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London : Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. First edition. A collection of thirty-two poems. “Among the English poetry of the last half century, Charles Causley’s could well turn out to be the best loved and most needed” (Ted Hughes).
Post 8vo (21cm). (62),[ii]pp. Original blue and white pictorial boards, lettered in black; very good indeed in the matching dust-jacket – in secondary state, with a 95p over-sticker cancelling the original price – but also very good indeed.

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Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1973. First edition : one of 168 regular copies (of 180). A poem, with a linocut in two colours by Stanley Simmonds. Keepsake Poem No. 14.
Crown 4to (24cm). [4]pp. Original aquamarine wrappers, printed on upper wrapper in black; very good indeed, with the original Keepsake envelope. Lewis (Keepsake Poems) 14.

£20

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[London] : Arts Council of Great Britain, [ca. 1982]. First separate edition. An undated poem card, one of an attractively printed series sold at the Arts Council shop in the early 1980s.
Foolscap 8vo (18cm). Cream card, printed in red and black; very good indeed. Just three copies located in major libraries worldwide – none in the UK.

£15

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London : B.T. Batsford, (1979). First edition. An attractive selection of around fifty narrative poems – by Causley himself, Robert Graves, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, John Masefield, William Morris, Brian Patten, W.B.Yeats and many more – illustrated with the striking designs of Charles Keeping (1924-1988).
Demy 8vo (23cm). (136)pp. Pictorial endpapers and full-page illustrations. Original dark blue boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; very good in the original coloured Keeping dust-jacket – fresh and unworn.

£15

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Richmond : Keepsake Press, (1980). First edition in English : one of thirty numbered copies (of 450) signed by both the Bosnian poet and the translator, Charles Causley (1917-2003). Translated and introduced by Causley.
Demy 8vo (22cm). [ii],44,[x]pp. Original white wrappers, lettered in red and with an illustration by Petar Waldegg in black; just faintly tanned at spine, but otherwise very good. Lewis 59.

£25

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