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A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
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After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
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Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
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All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
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An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
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Benjamin Britten: a Commentary on his works from a group of Specialists
- £20.00
- Written to help the understanding of the millions who admire Britten superficially. Contributors include: Earl of Harewood, Dpeter Pears, George Malcolm, Norman del Mar, Imogen Holst, Lennox Berkeley
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Better than God (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Better Than God sees the eighty-year-old Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or narrative, or…
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Brighton Rock
- £12.00
- A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Britten (The Great Composers) SIGNED
- £65.00
- First edition of Imogen Holst's celebrated profile of Britten. Holst would work with him for 24 years by the time of his death and thus well qualified to write with insight and sympathy. Includes b/w phots throughout, and 16 pages of music examples.
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Chesterton’s Christian Writings
- £40.00
- An omnibus of Chesterton's larger works of theology and fiction, unabridged. Includes: Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, Heretics, St Francis Of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas And The Man Who Was Thursday
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Collected Poems (Oxford Poets 2-set SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This two-volume boxed set, of Peter Porter covers 40 years of this poet's work, since his first book was published in England in 1961. Since then 14 collections have followed, including (in Volume 1 1961-1981) the translations of "Martial", and "The Cost of Seriousness" . "The Automatic Oracle" which won…
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Collected Poems (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £45.00
- This collection of Peter Porter's work includes the majority of his poems published between 1961 and 1981, which gained him eight Book of the Year awards from the Poetry Book Society and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1983. They are grouped chronologically under the titles of his eight books…
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Contending for the Faith
- £10.00
- A History of the Evangelical Movement in the Universities and Colleges, taking up the story first begun by the Donald Coggan-edited history up to 1934, Christ and the Colleges.
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Darwin’s Nemesis, Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement
- £10.00
- With the publication of 'Darwin on Trial' in 1991, Cal Berkeley legal scholar Phillip Johnson became the leading figure in the intelligent design movement. Exposing and calling into question the philosophical foundations of Darwinism, Johnson led the charge against this largely unquestioned philosophy of materialistic reductionism and its purported basis…
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David G Farragut (American Crisis Biographies)
- £40.00
- Spears (1850-1936) was a renowned American journalist and author. Farragut was an admiral in the US Navy, and a significant Unionist strategist in the American Civil War, despite coming from the south (Tennessee).
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Dragons in their Places (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This collection, its title taken from Isaiah, continues in the same vein of prophecy as Peter Porter's last works, "Millennial Fables". This time, however, the poems are lighter in tone, sometimes quirkily humorous, and the detail of the poetry more down-to-earth. The countries he visits include his land of birth,…
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Earth’s Enigmas: a volume of stories
- £35.00
- This early work by Charles G. D. Roberts was originally published in 1896, a collection of short stories that include 'The Perdu', 'In the Accident Ward', 'The Stone Dog', and many more. Charles G. D. Roberts was born on 10th January 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada. Roberts's most successful…
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Eighteen Poems (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A late collection of poems by the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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Emily Bronte, a biography
- £35.00
- Winifred Grin (1901-1981) was a biographer, especially known for her biographies of each of the Bront siblings (for which she won several awards). She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1968 and OBE in 1975.
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Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland
- £100.00
- The forerunner of Burke's Peerage. Full title: Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland, comprising a registry of all armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time, including the late grants by the College of Arms. Third Edition, with a supplement.
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Subtitles (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- As the title poem of this new collection explains, the writer today is an annotator, 'turning the more uncomfrotable passions/into slim sentences.' But these poems É are far from reductive; their discursive eloquence is the distinguishing mark of a poet never reluctant to embrace ideas. Ther is also a welcome…
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Fast Forward (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Poems balance subtle commentaries of contemporary life and politics with a celebration of history, art, and man's creative spirit. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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Gaudete
- £45.00
- The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange…
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Iuventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age
- £60.00
- From the preface by the multi-termed Prime Minister, William Gladstone: In this work, which is mainly the produce of the two Recesses of 1867 and 1868, I have endeavoured to embody the greater part of the results at which I arrived in the ' Studies on Homer and the Homeric…
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Jew Sss
- £30.00
- When FeuchtwangerÕs two best known novels ÒJew SssÓ (ÒPowerÓ) and ÒUgly DuchessÓ were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. The critics all hailed Feuchtwanger as the master of the historical novelÑthe peer of Dumas and Scott but written…
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
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Jonah (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- A book of poems by Peter Porter accompanying reproductions of artwork by Arthur Boyd. It was published by Secker & Warburg on 22 October 1973. 2000 copies were printed, and the retail price was £4.75. Porter had met Boyd at a poetry festival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965.…
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Living in a Calm Country (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The eighth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Lupercal
- £120.00
- Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'. Like his first, dedicated to his wife Sylvia Plath.
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Many Inventions
- £15.00
- 14 short stories , 12 of which appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine. The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes (Eccl 7:29).
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Mars (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- The third of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. The theme in this collection is the god of war, Mars, which resulted in a harsh, violent, acerbic, witty, despairing, and haunting work. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour…
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Max is Missing (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Few poets now writing share PorterÕs sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire. Whether these poems look at Europe through the strata of its Golden Ages, revisit the Australia of his childhood or turn their surreal…
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Mditations Pour Tous Les Jours et Fetes De L’Annee: sur la vie et les mystres de notre-seigneur Jsus Christ
- £40.00
- Combined volume of the Abb de Brandt's Meditations for all days and annual holidays.
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Millennial Fables (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £18.00
- In the countdown to the Third Millennium, time and events tend to be scrutinized apprehensively. Ordinary human fear of portents and oracles becomes intensified. Peter Porter's new collection acknowledges this pressure, and protests against it. More than ever, his poems express contemporary life in its present flux, while forecasting a…
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £15.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Narcissus (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'Among the stories which the Greeks told themselves to illuminate human nature, one with a perennial interest and eternally renewable force is that of Narcissus, who so adored his image in a pool that he languished and died (or fell…
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News of the World
- £35.00
- George Granville Barker (1913-1991) was an English poet identified with the New Apocalyptics movement which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. He was helped by his editor at Faber, T. S. Eliot, to get a university teaching post in Japan which ended in 1940 as hostilities began.
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Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- The first published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Paradise Lost (facsimile) (PROVENANCE)
- £500.00
- In Ten Books, The text reproduced from the first edition of 1667, with an appendix containing the additions made in later issues and a monograph on the original publication of the poem.
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Poems Ancient & Modern (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The second published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Poetiske Skrifter (vol 1&2)
- £80.00
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791-1860) was a Danish poet, literary critic, playwright and historian. These are the first two volumes of several anthologies of his own works of "Poetic Writing".
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Poetry supplement / for Poetry Book Society, Christmas ’80 (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Poetry Book Society's Christmas supplement edited by Peter Porter, including contributions from Dannie Abse, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Gavin Ewart, Evan Jones, George MacBeth, Rolland Munro, Peter Redgrave, Penelope Shuttle, Jacqueline Simms, George Szirtes, Anthony Thwaite, and Robert Preston Wells. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal…
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Possible Worlds (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A collection by Australian/British poet and writer Peter Porter, it contains 42 poems, some of which were published here for the first time. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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Preaching to the Converted (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The sixth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Five stories, two of which concern the supernatural, written by the Welsh-born Scottish poet and writer, military historian and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, Eric Linklater won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a…
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Songs of Botrel, France’s War Poet (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Theodore Botrel (1868-1925) was a popular singer-songwriter in France, known particularly for his songs about his native Brittany. During the First World War he was appointed as official War Poet or Bard of the Armies in 1915, granted access to perform throughout French lines. This collection of poems was translated…
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Strange Gravity: Songs Physical And Metaphysical (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Paul Petrie (1928-2012) was an American poet and professor at the university of Rhode Island. The drawings are by Charles E. Wadsworth ('Waddy')was an american painter and poet in the Great Cranberry Isles artistic community.
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Telling the Truth: The gospel as tragedy comedy and fairy tale (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A fresh, creative look at the underlying meaning of the Gospels that stresses the many dimensions of God's relationship to humanity.
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The Ascent of Everest
- £25.00
- This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of…
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The Ascent of Everest (SIGNED by Hillary and Evans)
- £2,000.00
- This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of…
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The Automatic Oracle (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- With this new collection, Peter Porter shows his maturity as a poet and displays his ability to work in a variety of forms. The "oracle" of the title is the English language, with the poet acting as a "priest" bound to carry messages to the outside world. Porter's themes here…
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The Battle of Britain and other poems (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Sir Thomas White (1866-1955) was a Canadian politician and this collection of his poems was privately published in Canada immediately after the war.
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The Chair of Babel (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This is a collection of 50 new poems, on a great mixture of autobiographical and more general subjects; on dreams, states of mind, and above all on the divisiveness of language, used in Porter's various `Babel' of forms. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of…
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £15.00
- Eliot’s play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Cost of Seriousness (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Though only a few of the poems in this collection (Porter's seventh) are directly autobiographical, the whole book is haunted by one event--the death of his wife at the end of 1974. 'The cost of seriousness will be death' says the title poem. Porter was made a Companion of Literature…
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The Creevey Papers
- £15.00
- A selection from the correspondence & diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M. P. (1768-1838)
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The Death of a President: November 20 – November 25, 1963 (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- William Manchester's evocative history of the events surrounding the assassination and funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Working with the cooperation of the Kennedy family and top Kennedy associates, Manchester illuminates the many dimensions of the tragedy at the public and private level and constructs a vivid portrait of the…
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The Edge of Day: a boyhood in the West of England
- £35.00
- The American edition of Laurie Lee's much loved memoir, Cider with Rosie. A wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie…
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The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal: for Nov 1814É Feb 1815 (vol XXIV)
- £50.00
- Started on 10 October 1802 by Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Henry Brougham, and Francis Horner, it was published by Archibald Constable in quarterly issues until 1929. It began as a literary and political review.
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The Family Reunion: A Play
- £5.00
- This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Hawk in the Rain
- £120.00
- Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a collection of forty poems, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, whom he had married the previous year.
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The Hawk in the Rain
- £130.00
- Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a collection of forty poems, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, whom he had married the previous year.
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The Lady and the Unicorn (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The second of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'The moral of the story is that acquisitiveness leads to disappointment, if not to wanton destruction although Boyd and Porter focussed their attention on the changing relationship between the Lady and the Unicorn, rather than the acquisitive Emperor. The final…
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The Last of England (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The fourth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010) and the first with OUP. Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to…
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The Life and Times of ‘England’s Patriot King’ William the Fourth, with a brief memoir of HM Queen Adelaide
- £160.00
- Biography of King William IV and his Queen Adelaide, published in 1831, the year of his coronation. He would of course die in 1837, succeeded by his niece, the young Victoria.
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The Poetical Works of John Milton (The Albion Edition), With Introductory Memoir, Notes, Bibliography, Etc.
- £50.00
- An anthology of Milton's poetry including Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, his Latin verse as well as his own translations.
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The Song of the Sword & Other Poems
- £50.00
- The second anthology of Henley’s poetry, which was published in 2nd edition as London Voluntaries in 1893
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The Works of Robert Burns; with An Account of His Life (4 vol)
- £350.00
- Full title: Burns (Robert). The Works of Robert Burns; with An Account of His Life, and A Criticism On His Writings, To Which Are Prefixed, Some Observations On The Character And Condition Of The Scottish Peasantry. 4 volumes, 4th edition (1st in 1800)
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Venus in Libra (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- John Bayliss was a British poet sometimes associated with the New Apocalyptics, a reaction against 1930s realism through surrealism and mysticism. He contributed in the war years to Poetry London and Poetry Quarterly; later to Poetry Review. He was also published in Air Force Poetry (1944). In 1977 he published…
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Vicomte de Bragelonne (D’Artagnan Romances, vol IV)
- £16.00
- It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon…
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A Choice of Pope’s Verse (SIGNED)
- £14.00
- Porter was an enthusiast for Alexander Pope's poetry and was best place to select and introduce verses. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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A Porter Folio (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The third published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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A Porter Selected (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This superb selection of nearly 100 poems has been chosen by the author himself to represent thirty years of his work and eleven original and highly praised collections. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum…
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After Martial (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- Martial is famous for his epigrams. He is also notorious as the most ribald poet of the classical world. Too few people know his more extended epigrams, which give an unrivalled picture of daily life in Rome in the first century AD. Though these translations take too many liberties to…
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Afterburner (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Following the terrific success of Max is Missing -- winner of the Forward Prize for best poetry collection -- Peter Porter has produced another book of great power and erudition. 'Afterburner' -- the device that provides the extra thrust to a turbojet -- is a thoroughly appropriate title for this…
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All the Year Round: A weekly journal (Dec 1870 – May 1871)
- £100.00
- Charles Dickens started All The Year Round after a legal dispute with the publisher of his Household Words in 1859. It was in this weekly magazine that he first published A Tale of Two Cities. A week before he died in 1870, Dickens passed the editorship to his son, Charles…
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An Italian Visit
- £35.00
- C. Day Lewis, former Professor of Poetry at Oxford, chooses a form that enables his various gifts to be displayed to advantage and to sustain rapt interest in a poem longer than convention now favours. It is a poem in seven parts: 'Dialogue at the Airport'; 'Flight to Italy'; 'A…
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Benjamin Britten: a Commentary on his works from a group of Specialists
- £20.00
- Written to help the understanding of the millions who admire Britten superficially. Contributors include: Earl of Harewood, Dpeter Pears, George Malcolm, Norman del Mar, Imogen Holst, Lennox Berkeley
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Better than God (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Better Than God sees the eighty-year-old Porter working with a lyric engine tuned to perfection, and a mind that shows every sign of speeding up: Porter can make a song of what another writer might take an essay to cover. Whether working in the forms of epigram or narrative, or…
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Brideshead Revisited, the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
- £150.00
- Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English aristocracy in the run-up to the Second World War. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before the Second World…
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Brighton Rock
- £12.00
- A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Britten (The Great Composers) SIGNED
- £65.00
- First edition of Imogen Holst's celebrated profile of Britten. Holst would work with him for 24 years by the time of his death and thus well qualified to write with insight and sympathy. Includes b/w phots throughout, and 16 pages of music examples.
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Chesterton’s Christian Writings
- £40.00
- An omnibus of Chesterton's larger works of theology and fiction, unabridged. Includes: Everlasting Man, Orthodoxy, Heretics, St Francis Of Assisi, St. Thomas Aquinas And The Man Who Was Thursday
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Collected Poems (Oxford Poets 2-set SIGNED)
- £100.00
- This two-volume boxed set, of Peter Porter covers 40 years of this poet's work, since his first book was published in England in 1961. Since then 14 collections have followed, including (in Volume 1 1961-1981) the translations of "Martial", and "The Cost of Seriousness" . "The Automatic Oracle" which won…
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Collected Poems (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £45.00
- This collection of Peter Porter's work includes the majority of his poems published between 1961 and 1981, which gained him eight Book of the Year awards from the Poetry Book Society and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize for 1983. They are grouped chronologically under the titles of his eight books…
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Contending for the Faith
- £10.00
- A History of the Evangelical Movement in the Universities and Colleges, taking up the story first begun by the Donald Coggan-edited history up to 1934, Christ and the Colleges.
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Darwin’s Nemesis, Phillip Johnson and the Intelligent Design Movement
- £10.00
- With the publication of 'Darwin on Trial' in 1991, Cal Berkeley legal scholar Phillip Johnson became the leading figure in the intelligent design movement. Exposing and calling into question the philosophical foundations of Darwinism, Johnson led the charge against this largely unquestioned philosophy of materialistic reductionism and its purported basis…
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David G Farragut (American Crisis Biographies)
- £40.00
- Spears (1850-1936) was a renowned American journalist and author. Farragut was an admiral in the US Navy, and a significant Unionist strategist in the American Civil War, despite coming from the south (Tennessee).
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Dragons in their Places (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £50.00
- This collection, its title taken from Isaiah, continues in the same vein of prophecy as Peter Porter's last works, "Millennial Fables". This time, however, the poems are lighter in tone, sometimes quirkily humorous, and the detail of the poetry more down-to-earth. The countries he visits include his land of birth,…
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Earth’s Enigmas: a volume of stories
- £35.00
- This early work by Charles G. D. Roberts was originally published in 1896, a collection of short stories that include 'The Perdu', 'In the Accident Ward', 'The Stone Dog', and many more. Charles G. D. Roberts was born on 10th January 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada. Roberts's most successful…
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Eighteen Poems (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A late collection of poems by the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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Emily Bronte, a biography
- £35.00
- Winifred Grin (1901-1981) was a biographer, especially known for her biographies of each of the Bront siblings (for which she won several awards). She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1968 and OBE in 1975.
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Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland
- £100.00
- The forerunner of Burke's Peerage. Full title: Encyclopaedia of Heraldry, or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland, comprising a registry of all armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time, including the late grants by the College of Arms. Third Edition, with a supplement.
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (excluding drama)
- £55.00
- The Completion of The Clark Lectures Trinity College Cambridge, 1944, which C S Lewis took a decade to complete for publication. Part of the Oxford History of English Literature
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English Subtitles (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- As the title poem of this new collection explains, the writer today is an annotator, 'turning the more uncomfrotable passions/into slim sentences.' But these poems É are far from reductive; their discursive eloquence is the distinguishing mark of a poet never reluctant to embrace ideas. Ther is also a welcome…
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Fast Forward (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- Poems balance subtle commentaries of contemporary life and politics with a celebration of history, art, and man's creative spirit. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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Gaudete
- £45.00
- The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange…
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Iuventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age
- £60.00
- From the preface by the multi-termed Prime Minister, William Gladstone: In this work, which is mainly the produce of the two Recesses of 1867 and 1868, I have endeavoured to embody the greater part of the results at which I arrived in the ' Studies on Homer and the Homeric…
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Jew Sss
- £30.00
- When FeuchtwangerÕs two best known novels ÒJew SssÓ (ÒPowerÓ) and ÒUgly DuchessÓ were first translated into English in the 1920s, they caused a tremendous sensation in England and then in America. The critics all hailed Feuchtwanger as the master of the historical novelÑthe peer of Dumas and Scott but written…
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John Betjeman’s Collected Poems
- £10.00
- Earl of Birkenhead’s compilation
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Jonah (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- A book of poems by Peter Porter accompanying reproductions of artwork by Arthur Boyd. It was published by Secker & Warburg on 22 October 1973. 2000 copies were printed, and the retail price was £4.75. Porter had met Boyd at a poetry festival at the Royal Court Theatre in 1965.…
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Living in a Calm Country (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The eighth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Lupercal
- £120.00
- Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'. Like his first, dedicated to his wife Sylvia Plath.
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Many Inventions
- £15.00
- 14 short stories , 12 of which appeared in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine. The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes (Eccl 7:29).
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Mars (SIGNED)
- £55.00
- The third of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. The theme in this collection is the god of war, Mars, which resulted in a harsh, violent, acerbic, witty, despairing, and haunting work. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour…
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Max is Missing (SIGNED)
- £20.00
- Few poets now writing share PorterÕs sense of the big picture, his ability to read the small event against the waxings and wanings of culture and empire. Whether these poems look at Europe through the strata of its Golden Ages, revisit the Australia of his childhood or turn their surreal…
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Mditations Pour Tous Les Jours et Fetes De L’Annee: sur la vie et les mystres de notre-seigneur Jsus Christ
- £40.00
- Combined volume of the Abb de Brandt's Meditations for all days and annual holidays.
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Millennial Fables (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £18.00
- In the countdown to the Third Millennium, time and events tend to be scrutinized apprehensively. Ordinary human fear of portents and oracles becomes intensified. Peter Porter's new collection acknowledges this pressure, and protests against it. More than ever, his poems express contemporary life in its present flux, while forecasting a…
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Murder in the Cathedral
- £15.00
- Eliot's brilliant dramatisation of the killing of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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Narcissus (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The first of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'Among the stories which the Greeks told themselves to illuminate human nature, one with a perennial interest and eternally renewable force is that of Narcissus, who so adored his image in a pool that he languished and died (or fell…
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News of the World
- £35.00
- George Granville Barker (1913-1991) was an English poet identified with the New Apocalyptics movement which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. He was helped by his editor at Faber, T. S. Eliot, to get a university teaching post in Japan which ended in 1940 as hostilities began.
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Once Bitten, Twice Bitten (SIGNED)
- £85.00
- The first published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Paradise Lost (facsimile) (PROVENANCE)
- £500.00
- In Ten Books, The text reproduced from the first edition of 1667, with an appendix containing the additions made in later issues and a monograph on the original publication of the poem.
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Poems Ancient & Modern (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- The second published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Poetiske Skrifter (vol 1&2)
- £80.00
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791-1860) was a Danish poet, literary critic, playwright and historian. These are the first two volumes of several anthologies of his own works of "Poetic Writing".
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Poetry supplement / for Poetry Book Society, Christmas ’80 (SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Poetry Book Society's Christmas supplement edited by Peter Porter, including contributions from Dannie Abse, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Gavin Ewart, Evan Jones, George MacBeth, Rolland Munro, Peter Redgrave, Penelope Shuttle, Jacqueline Simms, George Szirtes, Anthony Thwaite, and Robert Preston Wells. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal…
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Possible Worlds (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- A collection by Australian/British poet and writer Peter Porter, it contains 42 poems, some of which were published here for the first time. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 2007, an honour only given to a maximum of ten living writers.
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Preaching to the Converted (SIGNED)
- £45.00
- The sixth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010). Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to the elegiac mode of his…
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Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Five stories, two of which concern the supernatural, written by the Welsh-born Scottish poet and writer, military historian and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, Eric Linklater won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a…
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Songs of Botrel, France’s War Poet (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Theodore Botrel (1868-1925) was a popular singer-songwriter in France, known particularly for his songs about his native Brittany. During the First World War he was appointed as official War Poet or Bard of the Armies in 1915, granted access to perform throughout French lines. This collection of poems was translated…
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Strange Gravity: Songs Physical And Metaphysical (SIGNED)
- £40.00
- Paul Petrie (1928-2012) was an American poet and professor at the university of Rhode Island. The drawings are by Charles E. Wadsworth ('Waddy')was an american painter and poet in the Great Cranberry Isles artistic community.
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Telling the Truth: The gospel as tragedy comedy and fairy tale (SIGNED)
- £150.00
- A fresh, creative look at the underlying meaning of the Gospels that stresses the many dimensions of God's relationship to humanity.
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The Ascent of Everest
- £25.00
- This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of…
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The Ascent of Everest (SIGNED by Hillary and Evans)
- £2,000.00
- This is the story of how, on 29 May, 1953, two men, both endowed with outstanding stamina and skill, reached the top of Everest and came back unscathed to rejoin their comrades. 'Yet this will not be the whole story, for the ascent of Everest was not the work of…
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The Automatic Oracle (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- With this new collection, Peter Porter shows his maturity as a poet and displays his ability to work in a variety of forms. The "oracle" of the title is the English language, with the poet acting as a "priest" bound to carry messages to the outside world. Porter's themes here…
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The Battle of Britain and other poems (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Sir Thomas White (1866-1955) was a Canadian politician and this collection of his poems was privately published in Canada immediately after the war.
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The Chair of Babel (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £25.00
- This is a collection of 50 new poems, on a great mixture of autobiographical and more general subjects; on dreams, states of mind, and above all on the divisiveness of language, used in Porter's various `Babel' of forms. Porter was made a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of…
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The Cocktail Party: A Comedy
- £15.00
- Eliot’s play was first produced at the 1949 Edinburgh Festival, after which a few amendments were made. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Cost of Seriousness (Oxford Poets SIGNED)
- £30.00
- Though only a few of the poems in this collection (Porter's seventh) are directly autobiographical, the whole book is haunted by one event--the death of his wife at the end of 1974. 'The cost of seriousness will be death' says the title poem. Porter was made a Companion of Literature…
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The Creevey Papers
- £15.00
- A selection from the correspondence & diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M. P. (1768-1838)
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The Death of a President: November 20 – November 25, 1963 (SIGNED)
- £500.00
- William Manchester's evocative history of the events surrounding the assassination and funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Working with the cooperation of the Kennedy family and top Kennedy associates, Manchester illuminates the many dimensions of the tragedy at the public and private level and constructs a vivid portrait of the…
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The Edge of Day: a boyhood in the West of England
- £35.00
- The American edition of Laurie Lee's much loved memoir, Cider with Rosie. A wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Growing up amongst the fields and woods and characters of the place, Laurie…
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The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal: for Nov 1814É Feb 1815 (vol XXIV)
- £50.00
- Started on 10 October 1802 by Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Henry Brougham, and Francis Horner, it was published by Archibald Constable in quarterly issues until 1929. It began as a literary and political review.
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The Family Reunion: A Play
- £5.00
- This was Eliot's second verse play, first produced at the westminster Theatre in 1939 and revived at the Mercury Theatre in 1946. Provenance: BBC Political journalist Peter Hardiman Scott (plate on ffep)
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The Hawk in the Rain
- £120.00
- Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a collection of forty poems, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, whom he had married the previous year.
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The Hawk in the Rain
- £130.00
- Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a collection of forty poems, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, whom he had married the previous year.
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The Lady and the Unicorn (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- The second of Porter's collaborations with Australian artist Arthur Boyd. 'The moral of the story is that acquisitiveness leads to disappointment, if not to wanton destruction although Boyd and Porter focussed their attention on the changing relationship between the Lady and the Unicorn, rather than the acquisitive Emperor. The final…
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The Last of England (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- The fourth published anthology of the Australian/British poet Peter Porter OAM (1929-2010) and the first with OUP. Influences on his work include W. H. Auden, John Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. He went through distinct poetic stages, from the epigrams and satires of his early works Once Bitten Twice Bitten, to…
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The Life and Times of ‘England’s Patriot King’ William the Fourth, with a brief memoir of HM Queen Adelaide
- £160.00
- Biography of King William IV and his Queen Adelaide, published in 1831, the year of his coronation. He would of course die in 1837, succeeded by his niece, the young Victoria.
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The Poetical Works of John Milton (The Albion Edition), With Introductory Memoir, Notes, Bibliography, Etc.
- £50.00
- An anthology of Milton's poetry including Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, his Latin verse as well as his own translations.
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The Song of the Sword & Other Poems
- £50.00
- The second anthology of Henley’s poetry, which was published in 2nd edition as London Voluntaries in 1893
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The Works of Robert Burns; with An Account of His Life (4 vol)
- £350.00
- Full title: Burns (Robert). The Works of Robert Burns; with An Account of His Life, and A Criticism On His Writings, To Which Are Prefixed, Some Observations On The Character And Condition Of The Scottish Peasantry. 4 volumes, 4th edition (1st in 1800)
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Venus in Libra (SIGNED)
- £25.00
- John Bayliss was a British poet sometimes associated with the New Apocalyptics, a reaction against 1930s realism through surrealism and mysticism. He contributed in the war years to Poetry London and Poetry Quarterly; later to Poetry Review. He was also published in Air Force Poetry (1944). In 1977 he published…
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Vicomte de Bragelonne (D’Artagnan Romances, vol IV)
- £16.00
- It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon…
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