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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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Lorand Gaspar

Four Poems


Published by Oasis & Shearsman 1993

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

Translated by Peter Riley. Wrappers.

Price £6.00


43pp


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WB1329

John Gay

Poems on Several Occasions


Published by Tonson & Lintot London 1720

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

2 volumes bound in one, both title pages (in red & black) present. Volume I title page offset on frontispiece. Subscribers list. Frontispieces to The Shepherd’s Week & Dione. Some offsetting throughout as usual. B3 stained. Some scattered foxing. Contemporary diced quarter calf, wear at extremities, slight loss at head of spine. Bookplate.

Price £120.00


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WB1215

John Gay

Fables


Published by Tonson & Watts London 1733

Edition 4th

Format  Octavo   Condition Very good

No half-title. Vignette to title page & to each fable, tailpieces throughout. Some soiling & marginal tears without loss. Contemporary calf worn at extremities, lacks label.

Price £48.00


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WB402

M.G. Gifford

The Manner of Sir Philip Sidneyes Death

Written by his Chaplain M.G.Gifford


Published by New Bodleian Library Oxford 1959

Edition 1st   Limitation 16/50 hand-printed

Condition Near fine

The first publication of this text from the Ickwell Bury MS. Wrappers slightly rubbed. Laid in is a short handwritten letter from Dr B.E.Juel-Jensen referring to the pamphlet as ‘this trifle in the printing of which I lent a (very minor) hand. The master printer is Prof. Herbert Davis ...’

Price £30.00


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WB851

Thomas Gisborne

Walks in a Forest, and Other Poems


Published by Cadell & Davies London 1813

Edition Eighth, with additions

Condition Good

Adds some poems not before published. No half-title. Internally very good but gilt-decorated tree calf rubbed & upper board detached. Name on first blank.

Price £20.00


361pp


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WB1216

Jesse Glass

Lost Poet: Four Plays

Homeless in America, Dove Hunting, The Lost Poet & Worm A Sexual Opera


Published by BlazeVox 2010

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

’These plays were written over three decades, but sound as though exhaled in a single furnace blast. The blast is Mission Control explaining to America’s Favourite School Teacher why she must be immolated in a space ship for the corporatocracy. It’s Poe’s emanated astral self dictating a coded travelogue of Hell through the porthole of a labia-pink coffin, and King Worm being hailed erect on his golden throne in Bohu Tohu. What we hear, of course, is the blast of Jesse Glass. He has the lyricism of a sociopath, the invention of a polymath, and the pipes of some chthonian bully deity.’ Tom Bradley

Price £14.00

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145pp


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WB1283

Jesse Glass

The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems


Published by West House & Ahadada Books 2006

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Jesse Glass’ work has been hailed by poets as diverse as Jerome Rothenberg, William Bronk & Jim Daniels for its insight into human nature and its exploration of forms. He uses collage, fragmentation and Oulipo-like processes along with a keen understanding of poetic forms and traditions that stretches back to Beowulf and beyond. Glass finds his subject matter in larger than life figures like Phineas Gage -- the man whose life was changed in an instant when an iron bar was sent rocketing through his brain in a freak accident -- as well as in ants processing up a wall in time to harpsichord music in order to steal crystals from the inner lip of a cowrie shell.

Price £10.00

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176pp


ISBN
1-904052-18-5


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WB632

Jesse Glass

Trimorphic Protennoia


Published by Elephantine 2002

Condition Mint

Poems.

Price £6.00

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34pp


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WB195

 

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