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$16.50
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I Burn For England: An Anthology of the Poetry of World War II


HAMBLETT, CHARLES (Selected & Intro)

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: Leslie Frewin 1966

KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature soldiers military history ww2 second 2nd world war two ii 2

$9.50
xx96pol212764

The Whitsun Weddings


LARKIN, PHILIP

Paperback (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: Faber and Faber 1985

KEYWORDS: poetry verse literature Philip Larkin

$50.00
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Deep River Talk: Collected Poems


TUWHARE, HONE; STEWART, FRANK (introd)

First US edition. Super 8vo, pp. viii + 200; illus. light card covers; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals; light tanning & foxing throughout; adhesive plastic wrapper to covers creased).

PUBLISHER: University of Hawaii Press 1994

KEYWORDS: Hone Tuwhare first edition collected poems poet poetry New Zealand

$15.00
xxenc212798

Park Island


LAMBERT, LEONARD

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: John McIndoe N. D.

KEYWORDS: Leonard Lambert 20th century poetry poems poet

$12.50
xxeoa212809

The Poems of Catullus


MICHIE, JAMES (transl); ROWLAND, ROBERT (notes)

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: Bristol Classical Press 1972

KEYWORDS: ancient Rome Roman Latin poetry poets Catullus classical history antiquity

$20.00
xxeoa212810

Omeros


WALCOTT, DEREK

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: Faber and Faber 1990

KEYWORDS: Derek Walcott 20th century poetry poet poem literature

$25.00
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Drawings, Verse & Belief


LEACH, BERNARD

Super 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: Jupiter 1977

KEYWORDS: Bernard Leach 19th 20th century arts artist verse poetry drawing

$47.50
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The Odes of Horace


HORACE & MICHIE, JAMES (Trans) & FRINK, ELISABETH (Illus)

IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo, beige cloth boards, gilt lettering to black faux leather spine, top page edges stained green, 288pp, illus, Near FINE, in slipcase, VG+ (sl bruising & fading to edges/corners)

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1987

KEYWORDS: folio society classical literature verse Odes Horace poetry poems

$300.00
2s9c/32

Open Sky: a homage to Ruth Dallas


LONEY, ALAN

Limited signed numbered edition, no. 36/100. Imp. 8vo, unpaginated; blue cl boards, yellow cl spine, front board lettered in silver gilt; fore & bottom pg edges deckled; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).

PUBLISHER: Otakou Press 2008

KEYWORDS: Alan Loney New Zealand Otakou Press Ruth Dallas poems poet 20th century poetry handpress book arts design letterpress

$60.00
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Le Ton beau de Marot: The Praise of the Music of Language


HOFSTADTER, DOUGLAS R

Super 8vo, pp. xxiv + [144 (72 sections divided into 2 pp. groups, denoted by na-nb, spread sporadically throughout)] + 632; blue heavy card boards, black bl spine lettered in gilt; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).,

PUBLISHER: Basic Books 1997

KEYWORDS: Douglas R Hofstadter cognitive science poetry poems criticism translation music language

$45.00
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The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits


CARROLL, LEWIS; BLAKE, QUENTIN (illus.)

Super 8vo, unpaginated; illus. heavy card boards, spine lettered in gilt; illus. prelims & tp, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soilign to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with sl chipping).

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1976

KEYWORDS: Lewis Carrol 19th century poetry poems Quentin Blake illustrated the Folio Society

$40.00
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Peter Grimes, and Other Poems


SLATER, MONTAGU

FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 108pp, VG (sl warping to boards, sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, date in ink (sm) to ffep, light to moderate highlighting to text) in d/w, G+ (v heavy creasing & chipping/loss to spine & edges, moderate rubbing/chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: John Lane the Bodley Head 1946

KEYWORDS: first editions Montagu Slater literature plays scripts theater theatre stage poems poetry verse

$10.00
xx98pol212870

Listen to My Seeing


FUSSELL, PEGGY M & BOWEN, JULIET (Illus)

Octavo stapled 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: Peggy Fussell / Emeril Publications 1971 (?)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand writers poets poetry poems verse literature Peggy M Fussell

$10.00
xx98pol212872

Family Matters: Poems


ROWE, DENIS

Octavo stapled 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: Broadleaf Books 1992

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets writers poetry poems verse literature Denis Rowe

$15.00
xx98pol212873

The Poet's Task: An Inaugural Lecture


LEWIS, C DAY

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: Oxford University Press 1951

KEYWORDS: lectures C Day Lewis literature literary poetry Oxford University

$15.00
xx98pol212882

Out of Danger


FENTON, JAMES

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: Penguin 1993

KEYWORDS: poetry poems verse literature James Fenton

$16.50
xxa3ab212919

Indifference: Poems


CAELLA, TODD J

Octavo stapled 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: To-Jo-Cas Publishing 1985

KEYWORDS: poems poetry verse literature Todd Casella

$47.50
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Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Politics


DAVIDSON, MICHAEL

Super 8vo, pp. x + 281; illus. light card covers; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; light soiling to pg edges; light soiling to prelims & terminals; light annotations in pencil throughout).

PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2004

KEYWORDS: United States of America American poetry literatyre history criticism Cold War politics political masculinity homosexuality

$100.00
1y98d/8

The Axion Esti


ELYTIS, ODYSSEUS; KEELEY, EDMUND & SAVIDIS, GEORGE (transl); LEVI, PETER (forew)

Presentation issue from the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic, Kostas Karamanlis. Super 8vo, pp. 111; blue heavy card boards, spine & front board lettered in silver gilt; motif to front board in silver gilt; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems); in blue card case, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems). CD in case.

PUBLISHER: Anvil Press Poetry 1980

KEYWORDS: Odysseus Elytis Novel Prize for Literature poem poetry Greek Greece

$150.00
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


KHAYYAM, OMAR & BALFOUR, RONALD (Illus)

Imperial octavo, cream heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, circular illus affixed onto front board, deckled page edges, frontispiece, beautiful tipped in illus/plates throughout, G+ (heavy cracking & partial separation to spine, heavy bruising & rubbing to board corners, heavy tanning to spine, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to boards, front board warped/damp-water damage, moderate scuffing to rear board, heavy tanning to page edges, light to moderate tanning & soiling to eps, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. owner's name in pencil to ffep, light soiling to prelims & occasionally throughout, internal gutters sound)

PUBLISHER: Constable and Company 1920

KEYWORDS: literature illustrated Omar Khayyam verse poetry classical Rubaiyat

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