

Literary Criticism
TYNAN, Kenneth
He That Plays the King
London: Collector's Book Club, 1950
8vo, pp. 256. Original red three-quarter morocco, lettered in gilt to spine. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown.
ALVAREZ, Al
The Shaping Spirit
London: Chatto & Windus, 1958
8vo, pp. 191. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First edition of the author's first book.
A very nice copy.
AUDEN, W.H.
The Enchafed Flood
London: Faber, 1951
8vo, pp. 126. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First UK edition, its US counterpart having appeared nine months earlier.
AUDEN, W.H.
The Dyer's Hand
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]
AUDEN, W.H.
Secondary Worlds
London: Faber, 1968
8vo, pp. 144. Original pink boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition.
The first series of Eliot lectures, four in all, first ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[HEMINGWAY, Ernest] STIPES WATTS, Emily
Ernest Hemingway And The Arts
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971
8vo. pp. 243. Original russet boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition. MALCOLM BRADBURY'S REVIEW COPY, WITH HIS ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
PEARSON, Neil
Obelisk: A History Of Jack Kahane And The Obelisk Press
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 2007
Large 8vo, pp. 494. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
A history of Jack Kahane's Paris-based Obelisk Press, which in the 1930s... [more]
PRITCHETT, V. S.
Books In General
London: Chatto & Windus, 1953
8vo, pp. 258. Original blue boards, lettered in green on spine.
First edition.
Essays on Gide, Gissing, W.W.Jacobs, Dickens, Stendhal and many others.
SARRAUTE, Nathalie
Tropisms And The Age Of Suspicion
London: John Calder, 1963
8vo, pp. 136. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First UK edition, inscribed by Sarraute on the half-title: 'A David Gothard, en souvenir très amical. Nathalie Sarraute.'... [more]
[ed. NEWMAN, Charles] PLATH, Sylvia
The Art of Sylvia Plath: A Symposium
London: Faber, 1970
Large 8vo., pp. 319. Original black boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition.
