Poesia

Poems.

EDWARD DOWDEN. · 1876 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Henry S. King & Co., London, 1st Edition, First edition. 8vo. viii, 212pp. Green cloth with bevelled edges, lettered and multi-ruled in gold at the spine, and with gilt lettering and decoration to the upper board, alongside a circular decorative design. A touch of wear to the ...

The Poems of William Habington. Edited with an introduction and commentary by Kenneth Allott.

WILLIAM HABINGTON. · 1948 · Clearwater Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

The University of Liverpool Press and Hodder & Stoughton, 'Liverpool English Texts & Studies' series, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. lxviii, 208pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With a correspondence reproduction frontispiece and several...

A Draft of Cantos XXXI-XLI.

EZRA POUND. · 1935 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First English Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 62pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Free endpapers lightly spotted, and with the name of a former owner inked to the base of the front free endpaper. Very ...

The Narrow Place. Poems.

EDWIN MUIR. · 1943 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 49pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The cloth lifting a little in one small area of the upper board. Contemporary former owner details inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and a tiny dea...

The Collected Poems of Richard Spender.

RICHARD SPENDER. · 1944 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. viii,77pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Photographic portrait frontispiece. The cloth lightly marked and rubbed in places, and a contemporary former owner name and date inked to the...

A Northern Spring. Poems. (SIGNED)

FRANK ORMSBY. · 1986 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Secker & Warburg, London and The Gallery Press, Dublin, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), The paperback issue of the first edition, this being the Irish (Gallery Press) issue. This copy signed by the author on the title page with his printed name struck-through, and dated the ...

Portobello Sonnets. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

HARRY CLIFTON. · 2014 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Tuskar Rock Press, Dublin, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), The deluxe issue of the first edition, printed by the Evergreen Press on Magnami paper and limited to 100 copies numbered copies (this being #19), signed by the author on the title page with his printed name struck-t...

The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. Complete in three volumes comprising 'Spenser's Minor Poems' and 'Spenser's Faerie Queene'.

EDMUND SPENSER. · 1961 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Oxford University Press, London 1961 and 1970., Individual volumes as follows: 'Spenser's Faerie Queene' (1961). Edited, with an introduction by J. C. Smith. A lithographical reprint from the sheets of the 1909 first edition, complete in two volumes ('Volume 1: Books I-III', '...

Darwin. A Life in Poems. (SIGNED)

RUTH PADEL. · 2009 · Clearwater Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page with her printed name struck-through. 8vo. xviii, 141pp. Green boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine non-price-clippe...

The Book of Juniper. New poems by Tom Paulin, accompanied by ten full-page drawings by Noel Conner.

TOM PAULIN AND NOEL CONNOR. · 1981 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Landscape 8vo. [24pp] stapled into glossy lettered and decorated wrappers (not issued in casebound format). In fine state. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]., Fine

The Loosening and Other Poems. (INSCRIBED TO EDITH SITWELL)

RONALD BOTTRALL. [Edith Sitwell]. · 1931 · Clearwater Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Gordon Fraser, The Minority Press, Cambridge, 1st Edition, Inscribed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to Edith Sitwell ("in appreciation") and dated several years after publication. Slim 8vo. ...

The New British Poets. An Anthology. Edited, with a lengthy introduction by Kenneth Rexroth.

ANTHOLOGY. · 1949 · Clearwater Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

New Directions, New York [1949]., 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xxxviii, 312pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. A very good copy in somewhat toned non-price-clipped dust wrapper, chipped at the spine ends with some internal...

Water Over Stone. Poems. (LIMITED EDITION)

FRANCES HOROVITZ. · 1980 · Clearwater Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Enitharmon Press, London, 1st Edition, The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 40 numbered copies printed on Glastonbury Antique and specially bound (this being #29). Slim 8vo. 48pp. Cloth-backed boards with marbled paper sides, gilt lettered and ruled. A virtually f...

Sea Asters. Poems. With drawings by Sarah Longley. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

MICHAEL LONGLEY. · 2015 · Clearwater Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Andrew J. Moorhouse, Rochdale, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition, designed and printed at the Evergreen Press on Zerkall paper and limited to 75 numbered copies signed by the author and artist (this being #21). Tall slim 8vo. Unpaginated [30pp]. Quarter-leather w...

The Stairwell. Poems.

MICHAEL LONGLEY. · 2014 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Cape Poetry, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 69pp. Card wrappers with French flaps (not issued in casebound format bar a signed limited edition). The rear wrapper lightly dust soiled, else a fine copy., Near Fine

Out of the Cold. Drawings and Poems for Christmas. (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION)

MICHAEL LONGLEY AND SARAH LONGLEY. · 1999 · Clearwater Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Abbey Press, County Down, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First edition, one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author and artist (from a total edition of 2000 copies). Slim 8vo. 63pp. Unlettered black cloth. A fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Fourteen poe...

Isaac Rosenberg. The Making of a Great War Poet. A New Life.

ISAAC ROSENBERG. Jean Moorcroft Wilson. · 2007 · Clearwater Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. [vi], 468pp. Brown boards lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with forty-two monochrome photographs and colour reproductions. A tiny scattering of spotting to the top edge, else a fine copy...

The Mortal Man. Poems.

KIERON WINN. · 2016 · Clearwater Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Howtown Press, Oxford, Reprint, issued a year after the original edition. Slim 8vo. 39pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. Thirty-seven poems, the author's debut collection., Fine, Fine

The Cut of the Light. Poems 1965-2005. (SIGNED)

JEREMY HOOKER. · 2006 · Clearwater Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Enitharmon Press, London, 1st Edition, Signed by Author(s), First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by the author on the title page with his printed name struck-through, and additionally inscribed beneath. 8vo. 373pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine with bl...

Station Island. Poems.

SEAMUS HEANEY. · 1984 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing), seemingly the second issue binding of black cloth (there was also a fugitive issue bound in grey cloth). 8vo. 123pp. Issued without a front free endpaper (the half-title serving as such). A slim strip of loss to the f...