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Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Photos. [c. 1945]
£1,500
Collection of 27 amateur and military photographs related to the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 Aug 1945. Within the collection are three distinct sets of...
27 photographs. Some light creasing and rubbing along edges, a few small spots, one photo with light markings transferred from an old plastic sleeve that it was... Read more
ATWOOD, Margaret.
The Edible Woman. 1969
£1,750
First edition, first printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "To Daryl with much affection Peggy A 1969". Together with a signed note from the...
Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine in gold. With the dust jacket. Housed in an orange cloth slipcase. An excellent copy in the slightly creased dust... Read more
ATWOOD, Margaret.
The Edible Woman. 1969
£850
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page. A lovely copy.
Octavo. Original burgundy boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket that is very slightly faded along the spine panel and... Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
A Certain World. A Commonplace Book. 1971
£65
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in the previous year.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Very lightly rubbed at extremities. An excellent copy in the jacket with faded spine panel and... Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
Forewords and Afterwords. 1973
£85
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the UK in the same year.
Octavo. Original green cloth backed cream boards, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. Marks to lower edges of boards and contents. An... Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
Poems 1928. Reproduced in Facsimile. 1973
£75
Fascimile edition of Auden's first printed work, based on a copy in the Durham University Library.
Duodecimo. Original red wrappers printed in black, with the white preface pamphlet in a green envelope printed in black. An excellent copy. Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
Poems. 1930
£375
First edition, first impression. Auden's first regularly published book. Only 1000 copies printed.
Octavo. Original blue wrappers, titles to front wrapper in black, quadruple line rule to border in red. Contemporary ownership inscription to half-title. Wrappers... Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
Thank You, Fog. Last Poems. 1974
£95
First edition, first impression.
Octavo. Original blue cloth backed grey boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket with slightly toned spine panel. Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
The Elder Edda. A Selection. 1969
£45
First edition, first impression. From the library of Alan Ansen, poet and Auden's personal secretary.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and marked jacket. Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
The Orators 1932
£350
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained blue others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the rather frayed and rubbed, dust... Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
The Orators 1932
£375
First Edition, First Impression. 1000 copies printed.
Octavo. Original black boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Near fine in cream dust jacket, chipped to the head of spine, nicked to corners. Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
The Orators. 1932
£375
First Edition, First Impression.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge stained blue others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Top edge faded, foxing to prelimanary and last... Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
The Platonic Blow. 1965
£100
Probable First Edition. As with most things in Ed Saunders's career, things are neither simple nor quite what they first seem. In the present instance all aspects confirm to the...
Octavo. Single quire, stapled. Original white wrappers printed in black. A fine copy. Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
The Platonic Blow. 1965
£125
Probable first edition. As with most things in Ed Saunders's career, things are neither simple nor quite what they first seem. In the present instance all aspects confirm to the...
Octavo. Single quire, stapled. Original white wrappers printed in black. A fine copy. Read more
AUDEN, W. H.
W. H. Auden. A Selection. 1961
£2,250
First edition, first impression. From the library of Stephen Spender with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper. With many corrections and deletions to the text by...
Octavo. Original green boards, device to upper board in blind, titles to spine in silver. A very good copy. Read more
(AUDEN, W. H.) ANSEN, Alan.
The Table Talk of W. H. Auden. 1990
£45
First Canadian edition, first impression. From the library of Alan Ansen.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket. Read more
(AUDEN, W. H.) ANSEN, Alan.
The Table Talk of W. H. Auden. 1990
£45
First Canadian edition, first impression. From the library of Alan Ansen.
Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the very lightly rubbed jacket. Read more
AUDEN, W. H., & Chester Kallman.
Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings. 1939–1973. 1993
£80
First edition, first impression. From the library of Alan Ansen, poet and Auden's personal secretary, with Ansen's handwritten notes to the front free endpaper. Also includes an...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt on black ground. With the dust jacket. A few light marks to edges. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket. Read more
(AUDEN, W. H.) KALLMAN, Chester.
The Sense of Occasion. Poems. 1971
£45
First edition, first printing. From the library of Alan Ansen, poet and W. H. Auden's personal secretary.
Octavo. Original turquoise cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the price-clipped and lightly marked jacket. Read more
AUDEN, W. H., & Louis MacNeice.
Letters From Iceland. 1937
£2,750
First US edition, first printing. Inscribed on the half-title by Auden and Isherwood, "To Miss May Cameron with best wishes and thanks for our first American interview Wystan Auden...
Octavo. Original oatmeal cloth, title labels to upper board and spine printed in blue, top edge stained blue, map endpapers. Housed in a quarter blue morocco drop down... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Emma. 1991
£175
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine.
Octavo. Hand bound in full black morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt. Fine. Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Emma: A Novel. 1816
£16,500
First edition of perhaps the most perfectly constructed of Jane Austen's novels. She had fallen out with Egerton over publication of Mansfield Park and transferred to Murray, who...
3 volumes, 12mo (168 × 102 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked to Regency style, covers with gilt scroll borders, marbled endpapers, sprinkled edges,... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. 1816
£13,500
First edition of perhaps the most perfectly constructed of Jane Austen's novels. She had fallen out with Egerton over publication of Mansfield Park and transferred to Murray, who...
3 volumes, octavo (170 × 100 mm). Contemporary black half calf, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides. Housed in a dark blue cloth slipcase. Contemporary... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Mansfield Park: A Novel. 1814
£13,500
First edition. The third of Jane Austen's novels to be published was begun about the same time Sense and Sensibility was accepted for publication. The novel was published in May 1814...
3 volumes, octavo (180 × 100 mm). 20th-century blue half calf, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides, brown endpapers, red speckled edges. Occasional light... Read more
AUSTEN, Jane.
Mansfield Park: A Novel. 1816
£4,750
Second edition.
3 volumes, octavo (175 × 100 mm). Contemporary black half morocco, spines gilt in compartments, marbled sides, speckled edges. Boards rubbed, wear to corners,... Read more
