The Peacocks Fly to the Southeast

New World Press. (ISBN: 9787802286016) Soft cover. Book, Classic Chinese tragic love story, long narative poem. Text entirely in Chinese. Large paperback, a little wear on edges. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006266

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: 9787802286016 Chinese Language Literature, Essays Etc. Language

GEOFFREY ADKINS (ED)

Limestone 7 & 8

London, Limestone Publications. 9999, Not Known. Soft cover. Book, Literary Magazine. Poetry, fiction, criticism, reviews. Authors inc. J. Kazantzis, Wes Magee, Gillian Allnutt, etc. Discolouration left hand inch of cover & top edge of title page. 1970s. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001632

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Literature, Periodical, Fiction, Poetry, Criticism Literature, Essays Etc.

JON SILKIN ET AL, EDITORS

Stand, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1972

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Editors, assisted by Northern Arts. 1972, First Edition. Soft cover, 8.25" x 6.5". Ill.: Bernard Whelan. Book, Edited by Jon Silkin, Lorna Tracy, Ken Smith, Edward Brunner, Howard Fink, Catherine Lamb. Poetry by: Ted Walker, George MacBeth, Seamus Heaney, Mirko Lauer (trans David Tipton), Guillevic (trans Teo Savory), Fernando Pessoa (trans Jonathan Griffin), Marilyn Hacker, Igor Webb. Other contributors: Frederick Busch, Ernesto Rubin de Cervin (trans Katerine Gaja), August Strindberg (trans Mary Sandbach), Elaine Glover, Daniel Weissbort, Jon Glover, Terry Eagleton, John Saunders. Graphics Bernard Whelan, design Ron Swift. Parts of cover faded, some curling of corners. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002829

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Bernard Whelanpoetry, Literature, Criticism Magazine Periodical

JEAN L'ANSELME

The Ring Around the World

London, Rapp & Carroll. 1967, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Poetry Europe Series. Trans. Michael Benedikt. Poetry collection. D/w price clipped and covered with polythene cover which looks as though it may have rubbed it in places. Small tear top edge inside front flap dustwrapper. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 001496

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry, Poems, Literature

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD

The Light of the World or, the Great Consummation

London, Longmans, Green & Co. 1896, New Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: W. Holman Hunt. Book, Gilt red-brown cloth, all edges gilt, b/w illustrations after Holman Hunt. The last of the 14 illustration is MISSING - torn out. Silk bookmark has left brown marks on two pages; cloth faded, corners knocked, endpapers brown. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003495

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: W. Holman Huntpoetry Verse Art Pre-Raphaelite Religion Christianity Bible

JOHN ATKINSON (ED)

The Alternative Perception

Margate, Kent, UK, John R. E. Atkinson. 1968, First. Soft cover. Book, An anthology of poems by young and previously unpublished poets. Suhail el Bisharatk, G. Vignes, Celia Barton, H. C. L. Lauder, A. Worthington, Tony Heckstal-Smith, J. B. C. Hurley, R. Guthrie, John Atkinson, Brian Wright, R. J. Beason, M. A. Simpson. 64pp. Edges of wrappers discoloured. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001631

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry, Verse, Anthology

JAMES BARKE

The Crest of the Broken Wave, a novel of the life and loves of Robert Burns

London, Collins. 1953, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Dustwrapper has some edge tears bottom front and a small piece missing. Name on half title. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 005928

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Fiction Novel Robert Burns Scotland Vintage Fiction

CLIFFORD BAX (PARAPHRASED BY)

Twenty-five Chinese Poems

London, Hendersons. 1916, Second Edition. Soft cover. Book, Blue paper covers, 53 pages. 17th century Cantonese poems, translated by a Japanese poet and paraphrased by Clifford Bax. Publisher's address on back cover "The Bomb Shop, Hendersons, 66 Charing Cross Road". Covers discoloured, frayed on edges, spine very worn, part of spine missing; spine and front cover coming away from text block, but still attached at back. Text good except for a little foxing. Revised & enlarged from Twenty Chinese Poems, 1910. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003358

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry, China Verse Literature

JACK BEECHING, HARRY GUEST & MATTHEW MEAD

Penguin Modern Poets 16

Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1970, First. Paperback. Book, Front cover marked, edges slightly brown. Poets from Sussex, Glamorgan & Buckinghamshire. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003087

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry, Verse, Literature, Penguin

HILAIRE BELLOC

Milton

London, Cassell. 1935, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Black cloth, faded in places; endpapers bit brown, slight stain on fore-edge. Nice former owner's bookplate with the verse beginning "A little learning is a dangerous thing", with the next three lines that no-one ever quotes. Portrait frontispiece. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 006475

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Biography Literature Biography Literature, Essays Etc.

GORDON BENINGFIELD, ILLUSTRATOR

Green and Pleasant Land, poetry of the English countryside

London, Viking (Penguin). 1989, First ?. (ISBN: 0670830356) Hardcover, 10"x7". Ill.: Gordon Beningfield. Book, Landscape format book of verse and coloured illustrations. Selected & designed by Jill Hollis & Ian Cameron, jacket design Ian Cameron. Jacket price-clipped. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002723

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: 0670830356 Gordon Beningfieldpoetry, Illustration, Verse, England

ROBERT HUGH BENSON

Poems

London, Burns & Oates. 1915, Third Impression. Cloth, 4.5" x 7". Book, 87 pages + catalogue. Top edge gilt, others uncut; dark red or purple cloth with gilt decoration. Portrait frontispiece; introductory note by Wilfrid Meynell. Poems by Catholic novelist and brother of E. F. Benson, published shortly after the author's death. Includes appendix, and facsimile letter in R.H.Benson's writing; the latter has been written out in the space underneath, neatly, in pencil, by a former owner. The front cover is quite badly bent & marked, the back cover and spine less so; the top of the spine is torn. Contents good except some staining of front endpapers. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002903

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poems, Poetry, Verse, Spirituality, Roman Catholic

OLIVE BENTLEY

Portraits in the Roman Manner, or And One Who Knew Cinna's Aunt

Stevenage, Herts, Ore. 1980, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, Slight rusing of staple, lower edge front cover has thin line of discolouration. The Chariot Poets, no. 9. 8 pages, illustrated paper covers. Signed by author on title page. Very Good/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 004774

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Verse

LUCY BERMAN

Famous and Fabulous Cats

Peter Lowe. 1973. Hardcover, 8.5" x 11". Ill.: Frank Baber. Book, Collection of cat stories & verse. Colour illus. Small mark inside front cover. D/w a little frayed, 1.5in tear lower front fold. Good/Fairly Good.

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Book number: 001914

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Frank Baberfiction, Verse, Illustration, Children's, Cats Illustrated Children's Books

JOHN BETJEMAN

The Pocket Poets - John Betjeman

London, Edward Hulton. 1959, Reprint. Paperback. Book, 48 pages. Slight wear on cover edges. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002927

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry, Verse, Literature