Poetry & Drama
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Aeschyli Persae ad Fidem Manuscriptorum Emendavit Notas et Glossarium Adjecit Carolus Jacobus Blomfield.
Cantabrigiae [Cambridge]: Typis Academicis, Excudit Joannes Smith, 1818. [Ancient Greek Drama] SECOND EDITION THUS. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xxxii; 228. Interspersed with a blank leaf for every leaf of text, intended for notes. The editor's preface in Latin, followed by the main text in Greek, with extensive footnotes in..... More
The Background of Modern Poetry. An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on 10 May 1946 by C.M. Bowra, M.A., D.Litt., Professor of Poetry.
Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1946. [Literary Criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (23 x 15cm), pp.20. Publisher's grey typographic paper covers, sewn. Small black ink ownership of Colin C. Moore to title page. Some light wear and toning to extremities. Very good. More
Q. Horatius Flaccus Ex Recensione et cum Notis atque Emendationibus Richardi Bentleii.
Amsterdam: Rod. and Jacob. Wetstenios and Guil. Smith, 1728. [Classics] FINE PRIZE BINDING, THIRD EDITION THUS. Quarto (25 x 22cm), pp.[28] 717; [1] 239 [3]. All text in Latin. With a copper engraved frontispiece, and followed by 'Index in Q. Horatium Flaccum, olim quidem collectus a Thoma Tretero, deinde omnibus..... More
The Cloud-Messenger. An Indian Love Lyric.
London: John Murray, 1930. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.61 [3]. Publisher's pictorial softcovers, with the dust-jacket of matching design priced at 2/6 to backstrip. Advertisements to rear. Interior toned with light, infrequent spotting. Toning and faint marking to wraps and dust-jacket. Gentle edgewear to jacket. Very good..... More
A Christmas Book. An Anthology for Moderns.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1928. [Christmas stories] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xix; 320 [2]. With in-text illustrations and music transcriptions by A.C. Harradine, as well as a colour frontispiece. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge tinted red. With the dust-jacket illustrated..... More
The House of Life: A Sonnet-Sequence. Variorum Edition with an Introduction and Notes.
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2007. [Poetry] CRITICAL EDITION, First Thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxii; 301 [3]. A scholarly edition containing a large introduction, extensive detailed notes, and appendices. Publisher's brown cloth with titles in gilt to spine, and a paper label to upper. A fine, as-new copy... More
The Rose Garden of Sa'di.
London: John Murray, 1943. [Poetry] FIFTH IMPRESSION. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.64. Publisher's pictorial wraps, with the dust-jacket of matching design priced at 2/6. Interior lightly toned, the odd mark here and there. Wraps lightly toned and spotted to upper. Jacket also gently toned and marked. Some wear to extremities..... More
Poems.
Fairwarp: Printed by Poets' and Painters' Press for Peter Russell, June 1959. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo pamphlet (19 x 13cm), pp.29 [3]. Publisher's white soft covers with titles in black and red to upper. With the yellow matching dust-jacket, not priced. A crisp clean copy, showing some wear and toning..... More
Air Force Poetry.
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1944. [Second World War Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.90 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. With the blue and white dust-jacket designed by Foss, priced at 7/6. Cloth spine faded, with toning to jacket spine. Rubbing..... More
Northern Numbers, being representative selections from certain living Scottish Poets. First Series.
Edinburgh: T.N. Foulis, 1920. [Scottish Poetry] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 130 [4]. Publisher's blue quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine, and brown titles to grey paper over boards. Top edge toned; others untrimmed. Black ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1921 to flyleaf. Some weakness to binding..... More
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