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Skelton, John Fawcett. The Gleaner: A Selection of Poems & Songs. London / Manchester: Simkin, Marshall & Co. / Heywood, 1876. First Edition. Rebacked Original Publisher’s Purple Cloth Boards. Very Good. 200pp. Inscribed by Skelton in blue pencil in April 1876 for a Mr Briscoe, the Nottingham Public Librarian. There are quite a number of corrections to the text in the same pencil as well as a few in standard pencil. Tipped onto the front pastedown is a four page humorous & chatty letter dated October1877 detailing current work. Sympathetically re-backed with some rubbing at edges & fore corners of boards.
All Along You Were Blooming 
Ambit No.16: includes Too Many Flesh Suppers, Brought Very Close, At Eight Years Old, Duaghter, An Instance, Laying Out, Independence 
What Rhymes with Sneeze? 
Luck Is the Hook 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
The Handle of the Door 
Newspaper Taxis - Poetry After the Beatles 
About Poems and How Poems Are Not About 
A Quarter of an Hour 
Centres of Cataclysm 
Surrealist Poetry 
Will Burns 
Comic Poems 
Then Come Back 
New and Selected Poems. Volume One 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Cat Poems