ORION A Poem Sequence
Belfast: Lapwing Publications, 2012. 9781909252042. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. vi + 36 (no other inscriptions). More
Literature
THE WORKS OF BEN JONSON With a Biographical Memoir.
Routledge Warne and Routledge, 1860. New edn. Tall 8vo (9½ x 6½ ins). Contemporary full mottled calf, raised-ribbed spine elaborately gilt tooled with contrasting label, boards with triple fillet and fleuron borders, gilt tooled returns, all edges gilt and marbled endpapers (small abrasion at bottom edge of upper board -..... More
DIGTE OG EPIFANIER Poems and Epiphanies.
Copenhagen: Brondum, 1991. Tall 8vo. Original card covers in printed wraps (softback) (covers lightly marked - otherwise VG). Pp. 139, illus with coloured frontispiece (pages uncut; no inscriptions). [Parallel English and Danish text]. More
DONALD JUSTICE New and Selected Poems.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. 9780679441731. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered maroon cloth, top edge yellow (light spotting on fore-edge - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. x + 176 (no inscriptions). More
THE EMPEROR'S FAVOURITE The Malone Society Reprints Volume 174
Malone Society [&] Manchester University Press , 2010. 9780719086090. Tall 8vo. Original black lettered grey cloth (small mark at top edge of spine - otherwise Fine), no dustwrapper. Pp. liv + 130, illus with coloured plates (no inscriptions). More
ODES LYRICAL BALLADS AND POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS
Edinburgh: Printed for the author by J. Ballantyne and Co., 1809. Inscribed by author on leaf bound-in preceding half title. Tall 8vo (9½ x 6 ins). Contemporary half vellum on marbled paper-laid boards, spine gilt tooled in six compartments with gilt lettered label (vellum a little discoloured at corners -..... More
THE MIDNIGHT PLANE Selected and New Poems.
Otago University Press, 2025. 9781991348005. 1st edn. 8vo. Original laminated pictorial boards (Fine). Pp. 168 (no inscriptions). More
INEXPLICABLE OCCASIONS
Fisherrow Publications, 2016. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 40 (no other inscriptions). More
THE DARKEST PASTORAL Selected Poems.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2025. 9781324089292. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original red lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xix + 250 (no inscriptions). More
RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE Definitive Edition.
Hodder and Stoughton, 1941. 8vo. Original gilt lettered full morocco, top edge gilt (boards lightly marked - otherwis near Fine) in rather battered box. Pp. xvi + 844 on india paper (previous owner's light pencil inscription on front paste-down). More
ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH SONNET SEQUENCES OF THE RENAISSANCE I Texts
Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1984. 3487075237. Volume I Texts. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (minor edge wear, creasing on spine). Pp. 482 (previous owner's neat inscription on front endpaper). More
LA MODERNITA DI DANTE Prospettive Semiotiche sulla Commedia.
Angelo Longo Editore, 2021. 9788893500722. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine in publisher's unopened shrinkwrap). Pp. 226 (no inscriptions). More
REYKJAVIK REQUIEM
Arc Publications, 2020. 9781910345016. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (near Fine). Pp. 101, with b&w illus (no inscriptions). More
THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN LANGHORNE Collated with the Best Editions in Two Volumes.
Printed at the Stanhope Press by Charles Whittingham for John Sharpe, 1806. 16mo (5¼ x 3¼ ins). 2 vols in 1. Contemporary full polished calf, spine elaborately gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting labels, boards with double gilt fillet border and gilt tooled at edges, blue marbled edges (lightly..... More
BLIZZARDS SWORDS AND TEARS
Eyewear Publishing, 2019. 9781912477746. 8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (Fine). Pp. 58 (no inscriptions). More
THE BLOOM OF CANDLES Verse from a Poet's Year.
John Lehmann, 1947. 1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered yellow cloth (boards toned at edges and faint spotting on page edges - otherwise near Fine), dustwrapper (toned at eedges of covers - otherwise VG in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Unpaginated (24) (no inscriptions). More
MONTICELLO And Other Poems
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. 1st edn with a manuscript poem signed by author dated January 18 1944 on verso of front free endpaper. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (poor - boards faded at edges and spine split and torn - in protective glassine cover), no dustwrapper. Pp..... More
A LINGUISTIC TO ENGLISH POETRY
Longman, 1969. 1st edn 2nd imp. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (top edge faintly spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. xv + 240 (no inscriptions). More
WORD OVER ALL
Jonathan Cape, 1943. 1st edn. 8vo. Original red lettered cream cloth (near Fine), dustwrapper (VG in protective wrapper). Pp. 52 (previous owner's neat 1943 inscription on front endpaper). More
WORD OVER ALL
Jonathan Cape, 1944. 1st edn 3rd impr. 8vo. Original red lettered cream cloth, top edge red (a few light tanning spots on upper board - VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 52 (previous owner's neat 1943 inscription on front endpaper). More
A SELECTION FROM MODERN SWEDISH POETRY Translated in the Original Metres
George Allen & Unwin, 1929. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered blue cloth (cloth faded at spine, boards lightly marked, prelims very spotted), no dustwrapper. Pp. 161 (previous owner's neat pencil annotation on front free endpaper) (ex school library with bookplate on front paste-down and usual stamps and markings). More
THE POEMS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Bell and Daldy, 1868. 6 vols. 8vo. Original uniform blind-ruled gilt lettered green cloth with US arms stamped in gilt on upper boards, top edges gilt (front edge of upper board of vol II lightly scuffed - otherwise a near Fine set. Pp. various (previous owner's neat 1887 inscription on..... More
A JOVIAL HULLABALOO Inaugural Lecture as ireland Professor of Poetry.
Enitharmon Press, 2008. Limited numbered 1st edition (40 of 50) signed by author. 8vo (9¾ x 6½ ins). Original maroon cloth-backed marbled paper-laid boards with printed labels on spine and upper board (Fine), in slipcase (Fine). Pp. 25, designed and printed by Rampant Lions Press on 120gsm Somerset Laid paper..... More
LOVE POET CARPENTER Michael Longley at Seventy.
Enitharmon Press, 2009. Limited numbered 1st edition (143 of 195) signed by the 59 contributors on rear endpapers. 8vo (9¾ x 6½ ins). Original gilt lettered blue cloth with small plate on upper board (Fine), in matching slipcase (Fine). Pp. 125, illus with b&w frontispiece and b&w plate at rear..... More