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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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Catherine Daly

Locket


Published by Tupelo 2005

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Wrappers.

Price £10.00


70pp


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WB1004

S. Foster Damon

A Note on the Discovery of a New Page of Poetry in William Blake’s Milton


Published by Merrymount Press 1925

Edition 1st   Limitation 150

Condition Very good

14 pages + 3 colour plates, somewhat darkened. Original marbled cloth darkened at spine & top edge.

Price £60.00


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WB748

Samuel Daniel

Selections from the Works

with Biographical Introduction, Notes, etc. by John Morris


Published by Charles Clark Bath 1853

Edition 1st such   Limitation 250

Format  Octavo   Condition Worn

Original blind-decorated cloth, gilt-lettered spine, worn. Upper hinge cracked. Some pencil notes & underlining, ink notes p.xl. Several owners’ names & dates. Still a useful copy.

Price £20.00


256pp


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WB1289

John Davidson

Testaments


Published by Grant Richards 1901-2

Edition 1st

Format  Octavo   Condition Very good

The first three volumes of this sequence: I. The Testament of a Vivisector, 1901, 27pp; II. The Testament of a Man Forbid, 29pp + 1p advert; III. The Testament of an Empire-Builder, 1902, 81pp + 2pp adverts. All with half-titles but without original wrappers: bound as a single volume in contemporary (publisher’s?) buckram, spine lettered gilt DAVIDSON’S TESTAMENTS with gilt line at top & tail. Uncut edges darkened otherwise very good clean pages, buckram slightly darkened & with small bump mid-spine. Owner’s name & date (1910).

Price £28.00


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WB1163

Ian Davidson

Human Remains and Sudden Movements


Published by West House Books 2003

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Poetry. ‘Wry wit is the dancing skeleton of these deceptively simple poems which, often gentle in manner, domestic, meditative, shift focus and tone as a fading ripple reveals not the water expected; as if mist had force.’ (Tom Raworth)

Price £5.00

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ISBN
0-9531509-4-1


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WB81

Michael Davidson

Post Hoc


Published by Avenue B 1990

Edition 1st

Condition Near fine

Inscribed & signed by the author 1995. Some marks on wrappers otherwise fine.

Price £15.00


85pp


List ref
WB2019

Ian Davidson

Harsh


Published by Spectacular Diseases 2003

Edition 1st   Limitation 250

Condition Near fine

With sandpaper insert as issued. Dedicated and signed by the author 2004. Slight soiling to wrappers otherwise fine.

Price £12.00


45pp


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WB2030

Donald Davie

Brides of Reason


Published by Fantasy Press 1955

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Slight soiling to wrappers.

Price £35.00


List ref
WB328

 

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