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CURREY, R.N. (Ralph Nixon), 1907-2001 – translator : FORMAL SPRING : FRENCH RENAISSANCE POEMS OF CHARLES D’ORLEANS, VILLON, RONSARD, DU BELLAY & OTHERS : WITH TRANSLATIONS. London : Oxford University Press, 1950. First edition. Inscribed and signed with forename by Ralph Currey on front free endpaper. Forty poems with an introduction and parallel text translations. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11833 – or simply click on the button
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DUFFY, Maureen (Maureen Patricia), 1933- – editor : THE SIXTIES. London : [Maureen Duffy], 1960-1961. Seemingly a complete run of all three issues of this assertive poetry magazine – with contributions from Edwin Brock, Maureen Duffy herself, Bryan Johnson, Robert Milne, David Tipton, Frank Lissauer, Arnold Wesker, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31354 – or simply click on the button
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FORBES, Peter, 1947- – editor : A POET’S 1982 : AN ANTHOLOGY OF ONE YEAR’S POETRY. Hatch End : Poet & Printer, 1983. First edition. An anthology of the forty best poems of 1982 – Alison Brackenbury, Humphrey Clucas, Anthony Cronin, Martyn Crucefix, Tom Disch, U. A. Fanthorpe, James Fenton, Peter Levi, George MacBeth, Derek Mahon, John Mole, Blake Morrison, Peter Redgrove, Vernon Scannell, Derek Walcott, etc. Loosely inserted is a signed, dated (1983) autograph note from the publisher, Alan Tarling. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25146 – or simply click on the button
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FULLER, John, 1937- & OTHERS : A FLORIBUNDUM. Oxford : Sycamore Press, 1990 [i.e. 1991]. First edition : limited to 250 copies. A collection of ten poems by John Fuller, Jane Griffiths, John Leonard, Bernard O’Donoghue, Mark Wormald and others. With a drawing by Christiania Whitehead. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 24436 – or simply click on the button
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JENKINS, Alan, 1955- & OTHERS : NEW CHATTO POETS. London : Chatto & Windus, (1986). First edition. An introductory collection of poems from Dominic Fisher, Alan Jenkins, Pippa Little, Lachlan MacKinnon, Peter McDonald, Jo Shapcott, and Adam Thorpe. This copy signed by Alan Jenkins, Jo Shapcott and Lachlan MacKinnon at the head of their contributions. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11986 – or simply click on the button
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LEVI, Peter, (Peter Chad Tiger), 1931-2000 – contributor : SECOND SET : NOMADS. Cambridge : Pendulum Press, 1986. First edition. Selection of recent poetry from Oxford and Cambridge, with a preface by Peter Levi. Signed by Peter Levi. Contributors include John Adlam, Darius Guppy, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Charles Leftwich, John Wells, etc. Edited by John Adlam and Darius Guppy. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12444 – or simply click on the button
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LUCAS, St. John (St. John Welles), 1879-1934 – editor : THE OXFORD BOOK OF FRENCH VERSE : XIIIth CENTURY – XIXth CENTURY. Oxford : At the Clarendon Press, 1908. An early reprint of the original 1907 edition. Over 300 French poems, from Froissart and his contemporaries through to Verlaine, chosen, introduced, and furnished with notes by Lucas. “This new anthology of French poetry is, in its way, a perfect gem, reflecting the highest credit ... It is, without doubt, the most complete representation of poetry that has been placed before the English public” (Daily Telegraph) – “an ideal Christmas gift” (Manchester Courier). £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45798 – or simply click on the button
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MOORE, Reginald, 1914-1990 – editor : SELECTED WRITING. [NO. 1]. London : Nicholson & Watson, (1941). First edition. The first of Moore’s occasional wartime anthologies of new writing – with short stories by Kay Boyle, Gerald Kersh, Storm Jameson, Sidney Keyes, Marghanita Laski, William Saroyan, V. S. Pritchett, etc. – and poems from G. S. Fraser, David Gascoyne, Alun Lewis, Norman Nicholson, Anne Ridler, Alan Rook, Vernon Watkins and others. Edited by Moore (with assistance on the poetry from Tambimuttu). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 12541 – or simply click on the button
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MOORE, Reginald, 1914-1990 – editor : SELECTED WRITING : NUMBER TWO. .London : Nicholson & Watson, [1942]. First edition. The second of Moore’s occasional wartime anthologies of new writing – with short stories by Elizabeth Bowen (The Demon Lover), Rhys Davies, Gwyn Jones, Gerald Kersh, Howard Spring, etc. – and poems (selected and introduced by Henry Treece) from Alex Comfort, J. F. Hendry, Robert Herring, Emanuel Litvinoff, Norman Nicholson, Herbert Read, Anne Ridler and others. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 22936 – or simply click on the button
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MOULT, Thomas, 1885-1974 – editor : THE BEST POEMS OF 1928. London : Jonathan Cape, 1928. First edition. Includes the first appearance in book form of poems by Conrad Aiken, Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Austin Clarke, W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Thomas Hardy, Edwin Muir, Dorothy Parker, Siegfried Sassoon, etc. With decorations by John Austen. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16723 – or simply click on the button
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MOULT, Thomas, 1885-1974 – editor : THE BEST POEMS OF 1929. London : Jonathan Cape, 1929. First edition. Includes the first appearance in book form of poems by A.E., Edmund Blunden, W. H. Davies, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, D. H. Lawrence, Edwin Muir, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Siegfried Sassoon, etc. With decorations by John Austen. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16724 – or simply click on the button
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MOULT, Thomas, 1885-1974 – editor : THE BEST POEMS OF 1931. London : Jonathan Cape, (1931). First edition. Includes the first appearance in book form of poems by “A. E.”, Conrad Aiken, Edmund Blunden, W. H. Davies, Edwin Muir, Robert Nichols, Dorothy Parker, L. A. G. Strong, etc. With decorations by Elizabeth Montgomery. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16726 – or simply click on the button
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MOULT, Thomas, 1885-1974 – editor : THE BEST POEMS OF 1933. London : Jonathan Cape, (1933). First edition. Over seventy poems, including the first appearance in book form of work by Conrad Aiken, A. E. Coppard, Walter de la Mare, Stella Gibbons, Laurence Housman, Edwin Muir, Robert Nichols, Carl Sandburg, Siegfried Sassoon, L. A. G. Strong, etc. With decorations by Elizabeth Montgomery. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16727 – or simply click on the button
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MOULT, Thomas, 1885-1974 – editor : THE BEST POEMS OF 1938. London : Jonathan Cape, (1938). First edition. Includes the first appearance in book form of poems by Edmund Blunden, W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, J. C. Hall, Donagh McDonagh, Edwin Muir, William Soutar, William Carlos Williams, Sheila Wingfield, etc. With decorations by Hans Aufseeser. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 16730 – or simply click on the button
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PALGRAVE, Francis Turner, 1824-1897 – editor : THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1861. First edition : one of the 2,000 copies of the first impression, with the roman rather than gothic half-title, just four notes on p.323, etc. The original appearance of a perennial favourite – close on 300 of the finest poems in the language from seventy-five or so poets – from Sir Thomas Wyatt, Marlowe and Shakespeare, to Shelley and Keats. With a preface and some extensive notes by Palgrave. £400 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 22522 – or simply click on the button
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PALGRAVE, Francis Turner, 1824-1897 – editor : THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1861. First edition : mixed issue – with the four (rather than six) notes on p.323, obviously indicating the earlier printing, but with the gothic (rather than plain) half-title. The original appearance of a perennial favourite – close on 300 of the finest poems in the language from seventy-five or so poets – from Sir Thomas Wyatt, Marlowe and Shakespeare, to Shelley and Keats. With a preface and some extensive notes by Palgrave. £400 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 22523 – or simply click on the button
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ROBERTS, Denys Kilham, 1903-1976 – editor : STRAW IN THE HAIR : AN ANTHOLOGY OF NONSENSICAL AND SURREALIST VERSE. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1938). First edition : the first issue, printed on slightly thicker stock and in the primary binding of yellow cloth. An engaging anthology – E. C. Bentley, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, and many more – compiled and edited by Denys Kilham Roberts. Illustrated with some arresting images by Victor Reinganum. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 10054 – or simply click on the button
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ROBERTS, Denys Kilham, 1903-1976 – editor : STRAW IN THE HAIR : AN ANTHOLOGY OF NONSENSICAL AND SURREALIST VERSE. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1938). First edition : the second issue, printed on thinner stock and in the secondary binding of grey cloth. An engaging anthology – E. C. Bentley, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Ogden Nash, and many more – compiled and edited by Denys Kilham Roberts. Illustrated with some arresting images by Victor Reinganum. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28723 – or simply click on the button
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ROBINSON, Robert (Robert Henry), 1927-2011 – editor : POETRY FROM OXFORD. EDITED BY ROBERT ROBINSON : TRINITY 1950 TO TRINITY 1951. London : Fortune Press, (1951 [i.e. 1952]). First edition. With poems from Peter Bell (2), Elizabeth Jennings (3), Derwent May (2), Robert Robinson (3), Peter Dale Scott (2), Martin Seymour-Smith (4), George Steiner (2), Lotte Zurndorfer (2) and many others. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28971 – or simply click on the button
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ROBSON, Jeremy, 1939- — editor : THE YOUNG BRITISH POETS. London : Chatto & Windus, 1971. First edition. Twenty-three poets aged under thirty-five — a fine anthology with biographical notes and some captivating period portrait photographs. Contributors include Stewart Conn (5 poems), Kevin Crossley-Holland (3), Peter Dale (4), Douglas Dunn (5), John Fuller (4), Ian Hamilton (4), Tony Harrison (4), a Beatle-cropped Seamus Heaney (5), Brian Jones (4), Angela Langfield (3), Michael Longley (4), Derek Mahon (5), Dom Moraes (5), Brian Patten (3), Jeremy Robson himself (4), Jon Stallworthy (5), Hugo Williams (4), and half a dozen others. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44944 – or simply click on the button
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RUMENS, Carol, 1944- – editor : SLIPPING GLIMPSES : WINTER POETRY SUPPLEMENT 1985. London : Poetry Book Society, 1985. First edition. Signed by Carol Rumens on the title-page. A Poetry Book Society anthology – with poems by Patricia Beer, Wendy Cope, Carol Ann Duffy, D. J. Enright, U. A. Fanthorpe, Michael Longley, Anne Stevenson, George Szirtes, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17491 – or simply click on the button
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RUTTER, Frank (Francis Vane Phipson), 1876-1937 & OTHERS – editors : ART AND LETTERS : AN ILLUSTRATED QUARTERLY. London : Frank Cass & Co., (1970). A facsimile reprint of the complete run of all ten issues of the influential quarterly originally published between 1917 and 1920. With contributions from Richard Aldington, T. S. Eliot, Ronald Firbank, Stephen Hudson, Ford Madox Hueffer, Aldous Huxley, Wyndham Lewis, Katherine Mansfield, Wilfred Owen, Ezra Pound, Herbert Read, Dorothy M. Richardson, Isaac Rosenberg, Frank Rutter, Siegfried Sassoon, Walter Sickert, Edith Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, etc. – as well as illustrations by H. Gaudier-Brzeska, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner, Nina Hamnett, E. McKnight Kauffer, Wyndham Lewis, John Nash, Paul Nash, C. R. W. Nevinson, Lucien Pissarro, Walter Sickert, Edward Wadsworth, and others. Frank Cass Library of English Little Magazines No. 16, edited by B. C. Bloomfield. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35849 – or simply click on the button
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RUTTER, Owen, 1889-1944 – editor : WE HAPPY FEW : AN ANTHOLOGY. London : Christopher Sandford at the Golden Cockerel Press, 1946. First edition : one of 750 numbered copies. A rousing anthology of verse and prose – from Shakespeare to Churchill, from the well-known to the obscure – extolling the spirit of Britain at war, Britain at sea, and Britain in the air. Over sixty pieces, including both Wellington and Thackeray on Waterloo, Instructions to Captain Cook, Nelson’s Prayer before Trafalgar, etc. Illustrated with wood-engravings (made on active service) by John O’Connor (1913-2004), and with an introduction by Dorothy Rutter (1892-1961). £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40652 – or simply click on the button
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SEYMOUR-SMITH, Martin, 1928-1998 – editor : POETRY FROM OXFORD. London : Fortune Press, [1953]. First edition. An Oxford anthology – with eight poems from Donald Hall, nine from Elizabeth Jennings, seven from Simon Broadbent, and others from Gillian Graig (4), Jenny Joseph (1), Derwent May (6), Peter Dale Scott (3), Michael Shanks (2) and Paul West (6). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32364 – or simply click on the button
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STEVENSON, Anne, 1933- – editor : THE POETRY BOOK SOCIETY ANTHOLOGY 2. London : Hutchinson, (1991). First edition. With new poems from James Berry, Eavan Boland, Maura Dooley, Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Dunmore, Seamus Heaney, John Heath-Stubbs, Norman MacCaig, Peter Redgrove, Jon Silkin, George Szirtes, Charles Tomlinson, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17997 – or simply click on the button
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TAMBIMUTTU, M.J. (Meary James Thurairajah), 1915-1983 & DICKINS, Anthony (Anthony Stewart Mackay), 1914-1987 – editors : POETRY [LONDON]. 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. £250 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38399 – or simply click on the button
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TAYLOR, Graham — editor : IN DARK MILL SHADOWS : AN ANTHOLOGY OF BAILRIGG POEMS. Bailrigg, Lancaster : Continuum, [1971]. First edition. An anthology which commences pugnaciously with a quotation from Ho Chi Minh — “the poet also should know how to lead an attack”. The opening editorial continues on the theme of dark mills, cramped houses, capitalist exploitation, dark and satanic schools, and even universities — “slave markets for the technocrats” — and “places where humanity is denied, where the potential for love, creativity and joy is suppressed for the sake of profit”. Northern chippiness aside, a very good anthology, with poems from Anne Cluysenaar, Tony Connor, Henry Graham (2), Adrian Henri (2), David Jaffin (2), George Macbeth, Hugh MacDiarmid, Barry MacSweeney, Wes Magee (3), Adrian Mitchell, Pete Morgan (2), Jeff Nuttall, Brian Patten (3), John Pudney (3), Graham Taylor himself (4), and around twenty others. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44963 – or simply click on the button
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WHITE, Eric W. (Eric Walter), 1905-1985 – editor : POETRY BOOK SOCIETY : THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. 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. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28055 – or simply click on the button
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