Search Results: Poetry from TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS

LONDON: SHEBA FEMINIST PUBLISHERS, 1983. Not dated. Date given is approximate. Portrait format paperback. Moderate wear on cover edges. Slight creasing on some pages. Tanning on page edges. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. A poetry collection. With black and white illustrations by Hiang Kee. Location: STC23. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by HIANG KEE. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

LONDON: HUMPREY MILFORD/OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. Small hard cover. Dark green cloth boards. Gilt titles and decoration on board spine. Moderate wear generally on board edges. Wear/small split(exposing underlying binding) on side edge of board spine/back board. Previous owner inscription(dated 1917) on front free endpaper. Second inscription(dated 1947) on back endpaper. Tanned pages. Small folds/creases on one or two pages. Clean pages. Strong binding. 526 pages with notes and indexes. . Good. Hardcover. REPRINT. 1916.

NEW YORK: SIGNET, 1961. Mass market paperback. Moderate wear/peeling on cover edges. Tanned and sliightly foxed pages. 319 pages. Foreword by George Barker. Location: NR2. First Thus. Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

LONDON: KINGFISHER BOOKS. Hardcover. Illustrated boards(cartoon cover art. Differs from /amazon stock image). Slight wear on board edges. Foxing dot mark affecting early pages, minimal affect on text/illustration. Slight soilinf on page edges. Overall clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Humourous poems by a wide range of poets. Black and white illustrations by Caroline Holden and some colour plates by other artists. Location: SG9Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall . Very Good. Hardcover. REPRINT.. 1990.

LONDON: METHUEN AND CO. LTD. The first edition was published in 1921. Poems by Rudyard Kipling. Green cloth boards. Gold gilt illustration on the front board and gold gilt titles and illustration on the board spine. Gold gilt on the top edges of the book's pages. Very slight foxing on page edges. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. Tanned endpapers. Previous owner inscription on the front endpaper. . Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 1922.

Isle of North Uist, Scotland: CORNCRAKE PRESS. Paperback. First book of poetry by Alan Pratt, a writer and photographer who lives on the Hebridean Island of North Uist. Printed on cream coloured thin card. With monochrome artwork, both line drawings and tonal drawings on alternate pages, with additonal small drawings fitted around the text. The covers are cream in a mock-creased textured card with charcoal-grey printing for a deliberately-aged effect. Slight bending on front cover. Prior owner stamp on 'edition details' page. Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Slight wear on cover edges. Location: LRT/E . Very Good. Card Cover Paperback. First Edition. 1995.

LONDON: CHATTO & WINDUS. Poetry Collection. Ex-library copy. Clear plastic library cover over the book's covers. Library coding sticker on exterior cover spine. Residue of issuing form(and withdrawn stamp, with a small area of tippex) on half title page. Coding sticker at the top of publishing details page. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Withdrawn stamp on last blank page. Location: RTW1 . Very Good. Mass Market Paperback. First Edition. 2002.

LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, 1924. First published in 1896, this is a 1924 reprint. Ex-Library book. Black boards. Slight wear/rubbing on board edges. Staining marks on back board. Gilt decoration(including author's initials) on front board. Gilt titles on board spine. Library coding/writing on board spine. Ex-Libris Bookplate(school library) on front pastedown). Issuing form, card pocket and library writing on front free endpaper. Tanned pages. Top edges of pages are dark stained(fading from age) and have a library stamp across them. Author photograph frontispiece. Tissue guard before title page. Library stamp on back pastedown. Thumb nail wear/slight damage on side edge of page 786(last page, index). Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. Location: GRA1. REPRINT. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library.

EDINBURGH: W.P. NIMMO, HAY & MITCHELL. Undated but probably circa 1910. Hard cover with a white exterior binding, exterior binding decorated with an embossed gold scroll work pattern(a flower and leaf design). Heads of some flowers in black. Abbreviated title 'Tennyson's Poetical Works' on a brown(tombstone shaped) background. Pale blue boards. Slight wear on board edges. Slight bending on cover turning points. Rust on bottom corner of front board. Several small stains on front and back boards and light soiling on binding. Edge of front board is slightly crumpled, the book has probably had some slight water damage. But this has not affected the book's interior. Top of book's pages are gilt edged. Bound tissue(like tracing paper) paper before title page. Slight foxing on some page edges. Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Book has an intact ribbon bookmark. A robust copy of a scarce title. Location: A6 . Very Good. Hardcover.

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE: BLOODAXE BOOKS. A collection of poems. Slight wear on cover edges. Slight peeling on cover turning points. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. . Very Good. Paperback. First Paperback Edition. 1997.

UK: Oxford University Press. Small digest format hard cover with dust jacket. Some creasing and surface wear on DJ edges(not too severe). Slight marking on back of DJ. Publisher's price ticket on front flap. Blue boards. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. 436 pages. . Very Good. Hardcover. REPRINT. 1970.

LONDON: ROBINSON PUBLISHING LTD. Hard cover with Illustrated dust jacket. Small splits/tears and surface wear on the edges of the DJ. Thin crease/scar from the front top corner edge of the DJ to the Dust jacket centre. Black boards. Slight wear on board edges. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, before half title page. Dust jacket has been price clipped. Colour illustrations. Contributors include Geoffrey Chaucer, John Skelton, James Boswell, T.S Eliot, Karel Capek, William Shakespeare. Location: STC73 . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1993.

LONDON: METHUEN AND CO. LTD. Morale boosting World War 2 poem/story. First UK printing. Publishing details page states 'First Published in 1941' with no details of later printings. Hard cover with photo illustrated dust jacket. Tears and some pieces missing on the edges of the DJ, but the bulk of the DJ survives in good order. Not price clipped. Light blue boards, with illustration on front booard. Flat crease mark on front board. Previous owner inscription(dated 9.3.41) on the front pastedown. Lightly tanned and slightly foxed pages. Clean, tight pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Scarce first UK printing. Location: SG2 . Very Good. Hardcover. First UK EDITION. 1941.