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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[Joseph Browne]
The Circus: or, British Olympicks
A Satyr on the Ring in Hide-Park
Published by [H.Hills] London 1709
Edition piracy
Condition Very good
Disbound. Adverts on p.16. Closely trimmed top edge without loss. Pages slightly darkened.
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Price £20.00
List ref
WB783
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[Joseph Browne]
St. James’s Park: A Satyr
Published by H.Hills London 1709
Edition 2nd piracy
Condition Very good
Top edge closely trimmed without loss. In recent marbled boards.
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Price £20.00
List ref
WB784
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Basil Bunting
What the Chairman Told Tom
Published by Pym-Randall 1967
Edition 1st Limitation 26 lettered & signed (ex 226)
Condition Near fine
Letter Y, additionally designated ‘Gael’s’ (i.e. Gael Turnbull). Pages faintly darkened, wrappers slightly discoloured at edges.
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Price £175.00
List ref
WB307
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Basil Bunting
The Spoils
Published by Morden Tower 1965
Edition 1st
Condition Fine
Inscribed on title page ‘for Michael Curtiss / BBunting / 1978’. Faintly darkened wrappers slightly chipped in spine area & at edges.
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Price £95.00
List ref
WB928
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Basil Bunting
Loquitur
Published by Fulcrum 1965
Edition 1st, ordinary edition Limitation 774 (ex 1000)
Condition Fine
Light grey cardboard boards in transparent polythene dustjacket as issued; design by Richard Hamilton using author’s holograph. Inscribed on title page ‘BBunting / 1978 / for Michael Curtiss’.
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Price £395.00
List ref
WB930
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Gilbert Burnet
Some Passages in the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester
With a Sermon preached at the funeral of the said Earl by the Rev. Robert Parson
Published by W.Baynes London 1820
Edition 1st such?
Condition Good
Prefixed by ‘two criticisms of the writings of the Earl of Rochester, by the Hon. Horace Walpole, & Dr. Samuel Johnson’. Portrait frontispiece offset on title page. Original boards somewhat roughly rebacked with modern cloth.
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Price £30.00
List ref
WB413
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Gilbert Burnet
Some Passages of the Life and Death of the Right Honourable John Earl of Rochester
With an Introductory Preface by Lord Ronald Gower
Published by Elliot Stock London 1875
Edition Facsimile reprint of 1860 edition
Condition Near fine
Gower’s inscription dated 8.6.75 on upper blank. Pages slightly darkened. All edges gilt. Later black morocco & marbled endpapers.
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Price £30.00
List ref
WB414
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Robert Burns
The Merry Muses
A Choice Collection of Favourite Songs Gathered from Many Sources
Published by 'Privately Printed [Not For Sale]' [Hotten?] '1827' [1872?]
Edition 1st such
Condition Good
To which are added Two of his Letters and a Poem - Hitherto Suppressed - Never Before Printed. Not For Maids, Ministers, or Striplings. No half-title. Binding shaken, some leaves loosening. Some soiling, stain top edge of many leaves. Distressed bookplate. Later half morocco, gilt-decorated spine still bright.
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Price £75.00
List ref
WB1271
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