Poesia

Union Street. Poems. With a Preface by Edith Sitwell.

CAUSLEY, CHARLES. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London:Rupert Hart-Davis,1957. 2nd imp. Inscribed by the author(August 1960). Pp.95, author's inscription to title page, owners name and small bookseller's label (Bowes & Bowes.Cambridge)to verso front board, uneven toning to endpapers. Decorated boards, matching d/w. G+/VG.

The Neighbours. An Animal Anthology.

FOUGASSE · 1963 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London: UFAW,1963. Rep. An animal anthology compiled and illustrated by Fougasse. Pp. 10/117/5(ads). B/w illustns. throughout. Inscrip. to fep. P/b. Illustd. cover. G+.

Moment in Childhood. Illustrated by Mary Hall.

HALL, MARTIN. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Dorset, Charmouth: Martin Hall, 1987. (Privately printed). 1st ed. Three books of Poems. Pp. 87. B/w illustns. throughout. P/b. Illustd. cover (The Boyhoodof Raleigh by Sir John E. Millais.) VG.

The Poems of John Donne.

GRIERSON,H.J.C.(EDITOR). · 1945 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Humphrey Milford, OUP,1945. Rep. Pp.56/404, owners name to verso front board. Blue cloth, blind-stamped motif to front, gilt title to spine, rubbed. VG.

Pleasure Garden. An Anthology of Prose and Verse.

HILL, BRIAN. · 1956 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London:Rupert Hart-Davis,1956. "..a most entertaining collection of extracts from poets and prose-writers, famous and unknown." Pp.98.Red cloth, illustrated d/w (designed by Elizabeth Friedlander) rubbed and price-clipped. VG/G+.

100 Contemporary Christian Poets.

BAILEY, GORDON. (EDITOR), · 1983 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Tring, Herts: Lion Publishing, 1983. 1st ed. Selection of poems by Christians of widely differing interests and experience. Pp. 192. Toning to pages. Inscrip. to fep. P/b. Illustd. cover. G.

Keats Shelley & Rome. An Illustrated Miscellany. (postscript by Field Marshall Earl Wavell).

ROGERS, NEVILLE.(COMPILER). · 1949 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London:Christopher Johnson,1949. 1st ed. Published on behalf of the Keats Shelley Memorial Associatiion. Pp.76,10 plates,spotting to endpapers. Brown cloth, gilt title to front, top of spine slightly rubbed. G+.

Victorian Poetry.

DRINKWATER, JOHN. · 0 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Hodder & Stoughton,nd. Pp.191.Blue cloth, cream d/w with coloured motif. VG/G+.

O World Invisible. An Anthology of Religious Poetry.

THOMPSON, EDWARD. (COMPILER). · 1931 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London:Benn,1931. 1st ed. Pp.8/136, fep absent, owners details to fep. Blue cloth,gilt title to spine. G+.

The Easter Spirit. An Anthology.

VAN DE WEYER, ROBERT. & SAUNDERS, PAT. (COMPILED BY.) · 1990 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

London: Darton, Longman & Todd. 1990. 0232518351. 1st.ed. "This anthology of prose and poetry reflects the great themes of Easter. It draws from a whole range of English literature." Pp. 8/134. Pbk. VG.

The King's Missive, Mabel Martin and Later Poems. By John Greenleaf Whittier .

WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF / WILLIAM FINGLAND BOOKPLATE . · 1881 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, 1881 . 0. Clean parchment covered boards with black and red titles to front cover. pp.192. Browning to endpapers. Bookplate to verso of the front board: "Ex Libris Gulielmi Fingland." Clean t...

Some Yorkshire Poets: An Anthology of To-Day 1924-25.

FOWLER WRIGHT, S. · 1925 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Westminster: The Merton Press Ltd, nd. (c.1925). One of a series of anthologies representative of the renaissance of poetry in the various counties and principal cities of Great Britain. Pp.viii/112/7(ads), front and rear free endpapers toned. Dark green crocodile-skin-effect ...

John Gilpin.

HASSALL, JOHN. (ILLUSTRATOR). · 1941 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

London: Blackie & Son Ltd, nd. (c.1941). William Cowper's poem tells how Gilpin and his wife and children became separated during a journey to the Bell Inn, Edmonton, after Gilpin loses control of his horse, and is carried ten miles farther to the town of Ware. `25.5cms x 19.5...

Ballads of a Cheechako.

SERVICE, ROBERT W. · 1910 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. 1st British edition. Collection of verse, inspired by tales of the Klondike Gold Rush, by the British/Canadian writer Robert W. Service, following his previous book "Songs of a Soughdough". Pp.140/4(publisher's catalogue, front free endpaper abse...

The Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Goldsmith. Containing all his Essays and Poems.

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER 1730?-1774. · 1784 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London: Printed for W Osborne, and T Griffin, in Holborn 1784. 0. A scarce early edition of Goldsmith's works. Very good contemporary full leather binding. 6.5" x 4.0" x 0.75". pp.230. 12mo. (Horizontal chain-lines). pp.230. Polished brown calf, with dulled gilt border. Corner...

Arrival Press. East Anglia 1994 Anthology.

RAMM, TRUDI. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

Peterborough: Arrival Press, 1994. 1857862155. Poems written by poets from East Anglia. " A collection of poems that give the reader an insight into how the locals feel about the area that they live in." Pp156. 0Paperback. VG.

Poems by Rupert Brooke.

BROOKE, RUPERT. · 1917 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London:Sidgwick & Jackson,1917. Rep. Pp.94/2(ads),date notation to fep, spare paper label to rear endpaper. Black cloth, original paper label to spine, edges rubbed. G+.

The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs Mary Robinson. (One Volume edition)..

ROBINSON, MARY. · 2015 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Milton Keynes: Lightning Source, nd. (c.2015). Including the Last Pieces Published: The Three Volumes Complete in One. Facsimile reprint. Pp.232, portrait frontispece. Blue laminated boards. VG.

Posthumous Parodies And Other Pieces, Composed By Several Of Our Most Celebrated Poets, But Not Published In Any Former Edition Of Their Works.

[ TWISS, HORACE (1787-1849) ] . · 1814 · Chilton Books

£148.00 (€177.40 | $195.53 | ¥31,223)

London : Printed For John Miller, 25, Bow-Street, Covent Garden, 1814 . 0. Signed first edition. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. 725" x 4.75" x 0.2". pp. xi./[1p.]/pp.102/[2pp. - Errata / Adverts] . Brown Morocco spine and corners over green buckram boards. Spine with 5...

Selected Poems. (D16).

SITWELL, EDITH. · 1952 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952. Most of the poems in this volume have been published in the collection under the title of The Canticle of the Roe and the present selection has been made by Dr Sitwell. Pp.134,pages toned. Paperback, discolouration to spine. Good.