AUDEN, W.H.,

Good and Evil in the Lord of the Rings.

. Oxford, 1993, 16pp. including the stiff front cover, issued originally as free insert for the 1992 catalogue Tolkien and Friends number 4, issued on the occasion of the centenary celebrations at Keble college, Oxford. there were 26 copies marked A - Z for friends of the publisher, never made available in the trade. Printed on single sides, A-4 with front cover in 3 colours (initials W and A) on conqueror paper, This edition has a colophon which did not appear in the regular edition. Actual year of publication was 1992. this copy in loose sheets is stamped below the colophon: Uncorrected proof copy followed by the title. [ Tolkien inklings Oxford ].

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Book number: Auden14

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Keywords: Tolkien Tolkien

BARRIE, J.M. ,

Farewell, Miss Julie Logan : A Wintry Tale

. Published in the supplement to THE TIMES, Thursday, December 24, 1931, 6pp. frayed, browned, Text in three columns, Folded into eighths with splits and small holes along folds. Edges chipped and tear to last page. 1931. True first edition. 8pp (the story 6 pp.):: 450mm x 350mm . the very first appearance.

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Book number: F2557

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BOTTRALL, R.ONALD,

A Collection of 41 (43 of Which 2 Duplicates) Poetry Magazines of Which Most Include Bottrall's Poems / Articles ( One By His Wife Margaret) from the Poet's Library

. And 9 titles dedicated to him by Italian, Spanish and Swedish poets and the June 1928 issue of THE PEM, his Cambridge college's student paper at the time.
¶ Francis James Ronald Bottrall (2 September 1906, Camborne, Cornwall-25 June 1989) , Cornish poet. He was praised highly by F.R. Leavis and Martin Seymour-Smith. He won a scholarship to Cambridge, and spent his working life abroad. His few successful poems occur amongst a mass of intelligent work. Honours: " OBE, 1949; Coronation Medal, 1953; Syracuse International Poetry Prize, 1954; Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1955; Knight of St. John, 1972; Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, 1973; Knight Commander, Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Malta, 1977.

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Book number: F3180

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Keywords: English Literature Poetry

CARR, J[AMES] L[OYD]

The First Saturday in May; an Echo of a Shropshire Lad

. The Tern Press, Shropshire, 1993. Hardcover. First book Edition, limited to 140 numbered copies printed on Lana paper and signed by the publishers, Nicholas and Mary Parry. Landscape small8vo. Unpaginated. Decorated boards. Illustrated with eight black and white wood engravings from drawings and photographs taken at various villages on the first Saturday in May, 1993,by Nicholas Parry. In fine state. No dust wrapper, as issued. A delightful account of the first village cricket match of the 1936 season and the train journey to and from the game. Carr's story was first printed in the cricketing anthology 'Fine Glances', issued three years previously. White and green pictorial paper over boards. Title in red on front cover and spine. outer edge untrimmed. Textured green end papers A charming book on cricket. delightful little story by J.L Carr recalling a match he played at Bridgenorth in Worcestershire in 1936. Strangely, this attractive item is not widely known. Byron Rogers wrote a highly acclaimed biography of JL Carr , but the First Saturday in May is not shown in the list of books written by Carr. It also escaped the attention of Stephen Gibbs in Post Padwick. J.L. Carr. 1912-1994, was one of the great polymaths of the twentieth century, putting his hand to teaching, travelling, novels, and social history, and even serving a stint as a photographer for the R.A.F. Famed for his eccentricity, he went through six publishers, one for each novel he wrote, until he formed his own Quince Tree Press. This is a beautiful and wistful account of a half-remembered pre-war cricket match: 'At least two of us would die in fixtures even then tentatively arranged for our generation." 1993 . Loosely inseted is a handwritten letter by Mary Parry dated 11-9-2004. also herewith: 2 signed etchings in sepia by Nicholas Parry measuring 100 x 150 mm for the actual etchings both mounted and protected by cellophane.

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CARROLL, LEWIS [DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 2 Editions and Through the Looking-Glass

. 3 editions on offer here: Alice in Wonderland, 75th thousand 1883 and .83rd thousand 1886 AND Through the Looking-Glass 58th thousand 1887. All three volumes rebacked and held in a new box with inlaid Alice designs . A separate box 2 is included in case you are not happy with box 1. ASK FOR FULL DESCRIPTIONS.

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Book number: F3249

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GALLICO, PAUL

A Miracle in Wilderness. A Story for Christmas.

. Illustrated by Jane & Anne Grahame-Johnstone. Oxford, Mouette Press, 1975. Printed by the Whittington Press, in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by Paul Gallico. This is one of the 50 copies which were numbered M1 - M50. Printed on an 1848 Columbian press, on mould made paper from St Cuthbert's Mill. embossed cloth binding in protective white plain d/j. gilt top edge. Fine copy.( private press ). (ISBN: 0904845001) .

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Book number: F3162-4

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Keywords: Bibliophile Private Press Weblists2 Wim Meeuws Sch1 Gallico English Literature Bibliophile Private Press Limited Editions Christmas Noel Kerstmis Weihnachten Natale Natali 0904845001

GARFIELD, LEON,

Shakespeare Stories Ii. Illustrated By Micheal Foreman

. Victor Gollancz , 1994 , 287 pages illustrated with 16 colour plates and various black and white drawings in the text. First Edition , a pristine Hardcover copy in splendid dust wrapper.

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Book number: Tam02

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JENNINGS, ELIZABETH

An Oxford Cycle. Poems

. Oxford, Thornton's, 1987. 16pp. One of a limited edition of 538 copies. Fine copy in original covers, << Spell of Oxford - It is a scheme of spires / a haze of green / a range of clouds / A cluster of boys / And girls and the old.......>> one of the 38 specials, but not signed. the poet promised to sign all 38 , came to sign, but left after only signing 6 copies. note by the publisher.

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Book number: F2553-2

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Keywords: Poetry Signed Oxford

LEHMANN, JOHN, (ED.)

The London Magazine . A Monthly Review of Literature. 12 Early Issues 1954 - 1956, Including the First 3 Issues.

. Volume 1, No. 1, February 1954: T.S. Eliot: A message; Louis MacNeice : Canto in memoriam Dylan Thomas; Elizabeth Jennings: Three poems; and Elizabeth Bowen, Thom Gunn, L.P.Hartley, William Plomer et al // AND // Volume 1, No. 2, March 1954: Vernon Watkins, James Courtage, Joyce Carey: Spring song; Felicien Marceau, Michael Swan et al // AND // Volume 1, No. 3, April 1954: W.H.Auden: Plains; P.H. Newby: The pioneer; and Roy Fuller, William Plomer, Paul Bowles, G.J. Warnock, J.C. Hall (spine torn at bottom) // AND // Volume 1, No. 6, July 1954: V.S. Pritchett: Portrait of a clerk. And Vernon Watkins, George Barker, Hugo Charteris, Paul Bowles et al. // AND // Volume 1, No 9, October, 1954: Tennessee Williams : The Mattress by the Tomato Patch in Wrappers. And Norman MacCaig, S.Spender, Jocelyn Brooke, Angus Wilson, Thom Gunn, Roy Fuller, Louis MacNeice and others // AND // Volume 1, No. 11, December 1954: Graham Greene: A few pipes; and Roy Fuller, Vernon Scannell, Vernon Watkins, Anna Kavan, Micvhael Swan et al. // AND // Volume 2, No. 1, January 1955: Italo Calvino: A trip to Mentone; Thom Gunn: Ralph's dream and Francis King, Walter Allen, L.D. Lerner, Peter Quennell, W.W. Robson // AND // Volume 2, No. 4, April 1955: Roy Fuller: Two poems; Marguerite Duras: The boa; John Wain: The painful filter, B.H. Liddell Hart: T.E. Lawrence, Aldington and the truth and Eleano Farjeon, Peter Mayne et al // AND // Volume 2, No. 11, November 1955: A Proust celebration. Venice & A fan. An unpublished fragment and a new essay. And the Duc de Grammont: Proust as I knew him; Louis Macneice,William Sanson, William Plomer, Lionel Trilling, J. Middleton Murry et al // AND // Volume 3, No. 1, January 1956: Thomas Hardy: 5 unpublished poems wwith an introduction by Evelyn Hardy; John Wain: Poem by an electronic brain; and Marcel Ayme, Violet Hammersley, George Barker, Peter Quennell. Idris Parry reviews Robert Musil [6 cm square cut off right bottom of front cover] // AND // Volume 3, no. 4 ,April 1956: E.M. Forster: Daughter dear" ( = the opening chapter of E. M. Forster's novel Marianne Thornton: a domestic biography (London : E. Arnold, 1956) and Four poems by Louis Macneice, P.H. Newby, Maurice Pons, Joeclyn Brooke Denis Donoghue et al. // AND // Volume 3, No. 11 , November 1956: Young English poets 1956-11: Dannie Abse, Thomas Blackburn, D.J. Enright, John Holloway, Jenny Joseph, Pat Kavcanagh, Quentin Stevenson, Carol Stewart, Anthony Thwaite and Mary Hutchinson, Colin Wilson, Ronald Hayman, Sewell Stokes, John Wain.

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Book number: F3229

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Keywords: English Literature Poetry

MALORY , SIR THOMAS ILLUSTRATED BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY

Le Morte D'arthur

Dent. Ill.: Beardsley. J. M. Dent & Co. Ltd. 1988 , a very fine and complete copy with the slip-case. ; IV, 538 p. [26] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm. This edition is a fine facsimile of the fourth edition. weight 4 KG. ISBN 10: 0460078453 / ISBN 13: 9780460078450 [ heavy volume, ask for postal quote first ]. (ISBN: 0460078453) .

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Book number: F3216

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O'BRIAN, PATRICK:

Caesar and Hussein. 2 Volumes in Slip-Case,

. 1999, The author's first two novels published in 1930 and 1938 respectively. Neither had been reprinted since. Caesar tells the poignant, autobiographical tale of a panda-leopard. Hussein is a picaresque tale of the adventures of a young Indian boy growing to manhood under the Raj. Patrick O'Brian's gift for storytelling and love of natural history are already well in evidence and both books are excellent entertainment for readers of all ages. With a new foreword by the author. One of the 250 signed copies of the limited edition bound in leather, tooled spines . Copy as new.

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Book number: 020349-2

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STEWART, J[OHN] I[NNES] M[ACKINTOSH] STEWART (1906 - 1973 )

Shakespeare's Lofty Scene.

. Annual Shakespeare lecture of the British academy.(from the proceedings of the British academy volume LVII ) Oxford University press, 1971, 18pp. printed wrappers. ? the author, also known as Michael Innes , the pseudonym he used for his crime novels, was professor of English at Oxford. On the front cover is a long dedication in ink to David [Luke] mentioning Wystan's [Auden] Festschrift and dated 30 Oct 1971. [ DR - M ].

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Book number: F0351

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DYLAN THOMAS:

Under Milk Wood. 2 Phono Records

. Produced by Douglas Cleverdon with Richard Burton and all Welsh cast in the original B.B.C. Production. the songs set by Daniel Jones. Children's songs and singing game recorded by children of Laugharne school. 2 Argo records RG 21 and 22. Introduction on sleeve by Daniel Jones dated January 1954. in opriginal sleeves with cover illustration by Arthur Wragg. together in protective plastic folder. {The poet spoke no Welsh, he used Anglo-Welsh } Two 33 1/3 records housed in the original interior sleeves and jacket covers. Probably the 1970 pressing .

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Book number: 091183

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Welsh Wales English Poetry Spoken Word