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BULLEN, Keith (Keith Brebner), 1900-1946 & CROMER, John – editors : SALAMANDER : A MISCELLANY OF POETRY. London : George Allen & Unwin, (1947). First edition. Poems from the Cairo group – Juan Almendro, Keith Bullen, John Cromer, Erik de Mauny, G. S. Fraser, John Gawsworth, Raoul Parme, Alan Rook, John Waller, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28561 – or simply click on the button
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BULLEN, Keith (Keith Brebner), 1900-1946 – editor : SALAMANDER. FOL. IV. Cairo : Salamander Productions, [1944?]. The fourth issue of this influential wartime magazine – a dozen poems and translations – from A. H. Bullen, Erik de Mauny, G. S .Fraser, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26143 – or simply click on the button
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CARPENTER, Maurice & OTHERS – editors : NEW LYRICAL BALLADS : ANTHOLOGY. London : Editions Poetry London, (1945). First edition. A wartime anthology – with twenty-five poems on the fighting forces, nine on factories, and much else besides. Contributors include Honor Arundel, Maurice Carpenter, Idris Davies, Jack Lindsay, John Manifold, Hubert Nicholson, Paul Potts, John Pudney, John Singer, Randall Swingler, and many others. Edited by Carpenter, Jack Lindsay and Honor Arundel. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29164 – or simply click on the button
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CURREY, R.N. (Ralph Nixon), 1907-2001 : THIS OTHER PLANET. London : George Routledge & Sons, (1945). First edition. His second book – a collection of forty wartime poems, including “Outer Seas”, “Training Depot”, “Firing Range”, “Searchlight Battery”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 11830 – or simply click on the button
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CURREY, R.N. (Ralph Nixon), 1907-2001 & GIBSON, R.V. (Ronald Vincent) – editors : POEMS FROM INDIA BY MEMBERS OF THE FORCES. London : Oxford University Press, (1946). First British edition. Includes work by Currey himself, Graham Cherry, Stephen Fenlaugh, “John Gawsworth”, Reg Levy, Alun Lewis, Stuart Piggott, Hugh Shelley, H. H. Tilley, Archibald Wavell, Paul Widdows, and many others. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 36147 – or simply click on the button
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GRAHAM, Virginia (Virginia Margaret), 1910-1993 : SELECTED VERSES BY VIRGINIA GRAHAM : 1939-1945. Welwyn Garden City : [Privately Printed, 1945]. First edition. A collection of sixty-two wartime poems – “Air Raid over Bristol”, “Switch It Off!”, “The Second Front”, “Panic”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29250 – 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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PUDNEY, John (John Sleigh), 1909-1977 : DISPERSAL POINT AND OTHER AIR POEMS. London : John Lane, The Bodley Head, (1943). The third impression of Pudney’s highly popular collection of twenty-three wartime poems, first published the previous year. Includes “Convoy Job”, “The WAAF Corporal”, “The Bomb Dump”, etc. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43495 – or simply click on the button
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SOUTHALL, Martin (Martin Rea), 1924-1994 : BEHOLD A PALE HORSE. Newport : Envoi Poets, (1987). First edition. A collection of twenty-eight poems, many relating to the Second World War – including “Remembrance Sunday”, “NAAFI Canteen Portsmouth”, “Bellyful”, “Beach-Head Revisited”, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 17971 – or simply click on the button
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WALLER, John (Sir John Stanier), 1917-1995 : THE MERRY GHOSTS. London : Editions Poetry London, (1946). First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed to Nevill Phillips, with two lines of autograph verse, signed and dated (1948) by John Waller – and with three authorial manuscript corrections in the text. A collection of thirty-five poems written on active service in the Middle East, including “Convoy”, “Soldier under the Stars”, “Lovers in Alexandria”, “September in Cairo”, “Christmas, 1943”, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26061 – or simply click on the button
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WATSON, Francis (Francis Leslie), 1907-1988 : POEMS IN INDIA. London : Keepsake Press, (1962). First edition : [one of 125 copies]. “View from a Dakota” and six other poems dating from the war years in India, where Watson was sometime Director of Counter-Propaganda. Privately printed for the poet’s friends. Loosely inserted is Watson’s printed compliments slip with a two line inscription in his hand. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25175 – or simply click on the button
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