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London : Quartet Books, (1973). First edition. Signed by Carol Rumens on the title-page. Her first collection - forty-four poems, etc.
Post 8vo. (94),[ii]pp. Original white linen wrappers, lettered in black and red, with a Peter Till illustration in red, orange and black on upper wrapper; a very good copy.

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Belfast : Ulsterman Publications, (1978). First edition. Signed by Carol Rumens on the title-page. A collection of ten poems.
Foolscap 4to. 16pp. Original black and white stapled wrappers, in a design by Carolyn Mulholland; lightly stained at foot; a little creased; some spotting, but a serviceable copy, signed by the poet.

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe Books, (1982). First edition. Signed by Carol Rumens on the title-page. A collection of nine poems.
Demy 8vo. [16]pp. Original orange, black and white stapled wrappers, with an illustration by John Burningham; fine.

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe Books, (1982). First edition. Inscribed and signed by Carol Rumens on the title-page. A collection of nine poems.
Demy 8vo. [16]pp. Original orange, black and white stapled wrappers, with an illustration by John Burningham; faint crease to upper wrapper, but still very good.

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London : Secker & Warburg, (1983). First edition. Signed by Carol Rumens on the title-page. A collection of thirty-one poems.
Demy 8vo. (70),[ii]pp. Original blue cloth, lettered down spine in gilt; near fine in the original turquoise, black and white dust-jacket.

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London : Poetry Book Society, 1985. First edition. Signed by Carol Rumens on the title-page. A Poetry Book Society anthology - with poems by Patricia Beer, Wendy Cope, Carol Ann Duffy, D.J.Enright, U.A.Fanthorpe, Michael Longley, Anne Stevenson, George Szirtes, etc.
Post 8vo. [iv],58,[ii]pp. Original colour printed wrappers, lettered in deeep pink and with a design by Carol Brickley; a very good copy.

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London : Chatto & Windus / Hogarth Press, (1985). First edition. Signed by Carol Rumens on the title-page. A review copy, with the publishers' slip loosely inserted. A collection of eighteen poems.
Post 8vo. 48pp. Original colour printed wrappers; near fine.

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London : Chatto & Windus, (1987). First edition. Inscribed, signed and dated (1987) on the title-page by Carol Rumens. Her first novel.
Demy 8vo. [ii],212,[viii] - including integral endpapers. Original black boards, lettered on spine in gilt; text just a little tanned, but a near fine copy in the original colour-printed Barbara Kaiser dust-jacket, lettered in black and red on white.

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London : Chatto & Windus, (1987). First edition. Signed by Carol Rumens on the title-page. Includes extensive selections from her four earlier collections of poetry, together with fifty new or previously uncollected poems. Loosely inserted are a Rumens newspaper article on the lack of passion in modern verse, and two press-cuttings of Rumens poems.
Post 8vo. 160pp. Original colour printed wrappers, with an illustration by Sarah Beddington, the principal lettering in black and blue; near fine.

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Bloodaxe Books, (1989). First edition. Signed by Carol Rumens on the title-page. A collection of twenty-five poems (including four translations from Blok and Mandelstam), together with a diary of a visit to Russia. Illustrations by Jamie Jamieson-Black and photographs by Rumens.
Demy 8vo. 80pp. Original colour-printed wrappers in a design by Gary Scott; near fine.

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London : Chatto & Windus, (1989). First edition. Signed by Carol Rumens on the title-page. A collection of thirty-nine poems.
Post 8vo. [vi],(58)pp. Original colour printed wrappers, with an illustration by Julian Abela-Hyzler; very good.

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