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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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August Kleinzahler

The Strange Hours Travelers Keep


Published by Faber & Faber 2004

Edition 1st UK

Condition Fine

Boards, dustjacket. Author’s signed dedication to Lee Harwood on title page.

Price £18.00


76pp


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WB1821

Robert Eyres Landor

Selections from his Poetry and Prose

Ed. Eric Partridge

Published by Fanfrolico London 1927

Edition 1st   Limitation 28/155 signed by editor

Condition Good

Partridge contributes biographical and critical introduction. Top edge gilt. Uncut pages soiled at edges but internally fine. Original half-vellum heavily stained but binding sound. Bookplate.

Price £35.00


286pp


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WB1914

Valerie Large

Space Cut


Published by Tetrad 1973

Edition 1st   Limitation 125

Condition Near fine

One of the eight quartos collected as Tetrad Pamphlets Vol II. Pop-up text printed on cut paper tipped into wrapper. Some soiling to outer face of wrapper, the work itself virtually mint.

Price £20.00


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WB2133

Wyndham Lewis

The Lion and the Fox

The Role of the Hero in the Plays of Shakespeare


Published by Grant Richards 1927

Edition 1st, 3rd issue on wove paper

Condition Very good

Original blue cloth lettered gilt. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge slightly spotted & a few small marks on cloth. Name & date on fly.

Price £20.00


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WB904

Wyndham Lewis

One-Way Song


Published by Methuen 1960

Edition New edition

Condition Near fine

This new edition has a foreword by T.S.Eliot. Cloth in slightly darkened dustjacket with slight wear at head of spine.

Price £18.00


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WB221

Wyndham Lewis (editor)

The Enemy 2


Published by The Enemy 1927

Edition 1st

Condition Good

Wrappers worn but intact. Edges & preliminaries foxed. The issue is mainly devoted to the first publication of Lewis’ ‘Paleface’.

Price £40.00


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WB905

Wyndham Lewis (editor)

The Enemy 3


Published by The Enemy 1929

Edition 1st

Condition Worn

Internally near-fine but spine disintegrating, wrappers soiled & with considerable loss at bottom corner of upper panel. The issue is mainly devoted to the first publication of Lewis’ ‘The Diabolical Principle’.

Price £20.00


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WB906

John Lilly

The Dramatic Works

With Notes and Some Account of his Life and Writings

Ed. F.W. Fairholt

Published by John Russell Smith (Library of Old Authors) 1858

Edition 1st such

Condition Very good

In 2 volumes. Preliminaries foxed, edges darkened, one hinge weakened. Original cloth, slight wear at heads of faded spines. Name & date on title pages. Alan Lubbock’s bookplate.

Price £35.00


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WB814

 

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