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London: Omnific, 1973. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in foxed wraps/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w frontispiece drawing by Allen Jones Collection of poems by Peter Stark, signed with short gift-inscription by the poet to half-title page; b&w frontispiece drawing by Allen Jones, same to front cover of dustwrapper; Very Good and clean throughout; medium foxing to dustwrapper and with some stains to rear.

New York : Kodansha, 2013. 1st US Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good Dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations The complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho, translated by American Haiku poet Jane Reichhold, a project to which she devoted over a decade of work; Reichhold also provides a lengthy critical introduction, notes and appendices; b&w text illustrations, and chapter dividers by Shiro Tsujimura; first US edition (6 5 4 3 2 1); Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

Berrima: South Head Press, 1984. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st hardbound edition of this collection of poems by Grace Perry, being a special edition of Poetry Australia (no. 93); blue boards with gilt titling to front and spine, dustwrapper shows a picture of the poet backgrounded by cows.

Ajmer: ARAWLII Publications, 2008. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Selected poems of Satish Verma; foreword by Anuraag Sharma, with other short texts by Sheela Upadhyay, EE Sule, John Kinsella, and Christopher Rollason.

Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1970. Signed 1st edition. Paperback. Very Good in rubbed wraps. 12mo. David J. Sandison cover art Signed 1st Edition of David Malouf's first collection of poems, being also the First volume of the Paperback Poets series published by the University of Queensland Press; this is the first issue with $1 price to front cover, and no text on spine; signed with gift-inscription by Malouf to title page; this copy Very Good throughout; wraps a little rubbed and foxed, and with some foxing to reverse sides of covers front and rear.

Toronto: Tsar Publications, 2010. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collection of ghazals (short poems in rhyming couplets) broadly influenced by Sufi philosophy, and tracing the steps of a woman's metaphorical journey from dusk through night to morning; former owner's name-stamp to title page, o.w. Very Good.

New York: Treacle Press, 1978. Numbered Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good tight and clean in Very Good dustwrapper /Dustwrapper. 8vo. Collection of poems by Robert Kelly, published here by Bruce McPherson's Treacle Press in a numbered limited edition, being No. 28 of 100 copies Signed by Kelly; illustrated with a photomontage by Carolee Schneemann; blue cloth boards with blind-stamped titling to front, yellow endpapers; illustrated dustwrapper; Very Good tight bright and clean throughout; dustwrapper a little rubbed (a little more to rear), short closed tear top rear, o.w. Very Good;

London: George G. Harrap, no date C1930. leather. Very Good in rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Selections from the Canterbury Tales, edited and with notes and a glossary by JM Manly; includes frontispiece plate illustration with tissue-guard, and 6 full-page b&w plates throughout; includes introductory chapter (Chaucer's Life, Chaucer's England, The Canterbury Tales, The Language of Chaucer, Versification, Astronomy and Astrology); this copy in school-prize binding of full calf with gilt titling and devices to spine, circular school coat of arms to front board (Girls' Grammar School Rockhampton); prize plate to front pastedown; no publishing date, but pre-1930 (prize plate dated 1930); text block tanned, occasional mild foxing, o.w. Very Good throughout; leather with some wear to foot of spine, and with some rubbing/wear along spine.

Iowa: Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries, 1984. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 12mo. b&w illustrations Leigh Hunt's celebrated anti-war poem, being a facsimile of the first edition of 1835, with an introduction by Rhodes Dunlap; half red cloth with grey cloth sides, gilt titling to spine; minor foxing to text block, o.w. Very Good and clean throughout; dustwrapper very lightly edgeworn and with some mild tanning, o.w. G-VG.

London: Methuen, 1958. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 12mo. 1st Edition verse sequence evoking the spirit of an English Cathedral and the characters associated with its history; light offset/foxing to endpapers, prelims, and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, tanned to spine, price clipped, o.w. Very Good.

Prague: Cs spis klub pratel poezie, 1971. 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. square 8vo. b&w illustrations Czech edition of the poems of Morgenstern, including a 7' vinyl record (in illustrated sleeve) of a performance of Bim Bam Bum; one poem only in English (The Moonsheep), the remainder in Czech (translated from the German by Josef Hirsal); b&w illustrations by Zdenek Seydl; includes a biographical introduction, and key dates to rear; published for members of the Ceskoslovensky spisovatel Klub pratel poezie (Czech friends of poetry club); grey boards with silver titling to front and spine; vinyl record VG with no scratches; foxing to endpapers, occasional light foxing in text, knock top text block with mild creases to corners of pages, short closed tear top left of record sleeve, o.w. G-VG throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, tanned to spine, mild creases and short closed tears.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. 2nd Edition. hardbound. Good-Very Good/no dustwrapper. sm 8vo. b&w frontispiece illustration 2nd Edition of Scottish poet Robert Buchanan's epic poem The City of Dream; b&w frontispiece illustration (with tissue-guard) and b&w title page vignette; former owner's name to front pastedown and title page; foxing to endpapers, prelims, and text block, mild toning to edges of pages throughout, o.w. Very Good; boards lightly rubbed, and with mild worn spots to rear.

London: Faber and Faber, 1951. 1st UK Edition. hardbound. Good-Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st UK Edition of the Collected Poems of Marianne Moore, with poems from Selected Poems 1935, What Are Years 1941, Nevertheless 1944, and also a section of previously unpublished poems; medium foxing/offset to endpapers, lighter foxing to prelims and text block, ink stain top text block, very mild worn spot to title page, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, 2 x 4cm loss top rh corner front panel, tape-repair to head of spine, worn patch foot of spine (with loss of titling), price clipped.

Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1995. Reissue. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. The 1995 re-issue in hardback of the collected poems of the James K. Baxter; comprehensive collection, from early poems 1941-45 through the 50's and 60's, and up to the late poems 1972, and The Tree House and Other Poems; attempts to provide definitive texts of the poems, with brief textual notes where required; includes Bibliography of Baxter's verse, glossary of Maori words; text block foxed, toning to edges of pages, o.w. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING IF DESTINATION IS OUTSIDE AUSTRALIA.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Everyman's Library, 1968. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 12mo. Fred Exell dustwrapper 1st Everyman's Library 1968 of the complete poems of Villon, translated by Beram Saklatvala, and with an introduction and explanatory index by John Fox; gift-inscription to half-title page, mild bleeding to top edges of some pages from red topstain, shelfwear to boards, o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper rubbed, toned to spine, o.w. Good.

New York: Liveright , 1924. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. Complete poems of Villon including The Little Testament and The Great Testament in the translations of both John Herron Lepper and John Payne (and with the respective introductions of both), followed by Payne's translation of Divers Poems and Sundry Poems, and finally followed with English versions by Rossetti, Swinburne, Symons, and Ezra Pound; publication page gives date of 1924 with no other dates or details; black cloth boards with gilt titling/motif to front, blue title label and gilt titling to spine, gilt designs to spine; worn patch to front endpaper, text block foxed, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, vertical stain to front panel, spine sunned.

London: Oxford University Press, 1966. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations OUP edition of the complete writings of Blake, edited with notes by Geoffrey Keynes, being an improved version (with corrections and additions) of the Nonesuch edition of 1952; contains all of Blake's substantive variants, and also including Blake's illustrations for The Gates of Paradise; a volume in the Oxford Standard Authors; tape stains to endpapers, prelims and pastedowns front and rear, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, and with worn patch to rear, o.w. Good; dustwrapper in (publisher's original?) clear sleeve.

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1968. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. First volume of the comprehensive 2 vol set of Cummings' Complete Poems, being the first complete edition of his poems published anywhere; this volume covering the period between 1913-1935; 1st trade edition (there was a numbered limited edition); two-tone cloth boards with red title label and gilt titling to spine; light foxing to text block, very occasional light foxing in text, minor worn spots top edge of boards, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, mild foxing to flaps, short closed tear top front (with tape-repair), o.w. Very Good.

California: Orirana Press, 1985. Limited Edition. hardbound. Very Good in rubbed boards/no dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w frontispiece illustration Nice small press publication, printed by Meriden-Stinehour Press (Vermont) on Mohawk Letterpress paper; being Ann Stanford's dramatic poem based on the life of Caterina Sforza; b&w frontispiece drawing of a handsome hawk by Jennifer Jo Smith; published in an edition of 440 copies (not numbered), this copy signed by Ann Stanford and with gift-inscription ('dearest friend') to front endpaper; also includes a single page with typed poem by Stanford loose-inserted; half black buckram with printed title label to spine, black cloth sides, orange endpapers; Very Good tight and clean throughout; boards lightly rubbed, and with some pale white marks front and rear.

London: Rex Collings, 1978. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st UK Edition of this Breytenbach anthology, published while the poet was in prison in South Africa for anti-apartheid activity; poems given in the original Afrikaans with English translation on facing pages (various translators); poems selected, edited and with an introduction by A.J. Coetzee; maroon cloth boards with gilt titling to spine; medium foxing/toning to endpapers and text block, lighter to prelims, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper a little rubbed, o.w. Very Good.