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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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Lou Rowan (editor)

Golden Handcuffs Review 1.17


Published by Golden Handcuffs Review 2013

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Contributions by Robert Coover, Meredith Quartermain, Jerome Rothenberg, Jesse Glass, Alan Halsey et al. Tom Meyer interviewed by David Hadbawnik. Memoir by Peter Quartermain and 80th birthday tributes to Quartermain by Marjorie Perloff, Michael Davidson, Miriam Nichols, Fred Wah, Mark Scroggins, Daphne Marlatt & Charles Bernstein.

Price £8.00


223pp


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WB1480

Lou Rowan (editor)

Golden Handcuffs Review 1.18


Published by Golden Handcuffs Review 2014

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Joe Ashby Porter feature, fiction by Lou Rowan, Richard Makin, Brian Marley et al, poems by Alice Notley, Fanny Howe, Carol Watts, Diane Wakoski et al, Sagas of New York ed. Rick Moody, reviews, etc.

Price £8.00


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WB1638

Lou Rowan (editor)

Golden Handcuffs Review 1.19


Published by Golden Handcuffs Review 2014

Edition 1st

Condition Mint

Toby Olson feature + drawings by Robert C. Jones + poetry & prose by David Antin, Rae Armantrout, George Economou, Ken Edwards, Jesse Glass, Steve Katz, Nathaniel Mackey, Geraldine Monk, Rochelle Owens, Meredith Quartermain, Susan M. Schultz, Mark Scroggins, Philip Terry, Nathaniel Tarn, Mark Weiss et al.

Price £8.00


262pp


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WB1640

George Sandys

Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished, Mythologiz’d, And Represented in Figures

An Essay to the Translation of Virgil’s Aeneis


Published by John Lichfield Oxford 1632

Edition 1st such

Format  Folio   Condition Very good

The third (second authorised) edition of Sandys’ Ovid but the first illustrated and including the Virgil translation. Frontispiece engraved by Salaman Savery after Francisco Clein. Sixteen other engravings, one preceding the Life of Ovid and one for each Book of the poem. The plate to Book I has been repaired on the reverse. Staining to O3 slightly affects facing plate (to Book IV). C2 & C3 transposed. Sigs. E & F and their pagination incoherently numbered but textually continuous and without loss. Overall a very good copy with marbled edges and endpapers, bound in later half vellum with recent label, marbled boards somewhat abraded and spine somewhat darkened.

Price £1,250.00


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WB1940

Siegfried Sassoon

Meredith


Published by Viking New York 1948

Edition 1st US

Condition Very good

Biography of George Meredith. Variant binding in blue cloth, gilt-blocked spine. A very good copy in price-clipped dustjacket, worn with some loss and internal repairs.

Price £18.00


269pp


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WB1917

Susan M. Schultz

No Guns, No Durian


Published by Tinfish 2003

Edition 1st

Condition Near fine

Card covers slightly soiled. Bound with metal studs as issued.

Price £6.00


24pp


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WB1439

James Schuyler

The Crystal Lithium


Published by Random House 1972

Edition 1st, paperback issue

Condition Near fine

Simultaneous paperback edition. Slightly sprung wrappers faded at spine.

Price £18.00


96pp


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WB1688

John Scott

The Poetical Works


Published by Gregg International 1969

Edition Facsimile reprint

Condition Very good

Cloth. Reproduces the first edition, London 1782, with 14 plates of which four were engraved by William Blake after Stothard. Edges slightly darkened.

Price £15.00


341pp


List ref
WB1343

 

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