Poetry from Gotcha By The Books

London: Hamish Hamilton, 2002. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. WG Sebald's long prose poem, translated from the German by Michael Hamburger; 1st Edition, 1st printing; mild foxing to endpapers, prelims and text block, o.w. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

Islamabad: Eastern Publications, 1994. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good /no dustwrapper. 8vo. Collection by Pakistani poet Irshad Ullah Khan, a volume in the Poetry East Series; Signed and with personal gift-inscription by the poet; Very Good throughout; boards lightly rubbed, small worn patch to edge of front board.

Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1995. Reissue. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. The 1995 re-issue in hardback of the collected poems of the James K. Baxter; comprehensive collection, from early poems 1941-45 through the 50's and 60's, and up to the late poems 1972, and The Tree House and Other Poems; attempts to provide definitive texts of the… Read more about this item

Durban: Ethel Campbell, 1922. Signed 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good in Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 12mo. Ethel Campbell's collection of poems on life and landscapes in Durban/Natal, Signed and with gift-inscription ('with best wishes') by the poet - Ethel Campbell was a South African writer, who devoted herself during WWI to the care of Australian and New Zealand soldiers who passed through… Read more about this item

Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2013. 1st paperback. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. David Georgi's new translation of the poems of Villon; Bequests, The Testament, Shorter Poems; includes list of abbreviations, notes to the poems, works cited, and a map of Villon's Paris; 1st printing (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1).

London: Picador, 2006. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good Dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. 1st Edition 1st printing (1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2) of Sean O'Brien's verse translation of Dante's Inferno, 'preserving the complexities and power of the Italian original while achieving an entirely natural English music'; text block foxed, mild toning to edges of pages, o.w.… Read more about this item

Ajmer: ARAWLII Publications, 2008. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Selected poems of Satish Verma; foreword by Anuraag Sharma, with other short texts by Sheela Upadhyay, EE Sule, John Kinsella, and Christopher Rollason.

Hong Kong: Big Weather Press, 1993. 1st Edition. paperback. G-VG . 8vo. b&w photo illustrations Anthology of 12 poets from Hong Kong, Brent Ambacher, Simon Beck, Liam Fitzpatrick, Ulrikka S. Gernes, Jeremy Hardingham, Louise Ho, Richard Lawrence, Gordon T. Osing, Andrew Parkin, Gerard Tannam, Deirdre Tatlow, Yuen Che Hung; foreword by Tim Doling, introduction Gretchen M. Worth; b&w photos of… Read more about this item

London: Faber and Faber, 1969. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in chipped/rubbed/sunned dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations 1st Edition of George Barker's book of verses for children of all ages, accompanied by the b&w illustrations of George Adamson; small bookshop label, gift-inscription to front pastedown, endpapers/prelims/text block foxed, o.w. Very Good throughout; boards sunned top edge front and rear; dustwrapper edgeworn… Read more about this item

London: Allen Lane Penguin, 1979. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good Dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. colour plates Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs translation of the Rubaiyat, intent on recapturing the sceptical and unorthodox spirit of the Persian text by giving as literal an English version as possible; numerous full-page colour plate illustrations, scholarly appendices, and bibliography, endpapers maps; endpapers, prelims,… Read more about this item

New York : Kodansha, 2013. 1st US Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good Dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations The complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho, translated by American Haiku poet Jane Reichhold, a project to which she devoted over a decade of work; Reichhold also provides a lengthy critical introduction, notes and appendices; b&w text illustrations, and chapter dividers by Shiro… Read more about this item

Melbourne: Hybrid Publishers, 2009. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good Dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. colour plates The Ci (lyric) Poetry of Li Qingzhao, China's greatest woman poet - in three sections: Youth, Marriage, After Her Husband's Death; translated by Clifford Pannam, and with and introduction (historical setting, Ci Poetry, textual and linguistic matters, Li Qingzhao's China); includes a section of… Read more about this item

London: Anvil Press, 2014. reprint. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Peter Dale's translation of the poems of Villon, including The Legacy, The Testament, and other poems; bi-lingual edition with French and English text on facing pages; includes preface, biographical note, notes and variants; Very Good.

London: Cape Goliard Press, 1970. 3rd Printing. hardbound. Very Good in rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 17x19cm. Collection of short poems by Pablo Neruda, selected by the poet for English-speaking readers; translated by Alastair Reid; includes two full-page photos by Hans Ehrmann; foxing to endpapers and prelims, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper rubbed and foxed, short closed tear lower front, price clipped.

London: Faber and Faber, 1976. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. Definitive collected poems of Auden, containing (in their final form) all the poems he wished to preserve; edited by Auden's literary executor Edward Mendelson, who provides a preface detailing his editorial principles; green cloth boards with title label and gilt titling to spine; knock to… Read more about this item

Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1978. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. Anthology of modern poetry from Japan, being volume 9 in the Asian and Pacific Writing series from UQ Press; contains mainly Shi poems (post 1882 poems showing Western influence), but also includes a few examples of tanka and haiku in new forms; former owner's… Read more about this item

Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1967. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 12mo. Selection of 101 Chinese poems, from 47 poets, beginning with Fu Hsuan (3rd Century) to Yu Mei-jen (C-20th); parallel text with Chinese originals and English translation of facing pages; Foreword by John Cairncross, who provides a further seven translations); includes bibliography, concordance tables, and… Read more about this item

Rutland and Tokyo: Tuttle, 1969. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 12mo. b&w illustrations Collection of poems by Hagiwara Sakutaro, translated by Graeme Wilson and with illustrations by York Wilson; stated 'First Printing, 1969'; half-cloth with silver titling to spine, textured paper sides with title label to front board; illustrated dustwrapper; Sakutaro is a major force in Japanese… Read more about this item

North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 1992. 1st paperback. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Selected Poems of Jacques Dupin, selected by Paul Auster, and translated by Auster, Stephen Romer, and David Shapiro; poems from Lichens (1958), through Saccades, Un Recit, etc, to Une Apparence de Soupirail; preface by Mary Ann Caws; a volume in the Contemporary French Poetry in Translation (general… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press, 1966. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations OUP edition of the complete writings of Blake, edited with notes by Geoffrey Keynes, being an improved version (with corrections and additions) of the Nonesuch edition of 1952; contains all of Blake's substantive variants, and also including Blake's illustrations for The Gates of Paradise;… Read more about this item