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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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Sylva Norman

Flight of the Skylark

The Development of Shelley’s Reputation


Published by Max Reinhardt & Oklahoma UP 1954

Edition 1st

Condition Reading copy

Sound & internally clean reading copy, cloth in tattered dustjacket.

Price £12.00


304pp


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WB1932

John Norris

A Collection of Miscellanies

Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses & Letters, Occasionally Written


Published by J.Crosley & Samuel Manship London 1692

Edition Second Edition Corrected

Condition Worn

4pp adverts. A heavy stain on bottom half of preliminaries faintly affects bottom edge throughout. Contemporary calf, sound but worn, particularly at head of spine. Lacks label.

Price £140.00


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WB1222

Thomas Norton

Ordinal of Alchemy

Ed. John Reidy

Published by OUP for the Early English Text Soc. 1975

Edition 1st thus

Condition Near fine

Cloth in somewhat worn dustjacket discoloured at spine.

Price £18.00


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WB1223

Jeff Nuttall

Sun Barbs


Published by Poet & Peasant 1976

Edition 1st

Condition Near fine

Poems. Cover drawing by the author. Trimmed A5 landscape mimeo, card covers with tape over side staples. A few small splash-stains on lower cover otherwise fine.

Price £12.00


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WB2011

Frank O'Hara

Second Avenue


Published by Totem New York 1960

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

Publisher’s address on title page verso, 95c price printed on lower wrapper. Cover drawing by Larry Rivers with red portion and title label tipped on (no established priority with printed title). Wrappers slightly darkened, staples starting to rust, otherwise a near-fine copy.

Price £50.00


16pp


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WB1984

Frank O'Hara

Lunch Poems


Published by City Lights 1964

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Pocket Poets 19. Wrappers slightly chipped, mostly at spine edges.

Price £220.00


74pp


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WB1683

Kikuko Otake

Masako’s Story

Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima


Published by Ahadada 2007

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Poetry. On August 6, 1945, when the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the Furuta family was living about one mile away from the hypocenter. Five-year-old Kikuko, her mother, Masako, and her two brothers barely escaped with their lives. However, their soldier father was not so fortunate. Masako never talked about her family’s experiences on that day and the days following the bombing. Then one day, Masako started to talk about what happened -- breaking a silence of nearly fifty years ...

Price £8.00

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94pp


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WB994

Thomas Parnell

Poems on Several Occasions

Published by Mr. Pope


Published by B.Lintot London 1722

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

With verse dedication by Pope. D8 cancel. Some foxing & soiling. Name & date, 1770, on title page. Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked with most of the backstrip laid down. Wear to head of spine. Lacks label.

Price £90.00


List ref
WB407

 

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