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  1. WEST, Nathanael.

    Miss Lonelyhearts … with an Introduction by Alan Ross.

    London, The Grey Walls Press, [1949].

    First UK edition, with a new introduction by Ross. First published in 1933, this ‘acerbic’ black comedy set in New York during the Depression, was adapted and produced for radio by Bridson, broadcast on 25 May 1960, with Sam Wanamaker in the lead role, a male journalist writing an advice column under...

    £125

  2. RACHEWILTZ, Boris de.

    L’Elemento magico in Ezra Pound.

    Milan, All’insegna del pesce d’oro [Scheiwiller], 1965.

    First edition, no. 182 of 1000 copies, an essay by Pound’s son-in-law published on the occasion of Pound’s eightieth birthday.

    £150

  3. MACDIARMID, Hugh.

    More Collected Poems.

    [London,] MacGibbon & Kee, [1970].

    First edition.

    £50

  4. SEMMLER, Clement.

    Kenneth Slessor.

    [London,] British Council, [1969].

    Second edition (first 1966), with updates to the bibliography; inscribed ‘For D.G. Bridson. Clem Semmler, Sydney, 21. 10. 71’.

    £45

  5. SEMMLER, Clement.

    The Art of Brian James and other Essays on Australian Literature …

    [St Lucia,] University of Queensland Press, [1972].

    First edition, inscribed ‘For Joyce & Geoffrey – a memento of your welcome visit again to Sydney / Clem / Jan. 1973’.

    £75

  6. 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

  7. LEWIS, Wyndham.

    The Roaring Queen. Edited and introduced by Walter Allen.

    London, Secker & Warburg, [1973].

    Second (but first published) edition, regular copy.

    £50

  8. 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

  9. JOYCE, James.

    Chamber Music.

    London, Jonathan Cape, [1953].

    Seventh printing.

    £50

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. JOYCE, James.

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

    New York, The Viking Press, 1968.

    First edition.

    £125

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. MACNEICE, Louis.

    Out of the Picture. A Play in two Acts.

    London, Faber and Faber Limited, [1946].

    First edition, third impression.

    £25

  17. LEWIS, Wyndham, and Anne Gladys LEWIS.

    Christmas card to the Bridsons.

    [1950s].

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

    £50

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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