Poetry from Ariadne Books

Bretenoux, France.: Braad Press, 1979. Limited edition (185/450). Signed by the illustrator to the colophon page. Cream card covers with stitched binding. Drawings by John Furnival. Near fine condition.

London: Outposts Publications, 1964. First edition. Signed by the author on the inside of the front cover. Cream coloured card covers with stapled binding. 24pp. Contains 22 poems by T. R. Glover. Very good condition. Some light spotting to covers. Clean and unmarked internally

Tregarne, Manaccan: Cargo Press, 1997. Limited edition (193/250). Signed by the author. White card covers. 18pages. Images by Robert McNab. Ian Hamilton has written many books, including biographies of Robert Lowell and J. D. Salinger, several critical works and volumes of poetry. He also edited 'The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English'. Near fine condition.… Read more about this item

Newbury: Libanus Press, 1978. Limited edition (numbered T85 of 200 copies). Soft cover with stitched binding. This collection of poems was first circulated in typescript by Sir Peter Pears at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1977. The author was approached for permission to print them in their present form and this was granted shortly before her death in May, 1978.… Read more about this item

Bretenoux, France.: Braad Press, 1979. Limited edition (208/450). Signed by the illustrator to the colophon page. Cream card covers with stitched binding. Drawings by John Furnival. Near fine.

Chicago: Poetry, Chicaho, Illinois. , 1937. Soft cover. Paginated from p179 - p238 plus 2 pages of ads at end. Cover design by Eric Gill. This edition includes contributions from W. H Auden, Dylan Thomas, Stephen Spender, Graham Hough, Ronald Buttral, William Empson, T. W. Eason, Michael Roberts, James Reeves, Charles Madge, C. Day Lewis, Roger etc. … Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 1941. Stapled papaerback with pale blue card wrapper [1 - 6], 7 - 15 pp. Good condition. The staples have rusted away leaving some staining to the surrounding areas. Covers generally subbed and lightly soiled. Free of spotting.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Two hardback volumes with dust jackets and slipcase. Volume 1: Catalogue:[i - vi], vii - xxviii, 1 - 923; Volume 2: Indexes: 1 - 302. Publisher's original brown cloth binding with gilt to spine. Top edges tinted red. A comprehensive catalogue of the separately printed English poems of the first half of the eighteenth… Read more about this item

Schondorf am Ammersee: Babel, 1990 - 1996. Four editions of this International Poetry Periodical for sale as one lot. Include work by: Samuel Beckett, George Mackay Brown, Michael Croshaw, Erich Franzen, Harold Pinter, R. S. Thomas, Ted Hughes, Julian Nangle, Sheenagh Pugh, W. B. Yeats, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stephen Spender, Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, Sean Rafferty etc.… Read more about this item

Dublin and London: Maunsel and Co Ltd, 1912. Small hardback. 50pp. Brown boards with white paper spine and gilt titles. No jacket. Collection of poems written by Synge in the period from around 1890 to 1908. These are followed by translations from Petrarch, Villon and others. Book in very good condition. Light soiling to boards and spine.… Read more about this item

Fender & Lewis, 1991. Copy no 156 of 180. Pale blue card covers. 22pps. Sewn binding. Hand set in 14pt Calson Old face, printed on Suede Basingwerk Parchment using a Bremner foolscap treddle platen. This version includes many of the typographical features of the original. Although a new typeface has been selected and the page length increased from… Read more about this item

London: Sidgewick & Jackson Ltd, 1915. First edition, 1915. Issued several months after the collection "1914 and Other Poems" from which these poems came. Grey card wraps. Sewn binding. Unpaginated. Lacking original envelope. Contains the sonnets:- "Peace", "Safety", "The Dead" (1), "The Dead" (2) and "The Soldier" followed by a page of ads for other Sidgwick & Jackson publications… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1978. First edition of this collection, 1978. This copy is inscribed by JB in a very shaky hand (presumably the impact of Parkinson's Disease):- 'To Ronnie & Ann. I don't think I'm any good but I'm so glad others do. John Betjeman 1978.' Hardback. 236pp. Pink cloth binding with gilt to upper board and spine. Dust… Read more about this item

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. Hardback. 135pp. White paper spine over dark green paper covered boards. Yapped leading edges to boards. Top edge gilt. No jacket. Tissue guard to frontispiece. Drawings of cats scattered through the book. The selection of poems is divided into three categories:- The Cats of Many Writers (32 poems); The Children's Cats (4 poems); Some… Read more about this item

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1917. John Lane, 1917. Originally published in 1897. Hardback. 100pp. Dark green boards with sun over Calvary design. Pictorial end papers. Top edge tinted red. Fifteen illustrations in black & white by Stella Langdale. Dust jacket. Book in good condition. A little rubbing to extremities of spine. Small indentation to top… Read more about this item

London: P. R. Stephensen, 1929. This is an unbound, unnumbered and unsigned copy and therefore probably surplus to the print run limited to the 50 signed copies privately printed for subscribers only by P. R. Stephensen June, 1929. Sepia portrait frontispiece, decorative title in blue & brown, printed on japon paper. Unbound and in nine gatherings, 8vo, contained in… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Faber, 2014. First edition, 2014. Hardback. 218pp. Dust jacket. When Chaucer composed Troilus & Crisyde he gave us what is aid to be his finest poem and one of the most captivating love stories ever written. It is also a tale that has passed from one writer to another over centuries, evolving and enduring as a… Read more about this item

London: Constable and Company, 1913. First edition, 1913. Hardback. viii, 122pp. Blue boards with gilt to upper board and to spine. Original dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Book in very good condition. Almost all pages unopened. Faint toning to end papers. Minor spotting to text block edges. Very clean and bright internally. Dust jacket very good.… Read more about this item

Budapest: Helikon Kiado, 1986. Hardcover. 76, [8]pp. Text block bound in gold thread through five holes and loosely held in a fold-over case which fastens with a press stud. Case green with gilt decoration to front. No dust jacket. Dual language text with Latin and Hungarian versions of the poems on facing pages. Janus Pannonius (1434 - 1472) was… Read more about this item

London: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1979. First UK edition, 1979. Signed by the author to the title page. Paperback. xiv, 194pp. Translated by Arthur Boyars and Simon Franklin. Two black & white photographs of the author at the front of the book. Book in near fine condition. A little discolouration to the covers. The book has an… Read more about this item