Books - "modern first edition"
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Penthesperon
[first edition] 168pp VG+ (burgundy cloth,minor bumps to extrems.,eps browned,content edges sl.soiled) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,spine browned,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: heinemann london [nd,c.1938]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry christopher hassall
Collected Poems 1929-1933
transitional poem from feathers to iron the magnet
first edition 156pp VG+ (green cloth,sl.soiled w.sl.browned spine,sl.bumps to extrems.,prelims.and edges sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: hogarth press london 1935
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry c.day lewis
Poems of This War By Younger Poets
first edition 99pp VG (red cloth w.paper title label to spine,sl.stain to upper edge of boards,eps and edges sl.soiled) in VG d/w (rubbed and soiled w.spine browned,chipping and wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: cambridge university press london 1942
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry patricia ledward colin strang
The Queen's Garland
being chosen lyrics of the reign of queen elizabet
[first edition] 105pp ills.[b/w] VG (beige paper boards w.gilt stamp to top board,rubbed and soiled w.spine browned,mod.bumps and wear to extrems.,dealer's label to front pastedown,untrimmed edges sl.soiled)
PUBLISHER: duffield new york 1906
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry fitzroy carrington
Voice Across the Sea
ex-lib.first edition 220pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (blue cloth,libr.mark to spine w.sl.bumps to extrems.,usual stamps,labels removed from reps) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: muller london 1958
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature arthur c.clarke nautical history
Britannia Victrix
first edition unpaginated VG+ (in wrappers,sl.rubbed and soiled w.sl.wear to extrems.,indentations to contents)
PUBLISHER: oxford university press london 1918
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry robert bridges
Intercepted Post
first edition 152pp [b/w frontis.] NF (red cloth,eps and edges sl.foxed) in VG d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,wear and chipping to extrems.w.10cm closed tear to rear cover repaired externally w.tape,price-clipped)
PUBLISHER: bodley head london 1956
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature donald nichols history
Collected Essays Papers &c.
first edition 29pp VG+ (grey paper boards w.blue cloth spine,paper title label to spine,mod.soiled w.spine browned,edges sl.soiled)
PUBLISHER: oxford university press london 1927
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry robert bridges
The Hundred and One Harlequins
first edition 96pp VG+ (red/white marl cloth,spine browned w.surface losses due to insects,sl.bumps to extrems.,owner's sign.to front pastedown,paste action to eps,edges sl.soiled)
PUBLISHER: grant richards london 1922
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry sacheverell sitwell
Closing Time
first edition proof copy 464pp NF (in glossy wrappers,v.sl.soiled,number 0149 stamped on inside front cover)
PUBLISHER: simon & schuster new york 1994
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies joseph heller
The Marzipan Pig
first edition unpaginated ills.[b/w by quentin blake] NF (in laminated boards,sl.sunned spine and hinge area)
PUBLISHER: jonathan cape london 1986
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature arts russell hoban quentin blake
Letters from Conrad 1895 to 1924
first edition thus limited and numbered [87/925] 335pp [b/w frontis.] VG (burgundy cloth,rubbed and soiled w.spine browned,sl.sunning towards edges of boards,paste action to eps,teg rubbed,untrimmed fore and lower edges soiled,minor foxing to contents,tight)
PUBLISHER: nonesuch press london 1928
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature letters joseph conrad edward garnett
A Time to Dance and other poems
first edition 64pp VG+ (red cloth,v.sl.soiled,sl.bumps to extrems.,prelims.and edges sl.foxed,some minor foxing to contents,spine cracked) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled w.spine browned,mod.wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: hogarth press london 1935
KEYWORDS: modern first edition poetry literature c.day lewis
Doctor Donne & Gargantua
the first six cantos
first edition 80pp VG+ (pale blue cloth,stains to upper edge of boards,paste action to eps,prelims.and edges sl.foxed) in VG- d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled,browned,insect nibbles and holes to covers w.loss to foot of rear cover)
PUBLISHER: duckworth london 1930
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry john donne sacheverell sitwell
The Collected Poems of Roy Campbell
first edition proof copy 291pp VG (in paper wrappers w.publisher's label to front cover,mod.rubbed and soiled,typewritten label on cover is dated 29.10.48,sl.wear to extrems.incl.hinges and edges of label,content edges v.sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: bodley head london [1949]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature proof copies poetry roy campbell
The Wayzgoose
a south african satire
first edition 61pp VG+ (tan cloth,sl.bumps to extrems.,paste action to eps,owner's sign.to front pastedown,insect holes to head of ffep) in VG d/w (mod.rubbed and soiled w.spine browned,chipping and wear to extrems.incl.hinges,1cm loss to foot of spine)
PUBLISHER: jonathan cape london 1928
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry roy campbell
Poetry Since 1939
first edition 70pp ills.[b/w w.col.frontis.] VG+ (in wrappers,sl.rubbed and soiled w.tape repairs to head/foot of spine,content edges sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: longmans green london 1946
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry stephen spender
Poems of Two Years
first edition 79pp VG+ (in wrappers w.yapp edges,sl.rubbed and soiled w.stains to rear cover,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,eps and edges sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: macmillan london 1935
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry christopher hassall
Select Poems Divine and Humane
first edition limited and numbered in slipcase [193/1250] 51pp+notes NF (in vellum wrappers,sl.stain to sl.browned spine,contents on handmade paper are clean and tight) in VG slipcase (plain card,mod.rubbed and soiled w.extrems.mod.browned)
PUBLISHER: nonesuch press london 1928
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry nonesuch press thomas beedome
Clowns' Houses
first edition 36pp+ads. VG+ (in dec.wrappers w.title labels to spine and front cover,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,sl.browned spine,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,owner's sign.to inside front cover,prelims.and edges sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: blackwell oxford 1918
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry edith sitwell