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  1. MACLEISH, Archibald.

    Conquistador.

    Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1932.

    First edition, signed ‘Archibald MacLeish / Conway, Mass’. This long poem won MacLeish his first of three Pulitzer prizes.

    £300

  2. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    The Roaring Queen. Edited and introduced by Walter Allen.

    London, Secker & Warburg, [1973].

    Second (but first published) edition, regular copy.

    £50

  3. GIOVIO, Paolo. 

    Elogia veris clarorum virorum imaginibus apposita.  Quae in musaeo Ioviano Comi spectantur.  Addita in calce...

    Venice, Michele Tramezzino, 1546. 

    First edition of Giovio’s biographies of illustrious men, with several marginal corrections, remarks, and comments by a contemporary reader, whose knowledge of biographies of the past encompassed several authors, including Erasmus. 

    £3000

  4. JOYCE, James.

    Chamber Music.

    London, Jonathan Cape, [1953].

    Seventh printing.

    £50

  5. PRINCE, F[rank].

    T[empleton]. Soldiers Bathing and other Poems.

    London, The Fortune Press, [1954].

    First edition, Prince’s second collection, inscribed ‘with good wishes from the author, F. T. Prince. 23 April, 1954.’

    £200

  6. PRINCE, F[rank].

    T[empleton].

    Poems. London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1938].

    First edition of the first collection by the South African-born Prince. Prince had contributed several poems to Eliot’s Criterion in the mid-30s.

    £180

  7. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    Filibusters in Barbary (Record of a Visit to the Sous).

    London, Grayson & Grayson, [1932].

    First edition, scarce in the dust-jacket, ‘an account of his travels which Lewis had written after a holiday with his wife in French Morocco and the Spanish Sahara. The book … emerged as one of the liveliest travel-books of the time. Like all of Lewis’s writing, it was quirky and opinionated,...

    £500

  8. JOYCE, James.

    Giacomo Joyce … With an Introduction and Notes by Richard Ellman.

    New York, The Viking Press, 1968.

    First edition.

    £125

  9. POWYS, John Cowper.

    A Glastonbury Romance.

    London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, [1933].

    First edition of Powys’s monumental sixth novel. Though we cannot trace a direct link between Powys and Bridson, Bridson certainly knew Powys’s friend James Hanley - they worked together for the BBC during the war. The centrality of the Grail legends to A Glastonbury Romance would...

    £175

  10. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    Direadh I, II and III …

    [Stamperia Valdonega for] Frenich, Foss, Kulgin Duval & Colin H. Hamilton, 1974.

    First edition, no. 29 of 200 signed copies on Magnani paper.

    £175

  11. MACNEICE, Louis.

    Out of the Picture. A Play in two Acts.

    London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1946].

    First edition, third impression.

    £25

  12. LEWIS, Wyndham, and Anne Gladys LEWIS.

    Christmas card to the Bridsons.

    [1950s].

    ‘To Joyce [née Thirlaway] + Geoffrey with Christmas love from Froanna + Wyndham …’

    £50

  13. WATSON, Sheila.

    ‘The Great War, Wyndham Lewis and the Underground Press’, a special issue of artscanada, November 1967, issue...

    The recordings included are three sections from One-Way Song, made at Harvard in 1940 alongside his lecture, and ‘Marshall McLuhan recalls Lewis’.

    £50

  14. POUND, Ezra.

    Cantos 110–116 …

    printed & published by the Fuck You / press at a secret location in the lower east side, New York City, USA, 1967.

    Unauthorised edition (unsurprisingly), no. 261 of 300 copies. The contents are extracts and include a number of apparently unidentified lines; this piracy forced the publication of Drafts and Fragment of Cantos CX–CXVII (1969).

    £150

  15. POUND, Ezra.

    Gaudier-Brzeska, a Memoir …

    [London,] The Marvell Press, [1960].

    Revised edition, inscribed by Dorothy Pound on behalf of her husband to ‘J[oyce] + G[eoffrey] Bridson. DP for EP / Sept 1961. Brunnenburg’.

    £250

  16. MAKERETI (Maggie PAPAKURA).

    The old-time Maori … Collected and edited with a Biography by T.K. Penniman …

    London, Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1938.

    First edition, scarce, with a gift inscription: ‘To D.G. Bridson, In sincere appreciation of his kindness and trustfulness in lending me – a stranger – the script of his fascinating broadcast on the Maoris. W.S. Wrestier[?]’.

    £125

  17. SULLIVAN, J.P., editor.

    Ezra Pound, a critical Anthology.

    [London, Penguin, 1970.]

    First edition.

    £30

  18. MORROW, Bradford, and Bernard LAFOURCADE.

    A Bibliography of the Writings of Wyndham Lewis … With an introduction by Hugh...

    Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1978.

    First edition.

    £75

  19. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    The Letters … Edited by W.K. Rose.

    London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1963].

    First edition. Letters to Bridson appear on pp. 540 and 545.

    £50

  20. TREVLYN GRIEVE, Valda.

    High Death.

    Falkland, K.D. Duval, 1970.

    1 of 100 copies, inscribed ‘with affection and some embarrassment Valda’.

    £75