Bulletin of the BPL, for November and December, 1932. Two issues, complete. In original wrappers. 30 pp., facsimiles, Milton in the BPL. Ex-lib., a Very Good set. View More...
The Bulletin of the BPL . Two issues, complete, June, 1937 and February, 1938. Original wrappers. About 43 pp., facsimiles. The holdings of the BPL are described. Ex-lib., Very Good. View More...
Bulletin of the BPL for February, 1935 and December, 1936, and January, 1937. Three issues, original wrappers. About 60 pp. total, with facsimiles. "English Bibles..." complete in two parts. Ex-lib., Very Good copies. View More...
Bulletin of the BPL. Three issues, complete, January - March, 1929. Original wrappers. Working with its Barton collection, "one of the finest Shakespeare collections...in the world", BPL's Haraszti looks at the Bard's impact on Hungarian literature, an impact which came late: "In the work of a native Hungarian, Shakespeare's name first appeared in 1776". Front wrapper beginnig to split at spine, else a Very Good set. Thrown in "Shakespeareana" in a 1923 number, with Howard Henry Furness' 1882 letter on BPL's Shakespeare collection: "Thomas Pennant Barton and His Library" in a 1927 issue; "Irel... View More...
Bulletin of the BPL. Three issues, complete, January - March, 1933. Original wrappers, about 40 pp., facsimiles. Ex-lib., a Very Good set. View More...
Bulletin of the BPL for February, 1934. Original wrappers, 15 pp., facsimiles. Plus, "Early Editions of Congreve's Plays" in March, 1934, 16 pp., facs. Both ex-lib., Very Good. View More...
Bulletin of th BPL for March, 1931. McKim disigned the BPL, this address was delivered to the Boston Society of the American Institute of Architects in March, 1931. Ex-lib., Very Good. View More...
London: Oxford University Press, 1955. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt, and printed dust jacket. Edited by Claude Colleer Abbott and Anthony Bertram. Bottomley was older and mentored Nash until they became colleagues and friends. The painter Nash was a "solitary, ultrasensitive boy" (from Abbott's introduction) who became an affable, gregarious artist who collaborated often, especially as a set designer. Jacket browned at spine and edges, Fine copy in Very Good jacket. View More...
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1910. First separate edition, preceding the English of 1922 (NCBEL, v.4). Extracted from "The Gate of Smaragdus", 1904. Original lilac paper boards, printed paper labels, printed dust jacket, printed paper slipcase. Said to be one of 500 copies but Mosher was notorious for exceeding the stated limitation. Front free endpapers and dust jacket partially browned, but now wear whatsoever in a slipcase with only minor darkening. Fine all around. View More...
Dated The Sheiling, Silverdale, 19th May, 1925, to "Mr. Wilson', responding to a request to buy some of Bottomley's books. He asks Wilson to propose a fair price. There are some pleasantries about mutual friends. Two pp., over 250 words. A Very Good letter. View More...
London: Constable, (1939). First edition (NCBEL, v.4). Original printed wrappers, printed paper labels. Presentation copy: "To John Hampden, from his friend Gordon Bottomley. Silverdale: 24th March, 1939". Spine chipping, edges foxed. A Very Good copy. View More...
London: Constable, 1921. First edition (NCBEL, v.4). Original red cloth printed in yellow, designed by Charles Ricketts. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Presentation copy: "To Edgar and Ethel Bainton, from their friend Gordon Bottomley. Silverdale, Christmas, 1921". Spine sunned, a little rubbing, moderate foxing. A Very Good copy. View More...
Boston: Small and Maynard, (1921). First edition, American issue. Original quarter cloth, printed paper label, and paper boards, all edges cut. Printed at the Chiswick Press, London. A Fine copy. View More...
London: Constable, (1945). First edition (NCBEL, v.4). Original printed wrappers. Presentation copy: "To Richard Hayward in Belfast, from Gordon Bottomley in Silverdale. November 14th, 1945". A Fine copy. View More...
London: Constable, 1922. Second edition, "New Edition (with a new poem)...", the first was 1920. Original orange cloth, gilt. Cloth a little bubbled. A Very Good copy. View More...
London: Constable, 1931. First edition (NCBEL, v.4). Original printed wrappers, printed paper labels. A little dust soiled, damp stain to one corner of front free endpaper, else Fine. View More...
London: Constable, 1932. First edition (NCBEL, v.4). Original printed wrappers, printed paper labels, 166 pp. Presentation copy: "For Margaret Marshall and Lowsayl and Timmis and Drummelzier and Ben Jock and Gameshope and Tweed; with many kind rememberances. From Gordon Bottomley. The Sheiling: Silverdale: Cornforth. Christmas: 1932". Bottomley was interested in work which would find the broadest appeal. "The theatre.... attracted him....he was one of several poets, from Steven Phillips to Laurence Binyon, who contended for the revival of a new romantic drama wherein poetry shoul... View More...
