Books on Poetry
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Poems and Songs with a Preface and An Introductory Essay on the Dialect of Lancashire Considered as a Vehicle for Poetry.
302p blue hardback, darkened to spine, title page detached but present, binding otherwise firm, ...
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Early Lyrics. Recently Discovered Among Letters to his Schoolmaster and Friend George Ogilvie.
28p sewn booklet, cover in very good condition, binding tight, clean pages, name to green endpaper, ...
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Hugh MacDiarmid.
39p pamphlet, cover in very good condition, a clean copy, well preserved
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In Memory's Book.
64p booklet, in excellent condition, clean pages, firm, signed by the author, a scarce title
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Between Sleeping and Waking.
64p booklet, in excellent condition, clean pages, firm, signed by the author, a scarce title
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Waiting For a Dragonfly.
64p booklet, in excellent condition, clean pages, firm, signed by the author, a scarce title
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Lilac Blossom After Rain.
40p booklet, in excellent condition, clean pages, firm, signed by the author, a scarce title
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CannWyll y Cymry.
40p miniature format booklet, in excellent condition, clean pages, firm, a scarce title
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Come Hither. A Collection of Rhymes and Poems for the Young of all Ages.
xxxviii 824p burgundy cloth a little dusty, clean copy, light traces of use
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La Poésie et la Voix dans la Civilisation Médiévale.
115p terracotta paperback, bright white pages, binding very well preserved, tight copy, first ...
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The Seasons. New Edition ornamented with Engravings on Wood by Bewick from Designs by Mr Thurston.
bound in full tree calf 22cm with gilt frame to board, title label to spine, binding tight, xvi ...
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The Farmer's Boy. A Rural Poem. Fifth Edition.
prxxxii 128p full calf binding with gilt line, erasure to title page resulting in paper damage, ...
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The Farmer's Boy. A Rural Poem. Fifth Edition.
xxxii 128p paper covered boards, old plain paper repair to spine, binding yielding and first ...
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Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs. The Sixth Edition.
vi 123p full calf binding with gilt rule to boards, spine hinges precarious and yielding, binding ...
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The Farmer's Boy. A Rural Poem. Fourteenth Edition.
xlviii 99p (3)p half calf binding with marbled boards, spine hinges well intact, a few old names ...
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Selected Poems.
127p slim paperback with purple dustjacket, nice clean copy, very good indeed, first edition
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The Young Thomas Hardy.
xi 259p large hardback with fresh dustjacket, plates, bibliography, a nice copy, first edition
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Ballattis of Luve.
lxxix 148p hardback with fresh dustjacket, nice tight copy, well produced book, very good indeed, ...
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The Scottish Poems of Violet Jacob.
96p hardback with dustjacket, fresh clean copy, first reprint
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Salutations: Collected Poems 1960 - 1989.
192p hardback with fresh white dustjacket, almost as new, with note by the author inserted
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Oor Mither Tongue. An Anthology of Scots Vernacular Verse.
327p hardback, white cloth with blue arms to front, clean and tight copy, cloth a little dusty, ...
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Fiddler's Bidding.
19p sewn booklet, grey card cover, blue lettering to front, signed by the author dated Christmas ...
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City Poems.
128p green cloth, gilt design to front board, top edge gilt, colour illustrated endpapers (rural, ...
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Poems of the Scottish Minor Poets from Age of Ramsey to David Gray.
xlii 327p original cloth with birds/ floral design, all edges red, a tight and fresh copy, a few ...
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Poems by Allan Ramsey, Selected and Arranged, with a Biographical Sketch of the Author, by J Logie Robertson.
li 266p small format, blue hardback with title label to spine, text printed in a red frame, a few ...
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The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser. In Six Volumes. Volume the Sixth (ONLY)
paginated 1459 - 1758, full calf binding (17 cm), front board detached, sewing holding well but ...
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry. Volume 9: Elegies: Local, Sympathetic and Funereal; and Monodies. Volume 10: Poems in the Stanza od Spenser.
viii 192p 192p full calf volume, small format, hinges tight, binding firm, paper bright white, a ...
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Selected Poems. First Edition.
80p light blue paper covered boards, very good condition, name in pencil to endpaper
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The Life of Robert Burns.
xiv 322p grey cloth, spine with floral carpet motiv, first printing without year, still quite nice ...
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The Death of Lysanda.
105p slim paperback with green dustjacket, nice clean copy, very good indeed, first edition, ...
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Call Me Ishmael. A Study of Melville.
114p slim paperback with lime dustjacket, nice clean copy, very good indeed, first edition, ...
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I Wanted to Write a Poem. The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet.
111p slim paperback with brown dustjacket, nice clean copy, very good indeed, first edition, ...
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Ferdinand.
96p slim hardback with brown dustjacket (very faint dents), nice clean copy, very good indeed, ...
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I Wanted to Write a Poem. The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet.
111p slim hardback with brown dustjacket (jacket with slight blemish where price sticker removed), ...
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I Wanted to Write a Poem. The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet.
111p slim hardback with brown dustjacket, nice clean copy, very good indeed, first edition, ...
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Selected Poems.
93p slim hardback with blue dustjacket, nice clean copy, very good indeed, first edition, as new
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The Solitaries.
57p hardback with orange dustjacket, an excellent fresh copy, almost as new, never used, no name, ...
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All the Collected Short Poems, 1956 - 1964.
96p hardback with very fresh dustjacket, a tight and clean copy, excellent condition, first edition ...
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T.V. Baby Poems.
36p tall hardback with excellent dustjacket, title page printed with yellow pattern, excellent ...
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The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax. The First Tour in Search of the Picturesque. The Second Tour in Search of Consolation; The Third Tour in Search of a Wife.
272p 277p 279p, three volumes in original green cloth, light soiling to cloth, colour plates by ...
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![My Heart's Fruit-Garden; Wherein are Divers Delectable Adages and Similes of the Prince of Doctrinal Ethics. A Translation, out of the Ancient Biblical Hebrew, of the Book of Koheleth else "Ecclesiastes or The Preacher".](images/books/194642_small_90w_x_126h.jpg "My Heart's Fruit-Garden; Wherein are Divers Delectable Adages and Similes of the Prince of Doctrinal Ethics. A Translation, out of the Ancient Biblical Hebrew, of the Book of Koheleth else "Ecclesiastes or The Preacher".")
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My Heart's Fruit-Garden; Wherein are Divers Delectable Adages and Similes of the Prince of Doctrinal Ethics. A Translation, out of the Ancient Biblical Hebrew, of the Book of Koheleth else "Ecclesiastes or The Preacher".
62p burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to front, a nice tight copy, very well preserved, first ...
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Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc Reprinted from the Edition of 1776, with an Appendix, Containing the pieces Substituted in the Edition of 1791 for Omissions from that of 1776.
iv ix 312p original cloth binding firm, title label to spine, an excellent fresh copy, Volume 1 ONLY
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The Odyssey. Translation and Analysis.
879p hardback with green dustjacket, excellent condition, almost as new
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The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.
559p hardback with illustrated dustjacket, excellent copy of the Second Edition, very well preserved
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Modern German Poetry.
30p booklet, clean pages, well preserved, in very good condition overall, scarce
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Lickerish Limericks.
46p slim hardback, illustrated throughout, very good indeed: with Filthy Pictures by Mozley
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Some Verses to Some German.
10p stapled pamphlet, clean text, cover edges a bit dull, a nice copy overall, good
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