Browse by Subject Category—Poetry
Raiders' Dawn
Alun Lewis's first book of poetry, with the bookplate of Vivian de Sola Pinto
Alun Lewis
George Allen & Unwin, London, 1944
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Association Copy
The Life and Death of Jason (Signed copy)
This copy signed by American writer and anthologist Edward J O'Brien
William Morris
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1914
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | Association Copy
Witch Poems
A collection of poems about witches, superbly illustrated
Daisy Wallace, editor. Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman
Pepper Press, London, 1980
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper
1853, in an ornate gilt binding by John Leighton
William Cowper, binding design initialled by John Leighton
Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh, 1853
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Oxford Poetry 1925
including early work by Graham Greene, C Day Lewis and Harold Acton
Patrick Monkhouse, and Charles Plumb (editors)
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1925
£35.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
The Poetical Works of Lord Byron
1861, full leather binding with gauffered and gilt page edges
Lord Byron, introduction by Alexander Leighton
W P Nimmo, Edinburgh, 1861
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
In the Day of Battle
1916, an early anthology of Great Poetry, and the first apprearance in book form of John McCrae's In Flanders Fields
Carrie Ellen Holman
William Briggs, Toronto, 1916
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Golden Staircase, Poems for Children
1906, in a delightful cream cloth and gilt decorated binding
Louey Chisholm, colour plates by M Dibdin Spooner
T C & E C Jack, London, 1906
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Fine Bindings
Hogarth Living Poets No 24: New Signatures
including W H Auden, Stephen Spender and Julian Bell
Michael Roberts, editor
The Hogarth Press, London, 1932
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Thoreau Calendar
A Quotation from the Works of Henry David Thoreau for Every Day in the Year (1912)
Henry David Thoreau, edited by E M Evors
Frank Palmer, London, 1912
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Art in the Light of Conscience (Signed copy)
Eight essays on poetry by Marina Tsvetaeva, signed by translator Angela Livingstone, and a copy of The Ratcatcher (also signed by Livingstone)
Marina Tsvetaeva, translated & edited by Angela Livingstone
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1992
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Nineteen-Sixteen, An Anthology
1935, poems inspired by the Easter Rising in Dublin, 1916
Edna C Fitzhenry, compiler
Browne and Nolan, Dublin, 1935
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
The Crusader's Christmas
c1890, covers cut in the shape of the crusader's armour, and with super lithographs
Broadbrim, illustrations by Frank Feller
The Art Lithographic Publishing Co, Munich & New York, 1890
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Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor
C K Scott Moncrieff's translation "Done Into Common English After the Old Manner"
C K Scott Moncrieff, with an introduction by Viscount Northcliffe
Chapman & Hall, London, 1921
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
Dante's Divine Comedy, Vol 1: Inferno
Venice, 1751. La Commedia di Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Giambatista Pasquali, Venezia (Venice), 1751
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Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Mrs Kimber (Signed copy)
Signed by artist Mary Kessell, and Shell publicity maestro Jack Beddington
Osbert Sitwell, illustrated by Mary Kessell
Macmillan, London, 1937
£80.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Julia, Daughter of Claudius
1927, Gertrude Trevelyan's first work and winner of the Newdigate Prize for poetry
Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan
Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1927
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Poems of The Land Army
1945, An anthology of verse by members of the Women's Land Army
Vita Sackville-West, (foreword)
The Land Girl, London, 1945
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Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
A Dream Observed and Other Poems (Signed copy)
Signed by Anne Ridler and Roger Senhouse, with handwritten note by Tambimuttu
Anne Ridler
Poetry London, London, 1941
£80.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
Elected Friend, Poems for and about Edward Thomas (Signed copy)
Signed by the compiler, Anne Harvey
Anne Harvey, compiler, with an introduction by Vernon Scannell
Enitharmon Press, London, 1991
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Adlestrop Revisited (Signed copy)
Signed by Anne Harvey, an anthology inspired by Edward Thomas's poem
Anne Harvey, editor and compiler
Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1999
£12.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Written with the Bayonet
Soviet Russian Poetry of World War Two
Katharine Hodgson
Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 1996
£12.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Poems for France (Signed copy)
Edited by Nancy Cunard and signed by Joyce Rowe, one of the contributors.
Nancy Cunard
La France Libre, London, 1944
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Poems by Edward Thomas ("Edward Eastaway") (Signed copy)
1997, limited edition, no 9 of 300, signed by Edward Thomas' daughter Myfanwy Thomas
Edward Thomas, with an introduction by Myfanwy Thomas, and a preface by Alan A Martin.
Imperial War Museum, London, 1997
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Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Selected Poems of Alun Lewis (Signed copy)
This copy signed by Gweno Lewis, widow of Alun Lewis
Alun Lewis, selected by Jeremy Hooker and Gweno Lewis, with a foreword by Robert Graves
Unwin Paperbacks, London, 1981
£40.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
