Barnes, John & O'Cuilleanain (eds.): Dante and the Middle Ages: Literary and Historical Essays. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1995. First edition. 8vo., pp. 319. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine, fine. Dust-jacket, sun-faded to spine, not affecting lettering, light creasing to edges, otherwise very good. Author inscribed. In the series: Publications of the Foundation for Italian Studies, University College Dublin. Ref: 53594
Barr, Helen (ed.): The Digby Poems: A New Edition of the Lyrics. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2009. 8vo., pp. viii, 360. Paperback. Unread, light shelf-wear, very good indeed. Ref: 54459
Barrie, J. M.: The Plays of J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1928. First edition. 8vo., pp. xxxiii, [i], 160. A little toned, outer edges lightly foxed. Blue publisher's cloth, paper title labels to spine and upper board. Slightly rubbed, spine sunned, upper board mildly curved, cloth a little lifted at upper joint but sound, free endpapers a bit toned, tiny biro numbers to ffep, very good. First edition of the play script of Peter Pan, issued as part of The Uniform Edition of The Plays of J.M. Barrie series and found here in the publisher's cloth binding. After its debut at the Duke of York's Theatre, London in December of 1904, Barrie continued to make revisions to the text right up until the publication of this edition. The novel version, titled Peter and Wendy, had appeared in 1911. . Ref: 54887
Basdeo, Stephen: The Life and legend of a Rebel Leader: Wat Tyler. Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2018. First edition. 8vo., pp. 216 + plates. Hardback: black cloth, gilt-lettered to spine. Dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54458
Battely, John: Opera Posthuma. viz. Antiquitates Rutupinae et Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi ad Annum 1272 Perductae. Oxonii [Oxford]: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1745. 2 parts in 1 vol., 4to., pp.(xii), 138, (iv); (iv), 164 +16 plates, some folding (in part one 12 numbered & 1 unnumbered, in part two 3 numbered). Engraved head- and tail-piece and initials. Small abraded area to centre of title-page nearly forming a hole but not affecting text, occasional light spots but very clean internally. Contemporary speckled calf, raised bands, spine gilt with label, edges sprinkled red. Head and tail of spine and joints repaired in a lighter colour, corners worn, very good. To front paste-down, ownership inscription of J. Fleming, Coll: Oriel Soc. 1774 (according to Alumni Oxonienses of Thorner, Yorkshire, who began his M.A. at Oriel College in 1770). Also later book label of James Hobbs. The 'Antiquitates Rutupinae' is the second edition, having been previously published in 1711; Battely's nephew Oliver inherited his papers and arranged for this complete publication with Sir James Burrough. The works treat the antiquities of Richborough, rich in Roman remains, near where Battely had been Rector of Adisham, and the history of Bury St Edmunds, where Battely had grown up. "An elegant posthumous discourse, says Bishop Nicolson" (Lowndes). ESTC T91281. Lowndes 130. Ref: 54566show full image..
Beal, Jane: John Trevisa and the English Polychronicon. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2013. 8vo., pp. 172. Hardback: laminated boards. New: unopened in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 53412
Beckett, Samuel: Waiting for Godot. A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First UK edition. 8vo., pp.94, small printed slip with a note from the publisher tipped in after title-page. Clean and bright within. Yellow cloth, red title to spine. Top edge a little dusty, a little very faint toning and a few pencilled booksellers' notes to ffep, rear pastedown not properly glued down resulting in a little cockling at the hinge, very good indeed. Dust jacket a little tattered at head and tail of spine, a bit rubbed along top edge but also very good indeed. This first UK edition marks the third appearance of the play in text form. First came En Attendant Godot, Beckett's initial, subtly different French-language version. It was published by Les ?ditions de Minuit in Paris in 1952 in advance of the first theatrical performance, with only 2500 copies being printed. Next, the first English-language edition was published in New York by the Grove Press in 1954, ahead of the its debut performance at the Arts Theatre, London, on 3rd August 1955. The Faber edition of 1956 here marks the first publication of the play in the UK, and contains the censored text as performed in a slightly later production at the Criterion Theatre. A tipped-in slip added by the publisher notes that when the play transferred from the Arts Theatre to the Criterion, 'a small number of textual deletions were made to satisfy the requirements of the Lord Chamberlain.' It would be nearly a decade before the unexpurgated text had its first performance in England, at the Royal Court Theatre on 30 December 1964. Ref: 54977show full image..
Beckett, Samuel: Watt. Paris: The Traveller's Companion Series, The Olympia Press, 1958. First trade edition, 8vo., pp.278, [ii]. Light green textured cloth, black, white and gold title labels to upper board and spine, red endpapers. Slightly cocked, cloth a little toned around head edge, head edge dusty, very good indeed. Dust jacket, a little tattered at head and tail of spine, spine itself a little darkened, very good indeed. Beckett's second published novel in English, Watt first appeared as a limited edition of 1125 copies produced by The Olympia Press in Paris in 1953. It is found here in its first trade edition, issued by the same publisher in 1958. In 2009 Faber and Faber published a new edition edited by C. J. Ackerley, in which Ackerley corrected the many errors and omissions that had frustrated Beckett since the novel's first appearance in print. Ref: 54978show full image..
Beer, Jeanette M. A.: Early Prose in France: Contexts of Bilingualism and Authority. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1992. First edition. 8vo., pp. 170. Hardback: quarter brown cloth with cream boards, gilt-lettered to spine and upper board. No dust-jacket. Unused, a hint only of shelf-dust: a fine copy. Ref: 54627
Beeth, George T., Bourin, Monique, & Chareille, Pascal (eds.): Personal Names Studies of Medieval Europe: Social Identity and Familial Structures. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 2002. 8vo., pp. 221. Paperback. New, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. Ref: 54609
