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London, United Kingdom: John Lane, 1899 Second Edition. 305pp. Green boards with gilt decoration. Dustjacket was not issued with this edition. B/w illustration of author protected by tissue paper. Name of previous owner on first front endpaper in ink. Pages rough cut and are beginning to spot on every page. Otherwise no other markings on text pages. Boards have some minor age and shelf wear - spine top and tail bumped with minor tearing. 147 poems in this collection - for example: Wordsworth's Grave; Shelley's Centenary; England and Her Colonies; The Raven's Shadow; To a Seabird; To Lord Tennyson; Bryon the Voluptuary; The Sovereign Poet; The Ruin Abbey; The Riddle of the Thames; Peace and War; The Tomb of Burns; Estrangement; The Lost Eden; The Captive's Dream; To Thomas Bailey Aldrich; etc.

London, United Kingdom: Jonathan Cape, 1998 UNCORRECTED ADVANCE PROOF BOUND COPY. Tight copy as new never been read - slight age and wear to cover edges - no internal markings. "In Bruce Robertson, Welsh has created one of the most misanthropic characters in contemporary fiction, and has written a dark, disturbing and very funny novel about sleeze, power, and the abuse of everything. At last, a novel that lives up to its name." Welsh is the author of 'Trainspotting' and 'The Acid House'

London, U.K. : The Harvill Press, 1991 This edition is the first anthology of Japanese poetry. Original dustjacket not price clipped which has some age and shelf wear - the dj edges are rubbed and there is a crease at the bottom of the front page of the dj. The boards are in better condition than the dj - tight copy. Previous owner has written in blue ink a note on the front endpaper; and on the half title page there is an inscription to the previous owner from a friend in blue ink. Otherwise no other markings in the book, clean text page. "The Manyoshu contained over 4,000 poems from 250-759 AD. It was intended to demonstrate that the poets of the Yamato ascendancy could match, and even out-match, the Chinese poetry that was then regarded as the model of literary perfection. In Graeme Wilson's vivid English, seventy-six of these remarkable poems by warrior princes and Imperial princesses, priests ad provincial governors, courtiers and lovers, frontier-guards and conscript soldiers,… Read More

Wales: Gwasg Carrech Gwalch, 2015 Tight copy, no internal markings, clean text pages. Slight wear to edges. This is the story of the Llandudno Town Band from 1900 with a Foreword by Gregory, Seventh Baron Mostyn. The history of the Llandudno Town Band's first 100 years is told through unprecedented access to the Band's archives and reveals the previously hidden story of the amateur musicians who became the very public face of Llandudno.