Search Results: Titles starting with E from Peter Ellis bookseller

The American British Art Center, New York., 1949. First edition. Sheet folded to make a four-page pamphlet. One-page introduction by the artist in vaguely prose-poem form. Exhibition catalogue listing 51 of Cummings' oils, watercolours and drawings. 3000 copies were printed.Fine. Scarce.

The Cygnet Press, London., 1990. First edition. Square octavo. Twenty colour plates. Glossy card wrappers.Fine.

Cambridge at the University Press., 1946. First edition. Small octavo. 14 pages. Wrappers. A poem, winner of the Seatonian Prize for 1945 on the subject ''A just balance and scales are the Lord's''. Laid in is an Autograph Letter, signed, of about 180 words, undated and written in pencil, from the author to Laurence Whistler who had reviewed the author's Cage & Wing in the T.L.S.: ''...I do not know all of your work but we printed four from you in Poems of This War... If ever you are in Cambridge I hope you will come & find me at the University Press. It will make an event in days that go steadily by; and Cambridge is a good town to visit if it is not raining...''. With the pencilled ownership signature of Laurence Whistler on the half-title. Covers a little marked and faded at edges. The A.L.S. is in excellent state. Very good.

The Morrigu Press, North Tawton, Devon., 1980. First edition. Broadside poem measuring 40 x 26 cm. Hand-printed by the author's son Nicholas and with an illustration by the author.Number 54 of 75 copies signed by the author. In addition there is a pencilled inscription: ''For Alan Xmas 1987 from Ted''. The recipient is his friend Alan Hancox, the antiquarian bookseller who directed the Cheltenham Literature Festival during the 1980's. Under his guidance it grew sevenfold.A bit of faint creasing. Very good indeed.

Vision Press, London., 1958. First U.K. edition. Adapted by Ronald Duncan. Octavo. 141 pages. Short Adaptor's Note. Four page Preface by the author. A three act play. Cast lists for the first New York and London productions are given.Gilt lettering on spine oxidised. Near fine in very good, nicked and very slightly chipped dustwrapper darkened at the spine.

Andrew Melrose, London., 1953. First U.K. edition. Octavo. 256 pages. Portrait frontispiece from a sketch by Sheila Sanford.Fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper faintly faded at the spine.

Michael Joseph, London., 1943. First edition. Octavo. 182 pages. Five black and white photographs.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed in pencil on the front free endpaper: ''Eardley from Vita - Nov. 1943. Sissinghurst''. The recipient is Eardley Knollys, an artist with strong links to the Bloomsbury Group and also a critic, dealer and collector of art. He was a close friend of Vita Sackville-West's cousin Edward and went on to inherit the latter's impressive art collection.Faint spotting to endpapers. Near fine in very good, slightly spotted dustwrapper rubbed and nicked along top edge.

Hand and Flower Press, Aldington., 1953. First edition. Octavo. 69 pages. Wrappers. Poems.Ownership inkstamp on half-title page. Near fine.

Hamish Hamilton, London., 1962. First edition. Royal octavo. 285 pages. Black and white plates. A study of the aesthetic influence of Lords Burlington, Pembroke, Oxford, Leicester and Bathurst.Upper corner of rear cover a little bumped. Very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper, designed by Philip Gough, a bit nicked and creased at the edges.

Quartet, London., 1991. First edition. Edited by Steven Moore. Five-page Introduction by Alan Hollinghurst whose 1988 novel The Swimming Pool Library makes numerous reference to Firbank. Octavo. pp xii, 223. Includes previously unpublished material. On the front free endpaper is the small and neat ownership signature of Canadian writer, critic and editor John Metcalf.Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Privately Printed by Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry., 1969. First separate edition. Octavo. pp [8]. Tipped-in illustration. Introductory note by Miriam J. Benkovitz. Wrappers. An article originally printed in the journal The Academy in 1907 and here issued as a Christmas greeting for friends of the Enitharmon Press and Miriam J. Benkovitz. Fine.

Oxford University Press, Oxford., 1977. First edition. Octavo. pp x, 131. Illustrated. A memoir by one of the great etchers. In an epilogue the editor continues the life story up to McBey's death in 1959.Presentation copy from the editor, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''Connie & Jim with many congratulations & much love from Joanna & Nicolas - 10.6.85''.Fine in near-fine, very slightly chipped dustwrapper.

Faber and Faber, London., 2005. First edition. Edited with an introduction by A.T. Tolley. Octavo. pp xxvi, 382.Fine in fine dustwrapper.

Faber & Gwyer, London., [1927]. First edition, trade issue. Ariel Poems Number 6. Octavo. Sewn wrappers with flaps. A poem with two illustrations by John Nash, one of which is in colour. Printed at the Curwen Press.Fine.

Fanfrolico Press, London., 1926. First edition. Quarto. 75 pages. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay with three collotype reproductions of woodcuts and two copper engravings. Parchment boards decorated in gilt and blind.One of 425 numbered copies printed on handmade paper.Endpapers darkened at gutters from binder's glue. Covers very slightly marked. Very good indeed.

Chatto & Windus, London., 1928. First edition. Small octavo. 64 pages. Twenty-two poems. The title poem provides a vision of overpopulation and ecological disaster.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper to a fellow poet: ''Henry Newbolt. A slight token of appreciation from Harold Monro - June '28''. Newbolt was one of the poets included in Monro's 1933 anthology Twentieth Century Poetry. In 1913 he had officially opened the Poetry Bookshop in Bloomsbury.Free endpapers faintly tanned. Head and tail of spine faded. Very good in good, heavily chipped dustwrapper faded at the spine and edges and torn the length of the rear joint.

Faber and Faber, London., 1963. First edition. Octavo. 46 pages. Illustrated with drawings by R.A. Brandt.Signed by the author on the title-pageVery near fine in near-fine, very slightly chipped, price-clipped dustwrapper.

Privately printed, [Oxford]., 1958. First edition. Octavo. 13 pages. Wrappers. A sequence of five poems. The author's first book, as Newdigate Prize poems tend to be.Signed by the author inside the front cover; he has also made a crucial correction to the quotation from Milton on the front cover, repeated on the title-page. Laid in is a short Autograph Letter Signed by the author, dated 15 October 1966: about 70 words in which he mentions working with Herbert Davis on the Albion press in the Bodleian.Letter: single fold; very good. Book: covers very slightly spotted; near fine.

Auckland University Press., 1972. First edition. Octavo. 83 pages. Poems. Card wrappers with integral dustwrapper. Loosely inserted is the Order of Service for the author's funeral in 1995.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the half-title page: ''To Jean and Tom, for their kindness at Aberdeen, and for old times' sake too. Ken''. The recipients are the Burns scholar Thomas Crawford and his wife.Fine.

London and North East Railway, [London]., N.D. [1931]. First edition. Octavo. 63 pages. Wrappers. Colour title-page and 8 colour drawings (headpieces), as well as several colour, decorated headpieces and numerous black and white decorations (headpieces and tailpieces) by Edward Bawden. Printed at the Curwen Press.Staples rusting. Hint of creasing to corners of covers. Near fine and very bright.