Item 8990Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson
London: Macmillan, 1924. First Thus Hardback. A very good copy, rebound recently in half burgandy morocco. TEG. Name on front pastedown, some soiling, a little foxing to the foreedge.
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Item 9899Mechanical Jane: French's Acting Edition No. 2451
London: Samuel French, 1910. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Uncommon. Very good condition, sticker to the spine and upper wrapper. Some tanning and pulling to the binding. Inscription to the upper wrap.
Item 10150Lullaby for Man
London: Editions Canto, n.d. [1951?]. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Only one other copy located (at York University). Collects 19 poems. Short tear to the upper wrap, some heavy rubbing to the spine. Internally nice, just a little aged. 20pp.
Item 10359The Man in Half Moon Street
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Rebound by Riviere in full calf. Inscribed by the author to the title page. Some scuffing and rubbing to the leather. Spine a touch sunned. Please note that whilst the book pictures well and looks nice, the leather.....
Item 13500Sonnets and Lyrics, a Little Book of Verse on the Present War
London: Privately Printed, 1915. First / First. Hardback. A nice copy. Posthumously published, presumably by family members. Dobell was a London bookseller and intellectual, he died in 1914. The present copy is offered with the tissue jacket, which has a little edgewear and a few small chips. Some toning to.....
Item 10060In The Electric Man: Being the One Act Version of the Three-Act Comedy
New York & London: Samuel French, 1910. First / First. Paperback. A good copy. A play involving a robot of sorts. I suspect that this had a separate wrapper at some point given that there's glue residue, so offered as lacking covers with leaves separate - hence the good.
Item 11855Concerto in A Minor
London: John M. Watkins, 1924. Fred Adlington. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Inscribed by the author to photographer Herbert Lambert. A lovely copy with just a little toning to the endpapers. Fantastic illustrations by Adlington. No jacket, if it had one.
Item 9328Another Lycidas
n.p. None, n.d. Manuscript An interesting Aiken piece. 4pp, typed single-sided. Signed (we think) by Aiken in the top left. A couple of amendments. A typescript of Aiken's Another Lycidas. It's unclear where this particular typescript appears in the history of this particular poem. The poem has been folded at.....
Item 13473Richards' Shilling Selections from Edwardian Poets
London: The Richards Press, 1936. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Some toning to the wrappers and a little rolling and wear. Owner's details to the reverse of the upper wrapper. 32pp with an introduction from the editor, John.....
Item 13178The Forest of Happy Dreams: A Play in One Act Holograph Manuscript
London: nd [c1910]. Manuscript Near fine condition. Written around 1910 and published in book from in 1935 in One-Act Play Parade. One of the earliest pieces to feature Commissioner Sanders, albeit in a minor role. Comprising: The author's original 11-page holograph manuscript, with amendments. Some toning and rust staining from.....
Item 13179Pharaoh in the Ruins
No Place: No Publisher. Manuscript Near fine condition. 10pp typescript, single-sided. Compliments slip from the author's daughter included. It's unclear if this was ever published, we've been unable to trace it (a bibliography might say otherwise). A little rusting from a paperclip and some toning, but nice overall.
Item 9929The Dream Physician
Dublin and London: The Talbot Press and T. Fisher Unwin, 1915. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Martyn was a prominent player in the Irish literary scene. The jacket has a little wear including a few short tears, and a bit of tanning. Some taping to the jacket.....
Item 10841Vice Versa: A Lesson for Fathers in Three Tableaux
London: Thomas Scott, n.d. [1883]. First / First. Paperback. A near fine copy. A fantastic little book, inscribed. F. Anstey is the pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (the pseudonym was meant to be T. Anstey, but the printers put F. by mistake and it stuck). Vice Versa, published the year.....
Item 10894Faust and Loose
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., n.d. [1886]. First / First. Paperback. A near fine copy. A play. A little rolling and tearing to the edges. Uncommon.
Item 9182A Ray of Sunshine or The Brother's Will, A Drama. In a Prologue and Two Acts
London: Privately Printed, n.d. [c1860?]. First Paperback. A very good copy. Likely the sole issue. No copies recorded anywhere that I can find, WorldCat notes the existence but has no records of it in libraries. A short play (32pp), privately printed by the author. Set in the 1790s involving smugglers.....
Item 13174Peter Wilkins; or, the Loadstone Rock and the Flying Indians, an Extra Extravagant Extravaganza
London: Webster & Co., nd [c1846]. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. Uncommon. In Webster's Acting National Drama series. This is number 130 in the series. Edges worn, wrappers toned. 24pp, 21 numbered. Etching to the front (quite toned). Peter Wilkins was introduced in a 1751 Guillver-esque tale.....
Item 10188Gartha - a Pastoral Story of the Eighteenth Century
No Place [Australia?]: No Publisher, 1885. Manuscript Paperback. Very good condition. An original manuscript and a lovely production. A 146pp typed manuscript poem. Extra-illustrated without with cutout printed pieces throughout. Garvey seems to have emigrated to Australia, and a note near the start states the original of this poem was.....
Item 13754Press Cuttings: a Topical Sketch compiled from the editorial and correspondence columns of the Daily Papers
as performed by the Civic and Dramatic Guild at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on the 9th July 1909.
London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1909. First Edition / Fourth Impression. Paperback. Very good condition. 39pp. A short play based on pieces from the Daily Papers. This is the issue in grey wrappers, seemingly the fourth printing. Some toning to the wrappers and a few marks, short tear and chip.....
Item 9567The Dagonet Ballads
London: E.J. Francis & Co., 1879. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. A collection of 25 short ballads by Sims, mostly previously published in The Referee. A fun little collection, separated into the Dagonet Ballads and then just Miscellaneous. Dagonet was Sims' pseudonym. Perhaps the most important ballad.....
Item 11851The Chinese Crystal: A One-Act Drama
Holmfirth: Proscenium Press, nd. First / First. Paperback. A very good copy. The author [?] has crossed out the publisher's details, and replaced them with her own. So perhaps this is an proof or similar, that the author then chose a different path for. Wrappers a little grubby, but internally.....
Item 12403Poems
London: William Pickering, 1843. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. Inscribed by the author, in a lovely binding with AEG and plenty of gilt work, some rubbing to the binding around the hinges and some foxing internally, but overall a nice copy.
Item 9934The Freemason, or, The Secret of the Lodge Room: A Domestic Drama in Two Acts
London: J. Pattie, n.d. [1839?]. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy. An uncommon play, only one copy located (at Cambridge). 33 pages of text, frontispiece. Rebound somewhat recently in marbled paper-covered boards with a leather label.
Item 10755The Flying Islands of the Night
Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1892. First / First. Hardback. A near fine copy, just with a few signs of age. Inscribed by the author to the endpaper. A play, seemingly centred around mythology and folklore. A lovely binding, and presumably bound at the time as a presentation binding. Page three has a......
Item 10039The Grand Serio-Comic Opera of Lord Bateman and his Sophia
Cheltenham: Middle Hill Press, 1863. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy bound in simple paper covered boards. Probably the original covers. Some tanning and markings, 37 pages. Uncommon.
Item 11891The Mine: A Dramatic Poem
London: T. Cadell, 1785. First / First. Hardback. A very good copy. Of marginal interest to the speculative fiction collector given that the poem features gnomes working in quicksilver mines! In a fairly recent binding. [4], xvi, 63, [1, blank] (i.e. Half title, title, 16pp preface, 63pp text, blank).