POETRY from Chilton Books

Ipswich: East Anglian Magazine, 2005.. 1st edition. Poems inspired by the Suffolk coast. Pp.30. Illustrated stiff card cover. VG.** "Ian Greville Tait (1926�2013) was a British medical doctor who spent most of his career as a general practitioner (GP) in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. He was a major figure in the modernisation of general practice in the UK during… Read more about this item

Northwood: Knights Press Ltd, nd.. Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies 5. Decorationsby D.W.Burley. 18.5cms x 11cms. Pp.23, lino-cut illustrations to each verse. Cream stiff card cover has minor edge wear and a little dusty. G+.

Toronto: Sandberry Press, 1994.. 1st edition. "Jane King was born in St Lucia, and has been writing since a child....Her writing has won local awards, and has been published in anthologies in the UK, the USA and the Caribbean." Pp.63, indented crease to preliminaries. Paperback. G+.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1944.. 1st edition. Humorous wartime verse. 16cms x 11.5cms. Pp.48, with vignette cartoon illustrations by Anne Drew. Paperback, slightly rubed, tear to top of spine. G+.

London: Faber and Faber, 2010.. 1st edition. Lachlan Mackinnon's fourth collection of poems. Pp.89, signed by the author (with line through printed name) to title page, colour photo newspaper cutting (Wendy Cope, Lachlan Mackinnon, with Frank Danes of The King's School Ely Ennglish Department) pasted to front free endpaper. Grey stiff card covers. VG.

London: George Bell & Sons, 1901.. The Endymion Series. Pp.xxx/338, top edge gilt, red-ruled title and frontispiece, decorated and illustrated double-page dedication of the volume of 1817 to Leigh Hunt, many further full-page illustrations by Robert Anning Bell, deckled edges a little dusty, presentation bookplate of the Francis Holland School to inner front endpaper with ink notation to facing… Read more about this item

Fareham: The National Poetry Foundation, 1998.. 1st edition. The author has had poems previously published in 'Pause'. Her poem 'Waiting' won first prize in the Norwich Writer's Circle Open Poetry Competition 1995 and several other poes have been included in poetry competition anthologies. 'The Craft' was requested for the new Lifeboat House at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, where it is… Read more about this item

London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., nd. (c.1895).. 32nd thousand. A Victorian anthology of Christian verse. 16.5cms x 10.5cms x 1.8cms. All edges gilt. Pp.212/ 4(index), engraved frontispiece, small bookseller's label (Hadock & Pawsey, Ipswich) to inside front board, minor light spotting (mainly to preliminary pages). Brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt title to front and spine, slight sunning to… Read more about this item

London: Faber & Gwyer Limited /The Curwen Press, nd. [1927].. 1st edition. Number 5 of The Ariel Poems. Four page booklet, religious poem, subtitled Chorus from an Unfinished Play. Engraved frontispiece by Eric Gill. Yellow stiff card covers with small Eric Gill illustration to front, edges slightly dusty. Scarce. VG.

London: John Murray, 1918.. 1st edition. Epic poem describing the brutality of war. Pp.72/2 publisher's ads, minor spotting to closed page edges. Red cloth spine, fawn paper covered boards, gilt title to spine, spine faded, fading/discolouration to top front edge. G+.** "Ronald Campbell Macfie (1867�1931) was a Scottish medical doctor, poet and science writer specialising in eugenics and evolution...Campbell… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Emil Fink Verlag, 1960.. 7th edition. Brief biographical sketch of Berta Hummel together with poems written by Margaret Seeman to fit the illustrations and paintings of Berta Hummel. 23cms x 15.5cms x 0.5cms. Pp.64, colour and black & white illustrations throughout, light spotting to preliminary pages. Blue cloth, uneven discolouration to boards, Colour illustrated custwrapper rubbed with edge… Read more about this item

Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1892.. 1st edition. With a Memoir of the Author by Thomas C.Latto. Pp.xxxv/367, portrait frontispiece plus 5 further illustrations, occasional spotting mainly affecting tissue guards to illustrations, cracking to inner hinges but still holding. Dark green cloth, original paper title label to spine rubbed and edges chipped, bumps to spine and corner tips. Good.

Edinburgh: W & R Chambers Ltd, 1959.. 1st edition. Each of the writers were invited to contribute poems which had not appeared in any collection of their work. Contributors include: George Mackay Brown; George Bruce; G.S.Fraser; Robert Garioch; W.W.Graham; Alexander Gray; J.F.Hendry; Maurice Lindsay; Domhnall Macamhlaidh (Donald Macaulay); Norman MacCaig; Hugh MacDiarmid; A.D.Mackie; Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley Maclean); Joseph Macleod;… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1945.. 3rd impression. Four poems: Burnt Norton; East Coker; The Dry Salvages; Little Gidding. Originally published separately, Eliot always intended for them to be published as one volume, and to be judged as a single work. Pp.44, slight toning to pages. Pale yellow cloth, gilt title to spine, a little rubbed to… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press, 1967.. Fourth edition, Revised and Enlarged. "Brings together all the known poems and fragments, including the early verse first published in the poet's Journals and Papers (1959), and the remainder of his Latin Verse...together with translations into English....The editors have also provided a new and a more ample biographical and critical introduction.." Pp.lxvi/362, 1… Read more about this item

London: Cassell, 1967.. First in this new translation with critical commentaries. "A Persian scholar and a distinguished English poet have collaborated in a new translation of the Rubaiyyat which presents the philosophy of Omar Khayyam in a very different light." Pp.86. Blue cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1961.. Anthology. Pp.315, pages toned, owner's initials to top of title page. Paperback, spine slightly toned with minor wear to top and tail. G+.

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960.. 1st edition. A large proportion of the greatest English poetry is in narrative form. This anthology ranges in time from Chaucer to the mid-twentieth century. Pp.xvi/462, pages tanned. Paperback, slight darkening to spine. G+.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, nd. (c.1930s).. Contains the classic 'The Raven' plus a further poem, 'The Bells'. 17cms x 11cms. Pp.28. Cream cloth spine stained, black paper-covered boards with abstract leaf pattern and original title label to front. Good.

London: C.Regan Paul and Co., 1878.. Poetry by Henry Cholmondeley Pennell, more known for his books on angling. 21.5cms x 17cms x 2cms. All edges gilt. Pp.134/2 (ads for further works by the author, 10 illustrations by Du Maurier, owner's details + inkstamp for Liverpool College for Girls Huyton to inner front free endpaper,illustrated bookplate for Huyton college… Read more about this item