Manuscripts, Literature, Modern Firsts

Barrie (J.M.) A Window in Thrums,

one of 50 copies on Japanese paper signed by the author and...

Behan (Brendan) The Quare Fellow,

first edition, original cloth, dust-jacket a little rubbed and...

Betjeman (John) Summoned by Bells,

number 64 of 125 copies signed by the author, original green...

Betjeman (John) A Pictorial History of English Ar

chitecture, number 14 of 100 copies signed by the author, colour...

Betjeman (John) A Nip in the Air,

number 54 of 175 copies signed by the author, contemporary pale...

Betjeman (John) A Nip in the Air,

number 52 of 175 copies signed by the author, original yellow...

Betjeman (John) Church Poems,

number 29 of 100 copies signed by the author and illustrator...

Betjeman (John) Uncollected Poems,

number 85 of 100 copies signed by the author, original buckram, t...

Buchan (John) Montrose and Leadership,

first edition, signed by the author, original wrappers bound in...

Durrell (Lawrence) Collected Poems 1931-1974,

letter U of 26 hors commerce copies signed by the author...

Frost (Robert) A Masque of Mercy,

one of 751 copies signed by the author, printed in blue and black...

Graves (Robert) Over the Brazier,

first edition, spotting as usual, original pictorial wrappers...

Graves (Robert) Goodbye To All That,

first edition, first issue, with Sassoon's suppressed poem on p...

Heaney (Seamus) Door into the Dark,

first edition, signed by the poet on title, original cloth...

Hughes (Ted) Shakespeare's Poems,

one of 100 copies signed by the author, original black printed...

Johnson (Lionel) Twenty One Poems...selected by W

illiam Butler Yeats, one of 220 copies, printed in red and black...

Jones (David) The Sleeping Lord,

number 123 of 150 copies signed by the author, modern white...

Linklater (Eric) Juan in China,

first edition, presentation copy signed by the author to J.B...

MacDiarmid (Hugh) Direadh I, II and III,

one of 200 copies signed by the author, modern tan goatskin by...

Milne (A.A.) Teddy Bear & other Songs from When W

e Were Very Young, one of 100 copies signed by the author...

Milne (A.A.) The House at Pooh Corner,

1928; Now We Are Six, 1927, first editions, illustrations by...

Milne (A.A.) The House at Pooh Corner,

number 101 of 350 copies signed by the author and illustrator...

Morley (Christopher) Conrad and the Reporters,

one of 815 copies, presentation copy with fine long inscription...

Plath (Sylvia) Lyonnesse,

one of 400 copies, this one of 300 bound in original calf-backed...

Sherriff (R.C.) and Vernon Bartlett. Journey's En

d, one of 600 copies signed by both authors, original...

Tagore (Rabindranath) The Post Office,

one of 400 copies, printed in red and black introduction by W.B...

Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, "Grey Owl". Tales of an Empty C

abin, one of 250 copies signed by the author, colour portrait...

Wodehouse (P. G.) Cocktail Time,

first American edition, presentation copy signed by the author...

Yeats (William Butler) Poems,

first edition, decorative title slightly foxed, original...

Yeats (William Butler, editor) Irish Fairy Tales,

first edition, half-title, illustrations by Jack B.Yeats, 8pp...

Yeats (William Butler).- Masefield (John) Some Me

mories of W.B.Yeats, one of 370 copies, printed in red and black...

Aickman (Robert) Sub Rosa,

1968; Cold Hand in Mine, 1975, jacket price-clipped; Painted...

Banks (Lynne Reid) The L-Shaped Room,

the author's first novel, owner's name on front pastedown, jacket...

Bates (H.E.) Sunday,

pp.309 in Poetry. A Magazine of Verse, Comment and Criticism...

Bates (H.E.) The Wild Goose,

19pp. reproduced typescript, with a few ms. corrections, loose...

Bates (H.E.) The Seekers,

first edition, signed by the author on half-title, signed...

Bates (H.E.) The Last Bread. A Play in One Act,

first edition of the author's first book, signed by the author on...

Bates (H.E.) The Two Sisters,

first edition of the author's first novel, signed by the author...

Bates (H.E.) The Spring Song and In View of the F

act That, number 9 of 10 copies for America signed by the author...

Bates (H.E.) The Spring Song and In View of the F

act That, one of 50 copies, this unnumbered, signed presentation...

Bates (H.E.) The Spring Song and In View of the F

act That, number 24 of 50 copies signed by the author...

Bates (H.E.) The Spring Song and In View of the F

act That, number 100 of 100 copies signed by the author...

Bates (H.E.) Day's End and other stories,

first edition of the author's first short story collection...

Bates (H.E.) A Father,

2½pp. in autograph ms., 5pp. typescript with extensive ms...

Bates (H.E.) Christmas Card,

[one of 150 copies] signed by the author, containing original...

Bates (H.E.) Catherine Foster,

number 50 of 50 copies signed by the author, t.e.g., others uncut...

Bates (H.E.) Seven Tales and Alexander,

number 28 of 50 copies signed by the author, original cloth...

Bates (H.E.) The Tree,

number 95 of 100 copies on japon vellum and signed by the author...

Bates (H.E.) The Hessian Prisoner,

number 71 of 550 copies signed by the author, frontispiece by...

Bates (H.E.) Mrs. Esmond's Life,

number 15 of 50 large paper copies signed by the author, with 1p...