London: William Heinemann, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of this early collection. Small 8vo (183 x 119mm): [6],231,[1]pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine stamped in silver, cream-colored typographic dust jacket printed in red and grey and priced 8s/6d. About Fine (few spots to fore-edge, ink inscription to first blank)..... more

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, n.d. [1946]. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression, second issue, with reviews on front flap (the first issue appeared in plain boards with plain buff dust jacket) of Greene's first children's book. Both issues are scarce and sought-after, and this is the more attractive. Oblong royal 8vo..... more

London: The Gallery, [1917]. String-Bound Wrappers. Scarce catalogue of an exhibition, held November, 1917, at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51A New Bond Street, London, featuring works by Corot, Degas, Augustus John, Monet, Pissarro, Rodin, Rossetti, Sargent, Sickert, and Whistler, among others. Foolscap 8vo (151 x 125mm): 48pp. Original blue string-bound wrappers printed..... more

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. First Printing (complete number line) of the poet's own favorite. Octavo, 67pp. Original burgundy quarter cloth over grey paper-covered boards, the spine lettered in gilt, pink endpapers; in a pictorial dust jacket priced at $16.95. As New (and probably unread), in..... more

Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (no additional printings noted.) Slim 8vo: 44pp. Publisher's decorative black-and-white patterned paper-covered boards. No Jacket, as issued. As New (and probably unread). Kelleher A-16. ¶ A Godine Poetry Chapbook, Second Series, beautifully printed on laid paper. The title poem concerns..... more

London: Faber and Gwyer / Faber and Faber (through 1931], 1927. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. A superb set, virtually pristine, of the First Series, ordinary issues, complete in 38 volumes. Original sewn wrappers in various colors, front covers lettered in black with monochrome illustration. Crown 8vo (186 x 122mm): [4]pp..... more

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of the literary successor to Hartley's best-known work, The Go-Between. Crown 8vo (183 x 120mm): 248pp. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine stamped in silver, dust jacket printed in red, green, and black and priced 13s / 6d. A spectacular copy, virtually..... more

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1954. First Impression. Hardcover. First Impression. Near Fine or better (spotted end papers and fore edge, slight spine roll) publisher's French blue cloth, the spine lettered in silver; in a Very Good or better (light, overall soiling, wedge-shaped loss from the top of the rear panel, not..... more

New York: Oxford University Press, 1966. First American Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and Faber, Heaney's London publisher). Tall, slim 8vo..... more

Belfast: Ulsterman Publications, 1975. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. First Printing of this sequence of twenty-one "verse paragraphs" or prose poems (a style then new to Heaney), among which are "Nesting-grounds," "England's difficulty," "Cloistered" and other poems that hark to Heaney's childhood. Slim demy 8vo (215 x 153mm): 24pp. Publisher's pale..... more

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression (no further printings noted). 8vo: 6],443,[1]pp. Publisher's red cloth, spine stamped in gilt (still brillant), top edge stained green; second-state dust jacket (with blurbs from four authors and the New York Times on back panel), illustrated by Germano Facetti and priced..... more

San Francisco: The Bradstreet Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. First and only printing in separate format (one of 250 trade copies, this being no. 49) of this children's story written for the son of a friend. Royal 8vo (233 x 155mm): [32]pp, with nine full-color illustrations reproduced from original paintings..... more

Cleveland: The J. B. Savage Company, 1938. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Exceptionally scarce First Issue with F. A. I. banner end papers, one of fewer than 100 copies from a limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this is number 116. (Hemingway so disliked the original orange end papers showing..... more