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Karen Mac Cormack

At Issue


Published by Coach House 2001

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

A series of poems examining the format and contents of magazines such as Vogue, Self and Prevention. The interruptions and syntactical dis-arrangements reflect the experience of reading that format, within a critical agenda.

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70pp


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WB285

Karen Mac Cormack

Implexures


Published by West House Books & Chax Press 2003

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

The first edition of this extended prose-poem, consisting of nineteen of the final thirty-one sections. Wrappers slightly curled otherwise fine.

Price £12.00

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78pp


ISBN
1-904052-11-8


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WB94

Karen Mac Cormack

The Tongue Moves Talk


Published by Chax press / West House Books 1997

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Poems. ‘Sense is made and remade word for word in Karen Mac Cormack’s The Tongue Moves Talk. Exquisitely refractory, incessantly modulating, sumptuously uttering, these poems attain a state of aesthetic grace without recourse to hooks or props.’ (Charles Bernstein) ‘Ablaze with boisterous verbal precisions. There’s no end to her range, her textual mobility. She is meticulous, compelling, incessant, unexpected. Just clap.’ (Maggie O’Sullivan).

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60pp


ISBN
0-9521891-7-8


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WB95

Karen Mac Cormack

Tale Light

New & Selected Poems 1984-2009


Published by West House & BookThug 2010

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Wrappers. Tale Light draws from previously uncollected poems, revisions of published earlier poetry from Nothing By Mouth, Straw Cupid, Quill Driver, Quirks & Quillets, Marine Snow, The Tongue Moves Talk, At Issue, Vanity Release, and a rich selection of new work. For the first time the strategies Mac Cormack develops for each separate project (her often witty and ludic explorations, wherein she confronts the habitual in language and representation) are brought together for the reader as a collective textual experience.

Price £15.00

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192pp


ISBN
978-1-904052-26-5


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WB1342

Douglas Manson

The Dew Neal


Published by Slack Buddha 2004

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Poem. ‘The composition of the Dew Neal Molloscus had help from Dante and from -- for some T.S.Eliotation -- Fraser’s Golden Bough.’

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16pp


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WB226

Christopher Marlowe

The Works

Ed. G. Robinson

Published by William Pickering London 1826

Edition 1st collected

Condition Very good

Top edge gilt. 19th century half morocco, scuffed at edges, top compartment of Volume I mostly lost, small loss at head of Volume III backstrip. Joints tender. Marbled boards rubbed. Pages clean & bright throughout.

Price £250.00


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WB405

Christopher Marlowe

The Tragicall History of Doctor Faustus


Published by Golden Hours Press London 1932

Edition 1st thus   Limitation 44/250

Condition Near fine

With engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Uncut edges somewhat darkened & slightly dusty. Original half-morocco with gilt, marbled cloth.

Price £250.00


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WB775

Andrew Marvell

The Works Poetical, Controversial, and Political

Containing Many Original Letters, Poems, and Tracts, never before printed

Ed. Capt. Edward Thompson

Published by Henry Baldwin London 1776

Edition 1st such

Condition Very good

Complete in three volumes: lvii, 648; v, 583; iv, 557. No half-titles. Portrait frontispiece with offsetting on title page. Subscribers list. Some scattered foxing in Volume 2 and some heavier patches Volume 3 but the text is overall clean and bright. Contemporary calf worn at edges nicely rebacked in modern calf with gilt and raised bands.

Price £650.00


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WB1938

 

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