Christopher Broadbent, First Edition (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. pp 40. Original publishers parchment style spine over decorative papered boards, lettered gilt at the spine. Poetry. Bookplate of Max Reinhardt (1915 Ð 2002) British publisher at the Bodley Head. Among others he published Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, George Bernard Shaw and Graham Greene. Limited edition of 600 copies this being number two. Fine in very good dust jacket, with slight fading and slight nicking but no loss.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 31pp. Stapled wrappers. Age-toning on the spine with light rubbing, near fine. Includes a long review of Ted Hughes's poetry by Newton. Cambridge University's Literary Magazine printed in the 1950s and 1960s featuring poetry, stories, and reviews. Notable contributors include John Barrell, Angus Calder, Christopher Hampton, Norman Iles, Nicholas Lafitte, Matthew Mead, J.B. Broadbent, Divers Hands, J.M. Newton, and Geoffrey Strickland. Scarce.

Vellum. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lynton Harold Lamb (illustrator). First edition. A lovely, first limited edition of this poem of ecstatic devotion, A Song to David is Christopher Smart"s lyrical masterpiece. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum with patterned parchment boards.Complete with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This copy is a first, limited edition of this work, being copy number one hundred and twenty eight of six hundred copies.Illustrated with a blue and black frontispiece illustration by Lynton Lamb.This is a majestic 1763 poem by Christopher Smart, long misunderstood by contemporaries as the work of a "madman", this is a devotional masterpiece, likely composed during his confinement in London asylums, exalts King David before culminating in a fervent embrace of Christ. In the publisher's original quarter paper vellum with patterned parchment boards.Externally, lovely. The slightest rubbing to extremities. Spine slightly age toned. One or two slight handling marks to rear endpapers. Dust wrapper smart. Slightly faded to perimeters with offsetting. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the off chip and closed tear. One or two slight handling marks to wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.