Limited Edition Literature & History

First edition, first impression, deluxe issue, being one of only 60 copies, signed by the Author; 8vo; 3 tinted plates, vignettes and pictorial endpapers by Rex Whistler; publisher's purple vellum with gilt vignette to upper cover, yapp edges, top edge gilt, others uncut, dust-jacket with slight discolouration to strip along top of both panels, slight bowing (as usual) and soiling to vellum covers.

Limited edition, inscribed by the author, number 63 of 75 copies signed and numbered by the author, from a total edition of 90; illustrated by Jorg von Reppert-Bismark, full-page illustrated inscription to front free endpaper, text in black and green, leaves a little toned but otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's brown and grey cloth, gilt lettering to spine and upper board, head and tail of spine and corners a little rubbed, overall an attractive copy; [ix], 99pp.

First edition, sole impression; 8vo; publisher's buff wrappers, titles to front wrapper in black; just a trace of toning to the backstrip but a remarkably nice copy.

First edition, sole impression, presentation copy inscribed by the author, one of 1250 copies; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt; no printed dust jacket was issued. A superb copy.

First edition, signed by the author, number 7 of 110 copies, with a page of the original manuscript tipped in; 8vo; illustrated frontispiece after a drawing by Waugh, photographic plates, decorated endpapers, endpapers with tape marks; publisher's light blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, an unusually fine copy of a scarce item.

Special edition, signed by the author, number 94 of 300 numbered copies, from a total edition of 310 (10 reserved for the author numbered i-x); 8vo; publisher's plain green boards, presented in matching slipcase, a bright and attractive copy.

First edition, one of 1000 copies; small crown 8vo; 4 full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell, none of the usual offsetting to woodcuts and browning to free endpapers; white paper boards printed in black with a design by Bell, brown cloth spine, edges lightly rubbed, an exceptionally clean and tight copy of this scarce item.

Limited edition, number 841 of 1,000 copies signed by the author and printed on handmade paper; 8vo; portrait frontispiece of the poet, publisher's japon-backed green boards, titles printed in brown on paper label on spine, green endpapers, some edges untrimmed, grey paper dust-jacket with label to spine. A superb copy in the very lightly tanned dust jacket.

First edition; 4to, (262 x 200 mm); number 297 of 535 copies; hand-coloured pochoir plates by E. McKnight Kauffer, comprising 8 full-page drawings and 1 title-page vignette, prelims spotted and browned; original dark brown cloth, leaves uncut, spine and boards slightly sunned, extremities rubbed.

Number 330 of 1,000, copies signed by the author and illustrator to colophon pag; 8vo, frontispiece and illustrations by Graham Sutherland; publisher's quarter morocco, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, as published, endpapers lightly browned, small chip to base of spine, original slip-case, lightly marked, otherwise a fine copy.