Mare Ellis (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Stated first printing hardcover in VG- condition (slight cover bowing). 136 pages of poetry. [9oz]. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. First Printing. Dust jacket has some edge scuffs and minor chipping, with spine sunning; a nice copy of book with minor wear. 136 pages. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Marian Ellis (illustrator). De la Mare, Walter. Henry Brocken: His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., [n.d.] Later edition, c. 1925. (First issued in 1904.) Octavo, 237 pp. + 2 pp. of publisher ads. Original blue cloth, front and spine stamped in black, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Illustrated with woodcuts by Marian Ellis on inserted plates. Bookplate on front pastedown. Light wear at top of spine, darkening and patchy fading to cloth, but a soundly bound, good clean copy. #1045. $15. The author's first work of fiction. An early example of what might today be called meta-fiction, or fan fiction or a biblio-fantasy. It "hovers strangely between the abstract and the particular. Brocken sets out on an allegorical journey to various booklands, where he meets characters like Jane Eyre, Nick Bottom, Sleeping Beauty and Criseyde; but the mild educational benignity of the trip is destroyed, in the end, by Brocken's refusal of Criseyde's erotic needs, and he is cast back, defeated, into a dry mortality." -- Clute and Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 261. Bleiler, Supernatural Fiction Writers, pp. 499-500. Reginald 04029.

Hardcover. Condition: NEAR FINE-COLLECTIBLE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Text/Near New & Bright. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; clipped; rubs, nip to edges & showing discoloration. Anthology of hitherto unpublished verse penned over some 40 years by English, Georgian poet Vivian Locke Ellis (1878-1950). Dense, emotional songs voiced in the first person. 'These Are the Wreath I Bring': "These are wreaths I Bring/ For my love's garlanding/ Long are the years; the hours/ Many and long, I know, since I brought flowers/. Jewels she will not wear/ Gold is not gold to her/ Flowers she loves, sometimes/ but what of rhymes?".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. No dj. Red cloth. 136 pp. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. NEAR FINE.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated By Marian Ellis (illustrator). Dark blue cloth binding. Red lettering on front cover and spine. Top and bottom of spine bumped and rubbed. Small nick in spine. .237pp. Content clean, bright and sound withpaper lightly tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published by W. Collins Sons & Co., London, undated. circa 1924 First edition pencilled to fep bright blue cloth with black titles to spine and front cover, 237 pp, b&w plates , tanning spots to extreme page edges rough cut otherwise in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Marian Ellis (illustrator). No date, 1920s edition. No inscriptions etc. Blue cloth binding with black titles, in excellent, clean and bright condition. The striking jacket is moderately worn to the edges, now protected.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Marian Ellis (illustrator). Illustrated by Marian Ellis. Láminas con ilustraciones en b/n. 237 pp. Pequeñas roturas en el lomo, marcas de foxing.

Cloth Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Marian Ellis (illustrator). First Edition. Boards have minimal wear, spine cocked. Light foxing throughout, c/e uncut, PP and text clean and clear Size: 8vo 0.0.

Hardback. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Marian Ellis (illustrator). Reprint. Name and date (1924) on front endpaper.

Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. Marian Ellis (illustrator). Reprint. Dark blue cloth lettered in orange. Not dated but about 1924. Name of owner at front of book. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1946. A 2pp. letter hand-written by Walter de la Mare Jack Haines. A 28 line letter written to poet and solictior Jack Haines. The letter is candid and affectionate and relates to 'the labour of love' involved in writing the introduction to Vivian Locke Ellis's 'Collected Lyrical Poems'. He says that the Ellis poem 'Go, nor Aquaint the rose' continues to 'bloom' in him and goes on to talk about the first time he met Locke Ellis. He also mentions other poets and mutual friends- Jack Squire, Bernard Hockley - and laments the dying of so many friends. Comes with a copy of the 'Collected Lyrical Poems' by Vivian Locke Ellis, published by Faber in 1946. There is also a hand-written postcard card by Locke Ellis giving directions to Jack Haines telling him of the trains- and times of the trains- that he needs to catch to visit him. Book is very good++ and very bright. The wrapper is near very good with edges rubbed and nicked. Small loss to wrapper spine. A few odd closed tears to edges. More images can be taken upon request. Ref15270. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Marian Ellis (illustrator). First Edition Thus. Linen-backed boards with a gilt-lettered leather spine label. Copy #147 of 250 SIGNED by the author of his first book of fiction originally published in 1904. Illustrated by Marian Ellis. Partly unopened. Minor wear, bump to upper front corner. Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Marian Ellis (illustrator). 1st of This Edition. No date but c 1924. (1904). Navy blue binding, red titles and borders. 237 pages. 8 black/white plates. Edges only show some foxing. Internally clean, no marks etc. A firm straight book. Scan available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. James Guthrie (illustrator). 1st Edition. 22pp + iii prelims. Printed on hand-made paper in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. This is copy #32. Collection of poems in memory of Edward Thomas by twelve poets, including Gordon Bottomley, Walter de la Mare, Vivian Locke Ellis, James Guthrie, Robert Frost, Teresa Hooley and Kenneth Morris. Foreword by Robert P. Eckert Jr. Dark brown cloth quarter binding with crease to tip of top and tail of spine. Grey paper covered boards with a green title plate tipped to front cover. Crease to tip of lower front corner. Green and white illustrated title page. E T decorative device on Content's page. Number of other decorations and illustrative page headings together with the Pear Tree Press motif. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Light toning on ffep and rfep.

First ed.,Signed by the Author. Illustrated by Marian Ellis. originbal Half Linen & Boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Published by W.Collins Sons and Co Ltd in 1925 (no date given, but catalogue of books at rear has new offerings from the year), here is the reprinted hardback edition of Walter De La Mare's HENRY BROCKEN: His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imagined Regions of Romance illustrated by Marian Ellis. blue cloth binding, black lettering, 237 pages, supreme illustrations the book is in good condition with a very marginal spine slant, some light browning/ creasing to the end papers and some spotting to the extreme outside edges of the hand-cut pages. There is also an ink dedication and the name of a previous owner (again written in ink) to the front free end paper. The cult art-deco two-tone blue decorative dust jacket is in fair to good condition with a some moderate browning, a lengthy tear (approximately 50mm in length to the rear inside fold and some general chipping and and rubbing to the edges culminating in a very small area of loss at either end of the spine. A firecracker of a book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good plus. Marian Ellis (illustrator). First edition thus, first printing. Number 21 of 250 numbered copies signed by de la Mare on a special limitation page. The author's first book of fiction originally published in 1904 in London by John Murray. An unread copy with pages unopened. Many full-page black and white plates by Ellis. Quarter bound in tan cloth over gray paper covered boards with leather title label fixed to the spine. Small blemish to the front cover. A very good plus copy, without the dust jacket. Signed by Author(s). Book.

[4] + 74pp., 4to. On 78 pieces of paper, bound with metal clasp in blue card folder, with white paper label with title on front cover ('THE DESERT MINSTREL | AND | OTHER POEMS | BY | VINCENT LOCKE ELLIS') and second label with address on inside front cover. In good condition, lightly-aged, in aged and worn folder. In worn manila envelope, with note by R. P. Lister (see below) reading: 'Typescript of collection of poems (unpublished) by Vivian Locke Ellis'. Three-page 'Index' gives the titles of the 69 poems, beginning with 'To W. de la M. [i.e. Walter de la Mare] from V. L. E.' and ending with the longest poem in the book, 'April, 1917 | To Edward Thomas; | Killed in action on Easter Monday'. Other poems include: 'Two Shepherds (To W. de la Mare)', 'Hitler's Threat at Danzig', 'Sexton's Rally', 'Down Perim's Coasts' and 'In Temple Gardens'. Ellis's obituary in The Times, 1 June 1950, describes him as 'the author of a number of poems of high quality in the grand tradition of English lyrical verse'. He was one of the Georgian poets, appearing with Edward Thomas, W. H. Davis, Walter de la Mare and J. C. Squire in the group's 1918 anthology '12 Poets'. Ellis was also the backer behind John Middleton Murry's 'Adelphi' magazine. His career spanned more than forty years, with his first published work, 'An Elegy', appearing in 1904, and 'Collected Lyrical Poems' in 1946. The Times obituary notes that Ellis was 'engaged on completing a further collection at the time of his death', and the present item is clearly that collection, several of its 69 poems having previously published, at least as early as 1910 ('Go, Saintlike Sybil' appeared in 'The Academy' in that year), and with one poem, 'To A. V. B.' [i.e. Arnold Vincent Bowen (1901-1947)], dated 'December 1947'. This item comes from the papers of fellow-poet Richard Percival Lister (1914-2014), who with Ellis was an active member of the London literary society 'The Saturdays', founded in 1944. The poem 'To A. V. B.' is an elegy for Bowen (another of 'The Saturdays'), and apparently unpublished. It exemplifies Ellis's qualities: 'Brave spirit, loving life too well | to gird at death, | This halt you make is but to | take a deeper breath. | We who are left are only one | the less. | Only! Were only less the wilderness. | I who have journeyed further | but to stand | And watch you pass me - | Brother, lend me your hand.' Note: Kenneth Hopkins, in his autobiography, describes Ellis as a "complete poet" ("The Corruption of a Poet", p.202).

Decorative Boards. Condition: Near Fine. 12 issues bound in 2, published between October 1910 - September 1911. [10], 376, iv, [32] ads ; [10], iv, [30] pp. Elegant half cream buckram over decorative boards with gilt-tooled lettering to spine. Uncut. Light discolouration to top of boards, leaves toned but clean throughout. Bookplates to paste-down of vol. 1 and small inscriptions in ink to rear endpapers. 'The Open Window' was a monthly illustrated magazine published in West & Central London, running for six months from October 1910, and then five months from April 1911. These 2 volumes contain the full 12 issues, the third issue containing Katherine Mansfield's first published work 'A Fairy Story'. Written contributions include: Edward Thomas, E. M. Forster, George Bourne, Katherine Mansfield, Maxwell Armfield, Douglas Goldring, W. H. Davies, Geoffrey Whitworth, Lord Dunsany, John Drinkwater, Walter de la Mare and Vivian Locke Ellis etc. Artworks contributors include: C . J. Holmes, John Sloane, Auguste Rodin, Maxwell Armfield, C. M. Gere, Jack B Yeats. Adverts and a pair of wraps bound in. 16mo.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's grey paper covered boards, black buckram spine with printed paper label to the upper board. An excellent clean and tight copy, the fragile spine with some fraying to the lower edge is holding firm. The contents with the decorative bookplate of John Gold to the front pastedown and with pertinent pencil inscriptions to the front endpaper are otherwise clean and bright throughout. A collection of poems in memory of Edward Thomas. Inscribed by the publisher James Guthrie in pencil at the head of the front free endpaper "To John Gold / from James" underneath which Gold has inscribed "To Roger / fr John / Aug 1949". Limited to 150 copies of which this is hand-numbered 105. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.