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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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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BRONTË, Patrick. Cottage Poems.Halifax : 1811
First edition, sole impression, of this scarce debut collection of poems by the father of the Brontë sisters. Patrick Bronte's first published poem "Winter Evening Thoughts" had appeared in a local Shropshire newspaper in 1810. He then moved up to Yorkshire and had this collection of poems published in Halifax. Brontë would marry Maria Branwell in... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133120
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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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KEATS, John. Poems.London : 1817
First edition of Keats's first book, in the original boards. Poems was published on 3 March 1817 by Charles and James Ollier, who were already publishing Shelley. The first of a mere three lifetime publications, it is a work of mainly youthful promise - Keats had appeared for the first time in print less than a year earlier, with a poem in the radical... Learn More£47,500.00Stock Code: 113377
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TOWNSHEND, Chauncy Hare. Poems.London : 1821
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper (probably in a secretarial hand): "From the Author". Townshend (1798-1868, originally Townsend, he added the "H" in 1828) was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, winning the chancellor's medal for his poem "Jerusalem" (published 1817) and thereafter "was determined to be... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 124878
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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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ROSSETTI, Christina. Poems.London : 1892
Arthur Edward Waite's copy of this attractive collection of Christina Rossetti's poems, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. This copy has the contemporary ownership inscription of Waite's muse and great love Dora Stuart Menteath to the front free endpaper, "Dora Stuart Menteath, Feb 23rd 1893". Waite met Dora in 1886 and the two fell almost immediately... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 130308
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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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BRONTË, Patrick. Cottage Poems.Halifax : 1811
First edition, sole impression, of this scarce debut collection of poems by the father of the Brontë sisters, this copy in an unrestored contemporary binding and with the contemporary ownership inscription "Apley Castle", of the Charlton family in Shropshire. Bronte had, from 1809 to 1811, been an assistant curate at Wellington, Shropshire, scarcely... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 130435
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GINSBERG, Allen. Howl and other poems.San Francisco : 1956
First published edition, first printing, with the spelling "Lucien Carr" in the dedication, and the eighth line of the second paragraph on the rear cover beginning "Harlem". This copy is from the library of contemporary San Francisco poet Jean McLean, and has a calligraphic ownership inscription reading "Jean and Jo Mclean" to p. 4. Jean McLean's work... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 133699
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(JAPANESE POETRY.) LEVITT, Martin, & Lafcadio Hearn. Poems from the Japanese.[No place] : 1958
First and signed limited edition, number 81 of 150 copies on folded hemp paper, signed by Levitt. This is the first Mandrill Press publication, which appears to have published only one other book: Flower-gazer: Japanese poems, printed in 1961. This publication, in the Japanese woodblock printing style, brings together Haiku poems of various... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 132202
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[BROWNING], Elizabeth Barrett. Poems.London : 1844
First edition, first issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the author of the collection that made Elizabeth Barrett's fame: "To Miss Heard, with the author's regards, August 1844". A superb association: Miss Heard was a friend and, in Browning's mind, a rival for the attentions of the blind classicist Hugh Stuart Boyd (1781-1848), to whom she was devoted... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 118727
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CLARE, John. The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems.London : 1821
First edition of Clare's second book of poetry, with no frontispiece to the second volume as required for the first issue. A farm labourer's son, John Clare (1793-1864) had published his first work, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, the previous year. It became something of a publishing sensation, with the 1,000 copies of the first edition... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 126172
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STUART-WORTLEY, Emmeline, Lady. Poems.London : 1833
First edition of the author's first publication, fairly uncommon, around a dozen copies institutionally, but this a delightful presentation copy inscribed; "For the Marchioness of Londonderry with the Author's very Affectionate Love". Stuart-Wortley memorialised her friend, Frances Anne Vane-Stewart in verse in Fisher's Drawing Scrap-Book for 1838:... Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 141664
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(JOHNSON, Samuel.) A Miscellany of Poems by Several Hands.Oxford : 1731
First and sole edition, celebrated for including Samuel Johnson's first appearance in print and the mention of him in the preface as "a Commoner of Pembroke-College in Oxford". Johnson spent only thirteen months at Pembroke (October 1728 to December 1729), forced to leave through financial constraints. His stay may have been short but the nineteen-year... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 125411
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(JAPANESE POETRY.) LEVITT, Martin, & Lafcadio Hearn. Poems from the Japanese.[No place] : 1958
First edition, number 52 of 150 copies on folded hemp paper, signed by Levitt. This is the first Mandrill Press publication, which appears to have published only one other book: Flower-gazer: Japanese poems, printed in 1961.
This publication, in the Japanese woodblock printing style, brings together Haiku poems of various eras which "were... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 132198
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![Miscellaneous Poems; [together with:] Advice to a Painter; [and:] Second Advice to the Painter.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/3/130819_1.jpg)
MARVELL, Andrew. Miscellaneous Poems; [together with:] Advice to a Painter; [and:] Second Advice to the Painter.London : 1681; [1679; 1679?]
First edition of all three works. Miscellaneous Poems includes the first printing of "To his Coy Mistress" and "The Garden". Published a couple of years after Marvell's death, the volume made his poetic talents known to a general readership who would have known him, if at all, only from his commendatory verses to the second edition (1674) of Milton's... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 130819
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SMART, Christopher. [Complete set of the Seatonian Prize Poems:]Cambridge : 1750-6
A rare complete set of Smart's Seatonian Prize-winning poems on the Supreme Being, all first editions except for Omniscience which is a second (1756). This set is attractively presented together in a contemporary binding with the library label to the front board of Montacute House, Somerset, the home of the Phelips family, and the contemporary ownership... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 120509
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OWEN, Wilfred. Poems.London : 1920
First edition, first impression, 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 "Strange Meeting". Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 131130
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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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TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. Poems.[London?] : 1862
First pirated edition of Tennyson's suppressed poems, taken from the Poems, Chiefly Lyrical of 1830 and the Poems of 1833, printed by J. Dykes Campbell and sold by the bookseller John Camden Hotten.
Tennyson took legal action, obtained an injunction to prevent its sale, and extracted an apology and 100 damages from Hotten. The book was issued... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 130070
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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, Copac records only one copy in British and Irish institutional libraries (Oxford); OCLC 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 Seventeen... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 103471
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SHAKESPEARE, William. A Collection of Poems, in Two Volumes;London : [1710-11]
Effectively the earliest obtainable printing of Shakespeare's major poetry, combining the complete uncorrupted text of the 1609 Sonnets with Lucrece and Venus and Adonis. Benson's 1640 edition of Shakespeare's Poems lacked both Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and its text of the Sonnets was both incomplete and bowdlerised - combining poems, mixing masculine... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 134529
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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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[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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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. Poems,London : 1830
First edition, first state, of Tennyson's first solo poetry collection. It is preceded only by Poems by Two Brothers (1827), in which he appeared anonymously alongside his (in fact three) brother. "Some of Tennyson's most enduring notes, elegiacally lyrical, with his riven sensibility... are especially manifest in the volume's most remarkable... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 137218
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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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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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DOYLE, Arthur Conan. Poems.London : 1922
First collected edition, first impression, containing 12 poems and a one-act play previously unpublished in book form. Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 96819
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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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CHAR, René. Poems.Rome : 1952
Offprint, limited issue, number 300 of 350 copies. This collection of 19 poems printed in both French and English translation was first published in the biannual Italian literary journal Botteghe Oscure, which featured poetry and prose in five languages. Laid in is a four page promotional leaflet for Char's works. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 116578
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CLOUGH, Arthur Hugh. Poems.Cambridge : 1862
First edition thus, presentation copy, inscribed by the author's wife (Blanche Mary Clough, née Shore-Smith), on the half-title, "With Mrs. Clough's kind regards". With an additional inscription by its recipient below noting the date of its receipt, "Rec. 6th August 1862, sent to me at Chew Magna, C. L. Rose". This posthumous memorial issue (Clough... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 117878
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BARRETT BROWNING, Elizabeth. Poems.London : 1850
First edition with the Sonnets from the Portuguese, handsomely bound with the original cloth preserved within, and both half-titles. EBB's Poems had first appeared in 1844, but this "New Edition" (the second overall) contains in the second volume the coveted and rare first appearance of Sonnets from the Portuguese, some of the most famous love poems... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 132112
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TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. Poems.London : 1842
First edition of Tennyson's important early collection, quite scarce, and containing the first appearance of "Ulysses". This work was Tennyson's second publication with Edward Moxon, following Poems (1833), and contains original unpublished poetry that was written in the intervening decade. This was one of Tennyson's saddest yet most creative periods,... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 141374
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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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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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OWEN. Wilfred. Poems.New York : [1920]
First edition, US issue, bound from the original UK sheets with the US cancel title page in the subsequent year. This slim volume is uncommon, especially in the jacket. The collection was promoted and published by Sassoon after Owen's death with the backing of Edith Sitwell. The work, which is often described as the greatest collection of First World... Learn More£5,750.00Stock Code: 134273
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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. The volume includes 63 poems of the war, most written while Sassoon was in hospital recovering from his injuries. "Sassoon's savagely realistic and compassionate war poems had established his stature as a fully fledged poet, and despite all his later prose and verse, and his growing aversion to the label, it was mainly... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 135908
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MUNNINGS, Sir Alfred. An Artist's Life; The Second Burst; The Finish [together with] Ballads and Poems or, A Rhyming succession of Rhyming digression.London : 1950-57
First editions, first impressions. Volumes I and III of The Autobiography and Ballads and Poems signed by Alfred and Violet Munnings. With a manuscript letter by Violet Munnings, dated 30 January 1962, giving opening times for Beldon House and studio, alongside other ephemera related to the book and Alfred Munnings, constituting newspaper clippings,... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 121829
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AUDEN, W. H. Poems.London : 1933
Second and enlarged edition, first printing, presentation copy, familiarly inscribed by Auden using his first name reserved for friends in the month of publication on the front free endpaper, "To Elinor Loring, with best wishes, Wystan Auden. Nov. 1933"; rarely encountered inscribed. First published in 1930, this revised edition contains seven new poems.... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 139518
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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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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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BERRYMAN, John. Poems.Norfolk, CT : 1942
First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "to Allan Covici with the best regards of John Berryman Berkeley 1 June '60". The recipient was a California-based writer, librarian, and bookseller based at UC Berkeley.
Poems was Berryman's first separately published book, preceded only by his inclusion in the collective... Learn More£1,350.00Stock Code: 142347
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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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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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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 : 1960
A handsomely bound copy of Brooke's poems, the collection first published in July 1918. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 139862
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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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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Miscellaneous Poems.London : 1826
First edition of this very scarce early collected edition of Shelley's poetry, in the rare original boards. This Benbow piracy selects Shelley's poetry from various previously published editions, collecting mainly from the Posthumous Poems edition of 1824, but with some notable examples drawn from earlier publications. Excepting perhaps the Posthumous... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 106345
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[BRADLEY, Katharine, & Edith Cooper.] FIELD, Michael. Poems of Adoration.London & Edinburgh : [1912]
First edition of this collaboration by Edith Emma Cooper and her aunt and sometime lover Katharine Harris Bradley, pseudonymously-published as Michael Field. Their first publication as "Michael Field", Callirhoë (1884), was publicly well-received, with The Spectator greeting it "as a work of 'great promise', exhibiting 'the true poetic and... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 134560
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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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WEBER, Max. Cubist Poems.London : 1914
First edition, limited issue. One of 100 copies, of which 50 were for sale, this copy unnumbered. This is the first published literary work by Max Weber (1881-1961), the Jewish-American artist generally credited with introducing European avant-garde movements, including primitivism and Cubism, to the American art scene. It collects 38 poems written... Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 93924
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NEKRASOV, Nikolai Alekseevich. Stikhotvoreniia [Poems].[St Petersburg : 1879
First complete collected edition of the poems of Nekrasov, published the year after his death. At his funeral, Dostoevsky hailed him as "the greatest Russian poet since Pushkin and Lermontov". "Nekrasov did not succeed in creating a school of his own: no 'peasant' poets came in his wake. But he, more than any other Russian poet, made his contemporaries... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 129724
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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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SASSOON, Siegfried. The War Poems.London : 1919
First edition, first impression. Collects a number of the author's best known war poems and much previously unpublished work. This in many ways is Sassoon's key poetical statement on the war. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119624
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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
