Search results for: 'poems'
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(ARIEL POEMS.) Complete collection of the first 8 Ariel Poems.[London : 1927
A finely bound collection of the first eight titles in the Ariel Poems series, comprising Yuletide in a Younger World by Thomas Hardy, drawings by Albert Rutherston; The Linnet's Nest by Henry Newbolt, drawings by Ralph Keene; The Wonder Night by Laurence Binyon, drawings by Barnett Freedman; Alone by Walter de la Mare, wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton;... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 122684
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POUND, Ezra. Cavalcanti Poems.New York : 1966
Signed limited edition, no. 9 of 190 copies signed by the author and printed on Perscia paper. The poems were first published in 1953 in The Translations of Ezra Pound. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136812
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Poems.London : 1922
A handsomely bound copy of Shelley's poetry, and a fine example of Zaehnsdorf's craft. The text used is part of the Golden Treasury Series of the poets, first published in 1880. Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 126753
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(CHIVERS BINDING.) HOOD, Thomas. The Serious Poems.London : 1901
Signed limited edition, number 19 of 30 copies on Japanese vellum signed by the illustrator. A beautiful example of Chivers's vellucent technique, which he developed in the early 1900s. In contrast to the earlier method used by Edwards of Halifax, the painting was not done on the underside of the transparent vellum, but on paper which was attached to... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 99343
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KINGSLEY, Charles. The Novels and Poems.New York : 1899
Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 numbered copies and printed on japon vellum. With a letter written in the author's hand dated April 4 '71 tipped into the first volume. A particularly handsome set. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 74248
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GRAY, Thomas. Poems and Letters.London : 1879
A beautifully bound copy of the large paper issue of this attractively printed edition of Gray, with letterpress by the prestigious Chiswick Press. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 115921
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AYTOUN, Edmondstoune William. Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and other Poems.Edinburgh : 1863
First Paton edition, superbly illustrated. "The book brims with Paton's half-page illustrations, headpieces and tailpieces (augmented by a few landscapes by his brother, Waller Paton) - the armour and historical costumes (Paton was a noted collector of these) perfectly realized to the last detail, the compositions unusual and forceful, the squeezed-together... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 137470
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(DOVES PRESS.) SHELLEY, Percy. Poems. Selected and Arranged by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson.Hammersmith : 1914
Limited edition, one of 200 copies printed on paper, from an edition of 212 (the additional 12 were printed on vellum). The book was printed just two years before Cobden-Sanderson threw the Doves typeface into the Thames, thus concluding the bitter dispute between him and his partner Emery Walker, and bringing the era of the Doves Press to a close. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 118500
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[BECKFORD, William.] [Vathek.] An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished manuscript:London : 1786
First edition. Beckford's Gothic oriental novel Vathek, was written in French between January and May 1782. This English translation by the literary scholar Samuel Henley was published first in June 1786, despite Beckford's express wish that the French edition should precede it. The latter was published in Lausanne in December 1786 (postdated... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 128808
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories For Little Children.London : 1902
First edition, first impression, handsomely bound, of Kipling's famous collection of 12 stories and 12 poems including "How the Camel Got His Hump" and "How the Leopard Got His Spots". Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 134753
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MORRIS, William. The Defence of Guenevere.Portland, ME : 1896
First Mosher edition, one of 925 unnumbered copies printed on Van Gelder paper, in a superb Zaehnsdorf exhibition binding. Thomas Mosher (18521923) was a major contributor to the American private press movement between 1891 and 1923. He repeatedly published works, as here, in the narrow octavo style most notably used by Charles Ricketts in 1893 for... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139080
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OSBORN, E. B. (ed.) The Muse In Arms.London : 1917
First edition, first impression, of this collection of First World War poems. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 137522
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ARNOLD, Matthew. Poetical Works.London : 1910
Handsomely presented copy of Arnold's complete poems, first published in 1890, this being the 14th impression. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140552
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LAMB, Charles [& Mary.] The Works... In two volumes.London : 1818
First edition, dedicated to "My dear Coleridge" and issued by the Olliers, publishers of Keats, Shelley, Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt. "Life at the East India Company seems to have become easier for Lamb in the middle of the decade. In 1816 his salary went up, and his duties diminished (though these always fluctuated with the contingencies of trade). The... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 123293
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Just So Stories For Little Children.London : 1902
First edition, first impression, of Kipling's famous collection of 12 stories and 12 poems including "How the Camel Got His Hump" and "How the Leopard Got His Spots". Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 134692
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VERLAINE, Paul. Œuvres Complètes.Paris : 1919-20
A handsomely bound set of Verlaine's poems which includes his collections Poèmes saturniens (1866), Fêtes galantes (1869), Romances sans paroles (1874), Sagesse (1880), and Les Poètes maudits (1884). Romances sans paroles was inspired by Verlaine's relationship with his wife, Mathilde Mauté,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 138447
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HEMANS, Felicia. Records of Woman:Edinburgh : 1828
First edition of the author's best-known and most personal work, into which she believed she "had put her heart and individual feelings more than in anything else she had written" (Hughes, p. 136).
Hemans (1793-1835) was one of the most influential and widely read poets of the 19th century. Written at the height of her career, Records of Woman went... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135673
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OWEN, Wilfred. Mapping Golgotha.Wales : 2007
First edition, first impression, one of 200 copies only, Jeremy Hooker's own copy with "Editor's copy" instead of a number written on the limitation page. This is a handsomely bound selection of Owen's letters and poems, mostly written and completed between 1917 and 1918, before the author was killed in action in November 1918. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 137877
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. [The major novels and short stories.]New York : 1925-86
First editions, first printings, with the exception of Three Stories & Ten Poems, which was first published in 1923 in a print run of 300 copies only; the copy here is the facsimile edition published in 1977 with the permission of the Hemingway estate. A Moveable Feast, Islands in The Stream, and Garden of Eden were published posthumously. Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 72318
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(OMAN, Sir Charles.) ARNOLD, Matthew. Poetical Works.London : 1899
Handsomely presented copy of Arnold's complete poems, first published in 1890, this being the ninth impression. Winchester College book-plate awarding a 1920 Vere Herbert Smith History prize to Charles Chichele Oman to the front pastedown, his daughter, Julia Trevelyan Oman's bookplate to the front free. The son of Sir Charles Oman, noted historian,... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 115789
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(COSWAY-STYLE BINDING) LUDWIG, Emil. Napoleon.London : 1927
First UK edition, following the New York edition of the preceding year and the German of 1925. "Ludwig was trained in law but at 25 began writing plays and poems. After serving as foreign correspondent for a German newspaper during World War I, he wrote a novel (Diana, originally published as two works, 191819; Eng. trans., 1929). In 1920 he published... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 138769
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Poetical Pieces.London : 1823
First edition, an exquisite copy in a rare and highly unusual contemporary binding, of this posthumous gathering of unsold first editions of Shelley's major works, comprising Prometheus Unbound (1820), Hellas (1822), and Rosalind and Helen (1819), as well as the first London edition, second overall, of The Cenci (1821). These titles include among their... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 111619
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HARDY, Thomas. The Works in Prose and Verse.London : 1919-26
The Wessex Edition, the definitive edition of Hardy's works, and a finely bound set. The set is complete other than for Jude the Obscure and Human Shows. The books are later impressions, with the edition first printed between 1912 and 1926, other than Human Shows which was printed in 1931; this set may have been bound before it was issued. For the Wessex... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 132753
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Puck of Pook's Hill.London : 1906
First edition, first impression, handsomely bound for the luxury purveyors Asprey. With a typed letter signed from Kipling tipped in to second binder's blank: dated 7 February 1921, Kipling writes to Coulson Kernahan "this is a bad business anyway, without Farrow importing his peculiar methods of finance into it. I will write off at once to the R.L.F.... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 134746
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TAVERNER, H. T. Charles Dickens: The Story of his Life.London : 1870
Fascinating copy of the first edition of the first posthumous biography of Dickens, signed on the title page and annotated throughout by Dickens's associate, the English journalist Edmund Ollier (1826-1886).
Ollier was a scion of a literary family of some consequence in the course of 19th-century English literature. His father Charles Ollier (1788-1859)... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 136324
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BURNS, Robert. The Works.Edinburgh : 1877-9
First William Scott Douglas edition, a very fine edition, well printed on superior paper, and here abundantly extra-illustrated. The edition is described by ODNB as a "splendid, six-volume library edition. The poems in this edition are arranged chronologically, and while it was the most sumptuous yet published it was also the most complete and correct... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 139102
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JONES, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse.Oxford : 1750
First edition of the author's only book, a beautifully bound subscriber's copy, one of approximately 330 copies printed on royal paper, this from the library of Sir Edward Popham of Littlecote.
Born in Oxford, where she lived all her life, Mary Jones (1707-1778) was a well-connected poet and letter-writer whose work was greatly influenced by Alexander... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 134908
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ROSINUS, Johannes. Antiquitatum Romanarum corpus absolutissimum.Amsterdam : 1743
The final edition of the Antiquitatum Romanarum of Johannes Rosinus, a compendium of Classical Rome and Roman antiquities, detailing the topography of Rome and the division of the population, its sacred and private remains, its legal system, and its warfare. First published in 1583, the book proved very popular, with various editions under... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 137706
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GRAY, Thomas. An Elegy.Chicago & New York : [c.1900]
An attractive edition of Gray's Elegy in a charming unsigned contemporary binding. Gray's Elegy was originally published privately by Horace Walpole in June 1750 and distributed amongst his connections in the fashionable classes. It was then published for the public in a quarto pamphlet on 15 February 1751; "the poem was an instant... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 139593
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MORRIS, William. The Earthly Paradise.London : 1896
An attractively bound set of Morris's epic poem The Earthly Paradise. "The poem that made Morris famous" was first published from 1868 to 1870 and tells the story of a band of 14th-century Norsemen who flee the Black Death in search of the reputed utopian "earthly paradise 'where none grow old'" (ODNB). The first Kelmscott Press edition was... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 139927
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MORRIS, William, & Alfred John Wyatt, translators. The Tale of Beowulf.Hammersmith : 1895
First Kelmscott edition, and the first edition of William Morris's translation, one of 300 copies printed on paper (a further eight copies were issued on vellum). Morris began his translation of the great English epic in 1893, based on a prose rendering by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Alfred J. Wyatt of Christ's College, with whom he consulted over a two... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 138925
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HEINSIUS, Daniel. De contemptu mortis libri IV.Leiden : 1621
First edition of the noted Dutch scholar Daniel Heinsius's (1580-1655) last major work of poetry, a didactic espousal of a stoical contempt for, rather than fear of, death. Willems writes that in its time the poem enjoyed a great vogue, and it was translated into Dutch by Jacques van Zevecote. A classical scholar of great renown (he was a professor... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 137321
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ELIOT, George. The Works.Edinburgh & London : [c.1880]
The Cabinet edition. This handsome set includes Eliot's seven novels and other literary works including, The Spanish Gypsy and Scenes of Clerical Life. Four volumes, which include the Life of George Eliot, were published later for the Cabinet Edition, but are not present in this set.
Eliot's novels were popular for their... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 138206
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Rudyard Kipling's Verse.London : 1919
First UK edition, first impression, deluxe limited issue, 90 of 100 sets numbered and signed by Kipling on the limitation page of each volume. "This edition was brought together at the publisher, Frank N. Doubleday's suggestion after much talk. It was to be tried out in the USA and if successful republished in England... The idea of the book was born... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 126105
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ANDERSON, James. Observations on the means of exciting a spirit of National Industry; chiefly intended to promote the Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Fisheries, of Scotland.Edinburgh : 1777
First edition, in a fine Scott of Edinburgh binding, presentation copy, inscribed from the author on a preliminary blank to William Murray, first earl of Mansfield, whose celebrated library was largely destroyed by fire during the Gordon Riots.
The Scottish agriculturalist and political economist James Anderson (1739-1808) wrote several influential... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 127839
