Search Results: Poetry from Goldring Books

London: Hutchinson, 1988. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a little dust marking to top edge with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. xvi + 360 pages. Kingsley Amis's highly individual anthology of his favourite poems from the 15th century to the present day. 242 poems. As well as selecting a generous measure of poems, Amis provides intriguing and opinionated notes to the poems. Many of the poems selcted will be unfamiliar to many readers. B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Constable, 1981. A near Fine uninscribed copy with just a touch of dustmarking to top edge with a dustjacket which is price clipped. A companion volume to the editor's Anthology of Erotic Verse and spans the centuries from the Arabian Nights to modern authors with 60 extracts of works presented. 11. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Oxford University Press, 1956. Gilt title and motifs on green cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a contemporary inscription to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has taped repairs and wear to edges but is complete. xxxii + 341 pages. In this anthology the 275 selections from nearly 50 poets survey the development of New Zealand poetry from its beginning a century ago. The greater part consists of work published in the late 1920's and 1930's, but the inclusion of poems by Alfred Domett, Jessie Mackay, William Pember Reeves, Hubert Church and other pioneers gives particular interest to the anthology as the first to trace the evolution and definition of a New Zealand idiom in poetry. **** NOT EX LIB **** B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 1950. Gold Title on blue boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a neat name and year to front endpaper else clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket is not price clipped and has age darkening. This selection contains the very early work 'Facade', a work that consists mainly of abstract poems, studies in transcendental technique, some of a great exhilaration, some of a sadness masked by gaiety, many excerpts from 'The Sleeping Beauty' and from 'Bucolic Comedies'. Included also is the slightly later long poem 'Gold Coast Customs' praised by W.B. Yeats. C3C. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Anvil Press Poetry, 2002. A Fine unmarked copy. 256 pages. Edited by Peter Jay. Preface by Marina Walker. Sally Purcell (1944-1998) was a poet and translator who continued to live and work in Oxford after studying mediaeval and Modern French. This definitive edition contains all her published work and includes over 70 uncollected poems, often drawing on folklore and mediaeval sources. 50. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Ron Todd, 2004. SIGNED WITH DEDICATION BY JACK JONES (1913-2009) General Secretary of the Transport and General Worker's Union . A Fine unmarked copy. 176 pages. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Foreword by Tony Benn and appreciation by Jack Jones. Ron Todd (1927-2005) was regarded as Labour's poet, a well respected figure in the Trade Union Movement, and an eloquent writer on many issues including nuclear disarmament, the Iraq War, and the peace movement. 50. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Privately Published.

London: Faber and Faber, 1965. A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has no wear with dustjacket which has small losses and wear and is price clipped. Internally very clean and unmarked. Tenth impression. 288 pages. Illustrated throughout with Lear's original illustrations. A handsome edition includes all the nonsense that Lear ever perpetrated - the limericks, the longer verses, the prose stories, the alphabets, the comic botany; and Mr. Holbrook Jackson's Introduction supplies all that is needed in the way of biographical and bibliographical information and judicious comment. A1D. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Lear, Edward. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Rupert Hart Davis, 1952. Gilt title and decoration on blue bevelled cloth boards. Boards are clean with a little light scuffing to back. Internally there is the previous owner's signature (M.O. Shorter of Christ's Cambridge) to front endpaper and some erudite marginalia by him, foxing to endpapers else a clean, tight copy. 896 pages. 1. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Michael O'Mara, 1997. First edition, First printing. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The popular newscaster presents an anthology of his favourite poetry from across the ages, based on material published in his Anthology column in the Daily Telegraph newspaper. Each poet is introduced with a concise history of their work. 11. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Strahan and Co, 1870. First Edition. Gilt title and decoration to spine with gilt and red decoration to front on green calf leather boards with spine raised in 6 compartments. Boards have wear to spine head, tail and side and to front edge and a mark to front with some rubbing. Internally there is decorative tooling to edges, marbled endpapers, a contemporary inscription 'To Ellen from I.T. Hood, January 1870' to front free endpaper, else very clean, tight and unmarked. All edges gilt. 222 pages. Comprises:- The Coming of Arthur; The Holy Grail; Pelleas and Etarre; The Passing of Arthur; Northern Farmer - New Style; The Golden Supper; The Victim; Wages; The Higher Pantheism; 'Flower in the Crannied Wall'; Lucretius. B2D. First Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: Macmillan, 1924. Red boards have minor marks to back and no wear. Internally there is age toning to endpapers else a very clean, tight and unmarked copy. 83 pages + 9 illustrations by the original illustrator Henry Holiday. The classic nonsense poem by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson which follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, a creature which may turn out to be a highly dangerous Boojum. 11. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Holiday, Henry. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

London: Grange, 1901. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine price-clipped dustjacket. 38 photo illustrations by Rob Talbot. The Lake District is famous for two reasons: the powerful beauty of its landscape and the poetry and art it has inspired. This anthology, uniquely, celebrates both. Selections of the finest verse written by England's best-loved Romantic poets including, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Tennyson are matched with evocative colour photographs. 4. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cheshire: Carcanet Press, 1975. A Fine unmarked copy in card covers with near Fine dustjacket which has little fading to spine. 103 pages. This is Christopher Middleton's fifth book of poems. It includes his two pamphlets 'The Fossil Fish' (1970) and ' Briefcase History' (1972). Widely translated into other languages, Middleton's poems contain a variability factor which his English critics have been apt to misconstrue. His poems are crystallizations of complex passions or explorations of perceptual and imaginative experience happening at once on several linguistic levels. Many of the poems in this collection explore the experience of time. All evoke alternative universes. 50. Soft Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Bracken Books, 1985. A collection of more than 80 poems beautifully illustrated throughout by George Wharton Edwards and which was first published in 1897. A wonderful little book which espouses the beauty, aspirations, experiences and passion of love. B2C. First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by George Wharton Edwards. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Powys: Plane Tree, 2003. A Very Good+ clean and unmarked copy. A collection of the poets work chosen by himself illustrated with photographs from his life. 51. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: James Nisbet, 1891. COMPLETE THREE VOLUME SET. Frances Ridley Havergal (14 December 1836- 3 June 1879) was an English religious poet and hymnwriter. Gilt title on blue cloth boards with gilt motif to front have fading to spine but no wear. All edges gilt. I - The Ministry of Song - 118th Thousand - xi + 207 pages. Internally there is a contemporary name and inscription dated June 21 1891to front endpaper else very clean and unmarked; II - Under The Surface - Hundred and Thirty-sixth Thousand - 296 pages + catalogue of her works. Internally clean and unmarked; III - Under His Shadow - The Last Poems of Frances Ridley Havergal - One Hundredth Thousand - xi + 212 pages. Internally clean and unmarked. Not dated but inscription is 1891. 11. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall.

London: Ginn, 1971. A Fine copy in laminated boards with a small name to title page. Part 1 of English and Society. The book is about home, what we mean by the word and the place and what we think about it. The poems, stories and extracts come in a definite order, grouped under four headings :- Bring forth fruit; Living where you are; Strangers and ceremonies; Exits. The second part of the book is a variety of ways of looking at the relationships and possessions, customs and values which make up our lives. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white and diagrams and maps. *** NOT EX LIB *** 3. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Stockbridge, Massachusetts: Berkshire House First edition First Printing. Gold title on green quarter cloth with green boards. A Fine uninscribed copy with complete pictorial dustjacket. Illustrated throughout with archive photographs, drawings and maps with foreword by Richard Todd. The book brings together three centuries of prose and poetry from the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts which show the unique place in American culture occupied by 'Pioneer Valley'. 22. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Viking, 1987. A near Fine unmarked copy with price clipped dustjacket. A wide selection of poetry with the theme of the countryside, juxtaposed with Gordon Beningfield's magnificent pictures, largely taken from his best selling books, to create a very special anthology. 15. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Beningfield, Gordon. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Peterborough: Arrival Press, 1997. A Fine unmarked copy with red leatherette boards with Fine complete dustjacket. Silk page marker bound in. An anthology of 121 poems from people from all walks of life and covering subjects from remembrance to family values and from the environment to nature. A1D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.