Poetry
Collection of works including limited editions and inscribed copies, late 19th and early-20th century
Yeats, W. B. The Secret Rose. With Illustrations by J. B. Yeats. London: Lawrence & Bullen, Limited, 1897. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth decorated in gilt, 7 halftone plates including frontispiece, spine-ends slightly frayed;Powys, John Cowper. Poems. London: William Rider & Son, Limited, 1899. First edition, 8vo, original japon decorated in gilt, inscribed by the author ‘A Bunston, from J.C.P.’ on the front free endpaper, bookplate of the recipient Anna de Bary to front pastedown, title of poem ‘To - ‘ on p. 97 with ’Anna' added in pencil, errata slip, spine toned and with wear to head;Valéry, Paul. Eupalinos or the Architect. London: Oxford University Press, 1932. First edition in English, signed limited issue, one of 250 copies signed by Valéry, 8vo, original white cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, with the original glassine dust jacket with integral card flaps, jacket in fragments;Meynell, Alice. Collected Poems. London: Burns & Oates Ltd, 1913. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait, inscribed ‘To Anna, with the writer's love, May 1913' on front free endpaper, bookplate of recipient Anna de Barry to front pastedown, cloth sunned;Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. With a Preface by George Saintsbury and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: George Allen, 1894. First Thomson-illustrated edition (the ‘Peacock’ edition), 8vo, xxvii 476 pp., original pictorial cloth with peacock decoration gilt to front board, all edges gilt, half-title, frontispiece, slight damp-staining to gutter of quires T-U, pp. 465/6 loosening, large section of spine detached and laid in, crude tape-repair;Cornford, Frances. Mountains and Molehills. Illustrated with Woodcuts by Gwen Raverat. Cambridge: University Press, 1934. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket; and 19 others including Medici Society, Rubaiyat, 1913 (one of 1000 copies), 4 works by Anna de Bary (2 inscribed), William Strang (illustrator), Paradise Lost by John Milton, London: George Routledge and Sons, 1905, Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World, New York, 1882 (first edition, original cloth) (25)