Vale Poems, Signed (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Mint. Roger St Barbe (illustrator). Expanded Edition. David Bushrod's poetry springs from a deep love of the Dorset landscape. This expanded edition includes for the first time poems collected in 'Abbotsbury: Songs of the Abbey Lands' This book contains coloured illustrations by Roger St Barbe. This copy has been signed by the author and is in MINT condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing. Inscribed to the artist Eric Pape by the author on the front free endpaper. Considerable wear to the extremities. The spine title is difficult to read. In a tight binding with hinges intact. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hbk, 23p. Shrewsbury, 1931. Previous owner's name on ffep and inscribed 'With the author's compliments. Some mild foxing o/w a clean copy of a scarce work. Poems entitled Anglesey song, Llanddwyn, Looking towards Anglesey at Night, etc a242 / m3873. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Signed. The Vale of Underbarrow and Other Poems (signed). DOBSON, William. Titus Wilson & Son, Kendal, 1924, hardback with fabric spine and paper covering, VG, boards buff coloured/black, 32 . Author signature on front fly-leaf (see scan), no annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean, lightly tanned Boards moderately shelf worn, rubs to all edges, small chips to head and tail of spine, several small dark marks on top edge of back cover . LITERATURE, POETRY, DOBSON, CUMBRIAN POET, UNDERBARROW, LYTH VALLEY. 44270 hb lakes LIT/POETRY/D £1800.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition First Printing. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. VERY SCARCE. NO CHIPPING & NO SPLITTING to boards. Edgewear to extremities with some dustiness to label on front board. Internally CLEAN with old ink owner name on endpapepr & mild foxing. NO LOOSE & NO MISSING leaves. AUTHOR SIGNED.

Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled 'poet and impresario of poetry', Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole's obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson's mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is a very nice production. [11] + 38 + [1] pp., small 8vo. In brown cloth with white paper label on front board with title 'ave atque vale' printed in red. Title-page in red and black, the rest in black. Inscribed on front free endpaper: 'for dear Sarah / from Sheila - / 17. 7. '98'. A moving three-page 'Foreword' by 'S. D.' begins: 'Sitting on either side of a large open fire in our drawing room on January 26th, 1995, Patric read me the last poem he ever wrote and told me he had plenty more in his head. Four days later he died. He had just had his 79th birthday.' Foreword ends with reproduction of PD's rebus of his address 38 Church Square, Rye. (The PD correspondence contains a letter from Shannon to Hamilton asking for assistance in the compilation of this volume.) Loosely inserted is a plain white Autograph Card Signed from Shannon to Hamilton. Dated 17 July 1998 and from 38 Church Square Rye, Sussex. 'Darling Sarah. / Here is the promised book of Patric's poems with my love & I know with Patric's love, too. I hope he would have liked the book & the choice of poems. Dear John Bell who has printed the books on his hand press, brought me down my copies yesterday - I am very happy with the book & think he's done it beautifully. / Have you still got any copies of the lovely cover you made for [PD's 1965 Autobiography] The Good Minute? Im trying to collect copies so that every grand child can have one - & I so hate Gollancz's cover (& so did P. ) - and sometimes 2nd hand copies have no cover at all.' She ends with a little family news.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. 250 copies, signed by author and artist, of which this is no. 131. 42, [3] p. 39 cm. 28 part-colour illustrations. Beige cloth hardcover with gold print. Soiling to cloth, bumped corners. Some thumbing to interior. Cecil Aldin (1870-1935) was known for his illustrations and paintings of the English countryside, animals, and the sportsman's lifestyle, especially fox hunting. Here he portrays the county of Berkshire, including villages, the activities of the seasons, and the White Horse. A Glossary at rear explains farming terms in the local dialect.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large 4to. pp 42. Original publishers cream cloth covers, lettered gilt on front cover. Signed by Wilfrid Howe Nurse and Cecil Aldin on the limitation page. Limited edition of 250 copies, this being no 28. Fine in very good glassine dust jacket. Signedes.

45 pp. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin. Large folio, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth in dust jacket. First edition; No. 5 of 250 copies signed by Wilfrid Howe-Nurse and Cecil Aldin. Small bookplate on blank page at front; slight foxing to a couple of leaves at the front and the rear endsheets; otherwise fine in a jacket with a long closed tear to the front panel, small chips and edgewear, and heavy tape reinforcements on verso.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. Signed by Russell on the title page. DJ shows minor wear and tear. Pages are lightly tanned with a bit of minor scattered foxing.

Condition: Rare. V.G. First. p.p. viii - 56. Fine original charcoal drawing by A.E. on half title and signed by him. Original blue cloth, gilt title on cover and spine. Signed Charcoal Drawing.