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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.
'I Possess'
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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"Offshore Breeze"
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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Selected Poems of Baudelaire
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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Collected Poems in English and French
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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The Roman Sonnets of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli
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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Primal Vision - Selected Writings Primal Vision - Selected Writings
Norfolk, CT: New Directions. First American edition, [1960].
A large selection by the German poet, essayist and doctor, (1886-1956), who served in two World Wars and was caught up in all the German twists and turns of that period; prose and poetry, parallel German and English text for the latter; edited by E.B. Ashton.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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In Hora Mortis / Under the Iron of the Moon
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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The Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels and Other Verses
Sydney: F.H. Johnston. Second Australian edition, [1944].
Poems, illustrated by photographs, from the War in the Pacific; 103pp.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Fine.
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Orlando Innamorato
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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Bookmark Poems
[Dorchester]: Words Press. First English edition, 2015.
Twelve new poems by Brian Patten, Wendy Cope, Jeremy Reed, Iain Sinclair, Roger McGough, Ruth Fainlight, A.F. Harrold, Jenny Joseph, David Harsent, Lachlan Mackinnon, Michael Horovitz and Andrew Motion; one poem per bookmark. The limited edition of 99 copies per bookmark, each numbered and signed by the author. [Trade set: unsigned, edition not stated, available at $35.00]
Twelve bookmarks, 209 x 157mms., all fine. The set
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Devil's Rock and Other Poems 1970-1972
Sydney: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1974.
Beginning with the "Starting from Central Station" sequence; inscribed by the author to the American poet Mark Strand and his wife Julie.
Fine in very good dustwrapper sunned on the spine.
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Irish
Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Belfast: Morning Star, Peninsula, Ormeau Baths Gallery. First trade edition, 1977.
The first poem from the fourth cycle of "Threadsuns"; note on the poem by Pierre Joris; original German text, then English translations by Pierre Joris, Harry Gilonis, Jerome Rothenberg, Edwin Morgan, Anselm Hollo and an Irish version by Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. Trade edition, 400 copies (100 copies with 7 prints by Sol Lewitt were also produced).
Printed wrappers with illustrations on front and rear covers by Sol Lewitt. Fine.
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Wolfsbohne / Wolf ’s Bean
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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Stranger Music - Selected Poems and Songs
New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1993.
In fact, complete lyrics to 263 poems and songs.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Nine Horses
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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The Japanese Notebook Ox
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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Complete Poems and Selected Letters
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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Hope is the Thing
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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Poems of War and Peace
Melbourne: Collective Effort Press. First Australian edition, [c.1987].
Poems, translations, an extract from "Destiny Wood", and concrete poetry.
Printed wrappers. Spine a little sunned, else fine.
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East German Poetry
New York: E.P. Dutton. First American edition, 1973.
The first GDR anthology in English. Twelve poets beginning with Brecht, followed by Peter Huchel, Johannes Bobrowski, Gunter Kunert, Heinz Kahlau, Reiner Kunze, Sarah Kirsch, Karl Mickel, Wolf Biermann, Kurt Bartsch, Volker Braun and Bernd Jentzsch; parallel German English text throughout.
Fine in very good dustwrapper.
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Poems
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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Indecent Burial - a Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
nd.
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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Tentative Description of a Dinner Given to Promote the Impeachment of President Eisenhower
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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The Secret Meaning of Things
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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Amori et Dolori Sacrum
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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The Pocket Mirror
London: W.H. Allen. First English edition, 1967.
The novelist's first collection of poems.
A little edgewear, else very good in dustwrapper with a couple of nicks in corners.
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The Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry
New York: Random House. First American edition, 1982.
Forty-eight poets - including Robert Desnos, Edmond Jabes, St-John Perse, Raymond Queneau, Victor Segalen as well as all the big names - with translations by English and American poets -Samuel Beckett, John Dos Passos, Richard Ellmann, John Ashbery, Lydia David, Frances Cornford and the editor. Parallel text throughout, 633pp., including notes.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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A Mercedes en mi vuelo
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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Lorca/Blackburn
London: Stop Press. First English edition with these illustrations, 2000.
Thirty-seven poems translated by Paul Blackburn, twenty-one illustrations by Basil King.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Ode To John Garfield
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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Funny Ducks
[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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New York Blues
[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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Reading at the Poetry Project
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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First Poems
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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A Winter by the Sea
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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Water Over Stone
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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The Fowls Are Fed
South Lunenburg, Vermont: Stinehour Editions. First American edition, 2017.
Illustrations by Ann Arnold. Housman inscribed the poem in the visitors' book of the Wise family of Woodchester, Gloucestershire, in May 1902; it next appeared in an article for a Lilly Library exhibition catalogue in 1961; and this is its first separate publication. Laid in on a hand coloured printed sheet are Ian Jackson's thoughts on the allusions and classical background to the poem.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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The Damages
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Univerity Press. First American edition, 1967.
The second collection of poems by the eminent translator; inscribed by him in 1990.
Fine in very good dustwrapper.
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Crow Wakes
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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The Cat and the Cuckoo
[Bideford]: [Sunstone Press], [1987].
Twenty-eight broadside poems, the complete book, colour illustrations by R.J. Lloyd. The publisher is the poet and artist, 'Ted simply wrote out a possible list of subjects, ... I went away and did my paintings and Ted did his poems. The results were quite uncanny sometimes, as though some mysterious cross fertilisation had taken place', Reg Lloyd. The publishers planned to sell each set, signed by author and artist, for £450.00 or £20.00 per broadside. The success of their collaboration did not extend to promotion or sale, few were signed or issued. Faber and Faber took over the stock of the book and, fifteen years after Hughes' death, issued their own edition illustrated by Flora McDonnell. This original set is from Ted Hughes' retained stock.
Broadsides measure 30 x 21cms., each, illustrations in a watercolour frame, the poem printed below. All immaculate. 200 copies printed. The twenty-eight broadsides
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The Cat and the Cuckoo
[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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Neglected Poems
Pymble, NSW: Angus and Robertson. First Australian edition, 1991.
Collects poems by Barry McKenzie, Sir Les Patterson, Dame Edna Everage and the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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The Real Survivors Anthology - Poetry for Life
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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Twenty-Three Poems from the French of Max Jacob
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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Strings of Pearls - a Collection of Poems
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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Horizontal Yellow
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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Some Poems by Paul Klee
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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Femmes Damnees
Oxford: Sycamore Press. First English edition, 1978.
Sycamore Broadsheet #27; written in 1943 and according to Larkin, "The piece is evidence that I once read at least one 'foreign poem', though I can't remember how far, if at all, my verses are based on the original".
Single sheet, 20.5 x 32.5cms., folded twice. Fine. 400 copies.
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The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi
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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The Canti With a Selection of the Prose
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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Chekhov on the West Heath
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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4 by Robert Lowell
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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The First Four Books of Poems
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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The Secret History of the Mongols and Other Pieces
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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Marianne Serves Lunch
[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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Some Poems for New Zealand
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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Collected Poems
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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Poppy and Other Poems of Grief and Celebration
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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Letter to Miguel Otero Silva, in Caracas (1948)
[San Francisco]: [Cranium Press], 1970-1971.
Written while in hiding in 1948 and later included in "Canto General", section 12; translated by Robert Bly; printed at the Cranium Press.
Single sheet measuring 25 x 38cms., folded once to make four pages. Paper browned, a couple of chips. Very good.
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The New Yorker Book of Poems
New York: The Viking Press. Reprint, 1969.
Alphabetically by title, 800+pp., a diverse team including Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Dorothy Hughes, Marianne Moore, Adrienne Rich, Kathleen Raine, Nelly Sachs, Louise Bogan, Anne Sexton, and many, many others.
Fine in very good dustwrapper chipped and worn at edges.
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The World
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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My Life by Water- Collected Poems 1936-1968
London: Fulcrum Press. First English edition, 1970.
"Tenderness and gristle". the poet's second collected edition, published in the year of her death; #70 of 100 numbered copies signed by the author and printed on glastonbury antique laid paper.
The faintest offsetting to prelims, else fine in acetate dustwrapper as issued.
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From This Condensery: The Complete Writing
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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Audubon
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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Lorine Niedecker - Woman and Poet
Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation. First American edition, 1996.
Twenty-three pieces: combination of memoir, correspondence, essays, photographs; contributors include Edwin Honig, Donald Davie, Gilbert Sorrentino and others, four poems by Lorine Niedecker, checklist of her works and an annotated bibliography of secondary sources.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Hymns of St. Bridget
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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Frank O'Hara - Poet Among Painters
New York: George Braziller. First American edition, 1977.
From Harvard to action poems; inscribed by the author to Donald Allen, one of two dedicatees of the book.
Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a crease on the rear panel.
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Homage to Frank O'Hara
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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The Unswept
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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Handwriting
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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New Directions in Prose & Poetry 1940
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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'_____ and Other Poets'
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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Poetry of the Committed Individual
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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Hollywood and God
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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What a Piece of Work
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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The Poems of Sextus Propertius
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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The Tall Schooner
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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One Hundred Million Million Poems
[Paris]: Kickshaws. First English language edition, 1983.
First published in French in 1961, English version and introduction by John Crombie; instructions for use by Queneau; #394/500 numbered copies, hand set and printed in Bodoni on Arches rag paper. The author's self-proclaimed "DIY kit for making poems: a limited number of poems, it is true, but sufficient nevertheless to keep the reader reading for almost two hundred million years ..." Or, ten sonnets to the power of 14, able to be read here with each page cut into 14 slivers, one for each line, pages bound together, and where any combination of lines from the ten sonnets can be read at will to a total of, see title above.
Printed wrappers, sewn. Fine.
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Quentin Crisp as Prime Minister
[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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Poems 1912-1926
Redding Ridge, CT: Black Swan Books. First American edition of these translations, 1981.
Collects forty-two poems; selected, translated and introduced by Michael Hamburger; parallel German English text throughout.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Some Poems of Rimbaud
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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Verses and Versions - Three Centuries of Russian Poetry
Orlando, FL: Harcourt Inc. First American edition, 2008.
Edited by Brian Boyd and Stanislav Shvabrin, introduction by Boyd. Selections from Blok, Pushkin, Lermontov, Mandelstam, many others, 17th-20th century; parallel Russian English text throughout.
Review copy with publisher's press release laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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Still Such
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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On Eve Blossom
[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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First Lines - Poems Written in Youth
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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Stelae
Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press. First American edition, 1969.
First published in 1912 and inspired by the inscriptions that the author had seen on stones along the side of the road in China. English translations followed by French originals. Volume 9 in the Unicorn French series, introduction and translation by Nathanael Tarn, calligraphy by Donald Rojo and two photographs of the enigmatic author.
Original grey green cloth with paper label. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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Area Code 212
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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Poems for Shakespeare
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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The Esdaile Notebook
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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The Further Adventures of Charles Simic
Derry, NH: Rook Press. First American edition, 1975.
Witty poet navel gazes; #3 of the Rook Broadsides; #45/100 numbered copies (total edition 300), signed by the poet and William Lint, the illustrator.
Broadside measures 43 x 28cms. Fine. Rolled.
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Poems 1938-1993
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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The Collected Poems
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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... and Spain Sings
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.
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Traditional Hymns
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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Five Poems
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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Selected Poems
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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The Stuffed Owl
New York: NYRB. Reprint, 2003.
"An Anthology of Bad Verse" with some well known contributors, including Adam Lindsay Gordon, introduction by Billy Collins for this reissue; first published in 1930.
Pictorial wrappers. Edges nicked. Very good.
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Thames - an Anthology of River Poems
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.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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[ Cover ]
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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99 Poems in Translation
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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Black Earth
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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Life of a Man
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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The Blue Grove
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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Winged Words - Victorian Women's Poetry and Verse
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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Collected Poems 1948-1984
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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The Espalier
London: Chatto and Windus. First English edition, 1925.
The author's first book, a collection of sixty-one poems, beginning with "Quiet Neighbours" and ending with "Peeping Tom".
Extremities a little darkened, else fine in very good dustwrapper missing a small piece from the crown and darkened on the spine and perimeter. Spare label laid in at rear.
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Collected Poems
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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Menavelins
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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The Man With a Hammer
London: Grant Richards. First English edition, 1916.
The third collection by the Australian / English poet; inscribed by her in 1934 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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Pedestrian Flight
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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To Be Recited to Flossie on Her Birthday
[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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Poems
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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Up The Line to Death
London: London: Methuen. Reprint, 1967.
War poems, written 1914-1918, by, among many, Laurence Binyon, Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Harold Monro, Edmund Blunden, W.B. Yeats, e.e. cummings, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Inscribed by Richard Attenborough to Sir Ralph Richardson, 'My dear Ralphie, I cannot tell you how tremendously thrilled I am that you are playing Sir Edward. It will mean such an enormous amount to the picture. Thank you so much, Dickie A. Oh! What a Lovely War. ... Brighton April 1968.' Richardson played Sir Edward Grey in Attenborough's movie version of Joan Littlewood's musical history of World War One.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear fold.
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Up The Line to Death
London: London: Methuen. Reprint, 1967.
War poems, written 1914-1918, by, among many, Laurence Binyon, Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Harold Monro, Edmund Blunden, W.B. Yeats, e.e. cummings, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. Inscribed by Richard Attenborough to Sir Ralph Richardson, 'My dear Ralphie, I cannot tell you how tremendously thrilled I am that you are playing Sir Edward. It will mean such an enormous amount to the picture. Thank you so much, Dickie A. Oh! What a Lovely War. ... Brighton April 1968.' Richardson played Sir Edward Grey in Attenborough's movie version of Joan Littlewood's musical history of World War One.
Fine in very good dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear fold.
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Autobiography
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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An Alphabet of Subjects (Contents this notebook)
[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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