Robert Temple

Robert Temple
65, Mildmay Road,
LONDON N1 4PU United Kingdom

London: G. Heath Robinson & J. Birch, Ltd., 17 - 18, Took's Court, Cursitor Street, E.C.4, July, 1921. Double cr.16mo; blank before half-title, blank at end, serving as paste-downs; pp.254+[ii]; scarlet horizontal rib-effect open-weave buckram-surfaced cloth, blocked and lettered black on front cover and spine. Nice copy. Scarce. Issued as a volume in `The New London Library', a fact stated on the front cover and the verso of the half-title, and bound in series style. Hubin, p.271: the first English edition of a title published in America in 1918.

`There is no need for alarm'. Drawings by John Nicolson. Ornum Press Ltd., 1944. Numerous illustrations in the text; quarter cream cloth, glazed cream boards, the front board printed in blue and red; light creamy brown end-papers. Fine copy. Poemlets of the war.

Heinemann, 1964. Double demy 16mo; blank before half-title, three at end; purple cloth ruled and lettered gilt on spine. Fine copy in slightly frayed dust-wrapper. The first English edition.

Macmillan and Co., Limited, St. Martin's Street, London, 1917. Extra cr.8vo; title-page printed in scarlet and black; blank, followed by 4pp. integral advertisements at end; pp.viii+[442]+[ii]+4; dark red fine-linen-effect cloth, blocked and embossed gilt on front cover, lettered gilt on spine; t.e.g. Cloth of spine very slightly faded; otherwise a fine copy. The first binding.

Glasgow, James Maclehose & Sons, Publishers to the University, 1891 [i.e., December, 1890]. F'cap 8vo; advertisement leaf precedes half-title page; pp.viii+247+[i (blank)]; royal blue diagonally fine ribbed cloth, ruled and blocked gilt on front cover, blind on back cover, ruled and lettered gilt on spine; a.e. uncut; end-papers coated pale cream. Very slight darkening of spine, and end-papers discoloured; otherwise a fine copy. Reilly, p.443; CBEL, p.306; Miles, X. The author's last volume of verse.