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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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Kenneth Rexroth

Beyond the Mountains

Four Plays: Phaedra, Hermaois, Iphigenia, Berenike


Published by Routledge [1951?]

Edition 1st UK

Condition Very good

New Directions sheets [1951] with Routledge title page, yellow cloth in New Directions ‘Direction Series’ dustjacket. Dustjacket rubbed.

Price £18.00


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WB1177

Kenneth Rexroth

The Dragon and the Unicorn


Published by New Directions 1952

Edition 1st

Condition Near fine

Boards in rubbed & chipped dustjacket.

Price £18.00


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WB1178

Laura Riding

Twenty Poems Less


Published by Hours Press 1930

Edition 1st   Limitation 136/200 signed

Condition Near fine

Covers by Len Lye. Leather-backed boards, some scuffs to leather. Edges slightly darkened.

Price £220.00


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WB949

Peter Riley

Aria with Small Lights


Published by West House Books 

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Poem in thirty-one stanzas. ‘Large and urgent meditations: a measurement of life and self against ‘lives given wholly into where they are’.’ (David Kennedy, PN Review.)

Price £5.00

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16pp


ISBN
1-904052-13-4


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WB72

William Michael Rossetti

A Memoir of Shelley (with a Fresh Preface)


Published by Shelley Society London 1886

Edition 1st such

Condition Near fine

Shelley Society Publication IV.2. Untrimmed. Exceptionally clean text. Some foxing to edges, original paper-covered boards slightly darkened, name on title page. Two engravings with tissue guards. Laid in is a flier for Rossetti’s 3-volume edition of Shelley’s Complete Poetical Works, in which the memoir first appeared.

Price £30.00


154pp


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WB1935

Lou Rowan (editor)

Golden Handcuffs Review 1.19


Published by Golden Handcuffs Review 2014

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Toby Olson feature + drawings by Robert C. Jones + poetry & prose by David Antin, Rae Armantrout, George Economou, Ken Edwards, Jesse Glass, Steve Katz, Nathaniel Mackey, Geraldine Monk, Rochelle Owens, Meredith Quartermain, Susan M. Schultz, Mark Scroggins, Philip Terry, Nathaniel Tarn, Mark Weiss et al.

Price £8.00


262pp


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WB1640

Lou Rowan (editor)

Golden Handcuffs Review 1.16


Published by Golden Handcuffs Review 2013

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Contributions by Robert Kelly, Maurice Scully, Jesse Glass, Hank Lazer, David Antin. Ken Edwards, Louis Armand et al. Gilgamesh libretto by Rikki Ducornet. Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop interviewed by Kyle Schlesinger. Peter Quartermain on Robert Duncan. Etc.

Price £10.00


232pp


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WB1479

Lou Rowan (editor)

Golden Handcuffs Review 1.17


Published by Golden Handcuffs Review 2013

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Contributions by Robert Coover, Meredith Quartermain, Jerome Rothenberg, Jesse Glass, Alan Halsey et al. Tom Meyer interviewed by David Hadbawnik. Memoir by Peter Quartermain and 80th birthday tributes to Quartermain by Marjorie Perloff, Michael Davidson, Miriam Nichols, Fred Wah, Mark Scroggins, Daphne Marlatt & Charles Bernstein.

Price £8.00


223pp


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WB1480

 

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