Search Results: Poetry and Verse from Roger Lucas Booksellers

London: Faber, 1974. UK reprint in soft cover format, 8vo, 73pp, card covers dusty and a little age-darkened with mild scratch mark to upper panel, G Copy. Reprint. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Katabasis, 1995. 1st edition in soft cover format, 8vo, 71pp, card covers, VG+ Copy. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Stockwell 1st edition, 8vo, 61pp, line illustrations by Venetia Green and the author; at the time of writing nobody has this curio listed, not once amongst 25 million or so; make what you will of that; not dated but it might be pre-war (WW2 that is) VG Copy in sound DJ a little spotted and "nibbled" about extrems but essentially all there. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Peterborough: Arrival Press, 1992. 1st edition in soft cover format, 8vo, 161pp, various contributors; card covers; VG Copy. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1973. 1st edition, 8vo, 66pp, VG Copy in VG DJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Smith Elder & Co, 1871. 1st edition, 12mo, 170pp, brown bevelled boards lettered, blocked and decorated gilt and black; uncut pages; previous owner's tiny, spidery inscription upper corner of title page - not at all intrusive, inner paper hinges tender and starting to crack, some mild rubbing to sp extrems, overall however a nicely preserved example; VG Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Kegan & Co, 1880. 1st edition, 12mo, 184pp + ads, green cloth blind decorated and lettered gilt to spine, boards with some rubbing and general tenderness and splitting to inner paper hinges but generally not a bad example; G but close to VG Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Norton, 1974. 1990s reprint in soft cover format in the Norton Critical Edition series, 8vo, 591pp, selected and edited by Hugh Maclean; Authoritative Texts, Criticism; card covers; previous owner's name to corner of ffep o/w VG Copy. Reprint. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Bodley Head, 1943. 1st edition, 12mo, 32pp, previous owner's neat name/date ffep, some inevitable browning of cheap wartime paper o/w VG Copy in dusty and rubbed DJ missing the bottom inch or so of spine and a little chipped at head of spine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Oxford University Press, 1927. Reprint, 8vo, 325pp, dark blue cloth lettered and decorated gilt, selected Charles Williams; a previous owner has annotated in pencil two or three poems leaving the rest unscathed, o/w G Copy, no DJ. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Folio Society, 1997. Reprint in the Folio Society edition and 1st edition thus, 8vo, 160pp, colour and line illustrations by Posy Simmonds; VG+/Fine Copy in VG+/Fine Slipcase. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine. Illus. by Simmonds, Posy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 1st edition, large 8vo, 279pp, edited and introduced by Feldman and Robinson; VG+/Fine Copy in VG+/Fine DJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London Edition unstaed and undated (C1945), likely early reprint in softcover format, 8vo, 32pp, foreword Naomi Jacob; card covers a shade age-darkened o/w VG Copy. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Folio Society, 1998. 1st edition in the Folio Society edition these illustrations, 8vo, 105pp, illustrations by Helen Smithson, introduction Michael Rosen; rather lengthy previous owner's inscription on half title o/w VG Copy in VG Slipcase. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Smithson, Helen. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Ernest Benn, 1951. Reprint in the Mermaid Library series, 1950s format, 12mo, 430pp, edited by Havelock Ellis with an introduction from J A Symonds; previous owner's neat name to fr pastedown, spine lettering faded to oblivion, boards severely faded in small patches commensurate with jacket chipping, o/w sound G Copy in DJ missing the bottom half inch of spine and several chips to edegs and extrems. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: John Murray, 1981. Reprint, 8vo, 66pp, line illustrations John Piper; VG Copy in VG DJ with a little fade to spine but nothing severe. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Piper, John. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Warwick: Greville Press, 1984. 1st edition in soft cover format in the Greville Press Pamphlets series limited to 100 copies, 8vo, 18pp, card covers; VG+ Copy; presentation copy from the publisher, inscription on title page reads: For Ron ever Tony. (In 1975 Harold Pinter had accepted an invitation from Anthony Astbury a poetry-loving teacher at a private school in Warwick, to give a reading of his own work at the Warwick Gallery. The evening was not only a big success. The two men discovered they shared similar tastes in poetry, and when Astbury and another friend, Geoffrey Godbert, decided to set up a small publishing imprint called the Greville Press, Pinter gave it his enthusiastic support. Indeed, the Press was launched with an event at the Purcell Room in September 1979 when George Barker, William Empson, David Gascoyne, W S. Graham, John Heath-Stubbs and John Wain all read from their work. Pinter chaired and compered the evening; and over the years he has devoted a good deal of time, energy and… Read More

London: Bodley Head, 1914. 1st edition, 8vo, 351pp, frontis; green cloth lettered and decorated gilt, teg, covers mildly marked, spine a little tanned, essentially however G/VG Copy, no DJ. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Revised and enlarged edition of the 1981 edition, in soft cover format in the Oxford Poets series, 8vo, 368pp, card covers, VG+ Copy. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Viking, 2003. Reprint, large 8vo, 418pp, VG+ Copy in VG+ DJ. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.