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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Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Death’s Jest-Book
Ed. Alan Halsey
Published by West House Books / TLBS 2003
Edition 1st such
Condition Mint
Drama, described by its author as ‘A Dithyrambic in the florid Gothic style’. This new edition, prepared by Alan Halsey, presents for the first time in a separate volume the later version in the text established by H.W.Donner in 1935; unfinished at the time of the author’s death in 1849 it is a substantially different work from the version prepared for publication, unsuccessfully, in 1829. Modelled on the Jacobean ‘revenge’ tragedies the play is sustained by a poetry of glittering surface with an ever-present undertow of death and destruction, tempered by humour deriving out of a remorseless sense of absurdity and alienation. ‘Judicious editorial work’ (TLS). Published in association with the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society and typeset at Five Seasons Press.
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Price £16.00
184pp
ISBN
1-9040520-8-8
List ref
WB66
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Ted Berrigan
Many Happy Returns
Published by Corinth 1969
Edition 1st
Condition Near fine
Wrappers slightly marked, spine chipped.
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Price £16.00
47pp
List ref
WB1061
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Robin Blaser
Cups
Published by Four Seasons 1968
Edition 1st Limitation 1000
Condition Near fine
= Writing 17. Author’s inscription to Lee Harwood on half-title ‘for Lee, again we go into the land of Far -- with admiration, Robin Blaser’. Wrappers in integral dustjacket with wear to overlapping edges, internally fine.
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Price £28.00
List ref
WB1805
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Robin Blaser
The Holy Forest
Published by Coach House 1993
Edition 1st
Condition Fine
Wrappers. Author’s signature on title page and his inscription to Lee Harwood on half-title: ‘Dear Lee -- I so much enjoyed our [illegible word] evening -- my very great pleasure in seeing you again -- Robin / 7 January 1997’.
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Price £35.00
394pp
List ref
WB1806
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Sean Bonney
Poisons, Their Antidotes
Published by West House Books 2003
Edition 1st
Condition Mint
Poems, London-Iraq. ‘These glass-sharp graffiti collages of political spin and half heard blah blahs rage with humour. Bonney records a mercurial London self in cityscape portraits -- and the language sizzles with such a palpable fury -- I can’t tell if he’s a vandal or a witness.’ Martin Corless-Smith
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Price £6.00
36pp
ISBN
1904052142
List ref
WB67
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David Bromige
Threads
Published by Black Sparrow 1971
Edition 1st, wrappers issue
Condition Near fine
Wrappers part faded. With Ian Robinson’s neat ownership signature & date.
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Price £12.00
106pp
List ref
WB677
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Gilbert Burnet
Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester
With an Introductory Preface by Lord Ronald Gower
Published by Elliot Stock London 1875
Edition Facsimile reprint of 1860 edition
Condition Near fine
Gower’s inscription dated 8.6.75 on upper blank. Pages slightly darkened. All edges gilt. Later black morocco & marbled endpapers.
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Price £30.00
List ref
WB414
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Clive Bush
Pictures after Poussin
Published by Spanner 2003
Edition 1st
Condition Fine
With 8 coloured plates by Allen Fisher. Wrappers.
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Price £11.00
70pp
List ref
WB1421
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