo, pp. 527. Original blue-green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

First UK edition, preceded by the US edition which appeared three months... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

KING, Jessie M.

Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1911

Small 8vo, unpaginated. Original deluxe binding, boards lettered in gilt on spine, and gilt illustration and lettering to front panel. Edges... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

HUGHES, Ted

London: Faber, 1972

8vo, pp. 109. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First UK edition, softbound issue, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

WILLIAMS, Kit

London: Cape, 1979

4to, unpaginated. Original illustrated boards, no dustwrapper, as issued.

First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE: 'To ---- fair... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

HUGHES, Ted

London: Faber, 1970

8vo, pp. 63. Original stiff paper wrappers.

First paperback edition, originally published in 1960, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.

BRANDT, Bill

London: Cassell, 1951

Square 8vo, unpaginated. Original green boards, lettered in gilt and gilt-on-red to spine. Tan endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper.

First edition. Introduction by John Heyward.

Now very scarce in the dustwrapper.

[HANCOCK, Tony] GALTON, Ray and SIMPSON, Alan

N.p. [London]: N.p. [BBC], 1955

36 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left.

First edition.
Episode 14 of the first series of the peerless radio... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

BANVILLE, John

London: Secker & Warburg, 1993

8vo, pp. 245. Original black boards, lettered in silver on spine.

First edition.

HEANEY, Seamus

Belfast: Festival Publications, 1965

8vo, 14 pp. unpaginated, stapled paper wrappers.

First edition, first issue, with the purple nine-point star to front wrapper. ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

HEANEY, Seamus

London: Faber, 1969

8vo, pp. 57. Original printed card wrappers.

First softbound issue, appearing three years after its hardbound counterpart. SIGNED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]

[BARKER, Granville] COFFIN, C. Hayden

V.p.: N.p., 1912


Scrapbook in half leather and green boards, gold bands to black spine. First third of the album filled with production photographic illustrations and... [please click on the image or book title for more details]