Poesia

Poetic Gems Through Life

Emily Holland · 1980 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£16.00 (€19.18 | $21.14 | ¥3,376)

Bradley Publications & Co. Hull, 1980. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Fresh brown covers with plain orange spine, gilt lettering on front. Tight binding, clean pages, publisher's price on title-page, black and white illustrations No dust-jacket. Quant...

Comic Miscellanies in Prose and Verse by the Late James Smith, with a Selection from his Correspondence and Memoirs of His Life. 2 volumes complete

James Smith, one of the authors of "The Rejected Addresses"; edited by Horace Smith · 1841 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Henry Colburn, London, 1841. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Volume I is the 1841 second edition but Volume II is the 1840 first edition, but they are in matching binding. Tissue protected frontis portrait in Volume I. Brown blind-printed covers a...

Poems, Songs and Essays

Ulanda (Kathleen Whitford Turner) · 1946 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£66.00 (€79.11 | $87.20 | ¥13,924)

Clowes and Sons Ltd, privately published, Beccles, 1946. 3rd Edition, Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Blue leather with gilt decoration and lettering, bright gilt blocks, tissue protected frontis and other plates, framed text. Leather is very good but...

A Legend of Jersey and Miscellaneous Verses

Quien Sabe · 1872 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£85.00 (€101.89 | $112.30 | ¥17,932)

Bemrose & Sons, London, Derby, 1872. 1st Edition, Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Slim volume with purple blind-printed cloth and gilt lettering, spine slightly faded, cloth slightly darkened, corners lightly bumped, binding sound, small bookplate of previous owner on inside o...

Expressions of Impressions (In Verse)

Mary Allbrooke · 1958 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

Privately Published, 1958. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Clean green covers with dark red lettering, plain spine, inscription by author on front end-paper "To dear Joe & Hettie with my fond love. Mary Allbrooke Oct. 1958, small p...

The Franciscan Friar, a Satire; and the Marriage Ode of Francis of Valois and Mary, Sovereigns of France and England, translated into English Verse from the Latin

George Buchanan, translated by George Provand · 1809 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Printed for Brash and Reid, Glasgow; Archibald Constable & Co, Edinburgh; Constable, Hunter, Park and Hunter; Vernor, Hood and Sharp, London, Glasgow; Edinburgh; London, 1809. Early Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. George Buchanan was amongst other things a s...

Meditative Reveries

Wila Yagel · 1994 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Yaron Golan Publishing, Tel Aviv, 1994. 1st Edition, Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Clean laminated boards, sound binding, clean pages, note from author on front end-paper (date at discrepancy with publication date) "To Mrs Joan Sims. With my compliments - it's always a ...

Zoo Guy'd

not given (Sister Margaret) · 1935 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£9.50 (€11.39 | $12.55 | ¥2,004)

Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd, London, 1935. First Edition, Hardcover, Illustrated by: L R Brightwell. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Firm yellow covers with light bow, plain spine, sound binding, clean pages. Contains many black and white illustrations.. Illustrator: L ...

Meditations

Wila Yagel · 1999 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Wila Yagel, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 1999. 1st Edition, Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed by Author(s). Clean crisp dust-jacket, fresh boards, sound binding, inscription from author to "Joan" on front end-paper, clean pages. Includes a brief letter from the poet's...

The Posy

Morris, Helen Clayton · 1924 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Cornish Brothers Ltd, Birmingham, 1924. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Poems under sections headed: Amaranth (Immortality); China Aster (Variety); Crocus (Youthful Gladness); Cypress (Mourning); Honest (Honesty); Passion Flower (Faith); Rose (Lov...

Wallace, or the Flight of Falkirk, a Metrical Romance

Miss (Margaret) Holford · 1810 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Longman, Hurst Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1810. 2nd Edition, Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Contemporary boards have been repaired on corners and spine with marbled paper, both inner hinges cracked but binding is sound, previous owner's name (C J Sturman) on label on inside of ...

Poetical Sketches of Scottish Life and Character

James E Watt of Montrose (John Stuart Blackbird) · 1880 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

Printed by John Leng & Co, Dundee, 1880. 1st Edition, Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Firm brown covers with black decoration, gilt lettering and bevelled edges, bumped spine ends and lightly rubbed corners, front end-paper (and half-title page if there was one) is missing, binding...

Poems

Thomas Sharp · 1922 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

MacMillan and Co Limited, London, 1922. 1st Edition, Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s). Slightly darkened firm red boards with beige linen spine and darkened pasted spine label, lower corners are bumped, binding sound, author's signature - "Yours Sincerely Th...

A Scroll Of Stars, Poems In Sequence

Hoffman, John · 1952 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Holymoorside, Chesterfield: The Guild Press, 1952, Chesterfield, 1952. 1st Edition, Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Pale blue unclipped dust-jacket with dark red lettering and illustration, two small ink marks adjacent to dust-jacket spine and tear on rear edge, plain dust-jacket s...

Transvaluations, plus Christmas greetings 1935 - In the Moonlight

J Redwood Anderson · 1932 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)

Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, London, London, 1932. 1st Edition, Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Red faded covers, worn at spine ends and cloth is split on front outer hinge. Sound binding, pages freckled. Inscription from author "A Dennis Win...

Rhyme & Reason

Evans, John S · 1970 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Privately printed, not given, 1970. First Edition, Hardcover, Illustrated by: cover design by Irene Barratt. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Protected cream dust-jacket, brown imitation leather, sound binding, clean decorated end-papers, religious verses. Undated, probably circ...

Figures of Speech, an Anthology of Magdalene Writers

edited by M E J Hughes; John Mole; Nick Seddon · 2000 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£27.00 (€32.36 | $35.67 | ¥5,696)

Magdalene College, Cambridge, Cambridge, 2000. 1st Edition, Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9780952307358 Clean crisp dark red dust-jacket with blue lettering, fresh dark red covers, sound binding, clean pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. ISBN: 095230735...

The Hour Glass, A Selection of Poems

Melfin W Jones · 1936 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Hughes and Son, Wrecsam, Wrecsham, Wrexham, 1936. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Dark cloth covers with pasted label to spine, label is rather darkened but still legible, covers are firm, spine ends are bumped, binding is tight (apparently unread), pages clean,...

Sacred Poetry

George Calthrop · 1846 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£124.00 (€148.63 | $163.82 | ¥26,160)

G A Bartlett, London; T Albin, Spalding, Lincolnshire, London; Spalding, 1846. 1st Edition, Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Inscribed by Author. Boards (period but not necesssary original) with modern re-covering in half leather and marbling, new patterned end-papers, bri...

A Shepherd Tale and Other Verses

G H F N (G H F Norris) · 1914 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,215)

A R Mowbray & Co Ltd, 1914. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Firm blue covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, sound binding, gift inscription on front end-paper, clean pages. No dust-jacket . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 k...