The West House second-hand bookshop handles poetry books & ephemera of all periods but specialises in modernist poetry published by small presses. This list represents a sample of our stock — in many cases we can offer more titles by all these poets.
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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.
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Price £15.00
76pp
List ref
WB2157
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Raymond Lister
Infernal Methods
A Study of William Blake’s Art Techniques
Published by Bell 1975
Edition 1st
Condition Near fine
4 colour & 66 b/w illustrations. Edges slightly dusty, buckram in worn price-clipped dustjacket.
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Price £20.00
List ref
WB829
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Robert Lloyd
Poems
Published by Printed for the Author by Dryden Leach London 1762
Edition 1st
Format
Quarto 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.
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Price £260.00
List ref
WB1950
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Tim Longville (editor)
Grosseteste Review 1.1
Published by Grosseteste 1968
Edition 1st
Condition Good
Contributors include John Riley, John Hall, Gael Turnbull, Robert Garioch, Jim Burns, J.H.Prynne, Barry MacSweeney & John James. Centre-stapled in wrappers in dust jacket. Staples rusty, splash-stain to dust jacket mostly affecting lower panel. Otherwise a very good copy.
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Price £20.00
48pp
List ref
WB2125
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Tim Longville (editor)
Grosseteste Review 6.1-4
Published by Grosseteste 1973
Edition 1st
Condition Good
Contributors include William Bronk, Cid Corman, Carl Rakosi, Gilbert Sorrentino, Douglas Oliver, J.H.Prynne (From A Letter to Douglas Oliver), Michael Palmer, Ric Caddel & George Oppen (twelve poems with articles on his work by Hugh Kenner, Donald Davie, Charles Tomlinson & Carl Rakosi). Wrappers in dust jacket. Top edge spotted. Some soiling to dust jacket including splash-stain at head of upper panel. Otherwise a very good copy.
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Price £20.00
256pp
List ref
WB2126
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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.
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Price £20.00
36pp
List ref
WB1749
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Tony Lopez
Equal Signs
Published by Equipage 2004
Edition 1st
Condition Fine
Wrappers. The author’s signed dedication to Lee Harwood on final blank.
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Price £18.00
35pp
List ref
WB1752
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Federico Garcia Lorca
Lorca/Blackburn
Poems chosen & translated by Paul Blackburn
Published by Stop Press 2000
Edition 1st thus
Condition Fine
New edition with drawings by Basil King. Wrappers.
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Price £10.00
List ref
WB1105
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