This list represents our remaining stock of poetry books and ephemera of all periods but with emphasis on modernist poetry published by small presses.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Elizabeth Hitchener
Now First Published. With an Introduction and Notes.
Ed. Bertram Dobell
Published by Bertram Dobell London 1908
Edition 1st thus, large paper issue
Condition Very good
Edges foxed & some internal foxing. Original cloth darkening at spine. Originally published by T.J.Wise in an edition limited to 30 copies 1900.
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Price £45.00
351pp
List ref
WB849
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Philosophical View of Reform
Ed. T.W. Rolleston
Published by Humphrey Milford: OUP 1920
Edition 1st, large paper edition
Condition Near fine
Quarter cloth, 2 surface abrasions to lower board. Slight spotting to fore-edge.
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Price £25.00
List ref
WB647
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Works
with His Life. In Two Volumes
Published by John Ascham London 1834
Edition 1st
Condition Very good
No half-titles. Frontispiece Volume 1 foxed and stained. Preliminaries somewhat soiled both volumes. 19th century morocco with gilt, rubbed, particularly at spine ends. Name in both volumes.
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Price £180.00
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WB1925
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais
An Elegy on the Death of John Keats
Published by Noel Douglas 1927
Edition Facsimile reprint Limitation 6/100
Format
Quarto Condition Good
Facsimile of the first edition, Pisa 1821. Printed on handmade rag paper, uncut, original vellum binding. Page edges slightly darkened, boards somewhat warped and darkened at spine. Bookplate.
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Price £55.00
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WB1955
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Shelley Correspondence in the Bodleian Library
Ed. R.H. Hill
Published by The Bodleian Library Oxford 1926
Edition 1st
Format
Quarto Condition Near fine
Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley and others, mainly unpublished, from the Collection presented to the Library by Lady Shelley in 1892; with a chronological table of the collection and a list of other Shelley manuscripts & relics in the library. Some occasional foxing otherwise a fine copy in original wrappers.
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Price £50.00
48pp
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WB1956
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Posthumous Poems of Shelley
Mary Shelley’s Fair Copy Book Bodleian MS. Shelley adds. d.9
Ed. Irving Massey
Published by McGill-Queen's UP Montreal 1969
Edition 1st
Format
Octavo Condition Near fine
The text of the Copy Book reproduced in full and collated with the major printed versions and the holograph drafts. Cloth in price-clipped dustjacket somewhat darkened at spine.
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Price £28.00
317pp
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WB1957
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (translator)
Euripedes’ The Cyclops: A Satyric Drama
Published by Liverpool UP 1908
Edition 1st thus
Condition Very good
Published for performance by students at Liverpool University. Text pages virtually mint, uncut, sewn with ribbon into considerably larger wrappers now heavily darkened. Some loss to ribbon but binding unaffected.
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Price £18.00
44pp
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WB1926
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Percy Bysshe Shelley (translator)
Plato’s Banquet
Ed. Roger Ingpen
Published by Privately 1931
Edition 1st such Limitation 100
Condition Very good
Including Shelley’s A Discourse on the Manners of the Ancient Greeks Relative to the Subject of Love and A Preface to The Banquet revised & enlarged by Roger Ingpen from MSS in the possession of Sir John C. R. Shelley-Rolls, Bart. Printed at the Curwen Press. Internally fine but original cloth considerably rubbed although sound and with gilt spine lettering still bright. Inscription on fly.
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Price £50.00
116pp
List ref
WB1927
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