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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 POETIC EDDA. Volume II: MYTHOLOGICAL POEMS.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Reprint, 8vo.,pp. xiii,443, printed hardcover, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE POETRY OF DEREK MAHON.
Oxford University Press, 2007. 8vo., pp.vii,402, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; light foxing to endpapers, 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 REXROTH READER.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. First edition, 8vo., pp.437, red hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, foxing to edges, else very good, in a lightly chipped price-clipped dust-jacket.
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THE SEA AND THE MIRROR, A POEM A Commentary on Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003. 8vo., pp. xlii,106, hardcover, silver lettering; ink ownership autograph to front free endpaper, occasional light pencilling, a few light spots of foxing and light toning to edges of text block, not affecting margins, else a very good copy indeed in a vg+ unclipped dust-jacket, very light rubbing to extremities.
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THE SELECTED LETTERS OF GEORGE OPPEN.
Durham: Duke University Press, 1990. First edition, 8vo.,pp. xxxiii,436, paperback, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; slight sunning to spine, light toning and foxing to upper and lower edge of text block, otherwise clean, a very good copy.
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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 SKALDS A SELECTION OF THEIR POEMS.
New York: Princeton University Press, 1947. Second printing, 8vo., pp. vii, 216, cloth; very light sunning to margins of boards, very light rubbing to extremities, one small mark to lower margin of front board, a very good copy, in a good+ dust-jacket, lightly toned, minor chipping to headband, 1 cm closed tear to rear upper margin
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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 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 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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TRACING T.S. ELIOT’S SPIRIT: Essays on his poetry and thought.
‘unappeased and peregrine’.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 8vo.,pp. xxi,195, paperback; a very good clean 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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WALT WHITMAN'S LEAVES OF GRASS.
The First (1855) Edition.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1960. First edition thus, 8vo., pp.,xxxvii,145, green hardcover, silver lettering; light spotting and shading to endpapers, pages lightly toned, foxing to head, slight water mark to fore-edge, o/w a very good, internally clean copy in a very good unclipped dust-jacket which is lightly spotted to flaps.
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WHITE MULE.
MacGibbon & Kee, 1965. First edition, 8vo.,pp. 266, brown hardcover, gilt; toned to margins, a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine, rubbed and toned to extremities, with some light loss to head and foot of spine and corners, overall very good.
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