SOMEWHERE IS SUCH A KINGDOM. Poems. 1952-1971 by HILL. GEOFFREY

Eyre and Spottiswoode, London.,1930. LIMITED EDITION. Tall 4to. (13.7 x 8.7 inches). 450 copies published, 250 for the British Empire and 200 for USA. This is number 217 and is signed by Frank Adams. Illustrated throughout with Colour Portrait frontis, within a mono border and 13 lithograph illustrations decorating the chapter headings, 9 of these printed in colour. There are also 10 small wood engraved tail pieces, all uncoloured. On the front pastedown endpaper is a printed label from the publisher, giving details of the book, stating the name of the recipient of this particular copy and listing the copy number, both written in in ink. Original vellum backed, marbled paper covered boards.The spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Overall a very good, bright example of this well produced edition.:

Harper Collins. London.,2005. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY FRASER. Map endpapers. A fine copy in a fine, full colour dustwrapper, illustrated by Gino D'Achille. The twelfth Flashman novel.:

Trigram Press. London. 1969. LIMITED EDITION. One of 100 numbered copies of the First edition, signed by Dine on the colophon. This limited edition was issued with an original screenprint loosely inserted but it is not present in this copy. Large 8vo. (10.7.6 inches). Colour printed frontis, with tissue guard, and several mono illustrations throughout the text. Publishers red cloth biding with silver lettering to the spine. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper which has two photographs by Nancy Dine on the panels.

W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. London. No date. Circa 1920. Collins King's Classics edition. 8vo. Inscribed by Symons on the front free endpaper " To Dora Gordine from Arthur Symons November 14: 1928(?)". A very good tidy copy in publishers beige cloth with dark green label, lettered and with wavy line border, all in gilt, to the spine. Top edge gilt. Dora Gordine was a noted Estonian Sculptor who regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy and Leicester Galleries in London as well as shows at The Fine Art Society & The London Jewish Museum of Art. Symons was a great champion of her work. Reviewing one of her Leicester Galleries exhibitions in a 1938 edition of the Spectator, Symons wrote; 'Her profound sense of pure form in sculpture, heedless alike of realism and of exaggerated abstraction, is united with the subtlest delicacy of modelling, and these qualities combine to endow her bronzes with an abnormal power, an almost uncanny life, which only the sculpture of the greatest civilisations of the past has… Read More

Chapman and Hall. Ltd. London. 1927. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. (7.1 x 5 inches). viii,44pp. Signed presentation inscription from the author, dated september 1928, on the front blank endpaper. Finely bound in early half green calf. Spine with raised bands. Gilt rules, lettering and centre devices to the compartments. Green cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Spine is uniformly faded to brown but still an attractive fine quality leather binding.

Eyre and Spottiswoode, London.,1930. LIMITED EDITION. Tall 4to. (13.7 x 8.7 inches). 450 copies published, 250 for the British Empire and 200 for USA. This is number 217 and is signed by Frank Adams. Illustrated throughout with Colour Portrait frontis, within a mono border and 13 lithograph illustrations decorating the chapter headings, 9 of these printed in colour. There are also 10 small wood engraved tail pieces, all uncoloured. On the front pastedown endpaper is a printed label from the publisher, giving details of the book, stating the name of the recipient of this particular copy and listing the copy number, both written in in ink. Original vellum backed, marbled paper covered boards.The spine lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Overall a very good, bright example of this well produced edition.:

Harper Collins. London.,2005. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED BY FRASER. Map endpapers. A fine copy in a fine, full colour dustwrapper, illustrated by Gino D'Achille. The twelfth Flashman novel.:

Trigram Press. London. 1969. LIMITED EDITION. One of 100 numbered copies of the First edition, signed by Dine on the colophon. This limited edition was issued with an original screenprint loosely inserted but it is not present in this copy. Large 8vo. (10.7.6 inches). Colour printed frontis, with tissue guard, and several mono illustrations throughout the text. Publishers red cloth biding with silver lettering to the spine. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper which has two photographs by Nancy Dine on the panels.

W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. London. No date. Circa 1920. Collins King's Classics edition. 8vo. Inscribed by Symons on the front free endpaper " To Dora Gordine from Arthur Symons November 14: 1928(?)". A very good tidy copy in publishers beige cloth with dark green label, lettered and with wavy line border, all in gilt, to the spine. Top edge gilt. Dora Gordine was a noted Estonian Sculptor who regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy and Leicester Galleries in London as well as shows at The Fine Art Society & The London Jewish Museum of Art. Symons was a great champion of her work. Reviewing one of her Leicester Galleries exhibitions in a 1938 edition of the Spectator, Symons wrote; 'Her profound sense of pure form in sculpture, heedless alike of realism and of exaggerated abstraction, is united with the subtlest delicacy of modelling, and these qualities combine to endow her bronzes with an abnormal power, an almost uncanny life, which only the sculpture of the greatest civilisations of the past has… Read More

Chapman and Hall. Ltd. London. 1927. FIRST EDITION. Small 4to. (7.1 x 5 inches). viii,44pp. Signed presentation inscription from the author, dated september 1928, on the front blank endpaper. Finely bound in early half green calf. Spine with raised bands. Gilt rules, lettering and centre devices to the compartments. Green cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Spine is uniformly faded to brown but still an attractive fine quality leather binding.