POEMS
Newcastle upon Tyne: Sceptre Press, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Letter P copy of 26 signed and lettered: eight elegant pages of poetry stapled into stiff white card wraps. Poems included are "The Wolves"; "The Pain"; "The Hector Syndrome"
Newcastle upon Tyne: Sceptre Press, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Letter P copy of 26 signed and lettered: eight elegant pages of poetry stapled into stiff white card wraps. Poems included are "The Wolves"; "The Pain"; "The Hector Syndrome"
London: Turret Books, 1965. First U.K. Edition. Paperback. Pink leaves sewn into blue card covers with matching card jacket; square 12mo. 14 pp. Number 62 of 100 signed copies. 12 very brief prose/prose poetry texts. Signed and numbered by the author Geoege MacBeth. Fine.
Chicago: Swallow Press, 1970. First American edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket; small 8vo. 108 pp. A lovely copy, virtually as new, of poems that according to the author's note are: "collected here for the first time". Printed in the UK and published with that edition. Fine poems by.....
Hatfield, UK: Stellar Press, 1972. First edition. Paperback. Printed black and white wrappers; square 8vo. (7.5 by 10 inches.). 59 pp. No. 64 of 100 copies on mould-made paper. Signed by the author. Large softcover volume of Mander's poetry, signed at colophon and also inscribed to friends. Slight wear to.....
London: Heinemann, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Turquoise boards and gilt stamped vellum, t.e.g.; 8vo. Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Masefield. From the library of Isaac Rand Thomas, with his bookplate on front endpaper. Descendent of Isaiah Thomas, his bookplate pasted to fep carries the engraved armorial design of.....
Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Chapbook. One 50 signed and numbered copies of 150 total. Fine in tan stapled wrappers.
Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1977. First edition. Paperback. Chapbook. One of 50 numbered numbered and signed copies of 150 printed.. Fine in blue stapled wrappers.
Boston: Mariner Books, 2000. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperback original. 160 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Reprints selections from the poet's first three book. In fine condition.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First American edition. Paperback. 81 pp. An Advance Reading Copy ,"uncorrected proof", in printed cream and blue wrappers; printed publisher material including author publicity photo laid in. The pub sheets print blurbs by Derek Walcott and Joseph Brodsky among others. A British poet he has.....
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. First American edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 81 pp. There was no hardcover issue of the UK edition; this is the first in cloth. Signed by Maxwell on the title page. A British poet he has studied and taught in the US;.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. 73 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. Most of Maxwell's UK volumes were issued as paperback originals; this is the first hardcover issue of this title. Fine in like dust jacket (protected by a......
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. First American edition. Paperback. 58 pp. An Advance Reading Copy ,"uncorrected proof", in printed cream and blue wrappers; printed publisher pub sheet laid in. A British poet he has studied and taught in the US; Maxwell is the poetry editor of the New Republic. One.....
Riverdale-on-Hudson: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1996. First edition. Paperback. Uncorrected proof in red printed wrappers, with printed material laid in. Very light wear at extremities, still about fine.
London: Longmans, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth in dust jacket w/ wrap around band; small 8vo. 62 pp. The sixth book by the British poet and translator who taught for many years at U of Texas. This book published a year later by Norton in the US. Light shelf.....
West Linton: The Castlelaw Press, 1970. First printing. Paperback. One of 400 copies (of 500) on Guard Bridge Trident paper hand-set in 12 point Baskerville & printed by Alex. M. Frizzell. A chapbook of mostly traditional poetry from this well-known Scottish poet. Very Good with light toning and creasing to.....
Alton, Hampshire: Clarion Press, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Sewn illustrated covers, illustrated by Rigby Graham with a three panel centerfold, one of 499 letterpress printed. This copy neither signed nor numbered. Prospero Poets series. Fine.
Dorset: Words Press, 1988. First edition. Paperback. Number 90 of 200 copies. Chapbook of two poems in stiff pink stapled covers, with paper label. Very good copy, light sunning to extremities.
Manchester: Carcanet, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Glossy blue printed wrappers; 8vo. 58 pp. The former UK Poet Laureate's first collection of poems. A very good copy with trivial wear, light discoloring at extremities.
Knotting: Sceptre Press, 1979. First edition. Paperback. Chapbook. Number 45 of 50 signed by the poet of an edition of 150 copies. A fine Welsh poet this precedes his first US publications and is the third book from Martin Booth's press. Fine in yellow stapled wrappers.
London: Turret, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Rose cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 63 pp. Number 92 of 100 copies signed and numbered by the author, of a total edition of 500. Fine (small coffee-colored stain top edge) in a near fine dust jacket with light wear at top tips and.....
Rushden: Sceptre Press, 1973. First edition. Paperback. Chapbook. Number 44 of 50 copies signed by the poet of an edition of 150 copies. Fine in thin brown wrappers. Best known for his children's novel Doubtfire, Nye has been one of Britain's foremost poetry critics, as well as novelist, poet, and.....
Newcastle upon Tyne: NORTHERN HOUSE POETS, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Stapled illustrated covers; thin 12mo. Specially signed by the poet; not one of the 30 numbered copies also signed. Minor correction by author in ink. Near fine.
London: Bertram Rota, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. Plain card wraps in bxw pictorial dust jacket; tall 8vo. 33 pp. Cover design from a gouache by the author, with four bxw interior illus. by Peake. Brief introduction by George Lawson. Printed by the Stellar Press. No. 188 of a printing of.....
Revere, PA: Woolmer / Brotherson, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Tall sewn wrappers in reddish-brown covers with pasted label; 8vo. [24 pp.] One of 300 unnumbered copies signed by Pound, 150 for sale; hand-set and letterpress printed by R.T. Risk at Francestown, New Hampshire on Linweave; the cover is Fabriano, the.....
London: Faber & Faber, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Oatmeal cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 50 pp. South African poet's first book. Moderate foxing to end papers, else very good in a price-clipped else about very good dust jacket, with a cello-backed closed tear at the spine, and creased along the.....