Search results for: 'gallery'
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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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WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3.London : 1898
First and limited edition, one of 800 unnumbered copies printed on handmade paper; 30 copies were issued on japon. Wilde published this work under the pseudonym "C.3.3." after his cell in Reading Gaol (cell 3 on the third landing of Gallery C). The first edition sold out rapidly, and a second edition was printed within weeks. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 146094
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FILLIOU, Robert. Longs poemes courts a terminer chez soi.Bruxelles Hamburg : 1984
First edition, one of 500 sets printed and now scarce, with only two recorded at auction. Filliou's text on the folder states that the postcards were issued in memory of Danish artist Arthur "Addi" Kopke (1928-1977), at whose gallery these poems were originally exhibited during his 1961 residence in Copenhagen with his wife Marianne.
These postcard... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 143553
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OLIVER, Mary, & Molly Malone Cook. Our World.Boston : 2007
First edition, first impression, signed by Oliver on the rear free endpaper. Published two years after the death of Oliver's partner, Molly Malone Cook, in 2005, Our World brings together Cook's photography and Oliver's poems and prose in "an intimate revelation of their lives and art" (front flap).
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) is best remembered... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 147538
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WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. By C.3.3.London : 1899
Leonard Smithers's pirated edition, with Wilde's name in square brackets to the title page, and line 17 on page 15 printed as: "And loud they sang, and loud they sang", as in his last authorized edition of 1899. Wilde published this work under the pseudonym "C.3.3." after his cell in Reading Gaol (cell 3 on the third landing of Gallery C).
The... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 144053
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WILDE, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol.London : 1898
First and limited edition, number 6 of 30 copies printed on japon. Wilde was in France at the time of publication, and the limitation notice was written in purple ink by Smithers. Even though the limited edition was intended for presentation, Wilde personally inscribed only a handful of copies. A further 800 unnumbered copies printed on handmade paper... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 143981
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GWYNNE, Horace, pseud. of James Augustus St John. Abdallah; an Oriental Poem: in Three Cantos.London : 1824
First and sole edition of this very scarce collection of verse by the flourishingly named James Augustus St John, born James John (1795-1875), the son of a shoemaker, in what would become Dylan's Thomas stamping ground of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. Abdallah is an interesting contribution to the Romantic oriental verse epic, a form popularisd by Tom... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 141341
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HEALY, Dermot. [Works.]Old Castle : 1992-98-2001-10
First editions, first impressions, presentation copies. Each copy is inscribed by the author on the title page to book collector Philip Murray. The Ballyconnel Colours is also signed by McSweeney and contains a postcard from Dermot Healy to Murray tipped-in, "Am at the address below for a few weeks, Dermot Healy x Did not know in time to let you know."
... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 122110
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PENROSE, Roland. The Road is Wider Than Long.London : 1939
First and limited edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to French actor and writer Jacques B. Brunius (1906-1967) on the half-title, "à Brunius mon ami, Roland Penrose", number 137 of 510 copies. Penrose visited the Balkans with Lee Miller in 1938 and recorded the tour in this photographic diary, the first work in the Series of Surrealist... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 123648
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HEANEY, Seamus. Hailstones.Dublin : 1984
First edition, signed limited issue, one of 250 unnumbered cloth-bound copies signed by the author on the title page; here additionally inscribed by Heaney "Mary - fine girl y'are! Seamus" under his signature. The recipient was Heaney's friend Mary Conley Downe.
Downe founded, with her husband Edward, the Irish Clifden Arts Festival, now the... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 142605
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ANSEN, Alan. The Old Religion.New York : 1959
First edition, first printing. From the library of the author. Learn More£60.00Stock Code: 51512
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LONGLEY, Michael. Poems.Edinburgh : 1985
First edition, first impression, case-bound issue. Inscribed by the author "For Phil Murray, warmest regard, Michael Longley, Sligo 85" on the title page. Poems was also issued in paper wrappers. Dr Philip Murray is an Irish bibliophile and author The Adventures of a Book Collector (2011). Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 113526
