Search Results: 20th Century British Literature from Charles Agvent

London: Poem of the Month Club, 1971. First Edition. Fine. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.

London: Poem of the Month Club, 1971. First Edition. Broadside. Fine. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.

London: Poem of the Month Club, 1972. First Edition. Fine. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.

New York: Alex. Grosset & Co., 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Spine darkened but still readable. Near Fine. Decorated orange cloth. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Kipling and two plates by Charles Farrand.

New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very close to Fine dustwrapper with just a touch of wear to the spine head. Preceded by the English edition. SIGNED by the author below his crossed-out name on the title page.

London: Jonathan Cape, (1977). First Edition. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a small rubbed streak on the front and a short closed tear at the rear.

London: Poem of the Month Club, 1972. First Edition. Slight crease to lower corner. Near Fine. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.

New York: Random House, (1941). First Edition. Softcover. Some browning and chipping, as could be expected, but overall in Very Good condition and quite scarce. Bloomfield & Mendelson A24a: 2000 copies printed, precedes the English edition. This copy is likely an Advance Review Copy and consists of loose signatures, never bound. In pencil on the title page is written "Aldington," this likely being Richard Aldington's copy though the signature does not match his handwriting.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a large chip affecting the title.

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Bottom of spines a little spotted. Some pencil underlining. Very Good. Two volumes in publisher's blind-stamped green cloth. Kipling in India, the Orient, and elsewhere. Precedes the English edition. Livingston 227. With the error on page 90 of the second volume.

Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1905. Second American Edition. Hardcover. A little soiling to covers. Very Good. Unauthorized, as was the 1896 Roycoft edition, of Shaw's first work published in America. Laurence A26c.

London: Fuck Books Unlimited, 1967. First Edition. wraps. Slight rust marks from staples. About Fine. Bloomfield & Mendelson Appendix II. Stated First English Printing of this blatantly homoerotic poem but actually the second printing. Stapled light violet wraps lettered in green. Quarto (7-7/16" x 10"). Illustrated with a caricature of a naked man on the title page. Limitation somewhere between 250 and 400 copies. Apparently these light violet covers were used on the first copies before being replaced by bright green covers.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1954). First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a slightly browned, close to Fine dustwrapper. AN INTIMATE AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE PORTRAIT OF A LITERARY GENERATION. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999.

n.p., n.d. First Edition. Broadside. Near Fine. A small (5-3/4"x7-3/4") broadside of this poem.

London: Poem of the Month Club, 1971. First Edition. Fine. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.

New York: Doran, (1927). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in attractive Near Fine dustwrapper with one small chip and minor edgewear. Possibly a review copy with the date of 25 February 1927 stamped on spine of dustwrapper. Fables in irony, "Laughter Flung at the Gods."

(Princeton): Princeton University Press, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A compilation of over 200 poems from Auden's youth, including 22 newly discovered poems and the contents of the privately printed volume POEMS (1928).

London: John Castle, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Neat owner name dated 1924 on front endpaper. Some offsetting to endpapers from dustwrapper which is soiled at the rear with chips to the spine head extending slightly to the front cover and to the top corners. Near Fine in Very Good dustwrapper. First Combined Edition with a new introduction by John Galsworthy.

London: Poem of the Month Club, 1972. First Edition. Fine. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dustwrapper, soiled and worn but complete. The novelist famous for his 'wit, bubbling poetry, wild tearing bawdy comedy' etcetera etcetera now deserts Meadow Prospect and turns to Toledo and Don Juan."