SCOTT, JOHN

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PUBLISHER: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown 1816

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GLOVER, DENIS

FIRST EDITION, super octavo, grey heavy boards, black buckram spine, red lettering to title plate on spine, illus eps, 60pp, VG- (light bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy chafing & soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning to eps, heavy creasing to top edges of prelims, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, lg patch of adhesive residue to terminals)

PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1945

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SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE & SHELLEY, Mrs (Ed)

FIRST EDITION, ORIGINAL BINDINGS, octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, blind stamp decoration to boards, mixed pagination, frontispiece with tissue guard to vol one only, VG- (moderate chipping to spine edges- heavy to vol 4 with some minor loss, moderate bruising & scuffing to board extrems, heavy discolouration to spines & boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, prev, owner's name in ink to full title pages, occasional light cracking to some gutters, occasional pencil annotation to margins, varying degrees of foxing to prelims & terminals- mostly light, minor water damage to front gutter of vol 4)

PUBLISHER: Edward Moxon 1899

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TODD, PENELOPE

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PUBLISHER: Longacre Press 2002

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ELSE, BARBARA

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PUBLISHER: Penguin 2023

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McFALL, LEAH

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PUBLISHER: Luncheon Sausage Books 2019

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McGOVERN, IGGY

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PUBLISHER: Dedalus Press 2005

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CAMP, KATE

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PUBLISHER: Victoria University Press 2001

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JEPSEN, VIVIENNE (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: The New Zealand Poetry Society 1999

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PARKINSON, C NORTHCOTE & OSBORN (Illus)

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PUBLISHER: John Murray 1968

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FARRELL, FIONA

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PUBLISHER: Otago University Press 2020

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SACKS, OLIVER

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PUBLISHER: Picador / Pan Books 1986

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BOHJALIAN, CHRIS

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PUBLISHER: Vintage 2018

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TREFUSIS, VIOLET & LEASKA, MITCHELL A (Ed & Intro) & PHILLIPS, JOHN (Ed)

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PUBLISHER: Mandarin 1990

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HADATH, GUNBY & CROMBIE, CHARLES (Illus)

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PUBLISHER: Cassell 1930

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GREEN, ROGER LANCELYN (Retold by) & COPLEY, HEATHER (Drawings) & CHAMBERLAIN, CHRISTOPHER (Drawings)

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PUBLISHER: The Bodley Head 1975

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CIARDI, JOHN

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PUBLISHER: Rutgers University Press 1962

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BENNETT, JOE

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PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2023

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OGIER, JOY

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PUBLISHER: Dunmore Press 2002

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COTTON, ELIZABETH et al

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PUBLISHER: South Wairarapa Poets Corner 1993

KEYWORDS: New Zealand poets poems poetry verse literature anthology collections Elizabeth Cotton Alice Robertson Eileen van Trigt John Horrocks Helen Jacobs