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London : John Lane, The Bodley Head / Boston: Copeland & Day, 1894. First edition. A collection of twenty-five poems, etc., including "To the New Women", "A Ballad of the Exodus from Houndsditch", "London", "In Romney Marsh", etc.
Foolscap 8vo. [ii],vi,(132),4,16pp. Original blue-black buckram, blocked - in an attractive art-nouveau design of blackbirds and water-lilies - and lettered in gilt on upper cover, lettered in gilt on spine; label removed from front paste-down; front endpaper just a little tanned; a few faint marks, but a very good copy. Stonehill 13 - but without the errata slip.

£50

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London : Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1970. First edition : [limited to 1,000 copies] signed by Norman MacCaig. A broadside poster poem.
SImperial 4to. Single ivory sheet, printed in black on recto only. Fine.

£20

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London : Chatto & Windus, 1887. First edition. A celebrated collection of fifty-four poems, thirty-eight in English and the remainder in Scots - the latter including the first appearance in book form of both "A Lowden Sabbath Morn" and "The Scotsman's Return from Abroad".
Foolscap 8vo. [ii],(xvi),[2],(138),[ii]pp. Bound, with the initial blank but without the inserted advertisements, in a delightful near contemporary half tan morocco, banded and gilt in a floral design; top edge gilt; marbled sides and endpapers; mild spotting of binder's blanks and edges, but a very good copy indeed. With the pictorial 1895 bookplate of Albert Harrison.

£250

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London : Poem-of-the-Month Club, 1972. First edition : [limited to 1,000 copies] signed and dated by Ruthven Todd. A broadside poster poem.
Imperial 4to. Single ivory sheet, printed on one side only in black. Fine.

£20

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Cranberry Isles : Tidal Press, 1978. First edition : one of fifty numbered and specially bound copies (of 1250). Seven poems by Young and thirteen in his honour - by John Arlott, Edmund Blunden, Ian Caws, Leonard Clark, Richard Church, George MacBeth, Edward Lowbury, Leslie Norris, Ted Walker, etc. Edited & introduced by Leslie Norris. This copy is also inscribed, signed (four times) and dated (1984) by Norris. Individual contributions are also signed by Edward Lowbury, Ted Walker and the illustrator, Charles Wadsworth.
Royal 8vo (24cm). [xii],(66),[ii]pp. Colour portrait frontispiece. Coloured illustrations by Charles E. Wadsworth. Original quarter olive morocco, marbled boards, by Gray Parrot; a fine copy in the original cloth protective case.

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