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“1914” Five Sonnets
- £120.00
- Published in his lifetime, this little anthology includes one of his best-loved poems, The Soldier
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1914 & Other Poems
- £7.00
- Early collection of Rupert Brooke's war poetry including the 1914 poems, The South Seas, and Grantchester.
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A Mainsail Haul
- £30.00
- Beautiful antholoyg of Masefield's poems from 1905, Frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats
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An Elegy
- £40.00
- Very rare copy of this work by Locke Ellis (1878-1950), who was one of the so-called Georgian poets (who published anthologies of their work between 1911 and 1922). All men (until the final two antologies of 1919 and 1922 included women), they counted among their number the likes of Rupert…
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An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
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Behold this Dreamer – of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, …
- £50.00
- Walter de la Mare's anthologies are in a category of their own, indeed, they are of such excellence as to make the description belittling. Walter de la Mare compiled five of them, with commentaries, using poems and passages of prose. To each he brought such a range of reading, wisdom…
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £20.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
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Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £35.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
- Add to basket
-
Collected Poems (Sassoon)
- £20.00
- Sassoon's fame as a novelist and autobiographer, and the success of his posthumously published Diaries, have somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. Apart from the famous War Poems of 1919, which firmly established his reputation, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. This collected edition represents his…
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Collected Poems of W. H. Davies
- £10.00
- W. H. Davies (1871-1940) was a much-loved Welsh poet, whose style was described by Shaw as that of a 'genuine' innocent. The first edition of this anthology was published in the year of his death, with this, the first reprint, in 1942.
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Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £10.00
- Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
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Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £15.00
- Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
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Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £15.00
- 2nd impression a month after 1st thus edition. Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
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Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe)
- £25.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
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Lewis Carroll
- £12.00
- de la Mare's brief appreciation of the great Victorian master of the absurd
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Livelihood: Dramatic Reveries
- £25.00
- Gibson was one of the Georgian poets and a close friend of Rupert Brooke (becoming literary executor after his death); this was his 8th published volume of poetry.
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Love
- £20.00
- Walter de la Mare was among the leading proponents of the so-called 'Georgian' poets, a loose assembly of influential literary friends who gathered in London in the years leading up to the First World War. Concerned with a refinement of sensibility - in feeling, in expression and in particular in…
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Masefield’s Collected Poems (signed)
- £180.00
- Masefield's collection in rare limited edition (500 for sale, 30 for presentation)
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
- £600.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
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No More Ghosts: Selected Poems
- £75.00
- A selection of poems by popular author Robert Graves, British author whose work never ran out of print. This volume including titles such as 'The Haunted House,' 'Apples and Water,' 'Time,' 'On Dwelling,' 'Love in Barrenness,' and many others.
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O Lovely England
- £15.00
- de la Mare's final collection of poetry - published when he was 80 years old. He would die just three years later. Contains 69 poems, many having first appeared in periodicals, but with some appearing in print for the first time.
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Poems (Rupert Brooke)
- £10.00
- Collection of Rupert Brooke's pre-1WW poems, including sonnets, Choriambics etc
- Add to basket
-
Poems 1930-31
- £10.00
- Small anthology by the Welsh poet, W. H. Davies, one of the best loved of his time.
- Add to basket
-
R. Brooke’s Poems
- £50.00
- Combination of various publications of Brooke's work. 1908-1911 poems; 1914 & othe poems; The South Seas; Other poems
- Add to basket
-
Salt Water Ballads
- £15.00
- Masefield, an orphan who attended Warwick School, went to work on the HMS Conway. During that time, Masefield learned much about sea lore. This collection showcases some of his experiences that he wrote extensively about in his journals, as he dealt with sunstroke, witnessed a norcturnal rainbow, and saw so…
- Add to basket
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Satirical Poems (Sassoon)
- £40.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
- Add to basket
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Sherston’s Progress
- £850.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
- Add to basket
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Sherston’s Progress
- £25.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
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Stuff and Nonsense and so on
- £10.00
- Humorous verse by De la Mare with wonderful woodcuts throughout by Bold.
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Stuff and Nonsense and so on
- £16.00
- Humorous verse by De la Mare with wonderful woodcuts throughout by Bold.
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The Bird-Cage (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Andrew Young (1885-1971) was a Scottish poet and Presbyterian then Anglican clergyman. This is his 7th volume of poems to be published. Sometimes associated with the Georgian poets who were his contemporaries.
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The Burning-Glass and other poems
- £15.00
- An anthology of de la Mare's poetry published towards the end of the 2nd World War. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was an acclaimed English writer best known for his works for children and for his poem 'The Listener'. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prixe in 1921 for…
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The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker
- £45.00
- James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) was an English novelist and playwright. As a poet, he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets. While at Oxford he was greatly influenced by the last flowering of the Aesthetic movement there under John Addington Symonds, and became a close friend of the classicist and…
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The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories
- £12.00
- Originally published in 1931, this version includes five stories - "The Dutch Cheese"; "Lucy"; "Alice's Godmother"; "A Penny a Day"; and, "The Three Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire".
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The Heart’s Journey (SIGNED)
- £320.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
- Add to basket
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The Poems of W. H. Davies 1940
- £50.00
- Published the year Davies died, this volume contains the whole of The Poems of W.H. Davies, 1934, and also all the subsequent poems which Mr. Davies has published, in Love Poems (1935), The Birth of Song (1936) and The Loneliest Mountain (1939). It is therefore a complete collection of the…
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The Road to Ruin
- £22.00
- A brief collection from 1933 containing six poems on the horror of modern warfare, introduced by a quotation from Albert Einstein. Printed on recto only.
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The Shepherd and other poems of Peace and War
- £60.00
- Edmund Blunden's first poem appeared in 1914; but it was this volume, The Shepherd published in 1922, that made his reputation. He is now regarded as one of the best Georgians, a man deeply acquainted with that tradition of English poetry, and a poet of quiet authority and haunting imagination…
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The Song of Love
- £20.00
- Davies' style was described by Shaw as that of a 'genuine' innocent. The Song of Love was published three years after his marriage at 52 to Helen Payne.
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The Wanderer of Liverpool
- £10.00
- Masefield's classic retelling of the story of The Wanderer, a Liverpool-built barque that was wrecked in the Elbe estuary in 1907. Incl poems at end.
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The Weald of Youth
- £12.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
- Add to basket
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Vigils
- £70.00
- Sassoon's collection of poems published in 1935 and dedicated to his wife Hester, whom he had married in 1933. "In using the word 'vigils' Sassoon conjured up the image of the silent, careful watcher of unfolding events." (Roberts, p.255)
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Who’s Who in D. H. Lawrence
- £12.00
- Writer and critic Graham Holderness has published over 40 books, many on Shakespeare, and hundreds of chapters and articles of criticism, theory and theology. He was one of the founders of British cultural materialism, and is acknowledged as a formative contributor to a number of branches of Shakespeare criticism and…
- Add to basket
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Winged Chariot
- £22.00
- Winged Chariot is a meditative poem in which time drive the poet, as it did Marvell, to realize his love. The poem has a marginal commentary of quotations, such as the two from the medieval English lyric, 'Quia Amore Langueo', in which Christ seeks to convince the errant human soul…
- Add to basket
-
“1914” Five Sonnets
- £120.00
- Published in his lifetime, this little anthology includes one of his best-loved poems, The Soldier
- Add to basket
-
1914 & Other Poems
- £7.00
- Early collection of Rupert Brooke's war poetry including the 1914 poems, The South Seas, and Grantchester.
- Add to basket
-
A Mainsail Haul
- £30.00
- Beautiful antholoyg of Masefield's poems from 1905, Frontispiece by Jack B. Yeats
- Add to basket
-
An Elegy
- £40.00
- Very rare copy of this work by Locke Ellis (1878-1950), who was one of the so-called Georgian poets (who published anthologies of their work between 1911 and 1922). All men (until the final two antologies of 1919 and 1922 included women), they counted among their number the likes of Rupert…
- Add to basket
-
An Octave
- £120.00
- Introduced by Charles Causley. Edition limited to 350 numbered copies, 100 of which were presented to the author on his eightieth birthday, 250 being reserved for subscribers.
- Add to basket
-
Behold this Dreamer – of Reverie, Night, Sleep, Dream, …
- £50.00
- Walter de la Mare's anthologies are in a category of their own, indeed, they are of such excellence as to make the description belittling. Walter de la Mare compiled five of them, with commentaries, using poems and passages of prose. To each he brought such a range of reading, wisdom…
- Add to basket
-
Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £20.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
- Add to basket
-
Bells and Grass: a book of rhymes
- £35.00
- The companion volume to Peacock Pie, this is one of de la Mare's beloved anthologies of verse primarily aimed at children.
- Add to basket
-
Collected Poems (Sassoon)
- £20.00
- Sassoon's fame as a novelist and autobiographer, and the success of his posthumously published Diaries, have somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. Apart from the famous War Poems of 1919, which firmly established his reputation, he published eight volumes of verse during his lifetime. This collected edition represents his…
- Add to basket
-
Collected Poems of W. H. Davies
- £10.00
- W. H. Davies (1871-1940) was a much-loved Welsh poet, whose style was described by Shaw as that of a 'genuine' innocent. The first edition of this anthology was published in the year of his death, with this, the first reprint, in 1942.
- Add to basket
-
Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £10.00
- Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
- Add to basket
-
Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £15.00
- Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
- Add to basket
-
Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
- £15.00
- 2nd impression a month after 1st thus edition. Complete poetry of the great 1st World War poet
- Add to basket
-
Desert Islands (and Robinson Crusoe)
- £25.00
- One of de la Mare's famous thematic anthologies. As critic Lord David Cecil wrote, '"De la Mare's anthologies should be numbered among his creative works; for in them the quoted passages are woven together on a web of imaginative comment as highly wrought and as often as long as the…
- Add to basket
-
Lewis Carroll
- £12.00
- de la Mare's brief appreciation of the great Victorian master of the absurd
- Add to basket
-
Livelihood: Dramatic Reveries
- £25.00
- Gibson was one of the Georgian poets and a close friend of Rupert Brooke (becoming literary executor after his death); this was his 8th published volume of poetry.
- Add to basket
-
Love
- £20.00
- Walter de la Mare was among the leading proponents of the so-called 'Georgian' poets, a loose assembly of influential literary friends who gathered in London in the years leading up to the First World War. Concerned with a refinement of sensibility - in feeling, in expression and in particular in…
- Add to basket
-
Masefield’s Collected Poems (signed)
- £180.00
- Masefield's collection in rare limited edition (500 for sale, 30 for presentation)
- Add to basket
-
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
- £600.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
- Add to basket
-
No More Ghosts: Selected Poems
- £75.00
- A selection of poems by popular author Robert Graves, British author whose work never ran out of print. This volume including titles such as 'The Haunted House,' 'Apples and Water,' 'Time,' 'On Dwelling,' 'Love in Barrenness,' and many others.
- Add to basket
-
O Lovely England
- £15.00
- de la Mare's final collection of poetry - published when he was 80 years old. He would die just three years later. Contains 69 poems, many having first appeared in periodicals, but with some appearing in print for the first time.
- Add to basket
-
Poems (Rupert Brooke)
- £10.00
- Collection of Rupert Brooke's pre-1WW poems, including sonnets, Choriambics etc
- Add to basket
-
Poems 1930-31
- £10.00
- Small anthology by the Welsh poet, W. H. Davies, one of the best loved of his time.
- Add to basket
-
R. Brooke’s Poems
- £50.00
- Combination of various publications of Brooke's work. 1908-1911 poems; 1914 & othe poems; The South Seas; Other poems
- Add to basket
-
Salt Water Ballads
- £15.00
- Masefield, an orphan who attended Warwick School, went to work on the HMS Conway. During that time, Masefield learned much about sea lore. This collection showcases some of his experiences that he wrote extensively about in his journals, as he dealt with sunstroke, witnessed a norcturnal rainbow, and saw so…
- Add to basket
-
Satirical Poems (Sassoon)
- £40.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
- Add to basket
-
Sherston’s Progress
- £850.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
- Add to basket
-
Sherston’s Progress
- £25.00
- As the capstone of Sassoon's masterful Sherston trilogy, Sherston's Progress--whose evocation of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is not at all accidental--literally brings home the unforgettable journey of George Sherston from aristocratic childhood through war hero and anti-war martyr, all the way to wounded veteran trying to move on from the Great…
- Add to basket
-
Stuff and Nonsense and so on
- £10.00
- Humorous verse by De la Mare with wonderful woodcuts throughout by Bold.
- Add to basket
-
Stuff and Nonsense and so on
- £16.00
- Humorous verse by De la Mare with wonderful woodcuts throughout by Bold.
- Add to basket
-
The Bird-Cage (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Andrew Young (1885-1971) was a Scottish poet and Presbyterian then Anglican clergyman. This is his 7th volume of poems to be published. Sometimes associated with the Georgian poets who were his contemporaries.
- Add to basket
-
The Burning-Glass and other poems
- £15.00
- An anthology of de la Mare's poetry published towards the end of the 2nd World War. Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was an acclaimed English writer best known for his works for children and for his poem 'The Listener'. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prixe in 1921 for…
- Add to basket
-
The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker
- £45.00
- James Elroy Flecker (1884–1915) was an English novelist and playwright. As a poet, he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets. While at Oxford he was greatly influenced by the last flowering of the Aesthetic movement there under John Addington Symonds, and became a close friend of the classicist and…
- Add to basket
-
The Dutch Cheese and Other Stories
- £12.00
- Originally published in 1931, this version includes five stories - "The Dutch Cheese"; "Lucy"; "Alice's Godmother"; "A Penny a Day"; and, "The Three Sleeping Boys of Warwickshire".
- Add to basket
-
The Heart’s Journey (SIGNED)
- £320.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
- Add to basket
-
The Poems of W. H. Davies 1940
- £50.00
- Published the year Davies died, this volume contains the whole of The Poems of W.H. Davies, 1934, and also all the subsequent poems which Mr. Davies has published, in Love Poems (1935), The Birth of Song (1936) and The Loneliest Mountain (1939). It is therefore a complete collection of the…
- Add to basket
-
The Road to Ruin
- £22.00
- A brief collection from 1933 containing six poems on the horror of modern warfare, introduced by a quotation from Albert Einstein. Printed on recto only.
- Add to basket
-
The Shepherd and other poems of Peace and War
- £60.00
- Edmund Blunden's first poem appeared in 1914; but it was this volume, The Shepherd published in 1922, that made his reputation. He is now regarded as one of the best Georgians, a man deeply acquainted with that tradition of English poetry, and a poet of quiet authority and haunting imagination…
- Add to basket
-
The Song of Love
- £20.00
- Davies' style was described by Shaw as that of a 'genuine' innocent. The Song of Love was published three years after his marriage at 52 to Helen Payne.
- Add to basket
-
The Wanderer of Liverpool
- £10.00
- Masefield's classic retelling of the story of The Wanderer, a Liverpool-built barque that was wrecked in the Elbe estuary in 1907. Incl poems at end.
- Add to basket
-
The Weald of Youth
- £12.00
- Siegfried Sassoon, CBE, MC (1886 Ð 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches, and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who,…
- Add to basket
-
Vigils
- £70.00
- Sassoon's collection of poems published in 1935 and dedicated to his wife Hester, whom he had married in 1933. "In using the word 'vigils' Sassoon conjured up the image of the silent, careful watcher of unfolding events." (Roberts, p.255)
- Add to basket
-
Who’s Who in D. H. Lawrence
- £12.00
- Writer and critic Graham Holderness has published over 40 books, many on Shakespeare, and hundreds of chapters and articles of criticism, theory and theology. He was one of the founders of British cultural materialism, and is acknowledged as a formative contributor to a number of branches of Shakespeare criticism and…
- Add to basket
-
Winged Chariot
- £22.00
- Winged Chariot is a meditative poem in which time drive the poet, as it did Marvell, to realize his love. The poem has a marginal commentary of quotations, such as the two from the medieval English lyric, 'Quia Amore Langueo', in which Christ seeks to convince the errant human soul…
- Add to basket
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