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Title:
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The Old Huntsman and Other Poems
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Keynes:
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A15
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Publisher:
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William Heinemann
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Date:
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1917
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Description:
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Collection of 72 Poems
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Title:
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Four Poems
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Keynes:
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A16
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Publisher:
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The Cambridge Magazine
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Date:
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1918
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Description:
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Reprints from The Cambridge Magazine.
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Title:
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Counter-Attack and Other Poems
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Keynes:
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A17
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Publisher:
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William Heinemann
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Date:
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1918
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Description:
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Collection of 39 Poems
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Title:
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A Literary Editor
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Keynes:
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A18
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Publisher:
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Daily Herald
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Date:
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1919
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Description:
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Poems and Announcements
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Title:
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Picture Show (Limited Edition of 200 printed)
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Keynes:
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A19
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed
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Date:
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1919
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Description:
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Collection of 34 Poems.
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Title:
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War Poems
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Keynes:
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A20
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Publisher:
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William Heinemann
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Date:
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1919
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Description:
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Collection of 64 Poems
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Title:
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Lines Written in the Reform Club
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Keynes:
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A21
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Publisher:
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Favil Press
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Date:
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1921
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Description:
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38 Lines in the Eighteenth Century Manner
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Title:
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Recreations (Library Photo)
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Keynes:
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A22
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Publisher:
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Printed for the Author by the Chiswick Press
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Date:
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1923
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Description:
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Collection of 24 Poems
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Title:
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Lingual Exercises For Advanced Vocabularians
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Keynes:
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A23
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed, Cambridge University Press
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Date:
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1925
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Description:
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Collection of 21 Poems
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Title:
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Selected Poems
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Keynes:
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A24
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Publisher:
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William Heinemann Ltd
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Date:
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1925 (The dust jacket shown is a January 1935 7th Edition)
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Description:
|
Collection of 67 Poems
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Title:
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Augustan Books of Modern Poetry
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Keynes:
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A25
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Publisher:
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Ernest Benn Ltd.
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Date:
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1926
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Description:
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Collection of 32 Poems
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Title:
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Augustan Books of Poetry No. 28
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Keynes:
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Not Collated
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Publisher:
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Ernest Benn Ltd.
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Date:
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1933
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Description:
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Collection of 32 Poems
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Title:
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Satirical Poems
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Keynes:
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A26
|
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Publisher:
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William Heinemann Ltd
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Date:
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1926
|
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Description:
|
Collection of 32 Poems
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Title:
|
Satirical Poems (Second English Edition)
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Keynes:
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A26c
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Publisher:
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William Heinemann Ltd
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Date:
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1933
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Description:
|
Collection of 37 Poems
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Title:
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Nativity, Ariel Poems No. 7
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Keynes:
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A27a
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Publisher:
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Faber & Gwyer Ltd.
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Date:
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1927
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Description:
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A Poem
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Title:
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Nativity, Ariel Poems No. 7 (Limited Edition of 350 copies)
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Keynes:
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A27b
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Publisher:
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Faber & Gwyer Ltd.
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Date:
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1927
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Description:
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A Poem. This copy Number 256.
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|
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Title:
|
The Heart’s Journey (Signed Limited Edition of 590 copies) (See below)
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Keynes:
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A28
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Publisher:
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New York: Crosby Gaige. London: William Heinemann Ltd.
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Date:
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1927
|
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Description:
|
Collection of 28 Poems
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Title:
|
The Heart’s Journey
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Keynes:
|
A28b
|
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Publisher:
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William Heinemann Ltd
|
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Date:
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1928
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 35 Poems
|
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Title:
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To My Mother, Ariel Poems No. 14
|
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Keynes:
|
A29a
|
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Publisher:
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Faber & Gwyer Ltd.
|
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Date:
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1928
|
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Description:
|
A Poem
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Title:
|
To My Mother, Ariel Poems No. 14 (Limited Edition) (See bottom of page)
|
|
Keynes:
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A29b
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Publisher:
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Faber & Gwyer Ltd.
|
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Date:
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1928
|
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Description:
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A Poem. This book was printed in a limited edition of 500 copies each signed by the author, this is copy number 169.
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Title:
|
A Suppressed Poem
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Keynes:
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A31
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed ‘The Unknown Press.’
|
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Date:
|
Dated 1919 but could not have been before 1929
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Description:
|
Verse Poem first published in ‘Good-Bye To All That’ by Robert Graves.
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Title:
|
On Chatterton (Library photo)
|
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Keynes:
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A22
|
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed (Blakeney’s Press)
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Date:
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1930
|
|
Description:
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A Poem
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Title:
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In Sicily
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Keynes:
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A34a
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Publisher:
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Faber & Gwyer Ltd.
|
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Date:
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1930
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem
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|
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Title:
|
In Sicily, Ariel Poems No. 27 (Limited Edition)
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Keynes:
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A34b
|
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Publisher:
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Faber & Faber Ltd.
|
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Date:
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1930
|
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Description:
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Poem. This copy No.310 of 400, signed by Sassoon
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|
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|
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|
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Title:
|
Poems by Pinchbeck Lyre
|
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Keynes:
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A35
|
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Publisher:
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Duckworth
|
|
Date:
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1931
|
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Description:
|
Collection of 14 Poems
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|
|
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|
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Title:
|
To The Red Rose, Ariel Poems No. 34
|
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Keynes:
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A36a
|
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Publisher:
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Faber & Faber Ltd.
|
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Date:
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1931
|
|
Description:
|
A Poem
|
|
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
To The Red Rose, Ariel Poems No. 34 (Limited Ed) (See bottom of page)
|
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Keynes:
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A36b
|
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Publisher:
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Faber & Faber Ltd.
|
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Date:
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1931
|
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Description:
|
A Poem. This copy No.387 of 400, signed by Sassoon
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Title:
|
Prehistoric Burials (Borzoi Chapbooks)
|
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Keynes:
|
A37
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Publisher:
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Alfred A. Knopf
|
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Date:
|
1932
|
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Description:
|
A Poem
|
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
The Road to Ruin (See bottom of page))
|
|
Keynes:
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A38
|
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Publisher:
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Faber & Faber
|
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Date:
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1933
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 7 Poems
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|
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Title:
|
Vigils (Limited Edition)
|
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Keynes:
|
A39
|
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed
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Date:
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1934
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 22 Poems. This copy No 66 of 212.
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Title:
|
Vigils (Proposal)
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Keynes:
|
Mentioned with A39
|
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Publisher:
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Douglas Cleverdon
|
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Date:
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1934
|
|
Description:
|
Proposal for Privately Printed Edition of Vigils
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Title:
|
Vigils (Large Paper Edition)
|
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Keynes:
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A39b
|
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed
|
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Date:
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Description:
|
Collection of Poems
|
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Title:
|
Vigils (Vellum Edition)
|
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Keynes:
|
A39c
|
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed
|
|
Date:
|
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Description:
|
Collection of Poems
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|
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|
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Title:
|
Vigils
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Keynes:
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A39d
|
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Publisher:
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William Heinemann Ltd
|
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Date:
|
1935
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 35 Poems
|
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
On Poetry
|
|
Keynes:
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A43
|
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Publisher:
|
University of Bristol
|
|
Date:
|
1939
|
|
Description:
|
A Lecture
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|
|
|
|
|
|
Title:
|
Rhymed Ruminations one of a Limited Edition of 75 (see below)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A44a
|
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Publisher:
|
Chiswick Press
|
|
Date:
|
1939
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 33 Poems
|
|
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
Rhymed Ruminations (Special Edition of 3 Copies)
|
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Keynes:
|
A44b
|
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed
|
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Date:
|
1931
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 33 Poems
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
Rhymed Ruminations
|
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Keynes:
|
A44c
|
|
Publisher:
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Faber & Faber
|
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Date:
|
1940
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 42 Poems
|
|
|
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|
|
Title:
|
Poems Newly Selected
|
|
Keynes:
|
A45
|
|
Publisher:
|
Faber & Faber
|
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Date:
|
1940
|
|
Description:
|
Collection of 58 Poems
|
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
Early Morning Long Ago (Limited Edition, Library Photo)
|
|
Keynes:
|
A46
|
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Publisher:
|
Chiswick Press
|
|
Date:
|
1941
|
|
Description:
|
Excerpt from The Weald of Youth
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
Two Poems
|
|
Keynes:
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A48
|
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Publisher:
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Hamo Sassoon
|
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Date:
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1941
|
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Description:
|
Two Poems
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
The Augustan Poets - Siegfried Sassoon (Augustan Book)
|
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Keynes:
|
A50
|
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Publisher:
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Eyre & Spottiswoode
|
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Date:
|
1943
|
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Description:
|
A Collection of 48 Poems
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
Collected Poems
|
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Keynes:
|
A52a
|
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Publisher:
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Faber & Faber Ltd
|
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Date:
|
1947
|
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Description:
|
Collection of 299 Poems
|
|
|
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|
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Title:
|
Common Chords (See below)
|
|
Keynes:
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A54
|
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Publisher:
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Stanford Dingley, the Mill House Press
|
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Date:
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1950
|
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Description:
|
A Collection of 18 Poems, Limited to 107 copies.
|
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Title:
|
Emblems of Experience
|
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Keynes:
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A55
|
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed, The Rampant Lion Press
|
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Date:
|
1951
|
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Description:
|
A Collection of 20 Poems
|
|
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Title:
|
The Tasking (Limited edition of 100 copies. This copy ‘E’) (see below)
|
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Keynes:
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A56
|
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed, University Press, Cambridge
|
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Date:
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1954
|
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Description:
|
A Collection of 24 Poems
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Title:
|
An Adjustment
|
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Keynes:
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A57
|
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Publisher:
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Raymond Lister
|
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Date:
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1955
|
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Description:
|
A Drama - Limited Edition of 150 copies, this copy number 133
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Title:
|
Sequences
|
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Keynes:
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A58a
|
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Publisher:
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Faber & Faber
|
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Date:
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1956
|
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Description:
|
Collection of 62 Poems
|
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Title:
|
Sequences (Limited Edition of 25 for the Author)
|
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Keynes:
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A58b
|
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed
|
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Date:
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1956
|
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Description:
|
Collection of 58 Poems
|
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Title:
|
Poems
|
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Keynes:
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A59
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Publisher:
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The Marlborough College Press
|
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Date:
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1958
|
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Description:
|
Collection of 58 Poems
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Title:
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Lenten Illuminations
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Keynes:
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A60a
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Publisher:
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Privately Printed, University Press, Cambridge
|
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Date:
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1958
|
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Description:
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Two Poems - Limited Edition of 35 copies.
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Title:
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Lenten Illuminations (Offprint Edition) (See bottom of page)
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Keynes:
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A60b
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Publisher:
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Downside Review
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Date:
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1959
|
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Description:
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Two Poems
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Title:
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Lenten Illuminations (Offprint Limited Edition)
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Keynes:
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A60c
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Publisher:
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Downside Review
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Date:
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1959
|
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Description:
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Two Poems - Limited Edition of 200 copies, this copy 111.
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Title:
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Rogation
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Keynes:
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A61
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Publisher:
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Marlborough College Press
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Date:
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1960
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Description:
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A Poem - A “few” copies were printed.
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Title:
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The Path to Peace (Ordinary Limited Edition) (See bottom of page)
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Keynes:
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A62a
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Publisher:
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Stanbrook Abbey Press
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Date:
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1960
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Description:
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A Collection of 29 Poems. This book was printed in a limited edition of 500 copies, this is copy number 388
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Title:
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The Path to Peace (Special Limited Edition)
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Keynes:
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A62b
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Publisher:
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Stanbrook Abbey Press
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Date:
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1960
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Description:
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A Collection of 29 Poems
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Title:
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Proposal The Path to Peace
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Keynes:
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A62b Associated
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Publisher:
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Stanbrook Abbey Press
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Date:
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1960
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Description:
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A Collection of 29 Poems
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Title:
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Awaitment
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Keynes:
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A Separate insert in The Path to Peace
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Publisher:
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Faber & Faber Ltd
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Date:
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1960
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Description:
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The Poem ‘Awaitment’
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Title:
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Arbor Vitae and Unfoldment
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Keynes:
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A Separate insert in The Path to Peace
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Publisher:
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Faber & Faber Ltd
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Date:
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1960
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Description:
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Two poems
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Title:
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The Need, The Contention, Nativity
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Keynes:
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A Separate insert in The Path to Peace
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Publisher:
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Faber & Faber Ltd
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Date:
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1960
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Description:
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Three poems
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Title:
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Collected Poems 1908 - 1956
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Keynes:
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A63
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Publisher:
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Faber & Faber Ltd
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Date:
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1961
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Description:
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Collection of 361 Poems
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Title:
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An Octave (Limited Edition of 350, this No. 307) (See below)
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Keynes:
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Not Collated
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Publisher:
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Shenval Press
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Date:
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1966
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Description:
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Collection of 8 Poems, in Slipcase
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Title:
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Something About Myself (See below)
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Keynes:
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Not Collated
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Publisher:
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Stanbrook Abbey Press
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Date:
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1966
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Description:
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A Poem
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Lenten Illuminations and Sight Sufficient (Keynes A60b), by Siegfried Sassoon, published in 1959 by the Downside Abbey Press. This copy is inscribed to Elenor (Farjeon) from Rumer (Godden).
Farjeon (1881-1965) was an English author and Catholic who published many books, mostly for children. She also wrote the song “Morning Has Broken.” Her brother, Herbert, was a conscientious objector and a supporter of Sassoon during the period of his protest.
Rumer Godden (1907-1998) was also a prodigious author, turning to Catholicism in the early 1950’s. She wrote among other books, ‘The Black Narcissus’ and ‘Greengage Summer.’
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The Road to Ruin, (Keynes A38) First Edition, published by Faber and Faber in 1933. The book is collection of seven poems warning of a future war.
This book came with a Review Slip (right) from the publisher asking the recipient to write a review and stating that the book was to be published on November 9th, 1933, at 2/6 net. The slip goes on to request that the review should not appear before the date of publication.
Thanks to my wife Mandy who gave me this book today (2011) for my birthday.
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| Counter-Attack and Other Poems, by Siegfried Sassoon, published in October 1918 by William Heinemann. This book is of course not the First Edition which was published in June 1918 in paperback. This is a hardback edition with dust jacket and is interesting because although Keynes states it was reprinted in August 1918 (1,000), September 1918 (1,000), January 1919 (1,500), stating that a total number of 5,000 were printed (including the First Edition); he does not mention this October 1918 edition. It is likely that 1,000 copies were also printed in October, which pushes the total up to 6,000 in all. |
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POEMS Newly Selected, by Siegfried Sassoon, published in 1942 by Faber & Faber. This is an interesting book as Keynes appears to have missed it. He records the First Edition, published on 14th November, 1940, (3,000 copies), and a second issue published on 4th January, 1949, (3,300 copies). Both printed by Western Printing Services, Bristol. This copy is a paperback with dust jacket from the same printers. It is a fourth impression printed in October 1942, and the book also records a second impression, February 1941, and a third in December 1941. Yet again this web site has identified more missing editions from Sassoon’s bibliography.
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Lenten Illuminations and Sight Sufficient (Keynes A60c) Offprint Limited Edition of 200 copies, by Siegfried Sassoon. Two Poems printed in 1959 on handmade paper by Downside Abbey.
Numbered on the front flap of the wrapper, this copy is number 111.
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Rogation, (Keynes A61), one poem by Siegfried Sassoon. This is an absolute rarity - Keynes states “A single leaf of which a few copies were printed at the Marlborough College Press.” The poem, published in 1960, also contains Sassoon’s manuscript correction to the text.
Rogation is so rare it has not been traced to any institution in the UK, and found in just two locations in the US
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Collected Poems PROOF COPY - By Siegfried Sassoon. First English edition published in 1947 by Faber & Faber. Collected Poems (Keynes A52a), was produced in a run of 10,000 copies. This example is an advance proof copy of which very few exist.
The collection included 299 poems from the following: The Old Huntsman, Counter-Attack, Picture Show, Satirical Poems, The Heart's Journey, The Road to Ruin, Vigils and Rhymed Ruminations.
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The Stanbrook Abbey Press The Benedictine nuns of Stanbrook in the peaceful Severn valley supported their life of prayer by the work of their hands in crafts including book-binding and fine printing, and by literary work of all kinds. At one time the press was the oldest private press in England and the quality of its printing became second to none. The press printed a number of works by Siegfried Sassoon including single leaf poems, hand illuminated on hand-made paper such as Awaitment and Arbour Vitae & Unfoldment (originally appearing in The Path To Peace), other religious poems such as Ave Atque Vale and Christmas cards.
Above left is a single-fold Stanbrook Abbey Press price list dated August 1967 on machine made paper. Among other work this advertises Awaitment and Arbour Vitae & Unfoldment, and a publication entitled ‘Memento for his 80th Birthday’ dedicated to Sassoon. Butcher E10.
Above right is a single-fold Christmas card printed on Millbourn Lexpar handmade paper by the Press with a verse on the front by Siegfried Sassoon beginning ‘In this meadow starred with spring’, Christmas and New Year greetings are printed inside and on the reverse in blue it states it was printed in England by the Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester. The card would have been printed in the mid sixties.
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Rhymed Ruminations - from the library of James D Lindsay (DFC) RCAF (Keynes A44c) By Siegfried Sassoon, published in the UK in 1940 by Faber and Faber Ltd. I have just acquired this book, it is not very rare and I already have a copy in my collection with a much better dust jacket. The reason for buying it was the bookplate which immediately attracted my attention as the ownership signature is James D Lindsay. After a little investigation I believe this to be Flight Lieutenant James ‘Doug’ Lindsay (DFC) RCAF.
‘Doug’ Lindsay (born in Canada), was a fighter ace during the Second World War, on one day he shot down three German Messerschmitt 109s in the space of one minute! Later he flew Sabres in the Korean War and shot down two Mig fighter jets. More can be found out about him here www.spitfiremuseum.org.uk/pilotlindsay
In addition to the bookplate (which was probably added after the war), is a handwritten inscription in the form of a line from a poem by Wordsworth: ‘She was a phantom of delight when first she gleamed upon my sight’. The inscription is dated August 1943, Doug was posted to the UK and arrived in England from Canada in March 1943 and joined 403 (RCAF) Squadron in October 1943. Therefore the inscription falls nicely between these two dates. Also, he has signed it with the initial ‘D’, which would be right as it is the initial of his middle name as he was always known as ‘Doug’.
Sometimes, with a little research, the most modest of books can throw up a very interesting association.
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Rhymed Ruminations by Siegfried Sassoon. Published in 1939 by Siegfried Sassoon and Geoffrey Keynes in a limited edition of 75 copies, printed at the Chiswick Press. A very rare item, this copy also comes with what appears to be the original brown paper envelope in which it was first sold.
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Lingual Exercises For Advanced Vocabularians by Siegfried Sassoon, privately printed in 1925 by The Cambridge University Press. This rare book, which was despatched from the press on 30th March 1925, contains 21 poems. Sassoon had 99 copies printed to distribute amongst his friends. He wrote the name of the person he was sending the book to above the printing date and his monogram below it. This copy, which I have recently acquired, is not named.
There is a stamp for the ‘Old Syndicate Room’ with a date of 9th June 1925 inside both covers and on one of the internal pages. With a little research I discovered the following in a book entitled ‘Cambridge University Library - The Great Collections’, Edited by Peter Fox, ‘The books from Aldenham, transported to Cambridge in February 1903, by 5 vans and in 443 packing cases, lay in heaps about the Arts School and in the old Syndicate Room in the Old Schools.’
This proves that such a place existed at Cambridge University and it seems credible to me that a copy of Sassoon’s book found its way from the Cambridge University Press, to the Cambridge University Library.
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Picture Show (Keynes A19a) by Siegfried Sassoon A limited Edition of 200 copies (only 150 were for sale), privately printed on handmade paper in 1919 by J. B. Peace, M.A., at the University Press, Cambridge. The book contains 34 poems all written after January 1918. Picture Show was not reprinted in an ordinary edition in England, but was published in America (Keynes A19b) with additional poems, in 1920.
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