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London: National Theatre, 1963. 54 programmes, incl. The Royal Coburg Theatre 1818 to the Old Vic 1968/ A history of 150 years of the Old Vic (1968), and with: four National Theatre at the New Theatre programmes (one repeat). Side-stapled booklets, measuring 22.8 x 13.2cm, with colour and b/w advertisements, b/w and/or colour illustrations throughout. Original illustrated colour card wrappers, 38 with cast lists laid in. Not a consecutive nor complete collection, but featuring numerous high spots in the NT's first fifteen years, with its first decade, and the work of celebrated modernist graphic designer Ken Briggs, best represented and programmes becoming sparser from 1974. The majority in very good order, edgewear and shelf-soiling, some fading and blotching. Internally, some fading and toning, occasional rusty staples, else clean and bright. Featuring both the original light blue and later grey cast lists: occasional underlining and starring; cast list extracts pasted into Hedda Gabler and Eden… Read More

Stocksfield and London: Oriel Press, 1978. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, amply and gloriously illustrated in colour and halftone. Original green and red mottled cloth, spine lettered in silver. Bruising to extremities, dint to upper board. In the original illustrated dust jacket: toned, light edgeware. Very good/ very good.

London: Unicorn Press, 1948. Reprint of the 1898 original edition. 8vo, pp. [64], incl. 16 plates by Beardsley. Quarter cream cloth, grey paper boards, gilt-stamped lettering. Red stain to top edge. Title page lettered in red and black. Spine slightly faded and rubbed, extremities gently bruised. Fore-edge spotted. Ex libris of Iain & Diana Langlands to ffep. Faint toning, occasional scant spotting. Else, a clean, bright copy.

London: The Amalgamated Press Ltd, 1936. n.d. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 192 + b/w plates. Red cloth spine, vibrant illustrated paper front board by 'E.M.' Edgewear, cloth splitting at top of rear joint, but, binding holding firm. Edges and endpapers lightly toned and spotted. Else, clean, tight and bright. A very good copy of the instructional manual for impending mothers. Jisc LHD lists only 2 copies (BL & LSE).

B & H White Publications Ltd., 1948. Very Good. 8vo., pp.128. Light blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Very good, with light bumping to bottom corners, minor sunning to upper edges. Ownership inscription to ffep: 'H. Ellis' (not Havelock!), a trace of foxing to endpapers. In original DJ with arresting photograph of Shaw - shelf-wear, nicking. Comprises a time line and 238 photographs, "including many taken by Mr. Shaw, selected and introduced by his Bibliographer and Remembrancer[/] F. E. Loewenstein" (title page). Published towards the end of his life, the photographs capture both the private and public G.B.S., including numerous art works of him.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. Cloth. Good+. FIRST US EDITION, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. 8vo, incl. engraved frontispieces to each book and numerous in-text engravings in blue by Leighton, many of rural scenes, as might be expected. Original beige cloth spine and rear board, blue cloth front board, lettered in blue and gilt. Extremities bruised and worn, edges tobacco-toned. Signed by Leighton in black pen to recto of her engraved frontispiece, a little tobacco-musty, rear hinge starting, but binding firm, else, clean. Unusual signed by Leighton. Good+ This title, with Leighton's engravings, was never published in the UK.

London, Paris & New York: Raphael Turk & Sons, 1880. Fair. FIRST EDITION. 4to (25.5 x 19.5cm), n.p. [pp. 40]. Bevelled boards, blue illustrated cloth, lettered and highlighted in gilt. Chromolithograph and b/w illustrations by Noakes and Wilde Parsons throughout. Extremities worn, a little soiling. Front hinge cracked, spine cracked throughout, text block and individual signatures loose, held by slack threads only. Toned, some spotting and marginal staining. Still, the chromolithograph illustrations remain undimmed and the book retains its charm. Fair. Jisc LHD lists only St Andrews as holding a copy. An illustrated selection of poems by various authors, including Burns, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Shelley and Wordsworth, amongst others. "Designed at the studios in England and printed in the fine art works in Bavaria." Her musical aspirations having been dashed in childhood following a bout of scarlet fever that left her deaf, Helen Marion Burnside (1841-1923) turned to verse writing, becoming a… Read More

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1898. Later reprint in six volumes. 8vos, pp. [ii], [xii], 432; [viii], 416; [viii], 416; [viii], 416; [viii], 416; [viii], 418 + b/w frontises and 10 plates each. Bevelled boards, bound attractively in illustrated olive and umber cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and black, olivine edges, brown endpapers. Pushing to spine ends, wear to extremities, a little dusty. Some foxing, else, tight and bright. A handsomely bound set intended to make English Literature accessible to 'the busy man'. n.b. This is a weighty set and will require additional international postage.

Paris: Soci�t� D'�ditons Modernes Parisienne, 1950. Good. Folio (31.7 x 24cm), pp. [2], 48, [2], amply illustrated with colour and b/w photographs and adverts. In French. Textured and illustrated card boards, blocked in green, lettered in red. Illustrated endpapers with b/w adverts. Grubby and rubbed, spine fragile and chipped, extremities bruised and worn. Title and final page grubby, a few fox spots, inscribed in blue pen to title page: "Dear Paul./ From Mummy & Daddy. Easter 1950/ with Love.", rear hinge starting, but binding firm. Else, clean. Good. One wonders and hopes this Easter gift from liberal mid-twentieth century parents led to a career as a coiffeur for Paul.

London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1928. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, number 77 of 500. 4to in 8s, pp. [xii], [144] + 12 collotype plates and alarmed Dionysos vignette to title page. Blue patterned cloth, gilt stamped lettering to spine and same Dionysos vignette to upper board. Top edge gilt, others deckled. Spine sunned, pushing to head of spine, bump to heel. Signed by Lindsay on limitation page, with a gloriously ardent gift inscription to ffep in blue pen: "To you my Beloved Sweetheart Babs/Bats[?] / I do adore and love you/ MINN/ 30:6:31/ Please dear heart mine/ do write me a little/ one day soon". Ffeps and edges tanned, occasional spotting. Later juvenile pencil sketch 'Portrait of Art Mistress/ Dartington Hall 1945' laid in. A robust copy with a sparkling (unidentified) gift inscription. Good+ Co-editor of Australia's first (anti-modernist) "little magazine" Vision (1923-4) by 1926 Jack Lindsay (1900-1990) was living in Bloomsbury attempting to "promote [his father] Norman Lindsay's… Read More

Waltham St. Lawrence: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Good+. FIRST, LIMITED EDITION, no. 66 of 247 (250 in total). Folio, pp. 21, [3], incl. 13 wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton; printed in orange and black. Original quarter vellum, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, orange cloth boards. Gilt top edge, others untrimmed. Some soiling and scuffing, joint- and edgewear, corners bumped and worn. Bands of darkening to leading edges, very occasional fox spots, threads loose at front hinge, rear fep separated, else, clean; Hughes-Stanton's spectacular engravings remain vivid. A robust copy of the Golden Cockerel Press' hundreth book, featuring Eric Gill's Golden Cockerel font and illustrated throughout with Hughes-Stanton's sumptuous and skilful engravings. Good+ "The work of the engravers of Golden Cockerel books gives the Press its greatest distinction and made a whole period of woodcut revival [...] These books were a happy house for talent of the time, with work from David Jones, Dorothea Braby,… Read More

Harmondsworth: Puffin Books/ Penguin Books, 1960. Paperback. Very Good. FIRST PENGUIN EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. MMP, incl. b/w illustrations by Ardizzone. Edgewear and a little creasing, wrappers spotted and gently rubbed. Browned, some creasing. Inscribed by Farjeon in blue biro to verso of biog. page: "To Bertha and Charles/ with love from/ Eleanor/ Christmas 1960". Else, pleasingly clean and tight. Very good Inscribed in year of publication. Little is known about Farjeon's dedicatees, Charles and Bertha Rose. It seems likely that Bertha (n�e Hagart) is the Royal Academy of Music (RAM)-trained, South African pianist, who was active professionally both in South Africa and Britain in the 1950s. If this is the case, it also seems probable that the two women met through Farjeon's elder brother Harry, who taught at RAM for 45 years.

[London]: The Cresset Press Limited, 1930. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, no. 44/ 350 on mould-made paper (of 380). Royal 8vo, pp. vii, [i], 107, [1] + four dry point illustrations and title page vignette by Hodgkins. Quarter vellum, spine lettered in gilt, monochrome marbled paper boards. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Board edges rubbed, heel of spine bumped, corners bruised. Inscribed by STW in blue ink to limitation page. Else, clean and bright. Lacks the matching marbled slipcase. Very good A very good copy of a gorgeous edition of STW's short story, whose writing, in late summer 1929, left its author "rather breathless" when she "put on a spurt and murdered my husband" (in Harman, 1995) A special edition of 30 copies on hand-made paper was issued simultaneously. 'Elinor Barley' was later collected in The Salutation (1932). Russell & Lawrence Mitchell 9a; Claire Harman (ed.) (1995) The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner. London: Virago Press.

London: The Amalgamated Press Ltd, 1937. n.d. 8vo, pp. 192 + with b/w plates. Black buckram spine, illustrated paper front board. Extremities bruised, a few dents. Light spotting to edges and endpapers, faint uneven offsetting to latter. Bottom corners dog-eared and bumped, else, clean. A good+ copy of the manual for women on the precipice of married life.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1937. Reprint, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO VERA BRITTAIN. Large 8vo, pp. xii, 334 + colour frontis, b/w plates and headpieces by Suydam. Quarter black buckram, lettered in lilac, rust boards, upper board lettered in black, with illustrated label in black and yellow. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, one pair of uncut leaves. Illustrated endpapers. Pushing to spine ends, lightest wear to extremities. Edges toned, top edge spotted. Inscribed by Saxon in black pen to title page: "For Vera Brittain �/ and we hope she / liked New Orleans/ as well as New Orleans/ liked her �/ Lyle Saxon �Nov. 2- 1937". Ink offsetting to frontis tissue guard. Else, clean and tidy. Very good. A pleasing copy that speaks to an otherwise unrecorded meeting of two quite different literary celebrities, who both mined (or fabricated) their own lives for their works. Brittain likely visited New Orleans, and met Saxon, during her second American lecture tour (of three), undertaken between… Read More

New York: The Viking Press, 1980. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. Amply illustrated. Green leatherette, decorated and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Marginal toning, else, clean, tight and tidy. In the original illustrated dust jacket: light edgewear. A smart, square copy of this literary spoof. "The tattered bundle of ancient, decaying papers arrived ten years ago from a colleague in Switzerland well acquainted with my enthusiasm for eighteenth-century German manuscripts." (Editor's Foreword)

Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1934. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, incl. silhouette frontis and tail-pieces, plus full-page illustrations, by Kathleen Verschoyle, two coloured by an amateur hand. Original publisher's blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered and ruled in navy. Extremities bruised. Edges foxed. POIs to ffep, some fox spots and marks to margins, two illustrations coloured by a PO. In the original faun and black silhouette dust jacket: creased, rubbed and soiled, chipped at spine ends, mark to front panel, amateur taping to reverse of spine. Very good/ good+ A well-loved copy of Lett's charming gentle mountaineering novel for children: "I have put an imaginary household and imaginary children on the slopes of Slieve Gullion, that lovely, hero-haunted mountain which has known Finn and Saint Patrick, faery women and great warriors." (Foreword). The prolific and popular Salford-born playwright, poet and novelist, Winifred Letts (1882�1972) was, early on, embedded in the Irish Literary… Read More

London: The Bodley Head, 1959. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR. Slim 8vo, pp. 80, amply illustrated by Gill in the year of publication. Light blue cloth, spine lettered in red and black. Slight lean to spine, offsetting from dust jacket, fine bands of sunning at board edges. Edges and endpapers foxed, occasionally to text block. Inscribed by Gill in blue pen to b/w frontis, below her illustration of a rhinoceros with its hat: "Best wishes,/ Margery Gill/ 1959". In Gill's original illustrated dust jacket: price-clipped, light wear to extremities, spine darkened, toned and spotted, short closed tear to top edge of front panel. Still, the cover art remains pleasingly vivid. Very good/ very good. A lovely copy of Hewett's "jungle tales for young children," scarce signed by Gill. Very good/ very good Born in Scotland, Margery Gill (1925 � 2008) was a prolific illustrator of children's books, who had specialised in etching and engraving at the Royal College of Art. Gill… Read More

5 Bloomsbury Square, London: The Fanfrolico Press, 1927. Cloth. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, 386 of 500. 4to in 8s, pp. [viii], 221, [1]. Red buckram, gilt stamped lettering to spine. Edges deckled. Spine slightly cocked, pushing to spine ends. Signed and numbered by Jack Lindsay in sepia pen on limitation page. Edges, front and rear gently foxed, occasional grubby fingerprints. Else, clean and bright. In the original dust jacket, illustrated, in typical erotic-style, by Norman Lindsay: tanned, grubby and spotted, edgewear and creasing, head of spine frayed, a number of closed tears. Nevertheless, a grand copy, unusual in the dust jacket. Very good/ good+ Co-editor of Australia's first (anti-modernist) "little magazine" Vision (1923-4) by 1926 Jack Lindsay (1900-1990) was living in Bloomsbury attempting to "promote [his father, the artist] Norman Lindsay's notion of a sexually utopian Australian renaissance" to the British, and having re-established John Kirtley's hand-press, the… Read More

Exeter: A. Wheaton & Co., Ltd, 1959. FIRST EDITION. 4to. Numerous b/w illustrations and plates. Maroon cloth, silver lettering to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Extremities lightly bruised. Edges lightly foxed, a few spots to front and rear. Else, clean and tight. In the fabulous original dust jacket: shelf-soiled, rubbed and nicked, edges creased, uneven sunning to rear panel. Still, a pleasing, bright copy. Very good/ very good. Chapter 1: From Cuttlefish to Jet-Propulsion.