Bees by Duffy, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. SIGNED to title page with name only. VG with slight knocks to top corners, in near fine jacket. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in near fine dustjacket. Inscribed by the author to the title page: 'To Pauline, warm wishes, Carol Ann Duffy, Windsor 29 Sep 2011'. A fine, tight and unread copy with complete dustjacket with minimal shelfwear to the lower edge. As an enthusiastic collector myself I make every effort to provide a high level of service. Enquiries welcomed. Paypal accepted. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition fifth impression in fine condition, signed and dated by author with inscription to title page, no markings, pages clean, binding firm, the jacket has some very minor shelfwear to extremities, now in removable protective sleeve, please see pics, PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Bees is Carol Ann Duffy's first collection of poems as Poet Laureate, and the much-anticipated successor to the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning Rapture. After the intimate focus of the earlier book, The Bees finds Duffy using her full poetic range: there are drinking songs, love poems, poems to the weather, poems of political anger; her celebrated 'Last Post' (written for the last surviving soldiers to fight in the First World War) showed that powerful public poetry still has a central place in our culture. There are elegies, too, for beloved friends, and - most movingly - the poet's own mother. As Duffy's voice rises in this collection, her music intensifies, and every poem patterns itself into song.Woven and weaving through the book is its presiding spirit: the bee. Sometimes the bee is Duffy's subject, sometimes it strays into the poem, or hovers at its edge - and the reader soon begins to anticipate its appearance. In the end, Duffy's point is clear: the bee symbolizes what we have left of grace in the world, and what is most precious and necessary for us to protect. The Bees is a work of great ecological and spiritual power, and Duffy's clearest affirmation yet of her belief in the poem as 'secular prayer', as the means by which we remind ourselves what is most worthy of our attention and concern, our passion and our praise. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 84pp. 1st paperback edition - 1st printing. Collection of fifty-six poems in four sections. Cream and gilt decorated covers with black lettering on face and spine. Gift inscription written by the author on the title page. Recipients' neat ownership stamp on inside front cover. Appears unread. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 84pp. Very Good dustwrapper. Signed. Signed by Author(s).

First. Fine in fine wrapper. Shortlisted for the 2011 T S Eliot Prize. Winner of the 2011 Poetry Book Award. Signed by the author.

First Edition. 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket. London, Picador. Signed by the author on the title page. A fine copy in dust jacket.