Search results for: 'poems'
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SPENDER, Stephen. Twenty Poems.Oxford : [1930]
First edition, limited issue, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the second blank, "To Elizabeth, with love from Stephen. June 11th". From a total edition of 135 copies, of which 75 copies were numbered and signed. This, the author's second book, was published while Spender was a student at Oxford: it was well received and prompted T. S.... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 140052
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(HARRISON, Florence.) ROSSETTI, Christina. Poems.London : 1910
First trade edition, first impression, beautifully illustrated in art nouveau style by Harrison. Florence Harrison (1877-1955) was an Australian-born artist known for her rich, art nouveau style. "Harrison brought to this volume some of her most recognisable and oft-reproduced illustrations, ethereal and evocative by turn" (Howe). A well-respected artist,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 119894
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SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe. Poems.London : 1922
A handsomely bound copy of Shelley's poetry, and a fine example of Zaehnsdorf's craft. The text used is part of the Golden Treasury Series of the poets, first published in 1880. Learn More£575.00Stock Code: 126753
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AARONSON, Leonard. Poems.London : 1933
First edition, first impression of 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: 94174
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CLOUGH, Arthur Hugh. Poems.London : 1890
A choicely bound copy. Learn More£95.00Stock Code: 101683
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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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FIELD, Alice Withrow. Poems.London : 1932
First edition, number 35 of 250 copies only. Alice Withrow Field (1909-1960) was a sex researcher, criminologist and social scientist, whose seminal work Protection of Women and Children in Soviet Russia was also published in 1932. Her papers are now held at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University.... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 139595
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HUGHES, Ted. Collected Animal Poems.London : 1995
First collected edition, first impression; signed by the poet on the half-title of volume 1. Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 136115
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LAWRENCE, D. H. The Collected Poems.London : 1929
Second impressions. With Vita Sackville-West's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper of the first volume, "Evelyn from Vita Xmas 1931". The recipient was the journalist Evelyn Irons. By 1931 Irons had become the editor of the Features page on the Daily Mail. In March of that year she arranged to interview Vita Sackville-West in... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 45445
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HUGHES, Ted. Collected Animal Poems.London : 1995
Number 73 of 292 uncorrected proof copies, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his son on the limitation page, "For Nicholas, Many beasts that escaped the albion, and some that didn't, love Daddy". This copy is from the library of Frieda Hughes, daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, though unmarked as such. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 126477
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BROOKE, Rupert. The Collected Poems.London : 1928
Second edition, revised and reset. A handsomely bound copy. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 121618
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BRIDGES, Robert. The Shorter Poems.Oxford : 1894
First complete edition, limited issue, including the first printing of any of the final volume; one of 150 numbered sets, the vast majority of which were either issued bound as one or suffered the same fate after purchase. Sets in their original state are rare, only one such example appearing at auction in 30 years. With the original prospectus laid-in.... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 118717
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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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(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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LONGLEY, Michael. Ten Poems.Belfast : [1965]
First edition, first issue, signed and dated by the author on the inner front cover. This is the author's first publication and, as well as being the most desirable, the first issue is by far the scarcest. Festival Publications printed this among a series of pamphlets by other emerging Irish poets like Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, and Philip Hobsbaum;... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 116798
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[CROSLAND, T. W. H.] "X". War Poems.London : 1916
First edition, first impression, of this collection of First World War poetry by T. W. H. Crosland. Crosland is notable as a fanatical Christian homophobe, who helped the hysterical hypocrite Lord Alfred Douglas to hound the supporters of Oscar Wilde, such as Robert Ross and Arthur Ransom, in the courts. He ghost-wrote Douglas's memoir Oscar Wilde and... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 102971
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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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THOMAS, Dylan. New Poems.Norfolk, CN : 1943
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, "To Lord Howard de Walden, from Dylan Thomas, November 1944". The recipient was influential Welsh arts patron Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, the 8th Baron Howard de Walden, who lived nearby Thomas at Plas Llanina, whilst Thomas was living in a coastal bungalow,... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131353
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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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THOMAS, Dylan. 18 Poems.London : 1934
First edition, first impression, of the author's first collection, a poetic association copy with the ownership inscription of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-1962), founder of Dymock Poets group and a friend of Rupert Brooke. Though Gibson was several generations older than Dylan Thomas, he outlived him by a decade. This edition was printed in an original... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 124168
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MOORE, Thomas Sturge. Two Poems.London : 1893
First edition of the author's first book, printed in a small edition for family and friends, and consequently very rare, with only four copies known institutionally in the UK with a further three in the United States. Learn More£1,350.00Stock Code: 126966
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BLUNDEN, Edmund. The Poems.London : 1930
First edition, first impression. In an attractive contemporary binding of red morocco. Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 86144
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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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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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HARDY, Thomas. Wessex Poems.London : 1898
First edition, one of 500 copies. An exceptional copy of Hardy's first volume of verse, rare thus. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 134116
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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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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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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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WALLER, Edmund. Poems, &c.London : 1711
First illustrated edition, the eighth overall, containing the first appearance of an anonymous memoir of Waller (1606-1687) that contains "useful biographical materials" (ODNB). Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 127067
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KINGSLEY, Charles. The Novels and Poems.New York : 1899
Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 numbered copies and printed on japon vellum. With a letter written in the author's hand dated April 4 '71 tipped into the first volume. A particularly handsome set. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 74248
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PUDNEY, John. South of Forty. Poems.London : 1943
First edition, first impression. Learn More£40.00Stock Code: 82817
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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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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. Open the Sky. Poems.London : 1934
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Gert from John. Oct: 1934". The recipient was the British engraver and sculptor Gertrude Hermes. Learn More£55.00Stock Code: 74028
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MERRILL, James. The Fire Screen. Poems.New York : 1969
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the half-title "With love to Alan from an old flame, 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 inspiration for several of Kerouac's characters, including "Rollo... Learn More£120.00Stock Code: 51366
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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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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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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: Copac lists just 2 copies (British Library, Cambridge). Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 103104
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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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(ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel.) MEREDITH, George. Modern Love, and the Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads.London : 1862
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author to D. G. Rossetti on the title page, "Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from his friend, George Meredith", with authorial manuscript corrections in the text. (The Hayward exhibition copy, also inscribed and corrected, had a note in Merdith's hand apologizing for "Errata ennumerable".) Meredith's novel Evan... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 111629
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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 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 1930-1933.London : 1933
First edition, first impression. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 140726
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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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KINSELLA, Thomas. New Poems 1973.Dublin : 1973
First edition, first impression. Learn More£40.00Stock Code: 63477
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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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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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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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BECKETT, Samuel. Poems 1930-1989.London : 2002
First edition, first printing. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 109433
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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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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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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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(FLINT, William Russell, illus.) HERRICK, Robert. One Hundred and Eleven Poems.London : 1955
First edition, number 529 of 445 copies bound thus; a further 105 signed copies with eight extra plates were also issued, all printed at the artist's expense. Sir William Russell Flint (1880-1969), was described by Charles Wheeler, president of the Royal Academy, as an artist of "a steady hand, keen eye and gay spirit in a shaky world" (ODNB). His illustrations... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 140576
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HUGHES, Ted. Moon-Bells and Other Poems.London : 1978
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Olwyn, lots of love from Ted Feb. 1978". Hughes was very close to his sister Olwyn. After Plath's suicide in 1963 Olwyn helped to bring up their children, became her brother's literary agent, established the Rainbow Press with Ted in 1971 to... Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 125892
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WHITE, T. H. Loved Helen and Other Poems.London : 1929
First edition, first impression. Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 88951
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BLUNDEN, Edmund. The Waggoner and other Poems.London : 1920
First edition, second issue. Of an edition of 500, 250 copies were bound in purple cloth for immediate issue, 100 sets of sheets were sent to NY for Knopf's American edition, and the remaining 150 bound up in green cloth later in 1920. Extremely uncommon in jacket in either issue. Blunden's first trade publication, The Waggoner was issued with the encouragement... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 70521
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DAY LEWIS, Cecil. Beechen Vigil and other Poems.London : 1925
First edition, first impression. With the 1933 ownership inscription of sculptress Gertrude Hermes to the front free endpaper. Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 70972
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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
