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This list represents our remaining stock of poetry books and ephemera of all periods but with emphasis on modernist poetry published by small presses.

 

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Kathleen Fraser

Hi ddevioleth i dde violet


Published by Nomados 2003

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Wrappers. Signed by author on title page. Epigraph attributed to Frank O’Hara by neat hand.

Price £18.00


34pp


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WB2028

Robert Garioch

The Masque of Edinburgh


Published by MacDonald 1954

Edition 1st

Condition Near fine

Signed on half-title & with Gael Turnbull’s ownership signature. Staples rusting, wrappers faintly rubbed.

Price £50.00


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WB335

Robert Garioch

Selected Poems


Published by MacDonald 1966

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

Introduction by Sydney Goodsir Smith. Cloth in somewhat rubbed dustjacket with slight wear top edge. Gael Turnbull’s ownership signature.

Price £15.00


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WB337

Robert Garioch

Doktor Faust in Rose Street


Published by MacDonald 1973

Edition 1st

Condition Near fine

Lines Review Editions 3. Wrappers somewhat rubbed otherwise fine with press-cutting laid in printing title poem with photo presumably of Rose Street.

Price £12.00


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WB339

[Samuel Garth]

The Dispensary

A Poem. In Six Canto’s.


Published by Jacob Tonson London 1718

Edition Eighth

Condition Very good

The text ‘With several Descriptions and Episodes never before Printed’ (first appearing in the 6th edition). General frontispiece + one for each Canto. Disbound but a clean copy.

Price £20.00


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WB1296

[Samuel Garth]

A Compleat Key to the Seventh Edition of The Dispensary


Published by J.Roberts London 1716

Edition Reprint (1st pub. 1714)

Condition Very good

No half-title. Disbound but a clean copy. Includes Garth’s A Prologue Designed for Tamerlane.

Price £20.00


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WB1297

Lorand Gaspar

Four Poems


Published by Oasis & Shearsman 1993

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

Translated by Peter Riley. Wrappers.

Price £6.00


43pp


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WB1329

John Gay

Poems on Several Occasions


Published by Tonson & Lintot London 1720

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

2 volumes bound in one, both title pages (in red & black) present. Volume I title page offset on frontispiece. Subscribers list. Frontispieces to The Shepherd’s Week & Dione. Some offsetting throughout as usual. B3 stained. Some scattered foxing. Contemporary diced quarter calf, wear at extremities, slight loss at head of spine. Bookplate.

Price £120.00


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WB1215

 

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