Search Results: BRITISH LITERATURE from Varennes Books

The most acclaimed of Aldington's shorter war stories. Published as a stand-alone book, Wrenchingly poignant, it follows the final hours of a group of officers that has been ordered to make a sacrificial 'last stand' in a trench attack.Marbled boards with green cloth spine, gilt top edge.This edition, numbered #255 and signed by the author, was limited to 275 copies for sale in Great Britain and Ireland. Edgewear to boards. Staining to front and rear flyleaves. Otherwise clean interior. Binding tight.

Ballad of Reading Gaol by C.3.3, Oscar Wilde, Mustard boards with white cloth spine. Condition: In very good condition. Light soiling to original publisher's two-tone mustard and white cloth boards and spine. Seventh printing of Leonard Smithers Edition, 1899. 8°. 31 pages. Original Hardcover (Quarter vellum with mustard boards). This edition was printed on 23 June 1899 and was the first to reveal the author's identity, putting the name Oscar Wilde in square brackets under his cell number on the title page. (Mason, Stuart, 1914; new ed. 1972, Bibliography of Oscar Wilde. Rota pub; Haskell House pgs. 408–423).

First American edition of this collection of Dame Edith Sitwell's poetry. A very good copy. Octavo, original black cloth boards stamped in gilt, bright intact original pink dustjacket with slight wear to folds on panels.

First German edition of The Canterville Ghost, Oscar Wilde's first published short story about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers. Translated by Franz Blei. Preliminary leaves, 88 pages with frontispiece and plates by famed German painter and illustrator Heinrich Vogeler of the Worpspede Artist's Colony. On vellum paper. Signs of wear: Cover loose from binding. Some soiling on front and back cover; chipping on bottom edge of binding, no tears, no missing pages.

Very good condition. Decorated blue cloth boards, front and spine panel stamped in gold, gold titles, gilt device on the front cover, other edges untrimmed. Gilt top edge to text-block. Interior pages clean. Spine tight. All edges of text-block untrimmed. Preface by Robert Ross, 151 text pages plus 40-page publishers catalogue to rear dated July 1906. 224 mm x 140 mm.

1907, Third Printing.Bound in full leather in good+ condition. Gilt design and lettering to spine. Gilt top edges. Endpapers decorated with astrological drawings. 352pp. Silk page marker. Former owner's details to front endpaper.

Very good copy of interwar analysis of tensions in the Far East between Japan, China and Soviet Union by German journalist stationed in Japan and China who was a foreign correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor and the Associated Press. 8vo, 16pp photoplates; map 21x14cm, viii,244,(16)p. Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare and Company bookseler's label affixed inside back board. No wear to maroon cloth boards. Inside immaculate.

Large hardback , approx 12 x 9.5 inches. 309 pages. No. 410 of limited edition of 525 copies. Halfbound fine vellum binding with blue cloth to boards with gilt crest and lettering. Gilt banding and decorations to spine. Top edges gilt. Edges uncut. In very good condition with some soiling to binding and light scratches to cloth on rear. Minor wear to corners and bumping to spine-ends. Near Very Good.Plates tissue guarded. Inside pages intact. 7 B&W 'Collotype' plates, plus a facsimile Letter. Inscribed to M. Forbes Morgan Sr. for Xmas 1889.

Very good copy of 1st U.S. Edition by English Writer and Poet. No edge wear to cloth boards. Sunning to DJ spine and cover Small tear on front dust jacket.37 pp. From Library of Harry Church to whom it is inscribed.

Very Good copy of George Meredith's (1828-1909),1862 sonnet sequence, described as a novella in verse. Some tanning to to thin cream coloured card wrappers hinged to extend round the front edge of the book, Front of cover has 'Modern love' in a floral medallion,Pp. 141, front and bottom edges deckled, final page uncut. Binding sound.

Very Good copy of Christopher Fry's A Phoenix Too Frequent - a play based on Petronius' story of the Ephesian widow who determined to die uon her husband's tomb, taking with her a devoted maid. In a good price- clipped dust jacket. Slight creasing, age-toning and chipping to dj. Interior clean; 8vo 7-3/4" - 5" tall.

1887 Edition of Selected Poems of Alexander Pope in very good condition. No wear. 335 pages, 8-page publishers catalogue at rear, red single-ruled border to pages, bouind in green ribbed cloth, blind tooled border on boards, gilt title and floral decoration on spine 14 x 11 cm.

First American edition of T.S. Eliot's Pageant Play, written for a benefit performance on behalf of the forty-five churches fund of the Diocese of London. 86 p. No markings, no wear on beige cloth boards, pages clean and bright. Dust jacket missing.

No. 642 of 850 of a BBC Radio-play Melodrama based on Homer's Odyssey for broadcasting performed by the BBC in November 1943 with six colour plates by Henry Moore (without Benjamin Britten's orchestral score)

Elegant collectible copy of an early English edition of Sentimental Journey with a Frontispiece Portrait of the author with tissue guard intact. First published in 1768, this autobiographical work established travel writing as a popular genre in the latter half of the 18th century. Gilt title on spine. Blue cloth over blue and white mottled boards. No wear to corners. Slight bumping to spine. Binding tight.

Very good copy of First American Edition. No wear to spine or original burgundy cloth boards. Scratch mark on back cover. Inside clean.

First Edition in good condition of Aldous Huxley's novel about an English schoolboy, who goes to Italy for the summer and is influenced by two teachers, a saintly bookseller and an Uncle Eustace who introduces him things profane. No dust jacket. No wear.

USed. In very good- condition. No notes or highlighting or signs of war. Billed as uproarious acount of a year in the life of a British expat in Paris.