Dannie Abse Thomas (13 results)

Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Contents: Thomas Hardy; Vernon Scannell; Dannie Abse; Tony Harrison; Daniel Hoffman; Stevie Smith. Subject: Poetry in English, 1945 Anthologies. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in wrappers with slight wear.

Good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Contents: Thomas Hardy; Vernon Scannell; Dannie Abse; Tony Harrison; Daniel Hoffman; Stevie Smith. Subject: Poetry in English, 1945 Anthologies. 1 Kg.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good blue paperback with previous owner's inscriptiion on the title page. Lower corner of the title page is clipped, else Fine. Unpaginated, unmarked; UO15 B2B; Unpaginated pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. first printing/vg hardback-neat name fep in a vg dustwrapper.nice looking copy.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Mass market paperback. 160pp. Pages age-toned, near fine. Contributions by Thomas Hardy, Dannie Abse, Vernon Scannell, Stevie Smith, Tony Harrison, and Daniel Hoffman.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. The second edition, and first casebound issue (originally issued in 1971 as a paperback only). 8vo. 145pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Upper board lifting a fraction. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just fractionally faded at the spine panel. Verse selections from six poets, each preceded with a five to seven page critical essay by Abse, occasionally augmented with prose by the subject. The poets featured are Edward Thomas (twelve poems), Ted Hughes (ten poems), David Wright (ten poems), Sidney Keyes (ten poems), Douglas Dunn (ten poems) and Herbert Williams (ten poems).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Stapled booklet. 21x13.5cm. 40 pages. Flat covers. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref d64. Outposts. Summer 1974. Number 101. Poetry Quarterly. Journal. …

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 36pp. Covers slightly foxed & creased.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.145-192. Publisher's card wraps, printed price of one shilling and sixpence to upper. Tick to upper, edges and covers toned. Near fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 42pp + Contents page. Double issue of a magazine of poetry and prose produced by John Cotton. Cover designed and printed by Oscar Mellor at The Fantasy Press, Eynsham. Total of fifteen poems and a lino-graph illustration by Heinke Jenkins. Special section consisting of an additional eleven poems by Paddy Webb printed on light blue paper (pp21-32) with two illustrations by Richard Hearsey. Other contributors listed on front cover. Fawn covers with black lettering and an illustration printed green. Staple bound with a hunt of rust. Clean inside pages. Together with a loose insert leaflet (in fine condition) from the Latimer Press announcing the forthcoming publication of Bank Holiday by Michael Horovitz. Oscar Mellor (Cover design); Heinke Jenkins (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First and only printings of the first four volumes in the Guinness Book of Poetry series (the final volume 5 1960-61 is not included). Each volume includes a wide range of contributing poets, including Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, W. H. Auden, Roy Campbell, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Durrell, Richard Eberhart, Gavin Ewart, David Gascoyne, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Jennings, Jenny Joseph, Philip Larkin, Louis MacNeice, W. S. Merwin, Edwin Muir, Ezra Pound, Anne Ridler, Theodore Roethke, Stephen Spender, R. S. Thomas et al. ***Each volume is in very good condition in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright, and the boards are quite clean - only slightly marked. Edges of boards slightly rubbed and creased. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the bindings. Spines tight. Page block edges clean except Volume 3 which is foxed. Internally the contents are clean and undamaged with no previous ownership inscriptions, except Volume 2 which has a name in ink on the front free endpaper. Interior pages clean with no foxing, and no creases or tears. ***Each volume in very good printed dustwrappers in various colours, all but Volume 2 complete, and retaining the original publisher's price of 10s. 6d. net. The dustwrapper of Volume 2 has a chip at the top edge of the back panel. Other dustwrappers have some rubbing and creasing at the edges, mainly at the top and tail of the spine. Slight nibbles to the bottom edges of the inner flaps to Volume 4 (please see scans). ***128, 144, 148, 138 pages respectively. 221mm x 145mm. ***'In presenting the third Guinness Book of Poetry to the public, it may be as well to repeat how these Anthologies have come to be put together. They represent a short list of some seventy poems selected in the course of their adjudication by the panel of judges for the Guinness Poetry Awards, from all verse published for the first time in the British Isles between 1st July, 1958, and 30th June, 1959. Submissions were not made by the poets themselves either for the Awards or for the Anthology. The poems published are, thus, in no sense chosen by our contributors as being in their opinion the most important that they had published during the year and, as in previous years, no more than a single work has been taken by our judges from any particular poet.' (Quote taken from Lord Moyne's Foreword to Volume 3) ***First and only printings of the the first four volumes of this anthology of poetry, each volume complete in its original dustwrapper, and each in very good condition, albeit with the aforementioned faults. Includes work by a interesting range of post-war poets. Uncommon in the dustwrappers. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A P.E.N. Anthology. Two attractive hard covers with cloth spines and decorative paper boards, titles on spines and no cover wear. Unclipped blue dust jackets with only very minor edge wear, price 12s 6d and 15s. Clean interiors including works by Alan Ross, Philip Larkin, John Wain, Kingsley Amis, Dylan Thomas, Lawrence Durrell, W H Auden, Robert Graves, Harold Pinter, Stevie Smith, Laurie Lee, Patrick Kavanagh, Edmund Blunden, George Barker. Two fine anthologies of poetry with dust jackets and in fine condition.…