Category: Poetry

The Phoenix Nest, Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1593

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Kensington, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald : 1926

Seller ID: 003282

Condition: Good

Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press, on Kentish Rag paper, in a limited edition of 500 copies, this one being numbered 65. Large 8vo, pp 8, (8), 117, uncut, original boards with cloth spine, a duplicate from a college reference library, with number on front endpaper and bookplate of Bernard Wallis, but no other internal markings; there is a neat stamp on top, bottom and fore-edges, and a shelf number on the spine. This is still a very good copy, with very little wear. (A reprint of a rare early poetry anthology. Authors identified were Nicholas Breton, Edward Dyer, Richard Edes, Goss, Robert...
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Sohrab and Rustum. The Scholar Gipsy. Thyrsis.

By: Arnold, Matthew (edited by G.E. Hollingworth

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, University Tutorial Press Ltd : 1925

Seller ID: 016651

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Second impression. Slim 12mo, pp xii, 60, a little foxing, corners bruised throughout, paperback, covers creased and a little worn.
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From Southampton to London Airport (The Long Way Round)

By: Bader, Dora

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Wollaston, Privately published

Seller ID: 018853

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

12mo, pages 64 (not paginated), paperback, very clean internally but pages and binding slightly curled, otherwise a good copy. [A verse account of a long holiday to Australia, New Zealand, India, Ceylon and Israel. The book is not dated, but probably early 1960's; the voyage out was on the "Stirling Castle" which was withdrawn from service in 1965]. Postage will be reduced.
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My Great Oak Tree and other poems

By: Bailey, Liberty Hyde

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Cornell University, Editors of Chronica Botanica : 1952

Seller ID: 018535

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Slender octavo, pp 12, (i), clean internally, paperback, the covers very slightly marked and worn. Presumably issued in very small numbers ? I have not been able to identify the artist of the woodcut on the cover. [A Keepsake, issued by the Editors of Chronica Botanica, for the members of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, attending the Cornell University Meetings.]
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The Poems of William Collins

By: Blunden, Edmund (ed)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Kensington, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald : 1929

Seller ID: 003283

Binding: Boards

Condition: Good

Printed by the Chiswick Press on Kentish Rag paper, in a limted edition of 500 copies, this one being numbered 150. Frontispiece (by John Flaxman), viii, 179, (2), original grey boards, rather sunned and faded, a little worn, a spare spine label is loosely inserted at the end. Bookplate of Bernard Wallis, with his original invoice dated 7th October 1942 for 12/6 included. A duplicate from a college reference library with their number and bookplate on the front endpaper, a barcode on the rear endpaper, a shelf number on the spine, and stamp on top, bottom and fore-edges.
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Scar Lines - poetry by Griselda Cann

By: Cann, Griselda

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Cast Iron Press : 1993

Seller ID: 008190

ISBN-13: 9781898761006

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Large slender 8vo, pp (16), paperback, covers showing the slightest signs of wear, otherwise a very good copy. With prospectus loosely inserted. SCARCE. (EDITION LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, OF WHICH THIS IS A PROOF COPY]
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Proverbs of the Mountain

By: Clark. Thomas A.

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Moschatel Press : 1980

Seller ID: 014328

Binding: Loose in folder

Condition: Very Good

12 loose sheets, each with a proverb illustrated with a charming line drawing by Laurie Clark, in very good condition, in the original printed blue folder wich is very slightly age-toned and slightly worn. [Limited edition, signed by author and artist, number 106 of 300 copies]. {Thomas A Clark was born in Greenock, Scotland. His poetry has been consistently attentive to form and to the experience of walking in the landscape, returning again and again to the lonely terrain of the Highlands and Islands. In 1973, with the artist Laurie Clark, he started Moschatel Press. At first a vehicle for s...
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Coleridge : Select Poetry and Prose

By: Coleridge (edited by Stephen Potter)

Price: £7.50

Publisher: London & New York, The Nonesuch Press & Random House : 1933

Seller ID: 017582

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Small thick octavo, pp xxx, 821, very slight age-toning but otherwise extremely clean internally, red bevelled cloth slightly rubbed, a little faded on the spine.
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Octopi, and Other Beasts Less Rude.

By: Costa, Elsa

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Private printing

Seller ID: 000073

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Octavo, pp (36), original buff sewn wrappers, a little chipped and browned. A book of (only slightly !) risque poems. Privately printed, presumably in Italy as the cover price is 100 lire. A note on the rear flap states "For broad-minded adults only. A limited edition of this remarkable book, which will be published shortly in New York and London". (n.d. c.1920?)
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Of Plants. (The Poetical Works, Volume III and IV).

By: Cowley, Abraham

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Edinburg (sic), The Apollo Press, by the Martins : 1777

Seller ID: 015873

Binding: Full Leather

Condition: Good

Volumes III & IV in one volume. Two extra engvd title pages, 16mo, (measures 130mm x 80mm), pp xxii, 23-251,(i); 271, (iii), an early small signature on the first title page, and initials on the front endpaper, a little age-toned and used throughout, contemporary full calf, a little worn rubbed and bumped.
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Old World Idylls and Other Verses

By: Dobson, Austin

Price: £4.00

Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Tubner & Co Ltd : 1893

Seller ID: 018229

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Eleventh edition. Frontispiece, the title page printed in red and black, 12mo, pp x, 252, top edge gilt, fore-edge uncut, endpapers age-toned otherwise very clean internally, green bevelled cloth very slightly worn, a small crease to the spine.
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Image for An Anatomie of the World, wherein by occasion of the vntimely death of Mistris Elizabeth Drvry the frailtie and the decay of this whole world is represented

An Anatomie of the World, wherein by occasion of the vntimely death of Mistris Elizabeth Drvry the frailtie and the decay of this whole world is represented

By: Donne, John

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Shaftesbury, The High House Press : 1929

Seller ID: 010000

Binding: Cloth-backed boards

Condition: Good

Large slim 8vo, pp 32, uncut and unpressed, a little age-browning to the edges, slightly uneven browning to the endpapers, otherwise very clean and sound internally, cloth backed marbled boards a bit rubbed, paper title label on spine slightly chipped. [Limited numbered edition of 170 copies].
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Indian Songs of Passion (poems)

By: Emanuel, Gladys (Mrs John Grossmann)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co. : 1908

Seller ID: 009726

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Fair

Slim 12mo, pp v, 38, self wrappers, a little foxed and soiled throughout. EXTREMELY SCARCE. [The wife of John Grossmann, a jute broker, and the mother of the film director Val Guest who was born in India. He returned to England after his parents' divorce, having been told that his mother had died.]
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An Emerson Treasury, (edited by J. Pennells)

By: Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Price: £4.50

Publisher: London, Siegle, Hill & Co.

Seller ID: 004519

Binding: Soft suede

Condition: Good

12mo, pp (4), 126, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, in a publisher's full soft suede binding, yapp edges, embossed decoration on upper cover, slightly worn.
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Brithers A' - A Minute a Day With Burns : poet, lover and prophet of brotherhood

By: Esslemont, Peter (Robert Burns)

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Aberdeen, John Avery & Company Ltd : 1943

Seller ID: 017660

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Seventh edition. A few small illustrations, octavo, pp 160, many pages are dog-eared, paperback, pictorial covers slightly worn and creased. [Postage will be reduced]
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Heroes and Heroines

By: Farjeon, Eleanor and Herbert

Price: £38.50

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz Ltd : 1933

Seller ID: 017527

Binding: Pictorial boards

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Small slim quarto, pp 79, illustrated throughout in colour by Rosalind Thornycroft, a few slight blemishes to a few pages but overall in much cleaner than average condition, pictorial boards slightly age-toned and very slightly worn, the spine head is slightly worn and the rear joint is cracking slightly (see illustration) but otherwis quite good, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and is only slightly worn and frayed and now enclosed in a removable clear cover.
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Shelley - Selected Poetry, Prose and Letters

By: Glover, A.S.B. (editor)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: London, The Nonesuch Press : 1951

Seller ID: 017463

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Small thick octavo, pp xviii, 1142, a minute hole in the title page, otherwise exceptionall clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped, is a little age-toned on its lower cover and is very slightly worn on its margins with one small closed tear to the rear cover.
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WarChild

By: Goodridge, Marjorie

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Published by the author

Seller ID: 014877

Binding: Ringbound paperback

Condition: Very Good

Not dated - c. 2011 ? Small slim octavo, pp 69, paperback, ringbound, a very good copy. Signed by author. Postage will be reduced.
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The Birds of Scotland, with other poems

By: Grahame, James

Price: £85.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, James Ballantyne & Co. : 1806

Seller ID: 016790

Binding: Quarter leather

Condition: Very Good

Small octavo, pp 7, (5), 248, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, some pages slightly dusty internally, but generally in very good condition, bound in a late nineteenth century quarter morocco and pebbled cloth, gilt decorated spine with raised bands. An excellent copy. {The Oates-Selborne copy, with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates; the library was later gifted to the Gilbert White Museum in 1955.}. [Rev. James Grahame {1765 - 1811), was a Scottish poet whose poems are full of quiet observation of country sights expressed in graceful verse. The Birds of Scotland, exemplifys both...
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A Shropshire Lad. Last Poems. {Two volumes}

By: Housman, A.E.

Price: £5.00

Publisher: London, The Richards Press Ltd : 1936

Seller ID: 019110

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Two volumes, small 12mo (measure 90mm x 129mm). Condition very good in both. Shropshire Lad, 1936, is green cloth in slightly worn dustwrapper, its lower cover torn without loss; Last Poems, 1941, is in red cloth.
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