Search results for: 'christmas with the poets'
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CHRISTMAS - VIZETELLY, Henry (printer). Christmas with the Poets:London : 1851
First edition, in the attractive publisher's gift binding, of this Christmas treasury. "In 1851 Vizetelly printed, and Bogue published, a notable gift book, Christmas with the Poets, which, it has been suggested, 'must have contributed considerably to the popular revival of the 'Old Christmas' atmosphere'" (Ruari McLean, "Victorian Book Design and Colour... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 145978
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GORE, Catherine. New Year's Day, A Winter's Tale.London : [1846]
First edition, in a beautiful signed Kelliegram binding, with their signature onlay illustration, of the second of three Christmas books by Catherine Gore.
The "Kelliegram" binding was one of the many innovations of English commercial binding firm Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family had one of the longest connections in the history of the binding... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 143157
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WELTY, Eudora. Henry Green. A Novelist of the Imagination.[Austin : 1961
Offprint from the Texas Quarterly. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the upper wrapper, "With love to Bill and Barbara and so many wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Eudora, 1961". The recipients were poets William Jay Smith, sometime American Poet Laureate, and his wife, also a poet, Barbara Howes. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 76436
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[REEVE, Sophia.] Holiday Annals, interspersed with Tales & Poetical Pieces, for Young People.Norwich : [1820?]
First edition of this scarce collection of stories and lectures presented in the form of one family's conversation during the Christmas holidays. Holiday Annals imagines the Davenport family regaling each other with short stories, lectures on university Chemistry experiments, poetry readings, and observations on wildlife over the course of several wintry... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 117692
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SHIEL, M. P. The Invisible Voices.London : 1935
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Harold Taves from M. P. Shiel. Christmas, 1935. 'L'Abri', New Rd., Worthing Rd., Horsham, Sussex, England." Taves was a correspondent of Shiel's who worked with the poet Edward Doro to sell Shiel's novels to Hollywood. He later owned a bookstore in Seattle and sold... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 68836
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[WALPOLE, Horace] The Castle of Otranto, a story.London : 1765 [but 1764]
First edition of this mock tale of medieval horror which initiated the vogue for Gothic romances. "Impressive theatrical effects included a gigantic heavenly helmet with magical powers, a bleeding statue, a sword that could only be borne by fifty men, an anchorite whose flesh had melted away to leave only an animated skeleton, and a portrait that strode... Learn More£8,000.00Stock Code: 139678
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ELLIS, Sarah Stickney. The Englishwoman's Family Library.London : [from 1843]
A handsome set of Ellis's four most important works, housed inside the beautifully preserved publisher's glass-fronted presentation case and advertised together as "The Englishwoman's Family Library". While individual volumes of Ellis's works in varying editions do occasionally appear at auction, we can trace no uniform sets, nor any together with the... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 133527
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FROST, Robert. A Boy's Will.London : 1913
First edition, first impression, of Frost's first published book, an exceptional presentation copy, inscribed by him to fellow Dymock poet Wilfrid W. Gibson on the front free endpaper, "W.W.G. from R.F. Sept. 1913", perhaps on the occasion they first met, when Frost gave a poetry reading at Harold Monro's newly-opened Poetry Bookshop.
When A... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 146535
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WILBUR, Richard. The Beautiful Changes and other poems.New York : 1947
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Merry Christmas to RAB. Hope you like them. Dick Wilbur, 1947." This is the author's first book of poetry. Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 109772
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BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, with an autograph Christmas card signed by Betjeman in English and Gaelic loosely inserted. A lovely association copy owned by the Irish architectural historian, writer and poet Maurice Craig (1919-2011), with his bookplate to the front pastedown and ownership inscription,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123743
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HADFIELD, John, ed. Georgian Love Songs, Restoration Love Songs, Elizabethan Love Songs.Preston, Herts : 1949-55
A lovely complete set of these illustrated Cupid Press anthologies collecting love poetry from the time of Shakespeare and Sidney to the time Gay and Goldsmith, edited by John Hadfield who founded the press, and illustrated by Rex Whistler and John Piper. Each was one of 660 numbered copies, the Elizabethan volume being number 226 and signed by John... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 144365
