20th-century poetry and literature
Large group of works including signed copies
Estimate: £500 - £800
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
all 8vo, titles include:
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel. London: Faber and Faber, 1945. First edition, first impression, original cloth, dust jacket (toned, slightly rubbed, small chip and tape-repair to head of spine, a few nicks);
Hughes, Ted. Adam and the Sacred Nine. With a Drawing by Leonard Baskin. London: Rainbow Press, 1978. One of 200 copies signed by the author, original blue calf, fleece-lined slipcase, spine faded;
Eliot, T. S. [Four Quartets:] Burnt Norton; East Coker; The Dry Salvages; Little Gidding. London: Faber and Faber, 1941-40-41-42. First editions, 4 works in 1 volume, recent maroon morocco gilt, matching slipcase, bound with half-titles but original wrappers discarded;
idem. Murder in the Cathedral. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1931. First edition, first impression, original cloth dust jacket;
idem. Journey of the Magi [number 8 in the Ariel Poems series]. London: Faber & Gwyer Limited, c.1930. First edition, original wrappers, colour plate by E. McKnight Kauffer, spine partly split;
idem. Triumphal March [number 35 in the Ariel Poems series]. London: Faber & Gwyer Limited, c.1930. First edition, original wrappers, colour plate by E. McKnight Kauffer;
Graves, Robert (translator). The Transformations of Lucius, otherwise known as the Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1950. One of 2,000 copies signed by Graves, original quarter japon;
and approximately 80 others (of which approx. 25 pamphlets), including Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Paul Muldoon (many signed), W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, R. S. Thomas, and others, mixed editions (approx. 90)