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The Decision and the Consequence

By: Belton, Cecil

Price: £3.00

Publisher: London, Mr R D Cole: 1925

Seller ID: 014148

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average Minus

. 129 pages, in brown print, back cover dampstained (minimal smell). Three extended non-rhyming poems 1) The Voice of the People (on the trial of Jesus); 2) The Voice of God - Grace (on the second chapter of Acts); 3) The Voice of God - Judgement (imagining the experiences and thoughts of captives from the fall of Jerusalem). Cecil Belton belonged to the "Needed Truth" (Churches of God) Brethren movement.
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A Book of Scottish Verse

By: Burnett, George

Price: £3.75

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co Ltd: 1937

Seller ID: 467498

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average Minus

. xiv + 208 pages, including 11 page glossary, colour frontispiece. Exterior and preliminaries grubby.
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Visions

By: Cadle, Clair Whittington (as C.W.C.)

Price: £5.75

Publisher: London, Pickering and Inglis: 1931

Seller ID: 013663

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average

. vi + 359 pages. Undated. Author stated to be "One of the late Francis (sic) Ridley Havergal's Bible Class Boys" and (handwritten) "Called Home 22.3.50, Aged 84. 320 pages of poems, and three articles: Israel's Lost Identity (against British-Israelism); "The Church" in Revelation; and Daniel IX.
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The Religious Spirit in the Poets

By: Carpenter, William Boyd

Price: £6.75

Publisher: London, Isbister & Co Ltd: 1900

Seller ID: 210905

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average

. 247 pages, edges unevenly cut and foxed. Particularly referring to Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, Coleridge, Tennyson, and Browning.
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Poems and Pictures for the Young

By: Chaplin, Ray

Price: £1.00

Publisher: Stowmarket, Charles Hall Cottage Press: 1993

Seller ID: 451114

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Good Plus

. 40 pages, illustrated with pictures from countryside and family. Christian poems about different aspects of God's creation and human life and work.
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Selected Poems of William Cowper

By: Cowper, William

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, A A Balkema: 1945

Seller ID: 210204

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

. 45 pages. Handwritten inscription to flyleaf: 'Published in "The House on the three canals" in Amsterdam by my predecessor Balkema; G Postma since 1947'. Gerke Postma (1920-2002) ran a famous bookshop in the Huis aan de Drie Grachten, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 249, Amsterdam, initially as a staff-member and then successor of August Aimé Balkema (1906-1996) as owner of the bookshop.
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The Poems of William Cowper: Volume 1: 1748-1782

By: Cowper, William; Baird, John D (editor); Ryskamp, Charles (editor)

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press: 1980

Seller ID: 014454

ISBN: 0198118759

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average Plus

. xliii + 597 pages. Ex Buckinghamshire County Reference Library; library stamps to page edges and title pages; bookplate to inside front cover; dust jacket flap price-clipped; otherwise appears in little-used condition; the dust jacket is protected with a clear sleeve and external library markings are on the outside of this, so hopefully the jacket spine itself is unmarked. The first volume of a companion set to King and Ryskamp's 5-volume Letters and Prose Writings of William Cowper, also from Oxford.
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The Works of William Cowper: Set of 8 Volumes

By: Cowper, William; Grimshawe, Thomas Shuttleworth (editor)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Saunders and Otley: 1835

Seller ID: 211365

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

. 8 volumes measuring 6½ x 4½ inches; rebound in maroon cloth, probably in the late 20th century; heavy foxing to frontispieces and surrounding pages and to last few pages. Volumes 1-5 of this 8 volume set are "Life and Letters" while Volumes 6-8 are "Poems". Some volumes have one or two stamps of "Fulneck Girls School", part of a Moravian settlement in Pudsey on the edge of Leeds.
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The Works of William Cowper: Poems: Vol 6

By: Cowper, William; Grimshawe, Thomas Shuttleworth (editor)

Price: £4.75

Publisher: London, Saunders and Otley: 1835

Seller ID: 211278

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average

. lviii + 281 pages; lacks frontispiece, illustrated title page and normal title page; ex Cowper Museum (duplicate copy). Olive brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering and border to spine title panel; top and bottom of spine slightly damaged, a small amount of foxing, mainly to back endpaper and last page. Vol 6 of the Grimshawe edition contains an essay On the Genius and Poetry of Cowper by Rev J W Cunningham, and a preface by John Newton which originally appeared in the first volume in 1782; followed by Cowper's lengthy poems Table Talk; The Progress of Error; Truth; Expostulation; Hope, ...
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Cowper: Poetry & Prose: With Essays by Hazlitt & Bagehot

By: Cowper, William; Hazlitt, William; Bagehot, Walter; Milford, Humphrey S

Price: £1.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press): 1953

Seller ID: 211398

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average

. 196 pages, a little pen annotation.
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The Works of William Cowper: Vol 10 (only, of 15)

By: Cowper, William; Southey, Robert (editor)

Price: £4.75

Publisher: London, Baldwin & Cradock: 1837

Seller ID: 210483

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Average

. xii + 387 pages, containing posthumously published poems, and a translation of Andreini's Adam. Front internal hinge broken.
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The Works of William Cowper: Vols 1-5, 8-10 (only, of 15)

By: Cowper, William; Southey, Robert (editor)

Price: £50.00

Publisher: London, Baldwin & Cradock: 1837

Seller ID: 211366

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

. 8 out of 15 volumes of the set edited by Southey; measuring 6½ x 4½ inches; rebound in maroon cloth, probably in the late 20th century. Heavy foxing to frontispiece of Vol 9; a little foxing in other volumes; most do not have a frontispiece present. Volumes 1 to 5 contain Cowper's life and his letters up to August 1786 (we lack Vol 6 & 7 of letters 1786-1799). Volumes 8 to 10 contain poetry (we lack Vols 11-14 - Cowper's translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and Vol 15 which contains further letters and a handful of papers). Volumes 3 and 8 have title page signed Saml Wilberforce....
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A World Made Whole: Rediscovering the Celtic Tradition

By: De Waal, Esther

Price: £1.00

Publisher: London, Fount (Harper Collins): 1991

Seller ID: 015765

ISBN: 0006275753

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

. 148 pages.
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Gospel Sonnets: or Spiritual Songs: In Six Parts

By: Erskine, Ralph

Price: £17.50

Publisher: Aberdeen, George & Robert King: 1844

Seller ID: 493885

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average Minus

. 326 pages, internal hinges taped, some staining to back endpapers, and spread as far as outer border of last couple of pages of text. Six Parts: 1: The Believer's Espousals; 2: The Believer's Jointure; 3: The Believer's Riddle; 4: The Believer's Lodging; 5: The Believer's Soliloquy; 6: The Believer's Principles. Concerning Creation & Redemption, Law & Gospel, Justification & Sanctification, Faith & Sense, Heaven & Earth.
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Redemption's Story: A Précis of the Mighty Acts of God and Other Poems

By: Evans, Christian V

Price: £1.00

Publisher: Pratt's Bottom, Christian Bookshop: 1994

Seller ID: 502848

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

. 126 pages. Foreword by Raymond Brown of Spurgeon's College. Contains a 101 page poem of the history of redemption, and several other poems.
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William Cowper: The Continuing Revaluation: An Essay and Bibliography of Cowperian Studies from 1895 to 1960

By: Hartley, Lodwick

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press: 1960

Seller ID: 210210

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

. x + 159 pages.
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The Life and Letters of William Cowper Esq: with Remarks on Epistolary Writers (set of 4 volumes)

By: Hayley, William

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, J Johnson and Co: 1812

Seller ID: 210762

Binding: Leather

Condition: Average Minus

. xxxvi + 383 + 410 + 443 + 430 pages. One inch pieces of leather missing from two spines. Authors include Flinders Petrie, Leonard King, James Smith Reid, David Samuel Margoliouth, Oscar Brilliant, Lewis Spence, F Appleby Holt.
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The Christian: An Elergy in Three Parts

By: MacDonald, John (Ferintosh)

Price: £1.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Knox Press: 1976

Seller ID: 493448

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Good

. 45 pages, poetry. Paper a bit browned. 85 stanza poem, in Gaelic, with an English translation.
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Lays of the Kirk and Covenant

By: Menteath, Mrs A Stuart

Price: £6.75

Publisher: Glasgow, W S Sime: 1892

Seller ID: 009711

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average

. 118 pages. 12 poems about the covenanters with introductory historical material to each.
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Paradise Lost, Book 1

By: Milton, John; Beeching, Henry Charles (editor)

Price: £1.00

Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon Press: 1945

Seller ID: 437979

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Average

. 131 pages, edges foxed, minor pen underliing and annotation. Text followed by notes explaining phrases in the text and their background.
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