Poesia

Pre-Raphaelite and Other Poets.

HEARN, LAFCADIO. · 1923 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1923. Lectures by Lafcadio Hearn, selected and edited with an introduction by John Erskine. Contents: I. Studies in Rossetti; II. Note upon Rossetti's Prose; III. Studies in Swinburne; IV. Studies in Browning; V. William Morris; VI. The Poetry of...

Poetry Now. Eastern England 2002.

KILLINGRAY, HEATHER. (EDITOR). · 2002 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Peterborough: Poetry Now, 2002. 0754327248. 1st edition. "A compilation of poetry which has been assembled using the work of poets who reside in this area. The poems collected within this anthology vary in style and content. Both traditional verse and modern poetry broach a wi...

Sketches In Prose. By The Author Of Zone .

DENDY, WALTER COOPER (1794-1871) . · 1827 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

London: C. Tilt, Fleet Street, MDCCCXXVII. [1827 ] . 0. Scarce first edition. A very good original half leather binding. 12mo. 16.5cm x 10.0cm x 1.0cm. [8pp.]/pp.132. Dull green calf spine and corners over marbled boards. Smooth spine with gilt decoration and original brown le...

The Collection of New Zealand Poetry & Prose.

KONINGS, NICKY. (COMPILER). · 2001 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Auckland: Media Publishers Ltd, 2001. 0958231400. 1st edition. "Covers a broad spectrum of topics - some typical of our Kiwi lifestyle - reflecting our connection to the land, the people and the richness of our country. There are some heart warming and humorous poetry and pros...

Poems of To-Day: an Anthology.

VARIOUS. · 1918 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London : Published for the English Association by Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918 . 0. First issued in 1915 and reprinted. A very good half leather binding. 8vo. 7.25" x 5.0" x 0.5" pp.16/pp.174. Green calf spine and corners over green cloth covered boards. Spine a little dulled with...

Poems on several subjects : written by Stephen Duck, Lately a poor Thresher in a Barn in the County of Wilts, at the Wages of Four Shillings and Six Pence per Week: which were publickly read by The Right Honourable the Earl of Macclesfield...

DUCK, STEPHEN 1705-1756. · 1730 · Chilton Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

London: Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane; and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster M.DCC.XXX. [1730] . Price Six-Pence 0. 3 titles bound together: The Description Of Bath. A Poem; A Character Of John Sheffield, 1729; Poems on Several Su...

Shenstone's Miscellany 1759-1763.

GORDON, IAN A. (EDITOR). · 1952 · Chilton Books

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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952. "The Miscellany contains between ninety and a hundred poems transcribed at various dates between the early months of 1759 and the month of Shenstone's death, February 1763." Pp.xx/164 Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

The Linguistics of Light. (Signed).

DART, LISA. · 2009 · Chilton Books

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Cambridge: Salt, 2009. 9781844714452. 1st edition. "Lisa Dart's debut collection 'The Linguistics of Light' journeys from the north Norfolk coast of England across a vast emotional landscape to Greece and beyond. America provides the imaginative and physical locations for some...

The Other Vikings.

WEST, TESSA. · 2009 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Glemsford: Fox Books, 2009. 9780954362737. 1st edition. Poems written from the female Viking point of view. 21cms 21cms. Unpaginated. Inscribed by the author + a gift message to title page. Paperback, minor bumps to top corners. G+.

Tingle Tangle. A Collection of Light Verse.

ROSS, CASTLETON. · 1946 · Chilton Books

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Bombay: Vakil & Sons, 1946. Printed "For private circulation only".Some of the verses previously appeared in "The Times of India". 16cms x 12cms. Pp.82. Brown card covers, slightly rubbed. G+.

Ostrich Creek. Tom and Other Survivors.

BENCE-JONES, GILLIAN. · 1999 · Chilton Books

£3.00 (€3.60 | $3.96 | ¥633)

Hyde: New Hope International, 1999. 0903610221. 1st edition. "Like Betjeman, Bence-Jones is inspired by a sence of place..Her voice is the voice of no-nonsense Suffolk: clear, lyrical and straight to the point." Pp.60. Paperback. VG.

Bacton Where the Orwell Rises.

BENCE-JONES, GILLIAN. · 1989 · Chilton Books

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Lewes: The Book Guild Ltd, 1989. 0863322689. "Gillian Bence-Jones' poetry is simple and direct..Though modern in form with its free verse, it is timeless, even refreshingly old fashioned, in content." Pp.88, inscribed by the author to front free endpaper. Blue boards, dustwrap...

Freston Tower.

BENCE-JONES, GILLIAN. · 2005 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Stamford: K.T.Publications, 2005. 0907759246. Kite Modern Poetry Series. Collection of poetry. Pp.60. Paperback. VG.

The Christmas Tree Book.

BAKER, JOANNE. · 2001 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London: Brenda Weatherall, 2001. Poems by Joanne Baker with illustrations by Julia Weatherall. Pp.23, poems with 10 full colour illustrations incorporating Christmas trees to facing pages, signed by the author and illustrator to title page. Paperback. VG.

The Poetical Works of William Cowper. (Illustrated by Thomas Seccombe).

ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL. · 1890 · Chilton Books

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London: E.Moxon, Son & Co, nd.(c.1890s). Edited, with a critical memoir. Moxon's Popular Poets. All edges gilt. Pp.xxiv/600/16(publisher's catalogue), occasional illustrations by Thomas Seccombe, small binder's label (Leighton son and Hodge) to inside rear board. Blue decorate...

Love Poems. Nineteen Poems of Love, Lust and Spirit. (New Departures No.9).

HOROVITZ, MICHAEL. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

London: New Departures, 1971. 1st edition. Anthology of poems previously published in various books and magazines. Landscape format. 17cms x 19cms. Pp.40, Blue cloth, dustwrapper has edgewear. G+/G+.

Baubles Bangles and Poetry.

MOWER, JANE. · 2010 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Leiston: Leiston Press, 2010. 9780956601223. 1st edition. By "The Sunrise Poet" as heard on Sunday mornings on the Steve Foster and Bob Shelley Happy Hour on BBC Radio Suffolk. Pp.92, signed by the author and illustrator (Jasmine Simmons) to title page. Paperback. VG.

East Anglia in Verse and Prose.

WILSON, ANGUS. (EDITOR). · 1982 · Chilton Books

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London: Secker & Warburg,1982. 0436576074. 1st edition. "A book of contrasts; between aristocratic households and rural villages; between the religious heart of the land and the bawdy irreverence of those who work it. Always present is a sense of history, of a world still touc...

Hobgoblins Also Dream.

ANDERSON, ALEX. · 1982 · Chilton Books

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Liverpool: The Old Police Station, 1982. "Alex Anderon is a native of Liverpool but his poetry is decidedly not what has come to be known as Liverpool poetry. On the contrary, he is a symbolist in the mainstream of Modernist tradition. His poetry creates a subtle myth of moder...

The Bengali Book of English Verse.

DUNN, THEODORE DOUGLAS. (EDITOR). · 1918 · Chilton Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co, 1918. 1st edition. "The verse collected in this volume represents about one hundred years of poetical effort; and has its origin in England's introduction into India of western education." (Foreword by Sir Rabindranath Tagore). 23cms x14.5cms. P...