Cambridge: Limited Editions Club, 1977. David Gentleman. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-7/8" x 10-3/4") bound with a green buckram spine stamped in gold with a design created by David Gentleman who has also drawn a design of foliage printed on the paper covering the boards; 232 pages. Edited with an introduction.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Lynd Ward. Hardcover. Tall quarto (8-1/2" x 12") bound in blue linen and a richly decorative patterned paper hand-made by Ingeborg Borjeson in Stockholm. Modern verse translation of this Anglo-Saxon epic by William Ellery Leonard. Text is printed in three colors with color auto-lithographs.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Fritz Kredel. Hardcover. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in quarter blue buckram and decorated boards, 240 pages. A collection of 87 classic ballads from all over the world, but primarily from England and America, selected and edited by MacEdward Leach. Illustrated with 36.....
London: Vista Books, (1963). First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED "To Bill Meredith,/thank you./yours/sincerely,/warmly,/truly,/all that is good/Dannie."
(Swansea): Portland University Library, (1971). First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet William Meredith: "'Bill's -- this unaltered version/with affection."
London: Hutchinson, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED "To William Meredith/Dannie/April '64."
London: Hutchinson, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiography of by this English poet, doctor, and novelist, INSCRIBED in the form of a prescription to the poet William Meredith and his partner: "Rx To William + Richard/to be taken after meals/affectionately, Dannie."
London: Hutchinson, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiography of by this English poet, doctor, and novelist, SIGNED on the title page and INSCRIBED in the form of a prescription to the poet William Meredith and his partner: "Rx For William and Richard/to be taken with a/pinch of salt!/affectionately, Dannie/Xmas 83."
New York: Criterion Books, (1959). First American Edition. Hardcover. Early title by this English poet, doctor, and novelist, first published in England in 1957. Poet William Meredith's copy with his SIGNATURE at the top of the front endpaper, below which is INSCRIBED "With respect,/Dannie Abse," with the poet's last name.....
(Lowestoft): Scorpion Press, (1967). First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. INSCRIBED and SIGNED to the poet William Meredith: "'To Bill/Not open, still../warmly,/Dannie/July 67/(Hope to see you next year)."
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED to the poet William Meredith and his partner and SIGNED twice on the title page.
London: Vista Books, (1964). First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED to the poet William Meredith: "'We are most our own strange selves when we are hosts.'/For Bill,/whose Apollinaire translations/would have been in here had/I known them earlier/Dannie Abse/June '64."
London: 19 June 1973. Letter. Wonderful AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED, 3-1/2 pages, to the creator of the cover art for the Puffin edition of WATERSHIP DOWN which was published in June 1973 becoming a bestseller and responsible for establishing the book in the public's eye. Adams praises the artist's work: "Fiver's.....
Mountain View, CA: 5 Jan. 1982. Letter. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED of 4 pages. About personal matters but primarily concerned with making corrections in an interview eventually published in the WEBSTER REVIEW in 1985. Adams mentions Kipling, Dickens, Trollope, and others, as well as his being president of the British Royal.....
London: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Lynton Lamb. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7-3/8" x 11") bound in decorated buckram with spine label stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with 16 full-page and 30 part-page line drawings, the full-page plates hand-colored in the studio of.....
London: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Lynton Lamb. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7-3/8" x 11") bound in decorated buckram with spine label stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with 16 full-page and 30 part-page line drawings, the full-page plates hand-colored in the studio of.....
London: Limited Editions Club, 1970. Lynton Lamb. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7-3/8" x 11") bound in decorated buckram with spine label stamped in pure gold leaf. Printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrated by Lynton Lamb with 16 full-page and 30 part-page line drawings, the full-page plates hand-colored in the studio of.....
Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1965. John Farleigh. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7-1/4" x 11") bound in two shades of fine linen buckram-- ivory and powder-blue--divided horizontally, with two rows of decorative ornaments stamped in gold along the joint, and with spine labels of the same shades of buckram applied to the.....
Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1965. John Farleigh. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7-1/4" x 11") bound in two shades of fine linen buckram-- ivory and powder-blue--divided horizontally, with two rows of decorative ornaments stamped in gold along the joint, and with spine labels of the same shades of buckram applied to the.....
London: Gaberbocchus Press Limited, (1949). Franciszka Themerson. First Edition. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with self-dustwrapper (8" x 10"), printed in red and black. Copy #249 of 400 printed on a hand press and illustrated by Franciszka Themerson, SIGNED by her with an ORIGINAL SELF-PORTRAIT. Also with a spurious signature of Aesop.....
Detroit: The Gale Research Company, 1965. Reprint. Hardcover. Five volumes including the Supplement. Essential work with biographies of both major and minor, obscure authors.
London: Tegg and Castleman, [1803]. First Edition. Hardcover. Modern calf-backed orange paper boards (4-1/8" x 7"); 72 pages. Frontispiece engraving by I. Taylor after a design by W. M. Craig. Scarce Gothic fiction employing Phantasmagoria, developed in the late eighteenth century from the earlier magic lantern: illusionistic exhibitions and public.....
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1881. First American Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's brick cloth with gilt lettering on the spine; 316 pages. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front blank: "with sincere regard and all/good wishes./Matthew Arnold.--/Indianapolis, Feb. 4th 1884." Arnold spent the latter months of 1883 and the first months of.....
London: Faber & Faber, (1948). First British Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29b: 3000 copies printed, preceded by the American edition published the previous year which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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wraps. A 43-page 7-3/4" x 13-3/4" carbon copy typescript laid loosely into a makeshift folder consisting of a large piece of graph paper with the title THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO/W. H. AUDEN written in pencil in an unknown hand on the front cover. Not dated. Occasional minor ink corrections also in.....
