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OLD ENGLISH POETRY. A Broadview Anthology British Literature edition.
Toronto: Broadview Press, 2014. 8vo.,pp. 272, paperback; a fine copy.
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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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OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS.
London: Faber and Faber Limited. First edition, 8vo., pp.45, pictorial yellow cloth stamped and lettered in red; foxing to prelims and edges, spine and margins of boards darkened, light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy, without dust-jacket.
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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 AND TRANSLATIONS OF HI-LO.
Manchester: Carcanet, 1991. 8vo., pp.160, paperback; a fresh and near-fine copy, with bookseller’s price-sticker to rear wrapper.
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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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POEMS OF OSSIAN. Two Volumes.
Edinburgh: The Mercat Press/James Thin, 1971. Fascimile of the 1805 edition, part of a limited edtion run of which this No. 409, 8vo., pp.lxix,579, light blue cloth, gilt; ownership bookplate to front paste-down of both volumes, a couple of light spots of foxing to endpapers, very light foxing to fore-edge of text block, lightly rubbed, vol. II lightly sunned to spine, overall a very good set.
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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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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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PRIVATE HABITS
Lydgate, Todmorden: Arc Publications, 1981. 12mo., pp.110, brown cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations; very light rubbing to head and tailband, else a near-fine copy in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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RAPTURE.
London: Picador, Pan Macmillan, 2005. First edition, first impression, 8vo., pp.62, pictorial red hardcover, silver gilt, ribbon bookmark; light creasing to headband, else a fine, fresh copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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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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RILKE: POEMS 1906-1926.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1957. First edition, 8vo., pp.xxix,402, purple cloth, gilt; foxing to edges, a very good, clean copy, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is toned to spine, with slight chipping to extremities.
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ROBERT LOWELL: COLLECTED PROSE.
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1987. First edition, 8vo., pp.,xiv,377, blue hardcover, gilt; top lightly spotted, o/w a very good copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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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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