SPENSER, EDMUND

6 VOLS OF 8 VOL SET, VOL 1 & 7 MISSING. Duodecimo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & decorative tooling to spine, frontispiece, mixed pagination, VG- (varying degrees of chafing & soiling to spine and boards, from minor to moderate, vol 2 front board/feps & title page detatched from binding, minor cracking to front hinges on vol 3 & 8, moderate soiling/tanning to page edges, sporadic creasing throughout, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedowns of all vols).

PUBLISHER: J. Bell 1787 / 1788

KEYWORDS: Edmund Spencer poetry verse literature

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT & PORTER, CHARLOTTE (intro) & CLARKE, HELEN A (intro)

Small octavo hardcover (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: George Bell and Sons 1904

KEYWORDS: literature Elizabeth Barrett Browning fiction poetry prose

CHERVET, MAURICE (ed.); DE LAMARTINE, ALPHONSE

TEXT IN FRENCH. Sm octavo softcover (VG-); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Bordas 1965

KEYWORDS: Alphonse de Lamartine poetry French literature

HOLBERG, LUDVIG; STROMSOE, BERGLIOT (transl.); MADSEN, BORGE GEDSO (introd.)

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The University of Nebraska Press 1962

KEYWORDS: 18th century Danish poetry mock heroic satire

BANERJEE, RON D K (transl.)

Super octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Forest Books 1989

KEYWORDS: Bengal Bengali literature poetry poems

SCOBIE, STEPHEN (ed.)

Octavo softcover (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: ECW Press 2000

KEYWORDS: Leonard Cohen criticism interpretation Canadian poetry poems

BLY, ROBERT (ed.)

Ownership signature of Roy Starrs. Super octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Sierra Club Books 1980

KEYWORDS: poetry anthology thought thinking consciousness

KATO, BUNNO & TAMURA, YOSHIRO & MIYASAKA, KOJIRO (transl.); SOOTHILL, W E & SCHIFFER, WILHELM & DEL CAMPANA, PIER (eds.)

Ownership signature of Roy Starrs. Super octavo softcover (VG+); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Weatherhill 1975

KEYWORDS: Buddhism Buddhist scripture sutra philosophy poetry

POE, EDGAR ALLAN & DULAC, EDMUND (illus)

FIRST EDITION. Quarto heavy green boards, gilt lettering/decoration to spine and front board, patterned eps, deckled page edges, frontispiece with tissueguard, illus title page, unpaginated, illus/plates with tissueguards (counted), VG+ (minor tanning/soiling to spine, minor fraying to spine extrems, minor soiling/chafing to boards, moderate tanning/foxing and soiling to page edges, moderate tanning to fep, moderate foxing to prelims, previous owners inscription dated 1915, minor foxing to page edges throughout, 3cm closed tear to lower edge of plate no. 8)

PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton (N/D circa 1912)

KEYWORDS: first edition Edgar Allen Poe Edmund Dulac poems poetry illustrations literature specials

STEWART, JACK

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY MICHAEL BULLOCK TO CRITIC & HISTORIAN ROY STARRS. Octavo light card wrappers, multicoloured text to spine and wrappers, illus to front wrapper, (VG). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Third Eye 1990

KEYWORDS: signed Michael Bullock Jack Stewart poetry literature academia

SHIRANE, HARUO

OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF ROY STARRS. Super octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine and front wrapper, yellow lettering to rear wrapper, illus/photos, VG+. Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Columbia University Press 2013

KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese culture history academia nature aesthetics art society design poetry literature Haruo Shirane

MILOSZ, CZESLAW

Octavo softcover (VG+) ; Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1983

KEYWORDS: poetry lecture literature Czeslaw Milosz academia

MORRISON, MADISON

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PUBLISHER: Crane 1999

KEYWORDS: Madison Morrison academia Asia Europe America essays culture literature poetry

AGOSIN, MARJORIE (Poems) & D'AMICO, ALICIA (Photos) & SANGUINETTI, ALICIA (Photos)

PARALLEL SPANISH-ENGLISH TEXT, SIGNED & INSCRIBED HOLOGRAPH LETTER FROM AGOSIN LOOSELY ENCLOSED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, red lettering to spine, illus/photos, VG+ (soiling to wrappers - photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: White Pine Press 1992

KEYWORDS: PARALLEL SPANISH ENGLISH TEXT poems poetry verse literature signed Marjorie Agosin photos photography

TAKAHASHI, SHINKICHI & STRYK, LUCIEN (Selected & Trans) & IKEMOTO, TAKASHI (Selected & Trans)

ROY STARRS' BOOKPLATE, octavo, orange heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, VG (light bruising & fading to board & spine edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ex-libris plate [Roy A Starrs] & minor wrinkling to ffep, sl foxing to prelims & terminals, sl chipping to base of terminal pgs) in d/w, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to head & base of spine, light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing)

PUBLISHER: London Magazine Editions 1971

KEYWORDS: zen poems poetry verse literature Shinkichi Takahashi Japan Japanese

BELLOC, HILAIRE; ROUGHEAD, W N (ed.)

FIRST EDITION. Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Rupert Hart-Davis 1951

KEYWORDS: prose verse essays poetry literary history

SACKVILLE-WEST, V

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED NUMBERED SIGNED EDITION, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering & sm illus to spine, gilt lettering with decorative border to front board, teg, deckled page edges, decorated prelims, 135pp, decorated chapter pages, VG+ (light to moderate discolouration to spine & front board, minor general soiling to boards, sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light tanning to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to base of front pastedown, prev. owner's details in ink to ffep, neatly scripted pencil annotation pertaining to book at terminals)

PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1946

KEYWORDS: first editions special limited editions Vita V Sackville-West poetry verse literature

RAMSAY, ALLAN & FERGUSSON, ROBERT & KINGHORN, ALEXANDER MANSON (ed) & LAW, ALEXANDER (ed)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, navy blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, VG+ (light fading/discolouration to boards and spine, minor creasing to extrems and head and base of spine and hinges, light foxing to upper page edges, minor foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG (light chipping to upper edges of wrappers, flaps and heads of spine and hinges, minor 1.2cm loss to upper edge of rear wrapper, minor foxing to wrappers, minor fading to front wrapper, minor creasing to bases of spine and hinges, light scuffing and minor chipping to extrems, light foxing to rear fold) (photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Scottish Academic Press 1974

KEYWORDS: first editions literature poetry verse poems Allan Ramsay Robert Fergusson

GEDDES, GARY (Ed)

Octavo softcover (VG-); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1969

KEYWORDS: poetry collection 20th century poetics Twentieth century Yeats Pound Frost Graves Eliot Owen Cummings Auden Thomas Klein Roethke Birney Purdy Lowell Larkin Layton Wilbur Olson Creeley Gunn Cohen Ginsberg Hughes Plath literature interview

PLIMPTON, GEORGE A et al (Eds)

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PUBLISHER: Paris Review 1967

KEYWORDS: The Paris Review 60's 1960's contemporary poetry creative prose literary criticism George Plimpton