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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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Maurice Lindsay (editor)

Poetry Scotland 2


Published by William Maclellan 1945

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

Quarter-cloth, very good in darkened dustjacket ragged top edge. Contributors include William Soutar, Ruthven Todd, Edwin Muir, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Norman McCaig, Adam Drinan, W.S.Graham, Robert Garioch, William Montgomerie, Sorley Maclean, J.F.Hendry & Hugh MacDiarmid.

Price £10.00


76pp


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WB2157

Robert Lloyd

Poems


Published by Printed for the Author by Dryden Leach London 1762

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

iii-xix (lacks half-title), 277. Subscribers’ list includes Akenside, Beckford, Cowper, Churchill, Garrick, Hogarth, Johnson, Sterne and Wilkes. The opening leaf of the parallel English-Latin text of Gray’s Elegy is in the uncancelled state. Some occasional small stains and inkspots but an overall clean text. Owner’s name on title page. Marbled endpapers with bookplate. Scuffed contemporary calf with smart modern reback gilt-decorated with urns motif.

Price £220.00


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WB1950

Alan Loney

The Books to Come


Published by Cuneiform Press 2010

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Six essays on the relations between poetry and typography. Foreword by Jenni Quilter. Silver-decorated boards in dustjacket.

Price £25.00

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134pp


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WB1378

Tony Lopez

False Memory


Published by The Figures 1996

Edition 1st   Limitation 450

Condition Fine

Wrappers. The author’s signed dedication to Lee Harwood on title page.

Price £12.00


36pp


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WB1749

Tony Lopez

Equal Signs


Published by Equipage 2004

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Wrappers. The author’s signed dedication to Lee Harwood on final blank.

Price £12.00


35pp


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WB1752

Walter Lowenfels

Apollinaire: An Elegy


Published by Hours 1930

Edition 1st   Limitation 88/150 signed

Condition Good

Covers by Yves Tanguy. Internally fine. Paper-covered boards rubbed, leather back mostly missing but binding sound. Name & date.

Price £95.00


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WB225

Tom Lowenstein

Ancient Land: Sacred Whale

The Inuit Hunt & its Rituals


Published by Bloomsbury 1993

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Cloth in dustjacket with minimal wear.

Price £12.00


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WB469

Karen Mac Cormack

Nothing by Mouth


Published by Bookthug 2003

Edition Reprint   Limitation 100

Condition Mint

A new edition of Karen Mac Cormack’s first book of poems, originally published by Underwhich in 1984.

Price £8.00

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40pp


List ref
WB113

 

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