Below is a listing of books for sale from the Library. All are individually priced and are hardback copies unless otherwise stated. Most current titles are good or very good copies of 20th century poetry in English. However, we will be adding to this list over time, so other subjects will be added as time permits.
Reserving a book to purchase
If you wish to buy an item from the list below, email us on library@some.ox.ac.uk, stating the title and author of the book. Requests for the purchase of books will be fulfilled on a first-come-first-served basis.
Payment
We will accept payment for the books by BACS, and bank details will be provided when you express an interest in a title. If you wish to collect the book from us in person, you may also pay by cash, or if you are a member of the college, we can take payment from your battels. Please note that we do not accept payments by credit card either in person or over the phone.
Collection or delivery
Our preference is that you collect the book from us in person, and we will arrange a mutually convenient time for you to do this, which will be between the hours of 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday. For books which have been paid for by BACS, we can also leave the item at the Lodge for collection.
For items over £15, we will post them to you at no extra cost, if you live within the UK (excludes the Isle of Man). You will need to pay for the item via BACS in advance of us posting the book to you.
Further information
If you have any queries, including if you would like more information about or images of specific titles, please contact us on library@some.ox.ac.uk .
 | Auden, W.H. For the time being 1945, 1st edn, dustjacket £30 |
 | Auden, W.H. For the time being 1945, 1st edn, ex-Library £2 |
 | Auden, W.H. Look, stranger! Poems by 1936, 1st edn, 2nd impr, dustjacket, ex-Library £20 |
 | Auden, W.H. Some poems 1940, 1st edn, ex-Library £2 |
 | Beckett, Samuel Waiting for Godot: a tragicomedy in two acts 1960, 1st edn, 4th impr, dustjacket £25 |
 | Bell, Robin (ed.) The best of Scottish poetry: an anthology of contemporary Scottish verse 1989, pbk £2 |
 | Betjeman, John Antiquarian prejudice 1939, 1st edn, pamphlet £20 |
 | Betjeman, John Continual dew: a little book of bourgeois verse 1937, 1st edn £25 |
 | Betjeman, John Old lights for new chancels: verses topographical and amatory 1940, 1st edn; pasted in letter from JB to Richard MacGillivray Dawkins from 1952 asking the latter to write a review for Time and Tide, of which JB was literary editor at the time £300 |
 | Brand, Christianna Heads you lose 1950, pbk £15 |
 | Cannan, Joanna Murder included 1958, pbk £10 |
 | Compton-Burnett, Ivy Darkness and day 1951, 1st edn, dustjacket £15 |
 | Crichton-Smith, Ian The village and other poems 1989, 1st edn, pbk, ex-Library, inscribed by the author £5 |
 | de la Mare, Walter The burning-glass and other poems 1945, 1st edn, 2nd impr, dustjacket £5 |
 | Durrell, Lawrence Bitter lemons 1957, 1st edn, dustjacket £10 |
 | Eliot, T.S. The cocktail party: a comedy 1950, 1st edn, dustjacket £10 |
 | Eliot, T.S. The cocktail party: a comedy 1950, 1st edn, dustjacket (torn), Philippa Foot’s copy £5 |
 | Eliot, T.S. The cocktail party: a comedy 1950, 1st edn, 3rd impr, dustjacket £10 |
 | Eliot, T.S. Collected poems, 1909-1935 1936, 1st edn £10 |
 | Eliot, T.S. The confidential clerk: a play 1944, 1st edn, dustjacket £5 |
 | Eliot, T.S. East Coker 1941, 1st edn, 4th impr, paper covers £20 |
 | Eliot, T.S. East Coker 1941, 1st edn, 4th impr, paper covers £15 |
 | Eliot, T.S. The family reunion: a play 1939, 1st edn £5 |
 | Eliot, T.S. The family reunion: a play 1939, 1st edn, dustjacket, ex-Library £40 |
 | Eliot, T.S. Four quartets 1949, 1st edn, 7th impr, dustjacket £40 (2 very similar copies) |
 | Eliot, T.S. Four quartets 1945, 1st edn, 3rd impr, dustjacket, ex-Library £5 |
 | Eliot, T.S. Little Gidding 1942, 1st edn, paper covers £35 |
 | Eliot, T.S. Notes towards the definition of culture 1948, 1st edn, dustjacket £10 |
 | Eliot, T.S.; Bentley, Nicolas (ill.) Old Possum’s book of practical cats 1945, 1st ill. edn, 3rd impr £100 |
 | Eliot, T.S. Points of view 1951. 1st edn, 5th impr, dustjacket £10 |
 | Fanthorpe, U.A. Standing to 1982, 1st edn, dustjacket, ex-Library £10 |
 | Fuller, Roy New poems 1968, 1st edn, dustjacket, ex-Library £5 |
 | Gibson, Wilfrid Solway Ford and other poems 1945, 1st edn, dustjacket, inscribed by Claire and Edmund Blunden £15 |
 | Grazia, Margreta de and Wells, Stanley (eds.) The new Cambridge companion to Shakespeare 2012, 2nd edn, 5th impr, pbk £2 |
 | Gunn, Thom Moly 1971, 1st edn, dustjacket, tipped in Esperanto translation of one of the poems £20 |
 | Heaney, Seamus The haw lantern 1987, 1st edn, pbk, ex-Library £2 |
 | Heaney, Seamus Wintering out 1972, 1st edn, pbk, ex-Library £5 |
 | Heath-Stubbs, John and Wright, David (eds.) The Faber book of 20th century verse 1984, 3rd edn, 3rd impr, pbk, ex-Library £2 |
 | Hemingway, Ernest The old man and the sea 1953, American, 1st edn (but probable later impr, as first published 1952, dustjacket, inscribed to a former owner £25 |
 | Hill, Geoffrey Tenebrae 1978, 1st edn, dustjacket, ex-Library £10 |
 | Housman, A.E. The collected poems of 1944, 1st edn, 7th impr, dustjacket £15 |
 | Hughes, Ted Crow: from the life and songs of the crow 1971, 1st edn, 5th impr, dustjacket, ex-Library £5 |
 | Hughes, Ted Wodwo 1967, 1st edn, 2nd impr, dustjacket, ex-Library £30 |
 | Jamie, Kathleen The way we live 1987, 1st edn, pbk, ex-Library £2 |
 | Jones, David The anathemata: fragments of an attempted writing 1972, based on 1955 2nd edn, pbk, ex-Library £2 |
 | Larkin, Philip High windows 1974, 1st edn, dustjacket, ex-Library £45 |
 | Larkin, Philip The less deceived: poems 1955, paper covers, sewn, ex-Library £100 |
 | Larkin, Philip Required writing: miscellaneous pieces, 1955-1982 1984, 1st edn, 5th impr, pbk, ex-Library £2 |
 | Lewis, Cecil Day Pegasus and other poems 1957, 1st edn, dustjacket £5 |
 | Macneice, Louis Autumn journal: a poem 1939, 1st edn, dustjacket £150 |
 | Macneice, Louis Christopher Columbus: a radio play 1944, 1st edn, dustjacket £15 |
 | Macneice, Louis Plant and phantom: poems 1943, 1st edn, 2nd impr, dustjacket £10 |
 | Macneice, Louis The poetry of W.B. Yeats 1967, 1st pbk edn, ex-Library £2 |
 | Macneice, Louis Solstices 1961, 1st edn, dustjacket £10 |
 | Macneice, Louis Visitations 1957, 1st edn, dustjacket £15 |
 | MacDiarmid, Hugh A lap of honour 1967, 1st edn, dustjacket £5 |
 | McDonald, Ian Mercy Ward 1988, 1st edn, pbk, ex-Library £2 |
 | Mitchell, Gladys Laurels are poison 1961, pbk £15 |
 | Murdoch, Iris The sandcastle 1959 Reprint Society edn, dustjacket £10 |
 | Orwell, George Animal farm: a fairy story 1945, 1st edn, dustjacket £500 |
 | Plath, Sylvia Ariel 1965, 1st edn, dustjacket £500 |
 | Plath, Sylvia Ariel 1965, 1st edn, dustjacket, ex-Library but in near fine condition £400 |
 | Plath, Sylvia The Colossus 1972, pbk, ex-Library £2 |
 | Plath, Sylvia Winter trees 1971, 1st edn, dustjacket, tipped in material relating to the book £40 |
 | Pound, Ezra; Eliot, T.S. (ed./intro.) Selected poems 1939, New edn, 4th impr £2 |
 | Ragg, Lonsdale Trees I have met, with drawings by 1932?, 1st edn, intro by Gertrude Jekyll £25 |
 | Raine, Craig Rich 1983, 1st edn, dustjacket, ex-Library £2 |
 | Reynolds, Susan Fiefs ad vassals: the medieval evidence reinterpreted 1994, 1st edn, ex-Library £5 |
 | Rook, Alan We who are fortunate 1945, 1st edn, dustjacket £10 |
 | Sale, Charles; Kermode, William (ill.) The specialist 1956, 38th impr, dustjacket £2 |
 | Shakespeare, William; Vaughan, V.M. and A.T. (eds.) The Tempest 2023, Arden, reprinting of 2011 edn, with corr., pbk £2 |
 | Sitwell, Edith (comp.) Planet and glow-worm: a book for the sleepless 1944, 1st edn, dustjacket £20 |
 | Sitwell, Edith Street songs 1942, 1st edn, 2nd impr, dustjacket £5 |
 | Smith, Emma The Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare 2010, 1st edn, 4th impr, pbk £2 |
 | Smith, Stevie The holiday 1949, 1st edn, dustjacket, Philippa Foot’s copy, with name inscribed £30 |
 | Spender, Stephen The still centre 1939, 1st edn, dustjacket, ex-Library £5 |
 | Stevens, Wallace The collected poems of 1966, 1st edn, 3rd impr, dustjacket, ex-Library £5 |
 | Swarbrick, Andrew Out of reach: the poetry of Philip Larkin 1995, 1st edn, pbk, ex-Library £5 |
 | Thomas, Dylan Collected poems, 1934-1952 1953 repr. of 1952 original, dustjacket, ex-Library £5 |
 | Thomas, Dylan; Davies, Walford (ed.) Early prose writings 1971, 1st edn, dustjacket, ex-Library £5 |
 | Thomas, Dylan; Jones, Daniel (pref./musical settings) Under Milk Wood: a play for voices 1954, 1st edn, 2nd impr, dustjacket £10 |
 | Thomas, Dylan; Jones, Daniel (pref./musical settings) Under Milk Wood: a play for voices 1954, 1st edn, 3rd impr, dustjacket £10 |
 | Thomas, Edward; de la Mare, Walter (fw) Collected poems 1936, reset edn of 1928/9 version of edn 1st published in 1920, with added poems, dustjacket, ex-Library £2 |
 | Waley, Daniel Siena and the Sienese in the thirteenth century 1991, 1st edn, dustjacket with protective plastic cover £5 |
 | Waugh, Evelyn Love among the ruins: a romance of the near future 1953, 1st edn?, dustjacket, illustrated £25 |
 | Wilson, Angus The mulberry bush: a play in three acts 1956, 1st edn, dustjacket £5 |
 | Woolf, Virginia The captain’s death bed and other essays 1950, 1st edn, dustjacket £40 |
 | Woolf, Virginia The moment and other essays 1947, 1st edn, dustjacket £30 |