The Blue Flower.
London: Flamingo, 1995. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Paper browning as usual (cheap stock) and neat ink ownership on the half-title. Near fine in fine d/w.
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Offshore.
London: Collins, 1979. 8vo. First edition. Original grey hardcovers, gilt. Top edge of text block a bit foxed. Clipped d/w (with publisher's price sticker) is slightly faded on the spine. Very good + in very good + d/w. Winner of the Booker Prize.
Innocence.
London: Collins, 1986. 8vo. First edition. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Ink ownership on flyleaf. Clipped d/w is slightly faded on the spine. Very good + in very good + d/w.
With Sikorski to Russia.
London: The Curwen Press, 1942. 8vo. Limited edition. One of 300 copies for private circulation. Paperback original. Covers tanned and a little marked and rubbed. Inscribed to the top edge of the front cover. Very good +. This copy was presented 'To Pamela & Reggie. When shall I see you.....
An Oxford University Chest. Comprising a Description of the Present State of the Town and University of Oxford with an Itinerary Arranged Alphabetically.
London: John Miles, 1938. 4to. First edition. Original quarter black buckram, gilt, with marbled paper boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated in line and half-tone by L. Moholy-Nagy, Osbert Lancaster, the Rev. Edward Bradley and others. Near fine.
Wide Sargasso Sea. Introduction by Francis Wyndham.
London: André Deutsch, 1966. 8vo. First edition. Original red cloth, gilt. Jacket design by Eric Thomas. Slight fading to the top edges of the cloth. Edges of the text block a little foxed. Faint offsetting to the free endpapers from the jacket flaps which are lightly foxed. Unclipped d/w is.....
Slightly Foxed Editions. Volumes 1 to 62.
London: Slightly Foxed Ltd, 2008-23. Small 8vo. 62 volumes, a run. Limited editions. Each volume is #286 of 2000 numbered copies. Original cloth, gilt. Silk marker ribbons. A few volumes are illustrated. All the original limited editions prior to #29, and some later volumes, are out of print and already.....
The Journals of George Eliot. Edited by Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. Uncommon.
A Guide to the Country Houses of the North-West. Cheshire; Cumberland; Lancashire; Westmorland. Appendix: Isle of Man.
London: Constable, 1991. 4to. First edition. Original navy hardcovers, silvergilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. The top corner of the front panel of the d/w is slightly creased. Fine in near fine d/w. Commissioned in 1972 as part of the Burke's & Savill's Guides to Country Houses but.....
Burke's & Savill's Guide to Country Houses. Volume III. East Anglia.
London: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1981. 4to. First edition. Original red hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Bottom of d/w spine slightly faded. Fine in near fine d/w. About 1000 houses and over 900 illustrations.
Burke's & Savill's Guide to Country Houses. Volume II. Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire.
London: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1980. 4to. First edition. Original red hardcovers, gilt. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Fine in fine d/w. About 600 houses and over 700 illustrations.
Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles. Eighth Edition Revised. (D. L. Clarke and Sir George Taylor eds.).
London: John Murray, 1970-88. 8vo. First impressions of the Eighth Edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Top edges of volumes 1-4 stained blue. Black and white photographic plate section towards the front of volumes 1-4. All volumes a little shaken from use. Edges a bit spotted. The bottom corner of the.....
The Collected Poems. Edited with an introduction and critical comments by Norman Callan.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1949. 12mo. 2 volumes, set. First editions. Original blue cloth, gilt. Neat ink ownership on the top corner of each flyleaf. Unclipped d/ws are tanned on the spine and slightly rubbed along the top edges. Near fine in near fine d/ws. Volumes from 'The Muses'.....
Selected Poems of William Barnes. Edited with an introduction by Geoffrey Grigson.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1950. 12mo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Unclipped d/w is a little dust-marked and rubbed with tanning to the spine. A volume of 'The Muses' Library'.
Poems. Edited with an introduction and notes by Vivian de Sola Pinto.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953. 12mo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Neat ink ownership on the top corner of the flyleaf. Unclipped d/w is tanned on the spine and slightly rubbed along the top edge. Near fine in near fine d/w. A volume of 'The Muses' Library'...
Poems of Charles Cotton. Edited with an introduction by John Buxton.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958. 12mo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Neat ink ownership on the top corner of the flyleaf. Unclipped d/w is a little tanned on the spine and slightly rubbed along the top edge. Near fine in near fine d/w. A volume of 'The Muses'.....
Confessions of Zeno. Translated from the Italian by Beryl de Zoete. With a note on Svevo by Edouard Roditi.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1962. 8vo. Third (Uniform) edition. First UK publication in 1930. Original blue hardcovers, silvergilt. Jacket design by Ralph Mabey. Unclipped d/w slightly faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w. A lovely copy. Volume 1 in the Uniform Edition of Svevo's Works.
The Shepherd's Calendar. Edited by Eric Robinson and Geoffrey Summerfield.
London: Oxford University Press, 1964. 8vo. First edition. Original brown cloth, gilt. Wood-engravings by David Gentleman. Unclipped d/w a little tanned and faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
Collected Poems. With an introduction by Sean O'Brien.
London: Picador, 2009. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, silvergilt. Fine in fine d/w.
Imaginations. Five Experimental Prose Pieces. Kora in Hell; The Great American Novel; Spring and All; A Novelette and Other Prose; The Descent of Winter. Edited with introductions by Webster Schott.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1970. 8vo. First edition. Original black hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Cherriwyn Magill. Fine in fine d/w.
The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968. 8vo. First edition. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Unclipped d/w tanned and faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
The Collected Later Poems.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1965. 8vo. First edition. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Unclipped d/w tanned and faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
The Collected Earlier Poems.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1951. 8vo. Second printing. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Unclipped d/w tanned and faded on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
Paterson Books I-V.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1964. 8vo. First edition. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Foyles sticker to front pastedown. Unclipped d/w tanned and faded on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w.
Pictures from Brueghel and other poems.
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1968. 8vo. Second impression. First published by New Directions (New York, 1962) and first issued in the UK in 1963. Original brown hardcovers, gilt. Unclipped d/w spine a little faded. Fine in near fine d/w.