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EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LABOURING-CLASS POETS, 1700-1800, Volumes I and II.
Volume I. 1700-1740; Volume II. 1740-1780
London: Pickering and Chatto, 2003. Two volumes, 8vo., ppxxix,416;xxxvi,458, green hardcover with purple title-bands, gilt; a fresh and near-fine set. No dust-jackets, as issued.
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FABLES ANCIENT AND MODERN; Translated into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: With Original Poems. John Dryden, 1770.
A Scolar Press Facsimile.
Ilkley: Scolar Press, 1973. Facsimile reprint after the Bodleian Library copy, 4to., pp.(v),(xxxviii),646,(ii), grey cloth, gilt; foxing to top edges and to spine, light partial sunning to cloth, with slight warping to upper margin of rear board, a good+ copy, which is internally fresh and very good. (No dust-jacket).
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FOOLS AND JESTERS: With a Reprint of Robert Armin’s Nest of Ninnies, 1608. With an Introduction and Notes.
London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society, 1842. 8vo., pp.xx,67, uncut, brown cloth, gilt; pencilled underlinings and marginal annotation, boards marked, partially sunned, with light loss to headband and slight wear to tailband, a good working copy.
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FOUR QUARTETS.
London: Faber and Faber, 1944. First edition, 8vo., pp.44, cloth, gilt; foxing to free endpapers, light undulation to lower margins, bowing to front board (with slight spotting to fore-margin of front board), else very good, in very good complete and unclipped dust-jacket.
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HAIKU.
John Esam - A Strange Life; Anselm Hollo - 17 x 17; Tom Raworth - My Son the Haiku Writer.
London: Trigram Press, 1968. Limited edition of 1,000 copies, 8vo., pp.(iv),(8),(8),(8), paperback, b/w frontispiece, title in red and black, the poems each printed on a different shade of paper, stamped image in red recurs after each of the 3 poems; light crease to upper corners, toning, light creasing and light marking to wrappers, internally clean and very good, a good(+) copy overall.
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IMAGINATIONS: FIVE EXPERIMENTAL PROSE PIECES: Kora in Hell; Spring and All; The Great American Novel; The Descent of Winter; A Novelette and Other Prose.
London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1970. First edition, 8vo., pp.xviii, black hardcover, gilt; light foxing to edges, a very good copy indeed, in a very good complete and unclipped dust-jacket, which has foxing to flaps.
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IN FLANDERS FIELDS AND OTHER POEMS.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xi,167, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; foxed and toned to endpapers, webbing slightly visible to inner hinge, light toning and occasional light foxing, sunned to spine with lettering faded, lightly worn to head and foot of spine, with a few white soil mark to margins of boards, overall very good. No dust-jacket.
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IN THE EARLY MORNING RAIN.
London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. Limited edition, of 100 copies of which this is number 94, signed by the author, 8vo.,pp. unpaginated, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations; author’s signature to title page, light toning to margins, rubbed to extremities with light wear to head and foot of spine and corners, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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LANGUAGE.
San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1965. First edition, 8vo., pp.(iv),66, paperback; toning to margins of wrappers, a very good, clean copy.
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MAN AND POET.
Orono: The National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine. 8vo., pp.427, paperback, b/w illustration; small ownership autograph to front free endpaper, toned and lightly creased to spine, foxing to edges of text block, otherwise a very good copy.
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MARVELL AND LIBERTY.
Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, in association with Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 1999. 8vo., pp.xiii,365, black hardcover, gilt, 12 b/w plates; slight bruising to corners, a very good, internally clean copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased to upper margin.
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MEMORY OF FIRE.
1. Genesis. Part One of a Trilogy.
London: Quartet Books Ltd, 1985. First edition, 8vo., pp.xvii,293, green hardcover, gilt; light foxing to edges, light dust marking to top edge and upper extremities, slight rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket which is lightly soiled to inner headband and has a small price sticker to rear.
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OLD LIGHTS FOR NEW CHANCELS.
Verses Topographical and Amatory.
London: John Murray. First edition, 12mo., pp.xix,67,(1), blue cloth, printed paper label to spine; a fine copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, with light toning and minimal chipping to edges. With a card written by Betjeman for Eric Mascall (Poet and Theologian), which reads: “Eric with high greetings from his admiring fellow rhymer, John Betjeman” loosely inserted.
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OUTSPEAKS A RHAPSODY.
Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1997. Author’s signed presentation copy, 8vo., pp.199, paperback, b/w fascimiles of handwritten poems interleaved with printed text; lightly rubbed, a very good copy indeed.
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PERIPATETICS.
St. Paul: Truck Press, 1978. 8vo.,pp. unpaginated, cream pictorial paperback with red lettering; a very good copy.
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PERSONS FROM PORLOCK.
and other plays for the radio
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1969. First edition, 8vo., pp.144, green hardcover, gilt; very light toning to front free endpaper, else internally clean, else a near-fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket light rubbed with a few marks.
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POEMS. The Centaur’s Booty; The Rout of the Amazons; The Gazelles, & Other Poems; Pan’s Prophecy; To Leda, and other Odes; Theseus, Medea, and Lyrics.
London: Duckworth and Co, 1904. 8vo., box set comprising six paperback volumes in brown paper wrappers; all volumes contain a neat ink gift inscription to their half title page, all dated 1910, slight wear to paper wrappers at foot of spines, a very good, fresh set, in lightly worn slipcase, with printed title label to spine.
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POEMS 1909-1925.
London: Faber and Gwyer Ltd, 1925. First edition, 8vo., pp.99, navy cloth with printed paper title label to spine; ex libris Professor David Moody, without inscription, foxing to prelims and edges, some foxing throughout; spine darkened, with light chipping to paper label, light marking to cloth, a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
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POEMS BY ARTHUR SYMONS. In Two Volumes.
London: Heinemann, 1921. Two volumes, 8vo., pp.x,219;vii,227, uncut, paper-covered boards with printed paper labels to spines, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard to first volume; toning to endpapers, with neat ownership nameplate to front paste-down endpaper of both volumes, foxing to prelims and edges, a very good set, in rudimentary printed dust-jackets, bearing bookseller’s inkstamp to front and rear panels (Miller & Gill, Charing Cross Road), split and lightly chipped along joints, with small sellotape reinforcements at extremities, and with small area of loss to rear upper margin of jacket to Volume I.
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POETRY AND POPULAR PROTEST. Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 8vo.,pp. xix,272, hardcover, silver lettering, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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