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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Valerie Large
Space Cut
Published by Tetrad 1973
Edition 1st Limitation 125
Condition Near fine
One of the eight quartos collected as Tetrad Pamphlets Vol II. Pop-up text printed on cut paper tipped into wrapper. Some soiling to outer face of wrapper, the work itself virtually mint.
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Price £20.00
List ref
WB2133
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Wyndham Lewis
The Lion and the Fox
The Role of the Hero in the Plays of Shakespeare
Published by Grant Richards 1927
Edition 1st, 3rd issue on wove paper
Condition Very good
Original blue cloth lettered gilt. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge slightly spotted & a few small marks on cloth. Name & date on fly.
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Price £20.00
List ref
WB904
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Wyndham Lewis
One-Way Song
Published by Methuen 1960
Edition New edition
Condition Near fine
This new edition has a foreword by T.S.Eliot. Cloth in slightly darkened dustjacket with slight wear at head of spine.
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Price £18.00
List ref
WB221
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Wyndham Lewis (editor)
The Enemy 2
Published by The Enemy 1927
Edition 1st
Condition Good
Wrappers worn but intact. Edges & preliminaries foxed. The issue is mainly devoted to the first publication of Lewis’ ‘Paleface’.
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Price £40.00
List ref
WB905
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Wyndham Lewis (editor)
The Enemy 3
Published by The Enemy 1929
Edition 1st
Condition Worn
Internally near-fine but spine disintegrating, wrappers soiled & with considerable loss at bottom corner of upper panel. The issue is mainly devoted to the first publication of Lewis’ ‘The Diabolical Principle’.
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Price £20.00
List ref
WB906
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John Lilly
The Dramatic Works
With Notes and Some Account of his Life and Writings
Ed. F.W. Fairholt
Published by John Russell Smith (Library of Old Authors) 1858
Edition 1st such
Condition Very good
In 2 volumes. Preliminaries foxed, edges darkened, one hinge weakened. Original cloth, slight wear at heads of faded spines. Name & date on title pages. Alan Lubbock’s bookplate.
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Price £35.00
List ref
WB814
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Maurice Lindsay (editor)
Poetry Scotland 2
Published by William Maclellan 1945
Edition 1st
Condition Very good
Quarter-cloth, very good in darkened dustjacket ragged top edge. Contributors include William Soutar, Ruthven Todd, Edwin Muir, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Norman McCaig, Adam Drinan, W.S.Graham, Robert Garioch, William Montgomerie, Sorley Maclean, J.F.Hendry & Hugh MacDiarmid.
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Price £10.00
76pp
List ref
WB2157
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Robert Lloyd
Poems
Published by Printed for the Author by Dryden Leach London 1762
Edition 1st
Condition Very good
iii-xix (lacks half-title), 277. Subscribers’ list includes Akenside, Beckford, Cowper, Churchill, Garrick, Hogarth, Johnson, Sterne and Wilkes. The opening leaf of the parallel English-Latin text of Gray’s Elegy is in the uncancelled state. Some occasional small stains and inkspots but an overall clean text. Owner’s name on title page. Marbled endpapers with bookplate. Scuffed contemporary calf with smart modern reback gilt-decorated with urns motif.
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Price £220.00
List ref
WB1950
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