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BENSON, GERARD ET AL (EDS)  Poems on the Underground Fourth Edition
London, Cassell. 1995. (ISBN: 0304344494) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 204 pages, notes, index of poets, index of first lines. "Everyone loves those poems that you see on the tube" - Time Out. Fine.
GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5 US$ 7.44 | JP¥ 640] Book number: 4836
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BENSON, GERARD ET AL  Poems on the Underground: Fourth Edition
London, Cassell. 1995. (ISBN: 0304344494) Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 204 pages, 29 illustrations, extended edition includes all the poems which were displayed on Underground trains in London since the first edition; many of the poems will be familiar to readers, some are unique to this volume. Fine.
GBP 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 1.25 US$ 1.65 | JP¥ 142] Book number: 6579
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BRONTE, EMILY  The Poems of Emily Bronte
London, B.T.Batsford Ltd. 1992. (ISBN: 0713465905) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG+, no previous owner marks, edited by Barbara Lloyd-Evans, 192 pages, introduction, The Ashley MS, The EJB MS, The Gondal MS, notes, appendices: glossary, spelling and pronunciation, poems published in 1846 and 1850, index of first lines. Very Good/Very Good.
GBP 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 10 US$ 14.8 | JP¥ 1273] Book number: 5383
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BURNS, ROBERT  Selected Poems
Edinburgh, Canongate Pocket Classics. 2001. (ISBN: 1841951552) Paperback, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Fourteen of the best loved and best known of Burns's poems with an acompanying Scots glossary. Cover art by Calum Colvin; with accompanying postcard which also depicts the book's cover art. As New.
GBP 0.95 [Appr.: EURO 1.25 US$ 1.57 | JP¥ 135] Book number: 4052
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CORRINGHAM, MARY  I, Jane Austen. A re-creation in rime royal based on the letters of Jane Austen, her novels & the comments of her Biographers
London, Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0710071027) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth, with gilt lettering & decoration, green endpapers, 84 pages, notes, sources; no previous owner name; pictorial dustjacket with wear to edges. Very Good/Good.
GBP 2.35 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 US$ 3.89 | JP¥ 334] Book number: 4459
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R.D.  Less Eminent Victorians
London, Peter Davies. 1927, First Edition. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Orange cloth with embossed decoration, small indent to spine, fading, wear to ends .Unpaginated. Sixty woodcuts (one per page, blank verso) reproduced from "The Leisure Hour", "The Quiver" and other Victorian periodicals, each accompanied by a limerick which "exploits their Victorian habit and gesture for less serious purposes than those for which they were designed". Contents very good: woodcuts are unmarked and without foxing. Good.
GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 9.92 | JP¥ 854] Book number: 4573
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DEAN, JONATHAN BRYANT; LEAR, EDWARD  What Is a Limerick?: Limericks and Other Poems: With a Bonus Section: "The Book of Nonsense" By Edward Lear
Bloomington, Indiana, Author House. 2004. (ISBN: 1418479330) Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxii & 168 pages, one corner crease, otherwise fine. The limericks published here are witty, yet at the same time are not offensive. The author has attempted to write a book that would meet the approval of his mother!. Very Good.
GBP 3.95 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.53 | JP¥ 562] Book number: 5417
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GRAVES, ROBERT  Poems 1938-1945
London, Cassell & Company Ltd. 1946, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green cloth, dustjacket, not price-clipped, 40 pages, ex-library copy with endpapers affixed to pastedowns. 40 poems, written during the period of WW2, introduced by the author. Good/Very Good.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: 5958
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HEGLEY, JOHN.:  Beyond Our Kennel.
London; Methuen, 1998.. VG/F. Hardback, 72 pages. Very good condition, no previous owner name, in fine unclipped dustjacket. A collection of mainly verse, occasionally prose and poetry, autobiographical in places, especially Luton, by the performing comic poet.
GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5 US$ 7.44 | JP¥ 640] Book number: 3487
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ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER  People One Ought to Know: Nonsense Poems
London, Macmillan. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333342631) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Sylvain Mangeot. Hardback edition, burgundy cloth, unpaginated (pp62), coloured drawings; no previous owner marks, unclipped dustjacket. A collection of 29 nonsense poems written in the 1920s by Christopher Isherwood when he was 21 and working in London for Sylvain's father, Andre Mangeot. Fine/Fine.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: 3444
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KIELY, BENEDICT  And as I Rode by Granard Moat
Dublin, The Liliput Press. 1996. (ISBN: 0946640785) Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. viii & 227 pages, map. Benedict Kiely leads us on a delightful ramble around Ireland through song and verse. It is at once the literary evocation of an island and an intimate, highly personal chronicle. Fine.
GBP 5.25 [Appr.: EURO 6 US$ 8.68 | JP¥ 747] Book number: 3570
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MCGOUGH, ROGER  After the Merrymaking
London, Jonathan Cape. 1983. (ISBN: 0224009796) Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reprint, 71 pages, bright pictorial cover, design by M.Mohan. Previous owner dedication on half-title page. Very Good.
GBP 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 1.25 US$ 1.65 | JP¥ 142] Book number: 6150
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NOYES, ALFRED  Collected Poems Vol 2: Drake, The Enchanted Island, New Poems
Edinburgh, William Blackwood & Sons. 1910. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine & front, top edge gilt, uncut fore & tail edges, black endpapers, vi & 366 pages; first impression thus. Slight wear to corners, no foxing, no previous owner name. Very Good.
GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5 US$ 7.44 | JP¥ 640] Book number: 3485
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PATTEN, BRIAN  Storm Damage
London, Flamingo. 1995. (ISBN: 0006547702) Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bright pictorial cover, no previous ownership marks, 93 pages; the emotional directness and honesty of Brian Patten's work is what singles him out as one of the country's few truly accessible and popular poets. Very Good.
GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.31 | JP¥ 285] Book number: 6807
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ROSS, ALAN  Death Valley and Other Poems in America
London, London Magazine Editions. 1980. (ISBN: 0904388360) Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x & 92 pages, bright covers, no previous owner marks. The poems in "Death Valley" derive from a series of journeys made through America during the 1970s. Very Good.
GBP 4.50 [Appr.: EURO 5 US$ 7.44 | JP¥ 640] Book number: 4683
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SERGEANT, HOWARD (ED), SILLITOE, ALAN ET AL  Outposts, Number 53, Summer 1962
Dulwich Village, London, Outposts Publications. 1962. Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pale blue paper covers, 28 pages, 18 poems and reviews with contributions from Alan Sillitoe, Christopher Hampton, Michael Hamburger, Valentine Dobree, Jean Kenward, Edward Lucie-Smith and seventeen others. Good.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: 3782
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SERGEANT, HOWARD (ED)  Outposts, Number 46, Autumn 1960
Dulwich Village, London, Outposts Publications. 1960. Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pale blue paper covers, 28 pages, edgewear to wrappers; poetry and reviews with contributions from Edward Lucie-Smith, R.F.Willetts Dannie Abse, Peter Porter, Philip Hobsbaum, Robert Gittings and twenty others. Good.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: 3783
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SERGEANT, HOWARD (ED)  Outposts, Number 48, Spring 1961
Dulwich Village, London, Outposts Publications. 1961. Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pale blue paper covers, 28 pages; poetry and reviews with contributions from Philip Hobsbaum, Jenny Joseph, Anthony Conran, Freda Downie, John Seymour and 16 others. Good.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: 3784
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SERGEANT, HOWARD (ED)  Outposts, Number 51, Winter 1962
Dulwich Village, London, Outposts Publications. 1962. Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pale blue paper covers, 28 pages, wear to wrapper edges; poetry and reviews with contributions from Zulfikar Ghose, Philip Hobsbaum, R.F.Willetts & 21 others. Good.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: 3785
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SERGEANT, HOWARD (ED).  Outposts, Number 52, Spring 1962
Dulwich Village, London, Outposts Publications. 1962. Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pale blue paper covers, 28 pages, corner crease o/w VG; poetry and reviews with contributions from George Macbeth ("Lecture to the Trainees") and twenty-two others. Good.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: 3786
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SERGEANT, HOWARD (ED)  Outposts, Number 50, Autumn 1961
Dulwich Village, London, Outposts Publications. 1961. Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pale blue paper covers, wear to edges, 28 pages, poetry and reviews with contributions from Elizabeth Jennings, Dannie Abse, Philip Hobsbaum, George Rostrevor Hamilton and seventeen others. Good.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: 6313
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SETH, VIKRAM; ILLUSTRATED BY RAVI SHANKAR.:  Beastly Tales From Here and There.
London; Phoenix, 1999.. VG. Paperback reprint, 130 pages, b/w. VG+, no previous owner name. Ten tales, two each from India, China, Greece and the Ukraine. The final two came directly to the author " from the Land of Gup".
GBP 2.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 US$ 3.31 | JP¥ 285] Book number: 3699
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SIFFRE, LABI  Monument
Abergavenny, Xavier Books. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0952094223) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 65 pages, cover photographs of Labi and his Great Nephew Shakrah by Eric Hands. Labi Siffre - poet, songwriter, singer, musician & playwright - has made a strong impact as a poet on the page and in performance live and on radio and television. "Monument" is his third volume of poetry after "Nigger" & "Blood on the Page". Fine.
GBP 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 US$ 4.96 | JP¥ 427] Book number: 1903
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SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES  Selected Poems
London, Carcanet/Fyfield Books. 1987. (ISBN: 0856357286) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edited and with an introduction and notes by L.M.Findlay, bright pictorial cover, 274 pages, list of further reading, index of first lines. No previous owner marks. Fine.
GBP 6.95 [Appr.: EURO 7.75 US$ 11.5 | JP¥ 989] Book number: 4929
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TIDBURY, ERIC  A Looking Glass: Poems
London, Journal of Horticultural Science. 1990. Paperback, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed on title page by the author, scientist and horticulturalist. The production of this booklet of original poetry was instigated by the Chairman and Members of the Publication Committee of The Journal of Horticultural Science to mark the occasion of his retirement from the editorship of the journal; 48 pages, crease on cover; published circa 1990. Good. Signed by Author.
GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.62 | JP¥ 569] Book number: 6469
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