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London: Faber and Faber 1996. 8vo. First edition. 70 pp. Green hardback in dust jacket. Book in fine condition, dust jacket has light scratching to panels and minimal rubbing to spine ends. This book won the poetry prize for the 1996 Whitbread Awards, by the 1995 Nobel Prize laureate, Seamus Heaney. 9780571177608 . Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1996.

London: Macmillan & Co., Limited 1910. 8vo. First Edition. xii, 338, [10] pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt decoration to front board & gilt lettering to spine, latter slightly dulled and sunned. Top edge gilt. Some rubbing, very light wear and minor bumping to extremities. Foxing to edges and prelims, becoming much less frequent throughout the text. Some staining to… Read more about this item

London: Edward Moxon & Co. 1864. Small 8vo. viii, 261 pp. Full green morocco with gilt borders and decoration to boards and spine; all edges gilt. Some rubbing to spine ends and corners. Ink inscription to FFEP dated 1865. Spotting to endpapers and prelims, occasionally inside but generally internally clean. A cycle of twelve narrative poems retelling the legend of… Read more about this item

London: Bell and Daldy 1867. 4to. 59 pp. 15 photograph plates as called for. Full morocco with bevelled edges and gilt border and devices to boards; raised bands and gilt lettering and ruling to spine; marbled endpapers and gilt decorated turn-ins; a.e.g. Rubbing to extremities, with slight wear at top right corner and at top joints. Some foxing throughout, though… Read more about this item

Lowestoft: Scorpion Press 1964. 8vo. First edition. 65 pp. Blue hardback in dust jacket. Minor sunning to dust jacket spine. Page edges slightly tanned, and some light offsetting to endpapers. Internally clean with no ownership names. Australian, British-based poet, Peter Porter, was made Poet of Residence at the Royal Albert Hall in 2001. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1964.… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber 1954. 8vo. First edition. 163 pp. Purple hardback with gold lettering to spine in dust jacket (not price clipped). Some offsetting to endpapers, light creasing to top edge of jacket. Internally clean with no markings. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1954.

London: Smith, Elder, & Co. 1891. Small 8vo. x., 268 & vii., 262 pp. 2 volumes in 1.Full red calf with gilt borders, title-label and a gilt decorated spine by Zaehnsdorf. All edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Minor shelf wear to joints, edges and corners. Light scratches to boards and fore-edge. Internally clean. Poems selected by Robert Browning,… Read more about this item

London: Cecil Palmer 1927. Large 8vo.Signed Limited Edition. xiii, 356 pp., TEG. Vellum spine and strikingly designed batik boards. Numbered 44 of 350 copies signed by Chesterton. Some wear to extremities and some staining to top of boards and spine. Some foxing throughout, though many pages are clean. . Very Good. Vellum Spine. Signed Limited Edition. 1927.

London: Macmillan and Co 1924. Small 8vo. First thin paper edition. xii, 564 pp. Navy blue Ramage morocco binding with intricate gilt decoration to boards and spine and turn-ins. All edges gilt, silk endpapers. A few spots to prelims and endpapers. Internally clean. With 350 humorous and charming in-text illustrations by W. S. Gilbert. The Ballads were to become a… Read more about this item

Bristol: Printed by Biggs and Co. for T. N. Longman and O. Rees 1799 / 1800. 12mo. First Editions. [vi], 300; [v], 299 pp. Full calf with gilt borders to boards; red and green leather title labels, raised bands and gilt lettering and devices to spines. Red speckled edges; dentelles to outer edges of boards. Small patches of abrasion to… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1905. 12mo. lxvlii, 928 pp. Bound in full red morocco with gilt text to spine and raised bands. All edges gilt with dentelles decorating inner edges. A few nicks to the edges and light rubbing to extremities. A few scratches to gilt edges. Attractive marbled endpapers. Clean and unmarked internally with an ink gift inscription… Read more about this item

Oxford / Melbourne: Oxford University Press 1999. Small 8vo.Presentation Copy. 2 volumes. Signed First Edition presentation copies, signed and dated in both volumes. xiv, 405 ; xiv, 386 pp. Paperbacks in pictorial slipcase with lettering to edge. Slight bumping and rubbing to extremities of books and slipcase, though both in near fine condition. Volume one covers 1961-1981 and volume two… Read more about this item

London: Henry Frowde Oxford University Press 1904 - 1906. Small 8vo. 3 volumes. vi, 317; vi, 395; viii, 595 pp. Vellum spine over red cloth boards with gilt decoration and gilt lettering to leather title label at spine; t.e.g. Light rubbing and bumping to extremities. Minor foxing to fore-edges and endpapers, otherwise internally clean. Volume 1 is a reprint. Volume… Read more about this item

London: Cassell and Company Limited 1894. Large 8vo.Illustrated. lxviii, 388 pp. Blue publisher's cloth with decorative bevelled boards and spine blocked in turquoise, black and gilt. All edges gilt. Floral endpapers. Bumping and light wear to spine ends and extremities. Light occasional foxing internally, generally clean. Binding slightly slanted. Includes 'Life of John Milton' by Robert Vaughan. With fifty full-page… Read more about this item

London: Chapman and Hall 1846. Folio. Unpaginated. 48 full page plates, plus engraved title, with accompanying 1-2 page text for each engraving. Half morocco over patterned boards, with gilt lettering and design to spine. Rubbing to boards and spine, with flaking of leather. Some wear to extremities. Ink ownership mark to pastedown. Some foxing throughout. Characters from a variety of… Read more about this item

London: Printed for J. Murray 1776. 4to. [ii], 146 pp. 2 copper engravings dated 1776. Modern sympathetic respine over original tree calf with rubbed gilt borders to boards; gilt lettering and ruling to spine with raised bands; black leather title label; marbled endpapers. Wear to corners and rubbing to boards. 3 ink inscriptions to one page of prelims. Largely clean… Read more about this item

New York: Paddington Press 1976. 4to. xxix, 268 pp. Black embossed hardback in dust jacket. Tear to front panel of jacket and light rubbing to edges and panels of jacket. Internally clean and unmarked. In 1941, the Limited Editions Club of New York commissioned photographer Edward Weston to illustrate photographically a special edition of Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass'. Weston… Read more about this item

London: The Enitharmon Press 1980. 8vo. No. 159 of 180 copies. Black buckram over paper illustrated boards in cloth slipcase with paper illustrated label, both designed by Ceri Richards. xvi, 169 pp. Two small dents to spine, clean boards and pages, like new internally. Laid paper with black-and-white frontispiece of Dylan Thomas, illustrated title-page and many accompanying drawings arranged around… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann 1918. 16mo. First edition. viii, 64 pp. Full purple contemporary cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Sunning to spine and near joints, a few marks to boards. Tanning to edges of pages and occasional foxing inside. Includes 'Counter-Attack', possibly one of Sassoon's longest poems, which vividly describes the horrors of a counter-attack in the trenches. . Very… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Davison 1828. Small 8vo. 2 volumes: 344 pp. & 372 pp. Original blue card boards with title labels to the spines. Spines chipped with loss. Markings and wear to boards, particularly at the edges. Foxing to prelims of both volumes. First free endpaper of volume 1 has been cut, and there is some occasionaly damage and creasing to… Read more about this item