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The Bending Sickle

Bullett, Gerald · 1938 · Godley Books

£7.25 (€8.69 | $9.58 | ¥1,530)

J. M. Dent and Co Ltd Stamp 'Colonial Edition' to front end paper and half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, rubbing/nicks to spine ends, dusty page edges and no bumping to…

The Black River

Christian Karlson Stead · 2007 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Auckland University Press 2007 Paperback 78 The "black river" of mortality is a constant presence in this latest collection by critically acclaimed poet C. K. Stead. Written within the last 18 months, these poignant poems vividly explore the poet's feeling of frailty following a…

The Secret Vanguard

INNES, MICHAEL · 1968 · Kalamos Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

New York, Berkely Medallion. 1968, First Thus. Pbk. Book, Neat tight vintage copy. Successful minor poet, Philip Ploss, lives a peaceful existence in ideal surroundings, until his life is upset when he hears verses erroneously quoted as his own. Soon afterwards he is found dead …

THE YELLOW DRESS.

Williams, Ursula Vaughan. · 1984 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Kensal Press, Buckinghamshire 1984. 1st Ed. [iv] + 190pp. From the library of Jerrold Northrop Moore, some light age toning, good in d/w. Author’s Presentation Copy, inscribed - ‘Jerry with love from Ursula.’With ALS from the Author loosely inserted.‘Joan Ursula Penton Vaugha…

The Golden Stag

William Jeffrey · 1932 · Dodman Books

£32.50 (€38.96 | $42.94 | ¥6,856)

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1st Edition, Well-regarded long-form poem from noted Scots poet and journalist Jeffrey. Review copy with publisher's announcement and review slip laid in. All in VG, crisp, clean and bright internal order with rough-cut pages. Attractive geometrically pa…

The Burning Cactus

Stephen Spender · 1936 · Dodman Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, Faber And Faber, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, First printing of Spender's collection of five short stories. All in VG+, clean and bright internal order. Ownership stamp of James Laughlin, noted poet and publisher, of Norfolk, Connecticut, faintly to fep. A little edgewear …

The Luke Poems

Paul Carroll · 1971 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Chicago, Big Table Publishing Company, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 60p. INSCRIBED BY THE POET. A hardcover book in fine condition with a near-fine dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is fully intact, but has a sunfaded spine. Inscribed on the …

The Single Hound.

Sarton, May, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Norton, (1991). 1st Norton PB. VG PB. Story of two poets, one an elderly Belgian woman known to the world as Jean Latour, the other a young Englishman. When the. young poet finds his life and art broken up by his love for an older, married woman, he turns to the poems of Lat…

The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1926-1927

ANON · 1928 · Castle Hill Books

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)

Hon Soc of Cymmrodorion, 1928. . Hardcover. . Session 1926-1927, xvi + 200pp, ex ref lib, smartly rebound in green cloth, original paper covers bound in at end . Biography of David Samwell (1751-1798) , by William Ll. Davies. Samwell was surgeon on the 'Discovery' , a London-Wel…

The Gate and Other Poems

C. Day Lewis · 1962 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Jonathan Cape , 1962. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this pleasing poetical collection, from Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis. First edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Comprising a unique selection of poems, including 'Requi…

PRIMER Of The NOVEL

McHugh, Vincent. [Ferril, Tom. 1896 - 1988] · 1950 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$49.50 (€44.91 | £37.47 | ¥7,905)

New York: Random House, 1950. 1st edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy. Linen cloth binding. Black dust jacket. xv, [1], 308 pp. 8vo. "For writers and students of writing, and for the reader who wishes to know more about what the novelist sets out to do and how he does it." - dj…

Ezra Pound: the solitary volcano.

Tytell, John, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Anchor, 1987. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. The emotional truths & psychological drama that formed this complex & controversial American poet.

The Weald Of Youth

Sassoon, Siegfried · 1986 · Eastleach Books

£2.50 (€3.00 | $3.30 | ¥527)

Faber & Faber 1986 reprint. Paperback, VG. 278pp, page margins a little tanned & covers yellowed. The second volume of the author's autobiography, a true account, rather than the earlier 'Sherston' trilogy. Siegfried Loraine Sassoon [ 1886 - 1967 ] English war poet and writer.

On the Mown Grass

Lord, May · 1961 · Valley Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Alan Swallow 48pp. $2.00 dust jacket price. Inscribed warmly by the author to fellow poet on front endpaper, dated 12/28/61 Small publisher's card laid-in. Photos sent on request. First Edition Fine- Denver, CO Fine 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

The Achievements Of Memory

Guest, Harry · 1974 · Eastleach Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

The Sceptre Press, Rushden 1974 1st edition. Card wrappers, VG. 8pp, copy 133 of a total print run of 150). wrappers unevenly faded, otherwise a fine copy. A single poem by Harry Guest [ 1932 - 2021) the British poet born in Wales.

The Oxford Browning: The Poems of Robert Browning

Robert Browning · 1926 · Rooke Books

£36.00 (€43.15 | $47.56 | ¥7,595)

London, Oxford University Press; Hodder & Stoughton, [1926]. Cloth. A scarce copy of this collection of poems by Robert Browning, embellished with colour plates. Undated copy, but probably published 1926, in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to front f…

The Works of Hesiod, Translated from the Greek

Hesiod; Thomas Cooke [trans.] · 1811 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Stanhope Press; Whittingham; Suttaby, Evance, 1811 . Leather. Illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume, this is a charming example of Thomas Cooke's scarce but important translation of the works of Ancient Greek poet Hesiod. An early 19th century edition of a …

The Breath of Once Live Things in the Field with Poe

Larry Eigner · 1968 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1968 . First edition. Paperback. A scarce limited edition work of poetry by celebrated Black Mountain School poet Larry Eigner, signed by Eigner himself. Number 162 of 250 numbered copies sewn in paper wraps, signed by Eigner himself in his typi…

Victorious Troy or the Hurrying Angel

John Masefield · 1935 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London , William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. Cloth. A first edition of this novel by John Masefield. John Edward Masefield, OM (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. He is remembered as the…

The English Garden: A Poem: Book the Fourth

Mason, William · 1781 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$225.00 (€204.14 | £170.31 | ¥35,930)

York, A. Ward, 1781. Hardcover. Marble boards, 2 preliminary leaves, 54 pp, no illustrations. General title page bound in before title-page: The English garden: a poem. In four books, followed by title page. "William Mason (12 February 1724 – 7 April 1797) was an English poet, d…