London and Princeton: Faber and Faber & Princeton University Press, 1996-2015. 8vo. 6 volumes, set. First editions. Volumes 1-3 published by Faber, 4-6 by Princeton (although 2-5 were printed in America and are uniform except for the publisher). Original blue cloth, gilt. Contents clean. Just a little to scratching to.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1973. 8vo. First edition. Original quarter green cloth with beige paper-covered boards, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. A nice copy.
London: Profile Books, 2010. 8vo. First edition. Original purple hardcovers. Black and white photographic plate section. Mint in d/w.
London: Faber and Faber, 1992. Royal 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. In slipcase as issued. With facsimiles of the author's production notes. Fine in fine dust-wrapper.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1978. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. Original navy cloth, gilt. Top edges lightly foxed. Unclipped d/ws uniformly slightly faded and tanned. Near fine in near fine d/ws. Originally published at £65. The first edition of Blake's Writings to be based upon the editor's personal examination of each.....
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, 1956. Pott 8vo. Reprint. First published in The World's Classics in 1902. First published in two parts in 1678 and 1684. Original quarter blue polished morocco over blue cloth boards, gilt. Top edge gilt. Silk marker ribbon. Patterned paper endpapers. In cloth-covered slipcase. Boards.....
London: Grant Richards, 1903. Pott 8vo. Second impression. First published in The World's Classics in 1902. First published in two parts in 1678 and 1684. Original burgundy cloth, gilt. Covers a little rubbed at edges. Blind stamp of W. H. Smith and neat ink presentation on fly. Very good. #12.....
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Spine just a little faded and with some very light spotting to the top edge. Pencil ownership of Christopher Hill on fly, with scattered pencil lines in the margins and pencil notes on both sides of.....
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Pencil note on fly, 'William St. Clair, Oxford DNH Weekend July 1992 Dept National Heritage'. Scattered pencil marginalia by William St. Clair and notes on the rear endpapers. Near fine. From the library of William St. Clair (1937-2021), the.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1969. 8vo. First edition. Original black cloth, gilt. Neat ink ownership on the flyleaf. Near fine in near fine d/w.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1948. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Price-clipped d/w is tanned on the spine. Fine in near fine d/w.
London: Oxford University Press, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. With wood-engravings by David Gentleman. Unclipped d/w has a nick to the top corner of the back panel and a little dust-marking. Fine in near fine d/w. An ideal selection complemented by David Gentleman's sympathetic engravings.
London: Horizon, January 1940 - January 1950. 8vo. 20 volumes, 121 issues, (together with the Index to issues 1-108 but without the special number of 1945 'La Littêrature anglaise pendant la guerre') set. Paper bound magazines. Black and white, and occasional colour, plates. The usual light tanning or foxing to.....
London & New York: Everyman's Library (larger format). J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd & E. P. Dutton & Co, 1960. 12mo. Reprint. Original black cloth, gilt. Unclipped d/w is slightly tanned on the spine, a little dust-soiled, and has a nick to the top edge of the front panel.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. First edition. Original green hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. Uncommon.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1984. 4to. Second impression. First published in 1981. Original green cloth, gilt. Spine faded. Contents clean. Near fine.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. 8vo. Fourth impression of the third enlarged edition (1951). First published in 1932. Original brown cloth, gilt. Neat ink ownership on the top corner of the flyleaf. Unclipped d/w has parallel scuff marks to the middle of the spine and a hint of rubbing to.....
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 8vo. First edition. Original dark navy hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine d/w. The Oxford Professor of Poetry 1994-1999 lectures on subjects including Wilfred Owen, Seamus Heaney, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1967. 8vo. First edition. Original navy cloth, gilt. Ink ownership on fly. Unclipped d/w is faded on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w.
Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1990. 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. Pencil ownership of William St. Clair on the fly. Near fine in near fine d/w. From the library of William St. Clair (1937-2021), the distinguished historian and author.
London: The Bodley Head, 1969. 8vo. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt. Top edge stained pink. Jacket design by Michael Harvey. Very slight foxing to the fore edge. Price-clipped d/w is tanned on the spine. Near fine in near fine d/w.
London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. 8vo. First edition. Original blind-stamped, pale blue hardcovers. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Fine in fine d/w.
London: Faber and Faber, 1991. 8vo. First edition. Original navy hardcovers, gilt. Fine in fine d/w.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, [1929]. 8vo. First UK edition using sheets printed in France in May 1929. Original turquoise cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Covers just a little rubbed and marked. Large bookplate, of Norman Nicholson, on the front pastedown. Ink presentation, 'Best wishes for Xmas 1936.....
London: Chatto & Windus and The Hogarth Press, 1983. 8vo. First edition. Original blue hardcovers, gilt. Jacket design by Enid Marx. Fine in fine d/w. A companion to the revised translation of Proust's masterpiece by Terence Kilmartin which was published by Chatto & Windus in 1981. There are section on.....