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About this catalogue
Welcome to our first, and almost all, poetry catalogue. Apart from short runs of books by and about Lorine Niedecker and Frank O'Hara, there are no runs of authors. The catalogue does contain a great variety of material: limited editions and pamphlets, signed copies and flyers, broadsheets and collected editions, privately published and parallel texts, parodies, anthologies and bad verse, juvenilia and national collections, epitaphs and hymns, and a couple of outstanding association copies. These are, in short, a nod to one of the characteristic features of poetry: its remarkably diverse formats and styles.
To all our customers and colleagues, we send our good wishes. We hope, in particular, that those in the United Kingdom and the United States, have been able to steer clear of the coronavirus and are in good health.
Iowa City, Iowa: The Spirit that Moves Us Press. First separate edition, 1978.
Illustration by Jim Ochs; issued for Iowans as one of the broadsides for the 'Poetry with Drawings in the Buses' project.
Heavy grey card. Broadside measures 28 x 41cms. Fine. Rolled.
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New York: Viking, 1987.
A poetry card issued by Viking to promote "April Galleons", published 19 October 1987; text of the poem on one side, promotional information about the collection on the reverse.
Card measures 21.5 x 14 cms. Fine.
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Walton-on-Thames, Surrey: Outposts Publications. First English edition, 1979.
Eleven poems; translations by John Goudge.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Faintly darkened around perimeter, else fine.
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New York: Grove Press. First American edition, 1977.
From "Whoroscope" (1930) onwards; parallel French English text for the poems written originally in French; 147pp.
Very fine in dustwrapper.
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Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams. First American paperback edition of this translation, 1960.
Jargon 38; preface by William Carlos Williams, introduction by Alberto Moravia, translation by Harold Norse of the author's "monument to the plebs of [19th century] Rome".
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. First American paperback edition, 2006.
Collects Bernhard's second and third books of poetry, first published in 1958, and before he turned to prose. Translations by James Reidel, parallel text throughout.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. First American edition, 1989.
The beginnings of Orlando and Angelica's relationship, other subjects besides, an epic cast of characters (index of names and places runs to 25pp.), and immortalised as source material for its sequel "Orlando Furioso" by Ludovico Ariosto. Translated, introduction and notes by Charles Stanley Ross. Parallel Italian English text throughout.
Faint foxing to foredge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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[West Chester, PA]: Aralia Press. First American edition, 1987.
'The Afternoon Sun', 'On an Italian Shore' and 'Days of 1908', all translated by James Merrill, the American poet, the three published first in 'Grand Street'; 225 copies, printed by Michael Peich on Rives Light paper.
Printed wrappers, sewn. Fine.
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Birmingham and New York: Delos Press and William Drenttel. First edition, 1997.
Translated and introduced by Michael Hamburger. Parallel German English text of the first publication of this long poem originally intended for 'The NoMans-Rose' (1963), and removed by Celan. Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. 250 numbered copies.
Printed letterpress on Zerkall mould-made paper. Plain wrappers, sewn. Fine in hand-marbled dustwrapper.
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New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1993.
In fact, complete lyrics to 263 poems and songs.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Random House. First American edition, 2002.
Mid-career collection, published when Collins was American Poet Laureate; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Unmuzzled Ox, 1974.
"Unmuzzled Ox" Nos. 8-9 (vol.2, no.4 and vol.3, no.1); six sheets with the separate page of instruction for assembly.
Sheets, unfolded, measure 18 x 83cms., all fine, folded into original printed box, measuring 20 x 12cms., worn at edges though sound. Printed on one edge of the lid is "second edition".
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New York: Library of America. First American edition, 2006.
All the poems: collected, uncollected, unfinished, unpublished; plus selected letters; 849pp., indexed.
Remainder dot bottom edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Murrumbateman, NSW: The Vagantes Press, 2013.
A local printing of an Emily Dickinson poem written c.1861 and first published in book form thirty years later; hand-set and printed by Michael Richards on Fabriano Rosaspina; fifty numbered copies, the first publication of the Press. The Murrumbateman Dickinson.
Single sheet, 35 x 25cms., printed in two colours. Fine.
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London: Westminster Press. Second English edition, [1933].
Thirty-eight poems by John Meade Falkner. The second edition, produced for his widow after Falkner's death in 1932.
Original green wrappers with printed label. Bookplate. Eric and Joan Stevens' compliments slip and a separate sheet by the bookseller with a short glossary both laid in. Lightly faded around perimeter, spots of foxing to extremities. Very good. 500 copies.
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Thirty-three epitaphs with a general heading - "a nonentity", "a Scotsman who gardened", "another wife" - the only clue to the subjects' identities.
Printed wrappers, sewn. Foxing around perimeter of each page, front panel torn and sunned. Fair and frail.
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San Francisco: Golden Mountain Press. Second printing, 1958.
"After it became obvious that the strange man would never stop ..."
Printed wrappers, stapled. Insect damage top of front panel, darkened around perimeter. Good.
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New York: New Directions. First American edition, 1968.
Six long poems: "Assassination Raga", "Bickford's Buddha", "All Too Clearly", "Through the Looking Glass", "After the Cries of the Birds" and "Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow"; 150 numbered copies, this one marked out of series, and signed by the author.
Original blue cloth. Fine as issued without dustwrapper and in slipcase.
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Capri: Libreria La Conchiglia. First Italian edition, 1990.
Collects seventeen poems by the author interspersed with seventeen full page reproductions of his villa on Capri and its inhabitants; introduction by Roger Peyrefitte, written in Paris in 1989; Italian text.
Fine in printed dustwrapper with glassine wrapper.
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New York: The Poetry Centre. First American edition, 1951.
A previously unpublished poem reproduced in facsimile from Garcia Lorca's holograph. Publication authorised by Francisco, the poet's brother, and issued as part of the publisher's Garcia Lorca Memorial Program.
Single sheet measuring 20 x 28cms., printed in three colours and folded once vertically. Fine.
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San Francisco: Madrugada Press. First American edition, 1972.
'... run down in a rainy midnight movie gutter'; #11/100 numbered copies, signed by the author; photograph of the actor by Elmer Fryer.
Single card, measuring 23 x 35cms., folded once to make 4pp., all fine.
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[East Lansing, MI]: Ghost Dance Press. First American edition, 1973.
A small collection, beginning with an elegy for Trigger, Roy Rogers' horse, and ending with "The Lament of Arletta Duncan", dedicated to R.B. Kitaj, and about the thirties movie actress; this copy inscribed by the author "in appreciation of his friendship", to R.B. Kitaj.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Cover by Ira Joel Haber, Brooklyn artist and bookseller. Fine.
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[Austin, Texas]: Cold Mountain Press, 1976.
Series II, No. 7, of the press' poetry post cards initialled by Ginsberg and dated the year of composition. On the reverse, a signed handwritten note from the poet to a contemporary New York artist, "You sh'd at least enclose a stamped selfaddressed envelope instead of laying this secretarial/postage trip on me. ... Briefly yours Allen Ginsberg."
Card measuring 13 x 16.5cms. Fine.
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New York: The Poetry Project. First American edition, 1997.
Twelve handbills by Brainard for readings at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, between June 1968 and December 1977.
Nineteen loose A4 sheets in total. All in pictorial envelope, see image, as issued. All fine.
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London: William Heinemann. First English edition, 1935.
The unclassifiable and prolific author's second book; his first had been a study of John Middleton Murry.
Foxing to prelims and extremities. Very good in dustwrapper darkened along the spine and around the perimeter and with a couple of chips at the crown and base of the spine.
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Berkeley, CA: Ian Jackson. First American edition, 2017.
Published in Dutch in 1937, first English translation here by Roger Kuhn, introduced by him. Parallel text of the Dutch manuscript facing the English translation. See the publisher's webpage for some background and detail to this elegant production.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine. 250 copies.
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London: Entharmon Press. Reprint with corrections, 1982.
The fifth of nine collections produced during a short literary career of sixteen years; signed by the author.
Pictorial wrappers. Mark on front free endpaper, else fine.
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Woodford Green, Essex: Poet & Printer. First English edition, 1971.
Poems excluded from "Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow" for personal reasons; the copyright page notes, "Two hundred copies of this book were printed and bound for April 1971, a hundred each going to the poet and printer"; Hughes' 100 copies are either numbered and signed by him below the limitation statement or on the front free endpaper. The latter are numbered out of 88 copies - this copy #22/88 signed by the author.
Cream and red patterned boards. Fine, without dustwrapper, as issued.
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[Bideford]: Sunstone Press. First English edition, 1987.
Twenty-eight animals, framed by the two in the title, a poem by the author for each facing a colour illustration by R.J. Lloyd; #3/250 numbered copies (total edition 2,000) signed by the author and artist. The first publication of the Press.
Fine in dustwrapper in slipcase as issued.
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Sutton, Surrey and Leeds: Sixties Press. First English edition, 2006.
Seventy-three poets, patients and family members, between one and ten poems each, around sickness, treatments, and versions of life; contributors include Angela Carter, Kevin Crossley-Holland, James Kirkup, Jon Silkin and W.D. Snodgrass; inscribed by the editor to Anthony Astbury, "The only living anthologist I respect", by the editor.
Pictorial wrappers. Anthony Astbury's annotation to front free endpaper, else fine.
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Omaha, NE: The Cummington Press. First American edition, 1994.
#134/140 numbered copies; prose poems selected and translated by William Kulik, revisions by Harry Duncan; printed at the Omaha Book Arts Center, University of Nebraska.
Original cloth and marbled paper boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Lechlade: Lautus Press. First English edition, 2013.
An illustrated anthology of poems about jewels, jewellery, birthstones, and one about an inscription inside a watch. Poets include Dorothy Parker, C.P. Cavafy, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alice Walker, William Shakespeare, H.D., Homer, and Robert Graves; illustrations by C.R. Ashbee, Anita Klein, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Josie Brown.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Santa Fe, NM: Writers' Editions. First American edition, 1935.
The first book by the editor of "Laughing Horse", central figure in the New Mexico literary scene of the 1920s and 1930s, dedicatee of the first edition of "The Living and the Dead", and Patrick White's lover for three weeks in June 1939; 1/400 numbered copies signed by the author, printed by the Rydal Press, Santa Fe.
Fine in very good dustwrapper chipped at edges and missing pieces from the crown and base of the spine.
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London: Scorpion Press. First English edition, 1962.
Discovered after the artist's death in 1940, first published in Zurich in 1960; selected and translated by Anselm Hollo, the Finnish poet, who inscribed this copy in 1962.
Fine in dustwrapper a little darkened around the perimeter.
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. First American edition, 1887.
Translations by Frederick Townsend, preface by G.B. Frothingham. An auspicious moment: Leopardi's first book, thirty-seven poems, to be published in the United States.
Brown cloth stamped in gold. Top edge gilt. Fine.
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Manchester: Carcanet. First English edition, 1994.
The complete "Canti", translated by J.G. Nichols, bits and pieces of prose from "The Moral Essays" and "Zibaldone"; and two short essays about Leopardi.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Andes, NY: Woolmer / Brotherson. First American edition, 1977.
Two subjects: the "tract of never cultivated land that overlooks London" and "the small, dark green volumes / the awkward heroic versions" of Constance Garnett's translations of the Russian writer; 84/200 numbered copies signed by the author
Plain wrappers. Fine in marbled integral dustwrapper.
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Cambridge, MA: Laurence Scott. First American edition, 1968.
Four poems on the state of the nation - "The Pacification of Columbia", "The March" (dedicated to Dwight McDonald), "Two Walls" and "Robert Kennedy (1925-1968)" - published in a now historically significant year. Frontispiece and printing by Laurence Scott. #12/100 numbered copies signed by the poet. Together with the illustrated broadsides of the four poems, published with the book, also printed in an edition of 100 and each signed and numbered by Scott.
Plain wrappers, sewn. Marbled paper covers, printed label. Fine. Broadsides measure 50 x 23cms. Also fine. The book and broadsides
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New York: Atheneum. First American collected edition, 1975.
"A Mask for Janus", "The Dancing Bears", "Green with Beasts", and "The Drink in the Furnace", all complete.
Printed wrappers. Very good.
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London: George Allen and Unwin. First English edition, 1963.
Collects thirty pieces: articles, broadcasts and translations of prose and poetry, 320pp.
Fine in dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine.
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[New York]: Phoenix Bookshop. First American edition, 1976.
A memoir of the bookseller's meetings, and an improvised lunch, with Marianne Moore. Publisher and MOMA stalwart Monroe Wheeler's copy with his booklabel. Christmas keepsake issued by the bookshop, 250 copies, none offered for sale.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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Wellington, New Zealand: The Progressive Publishing Society. First New Zealand edition, 1945.
A collection written by the American poet while stationed in New Zealand during World War Two; introduction, 3pp., by the author, detailing his perceptions of the New Zealand character and landscape, re the latter, "... and for every named place that visitors see, there are dozens of unnamed places that are just as beautiful"; inscribed by the author in 1947.
Plain wrappers. Fine in integral dustwrapper.
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London: Penguin. First English edition, 2012.
Edited and introduced by Thomas Karshan, some new translations by Dmitri Nabokov; poems written between 1914 and 1974.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Paris: Alyscamps Press. First English edition, 2019.
Poems written after the death of his daughter. Illustrations by Olivia Moune. Edited, with a preface, by F.K. Mikdadi and afterword by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno; #104/215 numbered copies.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: The Poetry Project. First American edition, 1972.
Issue #25. A spectacular roll-up: Frank O'Hara and Joe Brainard collaborate "Falling in Love", "Time Travel Notes" by Burton Wilkie, "People Coming Up the Stairs" by Anne Waldman; other contributors include: Ed Sanders, Kenward Elmslie, Peter Orlovsky, Patti Smith, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Anselm Hollo and Ira Joel Haber.
Pictorial wrappers, illustration by Joe Brainard, stapled. Roneoed foolscap sheets. Fine.
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Highlands, NC: Jargon Society. First American edition, 1985.
Around Blackhawk Island, not far from Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Edited by Robert Bertholf and published by Jonathan Williams. One of 100 subscribers' copies, signed by the editor and publisher.
Original leather binding with paper labels on spine and cover. Spine label darkened, else fine.
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Berkeley, CA: Moe's Bookshop, 1987.
Broadside issued as a Winter Solstice greeting by the Berkeley bookshop. Printed at the Coincidence Press, Oakland.
Broadside measures 21.5 x 14 cms., printed in two colours. Fine.
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New York: Adventures in Poetry. First American edition, 1974.
Collaboration between the two poets, written between 1960-1962, on the many aspects of St. Bridget; some poems previously published in 'Evergreen Review' and 'Chicago'; cover by Larry Rivers.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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Bolinas, CA: Big Sky. First American edition, 1978.
Issue 11/12 of 'Big Sky' with 50+ contributors, in various forms, including Willem de Kooning, John Ashbery, Jean Dubuffet, Terry Southern, Philip Guston, Ron Padgett, Peter Schjeldahl and Gerard Malanga; 224pp., illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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Montreal: Signal Editions Vehicule Press. First separate edition, 2003.
A "rhyparographer" finds their way into a poem; #28/50 numbered copies signed by the poet and Carolyn O'Neill, the artist. Printed letterpress in black and grey, and woodcut, all on handmade paper.
Broadside measures 38 x 54cms. Mounted, framed and glazed. All fine.
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. First Canadian edition, 1998.
A late collection of poetry, even though it's now 20 years old.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Norfolk, CT: New Directions. First American edition, 1940.
A bumper issue: Paul Goodman, Eudora Welty, James Agee and Walker Evans, Parker Tyler, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Orwell, many others; followed by a "Surrealism" supplement, 178pp., contributors include, from "Pre-Surrealists": Arthur Rimbaud, Franz Kafka, Alfred Jarry, "Surrealists": Michel Leiris, Magritte, Paul Eluard; 579pp. total, followed by "Literary Information", 40pp. of advertisements for books, bookshops, small press magazines and publishers; the book dedicated to the men of the Royal Air Force.
Spots of foxing to extremities, very good in dustwrapper with nicks at the crown and base of spine.
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New York: Henry Holt. First American edition, 1916.
Parodies of twenty-seven contemporary poets including Walter De La Mare, Yeats, Pound, Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Amy Lowell, Chesterton and Kipling; followed by "Attempted Affinities", eg Andrew Lang and Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning and Austin Dobson; followed by"Pierian Handsprings"; inscribed by the author,"with the apologies and admiration", to Walter De La Mare in the year of publication.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper darkened on the spine.
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Harmondsworth: Penguin. First English paperback edition, 1973.
Published simultaneously with the cloth edition from Victor Gollancz; selected from fourteen countries, most USA and Great Britain.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press. First American edition, 2009.
A collection of poetry and short prose pieces - including his wonderful memoir on Barbara Payton, originally in "O.K. You Mugs" - by the detective fiction biographer, editor and critic.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Sydney: Picador. First Australian edition, 1999.
The author's third verse novel; Doctor Peter Cyren, a male psychiatrist at Callan Park, Sydney.
Pictorial wrappers. Extremities darkened, else fine.
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Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. New edition, 1972.
English versions followed by Latin; translations by J.P. McCulloch, originally published by Harvard University Press (1939), Latin texts from Loeb Classics; 437pp., notes by the translator.
Fine in dustwrapper a little darkened on the spine.
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New York: Red Ozier Press. First American edition, 1980.
A single poem; translated by Michael Egan, illustration by Janet Morgan; previously published in "Antaeus".
Plain wrappers, sewn. Fine. 150 copies.
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[Loanhead]: Privately printed, 1999.
A poem around the investiture of Quentin Crisp as Prime Minister and who, from this distance, seems as good a choice as any; #37/62 numbered copies signed by the author; printed for Alan Clodd at the Tragara Press.
Green wrappers. Printed paper label. All fine. Halliwell B107
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New York: Exiles' Press. First American edition, 1939.
Ten early poems and ten selected from "Illuminations"; introduction (15pp.) and translations by Lionel Abel.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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Madison, Wisconsin: Quixote Press. First American edition, 1969.
Translations and introduction by Dan Georgakas and Eleni Paidoussi; parallel Greek English text for the poems. Unsuccessfully proposed nine times for the Nobel Prize for Literature, yet Pablo Neruda declared this author to be more deserving of the prize than himself.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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New York: William Drenttel. First American edition, 1992.
Memories and ramblings in New York; double page photograph by Duane Michals; designed by Stephen Doyle, printed on BFK Rives in six colours by the Stinehour Press; #141/200 numbered copies (total edition 225), signed by the author.
Cloth and printed boards. Paper label on the spine. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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[Minneapolis, MN]: (The) Moonkosh Press. First American edition, 1986.
The artist's translation of his own 'An Anna Blume', first published in 1919, and containing enough Dada elements from this fellow traveller of the group to pass as one of its own; #39/47 numbered copies 'printed on handmade paper using a bit of everything, but mostly 12 point Gill Sans' by Diane Fine.
Broadside measures 31 x 45cms., folded twice, printed both sides in five colours. All fine.
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Manchester: Carcanet. First English edition, 1987.
An anthology of poets' youthful writings, only one poem from each, contributors include: Wallace Stevens, Wilfred Owen, Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson. Amy Lowell, Emily Bronte and many others.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. First American edition, 1967.
Poems by the first Greek to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature; translated, edited and introduced by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard; 496pp., parallel Greek English text throughout.
Owner signature. Fine in dustwrapper a little darkened on the spine
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New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 2002.
The final volume in the author's trilogy of "Cosmos Poems", which reverses the order of "The Divine Comedy", to arrive in Manhattan, the borough of the title; dedicated to Jonathan Galassi.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: The Globe Playhouse Trust Publications. First English paperback edition, 1972.
Thirteen poems commissioned for, and read at, a Gala Birthday Concert at Southwark Cathedral, April 1972; poets: Cecil Day Lewis, Peter Redgrove, George Macbeth, Jeni Couzyn, W.H. Auden, Peter Porter, Stephen Spender, Norman MacCaig, Dannie Abse, Adrian Mitchell, Bob Cobbing, Vernon Scannell and Robert Graves; introduction by Christopher Hampton.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1964.
Collects fifty-seven early poems, most previously unpublished; edited and extensive notes by Kenneth Neill Cameron.
Top edge dusty, else fine in very good dustwrapper.
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Carlton, Vic: Meanjin. First Australian edition, 1996.
Collects poems published in journals as well as previously unpublished by the moonlighting art historian; signed by the author.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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London: Cecil Woolf. First English edition, 1985.
Scottish poet (1895-1915), killed in World War One: every extant poem, some previously unpublished; arranged chronologically and edited, with a long introduction, by Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: The Vanguard Press. First American edition, 1937.
Fifty Loyalist ballads and popular songs in 'adaptations' by William Carlos Williams, Katherine Anne Porter, Millen Brand, Muriel Rukeyser, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jean Starr Untermeyer, and the editors.
Fine in very good dustwrapper sunned on the spine
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London: Ebury Press. First English edition thus, 1996.
Music, words, arranged by the liturgical calendar; colour illustrations, 240pp.
Original cloth, stamped in gold, coloured vignette. All fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Oakland, CA: Limited Editions Incorporated. First American edition thus, 1977.
One poem from each of the author's five collections; 250 copies (total edition 261), handset, and printed at South Hall Press, Berkeley.
Pictorial wrappers, tied. Fine.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1953.
Selected by the author; apart from the Fortune Press edition, his first book to appear in England.
Offsetting to prelims. Harold Oliver's signature on the front pastedown and also his bookplate designed by Norman Lindsay. Very good in fine dustwrapper.
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London: Enitharmon Press. First English edition, 1999.
William Blake, T.S.Eliot, Wilfred Owen, Stevie Smith, Rudyard Kipling and many others on the least commonplace of rivers. Preface by Iain Sinclair; autograph letter, signed from Stephen Stuart-Smith, the publisher, to Anthony Astbury, founder of the Greville Press, laid in, and inscribed by him.
Pictorial wrappers. Anthony Astbury's small annotation corner of front free endpaper. Fine.
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Harray, Orkney, Scotland: Brae Editions. First English edition, 2014.
An enigmatic alphabet book, that gets as far as "J", of poems, fragments, colour illustrations; beginning on the Orkney island of Hoy, and dedicated to the author's "dad, his memory, and for the confusion and clarity of times like these."
Printed wrappers. Fine. 750 copies.
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New York: Grove Press. First American edition, 1994.
One poem each from a hardboiled, alphabetically arranged, group: Catullus and Cavafy, Nazim Hikmet and Horace, Sappho and Victor Segalen, Verlaine and Villon; index of poets, translators and first lines.
Fine in dustwrapper a little rubbed on the rear panel.
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London: The Menard Press and The Delos Press. First English paperback edition, 1992.
Translations, here called "versions", by Elaine Feinstein, portrait frontispiece by Audrey Jones, preface by the translator; 25pp.
Printed wrappers, stapled. Faintly darkened around perimeter, else fine.
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New York: New Directions and Hamish Hamilton. First American edition, 1958.
Translation and introduction by Allen Mandelbaum. Four collections – "Joy", "Sentiment of Time", "Grief", "The Promised Land" – parallel text throughout. Signed by the author on the title page and inscribed by him in 1964 to Otis E. Fellows, American academic and chair of the Italian Department at Columbia University, New York, during the early 1960s.
Fine in transparent glassine dustwrapper.
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London: George Allen and Unwin. First English edition, 1940.
A selection of the poetry, riddles, omens, marriage and dance poems, and farewell addresses of the Uraons in central India; introduction, commentary and notes by Archer and a foreword by Arthur Waley.
Very good in dustwrapper darkened on the rear panel.
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London: Enitharmon Press. First English edition, 1994.
A wide net of over sixty poets, biographical pieces about each, reproductions of fourteen images contemporary with the poems; introduced by Catherine Reilly, foreword by Germaine Greer; inscribed to David and Judy Gascoyne, with their book label, by Stephen Stuart-Smith, the publisher.
Pictorial wrappers. Tiny mark rear cover, else fine.
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New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1986.
Walcott, who identified as 'absolutely a Caribbean writer', explores the legacy of deep colonial damage in this selection from 10 earlier books of verse, including his autobiographical poem 'Another Life'; inscribed by the author in 1987.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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Manchester: Carcanet. First English edition, 1982.
Edited and introduced by Claire Harman. Collects the five books published during her lifetime, "Twelve Poems", published posthumously, and over 75 uncollected and unpublished.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Oxford: The author. First English edition, 1999.
Verses, meditations and "links and clues" or, as the title suggests, "odds and ends"; printed by the author for his friends, and inscribed, ''To David and Judy [Gascoyne] with all our love R&S' [Waterfield].
Printed wrappers, stapled. With the book label of David and Judy Gascoyne. Fine.
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London: Grant Richards. First English edition, 1916.
The third collection by the Australian / English poet writing under a pen-name adopted after a Brisbane street where she had promised her father to become a poet; despite a prolific body of work, her status as a poet dogged the writer all her life; the lack of critical interest as early as 1942, only two decades after her heyday, making 'her neglect one of the mysteries of contemporary literature' according to the editors of Twentieth Century Authors; her poems derided by Germaine Greer as 'gusty versicles'.
Inscribed by her in 1934, in her fifties, to Seraphine [Astafieva], a Russian ballerina, later proprietor of a dance school in Chelsea and, like the author, friend to many of the English and American modernist writers and poets in Paris and London during the years between the World Wars.
Secondary binding in grey cloth, errata slip. Final two pages opened roughly with some loss to margin. Very good.
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No place: Stuart Wright. Privately published, 1981.
Twenty-one clerihews for Stuart Wright's answering machine, illustrations by the poet; or two out of three anachronistic forms. Eighty-one copies, signed by the poet and inscribed twice by the publisher, at different times, to distinguished American booksellers.
Printed wrappers, sewn. A couple of faint marks on cover, else fine.
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[New York]: [New Directions], 1959.
Broadside, printed on laid paper at the press of Igal Roodenko, the well known pacifist; 100 copies.
Single sheet measuring 11x7 cms., folded twice. Fine.
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Keele, Staffordshire: Keele University Press. First English edition, 1996.
The seventeenth century English poet, married at seventeen, widowed at twenty-four, a notorious private life, and the first Englishwoman to publish her own love poetry and prose fiction; a "modernized" version - spelling and calligraphy - edited by R.E. Pritchard.
Fine in very good dustwrapper sunned on the spine.
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New York: Grossman Publishers. First American edition, 1970.
In fact, the author's poetry set to music by Celia Zukofsky, his wife.
Fine in about very good dustwrapper rubbed on the rear panel and chipped at edges.
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[New York]: CZ Publications. First American edition, 1979.
Not a poem but too striking not to include. An enlarged reproduction from part of the manuscript draft of "Bottom: on Shakespeare", published in 1963. This page, torn from a spiral-bound notebook, later destroyed, is held at the Humanities Research Center, Austin; #190/200 copies (total edition 226).
Broadside measures 51x41 cms. Printed in three colours. Fine.
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