Search Results: LITERARY essays & Anthologies from Daisyroots Books Ltd

BOUCHER, Alan (Translator)Adventures, Outlaws and Past Events : Icelandic Folktales IIIIceland Review Library, Reykjavic, 1978, softback with stiff card wraps, VG, 96pp. No inscription or annotations, binding sound, pages clean and bright. Wraps clean and crisp with light shelf wear.FOLKLORE, MYTHS, LEGENDS, TALES AND STORIES, ICELAND45193 hb 54 FOLKLORE £8.00

Augustan Defence of Satire, The P.K ElkinClarendon Press, Oxford, 1973, 1st edition ahrdback with wrapper, VG.vg. 227 pp. No inscriptions, not clipped, clean and sound copy. 41545 LIT CRIT £12.00

SIMMS, ColinBirches and Other Striplings0903074052Headland Poetry, Sheffield, 1973, 1st edition, VG+. soft card wraps, 16 pp. Crisp clean copy. POETRY ANTHOLOGY, LITERATURE42628 POETRY £18.00

CLEOPATRA IN THE TIDE OF TIME (signed)Oliver C de C EllisWilliams & Norgate Ltd / The Poetry Lover's Fellowship with the International Fellowship of Literature, London, 1947 SIGNED hardback with wrapper , GD+/gd-. Blue boards / gilt. Signed gift inscription on the title page. 280 pp. Neat inscription. Wrapper fragile - not clipped (12/6 net), tatty with pieces missing and heavily chipped. 41885 LIT CRIT drama £12.00

The Case of Peter Pan : The Impossibility of Children's FictionJacqueline RoseUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, Philidelphia, 1985, softback, like new. 181 pp. literary criticism, children's fiction, J M Barrie41406 LIT CRIT / B £11.95

Christmas Past: A Selection from Victorian MagazinesAshdown. Dulcie M.Book Club Associates, London, 1977, hardback with wrapper VG/vg, 152 pp, with foreword by Jilly Cooper, illustrated with over 120 b/w pictures from Victorian magazines, red boards, neat inscription on front end paper with owner's embossed stamp, pages clean but lightly tanned, dust staining on top page ends. Jacket design by Norman Reynolds, no tears, sunned on spine, not price clipped. A nostalgic collection of Christmas stories and crafts from the Victorian popular press. 43164 LIT anthologies £11.50

Designing the Life of Johnson The Lyell Lectures in Bibliography, 2001-2 (Lyell Lectures in Bibliography) Bruce RedfordOxford University Press, 2005, paperback, nr fine, 181pp, eight pages b/w plates. bibliography, publishing, literature41537 LIT £18.50

WHITMAN, WaltDrum-TapsChatto & Windus, London, 1915, hardback, decorated boards, peach linen spine, 72 pp. Lead corners rubbed and gently curled inwards. Binding sound. No inscriptions. Small piece torn from contents page (see scan). Page edges very lightly tanned. Neat, tidy copy. 42660 POETRY £40.00

JOYCE, James
The Essential James Joyce. With an Introduction and Notes by Harry Levin
Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1948, hardback with dust wrapper, VG/vg-, boards red/gilt, red top edge, 533 pp.
Boards edge worn, neat dedication and original booksellers label on front end paper (see scan), sound tight binding, pages clean, lightly tanned, faint foxing to end papers. Appreciable shelf wear to wrapper (see scans), dust stained, now protected by acid-free archive film, price not clipped. Good sound copy.
LITERATURE, JAMES JOYCE, VOLUME OF FOUR STORIES, DUBLINERS, A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, EXILES, CHAMBER MUSIC, EXTRACTS AND POEMS
46552 LIT/J £31.50

Facade (limited edition published as a New Year's Greeting to friends of the publisher)John Pearson; Dame Edith SitwellHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1978, 1st limited edition, hardback, marbled boards quarter bound in black linen with gilt title. Hand made paper. 25 pp. Boards lightly rubbed on lead corner. No inscriptiond. Internally crisp and clean. Lovely collector's copy. limited edition, first edition, literature, Sitwell, ballet41805 LIT £22.00

Nick Hern Books 2007 paperback, 157 pp. Vg. no inscriptions, clean and sound copy.

CREELEY. RobertA Form of Women: PoemsJargon Books, New York, 1959, 1st edition, stiff card wraps, VG, unpaginated, cover illustrated with a b/w drawing, not inscribed, covers and page ends lightly dust stained, pages bright and clean throughout, sound binding, a collection of 51 poems from American poet Robert Creeley.POETRY FIRST EDITION43175 POETRY/C £16.50

A Haiku Journey : Basho's the Narrow Road to the Far North and Selected Haiku
BASHO, Matsuo; BRITTEN, Dororthy (Translator)9780870112392Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo, 1974, large format, 1st Edition, hardback with original protective plastic wrapper as printed by publisher, VG/vg, buckram cloth pictorial boards, dark yellow endpapers, illustrated throughout from beautiful colour photographs, unpag.Boards clean and firm, no inscription or annotations, sound square binding, pages clean and bright. Plastic wrapper intact, clean, gentle rubs to edges and corners.LITERATURE, POETRY, MATSUO BASHO, JAPANESE POET, HAIKU,UNRHYMED VERSE, THREE LINES, FIVE, SEVEN & FIVE SYLLABLES45819 LIT/POETRY £16.50

LEONARDO'S MOUNTAIN OF CLAMS AND THE DIET OF WORMS ESSAYS ON NATURAL HISTORYGOULD. Stephen. JBCA, London, 1998, Hardback with wrapper, VG/gd, Black cloth/ gilt, 422pp including bibliography, illustration credits and index, illustrated with 38 pages b/w from reproduced photos, pictures, maps and diagrams. No inscriptions, sound binding, wrapper rubbed and lightly chipped on edges, short tear on top lead edge, stamped on title page.humanism, Leonardo, literary, essays, evolution, natural history41899 LIT/ ESSAYS £7.00

Lakeland PoemsAIREY, Alan F.Alan Airey, 1950, SIGNED COPY, softback with stiff card wraps, VG, 20 pp.Author signature and publication date written on back of front cover (see scan), no annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean, lightly tanned, middle gutter staining from staple binding (see scan). Light shelf wear to wraps, browning to top section of both front and back panels and along spine, otherwise a lovely clean copy.POETRY, ALAN AIREY, LAKE DISTRICT, THE SEASONS, CHANGES IN THE LANDSCAPE45917 POETRY/A hb 74 £16.50

The Literary And Philosophical Society Of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1994 1st edition hardback with wrapper. Limited edition, no 173 of 300 copies. Chapter headings by Geoffrey Laws. Illus in the text in b/w. Vg/gd. Wrapper sunned on spine edge - still legible. No inscriptions, not price clipped.

SHVARTS, Elena Paradise : Selected Poems by Elena ShvartsISBN: 1852242493Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1993, softback with stiff card wraps, 144 pp, VG+. Illustrated front cover (see scan), no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean and bright, light dust accumulation on top edge of text block. Wraps clean and crisp, gentle rubs to fore-edge.POETRY, RUSSIAN TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION, RUSSIAN POET, SHVARTS, RUSSIAN FOLKLORE, ST PETERSBURG, HISTORY, PLACE, CULTURE44018 hb 22 POETRY/S £19.00

JAFFIN, DavidSnow-touched Imaginings : PoemsISBN: 9781848616653Shearsman Books Ltd., Bristol, 2019, softback, fine, 339 pp, no inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean and bright, a few small light marks on fore-edge of text block. Covers clean and crisp, gentle rubs to top edge.POETRY, CONTEMPORARY POET, SHORT LYRIC POEMS, JAFFIN, AMERICA44022 hb 19 POETRY/J £15.50

TAKE ONE AT NIGHTWhitridge, ArnoldThe Press of A. Colish (private publication), New York, 1974, 1st edition, signed dedication, hardback with no wrapper, 387pp including index of authors, dedication "Mary Moorman from Arnold Whitridge 1974" on front endpaper. A compilation of poems, phrases and literary passages collected over the course of the author's lifetime.Hardback vg condition , burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine, sound binding, clean pages.poetry, anthology, famous passages41896 LIT/ ANTHOLOGY £42.00

POE, Edgar AllanTales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (illustrated by Rusell Hoban)Macmillan, New York, 1963, 1st thus. hardback with wrapper. Pictorial coloured boards. 338 pp. Illustrated in colour and b/w by Russell Hoban (art director of J Walter Thompson). No inscriptions, not cliped. Wrapper has small tear on top lead corner and is moderately rubbed and chipped on top edge. Binding square and sound. 41810 FIC £22.00