Browse by Subject Category—Poetry
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
1920s edition, with 16 colour plates by Willy Pogany
Omar Khayyam, illustrated by Willy Pogany
George G. Harrap, London, 1920
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Illustrated
1914, Poetry Remembers (Signed copy)
Signed and dedicated by Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 2013
£12.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The End of the World (2019)
Jeni Couzyn's story in verse on the climate emergency
Jeni Couzyn
Firelizard Press, 2019
£20.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions | Illustrated
Sketches in Verse (Signed copy)
Signed by author Henry Richard Dickinson, 1906, a collection of ghostly and romantic verse with tipped in illustrations
H R Dickinson, illustrated by A S Boyd, Gordon Browne, Frank Dadd, F C Dickinson, Charles Dixon, W Hatherell, H M Paget, Balliol Salmon, and the author.
Printed for the Author(s), 1906
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Mrs Kimber (Signed first edition)
Signed by artist Mary Kessell, and Shell publicity maestro Jack Beddington
Osbert Sitwell, illustrated by Mary Kessell
Macmillan, London, 1937
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Dustwrapper
Terminal Moraine (1972, first edition)
James Fenton's first full length collection of poetry
James Fenton
Secker & Warburg, London, 1972
£10.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
A Man in Winter (1972, signed first edition)
Dedicated by Edward Storey to Harry Chambers 'Keeper of the Flame'
Edward Storey
Chatto & Windus / The Hogarth Press, London, 1972
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Night Thoughts (1956, first edition)
David Gascoyne's long poem for radio
David Gascoyne, dustwrapper by Julian Trevelyan
Andre Deutsch, London, 1956
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Biography for Beginners (1930)
E C Bentley's clerihews and G K Chesterton's sketches
E C Bentley, illustrated by G K Chesterton
T Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1930
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
In Defence of the Earth (1959, first edition)
A book of verse from Kenneth Rexroth from the San Francisco Renaissance
Kenneth Rexroth
Hutchinson, London, 1959
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Contemporary Chinese Poetry (1947, first edition)
A selection from nine modern Chinese poets
Robert Payne, editor and introduction
Routledge, London, 1947
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Le Spleen de Paris, Petits Poemes en Prose
1925, limited edition of Baudelaire's prose poems, illustrated by Louis Bouquet
Charles Baudelaire, illustrated by Louis Bouquet
Enseigne du Pot Cassé, Paris, 1925
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
The Week-End Book (1928, in the original dustwrapper)
Illustrated with full page colour decorations by Albert Rutherston
Nonesuch Press, illustrated by Albert Rutherston
The Nonesuch Press, London, 1928
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Dustwrapper | Illustrated
Cesare Pavese, Selected Poems (Signed copy)
This copy signed and dedicated by translator and editor, Margaret Crosland
Cesare Pavese, edited and translated with a foreword by Margaret Crosland
Penguin Books, London, 1971
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The House of Life (1898, The Siddal Edition)
An attractive silk-bound copy of D G Rossetti's sonnet sequence
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, frontispiece by Arthur Ellis
Ellis and Elvey, London, 1898
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings
Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress and other poems
1913, a pocket hardback edition of Christina Rossetti's verse
Christina G Rossetti
Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, London, 1913
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First thus
Oeuvres de Maistre François Villon
1969, full leather, with illustrations by Émile Bernard. Printed with ink mixed with gold powder.
Francois Villon, illustrated by Émile Bernard
Jean de Bonnot, Paris, 1969
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus | Illustrated
Nabi (signed by Elizabeth Gili)
2001, Joan Gili's translation of Josep Carner's classic Catalan poem
Josep Carner, translated from Catalan by J L Gili, Catalan text edited by Jaume Coll, preface by Jonathan Gili, introduction by Arthur Terry, acknowledgements by Elizabeth Gili.
Anvil Press Poetry, London, 2001
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Association Copy
The Candle, Vol 1, No 1. January, 1938 (Signed by R C Trevelyan)
Oliver W F Lodge's poetry pamphlet, this copy signed by Trevelyan to Gordon Bottomley
Oliver W F Lodge, writing as William Foster
Oliver W F Lodge, Holmbury St Mary, 1938
£30.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Deucalion, No 1, Marzo / March 1951
The rare first issue of Angel Crespo's short-lived but important Spanish poetry journal
Angel Crespo, editor, illustrated by Gregorio Pietro et al
Departamento Provincial de Seminarios, Ciudad Real, 1951
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Cities, Plains and People (Signed by Robert Liddell in Cairo, 1946)
An early Lawrence Durrell collection of poetry, owned by his friend and fellow Cairo poet
Lawrence Durrell
Faber & Faber, London, 1946
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Song for a Birth or a Death (Signed copy)
1961, Elizabeth Jennings' fourth collection of verse, this copy signed by Jungian analyst Irene de Castillejo
Elizabeth Jennings
Andre Deutsch, London, 1961
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Peace is Our Answer (First edition, 1950)
12 linocuts by Noel Counihan and poems by Jack Lindsay, Paul Eluard, Pablo Neruda, and Louis Aragon
Noel Counihan, illustrator, poems by Jack Lindsay, with further prefatory poems by Paul Eluard, Pablo Neruda, Louis Aragon, and a foreword by J G Crowther
Collets Holdings Ltd, London, 1950
£40.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
An Exaltation of Skylarks in Prose and Poetry (Signed first edition)
Signed by the compiler, Stewart Beer
Stewart Beer, compiler. Preface by Richard Mabey
SMH Press, Pulborough, 1995
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Love's Progress, or The Education of Araminta (Signed first edition)
This copy signed by poet Humbert Wolfe
James Laver
The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, London, 1929
£15.00
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