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The Phoenix Nest, Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1593

By: N/A

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Kensington, Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald: 1926

Seller ID: 003282

Binding: Cloth-backed boards

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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Cathedrals - a contribution by poets to the celebration of the nine hundredth anniversary of Winchester Cathedral

By: N/A

Price: £12.50

Publisher: Winchester College Printing Society: 1979

Seller ID: 005361

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition of 900 copies (this being number 625). Small, tall quarto, pp (56), title-page printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations, hessian cloth with leather labels on spine and upper cover, small bookplate of John Sparrow on front endpaper, a very good copy.
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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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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: 1898761000

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

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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Octopi, and Other Beasts Less Rude.

By: Costa, Elsa

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Private printing:

Seller ID: 000073

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

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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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

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

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

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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WarChild

By: Goodridge, Marjorie

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Published by the author:

Seller ID: 014877

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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Robert Bridges - a study of traditionalism in poetry

By: Guerard, Albert

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University: 1942

Seller ID: 009703

Condition: Good

Large 8vo, pp xvi, 332, a little used but clean internally, an ex-public library copy, with bookplate on the front endpaper, two plates and a ticket holder on the rear endpapers, an inked number and withdrawn stamp on the verso of the title page, blue cloth a little worn, shelf number and cross on the spine.
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A Shropshire Lad

By: Housman, A.E. (introduction by Professor Ian Rogerson)

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, Primrose Hill Press Ltd: 1997

Seller ID: 016666

ISBN: 1901648060

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Illustrated with wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker, small octavo, pp 109, a previous owner has neatly written Housman's dates on the title page, otherwise clean and sound internally, paperback, covers slightly worn and bumped. [The detailed introduction runs to 12 pages].
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Scepticism and Poetry - an essay on the poetic imagination

By: James, D.G.

Price: £6.50

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1937

Seller ID: 006321

First edition. pp 275, a little light foxing, marginal mark to pages 148/149, otherwise very clean and tight, red cloth very slightly worn, the spine slightly faded and marked and a little bruised at the head. A good sound pleasing copy. [The imaginative use of language, imagination lyric and morality, visionary dreariness, Adam's dream, the failure of the ballad-makers, poetry dogma and the mystical.]
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Nobodaddy - A Play

By: Macleish, Archibald

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Dunster House: 1926

Seller ID: 000826

Condition: Very Good

First Edition, Octavvo, pp 67, black decorative cloth with blue title and design on front cover and spine, no dust wrapper, very slight wear and fade to cloth, very slight sunning to uncut edges. This being one of 750 copies only, the title page in blue and green was designed by W.A. Dwiggins. This copy belonged to the late Anthony Huxley and has his signature on the front endpaper. A good copy. [MacLeish, 1892 - 1982) was an American poet and writer who was associated with the modernist school of poetry.]
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Birds, Beasts and Fishes

By: Manning-Sanders, Ruth (compiler)

Price: £13.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1962

Seller ID: 016982

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Illustrated with small line drawings by Rita Parsons, small octavo, pp (6), 248, extremely clean internallym, violet cloth in fine condition, in a very good dustwrapper, not price-clipped, and now protected in a removable plastic cover. A splendid copy - virtually as new. [A fine collection of natural history poems]
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The Insect Hunters; or, Entomology in Verse

By: Newman, Edward

Price: £95.00

Publisher: Bishopsgate, London, Published by the author: 1857

Seller ID: 016789

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Slender 12mo, pp viii, 86, (+ publisher's catalogue - 2 pages), all edges gilt, page 2 slightly marked, otherwise exceptionally clean internally, orange blind-stamped cloth, the upper cover with a gilt title within a wreath, the spine a little faded otherwise a very bright copy of a very scarce book. This first edition did not have the author's name, though he does appear as the publisher. The second edition of 1861 was fully attributed. [The Oates-Selborne copy, with the bookplate of Robert Washington Oates; the library was later gifted to the Gilbert White Museum in 1955.]. {Addressed to ...
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A Rhyming Alphabet of Medicinal Plants

By: Oakeley, Henry

Price: £2.99

Publisher: Beckenham, Henry Oakeley: 2016

Seller ID: 012645

ISBN: 0952146150

Condition: New

Illustrated, slim square octavo, pp 42, paperback. NEW. ["An A to Z of rhymes (witty) and wisdom (useful) on medicinal plants and people. Beautiful 16th & 17th century woodcuts (some rude). A perfect present."]. J is for juniper, it's used to flavour gin, an aid to disinhibition and faciliating sin. R is for ranunculus, it always causes smiles, for the knobbly rootstock, was used to cure one's piles.
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