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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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Allen Fisher

Convalescence


Published by Wiwaxia 1992

Edition 1st

Condition Good

Internally fine but label on upper panel of wrappers defaced & illegible.

Price £7.50


19pp


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WB1577

Roy Fisher

Poems 1955-1980


Published by Oxford UP 1980

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Author’s inscription on dedication page ‘for Lee [Harwood]: Roy 2.3.85’. Boards in dustjacket slightly faded at spine as usual.

Price £18.00


193pp


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WB1699

Roy Fisher

The Ceremonial Poems


Published by N.p. 1966

Edition 1st   Limitation 76

Condition Near fine

Slade: ‘privately printed by Gael Turnbull. A run of 76 roneoed copies, not commercially circulated.’ Small side-stapled quarto. Slight rust to staples, a slightly musty but otherwise fine copy.

Price £75.00


4pp


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WB2129

Edward Fitzgerald

Works


Published by Houghton, Mifflin & Quaritch New York, Boston & London 1887

Edition 1st, small paper edition

Condition Very good

Reprinted from the original impressions, with some corrections derived from his own annotated copies. In two volumes. Portrait frontispiece. One hinge weakened. Original blue cloth. Spine labels darkened & slightly rubbed. Preliminaries slightly foxed.

Price £90.00


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WB1294

Phineas Fletcher

Piscatory Eclogues, with other Poetical Miscellanies

Illustrated with Notes, Critical & Explanatory

Ed. A.E. Tytler

Published by A.Kincaid & W.Creech Edinburgh 1771

Edition 1st thus

Condition Very good

151pp + index. Title page vignette. Slight foxing to preliminaries. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, label chipped, upper joint weakened by worming. Bookplate.

Price £40.00


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WB1212

Giles Fletcher

Poetical Works Volume II

with Phineas Fletcher

Ed. Frederick Boas

Published by Cambridge UP 1970

Edition Reprint

Condition Near fine

This volume only (of 2): the poems of Phineas Fletcher first published in 1633 or later, i.e. The Purple Island, Piscatorie Elegies and shorter poems. Original blue cloth, internally fine copy in slightly scuffed dustjacket discoloured at spine.

Price £22.00


368pp


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WB1910

Anthony Flowers

Quiet Music of Words

Conversations with Richard Caddel


Published by West House Books 2002

Edition 1st thus

Condition Mint

In keeping with the dictionary definition this conversation between poet and painter is an ‘interchange of thoughts and words’. The fact that the participants have shared a long-standing friendship gives the encounter a depth rarely achieved in published interviews, and provides insights into Richard Caddel’s poetry of use to all readers interested in exploring their own reactions to his work.

Price £6.00

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40pp


ISBN
1-904052-06-1


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WB83

John Ford

The Dramatic Works, in Two Volumes

With Notes Critical and Explanatory

Ed. W. Gifford

Published by Murray London 1827

Edition 1st thus

Condition Worn

Includes Fame’s Memorial and Verses to the Memory of Ben Jonson. Some water-staining, otherwise clean texts. All edges gilt. Presentation calf bindings in poor condition: Volume I rebacked; Volume II with both boards detached & disintegrating backstrip.

Price £40.00


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WB1214

 

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