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Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Death’s Jest-Book

Ed. Alan Halsey

Published by West House Books / TLBS 2003

Edition 1st such

Condition Mint

Drama, described by its author as ‘A Dithyrambic in the florid Gothic style’. This new edition, prepared by Alan Halsey, presents for the first time in a separate volume the later version in the text established by H.W.Donner in 1935; unfinished at the time of the author’s death in 1849 it is a substantially different work from the version prepared for publication, unsuccessfully, in 1829. Modelled on the Jacobean ‘revenge’ tragedies the play is sustained by a poetry of glittering surface with an ever-present undertow of death and destruction, tempered by humour deriving out of a remorseless sense of absurdity and alienation. ‘Judicious editorial work’ (TLS). Published in association with the Thomas Lovell Beddoes Society and typeset at Five Seasons Press.

Price £16.00

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184pp


ISBN
1-9040520-8-8


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WB66

Thomas Beedome

Select Poems Divine and Humane

Ed. Francis Meynell

Published by Nonesuch 1928

Edition 1st such   Limitation 579/1250

Condition Near fine

Original vellum somewhat soiled, gilt lettering slightly dulled, internally fine.

Price £45.00


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WB1190

Ted Berrigan

Many Happy Returns


Published by Corinth 1969

Edition 1st

Condition Near fine

Wrappers slightly marked, spine chipped.

Price £16.00


47pp


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WB1061

Sandy Berrigan

Summer Sleeper


Published by Telephone 1981

Edition 1st   Limitation 300

Condition Very good

Quarto mimeo printed rectos only, card covers. Laid in is the author’s approx 600-word tls to Lee Harwood dated Dec 7 2000, together with a few notes on Wallace Stevens poems.

Price £45.00


38pp


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WB1802

Julian Blaine

Essai sur la Sculpturale


Published by Galerie Denise Davy n.d.

Edition 1st

Condition Near fine

Wrappers.

Price £10.00


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WB618

Robert Blair

The Grave

A Poem Illustrated by twelve Etchings


Published by R.Ackerman London 1813

Edition Second

Condition Very good

Plates engraved by L.Schiavonetti after the original inventions of William Blake. Blake portrait frontispiece by Schiavonetti after T.Phillips. Engraved title (The Skeleton Re-animated) from the 1808 edition. Printed title page with Montgomery quotation on verso. 1p dedication to the Queen by Blake. 8pp list of subscribers from 1808 edition. 2pp advertisement signed R.H.Cromek. 2pp comments by Henry Fuseli. 15pp biographical sketch of Blair, 14pp biographical sketch of Schiavonetti, 10pp biographical sketch of Cromek. 37pp text of poem. The 4pp commentary Of The Design interleaved among the remaining 11 plates. Some occasional slight soiling & foxing to page edges but the sequenced plates remain clean and bright; some light foxing does affect the portrait and engraved title. Top edge gilt. Later but not recent half-morocco binding with marbled boards and endpapers, the boards and edges somewhat rubbed. Gilt-decorated spine with raised bands still bright.

Price £950.00


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WB1977

William Blake

Illustrations to the Divine Comedy of Dante


Published by The National Art-Collectors Fund London 1922

Edition 1st   Limitation 250

Condition Near fine

Collotype reproductions, 102 b/w plates + 1 col., with title page, Introduction & List of Plates. Printed on deckle-edge wove paper, large folio. The title page & verso of the final plate are darkened; slight darkening to all edges not affecting the plates which are in fine condition. The sheets are loose as issued in the original folding case which is considerably worn, frayed & stained but with the original tie still intact.

Price £1,500.00


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WB741

Robin Blaser

Cups


Published by Four Seasons 1968

Edition 1st   Limitation 1000

Condition Near fine

= Writing 17. Author’s inscription to Lee Harwood on half-title ‘for Lee, again we go into the land of Far -- with admiration, Robin Blaser’. Wrappers in integral dustjacket with wear to overlapping edges, internally fine.

Price £28.00


List ref
WB1805

 

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