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)

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: Paris Review 1967

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

AUDEN, W H

Ex-library. 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: Faber and Faber 1940

KEYWORDS: W H Auden poems poetry 20th century literature

CRESSWELL, MARY

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: Submarine 2017

KEYWORDS: Mary Cresswell poetry poems New Zealand poet

BASHO & STRYK, LUCIEN (trans)

SECOND PRINTING. 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: University of Hawaii Press 1986

KEYWORDS: Matsuo Kinsaku Basho haiku Lucien Stryk Japan Japanese poetry illustrated

BUCHANAN, DANIEL C (trans/ed)

Octavo softcover with french flaps (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: Japan Publications Inc 1973

KEYWORDS: haiku poems poetry Japan Japanese Asia literature collection Daniel C Buchanan

WADELL, HELEN & CORRIGAN, FELICITAS (ed/preface) & FREEMAN, JOAN (illus)

Super Octavo hardcover (VG) front board stained at lower corner, lacks slipcase; 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 Folio Society 1982

KEYWORDS: poetry prayer music folk religion lyrics culture history Helen Wadall

GIFFORD, BARRY & MCCARTHY, THOMAS A (ed)

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: Seven Stories Press 2003

KEYWORDS: literature selections essays screenplays David Lynch Barry Gifford poetry interviews

BAXTER, JAMES K

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, green card boards, spine & front board lettered in black, VG (light to moderate soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems, light soiling & foxing to pg edges, eps & throughout, bookplate to ffep). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1944

KEYWORDS: James K Baxter New Zealand literature poetry poems modern first edition

BAUGHAN, B E

FIRST EDITION, scarce. Octavo, red cl boards, spine & front board lettered in gilt, frontis., VG (light soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps--esp reps, foxing to prelims/terminals & throughout, bookplate & prev ownership inscription to ffep). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Whitcombe and Tombs n/d

KEYWORDS: B E Baughan New Zealand literature poetry poems modern first edition

BAXTER, JAMES K

FIRST EDITION, Octavo, brown card boards, label to front board, VG (light to moderate soiling to boards, moderate bruising to edges & extrems, red sticker to front board, light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, eps & prelims/terminals, sl tanning, bookplate to ffep, some soiling throughout), lacking d/w. Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1948

KEYWORDS: James K Baxter New Zealand literature poetry poems modern first edition

BAXTER, JAMES K

FIRST EDITION, Octavo, brown card boards, label to front board, VG (light soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems, light to moderate soiling & foxing to pg edges, eps & prelims/terminals, bookseller sticker to ffep, some soiling & foxing throughout), in d/w, VG- (moderate soiling & foxing, moderate to heavy bruising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping, insect holes to spine & flap folds.) Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1948

KEYWORDS: James K Baxter New Zealand literature poetry poems modern first edition

BAXTER, JAMES K

FIRST EDITION, dated & signed by author. Octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, top pg edge stained, VG+ (sl soiling to boards, light bruising to edges & extrems, sl foxing to pg edges), in d/w, VG (light to moderate soiling & scuffing, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems with light chipping, price clipped). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1966

KEYWORDS: James K Baxter New Zealand literature poetry poems modern first edition

BAXTER, JAMES K

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, patterned card boards, spine board lettered in gilt, VG (light soiling to boards, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, light foxing to pg edges, inscription to ffep), in d/w, VG (moderate soiling & scuffing to covers, publisher sticker to front flap, tanning, light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1961

KEYWORDS: James K Baxter New Zealand literature poetry poems modern first edition

n/a

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, red card boards, spine board lettered in gilt, VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems), in d/w, VG (sl soiling & rubbing to covers, fading, sticker to spine, tanning, light bruising to edges & extrems). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Paul Norbury Publications 1986

KEYWORDS: Soviet Ukraine Ukrainian literature poetry first edition

BERTRAM, JAMES

FIRST EDITION, associtation copy. Signed & inscribed by author to Ruth Dallas. Octavo, green light card covers, VG (light bruising to edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing to covers). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Wai-te-ata Press 1971

KEYWORDS: James Bertram New Zealand literature modern first edition poetry poems