Beck Valley Books

English Language and Literature - New Educational Library by Balcon, Michael
£1.99

Undated, circa 1945. Red leather hardcovers with gilted titling to spine. Bumped top of spine and lower corners. Name and address crossed over on inside front cover. A comprehensive guide to the study of english literature, language and self expression, together with chapters on the technique of poetry, drama, the novel, the short story, film writing and broadcasting. Complete with illustrati... Read More information

Marians Verse - Marian May Bell by Bell, Anthony Lawson
£7.99

LOL 11/8/003 written on first page. Marians Verse - The Complete Poetic Works of a 20h Century Working Class Mother, complete with 18 black and white plates. Marian was born in Heseldon, County Durham, the seventh of eleven children. Her poetical work evokes images of her as the child of her times. After village schooling she was self educated. Marians determination to achieve and create shin... Read More information

Poetry on the Buses by Belsey, Valerie
£1.79

What does travelling on a bus mean to you Waiting at a bus stop on a grey day, with nothing to look at but the timetable Sitting on a bus and gazing at the traffic, or the advertisements for insurance Published in association with Arriva buses, this is a collection of poems intended for everyone - especially for those brave enough to leave their cars at home. The poems featured include works by Ma... Read More information

Poems of the Countryside by Beningfield, Gordon
£1.99

Hardcover with dust jacket. A wide selection of poems, some familiar, some much less so - is sensitively juxtaposed with Gordon Beningfields magnificent pictures.... Read More information

House in Winter by Blundell, Colin
£5.25

House in Winter by Colin Blundell, 81 pages of poetry including I might devote my time, The Blazing Sun, A Cockney Soldier, The First Time I Saw, Somewhere Out There, and many many more. The author has also written other poetry books and novels.... Read More information

The Book of Cats by Boots
£1.49

Hardcover with dust jacket. An enchanting anthology of poetry and prose celebrating the cat in all its moods. It ranges from light verse and amusing ancedotes of lyrical gems and interesting sidelights on history, and the cast of the cats includes aristocratic pedigree Persians, skittish kittens, tough tom cats, cats who lead double lives as lap cats by day and caterwauling demons at night. Aut... Read More information

Rhymes of a Tynesider by Bowden, William
£19.99

Hardcover, spine and corners in tact, slight knock to right hand side edge of front cover, inscription to first page.For more than forty years verses flowed naturally, musically from his pen. They became widely known through the Press and wireless broadcast, and the occupation of the months before his death was in preparing the rhymes for publication in book form. That task is now completed for ... Read More information

Burns Songs - The Thistle Library by Burns, Robert
£6.99

Undated, circa 1930. Tartan cloth covered small pocket sized book, some small staining. Burns Songs from The Thistle Library, complete with illustrations.... Read More information

The Poems of Barbara Cartland - Lines on Life and Love by Cartland, Barbara
£1.49

A 48 page booklet with poems by Barbara Cartland, she writes: I am not expecting to be made Poet Laureate! This book is just scraps of verse which have helped or amused me. I hope they will do the same for you.... Read More information

Poems of Catullus by Catullus, Gaius Valerius
£1.99

The poems of Catullus translated by James Michie, introduction and notes by Robert Rowland.... Read More information