WEDDE IAN

Made Over

Auckland, Stephen Chan. 1974, First Edition. Original Wraps, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: David Armitage. photographic printed card wraps, name to half title otherwise VG used copy, 79pp poems, illustrations by David Armitage, printed by the Pegasus Press. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 012371

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Pegasus Press New Zealand Poetry David Armitage

BUTLER A J

Amaranth And Asphodel, Poems from the Greek Anthology, Done Into English Verse

Oxford, Basil Blackwell. 1922, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 16mo - over 5? - 6? tall. owner copperplate inscription to fep, gilt cameo to upper board, 278pp slipped in photograph ( of former owner?) Greek classical poetry in English verse translation, first edition of 1881 mainly destroyed in a warehouse sale before distribution as mentioned in the foreword, xxi 278pp Greek original faces translation. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003806

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Greek Greece Classical Poetry Verse Translation English Translated

KLUKOFF PHILIP J.

In Night's Chirp, Poems

Christchurch, Pegasus Press. 1972, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. limited edition, (200 gram rate) light edge rubbing to unclipped DW, 40pp, edition limited to 500 copies. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010407

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Christchurch New Zealand Private Press Printing Poetry Pegasus Press Limited Edition Philip J. Klukoff

TAMBIMUTTU M. J.

Poetry in Wartime an Anthology

London, Faber. 1943, reprint. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. unclipped dust jacket is age browned to spine and with light handling soiling, light chipping to top edge, small name to fep,192pp, includes; W. H. Auden, George Barker, Lawrence Durrell, David Gascoyne, Laurie Lee, Louis Macneice, Mervyn Peake, Kathleen Raine, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins (500 gram rate). Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 011211

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: War Second World War World War Two Verse Anthology of War Poetry W.H. Auden, George Barker, Lawrence Durrell, David Gascoyne, Laurie Lee, Louis Macneice, Mervyn Peake, Kathleen Raine, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins

MARGARET JACQUIE

Poems

First Edition. Original Wraps, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. no publisher or date little info at all, card covers with black and white abstract tree design with a red apple, dedication + 23pp printed one side only, doesn't seem to be missing any pages, former owners name dated 1974 to fep. no idea when or where published etc! , reduced shipping available on request. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 012590

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry Jacquie Margaret 1970s Seventies

SANDE JAKOB

Dikt I Samling

Oslo, Gyldenal Norsk Forlag. 1988, reprint. (ISBN: 8205026394) Decorative Boards, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. reprints earlier collection of his works, sunned DW spine, gift inscription to fep otherwise very tidy, 408pp Norwegian poetry, collects; Svarte naeter, Storm fra vest, Fra Sunnfjord til Rio, Villskog, Nye Dikt, Guten og grenda, Korn og klunger, Sirius, Det kveldar pa Kobbeskjer (Nynorskforfattarar | Norske forfattarar | Norske diktarar | Norske salmediktarar | Fjaler | Fode i 1906 | Dae i 1967). Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002868

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Norsk Norway Norwegian Scandinavian Poetry Verse Literature Nynorskforfattarar | Norske Forfattarar | Norske Diktarar | Norske Salmediktarar | Fjaler | F?de I 1906 | D?E I 1967 8205026394

HANLEY JAMES

John Cowper Powys: A Man In The Corner

London, Village Press. 1973, New edition. Printer Wrapper, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Booklet, (200 gram rate) sheets folded once and stapled through spine, pictorial paper wrappers, 12pp + the wrappers, two photo illustrations. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010084

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry British Powys Twentieth Century Modern

MACPHERSON JAMES

Ossian, his Principle Poems, Translated Into English Verse, with introduction and Notes, Illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Caledonians, and an Account of the Harp in the Highlands

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black. 1858, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. original blue cloth with spine lettered OSSIAN in gilt and blindstamped on the boards and spine, some slight faint and scattered foxing, front hinge opened a little, rear hinge cracked, joints and corners rubbed, the fictitious ancient Welsh bard Ossian became a sensation in the eighteenth century when MacPherson published his 'translation' of the poems, critics were skeptical as he refused to produce the original manuscripts from which he claimed to have prepared his translations and the hoax was exposed, copperplate ink name to head of contents page "William Correll, Ballinartram', lxxxviii, 381pp +16pp cat of Works of Walter Scott, the translater/ editor is not named. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010097

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Celtic Gaelic Ancient Poetry Verse Folk Lore Myth Forgery Ossian Scottish Irish Welsh Bard Bardic

NICHOLSON JAMES & ELLEN C.

Poems

London, Hamilton Adams & Co. 1880, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 gram rate) maroon cloth, bevelled edges to boards, gilt leaf design to upper board in gilt panel, blind panel to l;ower board, all edges gilt, some browning to paper stock, original endpapers, 217 + 2pp adverts, light fingermarking to prelims, light wear or handling to boards, tidy copy, includes a re-issue of 'The Herd Laddie- a rural sketch', Humorous ( Scots ) Pieces, English Pieces, last 70 odd pages are poems by Ellen Corbet Nicholson, includes glossary of Scotch words at rear. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005832

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: British Victorian Poetry Verse Scottish Scots Scotland James Nicholson Merryflats Govan Gilt Decorated

BEATTIE JAMES & A DYCE

The poetical works of James Beattie

London, William Pickering. 1853, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. contains a Memoir of Beattie by Rev A. Dyce. Pebbled cloth boards corners bumped, paper label to spine browned and rubbed but complete, spine ends starting to fray, Original endpapers with bookseller label [J. MACLEHOSE..GLASGOW] bookseller pencil notation to half title, frontis is detached, some light foxing throughout and offset foxed square from the frontis shows on the title. lxvi, 239pp. Apart from the detached frontis binding is tight. Half title shows this to be in The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. Early reprint edition. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011069

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: British Scottish Scots Poetry Eighteenth Century Aldine British Poets

ROBSON JEREMY

Thirty Three Poems

London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: Felix Gluck. (200 gram rate) nice unclipped DW by Felix Gluck, 56pp of poetry by this London dwelling Welsh poet. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010726

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: British Poetry, Modern First Edition, Poetry, Verse, Jazz, Blues Felix Gluck

GRAHAM JOHN

Blood on the Coal and Other Poems for the People

Sydney, Current Book Distributors. 1946, First Edition. Printer Wrapper, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: H McLintock. (200 grams) stapled wrappers with title in red and black and illustration of a miner's head with helmet and headlamp, name at head of title otherwise tidy copy with lightly soiled wrappers, line illustrations by H McLintock, 31pp, an Australian Communist coal miner's poetry, includes tributes to the defenders of Stalingrad, Lenin etc. trade unionism, socialism etc. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004447

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Australian Poetry Vernacular Working Class Socialist Communist Unionist H Mclintock

BETJEMAN JOHN

Church Poems

London, John Murray. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0719537843) Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: John Piper. first edition thus, light sunning to DW spine and lower panel otherwise VG, reprints and newly collected material with line illustrations, poems about British churches and church life, (500 gram rate). Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 011394

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: British Poetry Poems Church Religious Christian Betjeman 0719537843 John Piper

MASEFIELD JOHN

The Everlasting Mercy

London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1921, reprint. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. (500 grams) browned endpapers, reprint, tidy, 80pp, verse, book plate to endpaper, EX LIBRIS Gordon D Nicol, design shows a severed head on two books with a strange bird like beast perched on a third one holding a quill in human like hand. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004223

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Verse Poetry Literature British Book Plate Bookplate of Gordon D Nicols with Macabre Skull Head and Demon

SUMMERS JOHN

Fernie Brae ( Signed by Author )

Christchurch, Pisces Print. 1984, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. limited edition, dust jacket lightly aged or soiled, 114 of 150 copies numbered, signed to half title by author, 140pp hand set on laid paper, nice Private Press edition printed by Nag's Head Press for Pisces Print, near fine condition, cloth with paper title labels to spine and upper board. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 013233

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Nag's Head Press Private Press Hand Printed Limited Edition Signed By Author Poetry John Summers New Zealand