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Auction No 369, Category: Poetry

11 Lots (displaying 1 - 11)

John Holt "Occasional Verses", Stand, nr. Bury, printed at the Radcliffe Times, 1912; small octavo,

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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John Holt Occasional Verses, Stand, nr. Bury, printed at the Radcliffe Times, 1912; small octavo, original gilt cloth, fine; a selection of verses written during the 1870s to 1890s, mostly in Lancashire Dialect. B/w portrait. 75pp + prelims. Rare title. A single copy held at the Bodleian library.

John Dryden "The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition". Jacob Tonson, 1682, First Edition, second issue

Lot: 156

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £40
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John Dryden The Medall. A Satyre Against Sedition. Jacob Tonson, 1682, First Edition, second issue, 4to, unbound, loosely inserted in a cloth-covered binding case; uncut at foot, partially unopened; worming in right-hand margin, clear of text. Light browning to endpapers and title page. VG

Stephen Coleridge "New Poems", 1911, Torch Press. 1st Edn, signed & inscribed by the author

Lot: 164

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £26
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Stephen Coleridge New Poems, 1911, Torch Press. 1st Edn, signed & inscribed by the author, original printed boards rather dust-affected, together with a 2-page autograph letter from Coleridge loosely inserted. 

D. Fulvio Testi "Delle Poesie Liriche", Giulian Cassiani, Modena, 1645, 12mo, contemporary red leather, gilt

Lot: 169

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £120
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D. Fulvio Testi Delle Poesie Liriche, Giulian Cassiani, Modena, 1645, 12mo, contemporary red leather, gilt, showing later repairs, VG; previous owners’ bookplates; issued as two parts, bound together, each with its own title page; b/w portrait dated 1645; decorated throughout with head & tail pieces; fine internally. pp.(14),175,166. 

John Fawcett Skelton "The Gleaner: A Selection of Poems & Songs", Simpkin Marshall & John Heywood, 1876

Lot: 171

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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John Fawcett Skelton The Gleaner: A Selection of Poems & Songs, Simpkin Marshall & John Heywood, 1876, First Edition, quarto, original gilt cloth: two copies, one uninscribed, the other with presentation inscription by the author and a few manuscript alterations to the text in the same hand, together with an autograph letter from W.T. Hampson to a friend recalling Skelton’s activities in Edgworth, Bolton, in the late-19th Century. Occasional fox mark otherwise good/VG. (2)

Thomas Brown (1663-1704) "Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c., to which is added A Character of a Latitudinarian"

Lot: 172

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
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Thomas Brown (1663-1704) Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c., to which is added A Character of a Latitudinarian, John Sparks,1699, First Edition; small octavo, full leather, rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the boards overlaid with the original leather covering; light browning affects the text to varying degrees. Worming at foot of last few leaves and a damaged corner to pp.341/2 without text loss. Collated as complete. Pagination errors with pp.113-128 not used and p.349 shows as “493”. Wing 5052. VG

Siegfried Sassoon "Nativity", Faber & Gwyer [1927], illustrated by Paul Nash, printed wraps, Aerial Poems No.7;

Lot: 173

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £16
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Siegfried Sassoon Nativity, Faber & Gwyer [1927], illustrated by Paul Nash, printed wraps, Aerial Poems No.7; and Wilfrid Gibson The Early Whistler, illustrated John Nash, Aerial Poems No.6. VF (2)

Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "Catalogue of a Collection of Upwards of One Thousand Letters

Lot: 180

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £54
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Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Catalogue of a Collection of Upwards of One Thousand Letters, addressed by Thomas Moore to Mr. James Power, his Music Publisher, between the years 1808 and 1836…. Puttick and Simpson, London, 1853, octavo, 19th Cent. half morocco, gilt, fine; news-cuttings affixed to front endpaper; neatly annotated throughout with the prices realised in the ruled columns provided; listings include many original manuscripts by Moore of his songs and lyrics. Scarce

Thomas White Ogilvie "Poems", William Smith & Sons, Aberdeen, 1911, 1st Edn, orig.gilt cloth, good

Lot: 187

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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Thomas White Ogilvie Poems, William Smith & Sons, Aberdeen, 1911, 1st Edn, orig.gilt cloth, good, uncut, light spotting to prelims; The Poems of Robert Southwell S.J., Oxford, 1967, 1st Edn in fine d/jkt; and Petr Bezruc Silesian Songs, Artia, 1966, 1st English Edn, 4to, decorated cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, gift inscription, fine, in slipcase which is worn at corners. (3)

Vernon Scannell "Ring of Truth", 1983, signed First Edition in fine d/jkt, and other signed Firsts by Scannell

Lot: 189

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Vernon Scannell Ring of Truth, 1983, signed First Edition in fine d/jkt, and other signed Firsts by Scannell, most in VG/fine d/jkts, comprising The Loving Game 1975, The Winter Man 1973, The Face of the Enemy 1961 (worn d/jkt), and Views and Distances 2000, s/bk; also Of Love & War 2002 unsigned 1st Edition. (6)

John Jackson "Hunting Songs and other Memorabilia", Fletcher & Speight, Bury, 1902, 1st Edn,

Lot: 211

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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John Jackson Hunting Songs and other Memorabilia, Fletcher & Speight, Bury, 1902, 1st Edn, original gilt cloth, VG; b/w tissue-guarded Frontispiece and 4 other photo-plates. 59pp. [John Jackson was a huntsman with the Holcombe Harriers, 1867-1899]