Search results for: 'poems'
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CHADWICK, John W., ed. The Two Voices. Poems of the Mountains and the Sea.Boston : 1886
First edition, scarce Boston imprint, in the very rare dust jacket, of this handsome concept-anthology put together by Harvard-educated poet and clergyman John White Chadwick (1840-1904), published in the year after he was elected the Phi Beta Kappa poet.
The Two Voices aligns a wide range of poets ancient and modern to enthuse on either side... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 143481
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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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DRYDEN, John. Original Poems.Glasgow : 1770
First Foulis duodecimo edition of Dryden's collected poetry, a pretty example in contemporary calf. The Foulis press, renowned for their elegant typography and the quality of their printing, had published Dryden's works once prior to this edition, in an octavo edition of 1756. Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 144534
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VALE PRESS: KEATS, John. The Poems.London : 1898
First Vale Press edition, one of 210 unnumbered copies on paper (a further 8 were issued on vellum), and superbly decorated by Ricketts of the Vale Press.
Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), was an art nouveau designer who founded the Vale Press in 1894. Influenced by both the aesthetic movement and William Morris's designs, his Vale press books are... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 144841
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JOHNSON, B. S. Poems Two.London : 1972
First edition, first impression, signed limited issue, number R of 26 copies for the author's use only, inscribed on the limitation page "R is for Rayner Heppenstall. 35/3/72". The recipient was British experimentalist and BBC radio producer Rayner Heppenstall (1911-1981). A further 100 copies were thus specially bound, numbered, and signed. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 144147
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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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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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KIPLING, Rudyard. Poems 1886-1929.New York : 1930
First US edition, signed limited edition, number 44 of 537 copies signed by the author, of which 525 were for sale. It was first published in the UK the previous year. Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 117542
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COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Poems on Various Subjects.London : 1796
First edition of Coleridge's first collection of poetry, preceding the Lyrical Ballads by two years, and also including four sonnets by Charles Lamb marking his first publication in book form.
The collection sold well enough for a second edition to appear the following year, which the author revised; in his later fame, Coleridge disavowed the... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 143174
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SHAKESPEARE, William. The Poems and Sonnets.London : 1903
An attractively bound copy of this limited edition printed on handmade paper, number 23 of 400 copies.
In his introduction to the present volume, scholar and poet Edward Dowden (1843-1913), writes that, when we read Shakespeare's poetry, we learn that he "was capable of measureless personal devotion; that he was tenderly sensitive, sensitive... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 147775
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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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GRAVES, Robert. Poems 1930-1933.London : 1933
First edition, first impression. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 140726
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Poems 1886-1929.New York : 1930
First and signed limited US edition, number 232 of 525 sets, volume I signed by the author; 12 presentation sets were also issued. This is of the finest editions of Kipling's verse, handsomely printed on handmade paper. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 125430
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GRAVES, Robert. Poems 1914-1927.London : 1927
First edition, signed limited issue. Number 3 of 115 copies signed by the author, of which 100 were for sale. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119554
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Poems 1886-1929.New York : 1930
First and signed limited US edition, number 459 of 525 sets, volume I signed by the author; 12 presentation sets were also issued. One of the finest editions of Kipling's verse, handsomely printed on handmade paper, it is uncommon in the jackets. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 142948
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SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. Poems and Ballads.London : 1866
First edition, first issue (with Moxon imprint), first state with Wise's textual errors uncorrected, of the most sensationally controversial book of English poetry of its century, its contents being a heady mix of sadomasochism, necrophilia, egalitarianism, and blasphemy. "It was a dazzling collection. Swinburne had developed an original poetic voice,... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 136507
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WALSH, Ernest. Poems and Sonnets.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, of the only contemporary collection of Walsh's poetry, decidedly under-represented in British and Irish institutional libraries: Library Hub lists just 2 copies (British Library, Cambridge). Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 103104
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Poems 1886-1929.New York : 1930
First and signed limited US edition, number 478 of 525 sets, volume I signed by the author; 12 presentation sets were also issued. One of the finest editions of Kipling's verse, handsomely printed on handmade paper. Learn More£1,350.00Stock Code: 129039
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SASSOON, Siegfied (intro.) Poems from Italy.London : 1945
First edition, first impression, number 13 of 110 copies, of which 100 were for sale, signed by Sassoon. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 147580
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab, A Philosophical Poem, with Notes.London : 1813
First edition, an "unmutilated" copy, with title page and final leaf intact, and including the poetic dedication to Harriet.
Queen Mab was Shelley's most provocative poem and a key radical text in the early years of the 19th century. The entire edition was 250 copies, published by Thomas Hookman for private distribution by Shelley himself. Due... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 143222
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BECKETT, Samuel. Poems 1930-1989.London : 2002
First edition, signed limited issue, number 5 of 100 copies specially bound with a lithograph by Louis le Brocquy, and signed by the artist. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 114408
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WILLIAMS, Charles. Poems of Conformity.London : 1917
First edition, first impression. Charles Williams (1886-1945) was a British writer who was a member of the Inklings, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S Lewis's discussion group at Oxford. Williams's second book of poetry, the work is ambitious and, despite its title, anything but conformist, merging religion with sex and politics. The poet Alice Meynell gave... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 122922
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GRAVES, Robert. Collected Poems 1938.London : 1938
First edition, first impression. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 122089
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CUNARD, Nancy. Poems (Two) 1925.London : 1930
First edition, one of 150 copies, this one unnumbered. Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 137307
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HARRIS, Marguerite. Maxims & Aphorisms from the letters of D. H. Lawrence, compiled, & with appended poems.New York City, : Sept 1964
First edition, number 96 of 250 copies printed by Ed Sanders at the Fuck You Press. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 135173
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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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PARNELL, Thomas. Poems. Selected by Lennox Robinson.Dublin : 1927
First edition, first impression, one of only 200 copies, of this selection of poetry by Thomas Parnell (1678-1718), friend of Pope and Swift, and ancestor of Yeats's infamous political hero Charles Stewart Parnell. With an introductory essay by Lennox Robinson. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 83967
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KIPLING, Rudyard. Poems 1886 to 1929.New York : 1930
First and signed limited US edition, number 98 of 525 sets, volume I signed by the author; 12 presentation sets were also issued. One of the finest editions of Kipling's verse, handsomely printed on handmade paper. It was first published in the UK the previous year. Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 111335
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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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KELMSCOTT PRESS: MORRIS, William. Poems by the Way.Hammersmith : 1891
First edition, a superb presentation copy to Georgiana Burne-Jones, inscribed by the author on the initial blank "to Georgie from WM Oct: 22nd 1891".
Georgiana Burne-Jones met Morris through her friendship with, and eventual engagement to, Edward Burne Jones. The pair spent summer holidays with William and Jane Morris at Red House, and worked... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 145199
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ACKERLEY, J. R., and others. Poems by Four Authors.Cambridge : 1923
First edition, first impression, of the first book to publish Ackerley's poetry. The other three poets are A. Y. Campbell, E. L. Davidson, and F. H. Kendon. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 82618
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NERUDA, Pablo. "Argentina, escucha lo que mi patria te dice", typescript poem signed.[June 1944]
A scarce example of a signed carbon copy typescript poem by Pablo Neruda, with three small corrections in his hand. The 18-verse poem "Argentina, escucha lo que mi patria te dice" ("Argentina, hear what my country says to you") was written by the Chilean poet and diplomat on 4 June 1944 in response to the coup d'état of 1943 in Argentina. It was first... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 134176
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STEWART, Carol (ed.) Poems of Sleep and Dream.London : 1947
First edition, first impression, of the first book to be illustrated by Colquhoun. It was part of the New Excursions Into English Poetry series, which was edited by W. J. Turner and Sheila Shannon.
Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 143604
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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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WARREN, Robert Penn. 11 Poems on the Same Theme.Connecticut : 1942
First edition, first printing, hardback issue. Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 107031
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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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HARDY, Thomas. Poems of the Past and the Present.London & New York : 1902 [but 1901]
First edition, first impression, one of 500 copies, this copy in the rare presentation binding. Hardy's second volume of verse was published in November 1901, when this binding was advertised as "a Special Edition, suitable for presentation, bound in white and gold."
It is unknown how many copies were specially bound but it is likely to be a... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 147566
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MADÁCH, Imre. Az Ember Tragédiája. Drámai költemény. (The Tragedy of Man. A dramatic poem).Pest : 1861
Rare first edition of Madách's most important work, The Tragedy of Man, a dramatic poem that evokes comparisons with Milton's Paradise Lost. Considered one of the major works of Hungarian literature, the play is one of the most often staged Hungarian plays today.
"It would seem that the main external sources of inspiration were Byron and Goethe,... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 142746
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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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GYSIN, Brion. [Roller Poem.]Antwerp : 1977
First edition, number 14 of 90 copies signed and dated by Gysin at the foot. This is a very scarce piece of original Gysin poem-art, bringing his obsession with experimental cut-up techniques to bear upon his own name to create a quasi-incantatory scroll of nonsense. Only two copies are listed on Library Hub, one at SUNY and the other at the National... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 131065
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NERUDA, Pablo. Primeros poemos de amor.Madrid : 1936
First edition, one of 500 copies, of this collection of love poems by Neruda, essentially a condensed version of his famous and rare second collection Viente poemas de amor y una canción desesperada, originally published in Chile by Nascimento in 1924.
The poems included in this Madrid edition are poems 1, 4, 9, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, and La Canción... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 142298
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MATISSE, Henri (illus.); Charles of Orléans. Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans.Paris : 1950
First edition thus, first printing, number 1127 of 1,230 copies on vélin d'Arches signed by Matisse on the limitation page. This work was entirely composed by Matisse, reproducing his manuscript version of the medieval poetry by the Duke of Orléans (1394-1465), including some of his rondeaux, chansons, and ballads.
The Duke was taken prisoner... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 142638
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POPE, Alexander. The Rape of the Locke.London : 1712
The first printing of Pope's Rape of the Lock, published anonymously in two cantos, extracted from its appearance in Bernard Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, 1712, pp. 353-376. Lintott paid Pope 15 to expand the poem following this printing, with the revised and full poem published in five cantos in 1714, under Pope's name. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 135474
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BLAKE, William. Milton: A Poem.Clairvaux : 1967
First edition thus, copy S of 26 lettered copies reserved for Lessing J. Rosenwald, the Library of Congress, the Trustees of the William Blake Trust and the Publishers, containing an original guide-sheet and stencil, and a set of hand-coloured plates showing progressive stages in the stencil work, as well as colour collotype proofs, from a total edition... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 115042
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JOYCE, James. Pomes Penyeach.Paris : 1927
First edition, first impression, of this collection of thirteen of Joyce's poems. Beneath each poem the place and year of composition are provided; they range from 1904 to 1924. The first poem, 'Tilly' is named after the Irish custom of providing customers a free extra serving; the book was sold at 12 shillings, so the thirteenth poem came "free".
This... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 148251
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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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ARNOLD, Matthew. Cromwell: A Prize Poem.Oxford : 1843
First edition, first printing, of the author's second separate publication (following the rare Alaric at Rome, 1840), marking Arnold's receipt of the Newdigate Prize while at Balliol College. With the ownership signature of the philosopher Richard Congreve, then a student at Wadham College, Oxford, and a former pupil of Arnold's father at Rugby. Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 94529
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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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FLINT, William Russell (illus.); ARNOLD, Matthew. The Scholar Gypsy and Thyrsis.London : 1910
First Flint edition, signed issue, number 34 of 100 copies printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the artist. This is a beautifully illustrated and printed edition of Arnold's two poems of Oxford, which he memorably describes as "that sweet City with her dreaming Spires" in "Thyrsis", one of the poems printed here.
"The Scholar Gypsy", the... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 146059
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HEANEY, Seamus (contrib.) Everyman: an Annual Religio-Cultural Review.Benburb, County Tyrone : 1969-74
First editions, first impressions. A complete run of this uncommon annual publication, most notable for the inclusion of work by Seamus Heaney: an interview with Michéal MacLiammóir and the poem "Birdwatcher" in issue I, the poem "Yan"' in issue II, the verse-play Munro in issue III, and two poems, "A Constable Calls" and "Act of Union" in issue VII.... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 109064
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YEATS, W. B. (pref.); GOGARTY, Oliver. Wild Apples.Dublin : 1930
First edition thus. This is one of 250 copies of this second selection by Yeats of the poems of Oliver Gogarty, likened by him in his opening poem, The Crab Tree, to "a tart crop" of wild apples. It was preceded by the 1926 private edition of 50 copies which did not include Yeats's preface. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 132515
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DERLETH, August. Here on a Darkling Plain.Philadelphia : 1940
First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed with an original poem to the publisher's wife, with the inscription on the front free endpaper reading "To Laura McElwee, Cordially, August Derleth, May 1940" and the poem "The lost child, / less than the dry leaf blown / along the walls". The recipient was the wife of Ritten House publisher... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 114742
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GWYNNE, Horace, pseud. of James Augustus St John. Abdallah; an Oriental Poem: in Three Cantos.London : 1824
First and sole edition of this very scarce collection of verse by the flourishingly named James Augustus St John, born James John (1795-1875), the son of a shoemaker, in what would become Dylan's Thomas stamping ground of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. Abdallah is an interesting contribution to the Romantic oriental verse epic, a form popularisd by Tom... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 141341
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GOGARTY, Oliver. Wild Apples. With a Preface by William Butler Yeats.Dublin : 1930
First edition thus (preceded by the 1926 private edition of 50 copies which did not include Yeats's preface) this one of 250 copies of this second selection by Yeats of the poems of Oliver Gogarty, likened by him in his opening poem, The Crab Tree, to "a tart crop" of wild apples. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 83989
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POGANY, Willy (illus.); HEINE, Heinrich. Atta Troll.London : 1913
First edition with the Pogány illustrations of this German poem. Written by the politically radical poet Heine in 1841 Atta Troll appeared incomplete, and never to be completed, in The Newspaper for the Elegant World, a German literary journal, in 1843. It was first published in book form in 1847, and first published in English in 1876, translated... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 117266
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LARKIN, Philip, & others. Oxford Poetry 1942-43.Oxford : 1943
First edition, first impression, of this early appearance of Larkin in print, who graduated from Oxford the following summer with a first in English.
Larkin contributes three poems to the volume, "Stone Church Damaged by a Bomb" (p. 41), "Mythological Introduction" (p. 42), and "Poem" (p. 43). This copy has an appealing literary provenance, from... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 146803
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KOZLOV, Ivan Ivanovich. Chernets, kievskaia povest [The Monk, a tale of Kiev].[St Petersburg : 1825
First edition of Kozlov's Byronic poem, the work that established his literary reputation, and which spread Byronic ideals among the Russian literary scene. Kozlov (1779-1840) lost his sight in 1821 and had to forgo his successful military and civil service career. He instead took to writing, learning English and German to add to his Russian and French,... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 129707
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BROOKE, Rupert. [The Dead.][c.1917]
A rare wartime issue of part of Rupert Brooke's best-known poems, "The Dead", printing on a large single sheet the first stanza, beginning "Blow out, you bugles... ". The sheet is signed below on two printed lines over the legend "War Command" Lieutenant-General Sir Fenton Aylmer (1862-1935), recipient of the Victoria Cross and commander of the Tigris... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 127049
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TODD, Ruthven. The Acreage of the Heart.Glasgow : 1944
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy from the author, inscribed in Todd's neat hand in brown ink on the front free endpaper: "for Dunstan with love from Ruthven. 21: i (?): 1945"; and below this a holograph poem in two 6-line stanzas, beginning: "A moth caught in the electric flash/ of Europe's dynamos run out of hand". The recipient is... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 109637
