Description
Duck, Stephen. Poems on Several Occasions. London: For the Author, 1736. First Edition. Full Contemporary Calf. Very Good. pp. xl, 334 + (ii). Extensive subscription list including the names of Pope and Swift. Head and tail-pieces throughout. Decorated capitals to the dedication, preface and account of the author. The last by Joseph Spence. Additional poem at rear on an unpaginated sheet not recorded in Foxon: “The following was written since the preceding pages were printed off. An Ode presented to their Royal Highnesses, the Prince and Princess of Wales, in Richmond Gardens on Thursday, May 6, 1736.” In original 18th century calf boards with double line fillet borders sympathetically re-backed with raised bands & gilt lettered red morocco label in second compartment. Two 18th century names on end papers otherwise internally clean barring a half grapefruit sized water-stain just affecting the text at the fore edge of the last 20pp.
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus 
Over the Moon 
Milk and Honey 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Signs Like This 
Floss 
Isn't Forever 
Libyan Winter: Poems by a Corporal in the First Division / Poems of a Springbok 
Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse 
Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems 
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land 
Macavity's Not There!: A Lift-the-Flap Book (Old Possum's Cats) 
Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar: A Book of Strange and Comic Poems 
Being Alive 
Strong in the Rain