Search results for: 'ELIOT, T. S'
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ELIOT, T. S. - ORAGE, A. R. Essays and Aphorisms.London : 1954
First edition, first impression, presentation copy from S. C. Nott, who wrote the Biographical Note, to T. S. Eliot, "T. S. Eliot from S. C. Nott", on the half-title. This copy is number 588 of 1,000 copies printed for subscribers. Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1934) was editor of The New Age magazine, and a disciple of Gurdjieff.
Eliot is mentioned... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 141519
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ELIOT, T. S. - CATTAUI, Georges. La Terre visitée.Paris : 1945
First and limited edition, number 1,167 of 1,240 copies. Presentation copy to T. S. Eliot, inscribed by the author on half-title, "A T. S. Eliot avec l'admiration constante de Georges Cattaui". In 1936 Cattaui translated "Journey of the Magi" and "The Hollow Men" for publication in Mesures and was in correspondence with Eliot during this process. In... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 116647
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ELIOT, T. S. "Goethe as the Sage"Hamburg : [1955]
First edition, first impression; 1200 copies printed. Presentation copy, inscribed on the top front cover "to Julie Malman with most cordial good wishes T. S. Eliot." Booklet issued on the presentation of the Hanseatic Goethe Prize awarded to Eliot. An important essay and rare in presentation state. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 41409
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ELIOT, T. S., & seven others. Andrew Marvell 1621-1678: Tercentenary Tributes.London : 1922
First edition, first impression, of this collection of essays on the metaphysical poet which includes T. S. Eliot's "Andrew Marvell", which first appeared in the Times Literary Supplement the previous year. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 100523
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ELIOT, T. S. Poems 1909-1925.London : 1925
First edition, first impression, scarce in the jacket. The collection selects from Prufrock (1917), Poems (1920), and also prints The Waste Land (1922, here including for the first time the dedication to Ezra Pound as "il miglior fabbro") and The Hollow Men, for which this is the first appearance.
Some literary manuscript and typescript material... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 137380
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ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets.London : 1960
First Bodoni edition, number 87 of 290 copies signed by the poet. A magnificent piece of book production executed in Verona under the direction of Giovanni Mardersteig, the greatest printer of the 20th century. Learn More£4,000.00Stock Code: 136811
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ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets.London : 1960
First Bodoni edition, number 250 of 290 copies signed by the poet. A magnificent piece of book production executed in Verona under the direction of Giovanni Mardersteig, the greatest printer of the 20th century. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 137131
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ELIOT, T. S. The Elder Statesman.London : 1959
First edition thus of Eliot's play, first produced at the Edinburgh Festival 1958. The green jacket of the present copy is for Gallup an early-issue point; later copies would come in a thinner, grey jacket. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 97871
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ELIOT, T. S. Four Quartets.New York : 1943
First collected edition, first printing, one of 788 copies with the slug "first American edition" to the verso of the title page. Two printings were produced prior to publication. The first printing constituted 4,165 copies, but the poor quality of the printing led to the publisher destroying all but 788 copies, which were sent out to retain copyright.... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 137055
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ELIOT, T. S. The Confidential Clerk.London : 1954
First edition, first impression, presentation copy to the French novelist and playwright Georges Duhamel, inscribed by the author a month after publication on the front free endpaper: "à Monsieur Georges Duhamel en hommage à l'ecrivain et l'homme de la part de T. S. Eliot 8.4.54". Duhamel had served as a surgeon during the First World War and his... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 130104
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ELIOT, T. S. Religious Drama: Mediaeval and Modern.New York : 1954
First edition, first impression, number 49 of 300 copies signed by the author. This work presents the text of an address Eliot gave to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral in 1937. This copy is from the library of author William Vincent Sieller, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 131428
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ELIOT, T. S. Ara Vus Prec.London : 1919
First edition, number 118 of 220 numbered copies from a total edition of 264 (the remainder of the edition comprising signed, japon-printed, and review copies). The earliest copies issued were in a binding with paper-covered boards, with this binding of cloth-covered boards following. This was Eliot's third book of poetry. The title of the book was... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 135422
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ELIOT, T. S. The Waste Land.New York : 1922
First edition in book form, first printing, first issue with all the points, number 325 of 1,000 copies. The Waste Land - arguably the most significant poem of the 20th century - was first published in The Criterion magazine earlier that year; this marks its first separate publication. This copy has both flaps of the rare dust jacket preserved, loosely... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 145211
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ELIOT, T. S. [Four Quartets:] East Coker; The Dry Salvages; Burnt Norton; Little Gidding.London : 1940-41
First edition, first impression, of each of the separately published Four Quartets, except East Coker, which is the third (first Faber) edition as usual, preceded by the two New English Weekly Supplement printings of that poem alone. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 122874
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ELIOT, T. S. The Cocktail Party.London : 1950
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the title page, with his printed name struck through. The Cocktail Party was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival from 22 to 27 August 1949. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 128719
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ELIOT, T. S. The Confidential Clerk.London : 1954
First edition, first impression. The Confidential Clerk was first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in August 1953, and was published in March 1954. This copy is the first issue with "Ihad" uncorrected on page 7. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 144494
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ELIOT, George. The Works.Edinburgh & London : [c.1880]
The Cabinet edition. This handsome set includes Eliot's seven novels and other literary works including, The Spanish Gypsy and Scenes of Clerical Life. Four volumes, which include the Life of George Eliot, were published later for the Cabinet Edition, but are not present in this set.
Eliot's novels were popular for their political views and... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 138206
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ELIOT, George. Autograph letter signed ("M. E. Lewes") to Anne Thackeray.London : 1872
George Eliot invites William Makepeace Thackeray's eldest daughter to one of her famous literary "at homes". The short letter, dated 16 January 1872, reads: "My dear Miss Thackeray, I shall be at home at 4 o'clock on Thursday, & shall be delighted to see you, & Mrs Sartoris, whom I seem already to know a little 'in the spirit'. Yours always truly, M... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 139465
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ELIOT, T.S. The Four Quartets.London : 1944
First UK edition, First impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 125440
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ELIOT, George. Felix Holt.Edinburgh & London : 1866
First edition, in Carter's binding style "A", the earliest. Set in the familiar midland countryside of Eliot's early novels, Felix Holt deals with the upheavals of society at the time of the first Reform Act of 1832, anticipating the election scenes in her next novel, Middlemarch. The work was well-received commercially and "nearly 5,000 copies were... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 128681
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ELIOT, George. [Novels.] A New Edition.Edinburgh and London : [c.1890]
An attractively bound set of Eliot's works, including all seven novels. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 144212
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ELIOT, George. Impressions of Theophrastus Such.Edinburgh & London : 1879
First edition of the author's last published work. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 124483
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ELIOT, George. The Works.Boston & New York : [c.1890].
A handsomely bound set of Eliot's works. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 114156
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ELIOT, George. The Works.Edinburgh and London : c.1890
Standard edition. An attractive set of Eliot's works. Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 134293
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ELIOT, George. Daniel Deronda.Edinburgh & London : 1876
First edition, in the original parts, of Eliot's last completed novel. With the errata slip in parts 3 and 6; parts 1 to 7 with a slip advertising the next instalment.
"While creating once more a panorama of social classes and opinion and showing how individuals interact at times of social change, this novel spreads its net even wider than its... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 143069
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ELIOT, George. The Novels.Edinburgh and London : c.1900
New edition. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 145187
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BRADLEY, Francis Herbert. Appearance and Reality.London : 1893
First edition of Bradley's most important work, a major text of British idealism.
"Appearance and Reality is divided into two books. The first, 'Appearance', is brief, and its aim destructive, arguing that 'the ideas by which we try to understand the universe' all bring us ultimately to contradictions when we try to think out their implications.... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 144676
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WOOLF, Virginia. Autograph letter signed to T. S. Eliot.Hogarth House, Paradise Road, Richmond, Surrey : Sunday [?12 November 1922]
An exceptional letter connecting two of the key figures of the English modernist movement, here in their capacity as publisher/editors in the annus mirabilis of modernist publishing. Virginia Woolf writes to T. S. Eliot, addressing him familiarly as "Tom", on Hogarth House stationery towards the end of 1922, the year in which the Woolfs began to run... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 126655
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JONES, David. In Parenthesis.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, of David Jones's epic poetic memoir, tackling the trauma of his trench experiences in the First World War after his breakdown from shell-shock in 1932. In Parenthesis won Jones the Hawthornden Prize and the praise of such writers as W. H. Auden, who considered it "a masterpiece" in which Jones did "for the British and... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125671
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BOWLES, Jane. In the Summer House.New York : 1954
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "I love you very much - and you are very very bright - I wish that I was like you Janie". From the library of the academic and teacher Dr William ("Woods") Shelton Gray, Jr (1926-1993) who was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and received his PhD from... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 124248
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JONES, David. In Parenthesis.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, of David Jones's epic poetic memoir, tackling the trauma of his trench experiences in the First World War after his breakdown from shell-shock in 1932. In Parenthesis won Jones the Hawthornden Prize and the praise of such writers as W. H. Auden, who considered it "a masterpiece" in which Jones did "for the British and... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 124934
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WILSON, Edmund. Axel's Castle.New York and London : 1931
First edition, first printing (Scribner's "A"), scarce in the jacket. Axel's Castle, which is numbered among Connolly's 100 Books of the Modern Movement, was an influential study on the roots of Modernism in the Symbolist Movement, with chapters on W. B. Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Proust, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Rimbaud. The title relates... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 143829
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SPANISH CIVIL WAR. Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, collecting the responses of 148 authors to the following questions issued by the poet and activist Nancy Cunard: "Are you for, or against, the legal Government and the People of Republican Spain? Are you for, or against, Franco and Fascism?"
The clear majority of literary figures take the side of the Republican... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 146467
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MURRAY, A. S. The Sculptures of the Parthenon.London : 1903
First edition, first impression, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on a preliminary blank, "To Miss Elinor S. Lewes, from the author, with my best wishes, A. S. Murray, 19th March 1903"; inscribed beneath, "This book was specially completed and bound for us before publication and given us by the author and Mrs Murray as a wedding present.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 134488
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, in the first issue dust jacket with the T. S. Eliot review to the front flap. Tender is the Night was Fitzgerald's fourth novel, appearing some nine years after The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald set out to write an important and in many ways revolutionary work of fiction. Structurally complex, topically dangerous and personally... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 124269
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EVANS, Walker (illus.); CRANE, Hart. The BridgeParis : 1930
First edition, first impression, one of 200 copies on Holland Paper from a total limited edition of 284 copies. The Bridge was Crane's only attempt at a long poem, inspired by his view of the Brooklyn Bridge from his apartment in Columbia Heights, and includes three plates from photographs of the bridge by his friend Walker Evans. Harold Bloom praised... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 83569
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GOLL, Ivan. Lucifer Vieillissant.Paris : 1934
First edition in French, first printing, presentation copy inscribed on the half-title to the Amazon of Paris, Natalie Clifford Barney, "à Miss Barney ce testament d'un 'individu' en grande admiration. Ivan Goll". This is a press review copy, with "S.P." (service de presse) on the spine. Lucifer Vieillissant was first published in German as Die Eurokokke... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 146077
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RODKER, John. Hymns.London : 1920
First edition, number 8 of 15 copies printed on Japan Vellum and signed by Rodker, from a total edition of 190 copies. This is the rarest and most deluxe issue of these modernist poems, which constitute Rodker's second collection, printed by Rodker himself at his own Ovid Press, with woodcut initials by Edward Wadsworth. The last time a copy of this... Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 142357
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BARNEY, Natalie Clifford (her copy); ROUVEYRE, André (illus.) Mort de l'Amour.Paris : 1911
First and only edition, inscribed on the half-title to the Amazon of Paris "à Natalie Clifford Barney, imperturbable, André Rouveyre"; number 928 of 1000 copies on papier d'Arches, from an edition limited to 1010 copies only. Rouveyre seems to have been liberal with his inscriptions, but this is a superb Parisian association.
The Paris-based... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 145003
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GOURMONT, Remy de. Lettres à l'Amazone.Paris : 30 March 1914
First edition, first printing, copy 112 of 112 copies on papier vergé chartreuse, from an edition of 1,075 copies in total. This copy, with the original chartreuse wrappers bound in, has been handsomely bound by Cochard. Gourmont's "Letters to the Amazon" are the result of the symbolist poet, who had been stricken and disfigured by lupus vulgaris,... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 117966
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SAROYAN, William. Dear Baby.New York : 1944
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front and rear free endpapers to the winner of a charity auction, and signed on the title page. The inscription reads: "This book is inscribed to the winner of the auction; the book appears to have been donated by my friend Red; I am donating only this scribbling, which I am glad to do as... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 101768
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SAND, George. Les Maitres sonneurs.Paris : 1853
First edition of the first two books of the four-book novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title to her friend Henry Harrisse: "a mon ami Henry Harrisse G. Sand"; together with Harrisse's ownership signature on the verso of the front free endpaper, and with his gilt initials "HH" on the spine. The American historian and man... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 131728
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HOCKNEY, David; Stephen Spender (ed.) Hockney's Alphabet.London : 1991
First edition, deluxe signed limited issue, number 15 of 300 copies bound in quarter vellum and signed by the editor, artist, and 22 of the 27 contributors: Doris Lessing, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, William Golding, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nigel Nicolson, Seamus Heaney, Douglas Adams, Julian Barnes, Craig Raine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Iris... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 142480
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HOCKNEY, David; Stephen Spender (ed.) Hockney's Alphabet.London : 1991
First edition, signed limited issue, specially bound in yellow buckram and signed by Hockney and Spender in blue and red ink respectively. This work was a collaborative effort created to raise money for the AIDS Crisis Trust. Spender invited several British and American writers to contribute with texts that could accompany Hockney's specially drawn... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 134073
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SPENDER, Stephen. Twenty Poems.Oxford : [1930]
First edition, limited issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second blank, "To Elizabeth, with love from Stephen. June 11th". From a total edition of 135 copies, of which 75 copies were numbered and signed. This, the author's second book, was published while Spender was a student at Oxford: it was well received and prompted T. S.... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 140052
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HOCKNEY, David; Stephen Spender (ed.) Hockney's Alphabet.London : 1991
First edition, deluxe signed limited issue, number 101 of 300 copies bound in quarter vellum and signed by Spender, Hockney, and 22 of the 27 contributors: Doris Lessing, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Martin Amis, William Golding, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nigel Nicolson, Seamus Heaney, Douglas Adams, Julian Barnes, Craig Raine, Kazuo Ishiguro, Iris Murdoch,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 145560
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OSWALD, Alice. Dart.London : 2002
First edition, first impression, presentation copy to her fellow poet Pat Borthwick, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Pat love from Alice O. Ledbury 2009". Oswald's book-length poem, winner of the 2002 T. S. Eliot Prize, documents the River Dart in Devon over three years. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 142589
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POUND, Ezra. Imaginary Letters.Paris : 1930
First edition, first printing, deluxe signed limited issue, number 46 of 50 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the author. There were also 350 ordinary copies issued unsigned on Navarre, and 25 hors commerce. Imaginary Letters is one of the exquisitely produced books put out by the Black Sun Press, founded by the wild and wealthy avante-garde... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 133236
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LAWRENCE, T. E. The Mint.Garden City, New York : 1936
True first edition, one of an edition of just 50 copies published to establish copyright, only 10 of which were for sale, priced at 500,000 this numbered 10 (U.K.) "One of Lawrence's avowed purposes in joining the RAF was to write of the ranks from the inside. He began immediately making notes when he enlisted in 1922. With his dismissal in January... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 80429
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MORISON, Samuel Eliot. The Oxford History of the American People.New York : 1965
First edition, second printing. A handsomely bound copy. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 138222
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BENTLEY, Nicolas. Robert Speight.c. 1962
The actor Robert Speight wrote books on acting and specialized in recordings of poetry, notably T. S. Eliot's Waste Land. In 1962 he led the cast (with Margaretta Scott, Prunella Scales, Frank Duncan, The Marlowe Dramatic Society) in a recording of Shakespeare's King Henry VIII. The cartoons and illustrations of Nicolas Bentley (1907-1978) were part... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 67095
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STEVENS, Wallace. Ideas of Order.New York : 1935
First and limited edition, signed by Stevens; this one of just 10 copies for review and marked "out of series", from a total edition of 165.
An excellent association copy: with the pencilled ownership inscription of F. O. Matthiessen on the front free endpaper and some pencilled underlings and occasional marginal notation. F. O. Matthiessen... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 72150
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THEATRE. The Living Theatre. Stein. Picasso. Eliot.[New York : 1951]
A very scarce program booklet for the 1951-2 season of the Living Theatre, one of America's premier experimental theatre groups, at their first permanent performance space, Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, advertising Gertrude Stein's "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" and "Ladies' Voices", Pablo Picasso's "Desire", T. S. Eliot's "Sweeney Agonistes",... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 132632
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HORACE. Q. Horatii Flacci, quae supersunt, recensuit et notulis instruxit Gilbertus Wakefield.London : 1794
A striking copy of Horace's works, in the original Latin, "a very elegant and correct edition" (Dibdin). With the booklabel to the front doublures of literary journalist and author Charles Whibley (1859-1930), on whose recommendation T. S. Eliot was appointed to the editorship of Faber and Gwyer. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 146814
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CRAWSHAY-WILLIAMS, Eliot. Night in the Hotel.London : 1931
First edition, first impression. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 108700
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PORTER, Eliot. Portfolio One. The Seasons.San Francisco : 1963
First edition, first printing, of this fine suite of colour nature photographs. "As its name implies, the dye transfer process literally involves transferring dyes (cyan, magenta, and yellow) in succession and in careful registration onto a sheet of gelatin-coated paper. Porter remained committed to the dye-transfer process, both before and after the... Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 120669
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YEATS, W. B. Autograph letter signed to William Force Stead.Riversdale, Willbrook, Rathfarnham, Dublin : 26 September [1934]
A fascinating letter written by Yeats to his friend William Force Stead (1884-1967), expounding the symbolic meanings in the ring that Yeats had had made for him by Edmund Dulac.
Stead was an American-born poet, literary scholar, and Anglican clergyman, who studied at Oxford and then became chaplain and fellow at Worcester College from 1926 to... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 123152
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BELL, Clive. Ad Familiares.London : 1917
First edition, sole printing, one of about 50 copies printed for private distribution, presentation copy to Bloomsbury Group affiliate, Lady Ottoline Morrell, incorporating the first printed word at the start of the text "Dear Ottoline".
Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), an aristocrat and society hostess, who counted in her artistic and intellectual... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 145465
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INDIANA, Robert. Robert IndianaPhiladelphia : 1968
First edition, first printing. Edition of 2500 copies. Inscribed in blue felt tip on the front free endpaper by Indiana "*Vinalhaven*, for, Elin, on her island, love, for sharing it, Bob, 12 VIII 69". Indiana has also drawn round his hand on the colophon page and inscribed "For, Elin, too, for, the sea, the sun, a season on her island, love, B In, 12... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 94247
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HOLBEIN, Hans. The Lady Eliot.1792
Conrad Martin Metz was an eminent engraver in the chalk manner and aquatint. He received his education in art under the celebrated Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 55761
