Poetry
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DRAKE, Nick - DRAKE, Gabrielle (ed.) Remembered For A While; The John Peel Session; Remembered by Julian Lloyd.London : 2014
The Numbered Boxed Signature Edition, number 498 of 1,000 copies only, signed by Gabrielle Drake and Cally Callomon on the limitation slip mounted on the title page; photograph portfolio signed by Julian Lloyd on the limitation slip. This is a superb copy.
"Nick Drake: Remembered for a While is not so much a memoir or biography as a compendium... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 149645
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ELIOT, T. S. The Waste Land.London : 1971
First edition thus, first impression, signed on the title page by Valerie Eliot, the second wife, and later widow, of the Nobel prize-winning poet, T. S. Eliot.
The Waste Land was first published in The Criterion magazine in 1922, and the first book form edition was issued the same year. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 149508
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LEGGE, J. G. Echoes from the Greek Anthology.London : 1919
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "from J. G. Legge, to Gilbert Murray", the author; this is a great copy with a very fitting association.
Murray (1866-1957) was a classical scholar who taught at Glasgow and Oxford, most notable and celebrated for his proficiency in the language and culture... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 149215
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PINTER, Harold. Monologue.London : 1973
First edition, first impression, signed by Harold Pinter on the limitation page, number 15 of 100 copies only. Monologue was produced by BBC Television in April 1973, directed by Christopher Morahan and played by Henry Woolf. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 149129
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HOUSMAN, A. E. A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems.Chipping Camden, Gloucestershire : 1929
First Alcuin Press edition, one of 325 sets, this copy is out-of-series, inscribed "specially for Graham and Vivienne Greene, from the printer of the book" on the limitation page, and with author Graham Greene's wife library label to the front pastedown.
This was the first edition comprising what were then Housman's complete published works (More... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 149373
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DUNNING, Ralph Cheever. Rococo. A Poem.Paris : 1926
First edition, first printing, number 495 of 500 copies only signed by the author on the limitation page and the artist under the first illustration. Laid in this copy is a rare, possibly unique original photograph of the author. This is a great copy with an excellent provenance.
Although unmarked as such other than a pencilled note by the previous... Learn More£800.00Stock Code: 149214
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DUNNING, Ralph Cheever. Rococo. A Poem.Paris : 1926
First edition, first printing, number 72 of 500 copies only signed by the author on the limitation page and the artist under the first illustration.
Ralph Cheever Dunning, dubbed "the living Buddha of Montparnasse" by fellow American expatriate Ford Maddox Ford, was a ghostly presence in critical, literary Paris in the 1920s. Ezra Pound joined... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 149213
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OLIVER, Mary. Twelve Moons.Boston : 1979
First edition, first printing, the scarce hardcover issue of this early and significant collection, signed by Oliver on the title page.
Mary Oliver (1935-2019) is best remembered today for her crystalline style and minute attentiveness to nature, characteristic of Romantic poetry. Richard Tillinghast has written that "her familiarity with the... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 149121
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BUKOWSKI, Charles (contrib.); RICHMOND, Steve (ed.) The Earth Rose #1.Santa Monica : [1966]
The first and only issue of The Earth Rose, a striking tabloid-style poetry broadside, inscribed by the editor in purple ink on the front page: "10,000 printed 12 people arrested + the war's over Steve Richmond".
The front page carries the inflammatory block-lettered headline "FUCK HATE". Richmond's inscription refers to the resulting police... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 145610
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GIBRAN, Kahlil. Twenty Drawings.New York : 1919
First edition, trade issue, of Gibran's first and only collection of drawings. "For Gibran the canvas represented another form in which his poetry could be expressed... the pieces included in Twenty Drawings clearly demonstrate the mystical qualities Gibran imbued in all his works, whatever the medium" (Allen, p. 184). The collection, which... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 137326
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WALLER, John; C. S. Lewis; Edmund Blunden, & others - DOUGLAS, Keith, & Alec H. Hardie (eds.) Augury. An Oxford Miscellany of Verse & Prose.Oxford : 1940
First edition, first impression, signed five times and annotated by the poet John Waller, and with a publisher's compliments slip laid-in. Waller has signed his two poetic contributions, "Photograph Album" and "Ophelia"; added a barely legible original poem, signed, on the same page; annotated a Keith Douglas translation of Horace; and inscribed his... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 99176
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OLIVER, Mary. Winter Hours.Boston & New York : 1999
First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. Winter Hours is Oliver's fourteenth book of poems, which which she "communicates the beauty she finds in the world and makes it unforgettable" (Miami Herald); also included are Oliver's essays on some of her favourite poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edgar Allen Poe, and Robert Frost.
Mary... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 146951
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KEATS, John; BUCKLAND-WRIGHT, John (illus.) Endymion.London : 1947
First edition thus, number 63 of 100 copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator, from a total edition of 500 copies.
This sumptuous edition was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement on 3 April 1948 with the note that "the imperial octavo format (as large as a small seventeenth-century folio) preserves the proportions of the original... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 149303
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GLÜCK, Louise. The House on Marshland.New York : 1975
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the dedication page verso: "for Stuart with all warm wishes Louise". The House on Marshland is the second book of poems by Louise Glück (b. 1943), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 147932
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AUDEN, W. H. Look, Stranger!London : 1936
First edition, first impression, of the author's second collection of short poems, familiarly inscribed by him using his first name reserved for friends on the title page: "To Bill from Wystan", his printed name struck through. Look, Stranger! includes Auden's masterpiece "Paysage Moralisé", presented here as number VII (pp. 22-23).
The recipient... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 147895
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AUDEN, W. H. Academic Graffiti.London : 1971
First edition, first impression, familiarly inscribed by the author using his first name reserved for friends on the front free endpaper: "To Bill, with love from Wystan". This work comprises 61 short, humorous poems ("clerihews") on famous literary or historical figures, each one accompanied by a cartoon.
The recipient Dr William ("Woods") Shelton... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 147287
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AUDEN, W. H. Homage to Clio.New York : 1960
First edition, first printing, familiarly inscribed by the author using his first name reserved for friends on the title page: "For Bill Gray with best wishes from Wystan Auden", his printed name struck through. This collection of poems is marked by "dark themes of public and private violence" (ODNB).
The recipient Dr William ("Woods") Shelton... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 147377
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VERLAINE, Paul. Invectives.Paris : 1896
First edition, rare large paper issue, number six of an unspecified limitation on Van Geldes paper, numbered and initialled by the publisher. The limitation page notes a further limited run of 71 copies on Hollande paper each with an autograph poem by the author.
Associated with the Symbolist and the Decadent movements Verlaine's work was recognised... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 130340
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AUDEN, W. H. Nones.New York : 1951
First edition, first printing, familiarly inscribed by the author using his first name reserved for friends on the title page, "To Bill from Wystan", with his printed name struck through. This collection includes the poem "Their Lonely Betters" (p. 18).
The recipient Dr William ("Woods") Shelton Gray, Jr (1926-1993) fostered friendships with... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 147723
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AUDEN, W. H. The Collected Poetry.New York : 1951
First edition, eighth printing, familiarly inscribed by the author using his first name reserved for friends on the front free endpaper: "With best wishes from Wystan Auden. Feb. 1954". It was first published in 1945.
The recipient Dr William ("Woods") Shelton Gray, Jr (1926-1993), with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper, fostered... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 147282
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OMAR KHAYYAM; FITZGERALD, Edward. Rubaiyat.London : [1911]
First edition thus, number 354 of 550 copies signed by Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe and printed on handmade paper (a further 25 were printed on japon), in a striking binding by Bayntun-Riviere, one of the most lavish editions of the Rubáiyát.
The prestigious London bindery Sangorski and Sutcliffe made a speciality of fabulous bindings.... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 148466
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RILKE, Rainer Maria; K. W. Maurer (trans.) Letters to a Young Woman.London : [1945]
First edition, first impression, inscribed "from KW. M. Jan, 1946" on the title page. A manuscript note laid-in loose states that this was "Sent by K. Maurer with request to forward with his good wishes. Evelyn Cottage, Lakes Lane Beacnsfie Beaconsfield". This title is arranged in much the same way as Maurer's earlier translation of Letters to a Young... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 142523
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WYNDHAM-LEWIS, D. B., & Charles Lee. The Stuffed Owl.London and Toronto : 1930
First edition, signed by both editors on the half-title, of this gleefully mischievous anti-anthology, collecting the clangers of English verse from Cowley to Tennyson, illustrated by Beerbohm's highly comic authorial portraits.
Perhaps no book (not even Strachey's Eminent Victorians) better encapsulates the giddy, juvenile irreverence of the... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 148858
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CROSBY, Harry. Red Skeletons.Paris : 1927
First edition, presentation copy inscribed on the half-title to the Belgian author and artist "For Jean Bosschère, from Harry" with a doodle of a black sun; number 345 of 333 copies on vergé de Hollande Van Gelder Zonen, from a total edition of 370 copies.
Jean de Bosschère (1878-1953) fled Belgium at the start of the First World War and moved... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 148838
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GRAVES, Robert. [Love Respelt quartet:]London & New York : 1965-66-67-69
First editions, signed limited issues, numbered 70 of 250, 329 of 330, 65 of 386, and 893 of 1000 copies, respectively, and each signed by the author on the limitation page. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 148839
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TREVELYAN, R. C. The Birth of Parsival.London, New York and Bombay : 1905
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed on the first blank "Mrs Reid from Robert C. Trevelyan, Feb. 1905" and with a "From the Author" slip laid in. Although not marked as such, this great copy of the Bloomsburyite's romance poem passed through the hands of renowned book dealer Martin Stone.
Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 148891
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TREVELYAN, R. C. The Birth of Parsival.London, New York and Bombay : 1905
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endppaer to the uncle of the Peter Pan Boys "Compton Llewelyn Davies, from R.C.T., 3 Dec 1905". This is a great copy of the Bloomsburyite's romance poem.
Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 148892
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WALCOTT, Derek. The Star-Apple Kingdom.New York : 1979
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper to the notable collectors and bibliophiles, "To Robert and Marjorie Graff, with thanks, Derek Walcott. March 17, 79". Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 148785
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HEANEY, Seamus. Columcille the Scribe.Dublin : 2004
Signed limited issue, number 124 of 150 copies signed by the author at the foot of the sheet. Heaney translated this Irish poem, the earliest known version of which is a 16th-century copy held at the Bodleian Library, to celebrate his enrolment as a member of the Royal Irish Academy on 9 June 1997, which he then presented to the Academy on vellum in... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 145994
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HEANEY, Seamus. Sweeney Praises the Trees.New York : 1981
First edition, number 41 of 110 copies only, additionally signed by the author on the title page; scarce, especially so signed and in such fine condition. Sweeney Praises the Trees is an early version of part of his modern English translation of the ancient Irish Buile Shuibhne, preceding his complete translation, published in 1983 as Sweeney Astray.... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 142601
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HEANEY, Seamus. Hailstones.Dublin : 1984
First edition, signed limited issue, one of 250 unnumbered cloth-bound copies signed by the author on the title page; here additionally inscribed by Heaney "Mary - fine girl y'are! Seamus" under his signature. The recipient was Heaney's friend Mary Conley Downe.
Downe founded, with her husband Edward, the Irish Clifden Arts Festival, now the... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 142605
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AUDEN, W. H. Spain.London : 1937
First edition, second impression, signed by the author on the title page, his printed name struck through.
This title was written after Auden's visit to Spain during the Spanish Civil War, a troubling experience that left him morally ambivalent towards the Republican cause. He published this supportive poem on his return, however, to defend the... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 146828
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AUDEN, W. H. The Collected Poetry.New York : 1945
First edition, third printing, familiarly inscribed by the author using his first name reserved for friends, "Bill Gray with best wishes Wystan Auden", his printed name struck through. Auden has written "1927-1944" under the title, reflecting his original (rejected) wish that, "as to the title, I want Poems 1928-1945. The word Collected suggests finality... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 146839
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AUDEN, W. H. City Without Walls and Other Poems.London : 1969
First edition, first impression, familiarly inscribed by the author the year after publication using his first name reserved for friends on the title page: "For Patrick Garland. With best wishes, from Wystan Auden June. 1970", his printed name struck through. Garland (1935-2013) was a writer, actor, and director.
Loosely inserted is a newspaper... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 147003
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AUDEN, W. H. A Selection by the Author.London : 1958
First edition, first impression, familiarly inscribed by the author using his first name reserved for friends on the title page: "To Bill from Wystan", his printed name struck through.
The recipient was Dr William ("Woods") Shelton Gray, Jr (1926-1993); his ownership inscription is on the half-title of this copy. Gray fostered friendships with... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 147380
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AUDEN, W. H. About the House.New York : 1965
First edition, second printing, familiarly inscribed by the author using his first name reserved for friends on the title page: "Bill Gray with best wishes Wystan Auden", his printed name struck through.
The recipient Dr William ("Woods") Shelton Gray, Jr (1926-1993) fostered friendships with major literary figures such as Auden and T. S. Eliot,... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 146830
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HUXLEY, Aldous. Leda.London : 1920
First edition, signed limited issue, number 149 of 160 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. This signed limited issue had an illustrated frontispiece not included in the trade issue, though lacking in this copy. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 148686
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THOMAS, Dylan. Poems.New York : 1971
First US edition, first printing, the editor Daniel Jones's own copy with the publisher's note to that effect, inscribed by him to his wife on the front free endpaper, "To Irene, with love from Dan. 23rd November 1971". Also included are a long autograph letter signed from poet Edith Sitwell to Daniel Jones, dated 22 March 1954 and concerning the music... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 140659
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HILL, Geoffrey. ClavicsLondon : 2011
First edition, first issue, number 92 of 100 copies signed by the author on the half-title. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 148773
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AUDEN, W. H. Three Songs for St. Cecilia's Day.New York City : 1941
First collected edition, first impression, one of 250 copies. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed copies are rare.
The poems were originally published in Harper's Bazaar and subsequently privately printed for Caroline Newton, the wealthy daughter of a well-known bibliophile. She had fallen in love with Auden and positioned herself... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 148611
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DAHL, Roald. Rhyme Stew.London : 1989
First edition, fourth impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the half-title, "Happy Birthday Colin, Roald, 12 Feb. 1990". The recipients was Colin Ross-Munro. Colin's wife, Jan, was an old friend of Dahl's second wife, Liccy. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 118340
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SMITH, Patti. Early Work 1970-1979.New York : 1994
First edition, first printing, signed by Smith on the title page. Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 148659
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FROST, Robert. A Further Range.New York : 1936
First edition, Book-of-the-Month Club issue, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "Robert Frost for Marjorie Howard. 1939".
Three different issues of A Further Range were published in May and June 1936: a limited issue and a trade issue (with two printings) both published in May within nine days of each other, and the present... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 147587
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DICKEY, James. The Water-Bug's Mittens.Bloomfield Hills, Michigan : 1980
Signed limited edition, number 146 of 350 copies signed by Dickey. The Water-Bug's Mittens was first published the previous year following James Dickey's Fifth Annual Pound Lecture on the evening of 26 April 1979 at the University of Idaho. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 148463
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OMAR KHAYYÁM; HALL, Isabel Hawxhurst (illus.) Rubáiyát of the Astronomer-Poet of Persia.New York : 1911
First Hall edition, first printing, inscribed by the artist on the front free endpaper: "With the compliments of Isabel Hawxhurst Hall". This edition of the Rubáiyát is the only book illustrated by Hall (1887-1952), who later worked as a designer of stained glass windows, wallpaper, and textiles.
The text of this edition, Fitzgerald's translation,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 147897
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NORSE, Harold. The Undersea Mountain.Denver : 1953
First edition, first printing, of Norse's first book of poetry, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Jim from Harold Paris 1961".
Harold Norse (1916-2009) was an avant-garde poet, best remembered today as a member of the Beat movement and, in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's words, "an expatriate voice in American poetry" (LA Times).... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 148159
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KIPLING, Rudyard. The Works.London : 1937-39
The Sussex Edition, number 513 of a limited edition of 525 sets signed by the author on the limitation leaf of vol. I. In his last years and with his health failing Kipling continued the gathering-up of existing material that resulted in "the great retrospective work... the Sussex Edition of his works, undertaken by Macmillan as a monument to one of... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 139233
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NERUDA, Pablo. Nuevo Canto de Amor a Stalingrado.Mexico : 1943
First edition, ordinary issue, presentation copy inscribed by the author "Los Guindos 1944 A Marci Garcés con el afecto de Pablo Neruda" on first leaf. One of 5,025 copies of which this is one of 5,000 on paper. The poem was read by the author in honour of the U.S.S.R. on 29 January 1943. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 148412
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FROST, Robert. A Boy's Will.London : 1913
First edition, first impression, of Frost's first published book, an exceptional presentation copy, inscribed by him to fellow Dymock poet Wilfrid W. Gibson on the front free endpaper, "W.W.G. from R.F. Sept. 1913", perhaps on the occasion they first met, when Frost gave a poetry reading at Harold Monro's newly-opened Poetry Bookshop.
When A... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 146535
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LOWELL, Amy; & others. Some Imagist Poets.Boston & New York : 1915
First edition, first printing, inscribed by Lowell on the front free endpaper in the month of publication: "Elsie, with lots of love from Amy. April. 1915."
Some Imagist Poets was edited by Lowell and published a year after the first Imagist anthology, Ezra Pound's Des Imagistes. In her preface, Lowell describes how her intentions as an Imagist... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 146789
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GINSBERG, Allen. Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze.New York : 1972
First edition, first printing, paperbound issue, one of an unknown run, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Bill Butler, in Sunlight in Brighton July 16, 1973", with his signature beneath his printed name.
Bill Butler (1934-1977) was a significant figure of the British literary counterculture scene of the 1960s and 1970s, and from... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 145609
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HEANEY, Seamus. Beowulf.London : 1999
First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page. Heaney's translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic, which he dedicated to the memory of Ted Hughes (1930-1998), won the 1999 Whitbread Book of the Year award. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 145566
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SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Land.London : 1926
First trade edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, together with an autograph letter signed from her. This is a rare variant copy, with the four wood engravings that were published only in the signed limited issue; in this copy, they are tipped in and unusually also signed by the artist.
This variant, not... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 145944
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SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. The Garden.London : 1946
First edition, signed limited issue, number 551 of 750 copies, numbered and signed by the author, and beautifully produced on handmade paper. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 145952
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TERRY, Ellen - ROGERS, Samuel. Italy, a Poem; [together with:] Poems.London : 1842
The copies of renowned Victorian actress Ellen Terry, with her signature to each title page and her Winchelsea bookplate (designed by her son Edward Gordon Craig) to each front pastedown; the Italy volume with her note to title page "From Henry - M of V." Henry must be Henry Irving, who played Shylock in The Merchant of Venice alongside Terry (as Portia)... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 148205
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STALLINGS, A. E. Archaic Smile.Evansville : 1999
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed on the title "To Ginger, with gratitude for all your good work! Alicia. 24.i.01, Atlanta". This collection of poems, by the recipient of the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award, is uncommon in such fine condition and especially so inscribed. Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 148105
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ANGELOU, Maya. Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie.New York : 1971
First edition, first printing, of the author's first book of poetry, warmly inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Richard Gildenmeister, Dick, Brother, you are a boon, a boon for me, for us, (for the species) Please write! and write on! Your sister (How-be-it-now) Maya". Richard Gildenmeister is a former bookseller based in Cleveland, Ohio, where... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 147853
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BUKOWSKI, Charles. Shakespeare Never Did This.San Francisco : 1979
First edition, first impression, signed on the title page by Montfort and Bukowski. This is a fresh copy of "a wryly comic view of Europe as only Bukowski could see it and a moving journey back to his lost past and the small town of his birth (Andernach, Germany) via his triumphant tour as a literary celebrity" (front flap). Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 148045
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COPE, Wendy. Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis.London : 1986
First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed on the title page to the poet and counterculture figure, Felix Dennis (1947-2014) "To Felix from a poet who enjoys your work, Wendy Cope", and with Dennis's bookplate to the front pastedown. This is a lovely association copy. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 147945
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RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life.London : 1918
First Rackham edition, signed limited issue, number 631 of 765 copies signed by the artist. A contemporary review described the edition as "one of his best... Rackham's delicate and romantic fancy is in sensitive harmony with Swinburne's poems and his pictures show that he understands no less than did the poet" (The Publisher's Weekly, vol. 94, 1918,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 147713
