Anon

An Island Race: A Ballad for the TT

Booklet privately published, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1972. First Edition, Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. “I dedicate this piece of doggerel - written in bed after an accident - in gratitude to the Staff of Noble's (Lo.M.) Hospital, who with patience and yet without the least dereliction of duty, made it possible for me to scribble these words - even if sometimes in disagreement with opinions expressed. encouraged by Evan Shipman, who once told Hemingway: ‘What we want is a lot more unambitious writers and unpublished poems,’ without - as is obvious - any professional skill, I embarked on this particular therapy. The poem is, of course, entirely fictitious, especially letters from the Queen and any official views, pretended or implied. All persons described are completely imaginary, but most controversial opinions expressed are firmly held by myself and many others. Yet 1 must, at the same time, emphatically state that this should not be interpreted in any way as an encouragement to drive on open roads with that arrogance or carelessness which, far from showing those at the wheel as valiant gentlemen, rather stamps them as callous louts.” . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 16 pages. Item Type: Booklet. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Poetry; Isle of Man; Motorcycle Racing; Humour; Britain/UK; Sports & Pastimes. Inventory No: 3599.

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Ayton, Margaret

The Voice Within: A Collection Of Inspirational Poetry And Thoughts (SIGNED COPY)

Pilgrim Books, Norwich, Norfolk, 1987. First Edition, Blue Cloth, Illustrated by: Photo's. Fine/Fine. 9780946259212 Signed by Author. gilt titles spine; cover photo. of Fingal's Cave,; illustrated throughout by the author's b/w. photo's. (mostly of nature); Margaret Ayton comments: 'Inspirational poetry is the voice within, which is moulded and changed by outside influences according to one's understanding. This kind of poetry is a record, a response to a situation. It contains my observations of myself in a situation - how I feel and react - but also it is a response to what I see around me.' The resulting volume is a combination of particularly moving prose and poetry enhanced by photographic images. Its underlying theme is that of love, in many of its guises, and could be said to echo the words of Kahlil Gibran. In her own very personal way, the author expands some of his eloquent interpretations; indeed, she has followed the injunction in The Prophet: 'When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.' This chronicle of her inner journey confirms the age-old concept that suffering can be a means to spiritual growth, a means to becoming part of the Whole. It is a deeply felt work by a caring writer, and will undoubtedly invoke a profound response in many who long to help and to understand in a troubled world. signed on the title page with the message - 'Best Wishes'; photo. & brief biography of author on rear D/J. flap; a mint copy with no faults, incld. index - 157 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrator: Photo's. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Esoteric/Mysticism; Literature & Literary. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0946259216. ISBN/EAN: 9780946259212. Inventory No: EST00051.

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Keywords: BZDB227 Esoteric/Poetry/Positive Thought/Suffering Poetry; Esoteric/Mysticism; Literature & Literary. Photo's Signed by Author Unbranded ISBN: 0946259216 EAN: 9780946259212 Ayton, Margaret The Voice Within: A Collection Of Inspirational Poetry And Thoug

Bass, Anthony David

Poems

The Favil Press, London, 1946. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. A slim volume of verses, never meant for publication, by a young private in the Royal Army Medical Corps who, like so many of his generation, died during the Second World War, in this case after the Normandy invasion, killed by an enemy shell while giving Morphia to a wounded man. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 24 pages. Rear cover slightly marked. Gilt titles front. brown cloth. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Poetry; 1940s; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 3353.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

A Selection From the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. First & Second Series (set)

Smith, Elder and Co. London, 1888/9. New Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jackets. black end-papers; titles & contents list to front of both volumes. Brown cloth covers with dentelle patterned outer borders (black to front & blind-stamped to rear). Elizabeth Barrett Browning; (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime and frequently anthologised after her death; her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English. 2-page list of publisher's titles by Elizabeth & Robert Browning to rear of second volume. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ix + 267 & viii + 262 + 2. 2-volume set (complete). Previous owner's gift inscription dated 1890 to front endpaper of vol.1 & to pre-title page of vol. 2 dated 1892. Gilt titles spines. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Victorian Poetry; Women & Feminism; Women Poets; 19th century; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 5046.

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Burn, Robert

The Complete Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Geddes & Grosset, Glasgow, Scotland, 2010. Reprint, Hardcover (Printed Laminated Boards). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. 9781855349827 Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in a "light Scots dialect" of English, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English, and in these writings his political or civil commentary is often at its bluntest. As well as making original compositions, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them. His poem (and song) "Auld Lang Syne" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and "Scots Wha Hae" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Other poems and songs of Burns that remain well known across the world today include "A Red, Red Rose", "A Man's a Man for A' That", "To a Louse", "To a Mouse", "The Battle of Sherramuir", "Tam o' Shanter" and "Ae Fond Kiss". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 480 pages. Dust Jacket un-clipped. White titles spine. Includes glossary & indexes of titles & of first lines. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Scottish Literature; Eighteenth Century Literature; Romantic Poetry; Scotland; 18th century; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 1855349825. ISBN/EAN: 9781855349827. Inventory No: 5036.

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Carpenter, Maurice

Four Typewritten Poems (SIGNED COPIES) with annotations by the poet's hand, plus an accompanying signed letter

Manuscript N/A, N/A, 1969. N/A, N/A. Good Condition/N/A. Signed by Author. Four typewritten poems from the poet's "Villages" series, with annotations by the poet's hand & each signed on the reverse, plus an accompanying signed letter. The poems are: "Berwick St John" (Wiltshire); "Ebbesbourne Wake!" (Wiltshire); Priddy" (Somerset); & "Gravestone in Watton" (Norfolk). John Miles’ (Maurice) Carpenter was a working-class left-wing poet, who was educated at Birkbeck. Carpenter wrote for the Young Communist League cultural magazine, ‘Alive!’ In 1939-40. A friend of Edith Sitwell, he worked at Archer’s bookshop in Parton Street, and published several published works, including the volume of poetry, `The Tall Interpreter’, published in the late 1940s, a short story called ‘Night Shift – the Machine Stops’ in 1943, and an autobiographical book called ‘A Rebel in the Thirties’. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he provided lectures at the post-war LCC council estate of South Oxhey, midway between Harrow and Watford . it was then perceived as a left-wing hot-spot and was known in the local paper as `cockney utopia’ and ‘little Moscow’! The Communist Party and YCL held many meetings there in early 1950s that attracted large numbers. Size: 13" x 8". 5 + 1 pages. Item Type: Manuscript. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Poetry; Poems; Wiltshire; Norfolk; England; Poetry. Signed by Author. Inventory No: 5097. This item is very light, and may be shipped for less than the standard book cost quoted at this site..

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Collins, J Churton (edited by)

Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie

Oxford at the Claredon Press, Londom, 1941. Reprint, Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. gilt titles spine; gilt motif front; edited with an introduction and notes including a memoir of Sidney by J. Churton Collins (professor of English Literature in the university of Birmingham); "A better introduction to the study of poetry could scarcely be conceived, for not only does it put poetry in its proper place as an instrument of education, but it deals with it generally as only a poet himself could deal with it, with illuminating insight, with most inspiring enthusiasm."; apart from figure '2' written on front end-paper a clean copy with minimal wear; including notes & index - 111 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Literature; Essays & Literary Criticism. Inventory No: LIT00009.

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Colum, Padraic (Editor)

The Poems of Jonathan Swift

Collier Books, New York, New York, U.S.A. 1962. First Edition, Paperback. Very Good/N/A. black titles spine; "one of the most widely read prose writers in English, Swift has been generally kept out of the canon of English poetry. Yet the quality of his verse is so great that a genuine need exists for a fresh, new, truly representative edition that displays both the range and the extraordinary forcefulness of his poems. Padraic Colum, the distinguished Irish poet and critic, has for the first time collected Swift's best poetry in a new edition that demonstrates its importance for the modern reader. Rescuing Swift, as a poet, from the Romantic critics of the 19th century; the present selection demonstrates his energetic mind, his sense of drama, his detachment, his indignation, his moral passion and his tenderness. The result is a literary event of major importance."; a tight copy with minor fading to spine area; 126 pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Literature; Poetry. Inventory No: PTY00042.

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Cronyn, George W. [editor]

American Indian Poetry: An Anthology of Songs and Chants

Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, 1962. First Edition, Paperback, Illustrated by: Platt, J. B.. Very Good/N/A. cover design by Al Nagy; "many of the songs & chants in this book are ancient & are translated for the first time into English. They include love songs, work songs, war songs, funeral dirges, hymns to the sun & the moon, odes to fire & wind, invocations to the gods & old legends recited at traditional ceremonies. This has been the standard work in the field of Indian Poetry since it's first publication in 1918 under the title: The Path of the Rainbow."; light crease to front cover; previous owner's name to fep.; 360 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrator: Platt, J. B.. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; North American Indians; Native Americans; United States; Anthropology. Inventory No: PLG00067.

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Keywords: BZDB227 Anthropology/North American Indians/Native Americans/Poetry/Songs/Chants Poetry; North American Indians; Native Americans; United States; Anthropology. Platt, J. B. Unbranded Cronyn, George W. [editor] American Indian Poetry: An Anthology of Son

Lewis C. Day

A Time to Dance and other Poems

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, 1937. New Edition, Red Cloth. Good/Good. gilt titles spine, gilt device front cover, D/J. is grey with red titles to spine & (with device) to front cover, a symphonic poem with three movements each with its own theme & further shorter poems with their prevailing motif being the conflict between past & future in the mind of the present, D/J. is grubby & edge-worn with much of spine missing but the book is sound with bright gilts though some marks to outer edges plus bumps & wear to corners, 64 pages. First Thus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Poetry. Inventory No: PTY00001.

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DeÂ’ Medici, Lorenzo

Poesie

Barbera Branchi E Comp, Florence, Italy, 1859. First Thus, Hardcover (Half Leather). Near Fine/N/A. Lorenzo deÂ’Medici (1449-92) was the ruler of Florence and the principal statesman of his time. A contemporary of Columbus, Lorenzo is hardly known in the English-speaking world as a major Quattrocento writer, author of a large and varied body of poetry as well as an important literary treatise. His poetry and patronage were instrumental in renewing the vernacular literature of his age after a period of stagnation. That LorenzoÂ’s literary writings were for the most part never translated is a fascinating curiosity of history, attributable to the irreverent, bawdy subject matter of many of his poems, objections to his authoritarian politics, and the unconventional features of his poetic realism. Yet Lorenzo is now seen as the most interesting exponent of the cultural renaissance that he encouraged. His longer poems in particular reveal the central concerns, everyday activities, and favorite ideas of his day. No other Florentine writer succeeds in capturing as he does the beauty, seasonal changes, and rhythms of life of the Tuscan countryside. His poetic realism is that which sets him apart from his age, yet makes him such a vivid portrayer of it. Gilt titles on red leather label with extensive gilt decorations on vellum spine (half-leather with marbled boards); green ribbon bookmark; marbled end-papers; tissue-guarded b/w. woodcut frontis. Illustration of author; Italian text; a clean copy; 464 pages. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Text is in Italian. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Italian Poetry; Italian Language; Poetry. Inventory No: PTY00033.

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Dufferin, Lady Helen (Countess of Gifford)

Songs, Poems & Verses, Edited, with a Memoir and some Account of the Sheridan Family, by her Son The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava

John Murray, London, 1894. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Tissue-guarded b/w. portrait frontis.; title page in red & black; begins with a 100 page 'Sketch of my Mother' by Lady Helen's son. Helen Selina Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (née Sheridan, 18 January 1807 – 13 June 1867), later Countess of Gifford, was a British songwriter, composer, poet, and author. Admired for her wit and literary talents, she was a well-known figure in London society of the mid-19th century. She was the daughter of Thomas Sheridan (a colonial treasurer) and granddaughter of the dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Edited by her son, Lady Dufferin's songs and lyrics were collected into this volume (1894). Recited by thousands of Irish school children, "The Bay of Dublin," "Katey's Letter," "Terence's Farewell," and "Irish Emigrant's Lament" were the best known. At the rear is a a bibliography of works written by the Sheridan family & a fold-out genealogical table. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii + 429. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. inside front cover is the bookplate of Frances Evelyn Countess of Warwick. Deckled edges (rough cut), top edge dusty. Gilt titles to brown panel spine with gilt ruling to panels. small hole to surface of spine material. light green covers, with a design of gilt coronets over gilt letter 'D's to front with gilt outer border line & design repeated in blind on rear cover.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Literature & Literary; Irish Literature; Genealogy & Local History; Ireland; 19th century; Biography & Autobiography. Inventory No: 4572.

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Keywords: BZDB227 Poetry/Literature/Literary/Ireland/Lyrics/Irish Literature/Genealogy/Helen Selina Blackwood/Helen Selina Dufferin/Helen Selina Sheridan/Impulsia Gushington/Biography Poetry; Literature & Literary; Irish Literature; Genealogy & Local History; Irel

Eberhart, Richard

Song And Idea

Chatto & Windus, London, 1940. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. pattern decorated boards with a cloth spine; Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. "Richard Eberhart emerged out of the 1930s as a modern stylist with romantic sensibilities." He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1930–1965 and the 1977 National Book Award for Poetry for Collected Poems, 1930–1976. Eberhart was New Hampshire's Poet Laureate from 1979 to 1984, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. He also won the Shelley Memorial Award, the Harriet Monroe Memorial Award, and the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. This was the poet's third book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 55 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Deckled outer edges (rough cut). Brown titles spine. minor hole to side of spine. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Poetry; American Poetry; United States; Poetry. Inventory No: 3840.

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Ginsberg, Allen

Airplane Dreams : Compositions from Journals

House of Anansi/City Lights Books, San Francisco, USA, 1969. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. First American Edition; Originally published in Toronto, Canada by the Vietnam War-refugee House of Anansi (this edition of 5,000 copies was sent to the USA but seized & confiscated by customs & never recovered, possibly engendered by the entry piece in "Airplane Dreams," "The History of the Jewish Socialist Party in America" or the usual explicit homosexuality to be found in Ginsberg's most personal works.). This is the 1st US edition & is a compilation of journal excerpts written by Allen Ginsberg & described by him in a note preceding them as "compositions from Journals kept decades 1948-1968, a few solid fragments typed up published out of context, not exactly poems, nor not poems: journal notations put together conveniently, a mental turn-on printed across the border by long hair youthful exiles disunited from these States by the war of sighs and spears". Contents include: 'History of the Jewish Socialist Party in America'; 'Understand That This Is A Dream'; 'New York To San Fran'; & 'Consulting I Ching Smoking Pot Listening To The Fugs Sing Blake'. Includes list of City Light Books at rear. This is the first USA edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 38 pages. no Dust Jacket as published.. Blue titles spine. some browning to edges of covers, contents clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Poetry; Beat Poets; Beat Generation; American Poetry; United States; 1960s; New Age & Alternative. Inventory No: 4625.

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Ginsberg, Allen

Wichita Vortex Sutra

Coyote (distributed by City Lights Books), San Francisco, USA, 1966. First Edition, Softcover (Saddle-stapled). Good Condition. First Edition; (500 copies); First Printing; covers printed in red & blue with 'coyote' paw-print to rear. The poem originated as a voice recording that Ginsberg made with a tape recorder while traveling across the Midwest. He composed it spontaneously, dictating the words into the recorder as they came to him. In transcribing the poem, Ginsberg arranged the lines by the natural pauses and dictation in his recordings, according to the "organic space-timing" that they provided. Throughout the poem, Ginsberg contrasts images of the Midwest (and, in particular, the Kansan landscape) with snippets of news reports about the war, and links the violence there with the political conservatism of the Heartland, decrying Carrie Nation's work in Wichita, Kansas as beginning "a vortex of hatred that defoliated the Mekong Delta. The poem also uses images focusing on the sensuality and intimacy of the human body to humanize the violence of the war. The title reflects Ginsberg's interest in Eastern religions. First impression of the First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 15 pages. browning/foxing to edges especially covers. no Dust Jacket as published.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Poetry; Beat Poets; Beat Generation; American Poetry; United States; 1960s; New Age & Alternative. Inventory No: 4624.

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Keywords: BZDB227 Poetry/Allen Ginsberg/Beat Generation/Beat Movement/American Literature/Counter Culture/Counterculture/New Age & Alternative/American Poetry/Beat Poets/Vietnam War Poetry; Beat Poets; Beat Generation; American Poetry; United States; 1960s; New Ag