Poesia

Heated Ice and Other Poems. (Illustrated by Yvonne Hudson).

BARKER, NIKKI. · 1985 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Gavarnie Publications, 1985. 0951057901. 1st edition. "The work of persuading and ordering words to communicate a personal experience of life is never easy, and Nikki has not tried to make it so by taking an easy course..At her best, as with Heated Ice, so much is conveyed by ...

Yeats: Poems, 1919-1935. A Casebook.

CULLINGFORD, ELIZABETH. · 1984 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: Macmillan, 1984. 0333274237. 1st edition. "Presents extracts from Yeats's writings on poetry and his own art and inspiration, followed by a selection of early and later critical appraisals of his poetry. It combines general studies of the poetry published between 1919 ...

Ye "Olde Cock Tavern."

TENNYSON, ALFRED . · 1930 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

(London) : Camden Press, (1930?). 0. Scarce 7 page booklet. Publication details from COPAC (British Library online). [2pp.]/pp.3/[2pp.] . 8.5" x 6.5". Illustrated paper cover, with a scene of Tennyson writing his monologue in the Old Cock Tavern. rear paper cover with a full-p...

A Treasury of Christian Verse.

MARTIN, HUGH. (EDITOR). · 1959 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London:SCM,1959. 1st ed. "This volume..is concerned with Jesus Christ himself, as reflected in English verse through the centuries..From Christ the Corner-Stone by Cynewulf in the eighth century to Christmas by John Betjeman in the twentieth.." Pp.126, slight toning to endpape...

The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

WENDELL HOLMES, OLIVER. · 1910 · Chilton Books

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

London: George G.Harrap & Company, nd.(c.1910). 0. Authorised Copyright Edition. Pp.xvi/426, portrait frontispiece. Brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt and green lyre motif to centre, gilt title to spine, minor rubbing to edges. VG.

Private View. (Signed).

GUEST, HARRY. · 1962 · Chilton Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Dulwich Village: Outposts Publications, 1962. 0. Scarce 1st printing. Poem set in an art exhibition and dedicated to the painter Trevor Goodman. Pp.16, inscribed "To Harold best wishes ever Harry" to title page. Cream card covers have light spotting and pen scribble to lower f...

The Spinning Wheel and Other Poems.

BIDDELL TAYLOR, HILDA. · 1965 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Lavenham: Kemp's Printing Agency, 1965. 0. Pp.40, occasional wood-cut illustrations by Mary Watt. Stiff card covers with illustration of a spinning wheel by Mary Watt in black, cream and white to front board. VG.

The Duck Pond.

BIDDELL TAYLOR, HILDA. · 1967 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Lavenham: Kemp's Printing Agency, 1967. 0. Collection of poetry. Pp.32, occasional wood-cut illustrations by Mary Watt, inscribed by the author to the reverse of the title page. Paperback, blue with repeat pattern of ducks in white and red title. VG.

Intentions.

WIGNALL, MARY. · 1912 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Privately published, nd. 0712500596. Collection of poetry, accompanied by photographs by the author. Mary Wignall (1912-1986) "was head of the Art Department of Sudbury Girls High School from 1962-1969, when she opened her own pottery, which ran successfully for eight years. T...

Poems of C.Day Lewis 1925-1972.

PARSONS, IAN. (EDITOR). · 1977 · Chilton Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,793)

London: Jonathan Cape and The Hogarth Press, 1977. 0224012940. "Ian Parsons has brought together a comprehensive assembly of poems representing every aspect of Day Lewis's work. He has prefaced it with an Introduction in which, combining the objective discrimination of a criti...

Through Storm and Sunshine.

ADON. · 1875 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Henry S.King & Co, 1875. 0. With illustrations by H.Paterson, M.E.Edwards, A.T. and the author. All edges gilt. Pp.viii/126/2(ads), frontispiece + 17 further engraved plates,light spotting to preliminaries, small binder's label(Burn & Co) to inside rear board. Brown de...

Heart's Ease and Other Poems.

LEWIS, NELL. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Colchester: Wheatfield Words, 2000. 1900145235. "Ellen Lewis lives in Suffolk..In her 60's she discovered a living faith in Jesus Christ which was put to the test soon afterwards when she was knocked into the air by a lorry and broke 17 bones. Three years later she had a stoma...

Fun Poetry.

COUSINS, BERNARD L. · 1981 · Chilton Books

£4.00 (€4.79 | $5.28 | ¥844)

Sudbury: Privately Published, 1981. 0. Bernard Cousins came to Sudbury in 1959 and trained as a Male Nurse in caring for the elderly at Walnuttree Hospital. His poems are based on funny everyday happenings. Pp.24, inscribed by the author to inside front cover. Cream shiny card...

Cage & Wing.

KENDON, FRANK. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1947. 0. 1st edition. Although slightly altered for publication this was awarded the Seatonian Prize for 1946 for a poem on the subject "Freedom to Worship". Pp.18. Grey card covers, minor creasing to corners. VG.

Jacob & Thomas: Darkness.

KENDON, FRANK. · 1950 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1950. 0. 1st edition. "A dialogue in darkness in an Eastern house between two old men, met again after forty years, of whom one is the man who once, when young and rich, asled Christ the question, "what shall I do to inherit eternal life?...

Soundings.

BOYDELL, YVONNE. · 1995 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Privately published, 1995. 0. "The poems in this collection have been selected from original manuscripts held by the author. None has been published previously,but a selection of the earlier poems was reviewed by the writer Monk Gibbon shortly before his death." Pp.47, creasin...

Musings By The Barrow.

DOYLE, MATTHEW. · 1881 · Chilton Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Dublin: M.H.Gill & Son, 1881. 0. Poetry. Pp.344, yellow patterned endpapers, browning to half-title and final leaf, light spotting to closed page edges occasionally encroaching on to edge of margins. Dark green cloth with gilt title to spine. A scarce book. VG.

Songs and Rhymes.

RICHARDS, C. · 1935 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: James Nisbet & Co,1935. 0. An anthology of songs and rhymes for children. Pp.22, black & white illustrations (some by Helen Jacobs) throughout. Red black and cream decorated card covers with minor corner creasing. VG.

The Art of the Gawain-Poet.

DAVENPORT, W.A. · 1978 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: University of London/Athlone Press, 1978. 048512050X. 1st edition. "Starting from the assumption that "Pearl, Purity, Patience" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" are by one poet, W.A.Davenport seeks to define the nature of his art..Many of the problems experienced ...

The Testaments of Francois Villon. (Translated by John Heron Lepper).

LEPPER, JOHN HERON. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: The Casanova Society, 1924. 0. Privately printed for subscribers, a limited edition of 775 copies of which 750 are for sale. This copy is numbered 545. 25.5cms x 19cms. Pp.145, frontispiece facsimile of P.Levet's edition of 1489, rough cut page edges with some pages un...