Books - "poetry"
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Spanish Civil War Verse
octavo softcover (VG); 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 keeps postage costs down.
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books 1980
KEYWORDS: specials Valentine Cunningham spanish civil war literature poetry verse poems
Made Over
First edition, Sebastian Black's copy, super octavo, black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, 79pp, illus, VG+ (browning to eps) in d/w, Vg (bruising & creasing to spine extrems, light tanning to inside)
PUBLISHER: Stephen Chan 1974
KEYWORDS: Ian Wedde New Zealand literature poems poetry verse first edition
Are you going to the pictures?
First edition Softcover super octavo (VG+) ; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Auckland University Press 1987
KEYWORDS: specials Kendrick Smithyman New Zealand poetry
Landfall
No. 126
Softcover super octavo (VG) ; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1978
KEYWORDS: specials Peter Smart New Zealand poetry journal Landfall
Landfall
No. 129
Softcover super octavo (VG) ; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: The Caxton Press 1979
KEYWORDS: specials Peter Smart New Zealand poetry journal Landfall
Buildiing as Terrace
First edition Softcover octavo (VG+) ; review slip loosely enclosed ; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Australia National University Press 1975
KEYWORDS: first edition specials R F Brissenden Australia poetry
Familiar Studies in Homer
First edition, octavo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering & rule to spine and blind decorative rule to boards, dark brown eps, iv + 302pp + 24pp adverts, VG (light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, bookseller's label to front pastedown, one owner's name &date in ink & another's inscription in pencil to prelims, moderate foxing, light tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Longmans, Green & Co 1892
KEYWORDS: first edition Agnes M Clerke literature literary criticism Homeric studies poetry poems classics Greek Egyptian excavations archaeology
The Poems of Bacchylides
From a Papyrus in the British Museum
Ex library, super octavo, maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & blind rule with gilt library motif to front board, black eps, liii + 246pp, VG (fading to spine & rear board, bruising & slight fraying to spine extrems & board corners, usu library markings, slight tanning to page edges) TEXT IN GREEK, NOTES IN ENGLISH
PUBLISHER: British Museum / Longmas & Co 1897
KEYWORDS: Bacchylides Frederic G Kenyon ancient Greek literature poems poetry verse
Come High Water
First edition, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Dunmore Press 1977
KEYWORDS: first edition Denis Glover New Zealand literature poetry poems verse
Thomas and The Sparrow
First edition, super octavo, blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine & front board & silver sparrow motif to front board, 71pp, illus, G+ (moderate fading & staining to boards & corners, heavy fading to spine extrems, inscription in ink to fep, dampstaining wrinkled effect to lower portion of aprox last 20 pp, v slight soiling spots & foxing to page edges) in d/w, G, (sellotape repairs to all edges & corners, price clipped, damage & loss to upper 3cm of spine, wear, nicks & chaffing)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1946
KEYWORDS: Ian Serraillier Severin children's literature verse poem poetry fairy tales
Venus Like Fire on Water
Signed limited numbered edition (35 of 150), duodecimo, light blue boards with darker blue cloth spine & blue lettering to front board, 32pp, fine, in d/w, VG+ (slight tanning to edges, 1cm pen mark to upper front edge)
PUBLISHER: Pisces Print 1985
KEYWORDS: signed John Summers New Zealand literature poetry poem
Take a Leap
Softcover octavo (VG) ; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Nikau Press 2005
KEYWORDS: specials Jenny Clay New Zealand poetry poet poems
The Coal is Red
Poems and Ballads about Mining People and Others
Softcover octavo (VG) ; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Don McRae 1981
KEYWORDS: specials Don McRae New Zealand poetry poet poems
Spenser
A Collection of Critical Essays
Softcover octavo (VG) ; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Spectrum 1968
KEYWORDS: specials Harry Berger Jr literary criticism Renaissance poetry Spenser essays
On Poetry
Twelve studies of work by New Zealand poets
Softcover quarto (VG) ; 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 will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Heinemann Publishers 1984
KEYWORDS: specials David Hill New Zealand poetry poet poems
Enter Without Knocking
First edition, octavo, turquoise boards with black lettering to spine, 144pp, VG (light tanning to eps, name in ink blacked out to fep) in d/w, G+ (3cm insect damage patch to lower spine, 2cm closed tear to front upper edge, heavy browning to lower edges & to inside, chaffing/insect damage to edges & upper spine extrem)
PUBLISHER: Pegasus Press 1964
KEYWORDS: Denis Glover New Zealand literature poetry poems verse
Time to Ride
First edition, slim imperial octavo, illus red light card covers with silver lettering to spine & purple lettering to front cover, French flaps, 44pp, VG- (light bruising to cover upper edges, light creasing to cover corners & a few page corners, v slight tanning to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Alister Taylor 1975
KEYWORDS: Sam Hunt New Zealand literature poetry poems verse
Lays of the Land of the Maori and Moa
Introduction by Rev Rutherford Waddell
Duodecimo, brown cloth covers with maroon lettering & maroon decorative motif to spine & covers, black eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, 160pp, G+ (moderate scuffing and soiling to boards, fraying to corners, gutter cracked in several places throughout book, heavy foxing throughout, two sections of pages have seperated from text block (but are present) and another section is partially detatched)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1884
KEYWORDS: Thomas Bracken New Zealand literature poems lays poetry
Bird Poems
Introduction by Peter Levi; Wood-engravings by Thomas Bewick
Octavo in slipcover, small octavo, creamy cloth boards with gilt lettering to blue spine, orange eps, 143pp, illus,VG+; in VG+ slipcase (some tanning to fore-edges, moderate scuffing)
PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 1980
KEYWORDS: folio society John Clare Thomas Bewick literature poems poetry birds
Landfall 203
super octavo softcover (nr fine); 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 will reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: University of Otago Press 2002
KEYWORDS: specials Justin Paton dunedin literature anthology poetry verse fiction competition catalogue