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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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Thomas Parnell

Poems on Several Occasions. With the Life of Zoilus

and his Remarks on Homer’s Battle of the Frogs and Mice


Published by Thomas Ewing Dublin 1773

Edition Reprint

Format  Quarto   Condition Very good

Reprint of the 1770 edition with the Life by Dr Goldsmith. Headpiece portrait p.[1]. Contemporary calf, joints weakened, fragment lost on upper board. Internally near-fine with ample margins.

Price £95.00


List ref
WB1952

[Thomas Percy]

The Hermit of Warkworth

A Northumberland Ballad


Published by T. Davies & S.Leacroft London 1771

Edition 1st

Condition Very good

Disbound. Half-title. Title page vignette. Some occasional slight soiling.

Price £45.00


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WB869

John Philips

Poems on Several Occasions


Published by Thomas Astley London 1728

Edition 4th

Condition Good

As issued, binding in with separate title pages The Splendid Shilling & Blenheim, E.Curll 1728, and Cyder, The Third Edition, J.Tonson 1727. Portrait frontispiece, and frontispiece for Cyder. Some staining throughout. Contemporary half calf, upper joint very weak.

Price £50.00


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WB1919

John Phillips

Language Is


Published by Sardines 2005

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Signed & dedicated by the author. Wrappers.

Price £6.00


46pp


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WB1245

Tom Pickard

Tiepin Eros:

New & Selected Poems


Published by Bloodaxe 1994

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Wrappers.

Price £6.00


160pp


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WB1251

Peter Pindar

The Lousiad, An Heroi-Comic Poem

Canto I


Published by Goulding & Walker London 1793

Edition New Edition

Condition Very good

Disbound. Half-title. Engraving placed between pages 20-21.

Price £10.00


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WB870

Ezra Pound

A Draft of XXX Cantos


Published by Faber 1933

Edition 1st UK

Condition Near fine

Original black cloth in dustjacket with chips at edges & fragment lost at foot of spine. The dustjacket is printed blue on red-orange, as called for, but is of later issue -- adverts on lower panel & flap list books published in the 1940s.

Price £50.00


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WB917

Ezra Pound

Section: Rock-Drill:

85-95 de los cantares


Published by Faber 1957

Edition 1st UK

Condition Very good

Internally near-fine, cloth in worn & frail dustjacket with internal repairs.

Price £20.00


List ref
WB475

 

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