Ayres, Pam

The Ballad of Bill Spinks' Bedstead and Other Poems

Dent / Severn House, London . Sydney, 1982. Reprint, Softcover, Illustrated by: Don Roberts. Good Condition. 9780099180005 Illustrated by black-and-white drawings by Don Roberts. Colour photographic paperback binding with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Another outing from this English poet. Minor creasing of the book corners with a little yellowing of the book panels. A hint of age toning of the text block edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Don Roberts. Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0123047

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 poetry, humour, life Poetry; Britain/UK; Humour. The Ballad of Bill Spinks Bedstead and Other Poems Humour

Ayres, Pam

The Ballad of Bill Spinks' Bedstead and Other Poems

Dent / Severn House, London . Sydney, 1982. First Edition, Softcover, Illustrated by: Don Roberts. Very Good Condition. 9780099180005 Illustrated by black-and-white drawings by Don Roberts. Colour photographic paperback binding with red and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Another outing from this English poet. Minor creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Sunning of the back strip. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 64 pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Don Roberts. Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0288597

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 poetry, humour, life Poetry; Britain/UK; Humour. The Ballad of Bill Spinks Bedstead and Other Poems Humour

Bridges, Robert

Testament Of Beauty: A Poem In Four Books

Oxford The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1944. Reprint, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Top edge of text block slightly age darkened, spine of jacket similarly. Most of the pages are still "sealed" at the top edge, the previous owner having failed to cut them, and of what can be seen of the pages is very clean and bright. A book of poems dedicated to the King of England by the then poet Laureate. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 175, [1] pages,. Deckled Front Edge (rough cut). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0272417

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 Poetry, English Poet Laureate -- Robert Bridges, 20th Century Poetry Poetry; Testament Of Beauty A Poem In Four Books

Chaucer, Geoffrey ( Bell, Robert – Editor )

Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer; with Poems Formerly Printed with His or Attributed to Him: Volume III ( Bohn's Standard Library)

George Bell and Sons, London, 1878. Edition Unstated, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition. Memoir, by Robert Bell; with a Preliminary Essay by Rev. W. W. Skeat. The two catalogues at the beginning at and at the end of the book had been printed on a yellow coloured stock. Dark green coloured cloth covered boards with self embossed decoration to the book panels and back strip; gilt coloured titles to the back strip. Volume III of a four volume set of poetical works (or those attributed to) the 15th century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. The book is in good order for it's age – please see photograph. Softening with a couple of small splits to the back strip edge. Bumping and rubbing to the book corners, a little underlying board is visible. Light tanning and foxing of the text block edges with the pages themselves having only light age toning. I'm pages 190 and 191 a previous owner has done a small flooring to the top edge – please see photograph. The book's hinges have cracked and the underlying webbing is visible. The rear spine gutter has a couple of small holes and rubbing. Please note: – the accompanying photograph looks as if the cloth cover is blue – it is in fact dark green. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [20 – including 15 pages of further titles and publishing house – including the front and pages] 2 - 508, [31 – including end pages comprising a Complete Catalogue of Bohn's Libraries] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0288590

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 Poetry, English, 15th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, Bohn's Standard Library Poetry; Britain; Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer with Poems Formerly Printed with His or Attributed to Him Volume III Bohns Standard Library

Ginsberg, Allen

Selected Poems 1947 – 1995

Penguin, London, 2001. Reprint, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780141184760 A second-hand copy, age toning of the page edges, some handling marks to the front edge of the front panel. A couple of pages dogeared. Illustrated with some musical nomenclature & black-and-white photographs. Chosen by Ginsberg himself from nearly 50 years of experimental, groundbreaking verse, this selection, in his words, "summarises what I deem most honest, most penetrant of my writing", and includes lesser-known and later works which go beyond his iconic Beat Generation image. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XX, 446 pages, including the index of proper names, the index of titles, 1st lines, and original book sources, and illustrative with some black-and-white photographs, and some musical tablature. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0271919

Catalogue: poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 Poetry Ginsberg can't keep beat huncke poetry; Selected Poems 1947 1995

Greer, Germaine; Hastings, Susan; Medoff, Jeslyn; Sansone, Melinda – Editors

Kissing the Rod An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Women's Verse

The Noonday Press, New York, 1989. First Edition, Softcover. Good Condition. 9780374521646 Acknowledgements, editors' note, list of abbreviations, introduction by Germaine Greer and works cited stop colour illustrated paperback binding with pale yellow, white and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Title says it all. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. Fading of the back strip and to the right hand edge of the rear panel. A little chipping along the top left hand corner of the rear panel edge. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. first edition by this publisher. Size: Trade Paperback. 477, [1] pages,. Bookseller sticker on rear panel.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0288595

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 Poetry, 17th century, women poets Poetry; 17th century; Women & Feminism. Kissing the Rod An Anthology of SeventeenthCentury Womens Verse Women & Feminism

Hesse, Hermann (Wright, James – Selector and Translator)

Poems

Bantam Books, New York, 1974. Reprint, Softcover (Illustrated). Very Good Condition. Translator's note. Colour illustrated paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. A collection of poems, the first translated into English by this author at the time of the book's publication. The book is printed with the poems in German to the left-hand page and the English translation to the right hand page. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with tanning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). [4], V - IX, [6], 2 - 79, [1] pages,. Text is in German / English. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0288183

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 Poetry, Hermann Hesse, bilingual, German Poetry; German / English Language; Poems

Jordan, Richard and Pierce, Peter – Editors

The Poets' Discovery: Nineteenth-Century Australia in Verse

Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1990. First Edition, Softcover. Good Condition. 9780522844023 Acknowledgements, general introduction, biographical notes, bibliography, index of authors and titles, and subject index. Photographic paperback binding with silver and black coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Quoting from the rear panel blurb " ... The two hundred poems included in this anthology give the book is unique appeal. They have been culled not only from books verse, but from newspapers and periodicals not now readily available to student and general readers many of the palms of not been published anywhere since the nineteenth century, and they have been selected to evoke the varied European responses to the landscape, history and growing settlement of Australia." Size: Trade Paperback. 476, [4] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0288582

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 Poetry, Australian, 19th century Poetry; Australia; 19th century; The Poets Discovery NineteenthCentury Australia in Verse

Kramer, Leonie -- Editor

My Country Australian Poetry & Short Stories Two Hundred Years Volume 1 Beginnings – 1930s & Volume 2 1930s- 1980's Selected and with an Introduction by Leonie Kramer

Ure Smith, willoughby, New South Wales, 1985. Reprint, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Slipcased. 9780725408572 Introduction by editor, acknowledgements and five appendices two-volume one; introduction, acknowledgements, and five appendices two-volume two. Blue coloured faux leather binding with gilt coloured decoration and titles to the front panel and back strip. In these two volumes which take their title from Dorothy MacKellar's poem, the editor has arranged the anthology chronologically but no strict progression is implied. Where the author is known to have a revised work, the text of the latest revision has been used. In the texts from the earlier. Older forms of spelling have been retained where these preserve the flavour of the original. The works have been selected to show how writers and painters have responded to a variety of experiences and how well they express their observations and impressions of a very diverse audience here and abroad. Illustrated with both black-and-white and colour plates reproducing artworks. A rather nice set, which could still be given as a gift for someone who appreciates Australian literature and poetry. Both volume show a little rubbing of the book corners and back strip edges and patchy fading of the back strip. Light tanning of the text block edges and pages. this is the 1st edition by this publisher. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XVI, 672 pages. 2-volume set (complete). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0288622

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 Poetry short stories Australia Poetry; Short Stories; Australia; 20th century; Literature & Literary. My Country Australian Poetry Short Stories Two Hundred Years Volume 1 Beginnings 1930s Volume 2 1930s 1980s Selected and with an Introduction b

Parsons, I. M.

Men Who March Away; Poems of the 1st World War

Chatto & Windus, London, 1982. Reprint, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780701122768 indexed the 1st lines and biographical notes. Original illustrated softcover with brown and black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Title says it all. A little creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. The panels show rubs marks and stains with fading of the back strip. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Previous owners name to the lower edge of the half title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 192 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0288596

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 POETRY (POETIC WORKS BY ONE Poetry; Men Who March Away Poems of the 1st World War

Popham, Hugh

Against the Lightning, Poems

John Lane - The Bodley Head, London, 1944. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. rubbing and chipping of the edges of the jacket, no damage to the binding or pages. Poetry inspired by active service at sea during WW II Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 55 pages. please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0272415

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 Poetry Poetry; WW II; Against the Lightning Poems

Sandars, N. K. – Translator and Selector

Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamiat (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Books, London, 1971. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9780140442496 Acknowledgements, plan of Babylon, introduction to the Babylon Creation, note on the Sumerian underworld, introduction to Inann's journey to Hell, note on a prayer to the gods of the night and glossary of names introduction to Adapa: the Manand glossary. Photographic paperback binding with white coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Title says it all. Minor creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. A reading crease to the back strip light tanning of the text block edges and pages. First softcover edition. Size: 12 mo (standard paperback). 183, [9 – of which six are further titles of the publishing house] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0288628

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 Poetry, ancient Mesopotamian, heaven and hell,Penguin Classics -- Series Poetry; Germany; Myths, Legends & Folklore. Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamiat Penguin Classics Myths, Legends & Folklore

Sitwell, Edith

The Penguin Poets - Edith Sitwell - a Selection By The Author

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1952. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. clean copy, free of annotation, booksellers sticker on the front panel. foxing of the cover, internally clean This is the first Penguin Edition. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 523 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0272413

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 poetry Poetry; England; The Penguin Poets Edith Sitwell a Selection By The Author

Snaith, Sidney

Stormy Harvest: Poems of Peace and War

J. M. Dent, London, 1944. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Review copy, last page perforated by publisher to state "complimentary copy not for sale" Only the top edge has been trimmed to a straight edge. Dustwrapper aged but in very good order. Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0272420

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 poetry WW II Poetry; Stormy Harvest Poems of Peace and War

Walker, Alice

Her Blue Body Everything We Know - Earthling Poems 1965-1990

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1991. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 9780151400409 XVI, 463 pp. illustrated dustwrapper matching the boards beneath. Lower right hand corner of front panel slightly cresed, lower right hand corner of front board bumped. " More than an anthology... offers a historical perspective on the political ans spiritual issues of the last three decades ..." Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.

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Book number: 0206576

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: BZDB2 Poetry, American Poetry; Her Blue Body Everything We Know Earthling Poems 19651990