Library Poem, Signed (7 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. b&w frontispiece illustration (illustrator). Number Three 1957 issue of Southerly, FROM THE LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR CHRISTOPHER KOCH, this issue including Koch's poem 'The Name' - flat-signed 'C Koch Dec. '57' to half-title page; being the Brennan Anniversary Number, marking the 25th anniversary of his death, and devoted to studies of his poetry, and also including poems by Olive Pell, RH Morrison, Robert Clark, and others; edited by Kenneth Slessor; hand-tipped b&w frontispiece showing a photo of Brennan in 1931 from the collection of Vince Kelly; mild watermark top corner of some pages, o.w. G-VG throughout; wraps lightly rubbed/tanned to spine . 60pp. large 8vo. Good.

stiff card. 1959 edition of Verse in Australia, FROM THE LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR CHRISTOPHER KOCH, flat-signed by Koch to front endpaper; contains Koch's poem Love Present, Love Past - the poem is marked by Koch in the contents with an asterisk, and one correction is made by Koch to the text of the poem (where a t is left out of the word thought); other poets include David Campbell, Rosemary Dobson, Anne Bell, Flexmore Hudson, Vivian Smith, Judith Wright; Very Good throughout; dustwrapper a little rubbed, toned to spine, o.w. G-VG. Dustwrapper. 49pp. large 8vo. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper (minor annotation by Koch) Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper (minor annotation by Koch).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. 1st Edition 1949. This book once belonged to Siegfried Sassoon and is inscribed to him by the author and dated 1940. Also with the book is a two-sided letter to Sassoon written by the author discussing various authors dated 1940. Herbert Edward Palmer 1880-1961, is a largely forgotten poet of the mid-20th century. But his early books were published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at their Hogarth Press, his work was admired by Robert Graves, and his prophetic verse, concerned with the mythic forces of good and evil, was compared to that of William Blake.Palmer was born in the little Lincolnshire town of Market Rasen on 10 February 1880. He went to university in Birmingham and Bonn and made his living in his twenties and thirties by teaching, tutoring and lecturing, especially for the Workers' Educational Association. In 1921 he took up journalism and other writing full time: besides his poetry, he edited anthologies, published a book on teaching English, and undertook some translations. The book is in very good, clean condition and still carries the original dustjacket which is unusual in that it is transparent, except for the flaps which carry the usual printing. From the library of Siegfried Sassoon, with the Sotheby's posthumous monogram library dispersal label. From the Library of Siegfried Sassoon and Sold by Sotheby's in 1991. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Light edge rubbing. Part of a large library of Sassoon's books More images can be taken upon request. Ref17986. Signed by Author(s).

Boston: T.R. Marvin, 1845. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 20 pp. A presentation copy: "Rev. Geo. Ellis with the author's regards." Ellis (1814-1894) was a Unitarian pastor, professor at Harvard (of Systematic Theology), Overseer there, president of the Massachusetts HIstorical Society (NY Times, 12-22-94). This was also issued bound with an address by Robert C. Winthrop at the same function. Wear and soiling, but a Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Special Edition. Issued on behalf of the fundraising campaign for the Linen Hall Library, the charitable body of which Seamus Heaney was a patron The Tree Clock includes seventeen poems delivered at a joint reading in aid of the Library, in 1989. This limited issue of 20 copies, each with a poem in the author s hand, is rare in commerce. Signed by Author(s).

8vo in fours, pp. [x], 64; complete with half title; disbound. 'Second edition', but actually a re-issue of the first edition, which appeared in January 1712. The title page has been reprinted, and a half title added (clearly it would be convenient to print it as a conjunct leaf), but the book is otherwise exactly the same: this edition was advertised in late 1713, and it is exceptionally rare, with Foxon unable to find a copy and just two being now located. The poem is a literary satire, in the form of a poetical tour of a contemporary room filled with books, with some comments on the contrast between outer splendour and inner wisdom: He always seem'd a wondrous Lover Of Painted Leaf, and Turky Cover, While no regard at all was had To Sots in homely Russet clad, Concluding he must be within A calf, that wore without, his Skin Great SHERLOCK, BARROW, and those few That teach our Passions to subdue, Without gilt Backs he would despise, Which seem'd at best but dully Wise; And Bunnian's Pilgrim shew'd the way To Paradise as well as they (pp. 1-2). Thomas Newcomb (1681/2-1765) was educated at Oxford and was a Sussex clergyman for sixty years, although his last years were spent in London, in some poverty. His literary hatreds are very evident here: there are several violent attacks on Richard Bentley, whom he imagines defeated by 'The force of BOYL's victorious Quill' (p. 5); and a substantial one on Defoe (pp. 11-14), who he says in a footnote 'writ a dull scandalous Libel on all English Nobility, call'd The True born English-man'. He also derides contemporary translators of Virgil such as John Ogilby and Richard, Earl of Lauderdale (1709): 'Thus doom'd to all succeeding Times To gingle in dull British Rhymes' (p. 8). He later returns to the attack on Bentley (pp. 49-53), concentrating especially on his edition of Horace (1711), which had only just been published. The main part of the poem is a canter through the great English poets, from Chaucer to Spenser and Sidney, and then on to more recent writers such as Cowley, Addison and Congreve. There is a section (pp. 28ff) in which he concentrates on female poets such as Anne Wharton, Elizabeth Singer (better known today by her married name of Rowe), Katherine Phillips ('Orinda'), and 'Immortal Bn' (p. 31), who must be Aphra Behn. Contemporary poets and critics are also mentioned Toland, Dennis, John Philips, and with side-swipes at the coteries of the Grecian and Will's coffee-houses ending up with an encomium of Sir Richard Steele and his 'Immortal Works': 'Time nor Oblivion e'er shall boast One Line, or single Period lost!'. There is clear inspiration here from Swift's Battle of the Books (1704), but in turn it has been suggested that the satire in this poem however badly judged and unevenly directed must have influenced Pope's Dunciad, especially with the figure of the goddess who lives near to the library: Dating from Books, her Empire's Fame, Oblivion was her dreaded Name; On Verse and Lodanum she feeds, Now takes a Dose, now Poems reads; Each of Experienc'd Power to close, Her sinking Eyes in soft Repose (p. 52). Not in Foxon, who knew of it only from an advertisement in the Post Boy of 23 December 1713. In any form, this is a rare book: of the original issue Foxon (N246-7) and ESTC record only thirteen copies, including four on fine paper (with the dedication signed 'T.N.'), but of this one just two copies are known, at the British Library and McMaster University.

34 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Second edition. Second edition. 34 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Second edition of Crabbe's third publication, first published in 1781 when Crabbe was destitute, under the instigation of Edmund Burke "But what strange art, what magic can dispose "The troubled mind to change its native woes? "Or lead us willing from ourselves, to see "Others more wretched, more undone than we? "This Books can do - nor this alone; they give "New views to life, and teach us how to live.". ESTC T9003; Bareham & Gatrell A4. A Paean to Books. ESTC T9003; Bareham & Gatrell A4 Disbound. Title-page slightly foxed at edges. Signed Fra. Drake on title-page.