Text to front wrapper extensively reacted, some toning to extremities, but overall a very good copy.
Black & white illustrations.
£175
[London], , Spring 1972.
Large 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
The last issue in Winkfield’s well-regarded poetry journal Juillard, which ran from 1968 to 1972. Uncommon.
In stock
Text to front wrapper extensively reacted, some toning to extremities, but overall a very good copy.
Black & white illustrations.
Non-Fiction
London, The C.W. Daniel Company, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972) was an English actress, writer and philosopher. A growing interest in religious and moral matters led her into non-fiction and journalism, sometimes in partnership with the writer J. D. Beresford. This work focuses on the World-Brotherhood Educational Movement and its belief in educating children in a culture of peace from a young age.
Poetry
London, L, & V. Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1931.
Number 270 of 350 signed copies. Early issue with comma after 'L' in imprint. 8vo. Original patterned wrappers with printed title label. Original plain glassine dust-jacket.
George "Dadie" Rylands (1902–1999), Cambridge literary scholar, King's College fellow, Shakespeare authority and theatre director (later famous for coaching John Gielgud and directing the Marlowe Society) who moved in the Bloomsbury and Cambridge Apostles circles and briefly worked as an assistant at the Hogarth Press in 1924. The Woolfs published two volumes of his verse, Russet and Taffeta (1925) and this collection of pastoral lyrics, together with his dissertation Words and Poetry (1928).
Modern Literature
Minton (John, artist).- Garnier (Christine) White People Smile at Me
London, Putnam, [1952].
Colour proof for the original dust-jacket, with 1 (of 4) loose sheets representing the 4-stage colour process (yellow, pink, green & black) used to create the design.
An attractive jacket design by the highly collectable British artist John Minton, for Garnier's novel about French West Africa.
American Literature
New York & London, D. Appleton, 1928.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth with printed title labels. Dust-jacket, priced $2.50.
'There is a delightful part of Paris that most foreigners never see... lts people are the truest citizens of Paris - the workmen, roustabouts, apaches and their girls, who drop into the cafes and little bars to chatter and make love and quarrel.' (jacket blurb)
An Anthology
Dublin & London, Browne & Nolan; Harrap, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original turquoise cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
An anthology of poetry of primarily Irish origin, many inspired by the Easter Rising in 1916. Poets include Roger Casement, Thomas MacDonagh, Padriac Pearse, W.B. Yeats, 'AE' and James Stephens.