Bottomley Gordon, Signed (45 results)

Condition: Fair. 1932. No Edition Remarks. 166 pages. Signed by the author. Patterned paper covers. Moderate tanning to pages, text block edges and reverse of covers. Moderate cracking to gutters and hinges causing some looseness to binding but pages and covers remain attached. Paper covers have light edge-wear and corner curling with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with minor rolling and creasing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Signed by the author beneath the Limited Edition number (9). Gilt decorated, white cloth boards are well-bound, soiled from age & handling, light rubbing to edges. Previous owner's colorful bookplate on front endpaper. Foxing in margins, most pages are not cut as yet. Clean pages. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 1925. Reprint. 221 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Orange cloth with gilt lettering. Signed by the author with dedication to front endpaper. Uncut pages. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 1922, 2nd edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the end paper. Octavo. 125pp. Publisher's binding, generally square and firm. Minor bumping to extremities. Small stain/marking to upper cover. Remains of the dust jacket loosely inserted. A 'Very Good' copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition. Wrappers with French flaps. Chip to front cover of wraps which are browned to the edges. A Good+ copy. Gift inscription from the author dated 1948 to the title page.

First Edition. Wrappers with French flaps. Flaps separating at edges . A Good copy only. Gift inscription from the author dated 1929 to the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Slim tall octavo. [16]pp. Blue cloth gilt and patterned paper over boards. Binding modestly tanned with some wear at the corners and spine ends, light offsetting on the endleaves, a very good copy lacking the unprinted glassine dust jacket. Copy 53 of 110 copies offered for sale, Signed by Bottomley on the limitation page. The third book published by The Franfrolico Press, nicely printed on Barcham Green Charles paper.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 2vols 1907-12 , nice inscribed copy from the author ' With the author's warmest wishes for the success of the Manchester Russian Famine relief fund Gordon Bottomley Silverdale 11th April 1922' ' , both volumes inscribed , fine copies, wrappers, Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed by Author. Copy No. 13 of 100 numbered copies of this special edition bound in white and gold and signed by the Author. Covers are very lightly marked, bumped spine-ends, sound binding, clean uncut (untrimmed) pages with gilt upper text-block edge and clean end-papers. Special Limited Edition. No dust-jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 05422071057. All our books are sent by tracked mail.

FIRST EDITION, no.9 of 100 large paper copies, signed by the author; pp.(8)122(2); a very good uncut & partly unopened copy in original cream linen, top edge gilt, others uncut; foot of backstrip bumped, slightly soiled. Signed Limited Edition Literature.

BOTTOMLEY, Gordon. SCENES AND PLAYS. London: Constable, 1929. 4to., white cloth, teg. Signed, Limited Edition of 100 numbered copies. Nr. fine (minor soil cloth, minor browning endpapers). $75.00.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small book label of Herbert Boyce Satcher, very good plus in floral patterned self-wrappers with slight soiling and edgewear to the paper spine label. Inscribed by the author: "To Oliver Elton and Mrs. Elton, with Gordon Bottomley's great regard. Silverdale, Comforth. 6th October 1933." Elton was a noted literary scholar and he wrote an important reference, *Survey of English Literature: 1830-1880* (London: Edward Arnold, 1920).

First Edition. Wrappers with French flaps a little browned to the edges and to spine label. A VG- copy. Gift inscription from the author dated 1939 to the front endpaper.

London: Constable, (1945). First edition (NCBEL, v.4). Original printed wrappers. Presentation copy: "To Richard Hayward in Belfast, from Gordon Bottomley in Silverdale. November 14th, 1945". A Fine copy.

1st Edition. INSCRIBED by Bottomley. [123] pp. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2" Inscription reads: "To some unnamed friend of the University Women's Union in the famous town by Don and Dee; from Gordon Bottomley 31st December 1933." A VG copy. Wrappers have some soiling, some rubbing/chipping around the edges. Inscription to ffep by Bottomley. (as well some light pencil markings). Some ink annotations to p. 41 presumably from Gordon Bottomley as its signed with a "G". Some light foxing, overall a clean copy. Decorative floral paper wrappers, printed in green and brown, title label to upper wrapper and back strip, printed in green.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. "Chambers of Imagery" by Gordon Bottomley Elkin Mathews, London - 1907 first UK edition - inscribed by author Bottomley on front endpaper to his friend dated 1923 (nice flowing rare inscription) - 40p, 15cmx13cm - condition: good, original covers, some wear to it, clean, rare with signature Gordon Bottomley (20 February 1874 25 August 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. He was partly disabled by tubercular illness. His main influences were the later Victorian Romantic poets, the Pre-Raphaelites and William Morris. Inscribed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Scenes and Plays; by Gordon Bottomley; Constable & Co Ltd, London, 1929. Presentation copy to Edward Marsh, 22nd May 1929. Gordon Bottomley (1874 1948) was an English poet, known particularly for his verse dramas. Aged seven, Bottomley contracted a tubercular illness that would affect him for the rest of his life. As a result, he was invalided for long periods of time and was unable to travel widely or live in a town. Bottomley began writing poetry in the 1890s and was influenced by the Romantic poets and even more so by such later figures as Rossetti and Algernon Swinburne. Bottomley included many famous writers, poets and artists as friends. An early environmentalist, Bottomley's writing was always closely grounded in geographical location. Bottomley studied the work of artists and was a dedicated collector. He bought artworks when he could afford to, and his friends also gave him their art in gratitude for his support and friendship. In the 1940s Bottomley and his wife Emily gave their personal art collection of six hundred paintings, prints and drawings to the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle, Cumberland. The bequest included a nationally important collection of works by the Pre-Raphaelites including pictures by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, Arthur Hughes, Ford Madox Brown, Elizabeth Siddal and Simeon Solomon. Sir Edward Howard Marsh KCVO CB CMG (1872 1953) was a British polymath, translator, arts patron and civil servant. He was the sponsor of the Georgian school of poets and a friend to many poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. In his career as a civil servant he worked as private secretary to a succession of the United Kingdom's most powerful ministers, particularly Winston Churchill. This softcover book is in near-fine condition. Signed by Author(s).

London: Constable, 1932. First edition (NCBEL, v.4). Original printed wrappers, printed paper labels, 166 pp. Presentation copy: "For Margaret Marshall and Lowsayl and Timmis and Drummelzier and Ben Jock and Gameshope and Tweed; with many kind remembrances. From Gordon Bottomley. The Sheiling: Silverdale: Cornforth. Christmas: 1932". Bottomley was interested in work which would find the broadest appeal. "The theatre. attracted him.he was one of several poets, from Steven Phillips to Laurence Binyon, who contended for the revival of a new romantic drama wherein poetry should once more dominate." That list would include W.B. Yeats and George Russell. "At first he believed that the Elizabethan kind of play.might capture the general audience; later he was more concerned with finding a special platform for the recital of dramatic poems." (Edmund Blunden in DAB). "In this distracted age, I believe the survival of poetry is involved in its being heard, not merely read;" (from an als offered in Catalogue 20, Michael Silverman, London, 2002). He suffered from respiratory problems and was often invalid; it made him seem reclusive. Unlike his friend Lascelles Abercrombie, who wished a contemplative, country fireside lifestyle but was stuck in London, Bottomley wished for a London artistic life but his illness kept him from it: "I feel.that every artist especially needs ten years of London life in his youth, before isolaton in even the most beautiful country can he fruitful for him. My illness deprived me of this." (letter to Paul Nash, 1912, in Poet and Painter, 1955, p.31). A little dust soiling, all edges foxed. A Very Good copy.

London: Constable, (1939). First edition (NCBEL, v.4). Original printed wrappers, printed paper labels. Presentation copy: "To John Hampden, from his friend Gordon Bottomley. Silverdale: 24th March, 1939". Spine chipping, edges foxed. A Very Good copy.

London: Constable, 1929. First edition (NCBEL, v.4). Original white cloth, gilt. Signed by Bottomley, one of 112 of ".this special edition bound in white and gold.". Spine darkened. Soil and stray marks to cloth. Endpapers foxed. Bookplate of Charles Carty Salmon. A Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 4to. pp 122. Original publisher's cream buckram, lettered gilt on spine and front cover with top edge gilt. Signed by the author on the limitation page. Limited edition of 100 copies, this being number 10. Slight scuffing at the rear, otherwise bright, clean, very good indeed. Excellent condition. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. London: Constable & Company, 1922. New edition. This is a very good (or better) copy. Lacking the dust jacket. The boards are slightly sunned at the edges. Slightly bumped at the top and tail of the spine. The text blocks are clean. This copy is inscribed on the front flyleaf: 'To J. Craig Annan | in admiration and regard for his beautiful work; | from Gordon Bottomley | The Sheiling | Silverdale | Carnforth. 24th. March, 1923. | ('I know of | but one art.' | Alfred Stevens.)'. A short but heartfelt inscription in Bottomley's beautiful hand, this copy is addressed to James Craig Annan (1864-1946), the pioneering Scottish photographer. Overall, this is a fine presentation found in a very good (or better) copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 60 pages, good condition in cloth binding, front board blind decorated from a design by Charles Ricketts, spine faded, top and bottom of spine bumped and rubbed, some staining on the boards, end-papers browned, top edge of book dust stained, fore-edge of pages dust stained and spotted, occasional light spotting of the text, book label of J G Paul Delaney, author's presentation inscription on the front free end-paper ("To/Wilfrid and Geraldine Gibson,/from their friend/Gordon Bottomley./The Sheiling/Silverdale; Christmas 1922"). Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Festival Preludes, Gordon Bottomley, The Fanfrolico Press, London, 1930. From the colophon: Here end the Festival Preludes by Gordon Bottomley making the third book printed by the Fanfrolico Press, London on Barcham Green Charles I paper in Weiss Antiqua type, composition and machining J. Lindsay & W. J. Hatton, 1930. There are 110 copies for sale: this is no. T. Gordon Bottomley's signature. From the Author's Note: The poems now published here were written to be spoken before, between and after a series of choric plays (The Singing Sands, Towie Castle and Ardvorlich's Wife) when they had their first performance in Mr. John Masefield's garden-theatre at The Boar's Hill Festival of Spoken Poetry on July 25th, 1929. The Prologue and Epilogue were spoken by Mr. J. Clifford Turner, the two Interludes by Miss Helena Moore and Miss Eva Truman. At the repetition of the same programme at the Rudolf Steiner Hall London, on October 8th, 1929, all the poems were spoken by Mr. Clifford Turner. Following that last sentence Gordon Bottomley has written in ink "and this is his copy, with the author's appreciation and remembrance. Gordon Bottomley 4th May, 1930, Silverdale, Carnforth. In addition, Bottomley crossed out Eva Truman's name and wrote in "Sylvia Talbot". A history of the press The Fanfrolico Press; Satyrs, Fauns & Fine Books, by John Arnold was published by the Private Libraries Association in 2009. Here is some commentary from that history relating to this book Quarter smooth buckram with patterned paper boards, title in gold on the spine. Published April 1930 at 10s6d. British Library copy deposited 20 August 1930. It is likely that a number of additional, lettered copies were also issued, for the private use of the author, perhaps in lieu of royalties. This slight book is in fine condition. Laid inside is a newspaper clipping entitled "Mr. Gordon Bottomley's Dramatic Poems". Signed by Author(s).

London: Constable, 1921. First edition (NCBEL, v.4). Original red cloth printed in yellow, designed by Charles Ricketts. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Presentation copy: "To Edgar and Ethel Bainton, from their friend Gordon Bottomley. Silverdale, Christmas, 1921". Spine sunned, a little rubbing, moderate foxing. A Very Good copy.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition Octavo. 26pp. Blue printed wrappers. Percy Withers' (see below) attractive contemporary pictorial bookplate inside the cover. Wrappers lightly toned at the edges and with some nicks and tiny tears, a couple of foxed spots in the text, very good. Inscribed to author Percy Withers and his wife on the title page: "To Percy and Mamie Withers, with good wishes for Christmas 1909thirteen years late: from Gordon Bottomley. 3rd August 1922." Withers was a friend of A.E. Housman and wrote a number of books, including *A Buried Life: Personal Recollection of A.E. Housman*. Privately published in an edition of 150 copies (see *NCBEL*, Vol. IV, column 239).

London: Constable, (1945). First edition (NCBEL, v.4). Original printed wrappers. Presentation copy: "Margaret Cropper; from her friend Gofdon Bottomley, Silverdale, Christmas, 1944". Light foxing to rear endpaper, else Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clinton Balmer (illustrator). London: Elkin Matthews, 1904. First edition hardcover, paper over boards with paper pastedown title label on spine. Signed by Gordon Bottomley with personalized inscription on FFEP, dated 1937. Illustrated by Clinton Balmer. Volume overall in very good condition. Some wear to edges and corners. Some aging to endpapers. Internal text sound with relatively tight binding. Damage to the hard plastic cover surrounding the paper boards with a small tear to the plastic at the top of the spine and a large piece of plastic missing from the front interior flap. All eight plates present and in excellent shape. One of only 400 printed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. One of 400 copies. Narrow 4to. pp. [x], 68. 8 full-page illustrations. Tipped-in illustration facing title-page states that 'The First and Sole Publisher of this Book is Elkin Mathews, Vigo Street, London, W. MCMIV.' Original publisher's green cloth-backed boards lettered dark green on upper cover paper title label on spine. Presentation copy: 'To Mr. and Mrs, Seumus O'Sullivan, from a vanished Age; with Gordon Bottomley's appreciation and regard. Silverdale: 3rd August, 1938.' A very good handwritten signed letter loosely inserted from Gordon Bottomley to Seumas O'Sullivan addressed from The Sheiling, Silverdale, Carnforth, Lancs, dated 4th August, 1938 and consisting of about 380 words in which he explains why it has taken so long to send the books, saying, 'they come with an admiration of very long standing, and a new personal regard that is as great.' He mentions their mutual friend Austin Clarke who told him O'Sullivan would like him to write for his Review on spoken poetry and its relation to the stage - something he will do after his trip to the Dalmation coast. 'The Gate of Smaragdus' was entirely designed by Bottomley who supervised the local printing of it at Ulverston. He was a friend of Shannon and Ricketts which is evident in the design and in the illustrations by his friend Clinton Balmer, a young artist from Liverpool whose work captures Shannon's Pre-Raphaelite style. The publication of the book was fraught as just as it was about to be issued by the Unicorn Press they were wiped out and everything sold at auction. Bottomley had an exciting time trying to retrieve the edition of his book, which had not been included in the sale. He eventually found it in the cellar of a warehouse in the city bound for India and the colonies. Elkin Mathews then undertook the publication. James Sullivan Starkey, otherwise known as Seumus O'Sullivan (1879 Ğ 1958) was an Irish poet and editor of 'The Dublin Magazine', who knew most of the literary figures in Dublin at the time. He married Estella Solomons, a notable Irish artist. Gordon Bottomley (1874 Ğ 1948) Yorkshire poet and playwright, is known particularly for his verse dramas. He was an invalid much of the time due to tuberculosis. He married very happily and corresponded with many artists and poets. A slight crease mark to upper corner of leaves, otherwise very good indeed. Slight creasing, otherwise very good indeed. Excellent condition. Signedes.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. pp 122. Original publisher's decorative papered boards, lettered orange on spine and on front cover. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, "Laurence and Cicely Binyon from their affectionate, Gordon Bottomley 1932." Laurence Binyon was a close friend and correspondent of Gordon Bottomley. Bottomley wrote the introduction to Binyon's play, 'Madness of Merlin'. Slight tanning at spine, otherwise clean, very good indeed. Signedes.