Books - "poetry"
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Tobacco Smoke
first edition inscribed by author 71pp NF (green cloth,minor foxing to prelims.,author's inscr.to title page - inscribed to nz author una platts,t.l.s. loosely inserted) in VG+ d/w (sl.rubbed and soiled,spine sl.sunned)
PUBLISHER: stockwell ilfracombe [nd]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry bickford una platts signed new zealand
The Poetic Rosary
first edition 209pp+iii VG- (blue embossed cloth,rubbed and soiled,wear and chipping to extrems.,dealer's label to front pastedown,contents browned,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: simpkin and marshall london 1850
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry john critchley prince
Of Snails and Skylarks
first edition 79pp VG+ (brown cloth,minor shelf wear,ink date to ffep,eps and content edges sl.foxed) in G+ d/w (rubbed and soiled,unevenly sunned,mod.wear to extrems.w.insect holes to spine,price-clipped)
PUBLISHER: secker & warburg london 1977
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry christy brown
The Hotel Wentley Poems
second edition unpaginated VG+ (in wrappers,sl.rubbed and soiled/foxed,sl.wear to extrems.owner's sign.to blank prelim.)
PUBLISHER: dave haslewood san francisco 1965
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry john wieners
The Poems of Eugene Field
553pp VG (green cloth w.gilt stamps to top board,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,owner's presentation plate to ffep,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: werner laurie london [nd]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry eugene field
The Griffon Sings
first edition 96pp VG+ (grey paper boards,sl.rubbed and soiled,owner's sign.to ffep,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed) lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: geoffrey chapman london 1966
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literatutre poetry jerome kiely
Meeting Montaigne
first edition 56pp NF (in wrappers w.french flaps,sl.soiled)
PUBLISHER: secker & warburg london 1990
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry adam thorpe
The Doors of Stone Poems 1938-1962
first edition 128pp NF (tan paper boards,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.)
PUBLISHER: rupert hart-davis london 1963
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry prince
Collected Poems 1930-1965
first edition 214pp VG+ (red cloth,sl.soiled,ffep adhered to front pastedown,sl.foxing to content edges) lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: angus and robertson sydney 1966
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry hope
The Poetical Works of Robert Stephen Hawker
first edition thus 351pp [b/w frontis.portrait] VG- (blue cloth,mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear to extrems.,ffep stuck to front pastedown at gutter,prelims.and untrimmed content edges sl.foxed/soiled,ignorant dealer's stamp to title page)
PUBLISHER: kegan paul london 1879
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry robert stephen hawker
The Poetical Works of George Crabbe
first edition thus [complete in one volume] 319pp VG- (purple cloth sunned to brown,rubbed and soiled,bumps and wear to extrems.,new eps,prelims.sl.foxed,speckled edges)
PUBLISHER: galignani paris 1829
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry george crabbe
Collected Poems 1930-1976
first edition 364pp F in VG+ d/w (sl.wear to extrems.,internal tape repair to head of spine)
PUBLISHER: chatto & windus london 1976
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry richard eberhart
The Poetical Works and Remains of Henry Kirke White
456pp ills.[b/w] VG- (green cloth w.black dec.borders to top board and spine,sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to bevelled edges,prelims.sl.foxed,gilt edges sl.soiled,spine cracked but tight)
PUBLISHER: routledge london [nd]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry henry kirke white
The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd
2 vols.Tales & Sketches / Poems & Life
centenary edition 2 vols.[vol.1 ex-lib.] 712/468pp ills.[b/w] VG- (rebound in half leather but not matching bindings,burgundy cloth w.burgundy half leather to vol.1,green cloth w.brown leather to vol.2,mod.rubbed and soiled,mod.wear to extrems.,libr.stamps and labels to vol.1,prelims.sl.foxed,some staining to pp opposite plates but plates are clean,marbled edges,tight)
PUBLISHER: blackie london 1874/1878
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry ettrick shepherd thomas thomson
The Works of Thomas Hood
[10 volumes]
first edition thus [10 vols.] ills.[b/w by author and cruickshank] VG (marbled paper boards w.half leather,raised bands w.gilt compartments to spines,gilt-on-black title labels to spines,mod.rubbed and sl.soiled,mod.wear to extrems.,marbled eps and content edges,some sl.foxing to contents)
PUBLISHER: moxon london 1869-1873
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry arts thomas hood
Elysian Brides and Other Verse
[first edition] 56pp VG- (in paper wrappers,sl.rubbed and soiled,browned spine,sl.wear to extrems.w.1cm loss to foot of spine,contents sl.foxed)
PUBLISHER: [np] printed by torquay times torquay [nd]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry sharpley
True Confessions of the Last Cannibal
first edition signed by author 71pp VG (in wrappers,sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,bumps and crease to fore-edge,signed by author on half-title verso)
PUBLISHER: antipodes press plimmerton 1986
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry louis johnson
Harold's Leap
first edition 85pp ills.[brown line drawings by author] VG+ (red cloth,mod.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,eps and content edges sl.foxed) lacks dustwrapper
PUBLISHER: chapman & hall london 1950
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry stevie smith
The Life and Remains of Henry Kirke White
first edition 521pp ills.[b/w] VG+ (full red morocco w.gilt dec.borders and spine compartments,sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.wear to extrems.,gilt inner dentelles,2x owner's inscr.to ffep,some sl.foxing to contents,aeg) attractive volume
PUBLISHER: kendrick london 1855
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry henry kirke white
A Lifetime of Verse
first edition inscribed by author 76pp NF (in wrappers,sl.rubbed and soiled,inscribed by author to another NZ author Peggy Dunstan on title page)
PUBLISHER: privately printed [nd]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry winifred ponder peggy dunstan new zealand