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Sacheverell Sitwell - Splendous And Miseries

Bradford, Sarah · 1994 · Eastleach Books

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,372)

Sinclair Stevenson 1994 1st edition. Paperback, G+. x+486pp, 16pp b/w plates, index, pages a little tanned & upper cover creased. Biography of Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet, [ 1897 - 1988 ] the English poet & writer, particularly on baroque architecture, who was …

Geoffrey Chaucher of England

Marchette Chute · 1962 · West Wessex Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Book Good No Jacket 1st Paperback Four Square Books London 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 279pp. A timeless, easy to read book about a great poet and his 14th century England. A nice clean copy, some faint spotting on the ouside edges, that`s all.

More Poems

A.E.Housman · 1936 · West Wessex Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

Book Illustrated Good Good First Edition Jonathan Cape London 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 71pp with frontis of the poet. A very little foxing here and there, slight colour loss to dark blue cloth, dj a little soiled with a couple of small tears to top of spine.. Not price clipped,…

JAIA or Just as I am

CUMBERLEGE, Marcus · 2005 · Marc Van de Wiele Antiquariaat

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Brugge Meyfroodt 2005 69 pp. The Anglo-Belgian poet Marcus Cumberlege has lived for 33 years in Bruges, where he has published numerous collections in English and Dutch. He writes simply and passionately about his private world, with flashes of British humour and oriental insigh…

Saltaire and its Founder

HOLROYD Abraham · 1873 · Inch's Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

(Saltaire, 1873, 3rd ed), Bradford/Shipley, Piroisms Press/ Falcon Books facsimile, 2000 xvi (mainly an interesting new introduction on Holroyd and Salt), 91pp, illustrations. Wraps. 16x10. Fine. Holroyd was a local poet and writer. His account is somewhat sycophantic, but give…

Collected Sonnets

St. Vincent Millay, Edna · 1970 · Imago Press

CA$10.00 (€6.36 | $7.01 | £5.30 | ¥1,119)

New York, Harper & Row, Perennial, 1970. Perfect binding, 166 pp. 4.25"-7.25". Fine. 161 Shakespearian sonnets in iambic pentameter giving public voice to intimate experiences. All set in bold type on yellowing paper; pretty flowers and a butterfly over a page of music sheet for…

Vita Di Giacomo Leopardi

Ferretti, Giovanni · 1940 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Bologna, Zanichelli Editore, 1940. Softcover. Cream wraps with bw illustration and red lettering; 406 pp. with no illustrations. Text in Italian; the life of poet Giacomo Leopardi. Good; mostly clean and tight but with fore edge sunning to pages and wear and sunning to dj.

Names of Horses

Hall, Donald · 1979 · Clayton Fine Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Very Good First Edition Poetry Center, University of Arizona Tucson 0 Very good. One sheet folded. Partial horizontal crease and shadow from a now-missing mailing label, otherwise as issued with a sticker clasp. Printed as part of an announcement Hall's appearance as a Visiting …

An Old War

Roy Fuller · 1974 · Dodman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Edinburgh, The Tragara Press, 1st Edition, From an edition of 95 copies. Bookplate of poet Ann Ridler to inner flap. In VG order throughout. Plain grey card covers with black titling to front. 8vo. Unpaginated., Very Good, Very Good, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall, 0

Events & Celebrations

R G Vliet · 1967 · Dodman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, The Bodley Head, 1st Edition, First UK edition of debut collection from this "exceptionally interesting new poet". All in VG+, clean crisp and bright order throughout. No inscriptions. Smart grey boards with red decoration and tilting. VG+ unclipped d/j. 8vo. viii, 113pp…

EGGS AND BAKER.

Masefield, John, · 1936 · A Book for all Reasons

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Heinemann, London, 1936, 1st edn., 298pp, a novel by the by then Poet Laureate, slight rubbing to cloth at extrems., 3 line ink inscr. front free endpaper, light foxing prelims and fore-edge, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems. chipped at spine ends (repaired), very good in a good…

Roman Portraits

Moses Stephen Slaughter · 1925 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1925. 128p. A hardcover book in good condition. Ex-library: label on endpaper; stamp on title page and page edges. Otherwise clean and tight. Lucretius-The Poet of Science; Virgil - An Interpretation; Horace - An Appreciation; Cicero - His Criti…

Atlantis, an Autoanthropology

Tarn, Nathaniel · 2022 · Mare Booksellers

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Durham, Duke University Press, 2022. Trade Paperback. 299 pp. With a few photos. A memoir of sorts, drawing on the author's experience as an anthropologist to reflect on his travels and career as a poet by treating himself as an anthropological subject. VERY GOOD+ condition. Lig…

Without: poems.

Hall, Donald, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

NY, Houghton Mifflin, (1998). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Hall's tribute to his wife poet Jane Kenyon who had recently died. Includes tribute from his publisher listing some Hall. poems on the third anniversary of her death "He gave her a ring of pinnk tourmaline with nine small diamo…

John Donne: man of flesh and spirit.

Edwards, David L., · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Grand Rapids, Eerdmans, (2001). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Though best known as a poet of love, he was also a peerless writer of the spiritual journey, a stalwart churchman, and a. great preacher. Yes he was a man battered by sex and God.

Leonard Cohen: In His Own Words

Devlin, Jim (Leonard Cohen) · 1998 · Inno Dubelaar Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York, New York, U.S.A. Omnibus Press, 1998. 1st. Paperback. 0711968780. First printing. 96 pp. many photos, interviews, etc. octavo softcover. Nearly Fine copy with light wear to tips, very light creasing to covers. Uncommon and interesting reference on the poet/singer/songw…

Georg Büchner und der Dandysmus.

Gunkel, Richard. · 1953 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Utrecht: Kemink & Zoon n.v.,1953. Paperback. vii, 108 pp. Ex-library copy. Ticket on spine, stamp on title.Thesis, University of Utrecht. List of theses included. With notes, bibliography and name-/subject index. Text in German. Concerning the German poet Georg Büchner, contemp…

W.H. Auden: A Biography

CARPENTER, HUMPHREY · 1981 · Neale Williams Antiquarian Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1981. Hardcover. Book, 8vo. xvi, 495 pp. (+ 24 pp. plates). Black boards with silver to spine. Unclipped pictorial dustjacket. An nice copy of Carpenter's acclaimed biography of the most influential poet of his generation. Very Good/Very Good.

Þættir: ljóð [Scenes: Poetry] [Cover Title: Ljóðaþættir]

Þorsteinsson, Þorsteinn Þ. [Thorsteinsson, Thorsteinn, Th.] (1879-1955) · 1918 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

Winnipeg, Manitoba Hecla Press, Limited First Edition, First Printing pp. 91, [1], one errata leaf. 12mo., measuring 18 cm. Bound in thick, textured, cream paper boards with title appearing in black (housed within elaborate borders) on the front board on original paper pastedown…

Harrison&Apos;S Description of England in Shakespeare&Apos;S Youth: Being the Second and Third Books of His Description of Britaine and England.

Frederick J. Furnivall (ed.) · 1877 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

London, N. Trubner and Co. for the New Shakspere Society , 1877-1881. Leather. A copiously illustrated and leather-bound copy of Furnivall's three part edition of Williams Harrison's 'Description of England', the second and third books of his 'Descriptio…