Browse by Subject Category—Poetry
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
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
£20.00
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
Atalanta in Calydon
1865, the second edition of A C Swinburne's tragedy
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Edward Moxon, London, 1865
£30.00
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
£15.00
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
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
Poems of Love and War
Liverpool sociologist John Barron Mays's first book
John Barron Mays
James Foggo, Liverpool, 1940
£10.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | First Editions
A Midsummer Memory
1910, limited edition, An Elegy on the Death of Arthur Upson
Richard Burton
Edmund D Brooks, Minneapolis, 1910
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Limited Editions | Bookplate
Edward Thomas and the Great War (Signed copy)
Signed by Christopher Saunders, one of Cecil Woolf's War Poets series
Christopher Saunders
Cecil Woolf, London, 2006
£15.00
Poetry | Soft Cover | Signed Copies | First Editions
Soldier Poets, Songs of the Fighting Men
Great War verse, 1916, the "Trench Edition" including Charles Hamilton Sorley, W N Hodgson, and Julian Grenfell
Galloway Kyle, preface, contributors include Charles Hamilton Sorley and Julian Grenfell
Erskine Macdonald, London, 1916
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover
Mireio, Pouemo Prouvencau / Mireille, Poeme Provencal
Mistral's long poem in both French and Occitan, in a fine leather Hachette binding
Frederic Mistral
Bibliotheque Charpentier, Paris, 1926
£20.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | Leather Bound
Personal Landscapes
British Poets in Egypt during the Second World War
Jonathan Bolton
St Martin's Press, New York, 1997
£25.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper
Rupert Brooke: Three books, poetry, prose & biography
including Democracy and the Arts (1946) and Timothy Rogers' Reappraisal
Rupert Brooke, including Edward Marsh and Timothy Rogers
Various, London, 1926
£10.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Mixed Editions
Rupert Brooke: Three books, Poems & Letters
including a first printing of Letters from America (1916) and an early Poems (1915)
Rupert Brooke, with Henry James, and Walter de la Mare
Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1915
£15.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Mixed Editions
Rupert Brooke: Three books, Poetry and Biography
Including an early American edition of Poems, and Christopher Hassall's biography
Rupert Brooke, with Geoffrey Keynes (editor), and Christopher Hassall
Various, London & New York, 1916
£12.00
Poetry | Hard Cover | First Editions | Dustwrapper | Mixed Editions
