Poesia

Portraits in the Roman Manner, or And One Who Knew Cinna's Aunt

OLIVE BENTLEY · 1980 · Marion Pitman Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Stevenage, Herts, Ore. 1980, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, Slight rusing of staple, lower edge front cover has thin line of discolouration. The Chariot Poets, no. 9. 8 pages, illustrated paper covers. Signed by author on title page. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Infant and Emperor : Poems for Christmas

E. P. THOMPSON · 1983 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, The Merlin Press. 1983, First Thus. (ISBN: 0850363195) Soft cover. Book, Covers bit discoloured, corner slightly curled. Royalties assigned to European Nuclear Disarmament. 20 pages. Good/No Jacket.

Chaucer - Modern essays in Criticism

EDWARD WAGENKNECHT (EDITOR) · 1966 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

New York, Oxford University Press / Galaxy. 1966, Tenth Printing. Soft cover. Book, Name on flyleaf, slight wear on corners. Good/No Jacket.

Terse Verse

CYRIL FLETCHER · 1982 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Book Club Associates. 1982, Reprint. Hardcover. Book, Slight crease to front cover, spine ends a little knocked. A Collection of the World's Shortest and Sharpest Poems. Illustrated. Good/No Jacket.

A First Poetry Book

JOHN FOSTER, (COMPILER) · 1979 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1979, First Edition. Soft cover. Ill.: Chris Orr, Martin White, Joseph Wright. Book, Large paperback, 126 pages. A very little worn on corners. Good Plus/No Jacket.

Mandarin in Manhattan

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY · 1934 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Faber & Faber. 1934, First GB. Hardcover. Ill.: Gluyas Williams. Book, Spine browned, covers specked, some foxing of edges. Illustrated drawings by Gluyas Williams. Subtitled Further Translations from the Chinese. First published in The Saturday Review of Literature. G...

So Like Fire

S. D. CURTIS · 1998 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Ljubljana, KUD France Preseren / Sotocia. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 961626303X) Soft cover. Book, Book in prose and verse relating to war in former Yugoslavia 1992 onward and its impact on the lives of those who became refugees. Cover art "History" by Predrag Kujundzic. Very...

Collected Poems

A. E. HOUSMAN · 1956 · Marion Pitman Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1956, First Thus. Soft cover. Book, Pages rather brown, covers a little worn and faded. Good/No Jacket.

Return to Magic, Fairy-tale Poems

CLIVE SANSOM · 1969 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Leslie Frewin. 1969, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Top edge darkened, dustwrapper partly discoloured, mostly on the back. Poems on traditional fairy-tales. Good/Good.

Outposts 114, Autumn 1977

HOWARD SERGEANT, EDITOR · 1977 · Marion Pitman Books

£3.50 (€4.20 | $4.62 | ¥738)

Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, Outposts Publications. 1977, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, Covers partly discoloured. Poems by Peter Redgrove, Alison Bielski, Alan Pringle, Tony Curtis, Earle Birney, Sidney Vogler, William Peskett, David Holliday, A. L. Hendriks, Edward Lowbury, ...

Hark! Hark! The Dogs Do Bark, and other rhymes about dogs

LENORE BLEGVAD (CHOSEN BY) · 1975 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1975, First UK. Hardcover. Ill.: Erik Blegvad. Book, Two corners bruised, offset on flyleaf from small price sticker on dustwrapper; dustwrapper bit worn & creased top edge. 26 pages of traditional rhymes about dogs, with colour & b/w illustrations. Go...

Das Oxforder Buch Deutscher Dichtung Vom 12ten Bis Zum 20sten Jahrhundert - the Oxford Book of German Verse

H. G. FIEDLER (ED) · 1939 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Oxford University Press. 1939, Reprint. Hardcover. Book, Front hinge slightly weak, ink stain on page edges, name on flyleaf. 647 pages, 593 poems + notes. Top edge gilt. All text in German / auf deutsch. Herausgegeben von H. G. Fiedler. Geleitworte von Gerhart Hauptma...

Tristan und Isold

GOTTFRIED VON STRASSBURG · 1946 · Marion Pitman Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Bern, A Francke ag.verlag. 1946. Soft cover. Book, in Auswahl herausgegeben von Friedrich Ranke. Altdeutsche Ubungstexte, herausgegeben von der akademischen gesellschaft schweizerischer germanisten, Band 3. Covers faded, frayed on corners. Good/No Jacket.

The Sermon, a prose-poem

PETER REDGROVE · 1966 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Poet and Printer. 1966, First Thus?. Soft cover. Book, Slight crease, one or two spots of foxing, staples slightly rusty. Individual publication of poem commissioned by BBC TV's Monitor, and performed there by Michael Hordern; also performed by Donald Wolfit on the Thi...

The Light of the World or, the Great Consummation

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD · 1896 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1896, New Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: W. Holman Hunt. Book, Gilt red-brown cloth, all edges gilt, b/w illustrations after Holman Hunt. The last of the 14 illustration is MISSING - torn out. Silk bookmark has left brown marks on two pages; cloth fade...

A Mind on the March

SOMERSET DE CHAIR · 1945 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Faber & Faber. 1945, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Boards slightly warped, partly faded. Mauve cloth, 125 pages, 8 illustrations. Poems, essays & memoirs, written in the Middle East during the second world war. Good/No Jacket.

Twenty-five Chinese Poems

CLIFFORD BAX (PARAPHRASED BY) · 1916 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Hendersons. 1916, Second Edition. Soft cover. Book, Blue paper covers, 53 pages. 17th century Cantonese poems, translated by a Japanese poet and paraphrased by Clifford Bax. Publisher's address on back cover "The Bomb Shop, Hendersons, 66 Charing Cross Road". Covers di...

Poems and The Spring of Joy

MARY WEBB · 1933 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Jonathan Cape. 1933, Ninth Impression. Hardcover. Book, Green cloth, gilt spine. Vol. 5 of Collected Works. Introduction Walter de la Mare. Poems, essays, nature studies. Spine faded; some browning of endpapers; name on flyleaf. Dustwrapper darkened on spine, frayed on...

How Would I Choose?

N. G. M. · 1944 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Inverness, Northern Chronicle Office. 1944, First. Soft cover. Book, Pamphlet, 4 pages (1 folded sheet). July 1944. "If it were given me to choose, A sight to satisfy my senses, In one last look, before my passing on, How would I choose?" The poem in answer covers the two inne...

The Centuries' Poetry, 5: Bridges to the Present Day

DENYS KILHAM ROBERTS (COMPILED BY) · 1945 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Harmondsworth, Penguin (Pelican). 1945, Reprint. Paperback. Book, Name on cover and title page; slight wear and splitting ends of spine, spine bit brown. With short biographies of the poets. 192 pages. Good/No Jacket.