
Poetry
[AUDEN, W.H.]
A Tribute To Wystan Hugh Auden
Menston: Scolar Press, 1973
4to green stiff paper folder, printed in black, holding green pamphlet and 25 loose pp. printed on Amalfi, and bearing the pamphlets contents in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
THOMAS, R.S.
Destinations
Cambridge: Celandine Press, 1985
Large 8vo, pp. 30. Original threequarter marbled boards, lettered in gilt to black buckram spine.
First edition, no. 289 of 300... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
The Collected Poetry Of W.H. Auden
New York: Random House, 1945
8vo, pp. 466. Original green boards, brown spine label lettered in gilt. Top edge green.
First edition.
Random House took... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
The Dance Of Death
London: Faber, 1933
8vo, pp. 38. Original green boards, lettered in black to front panel and spine.
First edition. A dramatic poem.
This was Auden's... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. PIPER, John] BETJEMAN, John
Church Poems
London: John Murray, 1980
Small 8vo, pp. 64. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper.
First trade edition, first issue. An... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WILLIAMS, Heathcote
Falling For A Dolphin
London: Cape, 1988
8vo, pp. 47. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated endpapers. Photographic dustwrapper.
First edition, INSCRIBED BY THE... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
Selected Poems
London: Faber, 1938
Small 8vo, pp. 128. Original red boards, lettered in silver to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First edition. One of 4080 copies. No US edition was ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BETJEMAN, John
A Wembley Lad / The Crem
London: Poem Of The Month Club, 1971
Broadside, single sheet, 11" X 15".
First edition, one of 1000 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, AND WITH A TWO-WORD CORRECTION IN HIS HAND. With the original Poem of the Month cover letter.
[ed. SPENDER, Stephen and LEHMANN, John]
Poems For Spain
London: Hogarth Press, 1939
8vo, pp. 108. Original pink boards, lettered in yellow to front panel and spine. Leading and lower edges uncut. Dustwrapper.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
Three Songs For St. Cecilia's Day
New York: Privately printed, 1942
Small 8vo, unpaginated. Original blue stiff paper wrappers, lettered in black to front panel. Stitched binding.
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AUDEN, W.H.
Nones
London: Faber, 1952
8vo, pp. 72. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First UK edition, preceded by the US edition which had appeared the previous... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
New Year Letter
London: Faber, 1941
8vo, pp. 188. Original grey boards, lettered in red to spine.
First UK edition. First published two months earlier in the US under the title... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
About The House
New York: Random House, 1965
8vo, pp. 84. Original grey boards, lettered in silver to black spine.
First edition. Poet and essayist Nathaniel Tarn's copy, with his ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
ELIOT, T. S.
Poetry And Drama
London: Faber, 1951
8vo, pp. 35. Original red boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Printed dustwrapper.
First UK edition of this lecture, first delivered at Harvard... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WILLIAMS, Heathcote
Falling For A Dolphin
London: Cape, 1990
Large 8vo, pp. 112. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper. Small bookplate to front pastedown.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
WILLIAMS, Heathcote
Whale Nation
London: Cape, 1988
Large 8vo, pp. 191. Original black boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper. Bookplate to foot of front pastedown.
First... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BETJEMAN, John
Ode On The Marriage Of HRH Prince Charles To The Lady Diana Spencer In St. Paul's Cathedral On 29th July 1981
London: Warren Editions, 1981
Broadside, single white sheet, 485mm x 215mm, with red and blue fleur de lys and encircling decoration.
First edition, one of 125... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
BETJEMAN, John
Poems In The Porch
London: SPCK, 1954
8vo, unpaginated. Original illustrated stiff paper wrapper, lettered in blue and red to front panel.
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