Search Results: Poetry from Ariadne Books

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 including "1914 and Other Poems". Very good condition. Slight discolouration to wraps with a little light creasing and wear to the edges. Some very faint toning to first and final pages. Ink dedication on the title page:- "With love to Sproatie Xmas 1915" otherwise very clean and bright internally.

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. Babel was devoted to new poetry in English, German and French and to translations of poems from and into these languages. Translations are always printed facing the original poems. All four copies in very good condition.

London: Turret Books, 1973. Limited signed edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by the author. Turret Books, London, 1973. First and limited edition. Numbered 16 of 500 copies, of which the first 100 signed. Book condition: very good. Minor shelf wear only. Small mark to front board. Internally clean and unmarked. Dust jacket condition: very good. Unclipped and with slight color fade to spine and edges. Small volume (22 pages) containing eight of Sillitoe's poems. A very nice copy.

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 jacket in a protective sleeve. This is a selection of poetry, prose and work for television and spans a period of almost fifty years. Selected by John Guest to illustrate not only Sir John's development but the many facets of his personality and the extraordinary range of his knowledge and enthusiasms. All the items are dated so that they might be seen in the light of their own decade. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket near fine and unclipped.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. First edition, 1936. Hardback. 32pp. Patterned cloth boards with blue cloth to spine. Gilt titles. Lovely little volume printed at The Alden Press, Oxford. No jacket. Text decoration to various pages (unattributed). Very good. Light soiling to boards. Previous owner's name & date to ffep.

Belfast: Abbey Press, 1998. First published in April 1998, this is a reprint from November 1998 in an edition of 1,0000 copies including a special limited edition hardback of 250 copies signed and numbered by the author. This is copy no 72 of 250. 29pp. Black boards with grey dust jacket in a protective sleeve. Broken Dishes consists of fifteen poems by Michael Longley. Most of them are elegies. John Banville said of Michael Longley that "Few living writers can write so perceptively and as movingly." Colour frontispiece illustrating an Amish Quilt. Book and jacket in fine condition. Jacket unclipped.

London: Macmillan & Co, 1966. First edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Macmillan, London, 1966. First edition. Book condition: very good. Very minor shelf wear only. A little light creasing radiating out from the binding on first few pages - looks like a binding fault rather than any subsequent problem. Very faint line of tanning to endpapers. Very small area of superficial surface damage to p13 obliterating the initial 'w' in 'wheel', in first line of the poem The Ferris Wheel. Otherwise the book is very clean and unmarked. Dust jacket condition: very good and unclipped. A little shelf wear around the edges and some chipping to the head & tail of the spine and to the corners. Slight discolouration to rear. This is Ruth Fainlight's first collection of poems. Covering a period of seventeen years, they show a preoccupation with the themes of love, solitude, death and power. the potent image of the moon; and a progressive awareness of the symbolic quality of the material world. Read More

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 edge of lower board. Area of mild discolouration to lower board which could be as a result of minor damp staining. Previous owner's name to front paste down. Slight toning to end papers. Dust jacket fair. Unclipped. Edge wear with some areas of loss - especially around extremities of spine. Spine discoloured. Jacket in a protective sleeve.

London: Martin Secker, 1928. First edition. Hardback. Very good/No dust jacket.. Martin Secker, London, 1928. First edition. Book condition: very good. A little general wear. Couple of slightly raised areas to cloth at leading edge of front board - no evidence of this being caused by damp - could be excessive adhesive during binding. Very slight soiling. Slight tanning to end papers and some scattered light spotting mainly to prelims and end papers. Clean and unmarked internally. This collection selected and arranged (mainly in chronological order) by Lawrence himself.

London: Faber & Faber, 1941. First edition. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket.. Faber & Faber, London, June 1941. First edition. Book condition: good. Light shelf wear and slight bumping to corners. Yellow boards soiled. Internally clean and unmarked. 80 pages. A couple of pages have some light creases which look like a production fault rather than later damage. No jacket. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer who spent a significant part of his life as a tramp both in the UK and the USA. He was very popular during his lifetime and is generally included amongst the Georgian Poets though much of his work is not typical of their style and themes. In 1905 he met Edward Thomas who did much to help him.

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 French Cats (11 poems). Book in good condition. Spine discoloured. Boards generally rubbed and soiled. A little wear to corners and lower edges. Yapped edges have a couple of nicks and that to the upper board has separated over about 1cm at the lower corner. Printed ex libris plate to front paste down and an ownership inscription to fly leaf. Free endpapers toned. A few cracks at gutter but text block holding together well. A few poems have an ink cross against them. Some pages appear to have been trimmed short and have been neatly extended at the top edge to create a consistently flat surface for the top edge gilt. Internally free of… Read More

London: Macmillan & Co, 1892. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket.. Macmillan & Co, London, 1892. Limited edition of 500 copies of this large paper edition. This is no 450. Book condition: good. Corners very slightly bumped and a little shelf wear to head & tail of spine. Cream covers a little soiled and some spotting. Gilt ruled border around front and gilt titles to spine. Endpapers a little tanned and some spotting. Internally the book is very clean and tightly bound. Five steel plates of Tennyson all with tissue guards.

London: Duckworth, 1930. First edition. Hardback. Good/Poor. Duckworth, London, 1930. First edition. Book condition: good. A little shelf wear and very slight bumping to lower corners. Light soiling/discolouration - mainly to spine and to a narrow band along the upper edges. Some light tanning to endpapers. Some dust soiling to upper edge of text block. Internally clean and unmarked. Jacket: Poor. Unclipped. Rear cover separated at spine (thouh a small piece of tape has been applied to hold the edges together). Lower half of spine lost, upper half of spine discoloured. Edges worn, corners chipped. Generally rubbed and soiled with discolouration to front and rear. Jacket in a protective sleeve. Sitwell was writing this poem for ten years, The first canto was published in 1921, and two others in 1923 and 1926. The last three have not previously been published. The whole poem is a contest between good and evil, between the spiritual and the physical.

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 tragedy of human nature that speaks to us all. Lavinia Greenlaw's retelling is neither a translation nor a version but something new. She has drawn out the story's psychological drama through a process of detonation or amplification of image and phrase into original poems. In this series of skilfully crafted seven-line vignettes, she creates a zoetrope that illuminates each small but irrevocable step as these characters argue each other and themselves into and out of love. The result is a breathtaking read, contemporary and timeless, that builds into an unforgettable telling of this heartbreaking love story. Book in near fine condition and unread. Dust jacket… Read More

London: The Pelican Press, 1917. First edition. Softcover. Very Good/No dust jacket.. The Pelican Press, London, 1917. First edition. Stapled pamphlet with brown paper wraps & yapp edges. Condition: very good. Wrap a little creased and nicked around the yapp edges and some very light soiling. Internally very clean and virtually free of spotting. Langdon-Davies wrote this work as an undergraduate at St John's College, Oxford. He was called up in 1917 and declared himself to be a conscientious objector. This led to a short prison sentence before he was declared unfit for military service. He had intended to continue his academic career but, due to his military service record, he found that one of his scholarships had been withdrawn. Economic conditions then forced him to abandon his university studies. This delightful little pamphlet contains some lovely work by Langdon-Davies - especially the opening piece: 'Snowdrops, Oxford'.

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.

London: Essex House Press, 1905. Limited edition. Hardback. Very Good/No dust jacket. Essex House Press, London, 1905. Limited edition of 251, this being no 20. Book condition: very good. Grey boards lightly soiled. Paper labels to spine and front. Wood engraved illustrations, printer's device at end. The book has only been partly opened with most pages still uncut at upper edge. Bookplate of Ken Tomlinson to front pastedown. No jacket. This volume came from the collection of private press books built up by the Tomkinson family. Michael Tomkinson (1841 - 1921) established Tomkinson Carpets in Kidderminster and was a major collector of books and Japanese antiquities. Although some of his collection was sold after his death his son, Geoffrey (1881 - 1963), continued and grew the private press collection and published 'A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses Public and Private in Great Britain and Ireland' (1928). When Geoffrey died in 1963 his son Kenneth (1918 - 1985)… Read More

London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald/The Shakespeare Head Press, 1925. Limited edition. Hardback. Very good/Good. Frederick Etchells and Hugh Macdonald, The Shakespeare Head Press, London, 1925. Limited edition of 900 of which this is no 779. Book condition: very good. Very slight bumping to corners. Some small & light marks to front. Some extremely slight wrinkling of brown paper covers to front board which look like production faults rather than any kind of damage. Cloth binding to spine very clean with gilt titles - some slight adhesive marks - again most likely production faults. Previous owner's printed bookplate to front paste down. Internally the book is very clean and sound with some tanning to endpapers. Very occasional spotting here and there. Dust jacket condition: good. A little loss to tail of spine and at lower points of folds. Some shelf wear around the edges. Spine discoloured and some light soiling/occasional marks. Of all the collections of lyrical poetry… Read More

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 century. Volume 1 contains some ten thousand entries, giving full bibliographical details and information on first lines, subject and the location of copies. Many of the works listed are very rare and exist only in little-known collections. The author personally examined as many copies of each work as possible in British and American libraries and has been able to provide a great deal of important new bibliographical information. Many hitherto unknown works have been discovered and new issues or editions, even of such well researched authors as Swift and Pope, are identified. Volume 2 comprises a full series of indexes. As well as the… Read More

London: Cassell & Co, 1938. Limited edition. Hardback. Good/Original slipcase in fair condition. Cassell & Company, London, 1938. First edition & limited to 1500 copies. Book condition: good. Light shelf wear. Spine faded and a little light staining/discolouration to boards here and there. Top edge gilt. Endpapers slightly tanned. Some gaps opening here and there at the gutter. Original slipcase in fair condition, a little rubbed and worn. Open side has some slight splitting to corners, upper/lower edges rubbed and scuffed. The book has gift inscription to the ffep:- " To Jessica, A Book, and a Blessing. with copies of experiments in rhyme and verse. August 1947". This inscription is signed "Raffles" who has also inscribed autograph poems to the front paste down, the blank endpapers at rear and to both sides of the blank page prior to the Transcriptions, Notes and Indexes section. We can shed no light on this particular Raffles!. Contains facsimile pages of… Read More