
Poetry
AUDEN, W.H.
The Age Of Anxiety
London: Faber, 1948
8vo, pp. 126. Original yellow boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First UK edition, preceded by the US edition issued the previous year.
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]
BETJEMAN, John
Poems In The Porch
London: SPCK, 1954
8vo, unpaginated. Original illustrated stiff paper wrapper, lettered in blue and red to front panel.
First edition, INSCRIBED ON HALF-TITLE BY... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
THOMAS, R.S.
Between Here And Now
London: Macmillan, 1981
8vo, pp. 110. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition, the hardback issue.
In a rare literary sojourn... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
HEANEY, Seamus
Door Into The Dark
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 56. Original stiff paper wrappers.
First paperback edition of Heaney's second commercially published collection, first published in... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
AUDEN, W.H.
Spain
London: Faber, 1937
8vo, pp. 12. Original red stiff paper wrappers with foldover flaps. Partly unopened.
First edition.
Auden donated all royalties from ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[illus. SCOTT, Laurence] AUDEN, W.H.
Marginalia
Cambridge, Massachussetts: Ibex Press, 1966
Oblong 8vo, 20 pp.
First edition. One of 150 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND THE ILLUSTRATOR, LAURENCE SCOTT.
[LARKIN, Philip; HUGHES, Ted; THOMAS, R.S; GUNN, Thom]
Four
London: Critical Quarterly Society, N.d. [1968]
8vo, pp. 24. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers.
First edition.
'One purpose of these little... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
DUNN, Douglas
The Happier Life
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 72. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine.
First edition of Dunn's second collection of verse.
HEANEY, Seamus
Wintering Out
London: Faber, 1972
8vo, pp. 80. Original printed card wrappers.
First edition, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. This issue precedes the hardbound edition.
This,... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
THOMAS, R.S.
Ingrowing Thoughts
Bridgend: Poetry Wales Press, 1985
8vo, pp. 49. Original green stiff paper wrappers.
First edition, the softbound issue.
21 poems, printed alongside... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
THOMAS, R.S.
Residues
Tarset: Bloodaxe, 2002
8vo, pp. 70. Original illustrated wrappers.
First edition, softbound issue.
A fine copy of this posthumous collection.
THOMAS, R.S. and HOPE JONES, Peter
Between Sea And Sky
Llandysul: Gomer Press, 1998
Square 8vo, pp. 82. Original blue boards, lettered in silver to spine. Photographic dustwrapper.
First edition.
[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]
THOMAS, R.S.
Selected Poems 1946-1968
London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1973
8vo, pp. 134. Original tan boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrapper.
First edition.
THOMAS, R.S.
Not That He Brought Flowers
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968
8vo, pp. 45. Original cream three-quarter boards, lettered in black and brown to front panel, and gilt to brown spine. Illustrated... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
[ed. GRIGSON, Geoffrey]
New Verse
London: Drummond, 1933-1939
34 issues in 32. Small 8vo. Stiff paper wrappers. Red wraparound band to Auden double issue (26-27), perforated subscription forms to many... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
LARKIN, Philip
The Whitsun Weddings
London: Faber, 1964
8vo, pp. 46. Original deep red cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Dustwrapper.
First edition. Published in February 1964 in an edition of ... [please click on the image or book title for more details]
