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BRUNNER, John (John Kilian Houston), 1934-1995 : WHILE THERE’S HOPE. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1982. First edition in English : one of 210 copies in wrappers (of 230). Originally published in a German translation as “Das Prinzip Hoffnung”. Cover, coloured frontispiece and wood-engravings by Paul Peter Piech. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43833 – or simply click on the button
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CAUSLEY, Charles (Charles Stanley), 1917-2003 : SIX WOMEN. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1973. First edition : one of 168 regular copies (of 180). A poem, with a linocut in two colours by Stanley Simmonds. Keepsake Poem No. 14. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26277 – or simply click on the button
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COLLIS, Don : CANNON HILL PARK : MAMMY BLACK VELVET : THE YOUNG MEN. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1969. First edition : [one of 175 copies]. Three ballads, with words, music and striking silkscreen decorations by Don Collis. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26167 – or simply click on the button
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COOK, Stanley, 1922-1991 : WOODS BEYOND A CORNFIELD. Richmond : Keepsake Press, (1979). First edition : one of thirty numbered copies (of 220) signed by both Stanley Cook and the illustrator, Rigby Graham. A long poem in three parts from one of the most readable and most understimated poets of the period. SOLD |
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COOK, Stanley, 1922-1991 : CONCRETE POEMS. Richmond : Keepsake Press, (1984). First edition : limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Stanley Cook. Ten highly concrete poems, six richly silk-screened in colour, the remainder in black and white. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26089 – or simply click on the button
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DEMIROVIC, Hamdija, 1953- : TWENTY-FIVE POEMS. Richmond : Keepsake Press, (1980). First edition in English : one of thirty numbered copies (of 450) signed by both the Bosnian poet and the translator, Charles Causley (1917-2003). Translated and introduced by Causley. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11169 – or simply click on the button
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ELON, Florence, 1946- : FLESH OF HIS FLESH. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1984. First edition : one of 200 ordinary copies (of 225). A collection of twenty-one poems, with illustrations by Warwick Hutton (1939-1994). Includes “My Eyelids Open”, “Under the Study Door”, “The Name for Moustache”, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11982 – or simply click on the button
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FULLER, Roy (Roy Broadbent), 1912-1991 : WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1974. First edition : limited to 180 copies. A poem, with a line drawing by Barry Hirst. Keepsake Poem No. 21. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12157 – or simply click on the button
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HICKEY, Owen (Thomas James Owen), 1924-2000 : PRINTS AND DRAWINGS : POEMS. Richmond : Keepsake Press, (1986). First edition : limited to 150 copies. A collection of ten poems – on Blackpool, Bude, Harrogate, Highgate, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25479 – or simply click on the button
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HOLBROOK, David (David Kenneth), 1923-2011 : MOMENTS IN ITALY : POEMS AND SKETCHES. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1978. First edition : limited to 280 numbered copies, signed by David Holbrook. Six poems and six full-page illustrations. “A few days only in Venice seemed to change everything – my marriage, my attitudes to my work, and my approach to the problem of ‘what it is to be alive’. One is left with the baffling task of trying to define what happened ...”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26160 – or simply click on the button
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HORACE – [FLACCUS, Quintus Horatius, 65-8 BC] : THE EPODES OF HORACE. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1980. First edition : limited to 175 copies. A verse translation by the classicist and neurosurgeon John Penman (1913-1994), with decorations by Gordon Bradshaw. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25794 – or simply click on the button
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LEACH, Robert, 1942- : CATS FREE AND FAMILIAR. Richmond : Keepsake Press, (1974). First edition : limited to 185 copies. Five Leach poems on Lady Jane (“A large grey bundle, like a breathing teacosy”) and other cats – with four striking woodcuts by Warwick Hutton (1939-1994). The cover title is “Leach’s & Hutton’s Cats”. SOLD |
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LOGUE, Christopher, 1926-2011 : WHAT. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1972. First edition : limited to 180 copies. A poem and an illustration, printed on translucent paper and tipped in. Keepsake Poem No. 7. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26281 – or simply click on the button
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LOWBURY, Edward (Edward Joseph Lister), 1913-2007 : TWO CONFESSIONS. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1973. First edition : limited to 180 copies. A poem, with a linocut design in two colours by Elizabeth Lewis. Keepsake Poem No. 8. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26299 – or simply click on the button
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LOWBURY, Edward (Edward Joseph Lister), 1913-2007 : A LETTER FROM MASADA. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1982. First edition : one of 185 copies (of 200) in wrappers. An eight-page poem, with a frontispiece by Miriam Sacks. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25140 – or simply click on the button
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LOWBURY, Edward (Edward Joseph Lister), 1913-2007 : A LETTER FROM HAMPSTEAD : A DOCTOR REMEMBERS HIS PATIENT, BERNARD VAN DIEREN. Richmond : Keepsake Press, (1987). First edition : limited to 250 copies, numbered and signed by Edward Lowbury. Lowbury’s long, partly autobiographical, poem, illustrated with facsimiles of Bernard van Dieren’s manuscript music. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25565 – or simply click on the button
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MAUDE, Charles (Charles John Alan), 1951-1993 : THE THIEVES OF TIME. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1983. First edition : limited to 300 copies. A collection of fourteen poems, including “Urban Cycle: Correspondence Course”, “Town and Country: Cutting Air”, “Graffiti: Walking in the Park”, etc., from the designer who died of Aids in 1993. . £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16392 – or simply click on the button
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MOLE, John, 1941- : ON THE SET. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1978. First edition : one of 168 regular copies (of a total limitation of 180 copies). A poem, with an illustration by George Szirtes. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35845 – or simply click on the button
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NOTT, Kathleen (Kathleen Cecilia), 1905-1999 : ELEGIES AND OTHER POEMS. [Richmond] : Keepsake Press, (1981). First edition : one of 225 regular copies (of 275). A collection of sixteen poems, with an introduction on “The Pursuit of Form”. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26165 – or simply click on the button
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PASTERNAK, Boris (Boris Leonidovich), 1890-1960 : ILLNESS. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1972. First edition : limited to 180 copies. A poem in Russian and English versions, the translation by Lydia Pasternak Slater, and with an illustration by Gordon Bradshaw. Keepsake Poem No. 6. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26286 – or simply click on the button
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PENMAN, John, 1913-1994 : A LATE HARVEST. Richmond : Keepsake Press, (1987). First edition : [one of 150 copies]. A collection of eighteen poems from the neurologist poet, including “Like Horses”, “Peterborough”, “Mystery at Glendurgan”, “Sunday Afternoon”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16867 – or simply click on the button
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PENNATI, Camillo, 1931-2016 : LANDSCAPES. London : Keepsake Press, (1964). First edition : one of 170 numbered copies in wrappers (of 200), signed by Camillo Pennati. Four poems – in both Italian and English versions, the English translations by Peter Russell. With an introduction by Salvatore Quasimodo. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26166 – or simply click on the button
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PORTER, Peter (Peter Neville Frederick), 1929-2010 : SOLEMN ADULTERY AT BREAKFAST CREEK : AN AUSTRALIAN BALLAD. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1968. First edition : limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by Peter Porter. A ballad, set to music by Michael Jessett, with linocuts by Paul Peter Piech. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26273 – or simply click on the button
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PORTER, Peter (Peter Neville Frederick), 1929-2010 : LES TRÈS RICHES HEURES. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1978. First edition : one of 168 regular copies (of 180). A Porter poem with a striking illustration by John Piper. Keepsake Poem No. 36. SOLD |
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PRESS, John (John Bryant) 1920-2007 : ASPECTS OF PARIS. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1975. First edition : one of 225 regular copies (of 250) : a variant in red wrappers, decorated with a fleuron on the upper wrapper. Nine poems on Paris – “Avenue Frochot”, “Pont Mirabeau”, “Paris after Dark”, etc. – with seven autolithograph illustrations in sepia by Gordon Bradshaw. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26161 – or simply click on the button
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SCANNELL, Vernon, 1922-2007: INCIDENT AT WEST BAY. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1972. First edition : limited to 180 copies. A poem with a colour illustration by Vana Haggerty. Keepsake Poem No. 1. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26289 – or simply click on the button
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SCUPHAM, Peter, 1933-2022 : THE GIFT : LOVE POEMS. Richmond : Keepsake Press, (1973). First edition : one of just thirty numbered copies in cloth (of 200) – signed by Peter Scupham. A collection of fifteen poems, with four coloured linocuts by Anthea Lawrence. Includes “Demure”, “As If”, “Languages”, etc. Loosely inserted is the compliments slip of Roy Lewis, the publisher of the Keepsake Press books. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45691 – or simply click on the button
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SILKIN, Jon, 1930-1997 : TWO IMAGES OF CONTINUING TROUBLE. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1976. First edition : one of 168 regular copies (of 180). Two poems – “Fountains Abbey” and “A Prayer Cup”, with an illustration by Alison Dalwood. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27482 – or simply click on the button
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STOKES, Daniel P. : BUYING A SWEATER. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1977. First edition : one of 168 ordinary copies (of 180). A poem, with a colour-printed linocut by Daphne Lord. Keepsake Poem No. 31. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26643 – or simply click on the button
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STONE, Gillian : PROTECTION RACKET : TWO POEMS FROM PICTURES BY ANDREW K. WOMRATH PRINTED IN THE EVERGREEN, 1896. Richmond : Keepsake Press, (1983). First edition : limited to 140 copies. Poems based on art-nouveau illustrations by Andrew Kay Womrath (1869-1939). With a tail-piece by John Duncan from the same Victorian source. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26635 – or simply click on the button
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THOMAS, Jennet & CRAVEN, Tim : FRONTIER MIDLANDS. London : Keepsake Press, 1966. First edition : [one of 180 copies]. Nine poems by Jennet Thomas and five coloured linocuts by Tim Craven. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12737 – or simply click on the button
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TOULSON, Shirley, 1924- : FOUR WAYS WITH A RUIN. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1976. First edition : one of 168 regular copies (of 180). A poem, with a linocut by Anthea Lawrence. Keepsake Poem No. 26. SOLD |
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WATSON, Francis (Francis Leslie), 1907-1988 : POEMS IN INDIA. London : Keepsake Press, (1962). First edition : [one of 125 copies]. “View from a Dakota” and six other poems dating from the war years in India, where Watson was sometime Director of Counter-Propaganda. Privately printed for the poet’s friends. Loosely inserted is Watson’s printed compliments slip with a two line inscription in his hand. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25175 – or simply click on the button
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WIGHTMAN, George (George Brian Hamilton), 1933- : THE FOX AND THE PIG. Richmond : Keepsake Press, 1973. First edition : limited to 180 copies. A poem, with a coloured linocut by Paul Peter Piech. Keepsake Poem No. 9. SOLD |
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