Books - "poetry"
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ANDROMEDA IN WIMPOLE STREET
Containing extracts from the Love Letters of Elizabeth and Robert Browning
Third edition 285pp illust. ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) good (corners bruised, cocked, spine head lighlty bumped, discolouration to free endpapers) in fair d/w (rubbing, corners chipped, spine head and foot chipped, minor tears and creasing at extremities)
PUBLISHER: Eyre and Spottiswoode London 1950
KEYWORDS: Barrett Browning Lit Bio Poetry Letters
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY
A Study in the Counter-Decadence of the 'Nineties
First edition 234pp illust. ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (sl bruised corners) in good d/w (rubbing, corners chipped, minor tears and creasing at extremities, sunned spine w. chipped head and foot)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press New Jersey 1945
KEYWORDS: Henley Bio Lit Poetry Journalism
THE BURIED DAY
First edition 244pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) fair (rubbing, corners bruised, sl cocked, internal separation at hinges), lacks d/w
PUBLISHER: Chatto and Windus London 1960
KEYWORDS: Lewis Bio Lit Poetry
FOREVER YOUNG- A LIFE OF JOHN KEATS
First edition 365pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (sl bruised corners, lightly bumped spine head and foot) in rough d/w (rubbing, minor tears and creasing at extremities, corners chipped, light scuffing to spine w. chipped head and foot, section of front cover missing near spine head)
PUBLISHER: G.P. Putnam's Sons New York 1943
KEYWORDS: Keats Lit Bio Poetry England
THE CORRUPTION OF A POET
First edition 236pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (sl bumped spine head and foot, discolouration to free endpapers) in good d/w (rubbing, sunned spine w. chipped head and foot)
PUBLISHER: James Barrie London 1954
KEYWORDS: Hopkins Lit Bio Poetry
The Sensitive Plant
first edition thus 128pp ills.[b/w/rose w.col.tipped-in plates by charles robinson] VG (green cloth w.black dec.stamps,sl.rubbed and mod.soiled,mod.stain to spine and top board,sl.wear to extrems.,ill.eps,school presentation bookplate to ffep,all tissue guards present and all col.plates are clean and bright,contents clean,spine cracked but tight)
PUBLISHER: heinemann london [nd]
KEYWORDS: modern first edition literature poetry percy bysshe shelley charles robinson
NEW ENGLAND MEN OF LETTERS
ex libris with usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc, 256pp, illus, cond. EXCELLENT- (sl gum stains to boards and ep's), d/w VG (in plastic, v sl rubbed).
PUBLISHER: macmillan company, new york 1972
KEYWORDS: bio essays, new england literature, poetry, historians..
FRANCOIS VILLON
in his environment
ex libris (usual cancell. m'kings, pckt etc), 138pp, vey good + (head & foot spine sl bumped, sl cocked, corners sl bruised, sl rubbing)
PUBLISHER: blackwell ltd, oxford 1946
KEYWORDS: francois villon biography france poetry
BRIDGE INTO THE FUTURE
letters of max plowman
ex libris (usual cancell. m'kings, pckt etc), 286pp, b&w illust, very good + (head, foot, extremities sl bumped, corners sl bruised), d/w very gd (sl chiiping to hd of spine, chipping to ft of spine, extremities worn and chipped, coners sl chipped)
PUBLISHER: andrew dakers london 1944
KEYWORDS: max plowman letters poetry england
JULES LAFORGE
and the ironic inheritance
ex libris (usual cancel m'kings, pckt etc), 302pp, b&w illus, v gd+ (head and tail spine sl bumped, corners sl bumped, sl cocked, sl rubbed), d/w v gd + (head spine sl chipped, tail spine chipped, extrem's and corners sl worn)
PUBLISHER: oup new york 1953
KEYWORDS: jules laforge poetry france
ESTRANGING DAWN- THE LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY
First edition 321pp ex libris (pockets and cancellation stamps) d/w w. plastic, very good (gum stains to endpapers), illust.
PUBLISHER: Southern Illinois University Press 1973
KEYWORDS: Moody Bio American Lit Poetry Plays Drama
Canadian Singers & Their Songs
a collection of portraits, autograph poems & brief biographies
first ed. 268pp ex-library w.usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc. in VG cond.(tape residue to paste-downs and ep's and edges of boards, upper corners sl.bruised, faint foxing & browning to ep's) in GOOD+ d/w (spine sunned, flaps trimmed, w.plastic)
PUBLISHER: Maclelland & Stewart,Toronto 1925
KEYWORDS: Biography history, songs poetry music Cananda
CARL SANDBURG
A Study in Personality and Backgraound
First edition 210pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (light rubbing, corners bruised, faint discolouration to free endpapers)
PUBLISHER: Harcourt, Brace and Co. New York 1941
KEYWORDS: Sandburg Lit Bio Poetry America
PROOF AGAINST FAILURE
First edition 193pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (faint gum stains to free endpapers) d/w very good in plastic (light rubbing, spine and top edge of rear cover sunned)
PUBLISHER: Angus and Robertson Sydney 1967
KEYWORDS: Macartney Australia Lit Bio Poetry
THE YOUNG MAN FROM DENVER- GENE FOWLER
First edition 310pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (faint gum stains to free endpapers) d/w very good in plastic (lightly rubbed, rearb flap trimmed)
PUBLISHER: Doubleday and Co. New York 1962
KEYWORDS: Fowler Bio Lit Poetry America
THE IDIOM OF THE PEOPLE
English Traditional Verse
First edition 244pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (sl bruised corners, lightly bumped spine head and foot) in fair d/w (rubbed, edgewear, scuffing to fore-edges, corners chipped, sunned spine w. scuffed head and foot, rear guttering torn from foot)
PUBLISHER: Heinemann London 1958
KEYWORDS: Reeves Bio Poetry England
JAMES BRUNTON STEPHENS
First edition 126pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (edgewear, faint gum stains to free endpapers) d/w very good in plastic (light rubbing)
PUBLISHER: University of Queensland Press 1969
KEYWORDS: Stephens Bio Australia Lit Poetry
ROBERT FROST AND JOHN BARTLETT
The Record of a Friendship
First edition 224pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) excellent, d/w very good (sunned spine, rear flap trimmed)
PUBLISHER: Holt, Rinehart and Winston New York 1963
KEYWORDS: Frost Bartlett Poetry Letters Bio
THE HOUSE ON JEFFERSON STREET
A Cycle of Memories
First edition 276pp ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (gum stains to free endpapers) d/w very good in plastic (sunned spine)
PUBLISHER: Holt, Rinehart and Winston New York 1971
KEYWORDS: Gregory Lit Bio Poetry
THE DIARY OF CLARA CROWNINSHIELD
A European Tour with Longfellow 1835-1836
First edition 304pp illust., ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc.) very good (corners bruised) in good d/w (rubbing, edgewear, corners chipped, sl sunned spine w. scuffed foot)
PUBLISHER: University of Washington Press Seattle 1956
KEYWORDS: Longfellow Crowninshield Bio Poetry Lit