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John
Betjeman's Collected Poems - enlarged edition |
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Chester
Poets 10 - an anthology of work by the Chester Poets |
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| Anonymous:
You and I True Friends |
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Poems
of Ella Wheeler Wilcox with pencil drawings by Alice Ross |
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Abraham,
Mrs Ashley P F'word by Hugh Walpole: Poems
of Lakeland - an anthology |
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Arlott,
John (selected and introduced by): The Coloured
Counties - poems of place in England and Wales |
£15.00 |
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| Barker,
Cicely Mary: Flower Fairies of the Summer
Blackie no date small 8vo pb 51pp, v v min wr to edges of cvrs, prev owner's name to inside fr cvr o/w VG+ 70 gms (Order reference 14072). |
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Barker, Cicely
Mary: The Rhyming Rainbow
Blackie and Son 1977 small 8vo, no d/w, glazed pictorial boards, rbs + sl wr to bds o/w VG+ 90 gms (Order reference 14071). |
£14.00 |
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| Benson,
Gerard; Chernaik, Judith & Herbert, Cicely (eds): Poems
on the Underground - illustrated edition Cassell 1st in this edition 8vo F/F. D/w in library-type protective cvr, prev owner's name + address sticker to fep 510 gms (Order reference 9484). |
£7.00 |
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| Bridges, Robert:
The Testament of Beauty OUP rep 1945 ex school lib, some lib stmps, marbled bds, top of sp grubby, Dewey No. to btm of sp, chps, trs + other dmge to d/w, grubby VG-/G 392 gms (Order reference 828). |
£6.00 |
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| Cannon,
Hal (ed + intro by): Cowboy Poetry - a gathering
Gibbs M Smith 1985 small 8vo pb 201pp VG++ 165 gms (Order reference 13975). |
£2.00 |
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| Carleton,
Will: City Legends Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1889 fr hnge str, wr to btm of bds, cnrs + Head + tail of sp, stmped + printed dec cvr, gold titling, rems of plate to fr pastedown 734 gms (Order reference 854). |
£8.00 |
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Carr,
Samuel (ed): Country Verse
Chancellor Press 1st 1979 8vo, v min bmps to bds o/w VG++/VG++ 510 gms (Order reference 7899). The verse which more than any other is characteristic of English poetry is country verse. The painting which is the most representative of the English pictorial genius is landscape painting. In this collection the poetry and the painting of the countryside are combined in such a way that each illuminates the other. ThusJohn Clare's 'Summer Evening' is complemented by the Lucas/Constable mezzotint of the same theme; Wordsworth's 'To the Skylark' is juxtaposed with a Samuel Palmer print; Philip Larkin's and John Crorne's Trees appear alongside one another; the Woodland poems of Bloomfield, Meredith and Yeats have their echo in the pictures ofCrome, Gainsborough and Middleton. The span covered by the book is from the sixteenth century to the present day. At one end are Milton, Shakespeare, Herrick and Henry King, at the other Ted Hughes, Norman Nicholson,John Betjeman and George Barker. Similarly with the artists, the range is from Richard Wilson,]. M. W. Turner, Francis Towne and]. S. Cotman to Spencer Gore, Stanley Spencer, Robert Bevan and Graham Sutherland. In between these limits the familiar and the little known alternate in the shape, for example, of Cowper and Dyer, Coleridge and Bernard Barton, George Crabbe and Henry Ellison; and, pictorially, in terms of De Wint, Birket Foster and Ford Maddox Brown on the one hand, and John William Inchbold, Alfred Priest and George William Mote on the other. An anthology which is delightful for its own sake has also a certain importance for the way in which it emphasises an affinity for the countryside shared by English poets and English painters. |
£8.00
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| Carr, Samuel
(ed) Preface by John Betjeman: Hymns as Poetry
B T Batsford 1st 1980 8vo, dulling to edges of bds, min spotting to btm edges of pp, short tr to d/w o/w VG+/VG+ 355 gms Order reference 8984). |
£6.00 |
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| Coleridge,
S T: The Poetical Works of S T Coleridge Frederick Warne no date (c 1890) small 4to, all edges gilt, marbled eps + pastedowns, v min wr + v sl abrasion to bds o/w VG+ 1010 gms (Order reference 12848). |
£8.00 |
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| Coles, Gladys
Mary: The Glass Island Duckworth 1st 1992 8vo pb 60pp, v min wr to edges of cvrs o/w VG+ 155 gms (Order reference 5345). |
£4.00 |
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| Crosswait,
Helen G Moorhouse: Reflections of a Paleface
from the Rosebud Paleface Press 1992 8vo pb 66pp, gift inscr by author to fr cvr verso VG++ 115 gms (Order reference 10276). |
£6.00 |
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| Dobson,
Bob: Lancashire Lingo Lines Landy Publishing 1999 square format 4to pb 60pp, foredge sl grubby o/w VG++ 175 gms (Order reference 11388). |
£5.00 |
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| Eliot,
T S: East Coker Faber & Faber 2nd imp 1940 8vo, card wraps, wr to edges of wraps + sl grubby o/w VG+ 55 gms (Order reference 6405). |
£70.00 |
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| Ellis, Ron:
Diary of a Discotheque - a selection of poems 1970 -78 Nirvana Books 1st 1978 8vo pb 48pp VG++. Dedicatory author's signature on title p. 90 gms (Order reference 6456). |
£5.00 |
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| Fitzgerald,
Edward: The Illustrated Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Caxton Editions 1st 2001 4to, glazed pictorial boards in a similar d/w, v slight wr + 1 short tr to d/w o/w F/VG++ 730 gms (Order reference 14051). |
£15.00 |
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| Fitzgerald,
Edward Illustrated by Willy Pogany: Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam Harrap rep 1985 4to pb, v min wr to edges of cvrs o/w VG++ 310 gms (Order reference 13407). |
£4.00 |
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| Fitzgerald,
Edward Illustrations by Rene Bull: Rubaiyat
of Omar Khayyam Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald Illustrated
in colour and line by Rene Bull Hodder & Stoughton No. 43 of a limited edition of 250. This copy is signed by Rene Bull. Vellum bound boards with blue and gold blocked decoration. Each page is decorated with elaborate border designs and there are 10 tipped-in colour plates and numerous other small colour plates pasted into frames. The book is missing its clasp and the rear cover is loose from the spine but still attached and can be easily repaired. Pages are all secured. There are some minor stains to the spine but the gilt and blue decoration to the front cover is unstained. Inside, the book is in excellent condition; all the vivid prints are intact and have their original tissue guards. The signature of the artist and the edition number are clear and intact. Precedes first 1913 trade edition. Extremely scarce. (Order reference 14400). |
£1200.00 |
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| Fitzgerald,
Edward Paintings and designs by Otway McCannell: The
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Ward Lock 6th Imp 1965 8vo, red faux leather cvrs with gold titling + device to fr bd + gold titling to spine VG++ 115 gms (Order reference 14668). |
£10.00 |
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| Gibbs,
C Armstrong Illustrated by Wm H Waddington:
Lakeland Limericks Titus Wilson 2nd edn April 1942 8vo, thick card cvrs with cloth spine inpaper d/w. Sl wr + sl crsing to slightly grubby d/w o/w VG++/VG+ 120 gms (Order reference 11231). |
£15.00 |
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| Goldsmith,
Oliver: Cusack's Edition of 'The Traveller'
City of London Book Depot 1899 8vo, paper-cvred bds with cloth spine, rubs, wr + sl staining to cvrs, some underlining + marginalia, name to fep o/w VG+ 165 gms (Order reference 14681). |
£6.00 |
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Graf,
Susan Johnston: W B Yeats - Twentieth Century
Magus - an in-depth study of Yeats' esoteric practices & beliefs, including
excerpts from his magical diaries Samuel Weiser 1st 2000 8vo paperback 224pp, gift inscription to inside fr cvr, slight sunning to spine o/w VG++ 330 gms (Order reference 14836). Just as Yeats the poet gives the clearest expression of his magical ideas, so it is the literary scholar who best introduces us to Yeats's texts—and Susan Johnston Graf is a model literary scholar: deeply versed in Yeats's work, she also possesses both a clear insight into his esoteric ideas and a rare sympathy with them. Concentrating on A Vision, Yeats's most baffling work, and on its unjustly neglected and equally enigmatic precursor, Per Amica Silentia Lunae, Graf traces the development of Yeats's magical world-view and analyzes its essential concepts. She introduces us to the key symbols of the Rose, the Mask, and the Tower; to the idea of the creative tension between self and anti-self, to the empowering daimon and to the crucial role of sexuality in both the theory and practice of Yeats's magic. Exploring Yeats's mind in a fascinating and original way, Graf presents us with the real Demon est Deus Inversus: Yeats as a fusion of magician and poet, a true genius and a true Twentieth-Century Magus. —R. A. Gilbert, antiquarian bookseller and esoteric scholar W. B. Yeats—Twentieth-Century Magus is a comprehensive study of his magical practices and beliefs. Yeats moved through many different phases of spiritual development, believing that his life was an intellectual, spiritual, and artistic quest—a quest greatly influenced by Celtic lore, Theosophy, Golden Dawn ceremonial magic, Swedenborg's metaphysics, the works of Jacob Boehme and Neo-Platonism. For Yeats, writing poetry was an act of divine possession, and he believed that a perfected soul was the source of his inspiration, visiting him during times of superconscious awareness. Susan Johnston Graf meticulously documents and provides evidence that Yeats's poetry is a brilliant, lyric narrative of reality captured through the mind of a practicing magician working in the Western Tradition. |
£12.50 |
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| Herbert,
A P Illustrated by Anna K Zinkeisen: Witty
Ditties of the Twenties and the story of Plane Jane Past Times 1997 8vo, glazed pictorial boards F+ 205 gms (Order reference 12374). |
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| Hughes,
Ted Paintings by R J Lloyd: The Cat and the
Cuckoo Sunstone Press 1st 1987 16mo, glazed pictorial boards M 130 gms (Order reference 10676). |
£10.00 |
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| Kiely,
Benedict: Yeat's Ireland Tiger Books nd sm crse to top fr edge of d/w, pp cockled VG+/VG (Order reference 267). |
£5.00 |
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| Kipling, Rudyard:
The Seven Seas Vol I Methuen & Co. 26th edn 1914 8vo, blue bds with gold titling to spine, v v min dulling to bds o/w VG+ 280 gms (Order reference 12967). |
£5.00 |
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| Kipling,
Rudyard: The Seven Seas Vol II Methuen & Co. 26th edn 1914 8vo, blue bds, gold titling to spine, v v min dulling to bds, pencil signature + date to fep o/w VG+ 280 gms (Order reference 12966). |
£5.00 |
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| Kipling, Rudyard:
The Five Nations Methuen & Co. 12th edn 1913 8vo, red calf bds with gold titling to spine and gold elephants head + swastika in roundel to front bd, v min wr + sl dulling to bds o/w VG+ 200 gms (Order reference 12952). |
£6.00 |
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| Kipling,
Rudyard: Songs from Books Macmillan & Co. 1925 8vo, red calf cvred bds with black + gold stamped decoration to spine + fr bd, gold titling to spine, wr to bd edges + spine o/w VG 190 gms (Order reference 12961). |
£5.00 |
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| Kipling, Rudyard:
The Five Nations Methuen & Co. 25th edn 1920 8vo, blue bds with gold titling to spine and gold elephants head + swastika in roundel to front bd, sl wr to bds o/w VG+ 200 gms (Order reference 12953). |
£5.00 |
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| Kipling,
Rudyard: Departmental Ditties and Other Verses
Methuen & Co. 34th edn 1918 8vo, red calf bds with gold titling to spine and gold elephants head + swastika in roundel to front bd, v min wr to bd edges + small pce mssg from hd of spine o/w VG+ 165 gms (Order reference 12956). |
£5.00 |
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| Kipling, Rudyard:
The Seven Seas Methuen & Co. 36th edn 1922 8vo, red calf bds with gold titling to spine and gold elephants head + swastika in roundel to front bd, v min wr to bd edges, tiny pce mssg at hd of spine o/w VG+ 210 gms (Order reference 12954). |
£5.00 |
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| Kipling,
Rudyard: Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
Methuen & Co. 57th edn 1922 8vo, red calf bds with gold titling to spine and gold elephants head + swastika in roundel to front bd, v min wr to bds, tiny pce mssg from hd of spine o/w VG+ 200 gms (Order reference 12955). |
£5.00 |
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| Lawrence,
Louis F'word by Roy Strong: The Seasons Select Editions rep 1993 4to, glazed pictorial boards in a similar d/w M/VG++ 550 gms (Order reference 10139). |
£5.00 |
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Lawson, Peter
(ed): Passionate Renewal - Jewish Poetry in
Britain since 1945 Five Leaves/European Jewish Publication Society 1st 2001 8vo pb 354pp VG++ 455 gms (Order reference 9678). Passionate Renewal celebrates poetry written by British Jews since 1945. Twenty poets have been selected from among the most significant voices. Many of the writers are key figures in British poetry. The subjects covered include family and home, love and friendship, Judaism and secularism, the Holocaust and resistance to oppression...but each poet considers these themes in widely divergent ways. This is the first anthology of Jewish poetry in Britain. |
£20.00 |
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| Lefebure,
Molly: The Illustrated Lake Poets - their
lives, their poetry and the landscape that inspired them Tiger Books 1992 4to, glazed pictorial boards in a similar d/w F+/F 910 gms (Order reference 9085). |
£10.00 |
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| Logue, Christopher:
Prince Charming - a memoir Faber & Faber 1st 1999 8vo, v v min crsing to d/w edges o/w M/F 540 gms (Order reference 8090). |
£5.00 |
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| Longfellow,
H W: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow Gall & Inglis no date c1865 8vo, bevel edged boards with black, gold + green deeply stamped decoration + titling to font bd, gold stamped decoration + titling to spine + v sl wr + mrking to bds. Handwritten prize dedication to flyleaf dated 1876. VG++ 580 gms (Order reference 11764). |
£10.00 |
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| Main,
David M (chosen + edited by): Three Hundred
English Sonnets Alexander Gardner new edn 1887 small 8vo, green bds with bevelled edges, gold titling to spine + fr bd, pages untrimmed, v v sl wr to bds o/w VG+ 395 gms (Order reference 12992). |
£10.00 |
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| McGough, Roger:
Gig Jonathan Cape rep 1981 8vo pb 59pp VG++ 100 gms (Order reference 7354). |
£3.00 |
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McKuen,
Rod: Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows Michael Joseph 5th imp 1972 8vo, sl dulling to bd edges, sl wr to d/w edges, sl spotting/staining to d/w foldovers + prelims o/w VG+/VG 245 gms (Order reference 12859). These poems were all written by Rod McKuen, one of the finest chansonniers and song writers in America today. Or, to quote Gene Lees of HI FI Stereo Review, 'the best contemporary song writer around" An opinion shared by The Times, The New Tork Times and Paris Match. In addition, this book previously published privately by Rod McKuen, has helped to make him one of the best-selling authors of poetry in the world today. The words within these pages are for music. They sing of love lost and found and lost again. They are hymns to the dying, sonnets to the summer and verses of the joy of being wanted - even for a night. Love words gentle, direct, beautifully lasting. |
£3.00 |
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| Milligan,
Spike: Startling Verse for all the Family
Michael Joseph 1st 1987 4to, small inscr to fep o/w F/F 265 gms (Order reference 7110). |
£25.00 |
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| Moorhouse,
Reed: The Ring of Words - book one with biographical
notes J M Dent & Sons rep 1928 8vo, no d/w, green bds with black titling + decoration to front bd, black titling to spine. V min bmps to bds + v v min wr o/w VG+ 265 gms (Order reference 13499). |
£6.00 |
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| Murray,
Amelia Jane: A Regency Lady's Faery Bower
Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1st American edn 1985 4to, gold titling to sp + fr bd, min crsing to edges of d/w o/w F/VG++ 495 gms (Order reference 10148). |
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| Murray, Amelia
Jane: A Regency Lady's Faery Bower - a private
view of fairyland Collins 1st 1985 4to, gold titling to spine + fr bd F/VG++ 495 gms (Order reference 10176). |
£5.00 |
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| Palin,
Michael Ills by Tony Ross: Limericks Hutchinson 1985 8vo, glazed pict bds F 210 gms (Order reference 882). |
£5.00 |
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| Patten, Brian:
Notes to the Hurrying Man Unwin 1st in pb 1980 8vo pb 66pp, min wr to cvrs o/w VG+ 75 gms (Order reference 7340). |
£3.00 |
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| Philip,
Neil (selected by) Ills by John Lawrence: Poems
for the Young Stewart Tabori & Chang 1st 1992 1/2 bound, cloth sp, sl crsing to d/w o/w VG++/VG+ 502 gms (Order reference 1768). |
£6.00 |
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| Plath, Sylvia:
Crossing the Water Faber & Faber rep 1979 4to pb 64pp, name and date to fep o/w VG++ 85 gms (Order reference 6397). |
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Pratt,
E J decorations by Frederick H Varley: Newfoundland
Verse Ryerson Press 1st 1923 8vo, extremely minor wr to hd + tail of spine, v v minor bmps/chps at cnrs of bds o/w a very solid and clean copy 335 gms (Order reference 9000). |
£155.00 |
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| Purcell, Sally
(ed) Intro by C V Wedgwood Illustrated by Priscilla Eckhard: Monarchs
and the Muse - poems by the Kings and Queens of England Fyfield Books 1st 1972 8vo, sl tanning to d/w edges o/w F/VG++ 430 gms (Order reference 10039). |
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Russell,
Christopher: Memories of a Galloway Childhood
- an illustrated anthology of new Scottish verse G C Book Publishers 1st 1989 8vo F/VG++ 200 gms (Order reference 13631). |
£1.50 |
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| Salter,
Elizabeth & Harper, Allanah F'word by Sacheverell Sitwell:
Edith Sitwell - Fire of the Mind - an anthology Michael Joseph 1st 1976 8vo, v min spotting to top edge of pp, v v sl wr + v v sl dulling to the d/w o/w VG++/VG++ 625 gms (Order reference 13107). |
£6.50 |
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| Serrailler,
Ian Ills by Victor Ambrus: Marko's Wedding
Andre Deutsch 1st 1972 VG/VG 284 gms (Order reference 369). |
£12.00 |
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| Stevenson,
Robert Louis Ills by Hilda Austin and Leonard Cotterill:
A Child's Garden of Verse George Harrap rep 1963 inscr to fep, gold titling + dec to fr bd + sp, wr + chps + sm pcs mssg from d/w o/w VG++/G+ 218 gms (Order reference 1774). |
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Sussams, T
W (chosen by) Illustrations by M W Hawes:
A Book of Town Verse Oxford University Press 1st 1947 small 8vo, decorative bds in a similar d/w, small hole to rear of d/w + v v sl wear + dulling o/w VG++/VG+ 130 gms (Order reference 9414). |
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Tennyson,
Charles: Six Tennyson Essays S R Publishers 1st thus 1972 name to fep o/w F/F (Order reference 3619). |
£10.00 |
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| Thompson,
Francis: Poems Burns & Oates 13th edn 1912 4to, gold titling to spine + fr bd, prev owner's name + date (1936) to fep, bds worn + dulled o/w VG 380 gms (Order reference 12970). |
£8.00 |
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| Willcox,
Carmen: Luminarium - in search of the dreamchild
Paradise Press 1992 8vo pb, unpaginated, v min wr to sl grubby cvrs. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts and Pre-Raphaelite line drawings. 210 gms (Order reference 9306). |
£5.00 |
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| Yeats,
William Butler: Early Poems (unabridged)
Dover 1993 8vo pb 111pp F 100 gms (Order reference 8241). |
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