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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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[Matthew Prior]

The Hind and the Panther

Transvers’d To The Story of The Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse

with [Charles Montague]

Published by W.Davis London 1687

Edition 1st

Condition Good

Disbound, lacking A1 (blank) & with last leaf somewhat ragged & soiled.

Price £40.00


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WB819

[Matthew Prior]

Poems on Several Occasions


Published by Jacob Tonson & John Barber London 1718

Edition 1st collected

Condition Very good

Large folio. Watermark with fleur-de-lys on shield. Frontispiece engraved by B.Baron after L.Cheron, as is title page vignette. Engraved headpieces and initials throughout. Subscribers list. Contemporary panelled calf, old reback with gilt decoration and raised bands. Joints cracked and tender but still a very good copy with clean and bright pages.

Price £280.00


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WB1992

J.H. Prynne

Her Weasels Wild Returning


Published by Equipage Cambridge 1994

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Wrappers slightly faded at edges otherwise a fine copy with author’s compliments slip laid in.

Price £50.00


12pp


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WB1988

J.H. Prynne

Pearls That Were


Published by Privately Cambridge 1999

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Wrappers.

Price £45.00


24pp


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WB1588

Francis Quarles

The Complete Works in Prose and Verse

In Three Volumes

Ed. The Rev. Alexander B. Grosart

Published by Georg Olms 1971

Edition Facsimile reprint

Condition Fine

Facsimile of the first edition privately published in 1880. Includes Memorial-Introduction, Notes and Illustrations, Portrait, Emblems, Facsimiles, etc. Page edges slightly discoloured. Uniform cloth with gilt.

Price £35.00


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WB1312

Meredith Quartermain

A Thousand Mornings


Published by Nomados 2002

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Wrappers.

Price £10.00


89pp


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WB1109

Carl Rakosi

Ere-Voice


Published by New Directions 1971

Edition 1st, wrappers issue

Condition Good

Author’s signature on title page. Corners slightly bruised, wrappers covered with transparent adhesive film. With Ian Robinson’s neat ownership signature & date.

Price £12.00


92pp


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WB703

Tom Raworth

Lion Lion


Published by Trigram 1970

Edition 1st, paperback issue

Condition Near fine

Simultaneous paperback edition. Author’s inscription on second half-title: ‘Dear Lee [Harwood] / See you on the corner opposite China / about half past november / [2 arrows pointing in opposite directions] / love / Tom / [illegible placename] Nov 6/70’. Upper wrapper somewhat mottled at fore-edge, internally fine.

Price £90.00


48pp


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WB1537

 

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