Browse by Subject Category—Poetry
Ballades, Les Rayons et les Ombres
1890, a pocket edition of Victor Hugo's poems in a fine leather binding
Victor Hugo
G Charpentier, Paris, 1890
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
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
£50.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | Leather Bound | Illustrated
Les Villes Tentaculaires precedes des Campagnes Hallucinees
1908, 5th edition. Emile Verhaeren's Symbolist poetry, limited to 19 copies on Holland paper.
Emile Verhaeren
Societe du Mercure de France, Paris, 1908
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Limited Editions | Leather Bound
The Poems of William Wordsworth
1854, in a full leather binding with marbled page edges
William Wordsworth
Edward Moxon, London, 1854
£45.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Fine Bindings | Leather Bound
Loss of the Magyar and other poems
1959, poet Patricia Beer's first book, this copy signed by Jungian analyst Irene Claremont de Castillejo
Patricia Beer
Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1959
£30.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Wagner's Nibelungen Ring Done into Blank Verse
1930, from the Collected Edition of Reginald Rankin's works
Lt.-Col. Sir Reginald Rankin
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1930
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
From the Hills of Dream
1907, first thus of Fiona Macleod's verse, including threnodies, songs, and later poems
Fiona MacLeod, pseud. William Sharp
William Heinemann, London, 1907
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First thus
The Song of Bride
Isobel Wylie Hutchison's poetic retelling of the Gaelic legend of Bride, foster-mother to Christ
Isobel Wylie Hutchison
De La More Press, London, 1927
£20.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Ballads of Battle and Poems of Peace
1914, Newcastle-upon-Tyne poet R Ellis Gerrard's poems from his military days and of Tyneside
R Ellis Gerard
North of England Publishing Co, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1914
£35.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Last Fight of the Revenge at sea
by Walter Raleigh et al, bound with poet Barnabe Googe's Sonnets etc, and Row & Barlowe's Dialogue
William Roy, and Jerome Barlowe; Sir Walter Raleigh, Gervase Markham, and Jan Huygen Van Linschoten; and Barnabe Googe; edited by Edward Arber
Printed for the Author(s), London, 1871
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound | First thus
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
£100.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
Atalanta in Calydon
1865, the second edition of A C Swinburne's tragedy
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Edward Moxon, London, 1865
£40.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
The Sowdone of Bablyone and of Ferumbras his Sone who Conquerede Rome
Volume V of The English Charlemagne Romances (the Sultan of Babylon)
Emil Hausknecht, editor
The Early English Text Society / OUP, London, 1969
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
The Hound of Heaven
This copy signed by Edwin M Standing, friend, assistant, and biographer of Maria Montessori
Francis Thompson
Burns Oates & Washbourne, London, 1920
£10.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies
Lest We Forget, A War Anthology
1915, an early collection of WW1 verse
H B Elliott, editor, foreword by Baroness Orczy
Jarrold and Sons, London, 1915
£14.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Bookplate
The Poetical Works of Rupert Brooke
This copy signed by colourful coroner Montague Bernard Levine
Geoffrey Keynes, editor
Faber & Faber, London, 1946
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Dawn and Sunset Gold, Poems of Love and Nature (Signed copy)
Signed by Samuel J Looker, an early collection of poetry
Samuel J Looker
S J Looker, Clapton, 1920
£35.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
The Poetical Works of Ernest Christopher Dowson
1934, first edition, edited by Desmond Flower
Ernest Dowson, edited with an introduction by Desmond Flower
Cassell & John Lane, London, 1934
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
The Omnipresence of The Deity, A Poem
1828, fifth edition in the same year as the first edition of this popular religious poem
Robert Montgomery
Samuel Maunder, London, 1828
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Seven volumes of Great War poetry
Including Robert W Service, Rupert Brooke and war-time anthologies
Various, including Robert W Service & Rupert Brooke
Various, London etc, n.d.
£28.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Mixed Editions
Poems
Peter Tempest's translation of the Hurufi poet Imadeddin Nesimi
Imadeddin Nesimi, translated by Peter Tempest, wood engravings by Yuri Kosmynin
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1973
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
Songs of a Soldier
1931, first edition of American Great poetry from William V V Stephens
William V V Stephens
Banner Press, Emory University, Georgia, 1931
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions
A Summer's Fancy
1930, a limited edition of Edmund Blunden's poem published by The Beaumont Press
Edmund Blunden, decorations by Randolph Schwabe, typography and binding by Cyril William Beaumont
The Beaumont Press, London, 1930
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Illustrated
An Elegy and Other Poems
1937, first edition, including some of Edmund Blunden's war poetry
Edmund Blunden
Cobden-Sanderson, London, 1937
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Anthology of War Poetry 1914–1918
Robert Nichols's selection, published in the middle of the Second World War
Robert Nichols
Nicholson & Watson, London, 1943
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
