London: George Routledge & Sons, [1881]. First Edition. Hardback. Green cloth spine with light green paper covered bevelled boards. Beautifully illustrated throughout with colour vignettes, words and music to nine charming songs. Boards are rubbed and book has been dropped at some point so top right corner has some creasing, otherwise good and clean. 29 pages. 250 x 215 mm (9¾ x 8½ inches).

Chatham: Hangman Books, 1994. First Edition. In deep red cloth covered boards, with black embossed design and title. Poetry and drawings from Childish. A beautiful edition published to coincide with the painting exhibition of the same name, which took place at Cubitt gallery in London. Contains the poem that The Stuckists Art Group took their name from. In a fine / as new condition. 99 pages. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1884. Fourteenth Edition. Hardback in green cloth with red title and gilt illustration to front board and spine. Some minor spine and edge rubbing and light soiling. Complete with full page frontis and many b/w in text illustrations. 292 pages. 175 x 120 mm (7 x 4¾ inches).

London: Trigram Press, 1975. A very nice copy of this first edition volume of poetry. Limited to 550 copies - this one of the 500 trade edition. A collaboration between two authors, the book is divided in two halves. A green centre leaf separates the two halves. Stapled, with the staples somewhat rusty. Soft covers are clean and tidy, the glassine cover is very slightly darkened. Unpaginated, but 10 poems by each author, with printed on one side of the page only. 235 x 150 mm (9¼ x 6 inches).

London: Frank Cass and Co. Limited, 1970. A modern reprint of the entire run of this magazine, originally published between 1939 and 1951, and comprising 23 issues bound within five volumes. Poetry London contains poetry and artwork from lots of the avant-garde poets of the day.
Bound in publisher's green cloth with black to spines. Gilt stamped titles to front boards and spines. Poems by Dylan Thomas, Paul Potts, Laurence Whistler, Louis Macniece, George Barker, Herbert Read, Rayner Heppenstall, Stephen Spender, Walter De La Mare, Dorian Cooke, Lawrence Durrell, Nicolas Moore, D.S Savage, Heinrich Rhys, Charles Madge, David Gascoyne, Clifford Dyment, Ruthven Todd, Idris Davies, Glyn Jones, Lynd Nathan, Maurice Carpenter, and H. G. Porteus, and many others.

Paris: J. Hetzel, 1847. Original soft covers, with glassine covering. Vignette on the title and 33 etchings inset - all by Grandville; twelve of which appear for the first time. Tissue guards for each full page etching. Text in French. 163 pages. Many pages uncut. 285 x 190 mm (11¼ x 7½ inches).

Delft: Reinier Boitet, 1722. First edition. In original vellum binding. Engraved frontis. Vignette to title page. Lovely engravings throughout. 444 pages. 205 x 170 mm (8 x 6¾ inches). HC Poot (1689-1733) was the Dutch poet who was the first to try solely to 'live by the pen', with no other profession. A very brave move at the time!

London: Shree International, 1993. Bound in turquoise cloth covers with a peacock feather on the front cover, and a fabulous woven gold coloured and tasseled bookmark. Signed by Ramesh Patel to the front. Limited to 2,000 copies.
Text in Hindi, French, German, Spanish, English, Esperanto, Russian and Marathi. Poetry and colour images. Ramesh patel (Premormi) is a London based poet.

Sharrington, Norfolk: Clement (Publishers) Ltd, 1983. First edition. In original unclipped dust jacket. Protected in Mylar clear wrap. 150 pages. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches). Sir John Warren Loveridge (9 September 1925 – 13 November 2007) was a British Conservative M. P. He was also a published poet and an abstract sculptor.

Paris: Chez Ant. Aug. Renouard. A beautiful copy of this First Edition. Bound in an Arts & Crafts style in 1903 by AR. In full leather with decoration and titles in gilt. The binding is in a good, strong condition. To the front end paper, is a large ink ownership inscription. This shows the owner was one Fanny Crozier. She was of Westhill, in the Isle of Wight, and married to a prominent Justice of the Peace in the county. The books contains a frontis engraving and 39 beautiful engravings. Complete. Text in French. A number of poems. Curiously, the final poem is in English - The Hermit by Oliver Goldsmith. 215 pages. 140 x 85 mm (5½ x 3¼ inches).

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1865. Original cloth with gilt titles and decoration. A little fraying to the top and base of the spine. Slight handling otherwise. Owner's inscription to second blank. Etched title and 30 engraved illustration by Foster. All edges gilt. 23 pages. Pages are printed to the recto only, with a leaf between to protect the etching. Internally a very nice copy. 270 by 190mm (10¾ by 7½ inches).

Paris: Edition du Clamen, 1901. First Edition. Jean Dominique was the nom de plume of Marie Closset, a Belgian poet, who adopted a male name so that her work would be judged on its merits. She was associated with a non-conformist group called The Peacocks. Limited edition with a total limitation of 355 copies. This appears to be one of the five copies on Japon, but is not numbered. Bound in cloth with an attractive two colour decoration, leather and gilt label to the spine. Cloth has some water marking / stains. Internally clean and tidy - but slightly darkened. Illustrated throughout with lovely purple Art Nouveau designs and initial letters. 80 pages. 200 x 175 mm (7¾ x 7 inches).

Paris: Chez l'Auteur / Pelicier, 1821. 1st Edition Thus. French adaptation of the poem originally by William Combe. which was a satiric interpretation of the saga of Don Quixote. With portrait caricature of Syntaxe, and decorative second title page. With 24 other plates. Bound in brown half calf with marbled boards. Leather label, and attractive gilt design to spine. Lovely marbled end papers. viii, 146 pp. 225 x 150 mm (8¾ x 6 inches).

Paris: Editions d'Art H. Piazza, 1921. One of 700copies. Translated from the Arabic. In illustrated blue dust jacket paperback, with title in gold, an inscription in Arabic and decorative motifs in blue. With a full colour frontispiece and nine other full page plates by Léon Carré. Each with captioned tissue guard. A collection inspired by Islam and the legends and traditions of the Arab world. Covers and contents all in a very good condition. Text in French. 144 pages. 220 x 165 mm (8¾ x 6½ inches).

Paris: George Cres et Cie: 1913. one of 925 copies (401/925). First Thus. Marbled boards, half red leather with gilt titles & decoration to the spine. Bookplate of a Dutch circuit judge to the front end paper. Frontis by Maurice Denis. tissue guard. Light pencilled annotations throughout the work in the margins. Overall a very attractive copy. 26cm x 19cm. 423. iii pp.

London: Faber and Faber, 1942. In original printed mauve card stock, with sewn binding. 16 pp. 230 mm x 150 mm (9 x 6 inches).

London: Chiswick Press, 1881. Lovely copy of this reprint edition, with a gift inscription by the author. With engraved frontispiece and tailpiece by Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, respectively. Original buckram with gilt titles and edges. Darkening to end papers, otherwise in very good condition. 108 pages. 235 by 155mm (9¼ by 6 inches).

Nuremberg: Ernest Nister (London), 1889. Hardback first edition. In illustrated boards with green cloth spine. A charming little book, beautifully illustrated in colour by Fred Hines. Unpaginated, but 30 pages. 190 x 170 mm (7½ x 6¾ inches).

Montréal: H. E. Heinemann, 1965. Softback illustrated covers. This is a limited edition of 368 signed copies. This copy is # 117, with the translator's, author's and illustrator's signatures to the colophon. From Volume 63 of Queen's Quarterly. Text in English and French (bilingual edition). Illustrated by Marie Koehler. Translated by Germaine Gabélier. 72 pages. 240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches). Queen's Quarterly is a Canadian quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of cultural studies that was established in 1893.