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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HUGHES, Ted. Animal Poems.Crediton : [1967]
First edition, one of 20 copies containing a manuscript poem, this copy with The Hawk in the Rain, additionally signed and numbered by the author, this being number 37, and bound in decorative wrappers. This edition was published with a total limitation of 100, of which six were bound in green morocco with each poem written by the author in manuscript... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 134125
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RADCLYFFE-HALL, Marguerite. Poems of the Past & Present.London : 1910
First edition, first impression, in a variant purple cloth, of Radclyffe Hall's third published work, this copy with a pleasing association, bearing a Christmas gift inscription of Lady Maud "Emerald" Cunard (mother of Nancy) to Violet Manners, Duchess of Rutland, in pencil on the first blank, "Xmas 1910 Violet from Emerald C", and with the Rex Whistler... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 131465
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THOMAS, Edward. Poems.London : 1917
First edition, first impression, an an exceptional example, of Thomas's first regularly published book of poems, issued after his death at Arras on Easter Monday 1917. This is one of 1,050 copies printed, half of which were issued by Selwyn & Blound in the UK, and half by Henry Holt in America. The book is dedicated to Robert Frost, who had encouraged... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 128257
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(POETRY ANTHOLOGY.) THOMAS, Dylan; W. H. Auden; Archibald Macleish; Louis Macneice; Marianne Moore; Frederic Prokosch; Stephen Spender; Wallace Stevens, et al. New Poems 1942.Mount Vernon, NY : 1942
First edition, signed limited issue, one of 59 copies signed by the contributing poets, namely: Conrad Aiken, Kenneth Allott, W. H. Auden, George Barker, John Peale Bishop, R. P. Blackmur, Hugh Chisholm, Gene Derwood, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Jean Garrigue, Horace Gregory, Alfred Hayes, Ruth Herschberger, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers,... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 125112
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BISHOP, Elizabeth. Poems.Boston : 1955
First edition, first printing, from the library of fellow poet Richmond Lattimore (1906-1984), with his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper. Poems, the author's second book, contains the poems from her first book, North & South (1946), as well as the 18 new poems that constituted the new "Cold Spring" section. Bishop won... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 132302
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ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington. Collected Poems.New York : 1937
First complete collected edition, first printing, of Robinson's poems. Robinson's collected poems were first collected in a five-volume edition in 1927, but this posthumous edition enlarged the earlier edition to encompass Robinson's complete body of work, including "King Jasper", which the author completed just before his death in 1935. This is a scarce... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 123123
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[SASSOON, Siegfried.] LYRE, Pinchbeck (pseud.) Poems.London : 1931
First edition, first impression, of this collection of 14 poems parodying the work of Humbert Wolfe, who had irritated Sassoon for various reasons. Pinchbeck was a cheap alloy used for Victorian brooches; the pseudonym therefore suggested a fake poet. The book was published on 15 May 1931 in an edition of 1,000 copies. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 104594
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[SASSOON, Siegfried; as] LYRE, Pinchbeck (pseud.) Poems.London : 1931
First edition, first impression, of this collection of 14 poems parodying the work of Humbert Wolfe, who had irritated Sassoon for various reasons. Pinchbeck was a cheap alloy used for Victorian brooches; the pseudonym therefore suggested a fake poet. The book was published on 15 May 1931 in an edition of 1,000 copies. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 24730
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BERRYMAN, John. Poems.Norfolk, CT : 1942
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "to the Wymans w. every good wish this old nothing - John Berryman Ann Arbor March '65".
Poems was Berryman's first separately published book, preceded only by his inclusion in the collective publication Five Young American Poets in 1940; 2,000 copies were... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 142345
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PREWETT, Frank. Poems.Richmond, London : [1921]
First edition, first impression, of this notably uncommon edition, handset by Virginia Woolf for the Hogarth Press. The Canadian poet Frank James Prewett (1893-1962) surfaced as a poet of the First World War, meeting Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital. This is his first published collection of verse and "contains many of the poet's finest trench... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 139956
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OWEN, Wilfred. Poems.London : 1920
First edition, first impression, with the rare dust jacket, of perhaps the greatest collection of First World War poetry. This slim volume, promoted and published by Sassoon after Owen's death and backed by Edith Sitwell, contains all Owen's best known poems, including "Dulce et decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility" and... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 136149
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HOPKINS, Gerard Manley. Poems.London : 1918
First edition, with the rare glassine jacket, one of 750 copies only, of which the bibliography states 50 were given away prior to publication (it took until 1928 to sell them all). Trade copies were issued in a plain paper jacket priced at 12s. 6d., but this original unpriced glassine may well designate one of the 50 copies issued prior to sale. Gerard... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 117738
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HENNELL, Thomas. Poems.London : 1936
First edition, first impression. Uncommon, apparently just four locations on Copac. Thomas Hennell may be largely forgotten today, but was seen as a painter in the tradition of Constable, Cox and Samuel Palmer. Carel Weight, Professor of Painting at the RCA describing him as "the greatest water-colourist that England produced in the twentieth century."... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 93013
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MANNING, Frederic. Poems.London : 1910
First edition, first impression. Collection of 39 poems, of which only three had previously appeared in different magazines. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 91367
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BROOKE, Rupert. Poems.London : 1911
First edition, first impression, one of 500 copies issued, and an excellent example. Poems was Brooke's first collection, his previous poetry having been written for school competitions and printed solely for private distribution.
Brooke developed a fatal case of blood poisoning from an insect bite while anchored off Skyros, and died on 23 April... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 139375
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BROOKE, Rupert. Poems.London : 1911
First edition, first impression, one of 500 copies issued. Poems was Brooke's first collection, his previous poetry having been written for school competitions and printed solely for private distribution. Brooke developed a fatal case of blood poisoning from an insect bite while anchored off Skyros; he died on 23 April 1915 aboard a hospital ship, just... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 125916
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LONGLEY, Michael. Poems.Edinburgh : 1985
First edition, first impression, case-bound issue. Inscribed by the author "For Phil Murray, warmest regard, Michael Longley, Sligo 85" on the title page. Poems was also issued in paper wrappers. Dr Philip Murray is an Irish bibliophile and author The Adventures of a Book Collector (2011). Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 113526
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OSHIMA, Shotaro. Poems.Tokyo : 1939
First edition, first printing, number 177 of 350 issued copies, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "Mr Laurence Binyon With all good wishes from the Author, October 25, 1939". Loosely inserted are two letters (and washi paper envelope) to Binyon: one an autograph letter from Oshima, dated October 27, 1939; the other a typed letter... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 137118
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SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems.London : 1919
First edition, first impression, in the scarce jacket. This collection presents Sassoon's "savagely realistic and compassionate war poems" (Rupert Hart-Davis in ODNB), gathering 64 pieces, 12 of which appear in print for the first time here, the others having been published in two previous collections: The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918).... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 111246
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BROOKE, Rupert. The Collected Poems.London : 1919
First Riccardi Press edition, copy number 956 of 1,000 copies on handmade Riccardi Paper; an additional 13 were printed on vellum. Brooke's Collected Poems were first published in 1915 in the US, and then in the UK in 1918, expanded and with a memoir by Eddie Marsh - this is the first fine press edition, issued by Philip Lee Warner's Riccardi Press... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 140298
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PLATH, Sylvia. Early unpublished poems.[London] : 31 July 1969
Galley proof of the first printing of five of Plath's previously unpublished poems, comprising: "Complaint of the Crazed Queen"; "Battle-scene from the comic operatic fantasy The Seafarer"; "Dialogue en route"; "Letter to a Purist"; and "Dream of the Hearse Driver". It seems to have been common practice to provide authors or their agents with pulls... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 67961
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THOMAS, Dylan. Deaths and Entrances. Poems.London : 1946
First edition, first impression, in exceptional condition, of Thomas's collection of poems including his much-loved ode to the vivacity of youth, "Fern Hill". Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 141051
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THOMAS, Dylan. Deaths and Entrances. Poems.London : 1946
First edition, first impression, of Thomas's collection of poems, including his much-loved ode to the vivacity of youth, "Fern Hill". Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140059
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WEBER, Max. Cubist Poems.London : 1914
First trade edition, first impression. The copy of the prominent anarchist art critic Herbert Read (1893-1968), with his pencilled ownership signature dated February 1915 to the front free endpaper. Max Weber (1881-1961) is the Jewish-American artist generally credited with introducing European avant-garde movements, including primitivism and cubism,... Learn More£550.00Stock Code: 132242
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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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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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(POUND, Ezra.) ALDINGTON, Richard. Fifty Romance Lyric Poems,London : 1948
First trade edition, presentation copy to Ezra Pound, of this anthology of medieval poetry translated by Aldington. The front free endpaper bears the inscription, "Ezra from Richard Xmas 1951", and the title page has the later blind stamp of Brunnenburg castle. Pound stayed at Brunnenburg, the home of his daughter Mary de Rachewiltz, following his release... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 130189
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YEATS, W. B. The Winding Stair and other poems.London : 1933
First edition, first impression, of Yeats's follow-up collection to The Tower, containing some of his best, and most difficult, poems, such as "Blood and the Moon", "A Dialogue of Self and Soul", "Vacillation", and, of course, "Byzantium", and thus full of "those images that yet / fresh images beget; / that dolphin-torn, and gong tormented sea". A smaller... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 119643
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ELIOT, T. S. Poems 1909-1925.London : 1925
First edition, first impression, scarce in the jacket. The collection selects from Prufrock (1917), Poems (1920), and also prints The Waste Land (1922, here including for the first time the dedication to Ezra Pound as "il miglior fabbro") and The Hollow Men, for which this is the first appearance.
Some literary... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 137380
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Poems. 1886-1929.London : 1929
First edition, number 310 of 525 numbered copies signed by the author, an exceptional set with the original dust jackets and glassines. A beautifully produced set, printed in Baskerville type by the Chiswick Press on handmade paper, and very much in the manner of the superb Sussex Edition of Kipling's works - "planned by Macmillan as a monument to the... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 140109
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UPDIKE, John. Telephone Poles and Other Poems.New York : 1963
First edition, first printing, of Updike's second collection of poetry. Of the 66 poems collected here 3 were previously unpublished, and 47 were published in The New Yorker, for whom Updike had written regularly since 1954. Learn More£115.00Stock Code: 128335
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OWEN, Wilfred, & Jon Stallworthy (ed.) The complete poems and fragments.London & Oxford : 1983
First edition, review copy, with the loosely inserted publishers' review and press release sheets, of wartime poet Wilfred Owen's works. The first collection of Owen's poems was published two years after his death, in 1920, with an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), and was followed by another in 1931, edited by the poet Edmund Blunden (1896-1974).... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 140499
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RODITI, Edouard. Poems for F.Paris : 1935
First and limited edition, number 44 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Presentation copy of Roditi's first book, inscribed on the half-title: "For Roger Mynors Esq from a 'prodigal son' who yet hopes to return to more academic ways. Edouard Roditi". The recipient was the classical scholar Sir Roger Mynors (1903-1989), who was a contemporary... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 109041
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DRAKE, Leah Bodine. A Hornbook for Witches: Poems of Fantasy.Sauk City, Wisconsin : 1950
First edition, first printing, of the first book of American poet Leah Bodine Drake (1904-1964), a contributor to Weird Tales. Of the edition of 553 copies, 300 were given to the author and 253 for the trade, the small issue making it one of the scarcer of the Arkham House publications, here in exemplary condition. An audiobook by the same... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 138972
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YEATS, W. B. Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems.Dublin : 1932
First edition, first impression, one of 450 copies printed by Elizabeth Yeats in November 1932. This collection includes Yeats's Byzantium and the Crazy Jane poems. The Cuala Press was one half of the Cuala Industries, a co-operative business run by Lily and Elizabeth Yeats. Cuala Industries was founded with the aim of reviving the craft of book printing... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 131775
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AUDEN, W. H. City Without Walls, and other poems.London : 1969
First edition, first impression, familiarly inscribed by Auden using his first name reserved for friends, "with love from Wystan" on the title page. This copy derives from the library of his close friend and fellow writer James Stern (1904-1993), though without his ownership mark.
Auden was first introduced to James and Tania Stern by Christopher... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 139413
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AARONSON, Leonard. Poems.London : 1933
First edition, first impression. Aaronson's second volume of poetry. The publisher's retained copy with their stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket and the front pastedown. Learn More£65.00Stock Code: 94175
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ASKWITH, Betty. Poems.London : 1933
First edition, first impression. From the publisher's archive, with their stamp to the front panel of the jacket and front free endpaper. Learn More£45.00Stock Code: 94983
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HUGHES, Ted; Ruth Fainlight; Alan Sillitoe. Poems.London : 1971
First and sole edition, signed limited issue, number 58 or 59 of 300 copies on mould rag paper, signed by the authors on the limitation page. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 136536
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PRINCE, F. T. Poems.1938
First edition, first impression of the author's first book. Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 63645
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JOHNSON, Lionel. Poems.London : 1895
First edition, first impression. One of a limited edition of 750 copies. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 59707
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JOHNSON, Lionel. Poems.London : 1895
First trade edition, limited issue. One of 750 copies. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 105024
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(YEATS, W. B.) SPENSER, Edmund. Poems.Edinburgh : [1906]
First edition, first impression, rarely found in the dust jacket. This attractive production prints Yeats's lengthy essay on Edmund Spenser with his selections from Spenser's Faerie Queen, Shepherds Calendar, and others, accompanied by the exquisite illustrations of Jessie M. King.
Yeats's essay epitomises the view of Spenser as a poet who "had been... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 139674
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YEATS, W. B. Poems.London : 1895
First edition, one of 750 copies printed, very scarce first state of the US issue with both US and UK publisher's slug to spine, but retaining the UK title page, and with the top edge ungilt. More usually copies of the US issue had a cancel title page with the Boston imprint, and a gilt top edge. O'Hegarty "notes that he has seen two copies, identical,... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 119668
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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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CRANE, Hart. The Collected Poems.London : 1938
First UK edition, first impression. Originally published by Liveright in the US in 1933. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 89802
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LAWRENCE, D. H. Amores: Poems.London : [1916]
First edition, first impression, scarce in the jacket. This is the author's second book of poetry; one of only 900 copies printed. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 100250
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POWELL, Enoch. First Poems.Oxford : 1937
First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 135414
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GRAHAM, W. S. 2nd Poems.London : 1945
First edition, first impression of Graham's third book, uncommon with the dust jacket. Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 112751
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YEATS, W. B. Eight Poems.London : January 1916
First edition, number 18 of 122 copies on Italian hand-made paper, from an edition of 200 copies only. The first page features a lurid full-page nude design in red by Austin Osman Spare, of which Yeats intensely disapproved. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132656
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YEATS, W. B. The Poems.London : 1949
First and signed limited edition, number 182 of 375 copies signed by the author to the verso of the half-title, published by Macmillan as a Definitive Edition of his work, as stated in the prospectus, which is not found with this copy. The edition was personally overseen by Yeats's widow, George, the publisher Harold Macmillan, and the publisher's reader... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 131846
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Three Stories & Ten Poems.Bloomfield Hills, Michigan : 1977
First edition thus, first impression; a reprint, in 3,000 unnumbered copies, of Hemingway's first book, which was published in only 300 copies in Paris in 1923 and is consequently a great rarity now. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 140097
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PUDNEY, John. South of Forty. Poems.London : 1943
First edition, first impression. Learn More£40.00Stock Code: 82817
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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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SILLITOE, Alan. The Rats & Other Poems.London : 1960
First edition, first impression. Learn More£50.00Stock Code: 101883
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SMITH, Clark Ashton. Nero and Other Poems.Lakeport, CA : 1937
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, this copy is inscribed by the author to "Claire P. Beck, with the kindest regards and best wishes of Clark Ashton Smith, Auburn, Cal., May 8th, 1938", here with the rare glassine jacket intact, one of 250 copies printed. Tipped-in at the rear is a three-page printing of David Warren Ryder's "The Price... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 122426
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KINSELLA, Thomas. New Poems 1973.Dublin : 1973
First edition, first impression. Learn More£40.00Stock Code: 63477
