
Poetry
WILLIAMS, Heathcote
Falling For A Dolphin
London: Cape, 1988
8vo, pp. 47. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Photographic dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
LARKIN, Philip
The Less Deceived
Hessle: Marvell Press, 1955
8vo, pp. 45. 2pp. list of subscribers at rear. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper, bookseller's revised price... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ELIOT, T. S.
Poetry And Drama
London: Faber, 1951
8vo, pp. 35. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First UK edition of this lecture, first delivered at Harvard... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
GOWRIE, Grey
The Italian Visitor
Manchester: Carcanet, 2013
8vo, pp. 112. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
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.
A Certain World
London: Faber, 1971
8vo, pp. 452. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrapper.
First UK edition, preceded by the US edition of the previous... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[AUDEN, W.H.]
Auden's Library
New York: Phoenix Book Shop, 1975
12mo, pp. 8. Original pale blue stiff paper wrappers.
First edition. One of 300 copies privately printed for Christmas 1975 by... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems Two
London: Trigram Press, 1972
Small 8vo, pp. 61. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to spine. Green endpapers, illustrated dustwrapper.
First trade edition,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
JOHNSON, B.S.
Poems
London: Constable, 1964
Small 8vo, pp. 53. Original green boards, lettered in gilt on spine.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO TONY AND JUNE TILLINGHAST:... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
City Without Walls
New York: Random House, 1969
8vo, pp. 124. Original tan three-quarter boards, lettered in gilt to spine, author's initials embossed to front panel. Top edge black, leading... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. PIPER, John] BETJEMAN, John
Church Poems
London: John Murray, 1980
Small 8vo, pp. 64. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First trade edition, first issue. An... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[trans. AUDEN, W.H. and TAYLOR, Paul B.]
Völuspá
Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1968
8vo, unpaginated. Original grey boards, lettered in gilt and with publisher's device reminiscent of Thor's hammer stamped in blind to front... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
About The House
New York: Random House, 1965
8vo, pp. 84. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to black spine.
First edition. Poet and essayist Nathaniel Tarn's copy, with his ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HUGHES, Ted
Selected Poems 1957-1967
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 109. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First UK edition, softbound issue, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
FULLER, Roy
The Middle Of A War
London: Hogarth Press, 1942
Small 8vo, pp. 48. Original green boards, lettered in black to spine.
First edition. Volume VIII in the New Hogarth Library.
AUDEN, W.H.
New Year Letter
London: Faber, 1941
8vo, pp. 188. Original grey boards, lettered in red to spine.
First UK edition. First published two months earlier in the US under the title... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher
On The Frontier
New York: Random House, 1939
8vo, pp. 121. Original ecru boards with black stripe, lettered in red to front panel and spine.
First US edition, preceded by the UK... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
On This Island
New York: Random House, 1937
8vo, pp. 68. Original brown boards, lettered in gilt to front panel and spine.
First US edition. The contemporary ownership signature... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
