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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 80pp. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt; a very good, bright, clean and sound copy in the dust-jacket — the jacket equally very good.

£25

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[Salisbury : for the Author, 1982]. First edition : number 2 of a limited edition of an unstated number of copies. A presentation copy, inscribed, signed and dated (1982) by Joan Barton. Two poems – “Night Journey on the Plain” and “Watcher at a Window”. Loosely inserted is a single-page 1982 autograph note from the bookseller poet, signed with forename.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). [8]pp. Original yellow stapled wrappers, lettered in black; lightly used and faintly bruised, but a very good copy. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

£25

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[Salisbury : for the Author, 1983?]. First edition : number 2 of a limited edition of an unstated number of copies. Signed by the bookseller poet Joan Barton on verso of upper wrapper. The individual poems are dated between August and December 1983 and display a number of tippexed corrections to the text, etc.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). [10]pp. Original yellow stapled wrappers, lettered in black; wrappers a little creased, but a good copy of a scarce and ephemeral item. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

£25

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). (44)pp. Original pale blue stapled wrappers, lettered in black; wrappers a little marked, creased and slightly tanned; faint vertical crease, but a good copy of a scarce and ephemeral publication. Just two copies (New York and Riverside) located in major libraries worldwide.

£40

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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.
Foolscap 8vo (17cm). 36,[viii]pp. Original pale brown wrappers, ruled, blocked and lettered in two shades of blue; just lightly bruised, but a very good copy and partially unopened copy of this fragile production, with just the faintest hint of wear to tips. Kirkpatrick A7.

£75

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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.
Medium 8vo (25cm). (xvi),(710),[ii]pp. Plates. Portraits. Original light blue cloth, blocked in brown and ruled and lettered in gilt; top edge yellow; a very good copy in the original light blue, white and black dust-jacket – also very good.

£40

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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.
Twelve issues. Foolscap 4to (22cm). The set bound, retaining all wrappers, etc., in a neat contemporary buckram; very good.

£75

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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.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). [16]pp. Portrait. Original pictorial wrappers; wrappers just a touch rubbed and very lightly tanned, but otherwise very good.

£15

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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.
Medium 8vo (25cm). 160pp. Original grey cloth, lettered in gilt; just a touch sunned, but a very good, clean and sound copy in the Barnett Newman dust-jacket – price-clipped, but also very good. Small bookseller’s label of Scott Martin of San Francisco on rear paste-down.

£100

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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.
Medium 8vo (25cm). 160pp. Original grey cloth, lettered in gilt; small areas of faint discolouration to covers; some large spots to edges; a good and still bright copy in the original Barnett Newman dust-jacket – a design in black and white – the jacket used but complete – a little rubbed, soiled, lightly repaired and faintly damp-stained.

£25

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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.
Post 8vo (21cm). 12pp. Original white stapled wrappers, lettered and decorated in red; a few very minor marks, but a good copy.

£20

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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.
Six items. Various sizes. Very good indeed.

£25

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Echo Room Press, 1986. First edition. Twelve poems, including “The Bathing Class”, “For Any Old Man”, etc., from the Gateshead poet.
Demy 8vo (22cm). [16]pp. Original light blue stapled wrappers, lettered and decorated in a design by Eric Charlton on upper wrapper; lightly bruised; staples a little rusted, but otherwise a very good copy.

£20

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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.
Crown 8vo (19cm). (70),[ii]pp. Original marbled wrapperss, lettered in darker grey; slightly bruised, but still a very good copy.

£20

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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.
Foolscap 8vo (18cm). (xii),(92)pp. Illustrations. Original fawn buckram, blocked and lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; very mild tanning of endpapers, but otherwise a very good copy.

£15

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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.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). (20)pp. Original stapled wrappers – a design in black and white by Jan Flavell; lightly tanned at edges, but otherwise a very good copy. No copy of this edition located in any major library worldwide.

£40

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Fareham : Privately Printed, (1987). First edition. Inscribed, signed and dated (1987) by Johnathon Clifford. Fifteen poems, including “Doomsday”, “Frigidity – The Common Place”, “Nightmare”, etc.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). (v),15pp. Original salmon-pink stapled wrappers, lettered in purple; faintly sunned, but otherwise very good.

£20

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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).
Demy 8vo (21cm). [i],31pp. Original white stapled wrappers, printed in black and blue; a few faint marks, but a very good copy of a scarce and fragile production.

£20

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West Kirby : Headland Publications, (1983). First edition. Signed by Gladys Mary Coles on the title-page. A poem in four parts, with illustrations.
Crown 4to (23cm). [24]pp. Original light blue stapled wrappers, lettered in white; a hint of sunning, but a very good copy.

£15

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[Swansea] : Privately Printed, [1975]. First edition. Thirty-one new poems, aphorisms and fragments, including “Augury”, “Wordture”, etc.
Crown 8vo (19cm). (20)pp. Original pink stapled wrappers, ruled and lettered in black; small ink inscription on upper wrapper; very slightly spotted, but otherwise very good.

£20

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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).
Foolscap 4to (21cm). (52)pp. Original white wrappers, decorated and printed in black, maroon, orange and blue design by Stephen Pickles; very good.

£20

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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”.
Foolscap 8vo (18cm). 60,[iv]pp. Original grey boards, printed in black; some spotting, mainly of edges, endleaves and prelims, but a very good, crisp and partly unopened copy of this fragile production.

£25

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London : B. T. Batsford, (1914). First edition. An autobiographical essay, interspersed with some poems. In the Fellowship Books series.
Foolscap 8vo (18cm). [ii],(56),[ii]pp. Original blue cloth, ruled, blocked and lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; lightly sunned; a few spots, but otherwise a very good copy. Contemporary (1918) ownership inscription.

£20

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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.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). [40]pp. Original blue stapled wrappers, lettered and decorated in black; edges of wrappers a little spotted, but otherwise a good copy.

£20

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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.
Post 8vo (21cm). 72pp. Original blue boards, lettered in gilt; very good indeed in the dust-jacket – also very good.

£40

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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.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). [24]pp. Original blue stapled wrappers, lettered and decorated in black in a design by Sian Bailey; very good.

£20

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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.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). (64)pp. Title-page and cover designs by Michael Foreman. Original flesh-coloured (the publisher’s description) wrappers, printed in brown and puce; a very good copy.

£25

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). iv,60pp. Original silver wrappers, printed in purple; upper wrapper a little creased; faint marking to title-page, but a good copy.

£15

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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.
Narrow demy 8vo (21cm). (48)pp. Original pale pink wrappers, decorated in red and lettered in maroon; very good.

£15

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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.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). [vi],(66)pp. Original pale blue wrappers, lettered and decorated on upper wrapper in black; a few faint marks, but a very good copy.

£25

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Huddersfield : Wide Skirt Press, 1990. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Janet Fisher. Twenty poems, including “Bedsit”, “Pateley Bridge”, “Tome or Not Tome”, etc.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). [24]pp. Original orange stapled wrappers, lettered in black; very good indeed.

£20

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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.
Crown 8vo (19cm). [xiv],(74)pp. Original grey canvas, lettered in green; top edge just a touch dusty, but a very good copy in the original pink and blue marbled dust-jacket – a little worn and slightly sunned. Dated contemporary gift inscription (1941) to N. K. Banister from B. P. on fly.

£20

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London : Enitharmon Press, (1980). First edition : limited to 100 numbered copies. Six poems.
Post 8vo (20cm). [12]pp. Portrait frontispiece by Nina Hamnett. Original plain tan wrappers; very good indeed in the original tan dust-jacket with white label, lettered in black.

£20

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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.
Post 8vo (20cm). (80)pp. Original pictorial wrappers – a design by Debbie Hinks; very good.

£15

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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.
Post 8vo (21cm). [ii],62,[ii]pp. Original black boards, lettered in gilt; a few slight spots; small neat decorative stamp on front free endpaper, but a good copy in the original Lawrence Edwards dust-jacket – a design in black and white – price-clipped, slightly worn and lightly rubbed.

£25

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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).
Demy 8vo (23cm). (48)pp. Original blue-brown weave boards; very good in the original Kaye Bellman dust-jacket – a design in black, red and white – just faintly spotted on inner flaps, but also very good.

£25

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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.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). (52)pp. Original white wrappers, lettered in black and illustrated in red; very good.

£20

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). [vi],42pp. Original blue cloth, blocked in green and gilt on upper cover, and lettered in gilt; faintly bruised at tip of spine, otherwise a very good copy indeed in the original acetate dust-jacket.

£20

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Peterborough : Spectacular Diseases, 1988. First edition : limited to 350 copies. Signed by Alan Halsey on the title-page. A collection of fifteen short anagrammatic poems.
Long pott 8vo (85 x 112mm). [28]pp. Original brown wrappers, lettered in black; very good.

£20

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Hay-on-Wye : [Poetry Bookshop], (1985). First edition. Three poems.
Long post 8vo (14cm). [30]pp. Original ivory stapled wrappers, with a white title-label, lettered in black; just faintly tanned, but a very good copy.

£15

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Galloping Dog Press, 1985. First edition. A collection of eighteen poems and text sequences.
Post 4to (27cm). [30]pp. Original cream wrappers, ruled, lettered and with two Halsey designs in black; very slightly dusty and bruised, but still a very good copy.

£20

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Leeds : Northern House, (1965). First edition. Signed by Michael Hamburger on the title-page. A collection of eleven poems, including “The Jackdaws”, “Oxford”, “Brixton”, etc.
Post 8vo (21cm). 16pp. Original black, white and red wrappers; slightly rubbed and a little used, but a good copy.

£20

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Epping : Ember Press, (1975). First edition : limited to 100 numbered copies. Twenty-seven poems, etc., including “Fee Speech”, “Prose-titute”, “Advertlying”, “Bacon and Dregs”, etc.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). 28pp. Original white stapled wrappers, lettered and decorated in black; spotted and slightly creased, but a good copy of an uncommon book.

£15

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[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.
Two letters. Various sizes. The first letter a little marked, with a small patch almost obliterating the recipient’s name, but otherwise in very good state.

£40

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 46,[ii]pp. Original lavender-grey boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good, clean, and sound copy in the M. Mohan dust-jacket — the jacket with some faint suggestion of wear to the extremities, but also very good.

£200

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). 56pp. Photo illustrations. Original white stapled wrappers, printed in black; slight discolouration to wrappers; inked telephone numbers to verso of upper wrapper, but a good copy.

£15

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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.
Demy 8vo (21cm). 56pp. Photo illustrations. Original photographic stapled wrappers; lightly used and slightly rubbed, but a good copy.

£15

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London : Circle Press, 1990. First edition : limited to 120 numbered copies. A poem.
Foolscap folio (30cm). [12]pp – the two central leaves folding out to display a hand-coloured drypoint by Julia Farrer. Original dove-grey wrappers, lettered in black; very good indeed.

£50

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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”.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). (48)pp. Original white laminated wrappers, printed in tan; just a touch bruised; a few slight marks, but a very good copy.

£15

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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.
Crown 4to (22cm). (38),[ii]pp. Original white stapled wrappers; a very good copy in the original David Chaloner dust-jacket – white, lettered in black and with a design in green, blue, brown and ochre – the jacket just faintly marked and lightly tanned.

£20

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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.
Ten issues. Demy 8vo (23cm). Bound, retaining original wrappers, etc., in a smart red buckram; very good.

£50

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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.
Post 8vo (20cm). 64pp. Original pictorial wrappers, a design primarily in grey and green, with a Francis Bacon picture on upper wrapper; some minor creasing, but a very good copy.

£20

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Lerpwl [Liverpool] : Hugh Evans a’i Feibion, 1927. First edition. An extensive collection of some 150 poems (Telynegion and Adroddiadau) in Welsh.
Crown 8vo (20cm). 160pp. Original grey patterned wrappers, printed in black and green; just a little rubbed and worn; some minor spotting; but a very good copy of a scarce work. Name crossed through on half-title.

£25

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (60),[iv]pp. Original grey cloth, lettered in gilt; very good in the original grey, black and white dust-jacket – very slightly bruised at extremities and price-clipped.

£20

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Todmorden : Manchester Institute of Contemporary Arts, (1969). First edition. Fifteen poems. MICA Poets No. 10.
Pott 4to (17cm). [12]pp. Original red stapled wrappers, ruled and lettered in black; very good.

£20

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). (94),[ii]pp. Original white and maroon pictorial wrappers; very good indeed.

£20

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[Esher : Privately Printed, 1983]. Second edition : a revised version of the 1976 edition. A collection of seventeen poems, including “The Whisper”, “To The Unborn Child”, “59 Wandsworth High Street”, etc.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). 32pp. Original cream stapled wrappers, lettered in black; slightly spotted; staples slightly rusted, but otherwise a good copy.

£20

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). 64pp. Original pictorial monochrome wrappers, lettered in red and white; a touch rubbed, but very good.

£20

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[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.
Demy 4to. Sixteen sheets (30cm). Folded into an envelope addressed to the poet and novelist, Iain Sinclair – the envelope post-marked 1985.

£40

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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).
Demy 8vo (23cm). (72)pp. Original brown boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; tiny bruise to one corner; a few faint spots to front endpaper, but otherwise a very good, clean and sound copy in M. Mohan dust-jacket — the jacket, barring a handful of spots to front flap and the merest suggestion of rubbing to head, in excellent state.

£125

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). [viii],(112),[vi]pp. Original fawn cloth, lettered in silver; just a little bruised; top edge spotted, but otherwise a very good copy in the David Nutter dust-jacket — the jacket a little rubbed and worn, but complete and without tears. Contemporary ownership inscription of Yvette Smith of the Wirral.

£25

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London : H. R. Allenson, [1922]. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed, signed with forename and dated (1922) by the teenage poet. A collection of twenty-three poems, with illustrations by Marion Walmsley and the authoress.
Demy 8vo (22cm). [ii](22)pp. Illustrations, Original stapled wrappers, with pictorial onlay; wrappers very slightly creased; staples a little rusted, but otherwise a very good copy. Just two copies (Bodleian and British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£25

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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.
Crown 8vo (19cm). iv,(152)pp. Plates. Illustrations. Original plain white wrappers; text a little browned, but a very good copy in the original dust-jacket printed in red-brown and black – the jacket just lightly used.

£40

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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).
Post 8vo (20cm). 80pp. Original pictorial wrappers; very good indeed.

£10

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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 ...”.
Crown 8vo (20cm). [iv],(160)pp. Original blue cloth, lettered in darker blue; some tanning of endpapers, but a very good, bright and firm copy in the original Nicolas Bentley dust-jacket – a design in orange, white, yellow and black – faintly sunned, price-clipped, slightly nicked, small chip from lower panel, and with some small tape reinforcements on verso.

£50

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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.
Post 4to (271 x 190mm). [48]pp. Four wood-engraved illustrations. Bound in black morocco, with delicately shaded pale morocco onlays, in an exquisite designer binding by Kate Holland, winner of the 2006 Mansfield Medal and First Prize for Best Book in the annual Designer Binders competition – the present binding dating from the same period; delicately marbled edges and endpapers; the binding housed in its original velvet-lined black cloth box, decorated with a crescent moon. A fine copy of a beautiful book.

£2,000

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Echo Room Press, 1986. First edition. Eight poems, including “October Song”, “B & B”, etc.
Demy 8vo (22cm). [12]pp. Original blue stapled wrappers, lettered and decorated in black; staples very slightly rusted, but a very good copy.

£20

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[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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). [48]pp. Portraits. Original monochrome stapled wrappers; staples slightly rusted, but otherwise very good. A few inked marks to text. Just two copies (Cambridge and V&A) located in major libraries worldwide.

£25

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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).
Demy 8vo (22cm). 64pp. Original white and blue wrappers, lettered in black, and with a Michael Andrews painting in colour on upper wrapper; very good.

£20

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). [vi],12,[ii]pp. Original tan wrappers, lettered in black and decorated in red; slight strip of sunning to lower wrapper, but a otherwise a very good copy.

£20

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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.
Post 8vo (21cm). 44pp. Original white wrappers, printed in black; a few tiny spots, but overall very good.

£15

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Alyth : Quarto Press, 1968. First edition : limited to 375 numbered copies. A collection of eight poems, with coloured decorations. Includes “On Saltfleet Beach”, “September in Shottesbrook”, etc.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). [20]pp. Original buff stapled wrappers, lettered on upper wrapper in black, and decorated in shades of green and brown; lightly sunned; just a hint of rusting to staples, but a very good copy.

£20

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London : Pennyfields Press, (1986). First edition : one of 100 regular copies (of 120). A long poem in ten parts, with photo illustrations, notes, etc.
Crown 4to (24cm). (32)pp. Original monochrome pictorial wrappers; very good.

£20

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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).
Demy 8vo (23cm). 64pp. Original black cloth, lettered in silver; top edge black; an excellent copy, bright, clean, and sound, in the Meg Rutherford dust-jacket — the jacket equally good, fresh, and unworn.

£75

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). [x],198pp. Original aubergine boards, blocked and lettered in gilt; slightly bruised at head; top edge a little spotted, but otherwise a very good copy in the Leigh Taylor dust-jacket — the jacket just a touch sunned, but with only the faintest signs of use and also very good.

£50

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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.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). [36]pp. Original buff yellow stapled wrappers, printed and decorated in red and black; lightly sunned; just a hint of rusting to staples, but a very good copy, with the publisher’s flyer loosely inserted.

£20

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 48pp. Original quarter red buckram, grey-green patterned boards, blocked and lettered in red and gold; top edge red; slight spotting to prelims, but otherwise a very good copy in the original acetate dust-jacket – just very faintly nicked.

£20

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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.
Post 8vo (21cm). viii,(104)pp. Original blue and white patterned boards, lettered in black; white title-label lettered in black on spine; a few slight marks and spots, but a very good copy in the original acetate dust-jacket – a little wrinkled and with the paper inner flaps crinkled and creased.

£25

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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.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (xii),68pp. Original orange cloth, lettered in silver; a few faint spots to top edge; endpapers lightly tanned, but a very good, bright and sound copy in the original dust-jacket – a design in yellow, black and red – just lightly used and sunned, but otherwise still very good.

£20

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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.
Imperial 8vo (30cm). [16]pp. Wood engraving by Simon Brett. Original blue wrappers, with a white label on upper wrapper, lettered in black and blue; a few tiny marks, but a very good copy.

£25

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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.
Demy 4to (30cm). [24]pp. Original clip-bound orange wrappers, lettered and decorated in black in a design by East Orange; slightly creased and a little bruised, but otherwise a very good copy.

£25

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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.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). [20]pp. Original black stapled wrappers, lettered across upper cover in pale pink; very good.

£20

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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.
Demy 8vo (22cm). 94,[ii]pp. Original wrappers – a design in holly, stone and black by Ann Caddel; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy.

£20

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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.
Crown 8vo (19cm). [12]pp. Original ivory stapled self wrappers, printed in black; very good.

£15

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Canterbury : Yorick Books, (1984). First edition. Her first collection – twenty-three poems, including “Geriatric Ward”, “Night Stop”, “Midwinter Madness”, etc., from the winner of the 1990 National Poetry Award. Number 3 in the Yorick Poetry Pamphlet series.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). 28pp. Original mauve stapled wrappers, printed in black; very good.

£25

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Epping : Ember Press, (1974). First edition. Signed by Gail Robinson on the verso of the title. A collection of fourteen poems from the Canadian poet, including “God of the Plains”, “Cat”, “Highland Sheep”, etc. With an illustration by Brenda Rudolf.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). (16)pp. Original white stapled wrappers, lettered and decorated in a design by Patricia Oxley in black; staples slightly rusted; some spotting; lightly bruised, but a good copy.

£20

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Morden Tower Publications, (1976). First edition. Eight poems from Scannell and eight from Lykiard. Inscribed and signed with forename by Lykiard.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). [16]pp. Original brown pictorial wrappers, printed in black; very slightly sunned and faintly creased, but otherwise very good.

£20

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Crawley : Wren Press, (1986). First edition. A rhymed narrative version of Ovid, with a frontispiece by David Bellamy.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). (32)pp. Original white stapled wrappers, ruled and lettered in black; very good.

£15

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Sutton Coldfield : National Poetry Foundation, (1986). First edition. A collection of seventeen poems, with an introduction by Howard Sergeant. Loosely inserted is a signed typed letter on Poetry Foundation notepaper from the editor, Johnathon Clifford, to the poet Roland John.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). [vi],(18)pp. Portrait. Original lilac stapled wrappers, lettered in gilt; a few faint marks, text just faintly tanned, but otherwise a very good copy.

£20

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[Reading] : Printed in the School of Art, University of Reading, 1960. First edition : limited to 150 copies – this copy not numbered, but marked “Proof” in manuscript. Includes “Mediterranean Suburbs”, “Regent’s Park Terrace”, “Morning in Madrid”, etc.
Medium 8vo (24cm). [4],(32),[4]pp. Original cream wrappers, lettered in black; bruised at one corner; wrappers a little tanned; but a good, sound and clean copy.

£20

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London : Alan Ross, 1965. First edition. A definitive edition of Spencer’s work, including all the poems from his two earlier collections as well as ten previously unpublished poems from the Vienna period.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). [vi],96,[ii]pp. Original black cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt; a very good, bright and sound copy in the original dust-jacket – a design principally in turquoise, brown and white – the jacket clean, fresh and unworn.

£20

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London : Methuen & Co., (1932). First edition. The author of “Mrs Miniver” with ten poems, including “The Muffin Man”, relating to a quiet and small London square, followed by ten on the London telephone districts, Avenue, Frobisher, Gulliver, Mayfair, Victoria, etc., and a further eight whimsical pieces on contemporary topics. Illustrated throughout with great charm by Ernest H. Shepard.
Demy 8vo (22cm). viii,(64)pp. Illustrations. Original pictorial cloth gilt; lightly rubbed and a touch dulled; endpapers a little tanned; a few spots and minor signs of use, but a very good copy. Contemporary ownership inscription of G. G. D. Stevenson dated Christmas 1932.

£15

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London : George Routledge & Sons, (1943). First edition. A dedicatory poem to Roy Fuller and thirty-five further poems, including “Clapham Common”, “Hart Crane”, “Ventnor”, etc.
Crown 8vo (20cm) 48pp. Original quarter black cloth, ivory boards, lettered in gilt; a few faint marks and spots, but a very good and bright copy in the original ivory dust-jacket, printed in olive and black – just lightly used and with a small inked calculation on lower panel.

£20

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London : Poets’ and Painters’ Press, 1978. First edition. A collection of forty-five poems – including poems on T. S. Eliot, Robert Graves and W. H. Auden. A review copy, with the publishers’ slip loosely inserted.
Demy 8vo (22cm). (78),[ii]pp. Original grey wrappers, printed in red and black; slightly bruised, but otherwise very good in the original white dust-jacket, printed in red and black – just lightly used.

£20

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London : Poetry, 1939. The first issue of this legendary magazine, originally called simply “Poetry”, the first series of which ran until 1951. This copy signed next to their contributions by nine of the original contributors – Audrey Beecham, Dorian Cooke, Walter de la Mare, Lawrence Durrell (twice), Clifford Dyment, Philip O’Connor, Herbert Read, Edwin Smith and Stephen Spender (twice). Other contributors to a highly impressive first issue include George Barker, Gavin Ewart, John Gawsworth, J. F. Hendry, Rayner Heppenstall, Louis Macneice, Nicholas Moore, Keidrych Rhys, Tambimuttu himself, Dylan Thomas and Laurence Whistler.
Crown 4to (25cm). [32]pp. Photograph by Edwin Smith. Three wood engravings by Diana Gardner. Original stapled wrappers, with a design in red and black by Hector Whistler; some mild spotting, mainly to wrappers; just a hint of wear and a touch of rusting to staples, but overall a very good copy of a highly evocative survival.

£250

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London : Derek Maggs, 1972-1974. Both the published issues of this short-lived poetry periodical. The two issues contain poems by Frances Bellerby (5), Bruce Bathory Bikales (4), D. J. Enright (5), Dawson Jackson (4), Roger Burford Mason (7), John Mole (5), Jon Silkin (1), Penelope Shuttle (3), R. S. Thomas (2), and Jane Wilson (9) – most with explanatory prefaces by the poets; essays by Edward Lucie-Smith and B. S. Johnson; reviews by Jim Burns, Robert Shaw, etc. Loosely inserted are a single-page signed typed 1974 letter on Poet & Printer notepaper from the editor, Alan Tarling, concerning the demise of the magazine, and four pieces of separately printed related ephemera – one with two poems by Alan Dixon intended for the never-to-be-published third issue. Printed and published by Derek Maggs.
Two issues. Crown 8vo (20cm). 40pp; 28pp. Original stapled wrappers; just a hint of rusting to staples, but otherwise very good indeed.

£40

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London : Fortune Press, (1952 [i.e.1953]). First edition. A collection of twenty-seven poems, including “The Deer in the Forest”, “Kingfisher”, “Otters”, “Golden Oriole”, etc.
Foolscap 4to (20cm). (40)pp. Original tan cloth-backed orange boards, lettered in gilt; very good in the original grey dust-jacket, lettered in blue – just very lightly marked and used. D’Arch Smith 551.

£20

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London : Macmillan London, (1980). First edition : the uncommon hardback issue. An extensive selection of poems from five earlier collections, together with a number of new poems. “He seems, unusually for a poet of any importance, to continually move from one kind of work to another, always with new insights, and new ways of growing” (Peter Levi)
Demy 8vo (23cm). [viii],182,[ii]pp. Original green boards, lettered in silver; just a hint of spotting to top edge; very faint bruise to heel, but a very good copy in the original dust-jacket – a typographic design in green, red and white – also very good.

£25

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Oxford : John Waller, 1938. The first of just three published issues of Waller’s pre-war magazine. With poems by Clifford Dyment, Norman Nicholson, John Short, John Stead, Waller himself, etc.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). [20]pp. Original yellow stapled wrappers, lettered and decorated in black; lightly marked; a little bruised and sunned; staples rusted; a serviceable copy.

£15

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Leicester : New Broom Private Press, (1982). First edition : limited to 100 numbered copies on Sheepstor handmade paper, signed by the printer and publisher, Toni Savage. Two poems, illustrated by Kathie Layfield.
Post 8vo (21cm). [8]pp. Original white self-wrappers, lettered and decorated in black; very good.

£15

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London : Magpie Press, (1969). First edition. Anthropological discussion and the dual language text of the poem from the founder of the Private Libraries Association. Printed and published by Derek Maggs at his Magpie Press.
Crown 8vo (20cm). (12)pp. Frontispiece by J. Dowling. Original blue textured wrappers, printed in silver; very good.

£20

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Salisbury : Perdix Press, 1983. First edition : limited to fifty copies signed by both Gilbert Waugh and the publisher, Walter Partridge. This copy marked “out-of-series” and inscribed to fellow publisher, Roger Burford Mason (1943-1998). Nine poems, including “Lament”, “Hamlet”, etc.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). [ii],(20),[ii]pp. Original stone wrappers, lettered and decorated in olive; very slightly bruised; some spotting, but otherwise very good.

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Bristol : J. W. Arrowsmith, (1930). First edition. An extensive memorial selection of Weatherly’s poetry and verse – introduced by Sir Henry McCardie.
Crown 8vo (20cm). 144pp. Original green cloth, white paper title-label; spine a little sunned, a touch rubbed and with a tiny mark at foot; a few leaves roughly opened, but a very good and clean copy.

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London : William Heinemann, 1942. First edition. A collection of eight poems, including “The Burning Glass” and “The Dancer in Darkness”.
Demy 8vo (22cm). [vi],56,[ii]pp. Original teracotta cloth, blocked in blind on upper cover, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; a touch darkened and dulled, but a good copy in the original black and white dust-jacket – slightly worn, soiled, nicked, marked and price-clipped, with a short tear on the rear panel.

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London : William Heinemann, 1949. First edition. Over fifty poems selected from seven earlier collections published between 1932 and 1944, together with five new poems. Illustrations, printed in black and white on a yellow ground, by Rex Whistler.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (xiv),210pp. Errata slip. Illustrations. Original green cloth, ruled, blocked and lettered in gilt; decorative endpapers in a Rex Whistler design; faint tape-marks to endpapers; very mild spotting to edges, but a very good and bright copy in the original Rex Whistler dust-jacket – a design in pink, green and brown on white – a little sunned, lightly rubbed, very faintly spotted and very slightly chipped.

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London : Poetry Book Society, 1979. First edition. An absorbing collection of short essays by poets, mainly on their own work, from the Society’s Bulletin. Contributors include George Barker, John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden, Charles Causley, Austin Clarke, Douglas Dunn, T. S. Eliot, D. J. Enright, Roy Fuller, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes (on Sylvia Plath), David Jones, Philip Larkin, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Peter Redgrove, Theodore Roethke, R. S. Thomas, Charles Tomlinson, Vernon Watkins, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (72)pp. Original tan cloth, lettered in gilt; very faint spotting of top edge, but a very good and bright copy in the original dust-jacket – red and brown on pale grey – just very faintly spotted and slightly nicked on lower panel.

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London : Salamander Imprint, (1977). First edition : the hardback issue. Inscribed and signed by Kit Wright on the title-page. A collection of thirty-two poems, including “Death in the Phonebox of the Body”, “London Elders”, “The Dark Night of the Sole”, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). 62,[ii]pp. Original maroon boards, lettered in silver; a few slight edge-spots, but a very good copy in the original dust-jacket – a design in maroon and black on cream – very slightly spotted at edges, but otherwise very good.

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London: Hutchinson, (1988). First edition. Inscribed and signed by Kit Wright on the half-title. A collection of seventy-eight poems, including “The Children of Camden Town”, “Pub Death”, “Wailing in Wandsworth”, etc. – “a genuinely funny poet ... but his best poems are those in which his conscience prompts him to a hard, tensile precision of statement” (John Lucas).
Post 8vo (20cm). 128pp. Original wrappers – a design in maroon, white and black; very slightly rubbed and marked, but otherwise very good.

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Neath : Cwm Nedd Press, (1980). First edition. A collection of twelve poems.
Foolscap 4to (21cm). [12]pp. Original white stapled wrappers, lettered and decorated in black; wrappers spotted along outer edges; a few slight marks, but a good copy of a poorly produced publication. Just three copies (British Library, National Library of Wales and Wisconsin) located in major libraries worldwide.

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