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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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Robin Blaser

The Holy Forest


Published by Coach House 1993

Edition 1st

Condition Fine

Wrappers. Author’s signature on title page and his inscription to Lee Harwood on half-title: ‘Dear Lee -- I so much enjoyed our [illegible word] evening -- my very great pleasure in seeing you again -- Robin / 7 January 1997’.

Price £35.00


394pp


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WB1806

Sean Bonney

Poisons, Their Antidotes


Published by West House Books 2003

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Poems, London-Iraq. ‘These glass-sharp graffiti collages of political spin and half heard blah blahs rage with humour. Bonney records a mercurial London self in cityscape portraits -- and the language sizzles with such a palpable fury -- I can’t tell if he’s a vandal or a witness.’ Martin Corless-Smith

Price £6.00

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36pp


ISBN
1904052142


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WB67

George Borrow

Targum:

or, Metrical Translations from Thirty Languages and Dialects


Published by Jarrold & Sons London [1892]

Edition Facsimile reprint

Condition Very good

Includes The Talisman, from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin. Reproduction of the 1835 St Petersburg editions. Original boards worn at extremities, spine label upside down. Internally near-fine, uncut & unopened.

Price £60.00


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WB388

Daniel Bouchard

Sound Swarms


Published by Slack Buddha 2004

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

William Blake meets several Dead Presidents.

Price £5.00

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16pp


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WB157

Nicholas Breton

Poems not hitherto reprinted

Ed. Jean Robertson

Published by Liverpool UP 1967

Edition Reprint

Condition Near fine

clix + 229pp. Original cloth, spine lettered gilt, lacks dustjacket otherwise a fine copy.

Price £15.00


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WB1888

D.G. Bridson

The Filibuster:

A Study of the Political Ideas of Wyndham Lewis


Published by Cassell 1972

Edition 1st

Condition Near fine

Cloth in slightly rubbed dustjacket.

Price £14.00


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WB224

David Bromige

Threads


Published by Black Sparrow 1971

Edition 1st, wrappers issue

Condition Near fine

Wrappers part faded. With Ian Robinson’s neat ownership signature & date.

Price £12.00


106pp


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WB677

William Browne

The Whole Works

Ed. W. Carew Hazlitt

Published by Roxburghe Library 1868 & 1869

Edition 1st thus

Condition Very good

Two volumes, xxxix + 201, vi + 378pp. Some foxing otherwise very good copies in original gilt-lettered quarter roan slightly scuffed at extremities. Small bookplate on both pastedowns.

Price £60.00


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WB1891

 

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