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  • MORT, Graham. Illustrated by Mary Sara. [Signed by author and artist].
    A HALIFAX CIDER JAR. With an appreciation of the potter, Isaac Button, by Barry L. Sheridan, Keeper of Exhibitions, Calderdale Museums Service.

    Castleford: Yorkshire Art Circus, 1987. Limited edition, one of 100 copies illustrated by this artist, and one of 800 copies overall, 8vo., pp.21,(i), quarter green cloth, gilt, marbled boards with printed paper title label, 6 tipped in b/w plates; with loose advertisement for the publication, and invitation to the accompanying exhibition, a fine copy.

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  • YEATS, William Butler.
    A PACKET FOR EZRA POUND.

    Shannon: Irish University Press/T.M. MacGlinchey, 1970. Facsimile reprint of the Cuala Press edition of 1929, 8vo., pp.(iv),38,(i), quarter oatmeal cloth, blue paper-covered boards lettered in black, with plain translucent paper jacket; owner’s neat nameplate to upper margin of front paste-down endpaper, else fine.

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  • AN ANTHOLOGY OF NINETIES VERSE. by Edited with an Introduction by: SYMONS, A.J.A. Contributors: BEARDSLEY, Aubrey; CUSTANCE, Olive; DAVIDSON, John; DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred; DOUGLAS, Evelyn (John Barlas); DOWSON, Ernest; FIELD, Michael; GRAY, John; HOUSMAN, Laurence; JOHNSON, Lionel; LE GALLIENNE, Richard; LEE-HAMILTON, Eugene; O'SULLIVAN, Vincent; PLARR, Victor; SYMONDS, Arthur; THOMPSON, Francis; WILDE, Oscar; WRATISLAW, YEATS, W.B.
    Edited with an Introduction by: SYMONS, A.J.A. Contributors: BEARDSLEY, Aubrey; CUSTANCE, Olive; DAVIDSON, John; DOUGLAS, Lord Alfred; DOUGLAS, Evelyn (John Barlas); DOWSON, Ernest; FIELD, Michael; GRAY, John; HOUSMAN, Laurence; JOHNSON, Lionel; LE GALLIENNE, Richard; LEE-HAMILTON, Eugene; O'SULLIVAN, Vincent; PLARR, Victor; SYMONDS, Arthur; THOMPSON, Francis; WILDE, Oscar; WRATISLAW, YEATS, W.B.
    AN ANTHOLOGY OF NINETIES VERSE.

    London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, Ltd, 1928. First edition, 8vo., pp.176, uncut, pictorial yellow paper-covered boards backed in yellow cloth, design and lettering in black, b/w pictorial title; foxing to edges and margins of boards, occasional foxing within, splash-mark to top-edges, slight splash-marking to spine, a very good copy.

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  • ANOTHER TIME. [First edition] by AUDEN, W.H.
    AUDEN, W.H.
    ANOTHER TIME. [First edition]

    London: Faber and Faber. First edition, 8vo., pp.125, red cloth, gilt, uncut; toning to endpapers, foxing throughout, else a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a small area of loss to headband, a few chips to extremities, light sunning to spine, and small pencil mark to rear lower margin.

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  • ART IN URDU POETRY. by RAHMATULLAH, Shahabuddin. Foreword by The Honourable Malik Firoz Khan Noon.
    RAHMATULLAH, Shahabuddin. Foreword by The Honourable Malik Firoz Khan Noon.
    ART IN URDU POETRY.

    Dacca: Privately published, printed at Monu Press, 1956. Tall 8vo., pp.(iv),120, green cloth, gilt, colour and b/w plates; ownership gift inscription, dated 1956, to front free endpaper, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly worn and torn to extremities, and is now in a protective cover.

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  • MILES, Jonathan.
    BACKGROUNDS TO DAVID JONES. A Study in Sources and Drafts.

    Cardiff: University Of Wales Press, 1990. 8vo.,pp. 232, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations; some light pencilling to margins, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has sunning to spine.

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  • Edited by, WATSON, W.J.
    BARDACHD ALBANNACH: SCOTTISH VERSE FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAN OF LISMORE.

    Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press Ltd, 1978. 8vo.,pp. xl,327, hardcover, gilt; a very good copy, in a good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine with water marking, rubbing to extremities with light chipping to head and foot of spine and light wear to corners.

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  • BEN JONSON 11 VOLUMES: Volume I & II: The Man and His Work; Volume II:I A Tale of a Tub; The Case is Altered; Every Man in His Humour; Every Man out of His Humour; Volume IV: Cynthia’s Revels; Poetaster; Sejamus; Eastward Ho; Volume V: Volpone; Epocoene; The Alchemist; Catiline; Volume VI: Batholomew Fair; The Devil is an Ass; The Staple of News; The New Inn; The Magnetic Lady; Volume VII: The Sad Shepherd; The Fall of Mortimer; Masques and Entertainments; Volume VIII: The Poems; The Prose Works; Volume IX: Survey of the Text; Stage History; Commentary; Volume X: Commentary; Volume XI: Commentary; Literary Record; Notes; Index. by JONSON, Ben. Edited by, HERFORD, C.H; SIMPSON, Percy and Evelyn.
    JONSON, Ben. Edited by, HERFORD, C.H; SIMPSON, Percy and Evelyn.
    BEN JONSON 11 VOLUMES: Volume I & II: The Man and His Work; Volume II:I A Tale of a Tub; The Case is Altered; Every Man in His Humour; Every Man out of His Humour; Volume IV: Cynthia’s Revels; Poetaster; Sejamus; Eastward Ho; Volume V: Volpone; Epocoene; The Alchemist; Catiline; Volume VI: Batholomew Fair; The Devil is an Ass; The Staple of News; The New Inn; The Magnetic Lady; Volume VII: The Sad Shepherd; The Fall of Mortimer; Masques and Entertainments; Volume VIII: The Poems; The Prose Works; Volume IX: Survey of the Text; Stage History; Commentary; Volume X: Commentary; Volume XI: Commentary; Literary Record; Notes; Index.

    Oxford: At the Claredndon Press, 1952. 11 volumes, the set, 8vo., green cloth, gilt lettering with gilt emblems to front boards, b/w frontispieces; light foxing to edges of text block, otherwise near-fine, in mostly price-clipped dust-jackets, with some surface scuff marks and rubbing to extremities, overall a very good set.

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  • BENTLEY Jr., G.E.
    BLAKE RECORDS.

    Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxviii, 678, illustrated throughout in b/w, cloth, gilt, with pictorial gilt stamped to spine, minor rubbing to extremities, minor foxing to fore-edges, o/w a very good copy in very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket with minor scuffing in a clear book protector

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  • ZUKOFSKY, Louis.
    BOTTOM: On Shakespeare.

    Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. First edition thus, 8vo.,pp. 470, paperback, pictorial title page; light sunning to spine, a very good copy.

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  • BUNTING: THE SHAPING OF HIS VERSE. by MAKIN, Peter.
    MAKIN, Peter.
    BUNTING: THE SHAPING OF HIS VERSE.

    Oxford University Press, 1992. 8vo., pp.xx,370, navy hardcover, gilt, b/w plates; very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.

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  • BYZANTINE HEROIC POETRY. by RICKS, David.
    RICKS, David.
    BYZANTINE HEROIC POETRY.

    Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1990. 8vo., pp.xii,189, paperback; toning to primary and ultimate leaves, slight toning and shelfwear to wrappers, a very good, clean copy.

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  • CHARLES OLSON AND ROBERT CREELEY: THE COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE. [Set of Ten Volumes] by Volumes I-VIII edited by BUTTERICK, George F.; Volumes IX-X edited by BLEVINS, Richard.
    Volumes I-VIII edited by BUTTERICK, George F.; Volumes IX-X edited by BLEVINS, Richard.
    CHARLES OLSON AND ROBERT CREELEY: THE COMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE. [Set of Ten Volumes]

    Santa Barbara/Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1985. Set of ten volumes, 8vo., paperback; a couple of light creases to corners of wrappers, very slight surface soil to wrappers, some foxing to edges, overall a fresh and near-fine set.

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  • CHARLOTTE MEW: COLLECTED POEMS AND SELECTED PROSE. by Edited with an introduction by: WARNER, Val.
    Edited with an introduction by: WARNER, Val.
    CHARLOTTE MEW: COLLECTED POEMS AND SELECTED PROSE.

    Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1997. 8vo., pp.xxv,124, paperback; a near fine copy.

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  • CHINA COAST BALLADS by A’RABBITT, Shamus. Illustrations by 'SAPAJOU'.
    A’RABBITT, Shamus. Illustrations by 'SAPAJOU'.
    CHINA COAST BALLADS (And Other Verses).

    Shanghai: A.R. Hager, printed at the Willow Pattern Press, Shanghai, 1938. First edition, 8vo., pp.125, half cream cloth lettered in black, red cloth boards, numerous b/w vignette illustrations to margins, endpaper maps; ownership autographs to front endapers, numerical inscriptions to prelim and end blanks (handwritten dates), partial paper-splitting to head and foot of inner hinges, with the same paper-splitting visible to lower margins (and occasionally upper margins) throughout,48 stitching visible between leaves in a couple of places, darkening and marking to cream cloth, light marking to boards, a sound or good- copy of this scarce title.

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  • COLLECTED POEMS. by CHIARI, Joseph. Preface by Hugh MacDiarmid. [Signed by the author]
    CHIARI, Joseph. Preface by Hugh MacDiarmid. [Signed by the author]
    COLLECTED POEMS.

    London: Enitharmon Press, 1978. Signed limited edition, no. 12 of only 30 copies, 8vo., pp.xiv,185, black paper-covered boards backed in red morocco, gilt, t.e.g., b/w frontispiece portrait, autographed and numbered beneath; slight bowing to upper corner of front board, light sunning to upper margin of rear board, a very good copy indeed. Joseph Chiari was born in Corsica, and wrote primarily in French, his second language. These later poems, composed in English, were the fruit of his time studying in Scotland, where he befriended the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, and, as he remarks in his prolegomenon to the present volume, also illumined by a lifelong affinity he felt the English language, which. Chiari also counted T.S. Eliot among his friends,…

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    London: Enitharmon Press, 1978. Signed limited edition, no. 12 of only 30 copies, 8vo., pp.xiv,185, black paper-covered boards backed in red morocco, gilt, t.e.g., b/w frontispiece portrait, autographed and numbered beneath; slight bowing to upper corner of front board, light sunning to upper margin of rear board, a very good copy indeed. Joseph Chiari was born in Corsica, and wrote primarily in French, his second language. These later poems, composed in English, were the fruit of his time studying in Scotland, where he befriended the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, and, as he remarks in his prolegomenon to the present volume, also illumined by a lifelong affinity he felt the English language, which. Chiari also counted T.S. Eliot among his friends, his biography of whom is perhaps his best known work. This volume is drawn from five collections:, and..., which are reproduced in their entirety. T.S. Eliot: Poet and Dramatist The Scented Isle A Parallel between Corsica and the Scottish Highlands Symbolisme from Poe to Mallarmé: The Growth of a Myth by Joseph Chiari, T.S. Eliot (Foreword by)

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  • COLLECTED POEMS. by BETJEMAN, John. Compiled and introduced by the Earl of Birkenhead. [Signed by author].
    BETJEMAN, John. Compiled and introduced by the Earl of Birkenhead. [Signed by author].
    COLLECTED POEMS. Enlarged edition.

    London: John Murray, 1970. Third edition (with addition of all poems published in ‘High and Low’), 8vo., pp.xxx,366, green cloth, gilt; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which has creasing to rear flap, and rubbing/light chipping to headband. Front free endpaper inscribed in pencil, “To Eric Mascall from the ridiculous author of these verses with fervent affection John Betjeman 1970”. Also includes a letter, written in pencil, from Betjeman to Mascall, thanking him for a copy of the Book of Humourous Verse.

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  • Edited and translated by, FOSTER, Kenelm; BOYDE, Patrick.
    DANTE’S LYRIC POETRY.

    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967. 8vo., pp. lv,217, paperback; foxing and toning to edges of text block, creasing to spine, with closed tear to foot of spine, otherwise a very good copy.

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  • Edited and translated, with Glossary and Notes, by: CAMPBELL, John Lorne.
    DUAIN GHAIDHEALACH MU BHLIADHNA THEARLAICH / HIGHLAND SONGS OF THE FORTY-FIVE.

    Edinburgh: John Grant, 1933. First edition, bilingual edition, 8vo., pp.xxxvi,327, uncut, red cloth, gilt; light foxing to prelims, light marking to cloth, a very good copy.

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  • DUMB INSTRUMENT. by WELCH, Denton. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jean-Louis Chevalier. Decorations by Denton Welch.
    WELCH, Denton. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Jean-Louis Chevalier. Decorations by Denton Welch.
    DUMB INSTRUMENT.

    London: Enitharmon Press, 1976. First edition, 8vo., pp.58, two-tone cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, in-text illustrations; neat ownership bookplate to front paste-down endpaper (largely covered by flap of dust-jacket), foxing to top edges, a near-fine copy, in very good price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly partially toned, with slight rubbing to edges.

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