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A Day in a Child's Life
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).
Book ID: 2863More details Price: £100.00 -
Book of Ballads
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).
Book ID: 2846More details Price: £20.00 -
Dense Lens
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).
Book ID: 3162More details Price: £30.00 -
English Little Magazines No 12: Poetry London - Reprinted in Five Volumes Edited By Tambimuttu. Series Edited By B.C.Bloomfield.
Book ID: 2310More details Price: £120.00 -
Gray's Elegy written in a country church-yard with a foreword by Christopher Sandford and eight engravings by Gwenda Morgan
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. Limited edition in hardback marbled boards, with gilt stamped title to blue cloth spine. Our copy is # 493 of 750 copies. Lovely wood engravings by Gwenda Morgan. In very good condition with minimal handling. 19 pages. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).
Book ID: 3302More details Price: £110.00 -
Hriday Ganga
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.Condition: As New condition.
Book ID: 2278More details Price: £70.00 -
Hudibras, in Three Parts, written in the Time of the Late Wars: corrected and amended. With large Annotations and a Preface by Zachary Grey. Adorn'd with a new set of Cuts.
Condition: The binding has been skillfully restored, with red morocco labels, lettered, numbered and ruled in gilt. Boards are in good condition with only a little rubbing to edges and corners. New end papers. Small pen squiggle to end paper in volume one. Small neat signatures to title pages. Lacks the list of subscribers (often missing) at end of the first volume.
Book ID: 2320More details Price: £325.00 -
Hunter of the Moon. Poems of John Loveridge
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.
Condition: In a very good condition, with a handwritten gift inscription to FFEP.
Book ID: 2887More details Price: £38.00 -
Idylles, Romances, et autres Poesies
Book ID: 3205More details Price: £250.00 -
La Flute de Jade, Poesies Chinoises
Book ID: 3593More details Price: £20.00 -
La mort de la faunesse
Paris: Éditions Lemercier, 1925. First edition. Poetry and beautiful woodcuts. Some pages uncut. A little age toned, but otherwise very good. 79 pages. 245 x 195 mm (9¾ x 7¾ inches). Première édition. Poésie et belles gravures sur bois. Certaines pages non coupées. Un peu d'âge tonique, mais sinon très bon. 79 pages. 245 × 195 mm
Book ID: 3433More details Price: £40.00 -
Le Latin Mystique les poetes de L'antiphonaire et la symbolique au moyen age preface inedite de l'auteur. Frontispice de Maurice Denis. Ornaments de Roger Deverin.
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1950More details Price: £100.00 -
Little Gidding
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).
Condition: Covers show some fading / light bumping around the margins. Internally fine with only small previous owner's name in pencil to front blank.
Book ID: 2214More details Price: £50.00 -
London Lyrics
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).
Book ID: 2425More details Price: £80.00 -
Love Divine. Daily Texts and Hymns for a Month
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).
Condition: Boards are a little soiled, and rubbed at edges. Binding reinforced with archival tape. Some foxing;commensurate with age. Overall in a good condition.
Book ID: 2576More details Price: £20.00 -
Love is Death's Oracle. New Poems by Trevor Goodger-Hill
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.
Condition: Covers are lightly rubbed, otherwise in a very good condition.
Book ID: 2646More details Price: £20.00 -
Makamen en Ghazelen. Proeven Oosterscher Poezie.
Edition: Reprint
Aalst: De Seyn-Verhougrstraete: 1894. 3rd edition. With frontis portrait of the author. Original softback binding, but rebound in recent marbled boards. Leather label to spine. Bookplate to inside front board.
Condition: The binding is in excellent condition. The contents are in good clean condition, with a touch of darkening to the page edges.
Book ID: 1964More details Price: £48.00 -
Marigold Garden
London: Frederick Warne & Co, [1910]. First edition. Green cloth backed pictorial hardback boards. Beautifully illustrated. Undated, but circa 1910. Some rubbing and scuffing to covers, but clean and fresh inside. 56 pages. 250 x 200 mm (9¾ by 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 2862More details Price: £45.00 -
Marion Faliero, (A Tragedy) / The Prophecy of Dante
London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. Newly bound in grey boards, and light brown spine with paper label. xxi, 261 [2] pp. 230 x 145 mm (9 x 5¾ inches).
Condition: Test body is clean. Binding is tight. Moderate foxing throughout. Edges slightly browned.
Book ID: 2062More details Price: £260.00 -
More Lucifer
Knotting: Martin Booth, 1980. Small square octavo, in beige card. Stapled. Three poems. One of 125 copies - the first 50 of which were signed. This is # 55. Unpaginated. 8 pp. 165 x 165 mm (6½ x 6½ inches).
Condition: A near fine copy - no fading, tight binding, no inscriptions.
Book ID: 2330More details Price: £15.00