Drammaturgia e teatro

Killarney: A Poem; [bound with:] The Fleece, A Poem. In Four Books [Ravensdale Park]

LESLIE, John (1736-1778); DYER, John (1699-1757) · 17721757 · Fine Editions Ltd

$949.00 (€861.01 | £718.32 | ¥151,495)

Dublin / London Printed for William Wilson / Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall First Editions of these two eighteenth-century poems in handsome contemporary binding with distinguished provenance. 4to (262 x 208mm): [8],50,2]; [4],156pp, with title page vignettes, list...

The Borough : a poem, in twenty-four letters [Peter Grimes]

CRABBE, Rev. G. (George, 1754-1832) · 1810 · Fine Editions Ltd

$326.00 (€295.77 | £246.76 | ¥52,041)

London Printed for J. Hatchard, Bookseller to Her Majesty, 190, Opposite Albany, Piccadilly First Edition of Crabbe's best known work, dedicated to the Duke of Rutland, a series of twenty-four verse letters, including Peter Grimes, the poem that Benjamin Britten used in 1945...

A Living Theatre. The Gordon Craig School. The Arena Goldoni. The Mask [First Issue, Unopened]

CRAIG, Edward Gordon (1872-1966) · 1913 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.40 | ¥43,740)

Florence [The School for the Art of the Theatre] First Edition First Issue (with "Fo rterms" on front cover verso) of this beautifully produced (and lesser known) title by the theatre director, stage designer, actor, and dramaturge. 8vo (228 x 158mm): 73,[7]pp, with 22 full- a...

The Gold Hesperidee [First State with Provenance]

FROST, Robert (1874-1963) · 1935 · Fine Editions Ltd

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.16 | ¥55,713)

Cortland, N.Y. The Bibliophile Press First Separate Edition, First State (with A on page 3 and long line on page 7). 8vo (186 x 123mm): 8pp. Publisher's tan stiff paper wrappers (Crane's Binding A of two first-state bindings), front cover ruled and lettered in black with vigne...

This Earth

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962); HECKMAN, Albert (Illustrates) · 1932 · Fine Editions Ltd

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,096)

New York Equinox First Edition Only Printing of this poem, illustrated with drawings by Albert Heckman. Slim crown 8vo (203 x 131mm): [8]pp Publisher's string-tied tan paper wrappers printed in brown; wanting original unlettered white mailing envelope. A superlative copy, virt...

A Green Bough [Signed]

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962); Lynd Ward (illustrates) · 1933 · Fine Editions Ltd

$949.00 (€861.01 | £718.32 | ¥151,495)

New York Harrison Smith & Robert Haas Limited Edition No. 205 of 360 copies signed by Faulkner in blue ink at the colophon. Demy 8vo (217 x 159mm): 67,[3]pp, with four wood engravings by Lynd Ward (including inlaid frontispiece and vignette in colophon) printed in green on lai...

Artemis To Actaeon And Other Verse

WHARTON, Edith (1862-1937) · 1909 · Fine Editions Ltd

$551.00 (€499.91 | £417.06 | ¥87,960)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons First Printing First (and only) Edition of Wharton's scarce second book of poetry, although the most obtainable. (Only a dozen copies are known of her first book of poems, Verses, privately printed and published anonymously in 1878, and only 13...

Dante [The Poets on the Poets]

ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965) · 1929 · Fine Editions Ltd

$626.00 (€567.96 | £473.83 | ¥99,932)

London Faber and Faber First Impression First Edition, ordinary copy (there was also a signed, limited edition of 125 copies), in the first-issue dust jacket (without excerpts from reviews on front flap and back panel). Crown 8vo: [8],11-69,[1]pp. Publisher's grey decorated pa...

The Old Vicarage, Grantchester

BROOKE, Rupert (1887-1915) · 1916 · Fine Editions Ltd

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,069)

London Sidgwick and Jackson First Impression First Separate Edition, with double-page woodcut by Noel Brooke, one of 2900 copies issued. Foolscap 8vo (170 x 124mm): 14pp. Stitched in publisher's stiff grey paper wrappers printed in black. Bottom edge of upper wrapper lightly s...

Umbra: The Early Poems of Ezra Pound. All that he now wishes to keep in circulation from 'Personae,' 'Exultations,' 'Ripostes,' etc. [Leolyn Louise Everett's copy]

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972) · 1920 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.93 | ¥67,686)

London Elkin Mathews First Printing First Trade Edition (one of 1,000 copies), collecting previously published early poems ("All that he now wishes to keep in circulation") and some translations. Crown 8vo (190 x 138mm): 128pp. Publisher's fawn quarter-bound canvas over grey p...

[Vinyl Record] [John Ciardi's Copy] [Beats] Allen Ginsberg Reads Howl and Other Poems; [together with] Howl and Other Poems [No. 4 in the Pocket Poets Series]

GINSBERG, Allen (1926-1997) · 1959 · Fine Editions Ltd

$851.00 (€772.09 | £644.14 | ¥135,851)

n.p. / San Francisco Fantasy / City Lights Bookshop First Edition First Pressing of this 33 1/3 rpm (12-inch) LP phonograph record (numbered 7006 on sleeve and vinyl), on which the poet recites (screams, begs, urges) "Howl" and other poems. Transparent red vinyl (not the later...

Harlequin-Horace: or, The Art of Modern Poetry

[MILLER, James, 1704-1744] · 1731 · Fine Editions Ltd

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.70 | ¥79,659)

London printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's church, in Fleetstreet Scarce First Edition, written in 56 stanzas of rhyming verse, of this satirical poem. Foxson's second state (no known priority): correct catchword on p. 57 and p. 58 correctly numbe...

Drunken Barnaby’s four journeys to the north of England. In Latin and English metre. Wittily and merrily (tho’ an hundred years ago) compos’d; found among some old musty Books that had lain a long time by in a Corner, and now at last made publick. Together with Bessy Bell

CORYMBAEUS [Brathwait[e], Richard, 1588?-1673] · 1723 · Fine Editions Ltd

$476.00 (€431.86 | £360.29 | ¥75,987)

London printed for S. Illidge, under Serle’s Gate Lincolns-Inn New-Square The Third Edition, "illustrated with several new copper cuts," of Brathwait’s most famous work, a mischievous doggerel featuring perhaps "the world’s most celebrated pub crawl.” (Bowes). Foolscap 8vo (14...

Poems on various subjects . . . In two parts [Charles Whibley's copy]

FERGUSSON, Robert (1750-1774) · 178889 · Fine Editions Ltd

$949.00 (€861.01 | £718.32 | ¥151,495)

Perth Printed by R. Morison, Junr. For R. Romison and Son, Booksellers; and Sold by J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet-street, London First Edition thus First Printing of this uncommon edition (published for Morison's Edition of Scottish Poets), with no copies currently on the market an...

[Juvenile] Ann at Highwood Hall: Poems for Children

GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985); Edward Ardizzone (Illustrates) · 1964 · Fine Editions Ltd

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.09 | ¥7,822)

London Cassell First Edition First Printing of this juvenile, collecting seven poems, one of 5,000 copies printed. Slim demy 8vo (216 x 161mm): [8],38,[2]pp, with 35 pen drawings (including illustrated title page), each with single color wash, alternating green and peach. Publ...

The Grand Piano: an Experiment in Collective Autobiography. San Francisco, 1975-1980 [Inscribed Association Copies]

MANDEL, Tom; Bob Perelman; Barrett Watten; Steve Benson; Carla Harryman; Ron Silliman; Kit Robinson; Lyn Hejinian; Rae Armantrout, and Ted Pearson · 2006 · Fine Editions Ltd

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.16 | ¥55,713)

Detroit Mode A [through 2010] First Edition First Edition of this experiment in collective autobiography, complete in ten volumes. Crown 8vo (173 x 104mm): 79,[1]; 90,[6]; 127,[1]; 159,[1]; 143,[1]; 159,[1]; 207,[1]; 207,[1]; 223,[1]; 271,[1]pp. Publisher's white stiff card co...

The Return of A. J. Raffles [Signed]

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991) · 1975 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.40 | ¥43,740)

London Bodley Head Limited Edition No. 132 of 250 signed limited-edition copies bound in boards (of which only 170 were for sale); the first trade edition was issued as a paperback original. Small, slim 8vo (189 x 113mm): 80pp. Publisher's copper-colored paper over boards, spi...

Peter Bell, A Tale in Verse [Wm. Rossetti's Copy, Signed]

WORDSWORTH, William (1770-1850) · 1819 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,999.00 (€1,813.65 | £1,513.08 | ¥319,113)

London Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode, Printers-Street | For Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orne, and Brown, Paternoster-Row So-called "Second Edition," but largely a reprinting from standing type of the first edition, with first gathering reset and advertisement added to half tit...

Death of a Salesman : certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem

MILLER, Arthur (1915-2005) · 1949 · Fine Editions Ltd

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,768)

London The Cresset Press First British Edition First Impression ("First published in Great Britain in 1949") of one of the most important plays of the twentieth century by one of the greatest American playwrights. Small, slim 8vo (185 x 119 cm): 133,[1]pp. Publisher's vivid sc...

The Poetry Quartos, Twelve brochures each containing a new poem by an American poet comprising: Monologue for Mothers, The Lovely Shall be Choosers, Rigamarole, Rigamarole, The Prodigal Son, Adirondack Cycle, Body and Stone, Red Roses for Bronze, Birthday Sonnet, The Aspirant, Sagacity, Prelude, Roots

[JOHNSTON, Paul, edits and designs]; Genevieve Taggard, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Louis Untermeyer, Alfred Kreymborg, HD, Elinor Wylie, Theodore Dreiser, William Rose Benet, Conrad Aiken, Witter Bynner · 1929 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.93 | ¥67,686)

New York Random House Limited Edition One of 475 sets of twelve royal octavo chapbooks, designed, illustrated, and printed by Paul Johnston, each being the first appearance of a poem by a contemporary American. (253 x 158mm) [4]pp. Original variously colored handmade string-bo...