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Cambridge : Oasis, [1951]-1952. A complete set of all five issues of this Cambridge poetry periodical. Contains mainly reprinted work by established poets, especially W. B. Yeats, but also Thom Gunn’s early poem “Two Ghosts” (not to appear in book form until 1979), and original poems by Norman Buller, Chris Busby, John Coleman, R. J. Dannatt, Peter Green, Milton Grundy, Karen Lowenthall, John Mander, M. H. Millgate, Brian Rowley, and Harold Silver.
Five issues. Demy 8vo (23cm). Original stapled wrappers; a few slight marks, spots and small signs of age and use; some slight rusting of staples, but in the main very good. No complete set located in major libraries worldwide.

£50

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Oxford : Sycamore Press, (1969). First edition : [one of 500 copies]. A poem.
Post 8vo (21cm). Single cream sheet, folding to form three leaves, printed in purple and black; very good. Hagstrom & Bixby A11.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1971). First edition. A collection of twenty-five poems — including the title-poem, as well as “The Colour Machine”, “Listening to Jefferson Airplane”, the LSD-inspired “At the Centre”, “Sunlight”, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (56)pp. Original lemon yellow cloth, lettered in gilt; a hint of spotting to top edge; small mark to fore-edge; very faint tanning of endpapers; faint creasing to front free endpaper, but otherwise a very good copy in a very good dust-jacket.

£25

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London : Words Press, [1976]. First edition : limited to 200 numbered copies. A folding broadside, with poems by Mike Esplen, Harry Guest, Thom Gunn, Roger Morsley Smith and Eric Walter White.
Post 8vo (22cm). Single sage green sheet, printed in black, folding to form four leaves; very good. Hagstrom & Bixby C273.

£20

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Gravesend : Victoria Press, 1980. First separate edition : [one of 250 copies (of 1,000) on blue card]. A single poem on a card – Poemcard No. 8.
Foolscap 8vo (15cm). Single blue card, printed on one side only in black. Very good.

£20

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