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The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse

By: Jones, Emrys (ed)

Price: £5.50

Publisher: Oxford: 1992

Seller ID: 11648

ISBN: 0192829718

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

769pp, the paper browning a very little with age, illustrated softback covers without creases. A very clean, tight copy. An acclaimed anthology of Tudor and early Jacobean poets - Skelton, Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson etc.
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Juvenal's Satires with the Satires of Persius

By: Juvenal And Persius Translated By William Gifford and John Warrington

Price: £6.50

Publisher: Dent: 1954

Seller ID: 10250

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Everyman edition, translated by William Gifford and revised and annotated by John Warrington with an Introduction by H J Rose. 230pp. series dustjacket with a little wear to the top of the spine. Internally very clean. Gifford's 1802 metrical translation of Juvenal has been extensively revised and expanded by John Warrington for this edition, and the six satires of Persius have been added.
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The World is Made of Glass

By: K W Skene and Clare Kirwan and Will Daunt and Angela France et al

Price: £2.50

Publisher: Ragged Raven Press: 2010

Seller ID: 16457

ISBN: 0955255287

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

70pp, illustrated softback covers. May have been bought for a library, as there is a blank label inside the back cover, otherwise very clean and tight. A selection of poems entered for Ragged Robin's annual poetry competition, togeher with poems by Angela France, Chris Kinsey and Joanna Ezekiel.
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Life of George Crabbe

By: Kebbel, T E

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Walter Scott: 1888

Seller ID: 13856

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

157pp and Bibliography. Red cloth covered boards. Ex reference library - bookplate to inner board, a couple of blind stamps, otherwise internally clean. A biography of the poet, part of the 'Great Writers' series.
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Thomas Gray

By: Ketton-Cremer, R W

Price: £2.50

Publisher: The British Council and The National Book League: 1958

Seller ID: 16499

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

31p, including bibliography. Soft covers a little faded to the spine. Frontispiece illustration. Two holes punched in the margin for filing, otherwise a clean copy. A study of the work of Thomas Gray 1716 - 1771, the poet who wrote Elegy in a Country Churchyard. No.104 in the series Writers and their Work produced by the British Council
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The Seven Seas

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Methuen: 1914

Seller ID: 3803

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

25th edition. 230pp. Brown cloth covered boards, a little faded to edges. Gilt top edge and hand-cut foredge. School prize inscription on inner board, otherwise a clean copy of Kipling's poems.
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Selected Poems from Rudyard Kipling

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Methuen: 1931

Seller ID: 13058

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

64pp, red soft card covers. One small ink mark to cover, previous owner's initials to flyleaf, otherwise a clean copy. 30 poems, selected by the author.
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No Cure In Tears

By: Kirk, Pauline

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Aireings Publications: 1997

Seller ID: 11475

ISBN: 0953190609

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

30pp, softback covers illustrated by Geoff Kirk. Gift inscription signed by the author on the title page, otherwise a very clean copy. Poetry, many aboout the problems and rewards of being a carer.
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Boewulf and The Fight at Finnsburg

By: Klaeber, Fr. (ed)

Price: £12.50

Publisher: D C Heath: 1950

Seller ID: 13776

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Third edition, with first and second supplements. 471pp, brown cloth covered boards. Previous owner's name to flyleaf, pencil notes to several pages, otherwise clean. This edition of the two poems has an Introduction, Bbliography, Appendices, and extensive Notes and Glossary.
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Piers The Plowman

By: Langland, William and Goodridge, J F

Price: £2.00

Publisher: Penguin: 1959

Seller ID: 15540

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A new translation with Introduction and Notes. 366pp, the paper browning a very little with age, orange and white softback covers. A couple of very light spots of foxing to covers, otherwise a very clean, tight, Near Fine copy with no creases,
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Jill

By: Larkin, Philip

Price: £3.50

Publisher: Faber: 1990

Seller ID: 11155

ISBN: 0571106919

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

247pp, the page edges browning a very little with age, softback covers with illustration by Renate Belina. A tight, clean copy of Larkin's first novel, set in Oxford in the war.
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Poems Selected and Introduced By Keith Sagar

By: Lawrence, D H

Price: £1.50

Publisher: Penguin: 1986

Seller ID: 15562

ISBN: 0140585407

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Revised edition. 270pp, illustrated softback covers. A couple of small light spots of foxing, otherwise internally clean and tight. 175 of Lawrence's best poems, with an Introduction.
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Essays (Selected)

By: Leigh Hunt

Price: £8.50

Publisher: Dent: 1929

Seller ID: 16348

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First Everyman edition. Introduction by J B Priestley. 360pp, orange cloth covered boards with gilt decoration to spine. Decorated flyleaves and title pages. A couple of very small spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. Includes essays on actors such as Kemble and Mrs Siddons and poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Burns and Lamb.
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A Book Of Light Verse

By: Leonard, R M (ed)

Price: £5.50

Publisher: Oxford: 1910

Seller ID: 5286

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

447pp, green cloth covered boards, with light wrinkling to bottom corner. Frontispiece illustration. Previous owner's names on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean. An anthology of 497 poems, with Notes.
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The Poetical Works Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow With Explanatory Notes

By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Price: £12.00

Publisher: Henry Frowde: 1111

Seller ID: 3783

Binding: Three-Quarter Leather

Condition: Very Good

Prize inscription on inner board dated 1896, otherwise internally clean. 630pp, marbled paper covered boards with blue leather spine and quarters, gilt decoration to spine. Marbled foredge. The 'Albion' edition. Slight wear to edges, small booksellers stamp to flyleaf. A handsome copy.
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Selections From Longfellow

By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Price: £7.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, W P Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell:

Seller ID: 8509

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good

125pp, green suede covers, faded to spine. Colour frontispiece gilt edges.Gift inscription dated 1921 on flyleaf, a little wear to top of spine, otherwise a clean copy of this rare edition.
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The Poetical Works Of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Reprinted From The Revised American Edition With Explanatory Notes

By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Price: £9.50

Publisher: Frederick Warne:

Seller ID: 11876

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The Albion Edition - probably 1880s. 625pp, red cloth covered boards, a little faded to spine, with gilt author signature. Engraved author portrait. A couple of spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise clean. 'Revised and corrected by comparison with his last American edition' Includes several poems 'which have not appeared before'.
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A Longellow Treasury

By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth and Broadbent, Albert (ed)

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Manchester and Philadelphia, Broadbent: 1906

Seller ID: 15173

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

A long thin little book of 46pp. Cream paper covers, now grubby, with a coloured flower to the front. Hand cut edges. Internally clean. A selection of Longfellow's poems. No 14 in The Broadbent Treasuries series. Rare.
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Les Chansons De Bilitis

By: Louys, Pierre

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Albin Michel: 1969

Seller ID: 15840

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Le Livre de Poche edition. French text. 242pp, the edges browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers. A clean, tight copy. Complete text, bibliography, Index.
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The Well-Wishers

By: Lucie - Smith Edward

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Faber: 1974

Seller ID: 15572

ISBN: 0192118447

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

56pp, illustrated softback covers. Internally very clean and tight. Personal poems, including a group of love poems.
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