Literature & Poetry

Inscribed book of poetry by Edward James, with a frontispiece by Tchelitchew.

Cecil Beaton's second dust jacket, created for the Sitwell brothers.

Nancy Mitford's sequel to 'The Pursuit of Love' and 'Love in a Cold Climate', with a dust jacket by Cecil Beaton.

Nancy Mitford's semi-autobiographical novel about a Anglo-French marriage, with a dust jacket by Beaton.

Enid Bagnold's novel based on a fictional Lady Diana Cooper, with a jacket design by Beaton.

Beaton's first dust jacket.

Tennessee Williams' Roman novel, with a dust jacket design by Cecil Beaton.

Pierre Louys' classical tales, illustrated with drawings by Cecil Beaton.

A classic Penguin edition of Denton Welch's first book.

A collection of poems by David Gascoyne, with a dust jacket by Keith Vaughan.

A pot-pourri of short essays on everything from 'Wagner in the Bath' to 'Famous Clowns'.

Sacheverell Sitwell's artistic medley, with jacket design by Barnett Freedman.

A prose poem from the Surrealist art patron Edward James.

Inscribed by Edward James to Penelope Betjeman.

Antonio Lopez's eighties take on Scheherazade's tales.

A macabre tale with illustrations by Salvador Dali.

An early "Mad Men" novel, with a dust jacket design by John Banting.

Charles Henri Ford's first volume of poetry, with a frontispiece and jacket by Tchelitchew.

Ted Hughes & Fay Godwin's landscape poems and images, with an original photograph by Godwin.

An inscribed copy of Lawrence Jones' collection of verse and prose, with illustrations by John Banting.