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HOOD, Thomas. Poetical Works. Frederick Warne, [ca. 1870]. Contemporary calf gilt; and ca. 30 others, all small 8vo, 12mo and 16mo, in cloth, calf, morocco, or vellum bindings. (30+) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 2 | THOMPSON, Francis. Collected Poetry. Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. One of 100 copies, signed by publisher and printer, with 10pp. facsimile and proof portrait signed by H. Macbeth-Raeburn. 4to, publisher's leather, t.e.g., chipped; and over 30 other poetical works, collected poems &c. (2 boxes) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 3 | JONSON, Ben. The Poems, ed. Bernard Newdigate. Portrait. Shakespeare Head Press, 1936. One of 750 copies. Cloth; HENRYSON, Robert. Poems and Fables, ed. H. Harvey Wood. Frontis. Oliver and Boyd, 1933. Cloth; and 19 others, mostly scholarly editions of pre-1800 poetry. (21) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 4 | DRAYTON, Michael. Poems, ed. John Buxton. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953. 2 vols, cloth; four more in the Muses' Library series and 16 others, poetry. (22) £40-60 | Nil |
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| 5 | TAMBIMUTTU. Poetry in Wartime, an anthology. Faber, 1942. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; SYMONS, A.J.A. Anthology of Nineties Verse. Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. First edn. Boards, Beardsley cover design; WAITE, A.E. Poems and Songs of Fairyland. Walter Scott Publishing Co., n.d.. Cloth; and over 30 other poetry anthologies. (2 boxes) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 6 | LAWRENCE, D.H. Pansies. Martin Secker, 1929. First edn. Patterned boards. MASEFIELD, John. Shopping in Oxford. Heinemann, 1941. First edn., one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Cloth; HEWLETT, Maurice. The Song of the Plow. Heinemann, 1916. First edn, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Quarter parchment, boards; and 18 others by W.H. Davies, de la Mare, Abercrombie, C.R. Cammell, W.J. Turner et al. (21) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 7 | RUSSELL (George, 'AE'). Enchantment and other poems. Fountain Press, New York, 1930. First edn, one of 500 numbered copies, this signed by the author on the fly-title. Patterned boards. O'SULLIVAN, Seumas. Poems. Maunsel, Dublin, 1912. First edn. Cloth. TREVELYAN, R.C. Beelzebub and other poems. Hogarth Press, 1935. First edn. Printed boards, cover design by John Banting; and 14 others, poetry. (17) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 8 | CLIFTON, Violet. Charister. Portrait. Hague and Gill, 1938. One of 250 copies. Cloth, dust-wrapper; SPENSER, Edmund. Poems, ed. W.B. Yeats, illustrations by Jessie M. King. Caxton Publishing Co., [ca. 1910]. Cloth; BYRON, George Gordon, Lord. Don Juan, illustrations by John Austen. John Lane, 1926. White buckram, gilt; and 10 others, illustrated or limited edition poetry. (13) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 9 | VAUGHAN, Henry. Poems. Nonesuch Press, 1924. One of 850 numbered copies. Patterned boards; LA FONTAINE, Jean de. Adonis. Colour lithographs by Ru van Rossem. Rodale Press, 1957. Boards, dust-wrapper; CAUSLEY, Charles. Twenty-one Poems. Illustrations by Robert Tilling. Celandine Press, 1986. One of 225 numbered copies. Quarter buckram, marbled boards; CLARE, John. The Toper's Rant, with drawings by Rigby Graham. Brewhouse Press, 1974. One of 46 numbered copies; and 11 others, illustrated or limited edition poetry. (14) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 10 | ALVAREZ, A. Apparition, poems. Paintings by Charles Blackman. University of Queensland Press, 1971. First edn. Folio, hessian boards, dust-wrapper, inscribed by the author; ELIOT, T.S. The Waste Land, a facsimile and transcript of the original drafts. Faber, 1971. First edn. 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; and 6 others, large format poetry. (8) £40-60 | Nil |
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| 11 | HUGHES, TED. Cave Birds, poems, drawings by Leonard Baskin. Faber, 1978. First edn. Oblong 4to, cloth, dust-wrapper; What is the Truth? Drawings by R.J. Lloyd. Faber, 1984. First edn, oblong 4to, boards, dust-wrapper; and 7 others, large format poetry. (9) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 12 | AIKEN, Conrad. Senlin: a biography. Hogarth Press, 1925. First edn, 2nd issue binding. Boards, label; AUDEN, W.H. The Age of Anxiety. Random House, New York, 1947. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 9 other first edns, twentieth century poetry. (11) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 13 | BARKER, George. Poems. Faber, 1935. First edn. Cloth; In Memory of David Archer. Faber, 1973. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper, presentation inscription from the author; and 13 more poetry first edns by George Mackay Brown, Basil Bunting, John Berryman et al., all in dust-wrappers. (15) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 14 | CAUSLEY, Charles. Survivor's Leave. Hand and Flower Press, 1953. First edn. Wrappers; Union Street. Hart-Davis, 1957. First edn. Patterned boards, dust-wrapper, Edwin Muir's copy with his signature; Johnny Alleluia. Hart-Davis, 1961. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 16 other poetry first edns, most in dust-wrappers. (19) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 15 | DAY LEWIS, Cecil. A Time to Dance and other poems. Hogarth Press, 1935. First edn. Cloth. DUNCAN, Robert. Caesar's Gate, paste-ups by Jess. Sand Dollar, 1972. First edn., one of 600 copies in cloth, dust-wrapper; and 16 other poetry first edns by Day Lewis, Douglas Dunn, Dunsany, Ed Dorn, Patric Dickinson, Durrell, Davie and Enright. (18) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 16 | GUNN, Tom. My Sad Captains. Faber, 1962. Cloth, dust-wrapper, Julian Barnes' copy with his 1965 signature; HUGHES, Ted. Moortown. Faber, 1979. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper. And 9 other poetry first edns by Gunn and Hughes. (11) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 17 | FENTON, James. Children in Exile. Salamander Press, Edinburgh, 1983. First edn. Boards. FULLER, Roy. Counterparts, Verschoyle, 1954. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 11 other poetry first edns by Fenton, Roy Fuller, Eberhart, Roy Fisher, John Fuller and others. (13) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 18 | GASCOYNE, David. A Vagrant and other poems. John Lehmann, 1950. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper. GRAVES, Robert, at al. Work in Hand. Hogarth Press, 1942. First edn. Cloth, dust-wrapper; and 14 other poetry first edns. (16) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 19 | MOTION, Andrew. Goodnestone, a sequence. Workshop Press, 1972. First edn. Wrappers: 'Andrew Motion is 19, a first-year undergraduate at Oxford'; LOGUE, Christopher. Twelve Cards. Lorrimer, nd. First edn. Loose in card folder as issued, with presentation inscription from the author; and 45 other poetry first edns in wrappers, many limited or signed. (47) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 20 | PLATH, Sylvia, ed. American Poetry Now. Critical Quarterly, nd. Wrappers; FULLER, Roy. As from the Thirties. Tragara Press, 1983. One of 135 numbered copies. Wrappers, label; and a quantity of other pamphlet poetry and little magazines. (Box) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 21 | HASSALL, Christopher. The Parcel. Privately printed for Christopher Hassall and Geoffrey Keynes by Brooke Crutchley, Cambridge, 1957. First edn., one of 75 copies. Quarter buckram, marbled boards, presentation inscription from the author to Christopher and Lucy Cornford; and 8 other poetry first edns by Hassall, Hamburger et al. (10) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 22 | KRISHNAMURTI, J. The Search. Star Publishing Trust, Holland, 1927. First edn. Boards; The Pool of Wisdom…and three poems. Star Publishing Trust, Holland, 1928. First edn. Cloth; HEATH-STUBBS, John. Beauty and the Beast. Routledge, 1945. First edn. Boards; and 13 other poetry first edns by Heath-Stubbs, Kinsella, Neruda et al. (16) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 23 | LOGUE, Christopher. Wand and Quadrant. Collection Merlin, Paris, 1953. First edn, one of 600 copies. Printed wrappers; and 13 other poetry first edns by Patten, Plomer, Peter Levi, James Laughlin et al. (14) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 24 | POTOCKI of MONTALK, COUNT Geoffrey Vladislas. Wild Oats. Christchurch NZ, 1927. First edn, one of 200 copies. Sm 4to, string-bound in limp morocco, title partly defective; Social Climbers in Bloomsbury, done from the life. Right Review, 1939. First edn. Printed wrappers; 6 more by Potocki, various issues of his magazine 'Right Review' and 11 other poetry first edns. (20+) £80-120 | Nil |
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| 25 | PROKOSCH, Frederick. Some poems of Friedrich Holderlin. New Directions, Norfolk, Ct, 1943. First edn. Printed boards; PRINCE, F.T. Poems. Faber, 1938. First edn. Cloth, pencilled note 'Review Copy for Stephen Spender'; and 17 other poetry first edns. (19) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 26 | RYLANDS, George. College Verse. Stourton Press, 1989. One of 150 copies. Patterned wrappers, label, signed by the author with an additional presentation inscription signed 'Dadie;' RIDLER, Anne. The Jesse Tree. S.l., n.d. Wrappers, inscribed by the author; and other poetry, mostly pamphlets and paperbacks. (30+) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 27 | SILKIN (John). The Principle of Water. Carcanet Press, Cheadle, 1974. First edn. Boards, signed by the author; and 20 other poetry first edns by Silkin, Scannell, Spender, Sassoon, Sillitoe et al. (21) £50-100 | Nil |
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| 28 | THOMAS, R.S. The Bread of Truth. Hart-Davis, 1963. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 16 other poetry first edns by Thomas, Tessimond, Trypanis, Andrew Young et al. (17) £50-80 | Nil |
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| 29 | BEER, Patricia. Loss of the Magyar and other poems. Longman, 1959. First edn. Cloth; BISHOP, Elizabeth. Selected Poems. Chatto & Windus, 1967. First edn. Boards, dust-wrapper; and 12 other poetry first edns. (14) £50-80 | Nil |
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CORNFORD, FRANCES. Death & the Princess. Frontispiece. Bowes & Bowes, Cambridge, 1912. First edn. Printed wrappers; MACAULAY, Rose. The Two Blind Countries. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1914. First edn. Cloth, label; MEW, Charlotte. The Rambling Sailor. Portrait. Poetry Bookshop, 1929. First edn. Printed boards, dust-wrapper; and 6 other poetry first edns. (9) £50-100 |
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