WILLIAM BLAKE, ED. RUTHVEN TODD

Selected Poems

London, Grey Walls Press. 1949, First this Collection. Hardcover. Book, Crown Classics. Some wear to dustwrapper, small tears end of spine; some browning endpapers. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 006529

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Literature

Blake, William, introduction by Ruthven Todd,

Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

NY, Falcon Press, (1947). Facsimile 1794. G PB. Albion facsimiles. Heavy stock paper, gray and blue wraps, Songs of Innocence in classic English poetry with Blake's. illustrations, part of the Romantic movement. Deckle edges have some wear.

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Book number: BOOKS053721I

Catalogue: Poetry

Campbell, R. T. (Ruthven Campbell Todd)

Unholy Dying: A Detective Story

London, John Westhouse, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 166pp + [2]pp of publisher's advertisements. Cloth. Name in pen on the front free endpaper (C. G. S. McAlester, probably a colonel of the East Surrey Regiment). A note in pencil also on the front free endpaper reads: "Todd wrote 10 detective stories in six months under the name R. T. Campbell to pay off some debts. These were all published by the small and soon defunct firm of John Westhouse and are all very scarce." Light wear to corner tips. A near fine copy in good- dustjacket with a large chip to lower edge of front panel, one to heel of spine panel, and a few minor chips along the edges. Uncommon. In Hubin, 1994, p. 128. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 33374

Catalogue: Mysteries and Thrillers

Keywords: MYSTERIES

HEWETT, PETER; MALLALIEU, H.B.; TODD, RUTHVEN; WALLER, ROBERT

Poets of Tomorrow: First Selection

London, The Hogarth Press. 1939. Hardcover. Used, Hardback, no jacket, rather worn; bumped at corners, cloth starting to split at edges of spine. Pen marks on rear board. Gift dedication on FEP; contents otherwise clean and sound. TPW. Acceptable/No Dust Jacket.

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Book number: 264269

Catalogue: Poetry

HOGARTH PRESS. Peter Hewett, H.B.Mallalieu, Ruthven Todd and Robert Waller.

Poets of Tomorrow. First Selection. Representing the Work of Peter Hewett, H.B.Mallalieu, Ruthven Todd [and] Robert Waller.

The Hogarth Press, London, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: ARC95084

Catalogue: Hogarth Press, Poetry

Lawrence Durrell; Ruthven Todd, Patrick Evans, Rayner Heppenstall, Edgar Foxall, and Oswell Blakeston

Proems. Original First Edition Signed by Durrell on Title Page

London: Fortune Press, 1938. 12mo. 96 pp. Black Cloth, Very Good with staining to end papers. Woodcuts. (Brigham, p. 37) Provenance: Collection of Chiefly First Editions by Lawrence Durrell, most signed presentation copies, inscribed to his friend Jeremy Mallinson. Mallinson, was Gerald Durrell’s right-hand man from the early days of the Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Park). .

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Book number: 63-5809

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Raine, Kathleen, David Gascoyne, Ruthven Todd

The Gotham Book Mart Cordially Invites You to Meet Kathleen Raine, David Gascoyne & Ruthven Todd in a Reading of Their Poems and Other's Including Those by the Late Humphrey Jennings and Other Poets Published or to Be Published by the Weekend Press

New York: The Gotham Book Mart, 1952. Invitation to a reception for a trio of English Neo-Romantic poets. The Weekend Press was established by Ruthven Todd. Postcard. Blue type on cream card stock. 5-7/16 x 3-9/16 inches. Very Good. .

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Book number: 59-4074

Catalogue: Ephemera

TODD, RUTHVEN

Over the Mountain

NY, Alfred A. Knopf. 1939, First American Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. [1st printing] 1939. Blue cloth lettered in navy on spine with pictorial in oveal of mountains on front in same; 273 pps. In Bleiler. Some bubbling of cloth; edgewear; bookplate. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: GAA23

Catalogue: Fiction Hardcover

Keywords: Lost Race Adventure Hardcovers Lost Race

Ruthven Todd; Patrick Evans; Rayner Heppenstall; Edgar Foxall; Lawrence Durrell; Oswell Blakeston

Proems

London, The Fortune Press, 1938. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this impressive collection of heretofore unpublished poems by living writers, including examples of the poems of individuals including Lawrence Durrell and Patrick Evans. The first edition, first impression. In the publisher"s original unclipped dust wrapper. Durrell was the principal contributor to this anthology, which included also works from Ruthven Todd, Patrick Evans, Rayner Heppenstall, Edgar Foxall and Oswell Blakeston. A publication from the Fortune Press, which made most of its money selling pornography, providing its owner Reginald Caton with a method of avoiding tax. Caton would occasionally commission works of serious literature, such as this, to provide his pornographic publications with a veneer of respectability. With a small number of vignette illustrations by Rayner Heppenstall. With a contemporary owner"s inscription, dated 1939, to the front free endpaper, reading "To Jeffrey, with love. The [ÂÂ-] joy look: the sneer of understanding, Take my least for the bonfire burning. Jones. Donald. Christmas 1939". In the publisher"s original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, but with minor hole in cloth towards head of front joint. Inscription to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper significantly age toned, with significant loss of paper to centre of back strip. Handling marks to wraps. Minor losses of paper to back strip head and tail. Further losses of paper to fold at rear flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Rayner Heppenstall. Very Good Indeed/Good.

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Book number: 951F1

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: lawrence durrell the fortune press promes jones donald the fortune press Rayner Heppenstall

TODD,RUTHVEN

A SONG TO DAVID

London 1947, 58 pp. a211

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Book number: 202059

Catalogue: General

Todd, Ruthven

Tracks in the Snow; Studies in English Science and Art

London, Grey Walls Press, 1946. [xi] 133p. b/w illus. chipped dj. .

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Book number: 036663

Keywords: Art England Science

Todd, Ruthven

Tracks in the Snow. Studies in English Science & Art

London, Grey Walls Press, (1946). orig.cloth. dustwrapper, xi,133,(34)pp. 34pp photoplates. Minor rubbing, VG in a slightly chipped,rubbed and torn dustwrap
¶ Contents:Tracks in the Snow; William Blake & the Eighteenth Century Mythologies; The Reputation & Prejudices of Henry Fuseli; The Imagination of John Martin

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Book number: BOOKS004153I

Keywords: Art history, Imaginative art, English art, Imagination, Blake, William, Fuseli, Henry, Martin, John, ,

Todd, Ruthven.

TRACKS IN THE SNOW: Studies in English Science and Art.

NY: Scribner, 1947. FIRST EDITION. Very Good+ Cloth Volume in dust jacket. Interesting essay among others, William Blake and the Eighteenth Century Mythologists. Forty-seven full page plates, and 9 figures en texte. [xi], 133 pages, indexed. 8vo.

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Book number: 18563

Keywords: Blake Fusili art history myth

Todd, Ruthven.

Tracks in the Snow: Studies in English Science and Art.

London: The Grey Walls Press, (1946). (1946). - Octavo, cloth, in a dust wrapper. The spine is rubbed & the bottom edges of the covers are slightly faded. The dust jacket is chipped & soiled with a stain to the bottom edge of the rear panel. The jacket spine & the adjacent edges of the panels are darkened & the head of the jacket spine is torn. ix & 133 pages. There is an owner's ink name on the front endpaper. Black-and-white frontispiece & full-page & textual illustrations in black & white. Very good in a good dust wrapper.

First edition.

"This book consists of four essays which deal with the early scientists and the eighteenth-century writers and painters, with William Blake, and the mythologists who tried to corollate all mythologies, with Henry Fuseli and John Martin". Very good .

Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional seller

Book number: 11150

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: ART; PAINTERS; LITERATURE; AUTHORS; MYTHOLOGY; WILLIAM BLAKE; HENRY FUSELI; JOHN MARTIN; BRITISH; ENGLISH; SCIENCE; SCIENTISTS; TRACKS IN THE SNOW: STUDIES IN ENGLISH SCIENCE AND ART: ESSAYS; RUTHVEN TODD; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

RUTHVEN TODD

Until Now. Poems

Fortune Press, London [1942]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Good.

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Book number: 99400

Catalogue: Poetry