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Auction No 369, Tag: Dialect Verse

3 Lots (displaying 1 - 3)

John Holt "Occasional Verses", Stand, nr. Bury, printed at the Radcliffe Times, 1912; small octavo,

Lot: 28

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
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John Holt Occasional Verses, Stand, nr. Bury, printed at the Radcliffe Times, 1912; small octavo, original gilt cloth, fine; a selection of verses written during the 1870s to 1890s, mostly in Lancashire Dialect. B/w portrait. 75pp + prelims. Rare title. A single copy held at the Bodleian library.

John Fawcett Skelton "The Gleaner: A Selection of Poems & Songs", Simpkin Marshall & John Heywood, 1876

Lot: 171

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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John Fawcett Skelton The Gleaner: A Selection of Poems & Songs, Simpkin Marshall & John Heywood, 1876, First Edition, quarto, original gilt cloth: two copies, one uninscribed, the other with presentation inscription by the author and a few manuscript alterations to the text in the same hand, together with an autograph letter from W.T. Hampson to a friend recalling Skelton’s activities in Edgworth, Bolton, in the late-19th Century. Occasional fox mark otherwise good/VG. (2)

Thomas White Ogilvie "Poems", William Smith & Sons, Aberdeen, 1911, 1st Edn, orig.gilt cloth, good

Lot: 187

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Jul 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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Thomas White Ogilvie Poems, William Smith & Sons, Aberdeen, 1911, 1st Edn, orig.gilt cloth, good, uncut, light spotting to prelims; The Poems of Robert Southwell S.J., Oxford, 1967, 1st Edn in fine d/jkt; and Petr Bezruc Silesian Songs, Artia, 1966, 1st English Edn, 4to, decorated cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, gift inscription, fine, in slipcase which is worn at corners. (3)