Books - "poetry"
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I Burn For England: An Anthology of the Poetry of World War II
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
The Whitsun Weddings
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
Deep River Talk: Collected Poems
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
Park Island
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
The Poems of Catullus
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
Omeros
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
Drawings, Verse & Belief
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
The Odes of Horace
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
Open Sky: a homage to Ruth Dallas
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
Le Ton beau de Marot: The Praise of the Music of Language
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
The Hunting of the Snark: An Agony, in Eight Fits
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
Peter Grimes, and Other Poems
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
Listen to My Seeing
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
Family Matters: Poems
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
The Poet's Task: An Inaugural Lecture
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
Out of Danger
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
Indifference: Poems
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
Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Politics
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
The Axion Esti
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
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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