Literature & Poetry

A first edition of Christopher Isherwood's cult novel from 1964.

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'.

Further musings on art and life from Sacheverell Sitwell.

A collection of pastoral poems by Osbert Sitwell, scarce in the McKnight Kauffer dust jacket.

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

Osbert Sitwell's musings on subjects such as Rules for Being Rude and Animals versus Children.

A first edition of Edward James' privately-published collection of poems, illustrated by Whistler.

A first edition of Hemingway's 1950 novel.

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.

Virginia Woolf's modernist biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog.

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.

An historical novel by Helen Simpson, with a striking dust jacket by Anna Zinkeisen.

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

A first edition of Nancy Mitford's collection of essays, with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster.

A first edition of Nancy Mitford's companion volume to 'The Pursuit of Love'