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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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Laurie Duggan

The Pursuit of Happiness


Published by Shearsman 2012

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Wrappers. Author’s signed dedication to Lee Harwood on title page.

Price £15.00


92pp


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WB1813

Laurie Duggan

Allotments


Published by Shearsman 2014

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Wrappers. Author’s signed dedication to Lee Harwood on title page. The complete sequence of 100 poems.

Price £15.00


70pp


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WB1814

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.

Price £15.00


97pp


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WB1815

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.

Price £38.00


168pp


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WB1971

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.

Price £18.00


53pp


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WB1455

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.

Price £28.00


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WB401

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’.

Price £75.00


818pp


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WB1936

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.

Price £10.00


List ref
WB940

 

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