Rare books from The Typographeum Bookshop

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1915. First edition. Wraps. Wrappers frayed, worn and faded. A few pencilled notes on the prefatory pages. Else a sound copy.. 4to. Wrappers over card covers. This is the first of three Imagist anthologies edited by Amy Lowell and published yearly. It includes the work of Richard Aldington, H. D., John Gould Fletcher, D. H. Lawrence, Amy Lowell and others.

London: Hart-Davis, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Small ink mark on one page. Else fine copy/fine. 8vo. Cloth. Pp. 136. Index. The Soho Bibliographies. With postcard and invoice signed by the author loosely inserted, as well as a letter to "The Times" asking for help.

London: Mathews & Marrot, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Edges and end-papers foxed, else very good copy/very good. Hand-colored cartoon (as frontispiece) by Max Beerbohm. 8vo. Green cloth. Pp. xiv, 276. Frontispiece portrait. Facsimiles. Index. Hand-colored cartoon (as frontispiece) by Max Beerbohm.

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1965. Second impression, revised. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Red buckram. Pp. 206. Frontispiece portrait. Index. Foreword by E. M. Forster. One of The Soho Bibliographies.

London: Faber and Faber, 1993. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards. Pp. xvi, 496. Number 80 of 150 copies signed by the poet.

[Tannersville]: Tideline Press, 1977. Limited edition. First edition. Broadside. Fine copy. Illustrated by Leonard Seastone. Broadside. 515 x 330 mm. Printed on English hand-made paper. Number 23 of 25 copies. Illustrated by Leonard Seastone. A poem with an original drawing printed in black and gray. Signed by author.

London: Cresset Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Dj slightly frayed.. Illustrated by Christopher Cornford. Slim 8vo. Cloth. 48 pp. Illus. Presentation copy signed by author.

New York: Macmillan, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/frayed and torn. Four 8vo volumes. Blue buckram. A wide-ranging bibliography of all writers up to the beginning of the 20th Century.

London: Scholartis Press, 1929. Limited edition. First edition. Hardcover. Small hole in back-strip, else very good copy. 8vo. Black buckram. T.e.g. Pp. (viii), 406. Two maps. Number 70 of 100 copies signed by the authors. A Personal Record" by R. H. Mottram. "Broadchalk, A Chronicle" by John Easton. "Frank Honywood, Private" by Eric Partridge.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1984. Limited private press edition. First edition.. Hardcover. New. 8vo. Red cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in) Pp. 128. Index. Limited to 200 copies hand-set and printed letterpress by R T Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Edited and with some selections translated by Alister Kershaw Revised and expanded version of: "Hommage à  Roy Campbell" (France: 1958). This is a tribute to Roy Campbell by many of his friends, including Lawrence Durrell, Laurie Lee, Alan Paton, William Plomer, and Richard Aldington.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1986. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. New copy. 8vo. Red cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). Pp. 156. Illustrated: frontispiece, 5 plates. 150 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. Roy Campbell had a colorful personality. His many friends knew him as a soldier, bull-fighter, and marvellous raconteur. However he had another side to his nature which was seldom on view, except to his daughter who recalls here her memories of him, particularly when he retreated to write his poetry. Only a few copies are still available.

Pinner: The Private Libraries Association, 1959-2000. First edition. Paperback. Fine copy. 8vo. Wrappers. Illustrated. Checklists. Altogether there are 151 issues of this magazine, including 1 from 1959, 30 from the 1960s, 40 from the 1970s (complete), 39 from the 1980s (the Potocki issue missing), 39 from the 1990s (the Potocki issue also missing), and 2 from the year 2000. Also included are five issues of the Index, separately printed. This premier magazine on issues relating to books, book collecting and the private press has articles by Roderick Cave, Frank Broomhead, Ruari McLean and many others. The subjects covered include: The Limited Editions Club, printing Blake's engravings, the Cuala Press, Viscount Carlow and T E Lawrence, and a host of other interesting topics.

[Pinner]: Society of Private Printers (Private Libraries Association), 1980. First edition. Wrappers. Fine copy. 31 pamphlets. 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches. Preserved in a mahogany box with a sliding front and the engraving by Pam Reuter on the front. Limited to 70 sets. Engraving by Pam Reuter. A printers' exchange organized by the Private Libraries Association, comprising 30 booklets printed between 1975 and 1980 by various private press printers, chiefly in England and the U.S. An introductory booklet is included. The presses include Cherub Press, Keepsake Press, Perdix Press, Pump Press, Peter Stockham, and Typographeum.

Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990. First editions. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Four volumes. 4to. Cloth-backed boards. Illus. Checklist. Index. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. A detailed and extensively illustrated study of what it was like to live, work, and die in the ancient world, and includes consideration of such things as the role of women, religion, public baths and nudity, and burial practices.

New York: Arrow Editions, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Slip-case darkened. Else near fine copy/frayed glassine. 8vo. Paper boards with linen back-strip and printed label. Pp. (ii), 96, (ii). Slip-case. Limited to 500 copies.