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The Poetical Works of William Blake -
William Blake
1952 - Geoffrey Cumberlegé, London
The lovely oxford edition of William Blake’s poems with Songs of Innocence and experience, Poems from ‘The Rossetti Manuscript’, selections from ‘Jerusalem’ and many other works, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf.
Illustrated throughout, including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and reproductions of title pages of Blake’s publications.
Edited and with an introduction by John Sampson.
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1952 - Geoffrey Cumberlegé, London
The lovely oxford edition of William Blake’s poems with Songs of Innocence and experience, Poems from ‘The Rossetti Manuscript’, selections from ‘Jerusalem’ and many other works, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf.Illustrated throughout, including tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and reproductions of title pages of Blake’s publications.
Edited and with an introduction by John Sampson.
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The Last Night of the Earth Poems -
Charles Bukowski
1992 - Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa - Letter ‘U’ of 26 lettered and signed copies. First Edition
A special deluxe copy with an original Bukowski silkscreen print signed ‘Buk ‘92’, also signed in the colophon, only 26 were produced each hand-bound by Earle Gray.
One of Bukowski’s most successful collections of poetry.
‘These poems were written when Bukowski was in his seventies. Old man Bukowski reflects on his life in his typical raw style. It features classic Bukowski poems like the beautiful ‘The Bluebird’ and the epic apocalyptic horror that is ‘Dinosauria, we’.’ - Outsiders & Misfits.
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1992 - Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa - Letter ‘U’ of 26 lettered and signed copies. First Edition
A special deluxe copy with an original Bukowski silkscreen print signed ‘Buk ‘92’, also signed in the colophon, only 26 were produced each hand-bound by Earle Gray.One of Bukowski’s most successful collections of poetry.
‘These poems were written when Bukowski was in his seventies. Old man Bukowski reflects on his life in his typical raw style. It features classic Bukowski poems like the beautiful ‘The Bluebird’ and the epic apocalyptic horror that is ‘Dinosauria, we’.’ - Outsiders & Misfits.
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The Complete Works -
Lewis Carroll, [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
1939 - The Nonesuch Press, London - First Nonesuch Edition
A finely bound volume of Lewis Carroll’s works.
Includes: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; Sylvie and Bruno; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded; The Hunting of The Snark; Puzzles From Wonderland; Phantasmagoria; Acrostics, Verse, Stories and A Miscellany.
The two Alice titles are illustrated with John Tenniel’s original drawings, and the book begins with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott.
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1939 - The Nonesuch Press, London - First Nonesuch Edition
A finely bound volume of Lewis Carroll’s works.Includes: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Through the Looking Glass; Sylvie and Bruno; Sylvie and Bruno Concluded; The Hunting of The Snark; Puzzles From Wonderland; Phantasmagoria; Acrostics, Verse, Stories and A Miscellany.
The two Alice titles are illustrated with John Tenniel’s original drawings, and the book begins with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott.
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An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard -
Thomas Gray
1869 - Sampson Low, London
‘Full many a Gem of purest Ray serene
The dark unfathom'd Caves of Ocean Bear:
Full many a Flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its Sweetness on the desert Air.’
A finely bound and illustrated edition of Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’, one of the most widely-quoted poems of the 18th century. It is a meditation on the inevitability of death; the vanity of ambition and the universal human desire to be loved. In particular the poem looks at death as a leveller, an indiscriminate force which makes no distinction between the famous on the one hand and, on the other, the anonymous – those who, in the words of the poem:
Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray
‘Widely considered his masterpiece, it is believed that Gray wrote the 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' in the graveyard of the church in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire in 1751. The poem was a literary sensation when published by Robert Dodsley in February 1751 and has made a lasting contribution to English literature’
With sixteen colour chromolithograph illustrations from drawings by R. Barnes, R. P. Leitch, E. M. Wimperis and others, each with descriptive tissue guards, and two leaves of the original manuscript in facsimile.
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1869 - Sampson Low, London
‘Full many a Gem of purest Ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd Caves of Ocean Bear:
Full many a Flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its Sweetness on the desert Air.’
A finely bound and illustrated edition of Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’, one of the most widely-quoted poems of the 18th century. It is a meditation on the inevitability of death; the vanity of ambition and the universal human desire to be loved. In particular the poem looks at death as a leveller, an indiscriminate force which makes no distinction between the famous on the one hand and, on the other, the anonymous – those who, in the words of the poem:
Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife
Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray
‘Widely considered his masterpiece, it is believed that Gray wrote the 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' in the graveyard of the church in Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire in 1751. The poem was a literary sensation when published by Robert Dodsley in February 1751 and has made a lasting contribution to English literature’
With sixteen colour chromolithograph illustrations from drawings by R. Barnes, R. P. Leitch, E. M. Wimperis and others, each with descriptive tissue guards, and two leaves of the original manuscript in facsimile.
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Ancient Metrical Tales: Printed Chiefly from Original Sources -
Rev. Charles Henry Hartshorne
1829 - William Pickering, London - First Edition
Finely bound and with the engraved frontispiece ‘Poetry’ which is usually lacking.
A two hundred year old collection of of metrical (in poetic meters) romances, fables, and historical accounts written in Middle English that offer a fascinating glimpse into the storytelling traditions of the past.
Transcribed and edited by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1802-1865) from manuscripts held at the time in the libraries of the University of Cambridge dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries.
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1829 - William Pickering, London - First Edition
Finely bound and with the engraved frontispiece ‘Poetry’ which is usually lacking.A two hundred year old collection of of metrical (in poetic meters) romances, fables, and historical accounts written in Middle English that offer a fascinating glimpse into the storytelling traditions of the past.
Transcribed and edited by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1802-1865) from manuscripts held at the time in the libraries of the University of Cambridge dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries.
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Darkey Ditties. Poems. -
Elliott B. Henderson
1915 - Self Published, Columbus - First Edition
Elliott Blaine Henderson’s ninth collection of African-American poetry.
Amongst the poems are such titles as ‘Cispus Attucks’, ‘De Bes’ State in de Lan’’, ‘A Plantation “Step-erbout”’, ‘Some Negro Characteristics’; ‘A Retrospection’, and ‘Sich an Itchin’ in Mah Shin’.
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1915 - Self Published, Columbus - First Edition
Elliott Blaine Henderson’s ninth collection of African-American poetry.Amongst the poems are such titles as ‘Cispus Attucks’, ‘De Bes’ State in de Lan’’, ‘A Plantation “Step-erbout”’, ‘Some Negro Characteristics’; ‘A Retrospection’, and ‘Sich an Itchin’ in Mah Shin’.
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Transition - A Complete Run - Numbers 1-27. -
Eugene Jolas (editor)
1927 to 1938 - Transition Press, Paris - First Editions
A rare complete set of the most influential and important literary magazine between the wars. Edited by Eugene Jolas, contributors are a whose who of writers, poets and artists of this magnificent period, including but not limited to:-
James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Elliot Paul, Man Ray, Robert McAlmon, Dylan Thomas, André Gide, Joan Miró, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Picasso, Paul Bowles, André Breton, William Carlos Williams,
Robert Graves, Franz Kafka, Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier, Hart Crane, Max Ernst, Malcolm Cowley, Djuna Barnes, Harry Crosby, Archibald MacLeish, Constantin Brancusi, Cartier-Bresson, Louis Aragon, Kay Boyle, Juan Gris, and Aaron Copland, and as such, publishing for the first time some of the most linguistically and visually innovative art of the modern era.
Numbers 1-20 published between April 1927 and June 1930 by Transition with Shakespeare and Co., in Paris. Numbers 21-24 published between March 1932 and June 1936 by The Servire Press in The Hague. Volumes 25-27 published between fall 1936 and May 1938 by Transition in New York.
Included with the set is the Gertrude Stein’s ‘An Elucidation, printed in Transition, April 1927’ in original wrappers, and ‘Transition Pamphlet No 1’ (supplement to Transition no 23, 1934-35) containing the ‘Testimony against Gertrude Stein’.
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1927 to 1938 - Transition Press, Paris - First Editions
A rare complete set of the most influential and important literary magazine between the wars. Edited by Eugene Jolas, contributors are a whose who of writers, poets and artists of this magnificent period, including but not limited to:-James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Samuel Beckett, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Elliot Paul, Man Ray, Robert McAlmon, Dylan Thomas, André Gide, Joan Miró, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pablo Picasso, Paul Bowles, André Breton, William Carlos Williams,
Robert Graves, Franz Kafka, Piet Mondrian, Le Corbusier, Hart Crane, Max Ernst, Malcolm Cowley, Djuna Barnes, Harry Crosby, Archibald MacLeish, Constantin Brancusi, Cartier-Bresson, Louis Aragon, Kay Boyle, Juan Gris, and Aaron Copland, and as such, publishing for the first time some of the most linguistically and visually innovative art of the modern era.
Numbers 1-20 published between April 1927 and June 1930 by Transition with Shakespeare and Co., in Paris. Numbers 21-24 published between March 1932 and June 1936 by The Servire Press in The Hague. Volumes 25-27 published between fall 1936 and May 1938 by Transition in New York.
Included with the set is the Gertrude Stein’s ‘An Elucidation, printed in Transition, April 1927’ in original wrappers, and ‘Transition Pamphlet No 1’ (supplement to Transition no 23, 1934-35) containing the ‘Testimony against Gertrude Stein’.
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The Years Between -
Rudyard Kipling
1919 - Methuen & Co. Ltd., London - First Edition, Limited Edition of 200
The first edition of Kipling's first book to be published after his years in the service of the war were ended. One of 200 copies with handmade paper and vellum spine.
Containing forty-five poems and a series of epitaths, ‘some of these, from before the war, reflected the turbulent political conflicts of those days; others, recording the experiences of the war, varied from savage to desolate. It is by far the darkest of all Kipling's collections’ [ODNB].
The title refer to the years between the onset of the war in South Africa and the conclusion of the Great War in Europe
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1919 - Methuen & Co. Ltd., London - First Edition, Limited Edition of 200
The first edition of Kipling's first book to be published after his years in the service of the war were ended. One of 200 copies with handmade paper and vellum spine.Containing forty-five poems and a series of epitaths, ‘some of these, from before the war, reflected the turbulent political conflicts of those days; others, recording the experiences of the war, varied from savage to desolate. It is by far the darkest of all Kipling's collections’ [ODNB].
The title refer to the years between the onset of the war in South Africa and the conclusion of the Great War in Europe
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