Hood, Arthur:

Smiles & Tears.

London, The Record Press Limited, no date Slim hard cover olive green cloth bds, titles to upper bd and spine, VG, a little rubbing to extrem.s, preface dated 1893, contents clean and tight, pges rough-cut, neat inscript. to ffep dated 1908, pp40 + publisher's list of publications to rear. A scarce title with poems including: The Golden Harp; A Moder Heloise; Haunted; Be Silent Still; The Poor man's Song; A Voyage; In Far Japan; Memory; Good Bye; Absence; Rejected; A Mad Song and Ecce Homo.

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N° du livre: 15430

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poetry rhyme verse song absence goodbye rejection memory life Victorian Japan haunted Christian

Hope, David:

The Fireside Book. 1976.

London, D. C. Thomson & Co., Ltd, 1975 Hardcover blue/cream dec. bds, unclipped d/w, almost VG, sl. wear at top edge, a little furled at edges, contents fine and bright. A charming poem and a specially painted illustration in full colour appear on every opening.

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N° du livre: 9371

Catalogue: poetry

Mots-clés: poetry verse poems rhyme Edna Jaques Mabel V IrvineReginald Arkell Austin Dobson Molly Capes Walter Wingate Arthur Somervell Barbara Morison A A Thomson P R Chalmers Helen B Cruickshank Will H Ogilvie

Hope, Laurence:

Indian Love.

London, William Heinemann, 1919 Hard cover green paper covered bds, pale taupe title block to spine, some bumps to btm edge otherwise Good+, no dust jacket, tissue-protected sepia tone frontis. of the author, light stain to top, contents clean and tight, pp93.

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N° du livre: 14870

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poetry rhyme verse Indian love passion life bride memory Yasmini rice fields Peri convert Yasin Khan Dhristna flute Jasoda songs Ramesram temple girl Rao of Ilore M C N disappointment pilgrimage

Hope, Laurence:

Stars of The Desert.

London, William Heinemann, 1919 Hard cover green paper covered bds, pale taupe title block to spine, some wear to top of spine and a few small holes to rear spine hinge, otherwise Good, no dust jacket, contents clean and tight, pp152.

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N° du livre: 14871

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poetry rhyme verse Indian love passion life Aziz song Mahomed Akram surf illusion sleep Enfifa River Fez Syed Amir Au Salon Casa Blanca lute player hospital cactus Rabat Morocco Opium happiness slave

Horn, W. A.:

Bush Echoes.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd, no date Hard cover pale cloth bds, a little age-darkened in places otherwise VG-, no dust jacket, ffep missing, prev. owners name and address stamped into frontis., Introduction by the author dated 1915, contents sound, b/w plates through text, occas. age mark, the first two poems have a few marks to the margins by prev. owner, pp47.

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N° du livre: 15366

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: Australia verse poetry rhyme bush Australain nature Light Brigade bushman drought deluge

Horner, David Illust. by Anne Hodgkiss:

Phwoarr.

Apple Pie Publications, 2000 2nd printing, SIGNED By AUTHOR on title verso, paperback, VG, faded along spine strip, a little creasing at front corner, contents clean and tight, first 7 pges a little wavy, pp50. A nice tight signed copy.

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N° du livre: 10601

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poems Anne Hodgkiss Signed poetry verse Poetryman Poem-o-Scope rhyme 1898376131

Housman, A. E.:

More Poems.

London, Jonathan Cape, 1936 Stated "First published 1936", blue cloth bds, gilt lettering to upper bd and spine, spine aged to brown, fading around edges of bds, no dust jacket, pges rough cut, school label to front pastedown, b/w frontis. of A E Housman in July 1926 from a drawing by Francis Dodd, contents nice and tight, occas. age-marks, pp71, preface by L. Housman.

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N° du livre: 14872

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poems poetry verse rhyme Syrian garden Israel Egypt trader youth snows stars fall green buds weeping Pleiads slumber farms bells tower delight youth May mill stream world nighted ferry stone steel

Houston, Ralph:

A Baker's Dozen.

London, Chiswick Press, 1954 SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR 'Ralph Houston Sept '54 With the author's compliments' Pbk, white wraps, stapled, VG, No102 of a limited edition of 250 copies, contents clean and tight, pp15.

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N° du livre: 11288

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poetry verse poems rhyme 000000000

Hughes, Ted (Introduced By):

Here Today: Modern Poems Introduced by Ted Hughes.

London, Hutchinson Educational Ltd, 1967 7th Imp., Hard cover decorative pink/purple cloth bds, VG, no dust jacket, neat school issue stamp to ffep, contents fine and tight, pp127, index of first lines and poets to rear. Poets include: Kingsley Amis; John Arden; Michael Baldwin, Thomas Blackburn; Edwin Brock; Charles Causley; Tony Connor; William Dunlop; D j Enright; Raymond Garlick; zulfikar Ghose; Thom Gunn; Ted Hughes; B S Johnson; Richard Kell; Philip Larkin; Peter Levi; C Day Lewis; George MacBeth; Louts MacNeice; Norman Nicholson; Peter Porter; James Reeves; Vernon Scannell; Alan Sillitoe; Hal Summers; Anthony Thwaite; Henry Treece; H Webster etc....

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N° du livre: 14452

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poems poetry verse rhyme Ted Hughes Richard Weber John Wain R S Thomas Rex Taylor Stevie Smith Robin Skelton Vernon Scannell Michell Raper Julian Mitchell James Michie Jack Marriott Bernard Kops

Jack, Albert Illust. Lara Carlini:

Pop Goes The Weasel: The Secret Meanings Of Nursery Rhymes.

London, Allen Lane, 2008 1st Ed., Hard cover black cloth bds, Fine, unclipped dust jacket, Nr Fine, contents fine and tight, pp292.

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N° du livre: 13457

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: nursery rhymes verse meaning children's childhood songs Baa Baa Black sheep Bobby Shafto Ding Dong Bell Doctor Foster Christmas is Coming Old king Cole Pussy Cat Queen of Hearts Ladybird Jack Sprat 9781846141447

Jagger, J. H. Illust. by Gladys M. Rees:

A Book of English Poems Graded For Use In Schools: Part Two.

London, University of London Press Ltd, 1929 Hard cover with light blue decorated cloth bds, some wear to cloth at corners and some discoloration, inky blotch to rear btm edge, Good-, no dust jacket, two three-line underlinings in Introduction, btm corner torn away at contents (does not affect text), neat name to ffep, a few poems in the contents list have a very small pink mark against them, lovely b/w illustrations by Rees, occas. age-marks through text, pp100, with exercises to rear. Including poets such as: R Bridges; Lord Tennyson, Lord Byron, H W Longfellow; Lord Macaulay; C Patmore; R Browning; A Noyes; R L Stevenson; W H Davies; W Canton; W Sharp; F G Percival; O Goldsmith; L Carroll; F W Harvey; J Bunyan; Lady Nairne etc...

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N° du livre: 15200

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poetry poems verse rhyme graded exercises schools teaching Shakespeare R Herrick R Burns Sir H Newbolt R H Horne W de la Mare Longfellow G Gould E Field W B Yeats Lord Macaulay Byron T Campbell M Webb

Lavengro Illust. by Juliet Jeffery:

The Gypsy Poems and Ballads.

Tunbridge Wells, Midas Books, 1973 1st Ed., hard cover red cloth bds, Nr Fine, unclipped dust jacket, a little discol. otherwise Nr Fine, contents fine and tight with lovely colour and b/w illustrations by Juliet Jeffery, pp96.

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N° du livre: 15270

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: poems gypsy ballads verse rhyme poetry Juliet Jeffery Appleby culture romany life travellers traveller caravans 0859360156

Jolly, Leslie and Cyril:

A Leaning' On The Gearte.

Gressenhall Norfolk, Author Published, 1978 Hard cover, yellow glazed pictorial bds by Miss Margaret Pearce, VG, ex-lib so usual markings, contents clean and tight, pp52. "The poems by my brother, Leslie (who died in 1976), were written while he was a prisoner-of-war in Java. he wrote several otheres which were buried by his friends...but on his release he found that most of the poems had been eaten by white ants. These, however, survived." C. A. J. 1978.

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N° du livre: 15583

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: dialect poetry poems Norfolk Leslie Jolly Cyril Jolly captivity Java prisoner of war loves Malay verse overseas England evensong oak tree Podmore trearkel well church oak men France Mearden's

Kent, Edward George:

Lindum Lays And Legends.

London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1861 Full leather hard cover, gilt patterning and titles to upper and rear bds, looks like new title block in green paper to spine, quite heavy rubbing to edges and front lower corner just rubbed away and small chip from leading edge, lovely embossed pattern to bds around edges front and rear, all edge blocks gilded, contents clean and tight, v. occas. light mark, tissue-protected frontis. and further drawings through text, pp303.

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N° du livre: 11241

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: Lindum Lays legends poems poetry verse rhyme patriotic Palestina Belfry of St Botolph's months seasons odes play Ricardo the Spanish Knight sonnets 000000000

Kett, John:

Tha's a Rum'un Bor! Norfolk Verse.

Woodbridge, Baron Publishing, 1973 Paperback, cream wraps, price crossed out on rear, small stain to btm corner otherwise VG, contents clean and tight, pp48. A nice collection of Norfolk verse.

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N° du livre: 14328

Catalogue: Poetry

Mots-clés: Norfolk verse poetry rhyme dialect poems countryman countryside life Norwich moods weather seasons nature churches Christmas