Poetry from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

Verona: Franco Riva 1963. FolioIllustrated. SPANISH TEXT. 23 pp. Signed limited edition. Cream paper cover with a parchment paper wrapper, in a dusky red cover and slipcase. No.124 from a limited edition of 150 copies, with a signed double page etching by Renato Guttuso. Edges uncut. Slipcase a little faded and edgeworn with a few markings. Blue ink inscription to… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1902. 8vo. xx, 348 pp. Publisher's original gilt decorated blue cloth. All edges gilt. With numerous black & white illustrations by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. Rubbing to spine, edges and rear board. Internally clean. . Near Fine. Gilt Decorated Cloth. 3rd Edition. 1902.

Enitharmon Editions 2022. 4to. 84 pp. Quarter cloth over pictorial boards. Clean and fresh. Signed by Paul Muldoon. Poetry by Muldoon alongside full page colour works by Pearlstein. 9781911253440 . Near Fine. Pictorial Boards. 2022.

Manchester; County Meath, Ireland: Carcanet; Gallery Books 1990. 8vo. First hardback edition 1990 with an introduction by Seamus Heaney, black hardback in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp. Fading to spine and to edges of jacket, internally clean. Though a recognised poet, radio dramatist, story-writer and essayist in Ireland, Padraic Fallon refused to collect his poems until shortly before his death.… Ler mais sobre este item

Firenze [Florence]: Presso Giuseppe Galletti 1827. 16mo. Italian language, 3 volumes in gilt decorated calf. 396; 400; 372 pp. Gilt borders, spine decoration and turn-ins; marbled bottom-edge and endpapers. Bookplates to first blanks and ownership inscriptions on first blank of first volume. Spines worn on all volumes with loss of gilt decoration, and repair to volume 2. Rubbing to extremities… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Hutchinson of London 1973. 8vo. Signed first edition. 71 pp. The softcover issue with a red and black design to the front cover. Author's signature to the title page. Spine and rear cover darkened, otherwise in clean condition. Binding firm. Funland by the Welsh poet and physician Dannie Abse uses the metaphor of a mental institution to develop a… Ler mais sobre este item

London: John Murray 1855. 8vo. Six volumes. Portrait of Byron as frontis. Half red calf Bumpus binding over marbled boards, with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; marbled edges and endpapers. Fading to spines. Foxing to prelims, with very occasional light foxing to text, though largely clean. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being… Ler mais sobre este item

Firenze / Florence: G. Barbera 1886 / 1882. Small 8vo. Italian language. Two volumes. 723, cxxx ; [iii], 451, [2] pp. Frontis portrait. Parchment paper and red morocco with gilt decoration, with bevelled edges and author's name hand painted on each volume; all edges stained red; gilt-decorated turn-ins and endpapers. Very slight rubbing to the bindings. Ink inscription in English… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Vernor, Hood and Sharpe 1808. 8vo. xlii, 372 pp. 12 engraved plates by Fuseli and Hamilton. Portait and engraved title. Straight-grained red morocco with gilt-decorated border at boards and gilt lettering and devices to spine, with raised bands; a.e.g. Bookplate. Ffep. a bit loose and foxing to prelims and the odd page, though largely clean. . Very Good. Full… Ler mais sobre este item

London: George Routledge & Sons c.a. 1910. 8vo.Illustrated. 103 pp. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine and front board. Translated and illustrated with 8 plates after paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With a bookplate to the front pastedown and ownership inscription dated 1910 to the first free endpaper. First published in 1294, La Vita Nuova… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Methuen & Co Ltd 1969. 8vo. Two volumes. Hardcovers with silver lettering to the spines, in dust jackets. Some edge wear to the jackets of both volumes. Internally clean and bindings firm. Two anthologies of poetry from the First and Second World War, selected and arranged with an introduction and notes by Brian Gardner. . Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Hutchinson of London 1968. 8vo. First edition. [8], 53 pp. Black hardback in pictorial jacket with portrait of the author to back panel. A few light marks to jacket, nice and clean inside. Price sticker to front flap of jacket. Poems in this collection are of three groups: Missa Humana, text which is to be sung by mass; A… Ler mais sobre este item

Firenze: Felice Le Monnier 1849. 8vo. ITALIAN TEXT. In two volumes. xxiv, 516; 572 pp. Half vellum over marbled boards; with blacl leather title labels, gilt lettering and decoration to the spines. Endpapers marbled and all edges burnished red. Rubbing to boards and edges and vellum is slightly marked. Rolandl booksellers ticket to the first free endpaper of volume 1.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees 1801 / 1800. Small 8vo. 2 volumes. 4th and 2nd editions. [viii], 207, [1]; [iv], 234, [2] pp. Half straight-grained morocco over marbled boards, with gilt ruling and lettering to spine; marbled endpapers. Rubbing and wear to extremities, including slight loss at spine ends. Internally clean. Poems include Poems on The Slave Trade,… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Faber and Faber 1966. 8vo. 124 pp. Cloth with lettering to spine in unclipped jacket. Slight dulling to jacket spine, though it and boards are clean. Internally clean. This work consists of two long poems, with some prose passages: The Sea and The Mirror: a Commentary on Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' and For The Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio. Auden… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Andre Deutsch 1965. 8vo.Review Copy. First edition review copy. 64 pp. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Darkening to spine and edges of jacket, with a short closed tear to top edge. Internally clean. Contains review slip and a cutting from The Listener with two poems by Fuller. From the flap: 'Here it is not 'the poet' speaking but characters in… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Bell and Daldy 1866. 16mo. [8], 331, [1] pp. Green cloth; gilt device and border to front board; gilt decoration and lettering to spine; top-edge gilt. Slight warping to boards, minor wear to extremities, boards bright overall and internally clean. This edition has been printed from the text of Mr Keightley's Library Edition. A charming pocket copy from 1866… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Heinemann 1958. 8vo. First edition, blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in dust jacket. xii, 244 pp. Minor sunning to spine, crease and very light foxing to ffep, otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding firm. From the manuscripts of Cecil Sharp, this volume contains 115 folk-songs with annotation and textual comment, suitable for the scholar and general reader interested… Ler mais sobre este item

London: The Fortune Press 1925. 8vo. First edition of author's first publication from 1925. 32 pp. Green paper covers with paper title-label to front. Covers and pages uncut, handmade paper. A few small frays and small tears to edges, yellowing to title label and to rear endpaper; however, ovely and clean overall internally. A pretty volume. Cecil Day-Lewis was the… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Alexander Moring 1905. Small 8vo. xxix, 151 pp. This is an unsigned Arts and Crafts binding in full morocco set on laid paper. All edges gilt with gilt floral borders and decoration, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. A translation by Rev. Professor Skeat into modern English of the 14th century poem by William Lawland. Very slight signs… Ler mais sobre este item