Search results for: 'the works'
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THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. The Sporting Magazine.London : 1793-1870 & 1892
First editions of the first periodical devoted to general sportsmanship, The Sporting Magazine, issued from 1793 until 1870. This complete collection provides an invaluable resource, reflecting the changes in society and attitudes across the turn of the century, and placing them in relation to the pastimes and sports of British society. Each volume... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 128768
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SCOTT, Sir Walter and others. The Cambridge Edition of the Poets.Boston and New York : [1900]
A handsomely bound set with works by Byron, Shelly, Wordsworth and Keats. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 114133
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(MOORE, Henry.) GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von, & André Gide (trans.) Prométhée.Paris : 1950-51
First and limited edition of Moore's first lithographic portfolio, this copy marked "H.C." (hors de commerce) and initialled by the publisher P. A. Nicaise, perhaps one of the copies réservées à des collaborateurs (reserved for collaborators); the edition was limited to 183 copies on vélin de chiffon à la forme des Papeteries du Marais.... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 135517
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MCGONAGALL, Sir William Topaz, Poet, Knight of the White Elephant, Burmah. Beautiful Oban.Edinburgh, No. 21 Lothian Street : [1894-1902]
Very scarce broadside poem by the "World's Worst Poet", William McGonagall (1825-1902), signed at the head, "Sir. Wm. Topaz. McGonagall. Poet". Gord Bambrick in "The Real McGonagall" acknowledges that "William McGonagall is best known as the world's worst poet. His unique style of versification breaks the laws of rhythm, rhyme and common sense in a... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 117956
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MESENS, Édouard Léon Théodore. Troisième Front.London : 1944
First UK edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed on the half-title "A mon vieil ami Jacques Bernard Brunius, 'Nous avons mis vingt ans trente ans, A vivre avec ingénuité, Force et ingéniosité...' En toute affection, E. L. T. Mesens. 9 Avril 1944". This bilingual publication, with French and English facing texts, is number 8 of 500... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 140447
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ELIZABETH, Princess of the United Kingdom. Cupid Turned Volunteer.London : 1804
First edition, signed by "Elizabeth" on the half-title. Published at the height of the Georgian volunteer movement for the war against Napoleon, this book contains a series of engraving based on drawings by Princess Elizabeth, daughter of George III, showing cupid training to fight the French. Each picture depicting scenes of "Genius, Loyalty, and Patriotism"... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 129967
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.London : 1937-39
The Sussex Edition, number 101 of a limited edition of 525 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of vol. I. In his last years and with his health failing Kipling continued the gathering-up of existing material that resulted in "the great retrospective work... the Sussex Edition of his works, undertaken by Macmillan as a monument to one of... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 130733
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KEATS, John. The Poetical Works.London : 1854
A lovely copy of the first edition of Keats's poetical works with the memoir by Victorian poet and politician Richard Monckton Milnes, author of "Life and Letters of Keats" (1848). Edward Moxon, himself also a poet, was well known for his scholarly editions of Romantic and Victorian poetry. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 143618
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COTTON, Charles. The Genuine Poetical Works;London : 1741
Fourth collected edition of Cotton's poetical works (first 1715), with his burlesque, often scatological verse conjoined with suitably licentious plates. Cotton's works were popular in the period, undergoing many editions. "Cotton's later reputation has had its vicissitudes. In the eighteenth century he was renowned for burlesque and his lyrical poetry... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 136198
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ACKROYD, Peter; Kevin Stratford; Graham Walker. The Works.No place : [c. 1970]-71-73
First editions, first impressions, of these three early Ackroyd publications.
The Works is Ackroyd's first appearance in print, Ouch is his first solo publication, and London Lickpenny, one of 500 copies only, was his second solo publication. All three works come from the library of Martin S. Golding, librarian and... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140689
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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works.London : 1832-3
An attractive library set of Byron's works, complete with the three Don Juan volumes added to the edition, including all his poems and plays, letters and journals, and the Life by his friend Thomas Moore. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 127332
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Poetical Works.London : 1839
First collected edition, highly desirable in a contemporary binding in such nice condition. Mary Shelley's collected edition of her husband's poetical works established Shelley finally and irreversibly amongst the great poets of the English language. Pirate editions of Shelley's works had persuaded his father, Sir Timothy, that all hope of obscurity... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 140275
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BURNS, Robert. The Works.Edinburgh : 1877-9
First William Scott Douglas edition, a very fine edition, well printed on superior paper, and here abundantly extra-illustrated. The edition is described by ODNB as a "splendid, six-volume library edition. The poems in this edition are arranged chronologically, and while it was the most sumptuous yet published it was also the most complete and correct... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 139102
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Works.London : 1884 & 1893
An attractive early set of Tennyson's works in a Zaehnsdorf exhibition binding. Collected editions of Tennyson's works began to appear in 1870; the canonical complete works was published in the 1907 to 1908 Eversley edition, edited by the author's son Hallam. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 139099
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BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord. The Works.Paris : 1831
An elegantly bound copy of Byron's poetical works. The French binder Joseph Thouvenin (17901834) was well-known for producing bindings in an "historical" style.
Galignani's Paris editions of the English poets were piracies (he also pirated Crabbe, Hazlitt, Washington Irving, Thomas Moore, Walter Scott, and Southey among others), but carefully... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 140256
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POPE, Alexander. The Works.London : 1770
A highly attractive set of Alexander Pope's writings. Before his death Pope began the task of bringing together and editing his collected works, with his friend William Warburton finishing the project and seeing it through the press in 1751. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 126010
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SPENSER, Edmund. The Works.London : 1852
A very attractively bound copy of Edmund Spenser's works including the whole of the Faerie Queene, The Shepheard's Calender, Prothalamion, Epithalamion, Amoretti and his prose View of the State of Ireland. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 88814
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POPE, Alexander. The Works.London : 1835
First edition thus, with Croly's memoir and notes, of Pope's works. This attractive set is from the library of the philosopher and writer Alan W. Watts (19151973), each volume with his self-designed esoterically illustrated bookplate, including the biblical motto "pulsate et aperietur vobis" ("knock, and it shall be opened to you"). Watts was a highly... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 134475
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KEATS, John. The Poetical Works and Other Writings.New York : 1938
The Hampstead edition, the best collected edition of Keats's works and a very handsomely bound set. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 68671
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. The Works in Verse and Prose.London : 1880
First edition thus, bringing together Buxton Forman's 1876-7 edition of Shelley's Poetical works and his 1880 edition of Shelley's Prose works. Buxton Forman, the notorious bibliographical forger, nevertheless "produced impressive editions of Shelley and Keats... by channelling a general enthusiasm into a minute study of textual details, for which his... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 130740
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KELMSCOTT PRESS: CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works.London : 1974
Limited edition, one of 515 copies. A superb copy of the Basilisk Press facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer, the second volume providing insight into the Press, the work, and its illustrations. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 135767
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ROSENBERG, Isaac. The Collected Works.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, with the rare dust jacket. "Rosenberg's poems from the front show him to have absorbed the great tradition of English pastoral poetry, but his tone is different: more impersonal, informal, ironic, and lacking the indignation characteristic of the work of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon", who provides the foreword... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 134117
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ROSENBERG, Isaac. The Collected Works.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, scarce, with an exceptional example of the rare dust jacket. This is the first collected edition of the Jewish poet Isaac Rosenberg, who was killed on the Western Front in 1918.
"Rosenberg's poems from the front show him to have absorbed the great tradition of English pastoral poetry, but his tone is different:... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 143560
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DARWIN, Erasmus. The Poetical Works.London : 1806
First edition of this posthumous collection placing Darwin's exuberant and eccentric inquiry into the Linnaean system in rhyming couplets alongside his poetic speculations on evolution, the whole much enlivened by numerous plates including a number by Blake and Fuseli. A wide-margined, ?large paper copy in a handsome Regency binding from the library... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 141677
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MILTON, John. The Poetical Works.London : 1809
Second Todd edition, here "with considerable additions", following the first of 1801, the major revision being to the "thorough biographical study of Milton" (ODNB) that appears in volume I. Todd's edition was the standard text for fifty years. A handsomely bound set. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 137760
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JOHNSON, Samuel. The Works of the English Poets.London : 1790
Second edition, with 14 authors, including Johnson himself, added to the original selection of 1779-81. The ultimate literary success of Johnson's career, the prefaces written to append the vast collection of English poetry were quickly recognized as setting a new standard for English literary biography. "In particular, the surveys of Cowley, Milton,... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 140493
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ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. The Collected Works.London : 1886
First edition, large paper issue, one of 25 copies only on handmade paper and bound in four parts. With a pencilled note on the front free endpaper dated March 1887 stating this to have been the first set delivered to the publishers and given by one of them - Albert Ellis - to the writer of the note. It was published simultaneously with the trade edition.... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 118716
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BROWNING, Robert. Selections from the Poetical Works.London : 1887
An appealingly bound copy of Browning's poetry, published two years before the poet's death, when he was at the height of his fame. The collection gathers many of his best-known poems from across his career. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 142591
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SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works.Edinburgh : 1821
Second collected edition of Scott's poetical works. A handsomely bound library set. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 120438
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JOHNSON, Samuel, ed. The Works of the English Poets.London : 1779-1780
A superb set of this vast compendium of English poetry, here uniformly bound in an elegant contemporary French morocco binding. The set is complete in 68 volumes, with the 56 poetry volumes, two volumes of index, and the further ten volumes of Johnson's biographies of the poets, published separately and not always accompanying the set. This was the... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 138778
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LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth. The Poetical Works.London : [c.1890]
A highly attractive copy of Longfellow's poetry, in a superb binding, anonymous though very much in the Sangorski & Sutcliffe style with elaborate use of coloured morocco inlay to a floral pattern. Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 143687
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LYTTELTON, George, Lord. The Works.London : 1776
Third and best octavo edition (with the index), first published in 1774 and gathering various political pieces, Lyttelton's "Letters from a Persian in England to his friend in Ispahan", his very popular Dialogues of the Dead, co-written with the bluestocking Elizabeth Montagu, a smattering of poems, and a collection of letters to his father Sir Thomas... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 116436
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Works.London : 1888-91
A particularly handsome set of Tennyson's works. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 135222
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CONGREVE, William. The Works.London : 1753
A collection of reissues of plays and poems by the author, including The Old Batchelor, The Double-dealer, The Way of the World, The Mourning-bride, and Love for Love. All were first performed and published from 1693 to 1700.
With the bookplate of Sir Joshua Vanneck (17021777), 1st Baronet, of Putney, Surrey, to the front pastedown... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 138561
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ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel. The Collected Works.London : 1897
A handsome copy in the preferred morocco binding, the gilt blocking reusing Rossetti's famous designs for his own collections of 1870 and 1881. This edition was first published by Ellis and Scrutton, 1886. Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 39211
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POPE, Alexander. The Works.Basel : 1803
An attractive set with an interestingly complex continental history, printed by the Swiss piratical publisher J. J. Tourneisen, bound in Italy, and thereafter in the "British Library" in Malaga, with their stamps to endpapers. Tourneisen, free from the restraints of British copyright law, printed numerous British authors including Addison, Adam Smith,... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 131574
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YEATS, W. B. The Collected Works in Verse And Prose.London : 1908
First collected edition, one of 250 first issues sets in the deluxe quarter vellum binding, with the Chapman & Hall imprint on the spines and title pages, from a total edition of 1,060 sets printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. As a production, this collected edition is regarded as a marvellous piece of publishing (Yeats himself was proud of it, remarking,... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 114925
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MARLOWE, Christopher. The Works and Life.London : 1930-33
First edition, first impression, of this important collected edition, for some time the standard version of Marlowe's plays; scarce complete, and especially so in the dust jackets.
Provenance: neat ownership inscriptions to front pastedowns of Norman C. Stevenson (dated 1955), alongside his discreet book label (incorporating Picasso's portrait... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 135886
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats.Paris : 1829
First edition of the first anthology of the Romantic writers, also comprising the first collected edition of the poems of John Keats. Each poet is prefaced with a memoir, that of Shelley incorporating Mary Shelley's preface to his Posthumous Poems. Galignani's Paris editions of the English poets were piracies (he also pirated Crabbe, Hazlitt, Washington... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 136066
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WALEY, Arthur. Further poems by Po Chu-I, and an extract from his prose works, together with two other T'ang poems.[London] : [1918]
A rare offprint, Library Hub records only one copy in British and Irish institutional libraries (Oxford); WorldCat adds 2 locations at University of California. David Garnett's copy, inscribed at the head of page 96: "David Garnett, May 1919". An appealing Bloomsbury Group association copy, Garnett later included Waley in Great Friends: Portraits of... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 103471
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works. In Prose and Verse with Preface and Notes.New York : 1920
The Anniversary edition. Limited to 1250 sets of which this is number 146. This edition was issued as a celebration of Hardy's 80th year. Unusual in a contemporary binding. Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 17846
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PATCHEN, Kenneth & Charles Mingus. The Living Theatre Presents - The Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop with Kenneth Patchen.New York : 1959
"In the last two weeks of March 1959, the jazz bassist Charlie Mingus and the beat poet Kenneth Patchen performed on stage together at the Living Theatre in New York City. Mingus and his band improvised to jazz themes at the back, while Patchen read simultaneously from his poetry at the front. The Patchen/Mingus performances marked the climax of the... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 130511
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![The Book of Ruth; [with] KEATS, John. Isabella; or, The pot of basil. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/0/103660.jpg)
MACDOUGALL, William Brown. The Book of Ruth; [with] KEATS, John. Isabella; or, The pot of basil. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1898London : 1896 & 1898
First edition thus of both works. These attractive examples of 1890s book production have striking designs by the Scottish artist and illustrator William Brown Macdougall (1868-1936), a member of the prestigious New English Art Club. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 103660
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FREEMAN, Kathleen. The Work and Life of Solon.Cardiff : 1926
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy of the author's first book, inscribed by the author to her long-term partner, at the very start of their acquaintance, on the front free endpaper, "Lilian M.C. Clopet, from Kathleen Freeman July 14th, 1926". This work, "considered essential reading", is uncommonly found in the jacket or inscribed, this... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 142281
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![Miscellaneous Poems; [together with:] Advice to a Painter; [and:] Second Advice to the Painter.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/130819_1.jpg)
MARVELL, Andrew. Miscellaneous Poems; [together with:] Advice to a Painter; [and:] Second Advice to the Painter.London : 1681; [1679; 1679?]
First edition of all three works. Miscellaneous Poems includes the first printing of "To his Coy Mistress" and "The Garden". Published a couple of years after Marvell's death, the volume made his poetic talents known to a general readership who would have known him, if at all, only from his commendatory verses to the second edition (1674) of Milton's... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 130819
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![What is the Truth? [Together with:] A March Calf.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/2/125811comp.jpg)
HUGHES, Ted. What is the Truth? [Together with:] A March Calf.London : 1995
First editions, first impressions, paperback issues. Dedication copies, both inscribed on the front free endpaper to the author's sister Olwyn Hughes: "For Olwyn with love Ted October 1995". Olwyn and Gerald, Hughes's brother, shared the dedication of the four Animal Poems books, with these two books being vols. II and III. Hughes was very close to... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 125811
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LINDSAY, [Nicholas] Vachel. Group of three inscribed works.New York : 1914-1920
First editions, except The Chinese Nightingale, 1919 (first published 1917). Uniformly bound for Thomas Rénaud Rutter, and each signed and inscribed by Lindsay on the first blanks: the first to Renaud's mother, Mrs. Louise Warren Rutter, with her bookplate to verso of the front free endpaper facing; the second with "My most fraternal good wishes to... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 115267
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BROOKE, Rupert. Works.London : 1916-8
First UK editions, first impressions. An attractively bound set of Brooke's works:
i) John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama first written by Brooke in 1911-2 for the fellowship at King's College, Cambridge, John Webster was first published in the US four days before its UK publication.
ii) Letters from America the first US edition... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 121533
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BROOKE, Rupert. The Poetical Works.London : 1959
Handsomely bound copy of Brooke's poetry. Ninth impression of this edition, first published in 1946. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 140505
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SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works.Edinburgh : 1868
An attractively bound set. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 134431
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. The Life and Works.London : 1898-99
Edition de Luxe, one of 1,050 sets. A particularly handsome set. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 134062
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KEATS, John. The Poetical Works.London : 1940
An attractive copy of Keats's poems. Learn More£185.00Stock Code: 144121
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(BROOKE, Rupert.) Rupert Brooke: fragments now first collected some being hitherto unpublished.Hartford : 1925
First edition, number 67 of 99 copies, of this collection of Brooke's fragmentary works. The collection mostly comprises verses written by Brooke into books that subsequently fell into the publisher's hands, "the publication was not authorized by Mrs. Brook" (Keynes). Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 129591
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GINSBERG, Allen. Howl and other poems.San Francisco : 1956
First published edition, first printing, with the spelling "Lucien Carr" in the dedication, and the eighth line of the second paragraph on the rear cover beginning "Harlem". This copy is from the library of contemporary San Francisco poet Jean McLean, and has a calligraphic ownership inscription reading "Jean and Jo Mclean" to p. 4. Jean McLean's work... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 133699
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HUGHES, Ted (inscr.); SHAKESPEARE, William. The Essential Shakespeare.Hopewell, New Jersey : 1991
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy to the author's sister Olwyn Hughes, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Olwyn love Ted 9th March 1992". Hughes was very close to his sister Olwyn. After Plath's suicide in 1963 Olwyn helped to bring up their children, became her brother's literary agent, established the Rainbow Press with Ted... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 143416
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MACARTNEY, Frederick T. Collection of ten works.1912-58
A remarkable collection of scarce works by influential Australian poet and critic Frederick T. Macartney (1887-1980), four of which signed, all in notably bright condition.
Macartney was a noted critic across the early 20th century. He "valued his poetry far above his other literary endeavours and was a craftsman, ranging diversely from philosophy... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 142582
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. Original drawing: the Prophet Almustafa.1923 or after
Original drawing by the author, a version of the same image that was used as the frontispiece to The Prophet. It is evidently an idealized portrait of Gibran himself. Several versions are known; this example was a gift to Barbara Young, his last companion and assistant, author of a biography of Gibran.
Gibran (1883-1931) emigrated from Lebanon... Learn More£100,000.00Stock Code: 130660
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HOOD, Thomas (ed.) The Pledge of Friendship:London : [1825]
First edition of this gift book, which includes many works by Lord Byron, the abolitionist John Bicknell and extracts from contemporary travel books, such as "A Coffee House at Sarabuse described". Completing the work is an illustrated memoranda for 1826, listing important events which took place on certain days in each month. The Pledge of Friendship... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 123843
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MADÁCH, Imre. Az Ember Tragédiája. Drámai költemény. (The Tragedy of Man. A dramatic poem).Pest : 1861
Rare first edition of Madách's most important work, The Tragedy of Man, a dramatic poem that evokes comparisons with Milton's Paradise Lost. Considered one of the major works of Hungarian literature, the play is one of the most often staged Hungarian plays today.
"It would seem that the main external sources of inspiration were Byron... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 142746
