POETRY
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ANDREW MARVELL THE CHAMELEON
Written by Nigel Smith.
Stock no. 1331086
Published by Yale University Press.
1st PB
2012.
Very good condition.
An acclaimed biography that portrays the 17th-century poet and politician as an elusive, multifaceted figure who adapted his political and religious views to survive turbulent times. Paperback edition with cardwraps. 400 pages (including index). B/w photos. ISBN: 9780300181968. Slight wear to corners of covers. Light crease to centre of spine where book has been held open to read. Contents clean.
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- BIOGRAPHY
- POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
- POETRY
SHELLEY: THE PURSUIT
Written by Richard Holmes.
Stock no. 1831264
Published by Quartet Books Limited.
1st thus
1976.
Very good condition.
Holmes's book offers a serious and critical reappraisal of Shelley as a man and a writer; all his prose and poetry is carefully re-examined, his sense of spiritual and geographical isolation brilliantly described and a detailed portrait of his macabre imaginative life slowly assembled. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w photos and illustrations. xiii and 829 pages including index. ISBN: 070433111X. Light reading crease to spine. Tip of lower corner and prelims creased. Foxing to top edge of text block. Contents clean.
SHELLEY POETICAL WORKS
Written by Percy Bysshe Shelley; Thomas Hutchinson; G.M. Matthews.
Stock no. 1831263
Published by Oxford University Press.
1975.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
This volume contains a complete collection of poetry written by the seminal Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelly. Shelley's poetry is infused with his belief in the power of human love and his faith in the perpetual improvement and ultimate progress of human kind. Edited by Thomas Hutchinson. This is the second edition, corrected by G.M. Matthews. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxviii and 920 pages including index. ISBN: 0192541439. Reprint. Boards clean. Minor foxspots to top edge of text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper has a few marks.
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- POETRY
SELECTED POEMS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Margaret Forster.
Stock no. 1831262
Published by Chatto & Windus Ltd.
1st thus
1988.
Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
This book is a relatively short compilation of some of the more notable poems by Victorian poetess Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Selected and with an introduction and prefaces by Margaret Forster. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxii and 330 pages including index. ISBN: 0701133112. Light vertical reading crease to spine. Boards clean. Foxing to top edge of text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is slightly sunned.
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- POETRY
THE FRIENDSHIP: WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE
Written by Adam Sisman.
Stock no. 1831258
Published by Harpercollins Publishers.
1st
2006.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Wordsworth and Coleridge's passionate intimacy, shared ambition and subsequent estrangement contribute to a tragic tale. Sisman's wonderful biography of this most remarkable friendship seeks to re-examine the orthodox assumption that these two poets flourished as a result of their relationship. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xxv and 480 pages including index. ISBN: 9780007160525. Vertical reading crease to spine. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is sunned to spine.
POETRY AND PROSE OF WILLIAM BLAKE
Written by William Blake; Geoffrey Keynes.
Stock no. 1831229
Published by The Nonesuch Press.
1961.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Complete in one volume. Edited by Geoffrey Keynes. Fourth Edition. The Compendious Series. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xi and 936 pages including index. Reprint. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned with foxing to top edge. Name in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is browned to spine and rear panel, is edge-worn and torn with slight loss, a bit grubby.
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- POETRY
- LITERATURE
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE AGE OF REVOLUTION
Written by J. Bronowski.
Illustrated by William Blake.
Stock no. 1831221
Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
1st thus
1972.
Very good condition.
A history of the life and changing times of Blake. Presented here are the experiences of Blake during the most violent time of English history. Bronowski brings to life the evolving philosophy and psyche of Blake, showing how he changed and was changed by his experiences and insights over his lifetime. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. 207 pages including index.` ISBN: 0710072783. Reading crease to spine. Text block a little grubby and a few foxspots. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Contents clean.
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- BIOGRAPHY
- POETRY
- ART
- ROMANTICISM
- HISTORY
JOHN KEATS: THE MAKING OF A POET
Written by Aileen Ward.
Stock no. 1831195
Published by Secker & Warburg.
1st
1963.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
This biography follows Keats, one of the English Romantics, from his childhood, through his education and training as a surgeon, to his untimely death of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. Purple cloth boards, red & silver title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xii and 450 pages including index. Boards clean. Text block browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Half-title page and last page to rear are browned. A few foxspots present else contents clean. Purple dustwrapper is faded/sunned to spine, a little scuffed, grubby to rear panel.
THE POEMS OF TENNYSON
Written by Alfred Tennyson; Christopher Ricks.
Stock no. 1831194
Published by Longmans.
1st thus
1969.
Very good condition.
Longmans' Annotated English Poets series. Edited by Christopher Ricks. Red cloth boards, gilt title on blue to spine. 3 b/w plates. xxxiv and 1835 pages. Top edge red. Boards clean. Lower edge of text block slightly grubby. Text block lightly browned. Name & date in ink to top of front pastedown, '4110' written in ink to top of front endpaper. Contents are clean.
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- POETRY
SWIFT: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS AND SELECTED WRITINGS IN PROSE & VERSE
Written by Jonathan Swift; John Hayward.
Stock no. 1831192
Published by The Nonesuch Press.
1968.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The Nonesuch SWIFT in the Compendious Series. Edited by John Hayward. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xviii and 868 pages including notes. Top edge red. ISBN: 0370005171. Spine lightly sunned. Top red edge is fading at gutter edge and is lightly foxed. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly browned to spine and rear panel.
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- LITERATURE
- POETRY
WE HAVE HEARD RAVENS
Written by Dorothy Wordsworth; Catherine Simmonds.
Stock no. 1831048
Published by Flagon Press.
1st
2008.
Very good condition.
Poems drawn from Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals. Introduction and notes by Catherine Simmonds. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Pictorial cardwraps. 54 pages. ISBN: 9780955707346. Covers a little edge-rubbed and lightly scuffed. Contents clean.
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- POETRY
- LIMITED EDITION
RUDYARD KIPLING: SELECTED POEMS (THE FOLIO POETS)
Written by Rudyard Kipling; Andrew Lycett.
Illustrated by George Tute.
Stock no. 1830983
Published by Folio Society.
1st thus
2004.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Edited & introduced by Lycett with b/w engravings by Tute. Maroon leather spine with gilt title. Pictorial boards. The Folio Poets Series. Top edge maroon. xviii and 405 pages including index. Minor mark to lower edge of text block else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is very lightly scuffed.
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- FOLIO SOCIETY
- POETRY
- LEATHER BINDING
- WOOD ENGRAVINGS