The Golden Gift. 1884
The Golden Gift. An anthology of Poetry. Charles J Peterson. Philadelphia 1884. 1st Edition. 8vo. Green cloth covers with gilt and black decoration in a Japanese style. All edges gilt. Decorative end papers. 68 pages with 10 full page illustrations engraved and Printed by Illman Brothers, all tissue guarded. Poems include the works of 39 poets including Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Gabriel Dante Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tennyson. Covers are a little bumped at edges with some light finger soiling to edges. The Illustrations are all very attractive in clean and bright condition with excellent definition. A scarce Golden Gift to any lover of the Romantic Poets. | 
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Azrael. Silvia Townsend Warner. 1978
Townsend Warner, Sylvia. Azrael. Berkshire. Newbury: Libanus Press., 1978. 1st and Limited Edition, no. 155 of 200 copies. Large 8vo, pp18 with title in blue and black, colophon, sewn as issued. This collection of poems was first circulated in typescript by Sir Peter Pears at the Aldburgh Festival in 1977. The author was approached for permission to print them in the present form and this was granted shortly before her death in May 1978. This volume is dedicated to her memory. The book was made at the Libanus Press, Hermitage, Newbury Berkshire; is hand-set in Perpetua Italic, and limited to 200 copies, on half printed on T. H. Saunders paper and the other on Velin Arches. A fine book in fine condition. | 
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24 Poems. Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. 1962
Rabearivelo. Jean-Joseph. 24 Poems. Mbari Publications, Ibadan. 1962. 1st Edition. Wide 8vo, approx 185mm x 210mm. Card covers. PP[38], with 12 full page illustrations designed and illustrated by M. E Betts. Covers bumped and chipped at edges, with very small loss at front spine corner (10mm triangle). Neat gift inscription on front free endpaper to Sim and Arnold [Rattenbury] dated 1971. All pages and illustrations clean and bright. Scarce. | 
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Later Poems by Valentine Ackland. 1970
Ackland. Valentine, Later Poems (1906 - 1969). Clare Son and Co, Somerset. [1970]. 1st Edition. 8vo. Stiff paper covers. PP24. Covers a little age toned to edges and a few small marks. All pages are tight, bright and clean. Scarce. | 
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Further Poems of Valentine Ackland. 1978
Ackland, Valentine. Further Poems of Valentine Ackland. Welmont Publishing. 1978. 1st Edition. Wide 8vo, approx 175mm x235mm. Card covers, cover illustration of Valentine Ackland reproduced from an original drawing by Eric Gill. PP71, with full page drawings by Colin Kersey. Over 70 poems. Covers lightly age toned to edges. All pages tight bright and clean. No marks or inscriptions. A scarce edition. | 
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Twenty One Poems Written by Lionel Johnson: Selected by William Butler Yeats. 1904
Twenty One Poems Written by Lionel Johnson: Selected by William Butler Yeats, Dun Emer Press, Dundrum, Dublin, 1904. 1st Edition, limited to 220 copies. 8vo. Original cloth backed boards. Printed label to spine, with small loss to edges. Covers age toned to edges with some light soiling, splits to cloth on spine edges, binding tight. Endpapers lightly browned, PP31 all clean and bright with good strong imprint. | 
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