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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George Barker
News of the World
Published by Faber 1950
Edition 1st
Condition Fine
Internally fine. Owner’s name scratched out at head of front endpaper. Cloth in slightly darkened price-clipped dustjacket with chips at head & tail of spine.
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Price £20.00
64pp
List ref
WB1483
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Anthony Barnett
A Forest Utilization Family
Published by Burning Deck 1982
Edition 1st Limitation 183/475
Condition Near fine
Wrappers. Corners very slightly bruised otherwise fine. Leaf of Burning Deck notepaper laid in with brief handwritten message from the publisher Rosmarie Waldrop: ‘Nice issue! Thanks! Rosmarie’.
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Price £12.00
32pp
List ref
WB1557
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Anthony Barnett
A Marriage
Published by Nothing Doing in London 1968
Edition 1st Limitation 365
Condition Fine
Cloth, fine in dustjacket slightly abraded top edge. Flier laid in. Inscribed by author on first blank ‘for Peter / Anthony / June 1972’ & with Peter Riley’s neat stamp on fly.
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Price £20.00
32pp
List ref
WB2167
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Bernard Barton
Poems
Published by Baldwin, Cradock & Joy London 1822
Edition Third, with Additions
Condition Very good
2pp adverts. Marbled edges. Blue calf with gilt, discoloured at spine & edges. Joints rubbed & slightly weak.
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Price £25.00
List ref
WB1279
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Michael Basinski
Pomes Popeye Papyrus
Published by Slack Buddha 2004
Edition 1st
Condition Mint
Basinski takes us on a somewhat cracked tour of the supermarket.
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Price £5.00
20pp
List ref
WB154
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James Beattie
The Poetical Works
with
Robert Blair, William Falconer Ed. The Rev. George Gilfillan
Published by James Nichol Edinburgh 1854
Edition 1st such
Condition Very good
Gilfillan contributes Lives, Critical Dissertations and Explanatory Notes. Original blind-decorated cloth with some discolouration & a few trifling marks, spine gilt-lettered. Top edge slightly dusty but a nice copy.
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Price £16.00
List ref
WB1189
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James Beattie
The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius
A Poem. The Second Book.
Published by Dilly & Creech London & Edinburgh 1774
Edition Second
Condition Very good
Disbound. Half-title & lower blank. Some slight darkening to edges.
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Price £18.00
List ref
WB853
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James Beattie
The Minstrel, in Two Books; with Some Other Poems
Published by Dilly & Creech London & Edinburgh 1779
Edition Reprint
Condition Very good
iv + 107pp. Bound with Thomas Warton Poems, A New Edition, London 1777, the first edition despite the title. iii + 83pp. Some slight spotting and soiling otherwise very good copies in contemporary calf worn at corners and gilt-decorated spine rubbed, joints slightly weak. Modern owner’s neat name and date on fly.
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Price £60.00
List ref
WB1883
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