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This list represents our remaining stock of poetry books and ephemera of all periods but with emphasis on modernist poetry published by small presses.

 

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Clive Bush

Pictures after Poussin


Published by Spanner 2003

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

With 8 coloured plates by Allen Fisher. Wrappers.

Price £11.00


70pp


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WB1421

Samuel Butler

Hudibras. The First and Second Parts


Published by Martyn & Herringman London 1674

Edition 1st combined edition

Condition Good

412pp, complete but with some irregular pagination. Name etc at head of soiled title page, otherwise clean text pages. Bound with Hudibras The Third and last Part, London, for Simon Miller 1678, 1st edition. 285pp + errata leaf. Contemporary half calf with upper board detached.

Price £60.00


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WB1892

Bill Butler

Savonarola’s Drum

Four Poems


Published by Claude Rains 1971

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Unpaginated. Trimmed A5 mimeo centre-stapled in wrappers.

Price £15.00


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WB2013

Samuel Butler

The Poetical Works


Published by James Nichol 1854

Edition 1st such

Condition Very good

With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan. 2 volumes. Pages uncut & mostly unopened, dusty at edges. Orig blind-stamped cloth worn at spine ends & corners, spines lettered gilt, remains of label to spine of Volume 1. Bookplate.

Price £16.00


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WB786

Martin Butlin

William Blake


Published by Tate Gallery 1978

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Descriptive catalogue, b/w illustrations throughout. 16 full-page colour plates. Boards, top edge slightly dusty, in dustjacket.

Price £18.00


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WB828

John Byrom

Miscellaneous Poems

In Two Volumes


Published by Printed by J.Harrop Manchester 1773

Edition 1st

Condition Good

No half-titles. Repairs to both title pages. Ink-stain Vol. II p.89. Reversed calf, edges abraded, recent reback with crude leather labels.

Price £95.00


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WB1281

G.G.N., Lord Byron

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Canto the Fourth


Published by John Murray London 1818

Edition 1st edition, 2nd issue

Condition Very good

2pp adverts. Uncut. Fly removed. Some foxing. Original boards rebacked with label laid down. In cloth box, label reading ‘BYRON’S FIRST EDITIONS’.

Price £95.00


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WB855

G.G.N., Lord Byron

Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice

An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts. With Notes.


Published by John Murray London 1821

Edition 2nd issue with 7 new lines on p.151

Condition Very good

Includes ‘The Prophecy of Dante. A Poem’, as issued. Ex library in library cloth.

Price £20.00


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WB794

 

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