Poesia

Collected Poems 1917-1939

Davison, Edward · 1940 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1940. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Likely First Edition, First Printing, though not so stated. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, moderately toned at pastedowns, dissipating, minimally tone throughout, ...

The City and the Island: Poems by Peter Davison

Davison, Peter · 1966 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Atheneum, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illu...

Six Mile Corner: Poems by Robert Dawson

Dawson, Robert · 1966 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Boston, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin Publishing, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Two-tone, black cloth over boards, white...

Poems 1908-1919

Drinkwater, John · 1919 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered. Bound in brick-red cloth, a bit sunned to spine, abraded br...

Esprit de Corps: Sketches from Diplomatic Life

Durrell, Lawrence · 1959 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, England, Faber and Faber, 1959. Fourth Impression. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Copyright page dated 1959 ("mcmlix", stated fourth impression), dates first edition to 1957. Features black-and-white illustrations throughout, a fine and accessible account of Durre...

Grand Hotel

BAUM, VICKI · 1958 · Clausen Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Garden City ,NY, International Collectors Library. 1958. Cloth, 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Hardcover, Textblock is very clean and tight; Red silk page marker sewn into the headband; Covers lightly edge and corner worn and rubbed; 258p. Very Good+.

Slick But Not Streamlined: Poems and Short Pieces by John Betjeman

Betjeman, John · 1947 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. I love suburbs and gas-lights and Point Street and Gothic Revival churches and mineral railways, provincial towns and Garden cities," says the author about his poetry on ...

Slick But Not Streamlined: Poems and Short Pieces by John Betjeman

Betjeman, John · 1947 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities, half of bottom tips a bit damp-stained, dissipating, half-dime sized. Bright and...

New Bats in Old Belfries Poems

Betjeman, John · 1945 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, England, John Murray, 1945. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Stated Second Printing, later in the same month (December 25, 1945) as the First Printing. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Toning at gutters of f...

The Sacrifice

Bidart, Frank · 1983 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Random House, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound in black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct copper lettering to spine....

In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90

Bidart, Frank · 1990 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound in black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct copper lettering t...

Lisa, She Say

Bird, Beatrice · 1974 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Vantage Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected b...

Telescopes & Islands: Poems by Charles Black

Black, Charles · 1964 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Denver, Colorado, Alan Swallow, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at first free endpaper, inscribed warmly from New Haven in 1964 to June and Jacque. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to ex...

The Rubaiyat of Omar, M.P.

Burnet, W. Hodgson · 0 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

London, W. Collins Sons & Co., 11921. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A High-Georgian Parody, illustrated by T.C. Black, with 46 [2] pp. The setting of this parody is the House of Commons. Notes to the stanzas key the narrative both to events of the time and...

Near and Far: New Poems by Edmund Blunden

Blunden, Edmund · 1930 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine collection of fine poems, this time about the War and the English countrside, by the award-winning poet. First Trade Edition, having been preceded by ...

The State of the Nation

Bold, Alan · 1969 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Chatto and Windus, with the Hogarth Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Phoenix Living Poets series, published jointly in First Edition state by Chatto and WIndus and The Hogarth Press. Sturdy, attractive, ti...

Mist Before the Dawn: Poems by Antoni Boguslawski

Boguslawski, A.; L.E. Gielgud, translator · 1942 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Done into English verse by L.E. Gielgud from the original Polish. Blue paper over boa...

Twenty Poems by Rupert Brooke

Brooke, Rupert · 1946 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1946. Reprint. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound copy of a multiply reprinted collection of 20 poems by Rupert Brooke. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear to covers, less to text-block, bu...

Know All Men by These Presents

Bowie, Beverley · 1958 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

New York, Bookman Associates, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy copy, inside and out, no discernible wear to exterior, light waffling of paste-downs, probably owing to glue, else unobtrusive, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound in black...

Collected Essays Papers &C. Of Robert Bridges - II: Humdrum & Harum-Scarum a Lecture on Free Verse III Poetic Diction: A Critical Introduction to Keatsrobert Bridgespublished by , 1929

Bridges, Robert · 1928 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, England, Humphrey Milford by Oxford University Press, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Volume 2 of a 10-volume set edited by R.R. Bridges and Mary Monica. Bound simply in gray paper over boards, blue cloth over boards, abraded paper label to spi...