Printed Books, Maps, Playing Cards & Games, English Literature, Private Press & Illustrated Books

Beckett (Samuel). Happy Days. A Play in Two Acts, 1st UK edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1962, original cloth, dust jacket, edges slightly rubbe...

Beckett (Samuel). The Complete Dramatic Works, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1986, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, presentation copy, in...

Craig (Edward Gordon, 1872-1966). Santa Tecla, [Genoa, 1925], sepia woodcut on japan tissue, titled in pencil and signed with initials for Rosemar...

Eliot (T. S.). Geoffrey Faber 1889-1961, 1st edition, London: Faber & Faber, 1961, original brown boards, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, ...

Eliot (T.S.) On Poetry and Poets, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1957, light partial offsetting to endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket, ...

Eliot (T. S.). On Poetry and Poets, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber 1957, light offsetting to endpapers, original cloth, dust jacket, a few t...

Eliot (T. S.). The Confidential Clerk, London: Faber and Faber, 1st edition, 1954, original cloth, spine slightly faded, dust jacket, spine toned ...

* Rosemary Goad & Faber. A small collection of printed ephemera and photographs, c. 1960s and later, including 3 dinner menus for W.J. Crawley at ...

Golding (William). The Inheritors, 1955; Pincher Martin, 1956; Freefall, 1959; The Spire, 1964; The Pyramid, 1967, 1st editions, original cloth, d...

Gunn (Thom). My Sad Captains and Other Poems, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1961, original cloth in dust jacket, some browning and fading to spine a...

* Eliot (Valerie, née Fletcher, 1926-2012). Secretary, editor and literary executor, second wife of T.S. Eliot. Autograph Postcard Signed, 'Valeri...

Heaney (Seamus). Death of a Naturalist, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1966, original cloth in dust jacket, slightly rubbed and marked, spine partly ...

Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems, 1st edition, 1st issue, Belfast: Festival Publications, Queen's University Belfast, [1965], original printed wrappe...

Heaney (Seamus). North, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1975, front endpapers browned, original cloth in dust jacket, spine lightly faded, 8vo, togeth...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). A group of 6 picture postcards signed, 'Seamus', 1980s & 1990s, all to Rosemary Goad and all but one postally used (...

Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). A Lough Neagh Sequence, 1st edition, Manchester: Phoenix Pamphlet Poets Press, 1969, [16 pp.], signed presentation ins...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Autograph Letter Signed, 'Seamus', Glanmore, Ashford, Co. Wicklow, 5 January 2004, to Rosemary [Goad] on personal st...

Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Death of a Naturalist, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1966, author's signed presentation copy, inscribed in black ballpoi...

Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Door into the Dark, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 1969, author's signed presentation copy in black fibre pen to front en...

Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Hailstones, 1st edition, Dublin: Gallery Books, 1984, inscribed presentation inscription in blue ink to title-page, 'f...

Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Stepping Stones. Interviews with Seamus Heaney [by] Dennis O'Driscoll, 1st edition, Faber & Faber, 2008, black & white...

Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Sweeney Astray, A Version from the Irish, 1st edition, Derry: Field Day, 1983, signed by the author in brown ink on ti...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Typed Letter Signed, 'Seamus', Dublin, 13 March 1995, to Rosemary [Goad] thanking her very much for sending the "Ext...

* Heaney (Seamus). Christmas card, 1969, folded printed card, with printed poem 'The Last Mummer' to upper cover, signed and inscribed by the poet...

* Heaney (Seamus). Christmas card, 1969, folded printed card, with printed poem 'The Last Mummer' to upper cover, signed and inscribed by the poet...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, [1972?], partly folded card with the poem 'January God' printed on front with border decoration in g...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, [Peter Fallon, 1978], folded yellow laid paper sheet with poem 'Christmas Eve' printed in brown lett...

Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Changes, privately printed for the author by Peter Fallon, Christmas, 1980, inscribed by Marie in blue ink, 'Happy Chr...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, c. 1985, folded card published by the National Gallery of Ireland with a reproduction of 'The Countr...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, published for the author by Peter Fallon, 1987, single light grey thin card sheet with 3-line printe...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, printed privately by Peter Fallon for the Heaneys, Christmas 1989, folded off-white card with the po...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, printed privately by Peter Fallon for the Heaneys, Christmas 1990, folded green card with the poem '...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, privately printed for the author by Peter Fallon, 1991, folded grey card with the poem 'A Transgress...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, privately printed for the author by Peter Fallon/The Gallery Press, 1996, folded light blue card wit...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, privately published for the author by Peter Fallon/The Gallery Press, 1998, folded white card with c...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, privately published for the author by Peter Fallon/The Gallery Press, Christmas 1999, folded light g...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, privately published for the author by Peter Fallon/The Gallery Press, Christmas 2003, folded card wi...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, privately published for the author by Peter Fallon/The Gallery Press, 2006, folded light grey card w...

* Heaney (Seamus, 1939-2013). Christmas card, privately published for the author by Peter Fallon/The Gallery Press, 2007, folded off-white card wi...

* Hughes (Edward James, 1930-1998). English poet, translator and children's writer. Autograph Letter Signed, 'Ted', Court Green, North Tawton, Dev...

Hughes (Ted). Hawk in the Rain, 1957; Lupercal, 1960; Woodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; Gaudete, 1977, 1st editions, o...

Hughes (Ted). Crow. From the Life and Times of the Crow, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1970, signed presentation copy, inscribed to front...

Hughes (Ted). Crow. From the Life and Songs of the Crow, With twelve drawings by Leonard Baskin, London: Faber & Faber, 1973, 12 monochrome plates...

Ishiguro (Kazuo). An Artist of the Floating World, 1986; The Remains of the Day, 1989; The Buried Giant, 2015, 1st editions, An Artist of the Floa...

James (P.D). A Taste for Death, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1986, inscribed by the author ' To Rosemary, editor and friend, when kindnes...

James (P.D). Cover Her Face, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1962, ownership inscription of Rosemary Goad to head of front free endpaper, or...

James (P.D). The Black Tower, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1975, original grey cloth gilt, dust jacket, lightly rubbed to extremities, 8v...

Jones (David). An Introduction to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, London: Clover Hill Editions, 1972, title with engraved vignette by David Jones...

Jones (David). The Sleeping Lord, London: Faber and Faber, 1974, monochrome frontispiece, title printed in yellow and black, top edge red, origina...

Larkin (Philip). High Windows, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1974, original cloth, dust jacket, 8vo, inscribed to front endpaper "Philip L...

Larkin (Philip, 1922-1985). English poet, novelist and librarian. Typed Letter Signed, 'Philip', University of Hull letterhead, 27 June 1975, to C...

Murphy (Richard). The Woman of the House, Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1959, light partial offsetting to endpapers, original wrappers, some toning and ch...