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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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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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JOHN KEATS: SELECTED POEMS.
London: The Folio Society, 2015. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.xvii,260, pictorial hardcover backed in green cloth, gilt, numerous b/w illustrations. head- and tailpieces; a fine copy, in fine slipcase.
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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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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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NEW SELECTED POEMS 1988-2013.
London: Faber & Faber, 2014. First edition, 8vo., pp.x,222, hardcover, gilt, very slight dusting to top edge, a fresh and near fine copy, in a near fine unclipped dust-jacket which is very slightly rubbed.
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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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PERIPATETICS.
St. Paul: Truck Press, 1978. 8vo.,pp. unpaginated, cream pictorial paperback with red lettering; a very good copy.
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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 AND FRAGMENTS. Bi-lingual Edition with a Preface, Introduction and Notes.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1966. First English edition, 8vo., pp.xviii,624, navy leather with gilt-lettered label, top edges blue; very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities, with two small closed tears to front lower edge.
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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 OF THE STEWART COURT.
Canberra/London: Australian National University Press. 8vo., pp.xiii,610, green hardcover, gilt, pictorial endpapers in colour; occasional light pencilling, light creasing to head/tailbands, very good, in good+ unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly sunned to spine, and has light creasing and small stain to front lower margin, else vg and now in protective cover.
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POETS OF CLACKMANNANSHIRE, With Numerous Speciments of their Writings.
Glasgow: John S. Wilson, 1885. First edition, 8vo., pp.200, dark green bevelled cloth, gilt, with border and floral vignette in black to front board, engraved frontispiece and 9 further plates showing landmarks of Clackmannanshire; toning and foxing to prelims, some foxing and occasional finger-marking within, with light rubbing to extremities, else very good.
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RAPTURES. A Book of Poems.
Beaumont Press, 1918. Limited edition, no.173 of 272, 8vo., pp.38, quarter buckram, with paper labels to spine and front board, cover design by Pickford Waller, binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; label to spine faded, upper margins of boards toned and faded, else a very good copy.
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REMAINS OF ELMET: A Pennine Sequence.
London: Faber & Faber, 1979. First edition, 4to., pp.125,(ii), quarter beige cloth, lettered in black, with black paper-covered boards, b/w plates accompany the poems throughout; inscribed to half title: ‘Whoever buys this book helps The Hebden Bridge Festival Theatre Company / Ted Hughes, 5 January 1987”. Owing to a misprint in this volume, eliding the final ten lines of ‘Grouse Butts’, the additional lines have been supplied in manuscript by Ted Hughes. The book was then auctioned to raise funds for the Hebden Bridge Festival Theatre Company. A fresh and near-fine copy, with slight foxing to top edges, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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RESPONSIBILITIES AND OTHER POEMS.
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1916. First edition, small 8vo., pp.188, uncut, pictorial blue cloth, gilt; ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper (dated 1919), gilt to spine dulled, light toning to free endpapers, small spots of rubbing and slight wear to extremities, else very good indeed.
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SELECTED POEMS.
Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
London: Oxford University Press, 1964. First edition, 8vo., pp.ix,94, black cloth, gilt; small (12mm) spilt to front endpapers along inner hinge, else fresh and very good indeed, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and inner margins of boards, with two small closed tears to upper edge, small nick to spine, and light rubbing/very slight chipping to upper edge, else very good and now in a protective cover.
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SELECTED POEMS OF BARNABE GOOGE.
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1961. 8vo.,pp. 61, beige cloth, green lettering; toning to margins, light foxing to endpapers, toning and lightly rubbed to extremities, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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SINCERITY.
London: Picador, 2018. Signed, limited edition, 8vo., pp.ix,75, pictorial hardcover stamped into silver, ribbon bookmark; with ‘Signed copy’ sticker to front board; a fine copy.
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