Search results for: 'poems'
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SAARIKOSKI, Pentti. Helsinki. Selected Poems.London : 1967
Signed limited edition, number 2 of 100 copies signed by the author and the translator. Except for the title poem and "London Poem" the poems in this volume were originally published in Finland. Part of the Poetry Europe series. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 90857
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WALEY, Arthur. Further poems by Po Chu-I, and an extract from his prose works, together with two other T'ang poems.[London] : [1918]
A rare offprint, Library Hub records only one copy in British and Irish institutional libraries (Oxford); WorldCat adds 2 locations at University of California. David Garnett's copy, inscribed at the head of page 96: "David Garnett, May 1919". An appealing Bloomsbury Group association copy, Garnett later included Waley in Great Friends: Portraits of... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 103471
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WARREN, Robert Penn. Thirty-Six Poems.New York : 1935
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author to fellow poet William S. Merwin (b. 1927), "To William Merwin, with warm regards, Robert Penn Warren" on the first blank. Merwin's poetic career began in 1952 with A Mask for Janus - he went on to win two Pulitzer Prizes for poetry and in 2010 was named 17th Poet Laureate of the United States.... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 81229
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BENSON, Arthur Christopher. Le Cahier Jaune. Poems.Eton : 1892
First edition of Benson's first collection of poems; number 198 of a numbered 200 copies, this one signed by the author on the title page. A. C. Benson (1862-1925) was the son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, and the brother of talented intellectuals such as the writer E. F. Benson and Egyptologist Margaret Benson. After graduating... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 81813
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BARING, Maurice. Poems 1892-1929.London : 1930
Presentation copy inscribed by the author to Loelia Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster, "Loelia from Maurice. With best wishes, 1930" (front flyleaf). This is copy 45 of 50 copies (finely printed on Abbey Mill paper) from the second impression - following 25 copies of the first in 1929 (though it is this impression of 50 copies that is mentioned by Reilly).... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 103373
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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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VIERECK, Peter. Terror and Decorum. Poems 1940-1948.New York : 1949
First edition, first printing of the author's first book, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Emma ?, Peter Viereck". Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 59509
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GARNETT, Richard. Poems.London : 1893
First edition, first impression. One of 350 copies published in the UK. With the signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Matty Roscoe from Robert Garnett Dec. 1893". Robert Garnett was the son of Richard. He would marry Martha (Matty) Roscoe in 1901. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 47234
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GOGARTY, Oliver St John. An Offering of Swans and Other Poems.London : [1924]
First UK edition, first impression, originally published in Dublin in 1923. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Edgar Scott, the only man who made a rhyme with the name of his friend this rhymer - a book of verse from Olivier St. J. Gogarty, Kylemore House, Co. Galway, Ireland. August 17th 1935". Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 69417
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BARING, Maurice. Collected Poems.London : 1925
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jeffrey indecipherable, from Maurice Baring, April 27, 1924." From the library of Anthony Hobson, with his bookplate to the front pastedown; Hobson (1921-2014) was the director of Sotheby's and noted bibliophile. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 103489
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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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GRAVES, Robert. Poems 1929.London : 1929
First and signed limited edition, first impression, number 170 of 225 copies, signed by the author. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 122147
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BETJEMAN, John. Selected Poems.London : 1948
First edition, signed limited issue. Number 8 of 18 copies, signed by the author and specially bound and printed on fine japon vellum. From the libraries of the publisher, bibliographer and novelist Michael Sadleir (1888-1957) and, latterly, the scholar and auctioneer Anthony Hobson (1921-2014), with their bookplates to the front pastedown. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 102444
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GRAVES, Robert. Ten Poems More.Paris : 1930
Signed limited edition, number 149 of 200 copies signed by the author, set by hand and privately printed on hand-press. Cover art by New Zealand-born artist Len Lye. Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 90871
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MORAES, Dom. Poems, 1955-1965.New York : 1966
First US edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page: "For Stanley, Dom Moraes." Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 87109
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MERRILL, James. Hoi chilies kai e meutera nuchta (The Thousand and Second Night and Other Poems).[Athens] : 1966
First edition thus, first impression. Inscribed by the author and the translator on the front free endpaper "To Allen Ansen and from his friend, veiled in a foreign tongue, Jimmy." Alan Ansen (1922-2006) was a central figure in the loose collection of writers known as the Beats. He was close friends with Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac, and was the... Learn More£160.00Stock Code: 51354
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NOTT, Kathleen. Poems from the North.Aldington, Kent : 1956
First edition, first impression, of the author's second poetry collection, following Landscapes and Departures (1947). Presentation copy from the author to the biologist and historian of science Jacob Bronowski, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To J. Bronowski from Kathleen Nott". Nott herself was a committed humanist and rationalist. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 105748
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WILSON, Edmund (contrib.) New Poems by American Poets.New York : 1953
First Edition, First Printing. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "To Cousin Dorothy, who asked me what I had done to deserve Elena - see page 168 from Edmund July 25, 1955". Dorothy Mendenhall was Wilson's cousin, a respected researcher, obstetrician, and pioneer in methods of childbirth. Learn More£220.00Stock Code: 42864
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HATCH, James V., & Ibrahim Ibn Ismail. Poems for niggers and crackers.[Cairo : 1965
First edition. Inscribed by Hatch on the front free endpaper, "To Jackie, would you believe two volumes of verse? Love you for supporting the unpopular arts, Jim." Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 76251
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STEADMAN, Ralph (illus.); SILLITOE, Alan. Israel. Poems on a Hebrew Theme.London : 1981
Signed limited edition, number 12 of 98 copies signed by the author and the illustrator. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 100030
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SCHUYLER, James. The Morning of the Poem.New York : 1980
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, " For Virgil, "...My long life..." Jimmy 3/14/80." Recipient was Virgil Thomson, the American composer, whom besides Schulyer forged friendships with James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Piccaso and other prominent cultural figures of the day. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 101437
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MACDONALD, George. Within and Without: a dramatic poem.London : 1855
First edition of the author's first book, presentation copy to Charles Kingsley, inscribed by MacDonald in ink at the head of the title: "The Reverend Charles Kingsley With much honour from George MacDonald".
An excellent association copy, bringing together the only two significant writers of Christian fantasy in the Victorian period. Kingsley... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 43749
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COCKERILL, Sir George. Love's Universe and the Calendar. Sonnet-Sequences.1931
First edition. This copy inscribed on the front pastedown: "To Elton Cockerill with every good wish from his uncle George, October 1934." Unusual, and seemingly self-published, sequence of highly-polished poems by a long-time intelligence officer, one of the most innovative thinkers in British intelligence in World War I, head of M. O. 5, inventor... Learn More£145.00Stock Code: 59749
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BETJEMAN, John. Continual Dew.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, with an autograph Christmas card signed by Betjeman in English and Gaelic loosely inserted. A lovely association copy owned by the Irish architectural historian, writer and poet Maurice Craig (1919-2011), with his bookplate to the front pastedown and ownership inscription,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123743
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TARLETON, Priscilla Susan Bertie. Manuscript volume of poetry with numerous pen, ink, and pencil vignettes.London : 1796-1821
A superbly presented and deeply personal manuscript volume of largely unpublished poetry and drawings by Priscilla Susan Bertie Tarleton (1778-1864), wife of the notorious army officer and rakehell Sir Banastre Tarleton. The manuscript was produced between the years 1796, when the author was only 18 years old, and 1821, when she was 43. It contains... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 94720
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STEADMAN, Ralph (illus.); DURRELL, Lawrence; Sylvia Plath; and others. Steam Press Portfolio 2.London : 1974
First edition, number 48 of only 50 numbered copies, with each broadside numbered and signed by Steadman. All the poems are further signed by their respective authors, including Lyman Andrews, Asa Benveniste, Ruth Fainlight, and Alan Sillitoe, excepting Plath's for obvious reasons.
Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 100028
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HARRISON, Tony. Continuous.London : 1981
Signed limited edition, number 6 of 100 copies signed by the author. This copy with the four page order form for the work laid in. The poems in this collection were described in the Poetry Review as, "among the most important poems of our times". Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 123666
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CORMAN, Cid. Hearth.Kyoto : 1968
First edition, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author and the artist. A beautifully produced book; Corman's delicate haiku poems set off by Tanaka's superb etchings. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 98008
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HAGUE, Michael. Michael Hague's Family Christmas Treasury.New York : 1995
First edition, first printing. Signed by Hague on the title page. An anthology of Christmas themed texts, carols, and poems. Learn More£85.00Stock Code: 140845
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MacBETH, George. A Form of Words.Swinford : 1954
First edition, one of a limited edition of 150 numbered copies. This is the publisher's copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Signed for Oscar, seventeen years later, & in another town, in appreciation & friendship, George". Also includes inserted publisher's ad for the author's poems and a copy of his Fantasy Press contract. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 59191
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BOND, Michael (ed.) Book of Mice.London : 1972
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front free endpaper "To Barbara and Etele, with love and all good wishes, Michael". In this work Bond gathers together poems and stories about mice, such as Lewis Carroll's "A Mad Tea Party" and C. S. Lewis's "On Board The Dawn Treader".
Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 122581
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LOWELL, Robert. Life Studies.New York : 1959
First US edition, first printing. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Francis Mattson, Robert Lowell"; the recipient is almost certainly the Curator of the Berg Collection, New York Public Library. Life Studies, including one of Lowell's most celebrated poems, "Skunk Hour", was originally published in the UK... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 89537
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[DOWDEN, Edward.] A Woman's Reliquary.Churchtown, Dundrum : 1913
First edition, first impression. Edward Dowden (1843-1913) was an Irish literary critic, Shakespeare scholar, and poet, and this collection of his poems was published pseudonymously. The editor, Elizabeth Yeats, has inscribed this copy "To Philip & Sophia Miller friends of - Edward & Elizabeth Dowden - this little book is given with many memories, April... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 63336
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LE GALLIENNE, Richard. Volumes in Folio.London : 1889
First edition, first impression, number 34 of 50 copies on large paper, numbered and signed by the author. There were 250 copies in a regular format, and three on japon paper. Volumes in Folio, a collection of poems celebrating books and book collecting, was the first trade publication by Richard Le Gallienne, preceded only by the privately issued My... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 105819
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PYM, Barbara. Excellent Women.London : 1952
First edition, first impression, of Pym's second book. Inscribed by the author "To Margaret and Roger Till, with all good wishes from Barbara Pym (A reward for perseverance 3. 7. 76)", and additionally signed by her on the title-page. Among Pym's literary papers, today held in the Bodleian, are some fifty leaves of correspondence from the two recipients... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 107190
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BIDERMANAS, Izis (illus.); CHARLET, Gaston. G. Les Yeux de L'Ame.Paris : [1950]
First and limited edition, number 289 of 300 copies issued. Presentation copy, inscribed by the photographer on the front cover of the title bifolium, "a Jeanine et Pierre, ces images de Paris et da Limousin, cordialement I. Bidermanas, 24-XII-1950". Les Yeux de L'Ame is Bidermanas's first published work. His popular Paris des rêves, which followed... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 123836
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BOTTOMLEY, Gordon. Deirdire [sic].Inverness : 1944
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the half-title to the poet John Masefield: "To John Masefield; from Gordon Bottomley. Silverdale: 22nd July 1944", and with Masefield's book label to the front pastedown. In the late 1910s John Masefield invited Bottomley to read his poetry at his Oxford Recitations in his... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 94461
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[BETJEMAN, John.] Sir John Piers.Mullingar : [1938]
First edition, first impression, one of 140 copies only, this copy signed by Betjeman in Gaelic. One of John Betjeman's earliest separately published poems, first printed in the Westmeath Examiner under the pseudonym "Epsilon", the work revisits the scandal the 1807 "criminal conversation" trial involving the Anglo-Irish baronet Sir John Bennett Piers,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 99840
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GIBSON, Wilfrid. Challenge.London : 1942
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, inscribed by author on the half-title, "To Stephen Gwynn from Wilfrid Gibson". It is likely that the recipient was the Irish journalist, politician, and poet Stephen Lucius Gwynn (1864-1950). This collection features poems inspired by the First World War, in which both men fought. Challenge is an example... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 116364
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STEVENS, Wallace. Ideas of Order.New York : 1935
First and limited edition, signed by Stevens; this one of just 10 copies for review and marked "out of series", from a total edition of 165.
An excellent association copy: with the pencilled ownership inscription of F. O. Matthiessen on the front free endpaper and some pencilled underlings and occasional marginal notation. F. O. Matthiessen... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 72150
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DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.Philadelphia : 1842
Presentation copy, inscribed by Dickens to William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), editor of the New York Evening Post and a leading poet of his generation: "William Cullen Bryant From his friend and admirer Charles Dickens", signed with his characteristic lavish underscores. Dickens met Bryant for their first private audience on his American tour on Tuesday... Learn More£75,000.00Stock Code: 90110
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GONNE, Maud, (illus.); YOUNG, Ella. Celtic Wonder-Tales.Dublin : 1910
First edition, first impression, signed by the illustrator on the title page, and with an original initialled drawing in black ink on the front free endpaper (and expanded version of the ornament printed on p. 20.) Edith Maud Gonne (1866-1953) was one of the boldest figures of the Irish Literary Revival; a suffragette and artist, she remains best known... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 137680
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[LLANOS Y GUTIERREZ, Valentin Maria.] Sandoval: or, the Freemason.London : 1826
First edition, presentation copy to George Keats, inscribed by the author, his brother-in law, "George Keats, the gift of the author", on the title page of all three volumes. George Keats (17971841), younger brother of the poet John, never met Llanos, but was pleased to have as "a friend and brother" a man of letters, and enjoyed both his published... Learn More£13,500.00Stock Code: 102920
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DICKENS, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop.Philadelphia : 1842
Presentation copy, inscribed by Dickens to William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), editor of the New York Evening Post and a leading poet of his generation, inscribed by Dickens: "William Cullen Bryant From his friend and admirer Charles Dickens", signed with his characteristic lavish underscores, and with two accompanying autograph letters signed. In the... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 90111
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DICK, Philip K. A significant archive of correspondence from the collection of his third wife and biographer Anne Williams Rubinstein Dick.Los Angeles, CA, and elsewhere : c.1965-91
Philip K. Dick was married to his third wife Anne Williams Rubinstein from 1 April 1959 to October 1965. Long after their divorce, in mid-1973, Anne burned most of their earlier correspondence, but they renewed contact in December 1973. The ultimate fruit of this was her biography, Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982; A Memoir and Biography of the... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 97282
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LOWRY, Malcolm. His manuscript corrections to the typescript of an unpublished biographical study[Paris?, &] Brewster, MA : 1960
A remarkable self-commentary by Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), the author of one of the great novels of the century, annotating an intended biographical study of him, together with a signed letter from his important literary influence and friend. Aiken's letter is apparently written in response to a request from the would-be biographer for information about... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 132133
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STEADMAN, Ralph, & others. Steam Press Portfolio No. 2.London : 1974
First edition, number 17 of 50 copies, with each broadside numbered and signed by Steadman, and with each poem signed by the respective authors (Alan Stillitoe, Lawrence Durrell, Lyman Andrews, Asa Benveniste, Sylvia Plath, and Ruth Fainlight), except for Plath's. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 113954
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WHITE, T. H. Verses.Alderney : 1962
First edition, sole printing, number 4 of 100 copies only, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend Harry Griffiths, and additionally inscribed with an unpublished holograph poem. The presentation inscription to the verso of the title page reads: "Harry Griffiths heart and arrow device Tim White". White has also written out an unpublished... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 35075
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MERRILL, James. Mirabell: Books of Number.New York : 1978
First edition, first printing. With a two-page hand-corrected typescript poem that is inscribed by the author "For Alan Jimmy 1.iii.78". Alan Ansen (1922-2006) was a central figure in the loose collection of writers known as the Beats. He was close friends with Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac, and was the inspiration for several of Kerouac's characters,... Learn More£240.00Stock Code: 51358
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MARKS, Johnny. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer.New York : 1949
First printing of the score. Inscribed by the composer and writer Johnny Marks on the front cover, "Dear Marlin, Merry Christmas, Johnny Marks." Though Marks is responsible for penning many holiday tunes such as Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (1958), Silver and Gold (1964) and A Holly, Jolly Christmas (1964), he will be best remembered for his tune... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 96566
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[BROWNJOHN, Alan] LUCIE-SMITH, Edward [ed]. British Poetry since 1945.Harmandsworth, Middlesex : 1973
Third printing, originally published in 1970. Inscribed by the poet Alan Brownjohn in the margin above his section of the anthology (p. 263), "Signed for Nicholas Gammage - with all good wishes to you and for your poetry - Alan Brownjohn, 24th January 1974". Brownjohn and Gammage were both friends with Ted Hughes, who also is included in this anthology.... Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 77017
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GRAVES, Robert. Mrs Fisher.London : 1928
First edition, first impression; from the To-day and To-morrow series. Inscribed by Robert Graves on the front free endpaper, "Damn and blast, said Lars Porsenna! Robert Graves, 1957". This inscription references the opening lines of Macaulay's poem Horatius at the Bridge ("Lars Porsena of Clusium, / By the Nine Gods he swore..."), and to Graves's... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 84023
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BOWLES, Jane. In the Summer House.New York : 1954
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "I love you very much - and you are very very bright - I wish that I was like you Janie". From the library of the academic and teacher Dr William ("Woods") Shelton Gray, Jr (1926-1993) who was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and received his PhD from... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 124248
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FAULKNER, William. Sartoris.New York : 1929
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his close childhood friend on the front free endpaper: "To my good friend, Edith, from Bill," and signed by Edith M. Brown beneath the inscription; additionally signed by Faulkner on the title, "William Faulkner 28 May 1929." Brown was one of three children of Calvin S. Brown,... Learn More£32,500.00Stock Code: 124319
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(WALLER, John; C. S. Lewis; Edmund Blunden, et al.) 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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WAIN, Louis; Joseph Pennell; Selwyn Image. A Book of Drawings.London : 1891
A unique and copiously signed copy of this collection of illustrations published by Eleanor and Frederick Trehawke Davies to raise money for "the poor of St Pancras", bound together with a 28-page bookseller's catalogue entitled "Works of Art and Antiques" the cover of which was designed by Selwyn Image, and several pages of ephemera and correspondence... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 104518
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(BECKETT, Samuel.) BISHOP, Tom, & Raymond Federman (eds.) L'Herne: Samuel Beckett.Paris : 1976
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed to Samuel Beckett by Tom Bishop, one of the two editors, on the front free endpaper, "For Sam, with more thanks than I could ever tell you with all my friendship and admiration. Tom. Paris Nov 3. 1976". Issued as part of the Cahiers de L'Herne (a series of critical monographs in French), this... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 94019
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STEADMAN, Ralph, and others. Steam Press Portfolio No. 3.London : 1976
Signed limited issue. One of 50 numbered copies, comprising seven broadsheets, each designed and printed by Steadman, and individually numbered and signed by Steadman and the relevant poet: Fleur Adcock, Bill Butler, Jane Deverson, David Harsent, Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, and Douglas Mellor. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 108121
