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The Music Master, a Love Story, and Two Series of Day and Night Songs.
With Nine Woodcuts, seven designed by Arthur Hughes, one by D.G. Rossetti, and one by John E. Millais.
Book ID: 3447More details Price: £1,500.00
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The Mute Bride
Book ID: 4275More details Price: £25.00
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The Night He Came
Edition: First Edition
London: Samuel Bagster & Sons Ltd, 1933. First edition. Plain cream paper covers. Stapled. Half title, title, dedication with acknowledgments to the verso. An attractive frontis illustration by Grace Furneaux Wood. Although there are no titles to the text, the acknowledgment would suggest that this is a collection of poems, rather than one long poem.
The cream covers have a mottling of foxing to them, a few marks, but still tidy. Internally clean and tidy, although many of the paragraphs of the poem have pencil lines highlighting them in the margins. Overall in sound condition. 24 pages.
Mary Winter Were (later Hughes Were). published a number of predominately Roman Catholic poetry collections.Book ID: 1230More details Price: £18.00 -
The Old Garden and Other Verses
Illustrated by Walter Crane
Book ID: 3312More details Price: £80.00
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The Oscar Pletsch Picture Book
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1880. Children's poetry book. Colour illustrated hardback boards, red cloth spine. Boards somewhat rubbed and slightly grubby. Poems for children with charming b/w illustrations throughout. Printed at Camden Press by Dalziel Brothers. Pages are quite clean, just a few finger marks. Overall good to fair, and quite scarce. 128 pages. 250 x 195 mm (9¾ x 7¾ inches).
Book ID: 3319More details Price: £45.00 -
The Passion of Christ
Two elegies reprinted to commemorate the fourth centenary of his birth by Edgar Prestage
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 1248More details Price: £18.00 -
The Percy Society. Three publications bound in one
Book ID: 3033More details Price: £80.00
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden.
Cooke's Edition. Three Volumes.
London: Printed for C. Cooke, 1798. First Thus. Hardback in three quarter calf and marbled boards. Title in gilt on red morocco labels to spine, decorated in gilt. Each of the three volumes has two additional title pages, one engraved and one letterpress. Without date of publication, but plates are dated 1798. Embellished with superb engravings, including decorative headpieces and tailpieces. The boards are lightly rubbed at the corners, internally also in very good condition. 145 x 95 mm (5¾ x 3¾ inches).
Book ID: 3908More details Price: £125.00 -
The Rats & other poems.
London: W. H. Allen, 1960. First edition, first impression. With the original dust jacket, in green boards with title to spine in gilt. Signed in ink to title page by Sillitoe. The dust jacket is darkened to top on both front and back, and spine is darkened with small closed tear to the head. The extremities are rubbed and nicked. Bookplate tipped-in to FFEP. Rubbed to verso of title - appears to be where a reference number has been removed. Page 24 has once been torn and repaired. 111 pp. 220 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2371More details Price: £40.00 -
The Song of Magdalen.
New York: Douglass Howell, 1946. First edition. Soft paper covers (same paper as book). Browned to one edge. Small split to spine. An eight page poem folded. Marked as printer's copy of this first edition, which was limited to five-hundred copies. A very scarce item, with no other copies available online. Alice Orcutt later wrote several mystical and Jungian books. The printer / publisher, was Orcutt's husband Douglass Howell. 15 unnumbered pages. 210 x 180 mm (8¼ x 7 inches).
Book ID: 2282More details Price: £80.00 -
The Three Great Sanctuaries of Tuscany, Valombrosa, Camaldoli, Laverna: A Poem with historical and Legendary notices.
Illustrated by engravings of the Scenery from original drawings by the late Reverend Edward Bury.
Book ID: 3540More details Price: £300.00
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The Way of the Cross and Other Verses.
Edition: First Edition
London: R. & T. Washbourne Ltd, 1913. First edition. Original purple buckram with white titles and Holy Cross to the front board. Bookplate of Syon Abbey, Chudleigh to the inside front board. Overall in sound condition. The buckram is clean, but the colour has entirely faded to the spine. Internally clean and tidy, with a little darkening to the end papers only. 72 pages.
Book ID: 1241More details Price: £34.00 -
The Wild Orchard.
London: Herbert & Daniel, 1911. A book of Irish Catholic poetry. Bound in original green cloth boards, with gilt stamped title to front and spine. Minor shelf-wear with very slight darkening to spine. Internally in a clean condition with minor foxing only to endpapers. Very good condition. 120 pages. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2041More details Price: £40.00 -
Toute la Flandre. Les villes à pignons.
Book ID: 2695More details Price: £45.00
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Twelve Summer Poems of 1962.
A limited, signed copy
Edition: First Edition
London: Privately printed: 1962. A lovely copy of this privately printed collection of poems. Spotless yellow card wrappers (now protected in a translucent glassine wrapper). One of ten copies numbered and signed by Sitwell for friends. This is copy 1/10. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).
Book ID: 1981More details Price: £48.00 -
Two Poems of Coventry Patmore.
Deux Poemes extraits de "The Unknown Eros." Traduction de Paul Claudel. Bois graves par John Buckland Wright.
Book ID: 3728More details Price: £130.00
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Usine. A penser des choses tristes
Lyon: Les Écrivains Réunis, 1957. A nice copy of this first edition / limited edition volume of poetry. One of 625 copies printed on feutré gris. Soft grey wraps - covered in clear glassine. No marks or damage to them. Internally clean and tidy throughout. 46 pages. 200 by 145mm (7¾ by 5¾ inches).
. Bel exemplaire de cette première édition / volume de poésie à tirage limité. Un des 625 exemplaires imprimés sur feutré gris. Couverture souple grise - recouverte d'un film transparent. Pas de marques ni de dommages. L'intérieur est propre et bien rangé. 46 pages. 200 x 145 mm.
Book ID: 4094More details Price: £30.00 -
Vivien, illustrated by Gustave Doré.
London: Edward Moxon & Co, 1867. First edition. Original burgundy buckram with gilt titles and design to the front board. Gilt titles to the spine. Boards are in good strong state, with a little darkening and a touch of bumping only. Clean but with a little marking to the rear panel. Purple end papers. Half title, Frontis, title, 9 full page illustrations. The text is mainly clean and tidy, with some light foxing throughout. The tissue guard to the frontis has a little tearing. An attractive copy. [6], 49, [1]. pp. 430 x 310 mm (17 x 12¼ inches).
First published as four separate titles: Elaine, Guinevere, Vivien and Enid; they were then combined into two-title volumes and later combined as part of "Idylls of the King".
Book ID: 2827More details Price: £400.00 -
Voices From the Heart. Sacred Poems.
New and Enlarged Edition Revised the the Right Rev. Doctor Leahy.
Edition: Reprint
Dublin: M.H. Gill and Son, 1881. Original blue cloth gilt, book-label of Syon Abbey (Monasterii S. Brigittae de Sion, Chudleigh). This is a presentation copy from W. F. Downing, Dublin 1884 to the Lady Abbess, with written presentation to the half title. Copac records a single copy of the first edition of 1879 at the British Library only; Preface states "The present volume contains a large number of poems that were not in the former edition, but have since been collected." xxviii, (17)-302, (ii) pp. Advertisements.
Book ID: 1013More details Price: £35.00