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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Laurie Duggan
East & Under the Weather 1970-1977
Published by Puncher & Wattmann 2014
Edition 1st combined with additions
Condition Fine
Wrappers. Author’s signed dedication to Lee Harwood on title page.
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Price £15.00
97pp
List ref
WB1815
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J.M. Edmonds
Sappho Revocata
An Emended Text with an English Translation, a Life & a Glossary of Aeolic Words
Published by Peter Davies London 1928
Edition 1st Limitation 192/350
Format
Quarto Condition Very good
’The only edition of the first book set in the Antigone Greek type designed by J. van Krimpen. Two drawings by Vera Willoughby reproduced in collotype. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Endpapers mottled but internally fine. Lacks slipcase. Original cloth, spine heavily darkened otherwise a near-fine copy with editor’s dedication & Greek text on fly.
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Price £38.00
168pp
List ref
WB1971
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Ken Edwards
Tilth
Published by Galloping Dog 1980
Edition 1st Limitation 10 numbered & signed
Condition Near fine
A4 mimeo. Cover by the author. Wrappers slightly discoloured.
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Price £18.00
53pp
List ref
WB1455
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John Eliot
The Parlement of Pratlers: A Series of Elizabethan Dialogues and Monologues
illustrating Daily Life and the Conduct of a Gentleman on the Grand Tour
Ed. Jack Lindsay
Published by Fanfrolico 1928
Edition 1st such Limitation 68/625
Condition Very good
’Extracted from Ortho-epia Gallica [1593] a book on the correct Pronunciation of the French Language.’ Quarter cloth. Some slight foxing. Some pages unopened.
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Price £28.00
List ref
WB401
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F.S. Ellis
A Lexical Concordance to the Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
An attempt to classify every word found therein according to its signification
Published by Bernard Quaritch London 1892
Edition 1st
Condition Very good
Ex library with labels on both pastedowns and a few discreet stamps to text. Text clean and bright, untrimmed fore-edge slightly dusty, dulled top edge gilt. Two-tone cloth-covered boards, corners slightly bumped, library reference at foot of spine. Label laid down on front endpaper with inscription ‘To W.M.Rossetti Esq With kindest regards F.S.Ellis 1892’.
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Price £75.00
818pp
List ref
WB1936
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William Empson
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Published by Chatto 1947
Edition 2nd, revised & reset
Condition Very good
Cloth discoloured at spine, lacks dustjacket. Owner’s name & date on fly.
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Price £10.00
List ref
WB940
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David V. Erdman
A Concordance to the Writings of William Blake
Published by Cornell UP Ithaca, New York, 1967
Edition 1st
Condition Near fine
Complete in two volumes, 1146 + 2317pp. Original maroon cloth lettered silver, as issued without dustjacket. Top edges slightly dusty and bottom edges show some shelf soiling, otherwise a fine set. Inscription on Volume I fly.
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Price £95.00
List ref
WB1884
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Edward Fairfax (translator)
Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered: or Godfrey of Bulloign
An Heroic Poem
Published by J.Clark et al London 1749
Edition Fourth
Format
Octavo Condition Near fine
[xxiv], 500 + Glossary & Index. No half-title. Nice copy in later gilt-decorated morocco, all edges gilt.
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Price £38.00
500pp
List ref
WB1909
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