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BARKER, George (George Granville), 1913-1991 : POEMS OF PLACES AND PEOPLE. London : Faber & Faber, (1971). First edition. Twenty-two poems and the poem sequence “Venusberg”, dedicated to Graham Greene — the poems mainly in remembrance of people — T. S. Eliot (who called Barker a genius — a view both shared and disputed by others), Herbert Read, Vernon Watkins, etc. — and specific places — Kew Gardens, Norfolk, Surrey, etc. Brought up in Battersea, Barker is variously remembered as the man who inspired Elizabeth Smart's “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept”, drinking chum of Dylan Thomas, collaborator in writing pornography with Anaïs Nin, and as the father of fifteen children by four different women born over a period of forty years. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44988 — or simply click on the button
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BLOK, Alexander (Alexandr Alexandrovich), 1880-1922 & OTHERS : POEMS BY ALEXANDER BLOK, NICOLAI GUMILEV, ILYA EHRENBURG & NINA BERBEROVA. TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY YAKOV HORNSTEIN. Dorking : Yakov Hornstein, [ca.1945]. First edition in English of four poems from Blok, thirteen from Gumilev (1886-1921), four from Ehrenburg (1891-1967), and one from Berberova (1901-1993). Translated and privately published by Yakov (Jacob) Hornstein (1902-1987). Printed by A. A. Tanner & Son, who were at 80 South Street, Dorking, from 1937 to 1955. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25915 – or simply click on the button
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BLUNDEN, Edmund (Edmund Charles), 1896-1974 : PASTORALS : A BOOK OF VERSES BY E. C. BLUNDEN. London : Erskine Macdonald, (1916). First edition : [one of 1050 copies]. Edmund Blunden’s first regularly published work – a collection of twenty-one poems, including “By Chanctonbury”, “Song of Summer Midnight”, “The Memory of Kent”, etc. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31566 – or simply click on the button
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BROOKE, Rupert (Rupert Chawner), 1887-1915 : THE LETTERS OF RUPERT BROOKE : CHOSEN AND EDITED BY GEOFFREY KEYNES. London : Faber & Faber, (1968). First edition. An extensive selection of letters from Rugby, Italy, Cambridge, Grantchester, Lulworth, Germany, Canada, the South Seas, army camps and the Aegean – charting the whole of Brooke’s short life. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27776 – or simply click on the button
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BULLOCK, Michael (Michael Hale), 1918-2008 – editor : EXPRESSION. Harrow : Michael Bullock / London : Ian Robinson, (1966-1970). A complete run of all twelve issues of Bullock’s poetry quarterly. Contributors include Anne Beresford, Bullock himself, Marcus Cumberlege, Marguerite Edmonds, James Kirkup, Alan Massey, Gerda Mayer, Susan Musgrave, Michael Schmidt, Eddie Wainwright, Nigel Wells, etc. – with illustrations and cover designs by Victor Bunn, Miriam Cartwright, Peter Johns, Sonia Lawson, Dick Platt, Deirdre Storey, Olga Sullivan, etc. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25482 – or simply click on the button
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BUNTING, Basil (Basil Cheesman), 1900-1985 : THE SPOILS. Newcastle upon Tyne : Morden Tower Book Room, [1965]. First separate edition. “As I sat at my counting frame to assess the people ...” – a ten-page poem relating to Bunting’s time in Tehran, originally published in an American magazine in 1951 and here making its first British appearance. With Bunting’s page of explanatory notes. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44459 – or simply click on the button
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BUNTING, Basil (Basil Cheesman), 1900-1985 : COLLECTED POEMS. London : Fulcrum Press, (1968). First edition : the trade issue. “These verses were written here and there now and then over forty years and four continents. Heaped together they make a book”. The first collected and readily accessible edition of Bunting’s work. Over sixty poems, including “Briggflatts”, “I am Agog for Foam”, “Gin the Goodwife Stint”, “The Orotova Road”, “This I Write, Mix Ink with Tears”, etc. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38538 – or simply click on the button
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BUNTING, Basil (Basil Cheesman), 1900-1985 : COLLECTED POEMS. London : Fulcrum Press, (1968). First edition : the trade issue. “These verses were written here and there now and then over forty years and four continents. Heaped together they make a book”. The first collected and readily accessible edition of Bunting’s work. Over sixty poems, including “Briggflatts”, “I am Agog for Foam”, “Gin the Goodwife Stint”, “The Orotova Road”, “This I Write, Mix Ink with Tears”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28455 – or simply click on the button
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BURNS, Jim, 1936- : TYPES : POEMS & STORIES. Cardiff : Second Aeon Publications, [1970]. First edition. Inscribed to Elizabeth Thomas, signed and dated (1970) by Jim Burns, with a handful of minor manuscript corrections. Eight poems and stories, including “The Drifter”, “The Bohemian Girl”, “The Swinger”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 13374 – or simply click on the button
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CAMPBELL, Duine (Alasdair Duine) : [CHRISTMAS CARDS]. Kidderminster / Droitwich : Black Knight Press, 1980-1985. A collection of six 1980s cards from the Black Knight Press, five signed by Duine Campbell, two with poems, two with illustrations of Home Farm, one blank, and one also inscribed “Black Knight still in abeyance ...”. With one duplicate. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10909 – or simply click on the button
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CHARLTON, George, 1950- : THE LOST BOYS. Newcastle upon Tyne : Echo Room Press, 1986. First edition. Twelve poems, including “The Bathing Class”, “For Any Old Man”, etc., from the Gateshead poet. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 18703 – or simply click on the button
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CHIARI, Joseph, -1989 : THE EAGLE OF PROMETHEUS. Ashford : Hand & Flower Press, (1953). First edition. A collection of forty-one poems from the Corsican-born poet and diplomat, friend and biographer of T. S. Eliot. Includes “Enigma”, “Journey under the Sea”, “Let there be Peace”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 18707 – or simply click on the button
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CHURCH, Richard, 1893-1972 : THE GLANCE BACKWARD : NEW POEMS. London : J. M. Dent & Sons, (1930). First edition : limited to 750 copies. A collection of sixty-two poems, with illustrations by the gifted Robert Austin (1895-1973). Includes “Water Music”, “Solstices”, “The Winter Students”, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28443 – or simply click on the button
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CLEGG, Arthur (Arthur Duckering), 1914-1994 : PICTURES OF THE THIRTIES : A LETTER TO MARY. London : Reality Press, (1975). First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed “Best wishes” and initialled on the title-page by the author, the influential political activist Arthur Clegg. Loosely inserted is an accompanying signed single-page 1976 autograph letter from Clegg to the recipient, a Mrs Thomas. A long poem, illustrated by Jan Flavell. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12146 – or simply click on the button
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CLIFFORD, Johnathon : SOME VAST AND HIDEOUS ARMY. Fareham : Privately Printed, (1987). First edition. Inscribed, signed and dated (1987) by Johnathon Clifford. Fifteen poems, including “Doomsday”, “Frigidity – The Common Place”, “Nightmare”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 13457 – or simply click on the button
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COLES, Gladys Mary : SINERVA AND OTHER POEMS. West Kirby : Headland Publications, (1977). First edition. . Nineteen poems from the Liverpool poet, including “City Bees”, “Sequence for Thomas Hardy”, “Chimeras”, etc. “An exhilarating poet ... phrases that catch the moment perfectly” (Poetry Post). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11097 – or simply click on the button
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COLES, Gladys Mary : THE SNOW BIRD SEQUENCE. West Kirby : Headland Publications, (1983). First edition. Signed by Gladys Mary Coles on the title-page. A poem in four parts, with illustrations. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11098 – or simply click on the button
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CURTIS, Simon, 1943-2013 : SPORTS EXTRA : NEW AND SELECTED POEMS. Todmorden : Littlewood Press, (1988). First edition. A collection of forty poems, thirty previously unpublished in book form, from the Burnley-born poet. Includes “Thinking of Matthew Arnold on the M62”, “Leaving Towcester Vicarage”, “Picasso, Late Drawings, at Geneva”, etc. “How rare it is these days to come across a good new poet (one who attracts on a first reading and yet requires many subsequent ones to be fully appreciated)” – (Kingsley Amis). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 18908 – or simply click on the button
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DAVIES, W.H. (William Henry), 1871-1940 : FAREWELL TO POESY AND OTHER PIECES. London : A. C. Fifield, 1910. First edition : with the advertisements at rear and on lower cover dated February 21, 1910. Thirty-seven poems, including “On Expecting Some Books”. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28446 – or simply click on the button
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DAVIES, W.H. (William Henry), 1871-1940 : NATURE. London : B. T. Batsford, (1914). First edition. An autobiographical essay, interspersed with some poems. In the Fellowship Books series. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28491 – or simply click on the button
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DONALDSON, David : WINGS AND AIR : POEMS. Bridport : Monkton Wyld Court Publications, (1986). First edition. His first collection – thirty-four poems, including “Missing Hen”, “To Our Unborn Child”, “Sea on a Stormy Night”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11904 – or simply click on the button
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DUNN, Douglas (Douglas Eaglesham), 1942- : THE HAPPIER LIFE. London : Faber & Faber, (1972). First edition. Signed by Douglas Dunn on the title-page. An early collection of thirty-nine poems, including "Modern Love", "A Faber Melancholy", etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40515 – or simply click on the button
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EVANS, Paul, 1945-1991 : PROKOFIEV’S CONCERTO. Brighton : Skylark Press, (1975). First edition : one of twenty-six lettered copies (of 250) signed by Paul Evans. Eleven poems, including “To Be Shouted from the Roof”, “Nachtmusik”, “Dreaming With You”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11209 – or simply click on the button
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EWART, Gavin (Gavin Buchanan), 1916-1995 : THE GAVIN EWART SHOW : POEMS BY GAVIN EWART. London : Trigram Press, (1971). First edition : the wrappers issue. Signed by Gavin Ewart on the title-page, with the date of January 1976 in another hand. A collection of thirty-nine poems — as Philip Larkin noted, “well-shaped pieces, freaked with pain and absurdity” — including “On the Death of an Unpleasant Executive”, “People Will Say We’re in Love”, “Soho and West, Saturday Morning”, “Intimations of Mortality on the Lower Richmond Road”, “The Only Emperor is the Emperor of Ice Cream”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44915 — or simply click on the button
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FAIRFAX, John, 1930-2009 : BONE HARVEST DONE. London : Sidgwick & Jackson, (1980). First edition. Inscribed and signed by John Fairfax on the title-page. A collection of forty-two poems, including “If Death Be Dark”, “December on the Downs”, “The Zennor Road”, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19276 – or simply click on the button
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FAIRFAX, John, 1930-2009 : WILD CHILDREN. Newbury : Phoenix Press, 1985. First edition. Inscribed and signed by John Fairfax on the title-page. A collection of twenty poems, including “Bloodflowers”, “Ghost Dance”, “Wolf Child”, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 13726 – or simply click on the button
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FISHER, A.S.T. (Arthur Stanley Theodore), 1906-1989 : SELECTED POEMS. Oxford : by the Author, (1978). First edition. A selection of forty-two poems from the years 1925-1975. A presentation copy – loosely inserted is a 1980 single-page signed autograph letter from Fisher to the late B. C. Bloomfield, both making a gift of the book and discussing Fisher’s unpublished autobiography “At Auden’s Oxford” (it was Fisher who introduced Auden to Isherwood). Also inserted is the author’s flyer for the book, with autobiographical notes, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27977 – or simply click on the button
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FISHER, Janet, 1943- : RAW : POEMS. Huddersfield : Wide Skirt Press, 1990. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Janet Fisher. Twenty poems, including “Bedsit”, “Pateley Bridge”, “Tome or Not Tome”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19302 – or simply click on the button
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GARDINER, Wrey (Charles Wrey), 1901-1981 : SHARP SCORPIONS : POEMS. Billericay : Grey Walls Press, 1941 [i.e.1940]. First edition. A scarce early collection of sixty-one poems, including “Escaped Parrot”, “Old City Walls”, “Fair Maids of February”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 22059 – or simply click on the button
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GARDINER, Wrey (Charles Wrey), 1901-1981 : POEMS. London : Enitharmon Press, (1980). First edition : limited to 100 numbered copies. Six poems. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11258 – or simply click on the button
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GOWAR, Mick (Michael Robert), 1951- : SO FAR SO GOOD : POEMS. London : Penguin Books, (1989). Second edition : a revised version of the original 1986 collection. Inscribed, signed and dated (1990) by Mick Gowar. Twenty-four poems, including “King of the Kurzel”, “Space Invader”, “The Blind Eye of the Little Sony God”, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28241 – or simply click on the button
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GRAHAM, Henry, 1930-2019 : GOOD LUCK TO YOU KAFKA / YOU’LL NEED IT BOSS. London : Rapp & Whiting, (1969). First edition : one of 100 numbered copies signed by Henry Graham. A collection of forty-five poems from the Liverpool poet, including “Egg Plant in Paradise Street”, “Ten Samuel Palmer Paintings”, “Goldfish Room”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11287 – or simply click on the button
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GRAHAM, Henry, 1930- : PASSPORT TO EARTH. London : Rapp & Whiting / André Deutsch, (1971). First edition : the hardback issue. Signed by Henry Graham on the title-page. A collection of twenty-nine poems from the Liverpool poet, including “Breakfast with Kafka”, “The Waltz of the Sea”, “Birds Make Ornithologists”, etc. “From his earliest output to the very end, his highly recognisable poetic voice had a distinctive style based on a dry, ironic wit” (from Brian Wake’s Guardian obituary, 20th March 2019). £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11288 – or simply click on the button
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GRAHAM, Henry, 1930-2019 : THE VERY FRAGANT DEATH OF PAUL GAUGUIN. Hungerford : Rivelin Grapheme Press, 1987. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Henry Graham. Thirty-four poems, with illustrations by Don McKinlay. Includes “Yellow Morning”, “Terminal Ward”, “Bedtime with Kafka”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 13919 – or simply click on the button
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GRUBB, Frederick (Frederick Stuart), 1930-2017 : TITLE DEEDS AND OTHER POEMS. London : Longmans, Green & Co., (1961). First edition. Inscribed (to John Mander) and signed by Frederick Grubb on front free endpaper. A collection of thirty-one poems, including “Fly-Web”, “Eisenstein”, “Forgery”, “Rasputin”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 14656 – or simply click on the button
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HALSEY, Alan, 1949- : KLONDYKE. Newcastle upon Tyne : Galloping Dog Press, 1985. First edition. A collection of eighteen poems and text sequences. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11347 – or simply click on the button
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HEATH-STUBBS, John (John Francis Alexander), 1918-2006 : [TWO LETTERS]. [London : 1952]. Two interesting signed autograph manuscript letters (2pp and 3pp) from Heath-Stubbs to the poet James [Kirkup] – both addressed from 13-1/2 Addison Crescent. Although undated, the content of the letters – Heath-Stubbs replacing Kirkup as Gregory Fellow in poetry at Leeds, his work in editing “The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse” (published 1953), etc., – seems to place them firmly to a period early in 1952. The letters also refer to the soliciting and acceptance of three Kirkup poems, a query over the copyright and fee for one required for the Faber anthology, learning the ropes at Leeds, a letter written to [Bonamy] Dobrée accepting the post at Leeds (“the post I was hoping for, at Salonika, fell through”), etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17130 – or simply click on the button
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HENRI, Adrian, 1932-2000 : AUTOBIOGRAPHY. London : Jonathan Cape, (1971). First edition : the hardback issue. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his publisher, the late Tom Maschler (1933-2020) — “for Tom, new poems for my new publisher — with love thanks”, signed in full, and dated January 1972. Autobiographical poem sequences from the most senior of the “Mersey Sound” poets — pre-war Liverpool, wartime in Rhyl, student days in Paris, a holiday in Norway, dialectics in Hampstead, Aldermaston marches, schoolteacher in the provinces, return to Liverpool and growing fame as performer, poet and painter. £200 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44943 — or simply click on the button
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HOROVITZ, Frances (Frances Margaret Hooker), 1938-1983 : A CELEBRATION OF AND FOR FRANCES HOROVITZ (1938-1983). Stroud : New Departures, 1984. First edition. A memorial selection of Frances Horovitz poems, with poems in her honour by Kathleen Raine, Jeff Nuttall, Michael Horovitz, etc. Edited by Michael Horovitz. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25142 – or simply click on the button
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HOROVITZ, Frances (Frances Margaret Hooker), 1938-1983 : A CELEBRATION OF AND FOR FRANCES HOROVITZ (1938-1983). Stroud : New Departures, 1984. Second edition : adds three poems, fifteen photographs and the Jane Percival portrait to the original publication issued earlier in 1984. A memorial selection of Frances Horovitz poems, with poems in her honour by Kathleen Raine, Jeff Nuttall, Michael Horovitz, etc. Edited by Michael Horovitz. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 34214 – or simply click on the button
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HOUSTON, Libby (Elizabeth Maynard), 1941- : A LITTLE TREACHERY. London : Circle Press, 1990. First edition : limited to 120 numbered copies. A poem. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11575 – or simply click on the button
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JACCOTTET, Philippe, 1925- : THROUGH AN ORCHARD. Portree : Aquila Publishing Co., (1978). First edition in English of “A Travers un Verger” (1975), translated and with an essay on Jaccottet’s poetry by Mark Treharne. A special issue (No. 9) of the review “Prospice”. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25147 – or simply click on the button
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JAMES, John, 1939- : STRIKING THE PAVILION OF ZERO. London : Ian McKelvie, 1975. First edition : one of 400 copies (of 425) on ordinary paper. A collection of eighteen poems, including “Talking in Bed”, “Rough”, “The Dragon House”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11610 – or simply click on the button
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JAY, Peter (Peter Anthony Charles), 1945- – editor : NEW MEASURE : A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF POETRY. Oxford / Northwood : Donald Parsons & Co. / Peter Jay, 1965-1969. A complete run of all ten issues of Jay’s sixties poetry magazine, including new poems by W. H. Auden (1), Gavin Bantock (18), Alan Brownjohn (1), Jack Clemo (1), Marcus Cumberlege (9), Louise Glück (13), Lee Harwood (4), John Heath-Stubbs (3), Anselm Hollo (3), Michael Horovitz (2), Peter Levi (3), Christopher Middleton (2), Tom Raworth (7), Vernon Scannell (1), Peter Scupham (3), Gary Snyder (7), D. M. Thomas (8), etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25144 – or simply click on the button
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JENKINS, Alan, 1955- : GREENHEART. London : Chatto & Windus, (1990). First edition. Signed and dated (1996) by Alan Jenkins. A collection of twenty-seven poems, including “Babes”, “The Night Watch”, “The London Dissector”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 15683 – or simply click on the button
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JONES, R.H. (Robert Hughes) : CANEUON. Lerpwl [Liverpool] : Hugh Evans a’i Feibion, 1927. First edition. An extensive collection of some 150 poems (Telynegion and Adroddiadau) in Welsh. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26347 – or simply click on the button
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JOSEPH, Jenny (Jenefer Ruth), 1932-2018 : BEYOND DESCARTES. London : Martin Secker & Warburg, (1983). First edition. Signed by Jenny Joseph on the title-page. A collection of twenty-six poems, including “Truth v Biology”, “Living Off Other People – Welfare”, “Dipping for Diamonds”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 14172 – or simply click on the button
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KNIGHT, John, 1906-1975 : OTHER CAUSES OF LOVE : POEMS. Todmorden : Manchester Institute of Contemporary Arts, (1969). First edition. Fifteen poems. MICA Poets No. 10. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16164 – or simply click on the button
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LALIC, Ivan V., 1931-1996 : THE PASSIONATE MEASURE. Dublin : Dedalus Press, (1989). First complete edition in English of “Strasna Mera”. Fifty-two poems from a major European poet, translated by Francis R. Jones. This copy signed by both Lalic and the translator. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16178 – or simply click on the button
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LOMAS, Herbert, 1924-2011 : FIRE IN THE GARDEN. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1984. First edition. Inscribed, signed and dated (1984) by Herbert Lomas. A collection thirty-eight poems, including “St. Martin in the Fields”, “Nunhead Cemetery”, “Murder in the Public Sector”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16216 – or simply click on the button
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LOPEZ, Antony, 1950- : [SIGNED TYPESCRIPTS]. [London : ca.1985]. A collection of photocopies of the original typescripts of fifteen Lopez poems, each signed by Tony Lopez. Lopez was the author of “Abstract and Delicious Poems” (1982), etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12457 – or simply click on the button
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McGOUGH, Roger (Roger Joseph), 1937- : AFTER THE MERRYMAKING. London : Jonathan Cape, (1971). First edition : the scarce hardback issue. At that time probably better-known for his membership of “The Scaffold”, and in particular “Lily the Pink”, but here with his third solo collection of poems and already en route to becoming President of the Poetry Society. Forty-seven poems in three sequences — “There is the off-beat sense of humour and the compulsive juggling with sounds and appearances of words. But behind the smile is a very serious man with a highly individualistic perception, savagely satirical, and surprisingly lyrical” (Belfast Telegraph, 3rd December 1971). £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44932 – or simply click on the button
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McKUEN, Rod (Rodney Marvin), 1933-2015 : LONESOME CITIES. London : Michael Joseph, (1971). First British edition. Signed by McKuen on the half-title. A collection of over forty love poems and lyrics from the Californian singer-songwriter — “The Art of Catching Trains”, followed by poems for San Francisco, Paris, Venice, London, Cheyenne, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Gstaad, and two further sequences. Reportedly the best-selling poet in history at that point, with his own television show on the BBC in 1971 — “The masses ate him up with a spoon, while highbrow literary critics roasted him on a spit” (Julia Keller). Interesting now to contrast his reputation with that of his friend and frequent collaborator, Jacques Brel. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45019 – or simply click on the button
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MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir (Vladimir Ilyushchenko), 1893-1930 : MAYAKOVSKY AND HIS POETRY. London : Pilot Press, [1942]. First edition. The first extensive collection of Mayakovsky’s work to appear in English – with his autobiographical “I Myself”, poems from the various periods of his career, a selection of his illustrations, etc. Compiled and edited by Herbert Marshall, who also provides the majority of the translations. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24260 – or simply click on the button
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MEREDITH, Christopher, 1954- : SNARING HEAVEN. Bridgend : Seren Books, (1990). First edition. A collection of thirty-nine poems, including “On Hay Bridge”, “Monsters”, “Margam Park”, etc. “He writes with freedom and perhaps unfashionable eloquence” (Michael Hofman). £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16521 – or simply click on the button
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MORTON, J.B. (John Bingham), 1893-1979 : THE DANCING CABMAN AND OTHER VERSES. London : Frederick Muller, (1938). First edition. The collected edition of Morton’s ‘Beachcomber’ verses – including some previously unpublished. With illustrations and decorations by Nicolas Bentley. Includes “Horrible Araminta”, “Lovely Big Cow”, “The Danger of Queer Hats”, “Epitaph for a Foolish Lady”, “Song for a Hunted Financier” – and the Zoological Verses: “I think the hippopotamus, Is really almost one of us; Even the way he eats his grub, Reminds me of the Savage Club ...”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27840 – or simply click on the button
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MOTION, Andrew (Sir Andrew), 1952- : A LONG STORY. Bath : Old School Press, 2001. First edition : one of twenty copies (of 230) reserved in sheets for binders and signed by both Andrew Motion and the illustrator, Simon Brett. Four extended poems from the then Poet Laureate, delicately hand-printed on Magnani paper, illustrated with evocative and atmospheric wood-engravings by Simon Brett. £2,000 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44018 – or simply click on the button
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NATIONS, Opal L. (Opal Louis), 1941- : THE FAT WING LUNG COMPANY POEMS. [San Francisco : Privately Published, 1974]. First edition. A collection of thirty-eight poems from the Brighton-born singer and poet. Includes “How to Use Your Head to Exert Dominance”, “How to Use Your Head to be a Machine”, “How to Erect your Christmas Tree”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16779 – or simply click on the button
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O’NEILL, Michael, 1953- : THE STRIPPED BED. London : Collins Harvill, 1990. First edition. His first poetry collection – forty-eight poems, including “Airfix”, “An Imperfect Spy”, “Zip Code”, etc. – from the award-winning poet. “Once or twice in a decade, certainly not more often, an original talent emerges” (Alan Ross). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16850 – or simply click on the button
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ORDE, Julian, 1917-1974 : CONJURORS. Warwick : Greville Press, (1988). First edition of this Orde poem, found amongst her papers after her death in 1974. With an introduction by David Wright, who hails this lost poem as her masterpiece. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16823 – or simply click on the button
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OXLEY, William, 1939- : THE ‘ICON’ POEMS. Esher : Ember Press, 1972. First edition. A collection of twenty-four poems, with illustrations by H. Wilkinson. Includes “The Lanes of Memory”, “The Modern Exile”, “Dorset 1952”, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12003 – or simply click on the button
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PARR, Stephen, 1947- : TANTRIS. London : Pennyfields Press, (1986). First edition : one of 100 regular copies (of 120). A long poem in ten parts, with photo illustrations, notes, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29535 – or simply click on the button
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PATTEN, Brian, 1946- : THE IRRELEVANT SONG. London : George Allen & Unwin, (1971). First edition : the hardback issue. His third collection of poetry — over forty poems, including “At Four O’Clock in the Morning”, “Through All Your Abstract Reasoning”, “Heroine Bitches”, “Interruption at the Opera House”, etc. “A sensibility profoundly aware of the ever-present possibility of the magical and the miraculous, as well as of the granite-hard realities. These are undiluted poems, beautifully calculated, informed — even in their darkest moments — with courage and hope” (Charles Causley). £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44958 – or simply click on the button
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PAZ, Octavio, 1914-1998 : CONFIGURATIONS. London : Jonathan Cape, (1971). First edition in English. The first major collection of poetry by the Mexican Nobel Prize winner to be published in the British Isles — Paz at that time lecturing at Cambridge. Poems from his collections “Salamandra” (1958-1961) and “Ladera Este” (1962-1968), together with the stand-alone poems “Sun Stone” (1957) and “Blanco” (1966) — all given in parallel Spanish and English text versions — the translations by Paul Blackburn, Denise Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Tomlinson and others, as well as Paz himself. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45017 – or simply click on the button
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PEARCE, Brian Louis, 1933- : THE ARGONAUTS & OTHER POEMS. Alyth : Quarto Press, (1970). First edition : limited to 320 numbered copies. A collection of twenty-seven poems, with a woodcut illustration by Roger Bennett in two colours. Includes “The Chinese Puppet-Master”, “Paignton Harbour”, “Burghclere”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27379 – or simply click on the button
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PLOMER, William (William Charles Franklyn), 1903-1973 : A CHOICE OF BALLADS. London : for Private Distribution by Jonathan Cape, 1960. First edition : limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by William Plomer and intended as a Christmas gift from the publisher. A card with the publisher’s Christmas good wishes is loosely inserted. Twelve poems selected from Plomer’s “Collected Poems”, including “A Ticket for the Reading Room”, “Mews Flat Mona”, “The Caledonian Market”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28487 – or simply click on the button
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PRESS, John (John Bryant) 1920-2007 : UNCERTAINTIES AND OTHER POEMS. London : Oxford University Press, 1956. First edition. Signed by John Press on the title-page. His first collection – fifty-six poems, including “Unused Words”, “The Mikado”, “The Earl of Rochester”, “To a Dead Lady”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16999 – or simply click on the button
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PRESS, John (John Bryant) 1920-2007 : GUY FAWKES NIGHT AND OTHER POEMS. London : Oxford University Press, 1959. First edition. Signed by John Press on the title-page. Loosely inserted is a 1985 2pp autograph letter from Press, signed with forename, concerning a reading by women poets, etc. A collection of fifty-five poems, including “Kipling in Excelsis”, “The Backs in February”, “Salthouse, Norfolk”, “Advice to Sadists”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17004 – or simply click on the button
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PRICE, Jonathan, 1931-1985 : PRIVATE VIEW.
London : Valerie Parry, 1985. First edition : limited to 230 copies, signed by the illustrator, Simon Brett. A collection of nine poems, printed at the Rocket Press. Loosely inserted is a single-page 1985 signed typed letter from Anthony Baker (of the Gruffyground Press) concerning the poet’s death shortly before the collection was published. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25157 – or simply click on the button
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QUAITE, Philip : MOOD OF YOU. Newcastle upon Tyne : Echo Room Press, 1986. First edition. A collection of seventeen poems, including “In Our Own Dark Shadow”, “Hoover Dirt Bag”, “And a Bright New Dress for You, Anna”, etc. Loosely inserted is a single-page signed 1986 autograph letter from the publisher, Brendan Cleary, discussing future publications, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30503 – or simply click on the button
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RANDELL, Elaine, 1951- : A TAPER TO THE OUTWARD ROOME. Newcastle upon Tyne : Laundering Room Press, 1974. First edition : limited to 200 copies. Inscribed, signed with forename and dated (1974) by Elaine Randell on the half-title. A collection of ten poems. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12335 – or simply click on the button
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RANDELL, Elaine, 1951- : BEYOND ALL OTHER : POEMS 1970-1986. Durham : Pig Press, 1986. First edition. A selection of fifty-three poems, with an afterword by Lee Harwood. Includes “Suddenly It Becomes Sordid”, “Drought 1976”, “Tell Them How Easy Love Is”, “Dusting”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17038 – or simply click on the button
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REEVES, James, 1909-1978 – editor : THE PERSONAL VISION : POETRY SUPPLEMENT EDITED BY JAMES REEVES FOR THE POETRY BOOK SOCIETY. CHRISTMAS 1959. London : Poetry Book Society, 1959. First edition. With poems from Edmund Blunden, Donald Davie, Elena Fearn, Terence Hards, Ewart Milne, Marnie Pomeroy, Alastair Reid, and Martin Seymour-Smith. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24331 – or simply click on the button
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