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THE POEMS OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY, JR.
Chapel Hill: The Univeraity of North Carolina Press, 1966. 8vo.,pp. lviii,113, green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, decorative endpapers; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, mildly ex-library with a small ex-library stamp to front free endpaper, creased to front paste down endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE POEMS OF ROBERT SOUTHWELL S.J.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967. 8vo., pp.civ,177, navy hardcover, gilt, blind decoration to front board, b/w frontispiece of original MS; very light rubbing to boards, else a near-fine copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket with a small chip to tailband.
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THE POEMS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974. First printing of the much revised second edition, 8vo., pp.xxviii,496, navy cloth, gilt; slight spotting to top edges, else very good indeed, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket,
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THE POEMS OF SIR JOHN DAVIES.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1975. First edition, 8vo., pp.lxvii,451, navy cloth, gilt; from the library of David Lindley, with ownership autograph to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in edge-worn unclipped dust-jacket, now in a protective cover.
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THE POEMS OF WILLAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN [Two Volumes].
The Muses’ Library.
London/New York: Lawrence and Bullen/Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1894. Limited edition, no. 14 of 100 large paper copies, 12mo., pp.cxxv,245;348, uncut, quarter brown morocco with stamped title-bands, gilt, brown cloth boards, t.e.g., marbled paste-down and endpaper, illuminated pictorial device to title pages, titles in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait to Volume I. by R. Gaywood; occasional light foxing to fore-edges, light rubbing to extremities, a very good, internally clean set.
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THE POETICAL WORKS OF GILES FLETCHER AND PHINEAS FLETCHER. [Two Volumes] Cambridge English Classics
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 8vo., pp. xxiii, 309, xxii, 368, black cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; light toning to endpapers of both volumes, faint stain to fore-edge of Vol. I, light spotting to boards of both volumes, overall a very good set, no dust-jackets.
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THE POETRY OF CHARTISM.
Aesthetics, Politics, History.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 8vo.,pp. ix,299, hardcover, gilt; author’s presentation inscription to front free endpaper, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket.
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THE PRELUDE.
Or, Growth of a Poet’s Mind.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. Second edition, 8vo., pp.lxxiv,650, navy cloth, gilt, 7 b/w illustrations, including frontispiece portrait, and MS. facsimiles; foxing to endpapers and edges, an otherwise very good copy, in a price-clipped dust-jacket, which is chipped to extremities, with just slight loss, and now in a protective cover.
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THE SALISBURY PLAIN POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Salisbury Plain, or A Night on Salisbury Plain; Adventures on Salisbury Plain (including The Female Vagrant); Guilt and Sorrow or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press/Harvester Press, 1975. 8vo., pp.xviii,310, teal cloth, gilt, b/w ms. facsimiles; Harvester Press blindstamp to half title, foxing to edges, internally clean, a very good copy, in a very good, partially sunned unclipped dust-jacket, which has archival tape repair to closed tear at foot of rear flap-fold.
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THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM. Edited from Ms. Laud. MISC. 656 with Variants from all Other Extant MSS.
Oxford: Early English Text Society, 1971. 8vo.,pp. xxxi,133, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to cloth, small tearing to upper margin of p.xv, annotation in red ink to p.28, otherwise very good. No dust-jacket.
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THE SINK OF SOLITUDE
Being a Series of Satirical Drawings occasioned by some Recent Events performed by BERESFORD EGAN, Gent, to which is added a Preface by P.R. STEPHENSEN, Gent, and a Verse Lampoon composed by SEVERAL HANDS and now set forth for the first time, the whole very proper to be read both on Family and Public Occasions.
London: Hermes Press, 1928. 4to., pp. v,19. paperback, printed yellow wrappers, 5 full page b/w plates; slight crease to upper corners, minor area of loss to upper corner of front wrapper, rubbing to extremities, wrappers partially worn along spine, light surface soil to wrappers, internally clean, overall a very good copy.
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THE TEMPLE OF NATURE
Or, The Origin of Society; A Poem With Philosophical Notes.
Menston and London: The Scolar Press Limited, 1803. Scolar Press facsimile; 8vo., pp.174,124 (Additional Notes), tan cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and one further plate; light foxing to endpapers, tiny closed tear to head of rear blank, light foxing and toning to edges otherwise very good, in an unclipped dust jacket, which has chipping and diagonal closed tear for apx. 24mms to head of spine, slight rubbing to edges, else very good.
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THE TOSA DIARY.
Rutland, Vermont/Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1981. 8vo., pp.148, red cloth, gilt; occasional lightly pencilled annotations, else a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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THE UNCORRECTED BILLY CHILDISH.
London: The Tangerine Press, 2018. Large 8vo., pp.187, paperback, b/w decorations; light shelfwear to wrappers, very good.
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THE UNRETURNING SPRING.
Being the Poems, Sketches, Stories, and Letters of James Farrar.
London: Williams and Norgate Ltd, 1950. First edition, 8vo., pp.242, green cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece portrait; sunning to spine and margins of boards, a very good copy, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly marked to spine and just lightly rubbed with slight creasing to extremities.
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THE VARIORUM EDITION OF THE POEMS OF W.B. YEATS.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1973. Sixth impression, 8vo., pp.xxxv,884, blue cloth, gilt; foxing to top edges, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in very good gently price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and chipped to extremities.
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THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY.
A Farewell Edition Privately Printed for the Author by the Board of Directors of Konan University, Kobe, Japan.
Kobe: Konan University, 1956. Signed, limited edition, no.71 of 400 copies, small 4to., pp.41, cream paper-covered boards with printed paper label to spine and small gilt insignia to front board, handmade paper, b/w frontispiece portrait of the author with loose tissue guard; author’s signed presentation inscription to frontispiece, light partial sunning to boards, a couple of small bruises/nicks to extremities, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE YELLOW HOUSE ON THE CORNER.
Pittsburgh: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1980. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 70, paperback; light rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.
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VISIONS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION.
San Marino: Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 2002. 4to.,pp. v,78, brown cloth, silver lettering, b/w and colour illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial, which has small scuff mark to lower spine and foxing to reverse.
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W.H. AUDEN: THE MAP OF ALL MY YOUTH.
Early Works, Friends and Influences. Auden Studies 1.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Reprint, 8vo., pp.xi,245, navy hardcover, gilt; slight spotting to top edge, very good indeed, in very good+ unclipped dust-jacket.
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