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Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters
The innovative free verse collection of small-town life that made Edgar Lee Masters a legend A literary sensation when it appeared in 1915, Spoon River Anthology earned Edgar Lee Masters comparisons to T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman. The characters who speak here tarnish the pure image of their Midwestern hamlet by holding forth from the grave with tales of illicit love affairs, betrayed confidences, political corruption, and miserable marriages. The first serious work of psychological naturalism, this...
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Songs Of Innocence and Of Experience
by William Blake
"William Blake's Songs of innocence and of experience is reproduced by permission from copy E, 54039, in the Henry E. Huntington Library"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Complete Poetical Works Of John Greenleaf Whittier With Numerous Illustrations
by John Greenleaf Whittier
English Poetry Books & Ephemera
Irish Melodies
by Thomas Moore
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1852. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. D. Appleton & Co, Circa 1852. Hard Cover. All edges gilt. Miniature book. Leather cover has considerable shelfwear with a spot on front, rubbed corners and spine edges. chipped to spine ends with bottom end frayed. Frontispiece and tissue intact. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly foxed. Four pages of advertising following text. Binding is tight. Hinges cracked. Very nice copy.
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£18.62
Steal Away Boy: The Selected Poems of David Mitchell
by David Mitchell
Auckland University Press, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good. A few light marks to top and bottom edges of text block - otherwise, as new.
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£8.00
LIED VAN ALI EN ANDER GEDIGTE.
by Du Plessis, I.D
Nasionale Pers. Cape Town 1931.. Ownership stamp ffep & title page. some minor marking to front board, spine faded, a G++ clean copy, contents excellent. Decorated yellow cloth boards. 97pp. A selection of Author's verse.
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£20.00
Korea Through Her Arts
by Kim Ki-Mun
Yesul Chunchu Sa, 1964. Good- in Good- DJ. Text block is clean and beautiful but completely wavy (may be due to adhesive used to attach color plates to pages). Binding is beginning to split at front flyleaf. DJ is torn, abbraided, and creased but in tact. Appendix pamphlet laid in. Book includes 6 records of Korean Folk Music. Text is in English and Korean. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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£48.57
Prairie Journey
by Madeline Coopsammy
Autographed. Presumably first edition. 114 p. Incredibly mild shelfwear with sticker to cover, otherwise Fine. The author was born in Trinidad and moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, in Canada in the late 1960s. From the back: This collection is a sensory journey from a warm green equatorial island to the changing seasons of a Prairie landscape. The poems explore the effects of colonialism, ancestral memories, and immigration on the poet's journey from youth to maturity. The frantic push for first-world...
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£16.22
The Midsummer Cushion
by John Clare; Anne Tibble (ed.)
Northumberland: Mid Northumberland Arts Group with Carcanet Press. 1st printing (1979). 519pp. Near Fine/Near Fine copy but for some minor chipping to jacket top edge, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1979.
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£10.00
Dante: The Selected Works
by Dante Alighieri; Paolo Milano (ed.)
London: Chatto & Windus. 1st thus (1972). 662pp. Near Fine/Near Fine copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1972.
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£20.00
Laments
by Jan Kochanowski; Seamus Heaney (trans.); Stanislaw Baranczak (trans.)
London: Faber and Faber. 1st printing (1995). 53pp. VG/VG copy, jacket lightly edge worn with small closed tear to head of spine, small scuff to jacket front cover near spine edge, some minor rippling to jacket rear cover, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1995.
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£60.00
Collected Poems, Vol. I: The Loom of Years; The Flower of Old Japan; The Forest of Wild Thyme; Forty Singing Seamen
by Alfred Noyes
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons. 8th imp. (1917). 333pp. Original green cloth with gilt titles to cover and spine, top edge gilt. VG copy, binding square and tight, spine dulled, internally excellent, ink name on ffep, no jacket . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1917.
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£10.00
Counter-Attack and Other Poems
by Siegfried Sassoon
London: William Heinemann. 4th imp. (January 1919). 64pp. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to front cover and spine, blind borders to front panel. VG copy, binding square and tight, bump to rear fore edge and lower corner, spine dulled but cover titles bright, internally excellent but for toning to later pages, ex libris bookplate on front pastedown with consistent ink initials on ffep, no jacket . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1919.
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£80.00
The Poets and the Poetry of the Century
by [MILES, ALFRED H., COMPILER]
London: Hutchinson & Co., [1891-1897], 1891. First edition, limited issue, number 45 of 110 numbered copies. Cited numerous times in NCBEL III under the individual poets. Some slight wear, soiling and small cracks and wrinkles in the vellum; in very good condition.. 10 vols, small 8vo, original white parchment, gilt lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. An exemplary poetical anthology, covering the whole of 19th century English poetry, more or less chronologically, from Crabbe, William Blake and the...
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£607.12
Kisses For Mayakovsky
by Alison Fell
Virago, 1984. paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Thank you for supporting Earthlight Books and independent bookstores. Trade paperback. Good. Minor shelf wear to covers/pages. Clean, tight binding.
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£6.07
POINTS OF MISERY; or FABLES FOR MANKIND: Prose and Verse, Chiefly Original, by Charles Westmacott.
by Charles Westmacott
Westmacott, Charles, POINTS OF MISERY; or FABLES FOR MANKIND: Prose and Verse, Chiefly Original, by Charles Westmacott. Illustrated with Twenty Designs by Robert Cruikshank. London: Published by Sherwood, Jones and Co. Paternoster-Row, 1823. Large paper copy with original wrapper bound in. Presentation copy, with "From the Author" on the initial blank following the original wrapper front cover. Imperial 8vo. 25cm, untrimmed. Some tissue guards for the engravings are still in place. 97 pages followed by...
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£688.08
Rhyme's Vexations: Poems and Recreations
by Edward Sampson
Hanover Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This first edition is in very good condition. Faint pencil inscription to the inside cover, otherwise close to near fine. An excellent copy.
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£2.99
The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume I, 1898-1922
by T. S. Eliot; Valerie Eliot (ed.)
Faber and Faber. 1st printing (1988). 639pp. Near Fine/Near Fine copy, a hint of sunning to jacket spine, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1988.
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£10.00
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Blowing Dust Off the Lens (Poetry Series One, Number Six) [Limited Printing]
by Jim Wallace
First Edition. States also that only 300 copies were being printed.44 p.; ill. Incredibly mild shelfwear, otherwise As New. Unread. Table of Contents: Indian Girl Decline and Fall of Emperor and Clown: Arrival of the Prairie CatalogueMy Laugh Winnipeg Winter An Arsonist of Paperback Bookstores Evades Prophecies Of DoomA Woman's Liberation Speech Firmly Based On Medical Statistics Confession Magazine Science Song for Swinging Lovers Liberal Minded Primary School Teacher Occidental Haiku Tomorrow...
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£16.35
On the Four Quartets of T. S. Eliot
by Anon [Constance de Masirevich]; Roy Campbell (foreword)
London: Vincent Stuart. 1st printing (1953). 64pp. Near Fine/Near Fine copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1953.
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£80.00
Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection
by Richard Lansdown (ed.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1st printing (2015). 518pp. Near Fine/Near Fine copy, review slip laid in, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2015.
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£10.00
The Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse
by E. K. Chambers
London: Oxford University Press. 9th printing (1976). 905pp. Near Fine/Near Fine copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1932.
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£10.00
This Is the Moon's Work
by Hayes, Diana
Mother Tongue Publishing, 2011. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This signed first edition is in very good condition. Signed with an inscription by the author on the title page. A very good clean copy.
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£19.99
The Works of ROBERT BURNS. 4 Vols.
by Currie, James M.D. (Ed)
Half calf ; gold titles on spines are rather dim; 6 compartments on spine with 5 embellishments and a title. Vols 1, 2, 3 have very old signatures and very small owner's library stamp. Opposite all engravings the paper is foxed but apart from the paper being uniformly tanned with age, there is no foxing. It appears that all vols are unread. VOL 1. "With a Criticism on His Writings" - Frontis, xii plus 370pp incl 2 Appendices and some poetry. VOL 2. VOL II . "General Correspondence Including Pieces of...
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£98.58
Out of the Flame
by Osbert Sitwell
London: Grant Richards. 1st printing (1923). 95pp. Original green cloth with paper title label on spine. VG copy, binding square and tight, title label a little chipped, internally excellent, no jacket . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1923.
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£10.00
Poems of the Heart
by Richard Brooks, Editor
Dodge Publishing Company, 1913. VG+. Green and brown stamped leather binding shows rubbing and abrasion on edges, spine, and front and back covers. Marbled end papers slightly age-toned. Inked inscription on flyleaf and old penciled price on end paper. Inscription says, "Wishing Etta much happiness. from Orville May 30, 1915." Original box is heavily worn along all edges and has been taped together. Overall, a lovely copy of a book of poems that can still uplift today. Photo is of the copy we have here...
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£80.95
Jack and the Doctor: John Donne, 1572-1631
by Mary Clive
London: Macmillan and Company. 1st printing (1966). 216pp. VG+/VG+ copy, price-clipped, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1966.
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£10.00
Poetry From Oxford in Wartime
by William Bell, Philip Larkin, contributer
The Fortune Press. Hardcover. Good. 1945. No dust jacket. Spine and gilt on spine are faded. Corners are a bit dented. Pages 73 to 76, 77 to 80, 89 to 92 and 93 to 96 are unopened. Hinges slightly cracked, especially towards the front, at the contents. Pages are slightly tanned due to age. Very light pencil check marks at several places in the margins. Light pencil mark just inside the front cover "6/?? 1945." Contributions from two dozen poets, most notibaly 10 selections from Philip Larkin. Used
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£56.66
