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AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 : MOUNTAINS. London : Faber & Faber, (1954). First edition. A poem in the New Series of the Ariel Poems. SOLD |
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BROOKE, Rupert (Rupert Chawner), 1887-1915 : THE LETTERS OF RUPERT BROOKE : CHOSEN AND EDITED BY GEOFFREY KEYNES. London : Faber & Faber, (1968). First edition. An extensive selection of letters from Rugby, Italy, Cambridge, Grantchester, Lulworth, Germany, Canada, the South Seas, army camps and the Aegean – charting the whole of Brooke’s short life. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27776 – or simply click on the button
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BARKER, George (George Granville), 1913-1991 : POEMS OF PLACES AND PEOPLE. London : Faber & Faber, (1971). First edition. Twenty-two poems and the poem sequence “Venusberg”, dedicated to Graham Greene — the poems mainly in remembrance of people — T. S. Eliot (who called Barker a genius — a view both shared and disputed by others), Herbert Read, Vernon Watkins, etc. — and specific places — Kew Gardens, Norfolk, Surrey, etc. Brought up in Battersea, Barker is variously remembered as the man who inspired Elizabeth Smart's “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept”, drinking chum of Dylan Thomas, collaborator in writing pornography with Anaïs Nin, and as the father of fifteen children by four different women born over a period of forty years. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44988 — or simply click on the button
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DUNN, Douglas (Douglas Eaglesham), 1942- : THE HAPPIER LIFE. London : Faber & Faber, (1972). First edition. . An early collection of thirty-nine poems, including “Modern Love”, “A Faber Melancholy”, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40515 – or simply click on the button
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DURRELL, Lawrence (Lawrence George), 1912-1990 : CITIES PLAINS AND PEOPLE : POEMS. London : Faber & Faber, (1946). First edition. An early collection of twenty-eight poems, many foreshadowing the Alexandria Quartet. Includes “Eight Aspects of Melissa”, “Levant”, “Alexandria”, “Delos”, “Conon in Alexandria”, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42782 – or simply click on the button
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HUGHES, Ted (Edward James), 1930-1998 : WODWO. London : Faber & Faber, (1967). First edition : in the primary binding, lettered in gilt rather than silver. A collection of forty poems, five stories and a radio play. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38542 – or simply click on the button
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HUGHES, Ted (Edward James), 1930-1998 : GAUDETE. London : Faber & Faber, (1977). First edition : with the misprint “soelmn” for “solemn” on p.75. “An Anglican clergyman is abducted by spirits into the other world ...”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40513 – or simply click on the button
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HUGHES, Ted (Edward James), 1930-1998 : MOORTOWN. London : Faber & Faber, (1979). First edition : [one of 2,000 copies in hardback] – complete with the separately printed errata slip. A major collection of 125 poems, including “Dehorning”, “Coming Down Through Somerset” and “Teaching a Dumb Calf”, as well as the sequences “Prometheus on His Crag”, “Earth-Numb”, “Orts”, “Adam and the Sacred Nine”, etc. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43247 – or simply click on the button
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MENDELSON, Edward, 1946- : EARLY AUDEN. London : Faber & Faber, (1983). First British edition. A dedication copy, with the publishers’ compliments slip loosely inserted, and from the collection of Barry and Valerie Bloomfield, the dedicatees. Professor Mendelson had collaborated with Barry Bloomfield on the Auden bibliography. A history and interpretation of the work to 1939. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29574 – or simply click on the button
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PLATH, Sylvia, 1932-1963 : CROSSING THE WATER. London : Faber & Faber, (1971). First edition. “I believe one should be able to control and manipulate experiences”. A collection of thirty-four poems, mainly from the years 1960-1961, and including “Parliament Hill Fields”, “Stillborn”, “Heavy Women”, “Love Letter”, “Small Hours”, etc. SOLD |
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SPENDER, Stephen (Sir Stephen Harold), 1909-1995 : SIRMIONE PENINSULA. London : Faber & Faber, (1954). First edition. A poem in the New Series of the Ariel Poems. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38398 – or simply click on the button
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