HUNT, SAM

UNCOMMON, octavo, white light card covers, red & black lettering to front cover, unpaginated prelims + 30pp, VG (moderate foxing & staining to covers & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light to moderate staining to base of page block)

PUBLISHER: Hampson Hunt 1978

KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers poets poetry verse poems literature Sam Hunt

THOMAS, R S

First edition. 8vo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1981

KEYWORDS: R S Thomas 20th century poet poetry poems modern first edition

LORD BYRON; ARNOLD, MATTHEW (ed)

8vo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Macmillan and Co. 1881

KEYWORDS: Lord Byron 19th century poet poetry poems

MASON, R A K

FIRST EDITION, OWNERSHIP NAME OF NZ AUTHOR HELEN SHAW, octavo, grey string bound light card covers, red lettering to front cover, unpaginated, VG (light creasing & rubbing to edges, moderate tanning & foxing to covers & page edges, light tanning & moderate foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1936

KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers poets literature poetry poems verse R A K Mason first editions

GRAVES, ROBERT & BRADBURY, SUE (Selected & Intro)

FIRST EDITION THUS, TIDY GLASSINE WRAPPER, NO SLIPCASE AS ISSUED, super octavo, illus/patterned grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to red cloth spine, teg, deckled page edges, 63pp, VG (sl tanning & bruising to board top edges, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate to ffep, light to moderate water staining to fore-edges of prelims)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1990

KEYWORDS: first editions THUS poems poetry verse literature Robert Graves folio society (no slipcase, as issued) collection

BATE, JONATHAN

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Picador 2003

KEYWORDS: history biography biographies memoir John Clare literature literary poets poetry

BLAIR, JOHN

Octavo, white light card covers, red lettering to front cover, unpaginated prelims + 112pp, G+ (spine & rear cover completely missing, top & bottom corners missing, moderate creasing to edges, moderate creasing & soiling to front cover, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, gift inscription in ink to ffep)

PUBLISHER: R T Wheeler 1889

KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature New Zealand recitations readings John Blair

DENE, CAROL

Ex-library. Sm 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: The Knights Templars of Aquarius 1957

KEYWORDS: Carol Dene Knights Templars poetry prose

KHAYAAM, OMAR & GRAVES, ROBERT (Trans & Commentaries) & ALI-SHAH, OMAR (Trans & Commentaries)

Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Omen Press 1972

KEYWORDS: literature original rubaiyyat omar khayaam poetry

TARN, NATHANIEL

Signed by author. Limited numbered edition, no. 88/200. Super 8vo, pp. 159; illus. heavy card bds, paper label lettered in green to brown cl spine; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; sl tearing to front hinge).

PUBLISHER: Black Sparrow Press 1976

KEYWORDS: Nathaniel Tarn poetry poet poems 20th century

DALLAS, RUTH

SIGNED, FIRST EDITION, octavo, green heavy boards, brown lettering to spine, 54pp, VG+ (light bruising & fading/tanning to board edges) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, light wrinkling & chafing to spine & creases/folds)

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1968

KEYWORDS: signed first editions Ruth Dallas literature poetry poems verse New Zealand poets writers

HULME, KERI

Octavo, illus light card covers, black & white lettering to spine, 55pp, VG (light creasing & chafing to covers & edges, moderate fading & label residue to rear cover, light tanning & foxing to page edges, moderate cracking to front & rear gutters, gift inscription in ink to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Auckland / Oxford University Press 1984

KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers poets literature Keri Hulme poems poetry verse

McQUEEN, CILLA

Super octavo, illus heavy boards, black & white lettering to spine, 296pp, VG+ (sl bruising to spine & extrems, minor soiling to front board & page edges, Cilla McQueen in ink to title page)

PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2018

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets writers Cilla McQueen poetry poems verse literature

KNIGHT, HARDWICKE & BROSNAN, BILL & COLLINS, BRUCE E & JACKSON, LEWIS & WESTON, GEOFF

Oblong quarto, illus white spiral bound covers, 78pp, illus, VG+ (clear pastic cover at rear moderately ripped, top extrem of black spiral binding bent & torn- minor, light chafing & soiling to covers)

PUBLISHER: Albion Press 2005

KEYWORDS: New Zealand authors writers poets literature poetry poems verse illustrated Hardwicke Knight

SYMONS, TOD

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, imperial octavo softcover (VG-) some water staining; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Central Otago News Ltd 1966

KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers poets Tod Symons signed poetry poems verse literature

ENSING, RIEMKE

LENGTHY INSCRIPTION & SIGNED BY AUTHOR, FIRST EDITION, super octavo softcover (VG-) some water staining & wrinkling; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Lowry Press 1982

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature first editions signed poems poetry verse Riemke Ensing

PEARCE, BRIAN LOUIS

INSCRIBED, DATED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO FELLOW AUTHOR HELEN SHAW, octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Woodruff 1981

KEYWORDS: signed Brian Louis Pearce literature poems poetry verse

BAXTER, JAMES K

Octavo string bound light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Handcraft Press 1955

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature poems in pamphlet poetry verse James K Baxter

THOMPSON, ROBERT

Octavo string bound light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Handcraft Press 1955

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature poems in pamphlet poetry verse Robert Thompson

JOHNSON, LOUIS

Octavo string bound light card covers (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Handcraft Press 1955

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature poems in pamphlet poetry verse Louis Johnson